2018/2019

2020/2021

DM270

FIS/04 (NUCLEAR AND SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS)

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

PHYSICS

PERCORSO COMUNE

3°

2nd semester (01/03/2021 - 11/06/2021)

6

48 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

RIMOLDI ADELE (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Basic background from previous courses in electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, atomic physics and relativity.

Basics of Subnuclear physics. Since the subject matter is approached in a clear and accessible manner, the student is focussed on learning the concepts that lead to key measurements in particle physics.

This course is addressed to the explanation of the fundamentals of particle physics.
Phenomenological description of elementary particles and physics of their interactions are the building blocks of this course.
Wide part of the course covers the dynamics of fundamental interactions.
The main topics of this course are:
- Introduction to Standard Model of particle physics through the description of interactions of particles with matter and measurements at the main collider experiments.
- history and discoveries of particles
-standard model of interactions: bosons, fermions
-particle detection and detectors
-weak interaction
-experimental tests of electroweak theory
-dynamic model of quarks
-neutrino and D, B oscillations
-CP violation in mesons systems
-the Higgs boson
-LHC: discovery potential and results
-physics beyond the Standard Model

Frontal lessons with slides projections

Official text
G.Barr et al
Particle Physics in the LHC Era
Oxford, master series in Physics

Additional texts:
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
d) S. Braibant, G. Giacomelli, M. Spurio
Particelle e interazioni fondamentali
2^ a edizione
Edizioni Springer

Oral examination.
Knowledge of basic principles and simple applications of them to physics reactions are mandatory for each topic presented

=