Enrollment year
2015/2016
Academic discipline
FIS/04 (NUCLEAR AND SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (01/03/2018 - 15/06/2018)
Lesson hours
48 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Basic background from completed courses in electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, atomic physics and relativity.
Learning outcomes
Basics of Subnuclear physics
Course contents
This course is addressed both for those who need an introduction to the study of particle physics that they intend to deepen in a later course and for those who will approach this course as part of their intellectual building in their career as physicists. A phenomenological description of elementary particles and physics of their interactions are building blocks of this course. Foundations of relativistic kinematics, conservation laws in nuclear reactions as well as the quark model for hadrons and the heavy quark discoveries are presented. Wide part of the course covers the dynamics of fundamental interactions. The Standard Model of elementary particles is approached, as well as hints on what is beyond it, through a theoretical description of the main phenomena in order to support the experimental evidences.
Teaching methods
Oral lessons with additional seminars on particle detectors
Reccomended or required readings
a) M. Thomson: Modern Particle Physics
b) D. H. Perkins: Introduction to high energy physics, 2000, Cambridge Univ. Press;
c) D. Griffith: Introduction to Particles Physics, Wiley.
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Knowledge of basic principles and simple applications of them to physics reactions are mandatory.
Further information
Oral examination.
Knowledge of basic principles and simple applications of them to physics reactions are mandatory.
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