Introduction to elementary particle physics 1101-337
The goal of the course is to familiarize students with elements of elementary particle physics by presentation of the most up to date important experimental results and interesting theoretical concepts. The lecture is for the third year undergraduate students, not necessarily planning specialization in particle or nuclear physics.
Program:
1. Introduction to the world of elementary particles; brief history, basic concepts and properties.
2. Experimental methods: accelerators and detectors, large experiments.
3. Electromagnetic interactions - Feynman diagrams.
4. Structure of matter, quark model, partons and quantum chromodynamics.
5. Elektro-weak interactions. Standard Model.
6. Neutrino oscillations.
7. Unifications of interactions.
8. Experimental astroparticle physics.
9. Elements of cosmology. Dark matter.
10. Perspectives of elementary particle physics.
Assessment form: written test and possibly an oral exam.
Materials can be found on web page: http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~kaste/efce.html
Description by: Danuta Kiełczewska, April 2007.
Modified by: Katarzyna Grzelak, November 2012
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Bibliography
1. M.Thomson Modern Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press
2. D.H.Perkins, Introduction to High Energy Physics, Cambridge University Press
3. D. H. Perkins, Particle astrophysics, Oxford University Press
4. Particle Data Group http://pdg.lbl.gov/
Additional information
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