Particle Physics (MKEP1)

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Prof. Dr. S. Degenkolb Prof. Dr. U. Uwer (Prof. Dr. Tilman Plehn) Lectures: INF 227, HS2 Thursdays, 14:15 - 16:00, Fridays, 14:15 - 16:00. Lectures will start on 17 October. Tutorials: Thursdays, and Fridays, will start on 24 / 25 October The written examination is planned for the week of 10 Feb 2025. Time and venue will be announced in due time.

The lecture focuses on modern experimental particle physics. It will discuss the building blocks of matter and their inteactions. 

Topics of the lecture:
General consepts in particle physics; particle detection, accelerators,  QED Langrangian and Fenyman rules;  ee-annihilation; Weak inteaction: Wu and Goldhaber experiments; V-A structure, muon und pion decay, neutrino-quark scattering; Electroweak Lagrangian and Feynman rules; Experimental test of electroweak theory: Precision Z-Physics, sin2thetaw, atomic partity violation;Static quark modell and its predictions; Deep inelastics lepton-nucleon scattering; Introduction to QCD; Experimental tests of QCD in ee-annihilation; Neutrino oscillation and neutrino mass; Casimir force;

Topics in italic are short theory blocks.

Prerequisites:

Lecture "Introduction of the Nuclear and Particle Physics (PEP4, in German)".

Literature:

F. Halzen, A.D.Martin: Quarks and Leptons (pheno)
M. Thomson, Modern Particle Physics (experiment)
D.H. Perkins: Introduction to High Energy Physics (experiment)
D. Griffiths: Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics (experiment)
I.J.R. Aitchison, A.J.G. Hey: Gauge Theories in Particle Physics (theory)
C.Itzykson, J.-B. Zuber: Quantum Field Theory (theory)
O. Nachtmann: Elementarteilchenphysik - Phänomene und Konzepte (theory, German)

Particle Data Group: The Review of Particle Physics, online

Week by week content of the lecture

Lecturer:
UU: Prof. U. Uwer
SD: Prof. S. Degenkolb
TP: Prof. T. Plehn

Table includes links to lecture material (notes, slides).

Material

• Kapitel-All.pdf
• Introduction.pdf
• Detectors-1.pdf
• Detectors-2.pdf
• Organisation.pdf
• Concepts.pdf
• sm_notes.pdf
• sm_notes_old.pdf
• sm_notes-1.pdf

Exercise sheets

• sheet01
  
  • sheet01.pdf
• sheet02
  
  • sheet02.pdf
• sheet03
  
  • sheet3.pdf

Practice groups

• Group 1 (S. Hansmann-Menzemer)
  24 participants
  INF 227 03.403, Fri 11:15 - 13:00
• Group 2 (C. Langenbruch)
  19 participants
  INF 227 01.403, Fri 09:15 - 11:00
• Group 3 (U. Schmidt)
  22 participants
  INF 227 03.402, Thu 16:15 - 18:00
• Group 4 (Dr. Melih Solmaz )
  13 participants
  INF 226, Golden Box K1, Fri 09:15 - 11:00
• Group 5 (N. Herrmann)
  23 participants
  INF 227 03.402, Fri 09:15 - 11:00
• Group 6 (K. Schweda)
  23 participants
  Phil 12 059, Fri 11:15 - 13:00