- Docente: Andrea Castro
- Credits: 12
- SSD: FIS/04
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Andrea Castro (Modulo 1) Sylvie Braibant (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Physics (cod. 8025)
Learning outcomes
With this course the student acquires the basic knowledge on the
experimental Physics of the Elementary Particles, mainly regarding
the principles, the phenomenology and the experimental techniques
of particle detection. The student is able to understand: - how
detectors work and their characteristics; the measurable
characteristics of the fundamental interactions; the interactions
of particles with matter and the related measurable effects; the
invariance laws and the related simmetries; the phenomenology
related to the foundations of the research in particle physics; the
collision between different types of particle and the resulting
effects on the study of the fundamental interactions; the research
perspectives regarding the behavior of the infinitely small and, at
the same time, the infinitely big. Finally the student acquires
familiarity with the Standard Model and with the fundamental
constituents of matter (quarks, leptons and gluons), knowing their
quantum characteristics and their mutual interaction. In particular
the student is able to: understand the difference between leptons,
quarks and gluons; apply the models of interaction between
the fundamental constituents of matter; understand the limits of
the Model and the possible measurable deviations; calculate cross
sections and statistical distributions for the collisions among
particles.
Course contents
- The 4 fundamental interactions
- Invariance principles and conservation laws
- Classification of the elementary particles and quark
model
- Hadron-hadron and lepton-nucleon collisions
- Particle accelerators
- Silicon detectors and multipurpose detectors
- Weak interaction
- Electroweak interaction
- Neutrino physics and particle oscillations
- Beyond the Standard Model
- Phenomenology of proton-proton collisions at the LHC
Readings/Bibliography
S. Braibant, G. Giacomelli, M. Spurio, Particelle ed interazioni
fondamentali, Ed. Springer
D.H. perkins, Introduction to High Energy Physics, Addison-Wesley
Teaching methods
Lectures and exercitations in the lecture-hall
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Blackboard and overhead projector
Office hours
See the website of Andrea Castro
See the website of Sylvie Braibant