Academic Year 2020/2021
- Docente: Sylvie Braibant
- Credits: 6
- SSD: FIS/01
- Language: English
- Moduli: Sylvie Braibant (Modulo 1) Silvia Arcelli (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Physics (cod. 9245)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will acquire a good knowledge of the most significant and up-to-date topics of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, through a phenomenological approach. In particular, the student will go through basic experimental searches related to the electroweak and QCD sectors. The student will also acquire an overview of the main experimental results and of new challenges, integrating the notions acquired in other courses.
Course contents
-- MODULE 1:
– Weak interactions:
Charged weak currents and V-A theory
Absence of FCNC
The GIM mechanism
Discovery of the J/psi,tau and Upsilon.
– Electroweak Interactions:
Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model
Discovery of the weak neutral current
Measurements of the Weimberg angle
Electroweak intereference at PETRA
Discovery of the W and Z Boson
Precision tests of the Standard Model at LEP
Electroweak results at the LHC
Phenomenology and experimental evidences of QCD in e+e- collisions: asymptotic freedom and confinement, alfa_s running and jets
QCD in extreme conditions: Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Physics at the LHC.
-- MODULE 2:
(Brout-Englert-Hagen-Guralnik-Kibble-) Higgs boson: experimental searches and evidence.Phenomenology of the proton-proton collisions at LHC:
Examples of experimental measurements of particular interest. Searches for experimental indications of new physics beyond the Standard Model (SUSY, GUTs, extra dimensions, etc.).
Physics at future colliders
- High luminosity LHC: HL-LHC
- Future circular colliders: FCC-ee, FCC-hh, CEPC
Readings/Bibliography
- "The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics", R.Cahn and G. Goldhaber, Cambrige University Press
- "Quarks & Leptons: An introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics", F. Halzen and A.D. Martin, ed. J. Wiley & sons
- "Nuclei e Particelle", E. Segrè, ed. Zanichelli - "Electron-Positron Annihilation Physics", B.Foster, pub. A. Hilger
- "Particles and Fundamental Interactions - An Introduction to Particle Physics", S. Braibant, G. Giacomelli, M. Spurio, Springer series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics ISBN 978-94-007-2463-1
- "Particles and Fundamental Interactions: Supplements, Problems and Solutions - A Deeper Insight into Particle Physics" S. Braibant, G. Giacomelli, M. Spurio, Springer series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics ISBN 978-94-007-4134-8
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Module 1: Questions relative to topics treated in this module
Teaching tools
Projection of slides available on IOL
Office hours
See the website of Sylvie Braibant
See the website of Silvia Arcelli