- Docente: Maximiliano Sioli
- Credits: 6
- SSD: FIS/01
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Maximiliano Sioli (Modulo 1) Luisa Cifarelli (Modulo 2) Sergio Bertolucci (Modulo 3)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2) Traditional lectures (Modulo 3)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physics (cod. 9244)
Course contents
Great achievements of Particle Physics and the consecration of the Standard Model: the discovery of c, b, t quarks, the tau lepton, symmetry violations, neutrinos and flavor oscillations, the Quark Gluon Plasma, the Higgs Boson.
Interlude: benefits of particle physics for society: medicine, security, computing and communications. Particle physics as a driver for technological innovation.
Great milestones of particle physics: the need for Standard Model extensions, new guiding principles, new paradigms and the future of fundamental physics. Large infrastructures on the horizon: new high-energy colliders and new artificial neutrino beams.
Readings/Bibliography
A. Bettini, Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2014
Notes of the lectures
Teaching methods
Slides and blackboard
Assessment methods
The student has to deepen a topic presented in class by writing a thesis or by giving an oral presentation with slides
Teaching tools
Slides presented during the lectures and notes on Virtuale
Office hours
See the website of Maximiliano Sioli
See the website of Luisa Cifarelli
See the website of Sergio Bertolucci