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Particle Physics (MKEP1)

Wintersemester 2025/2026
Dozent: Degenkolb S, Plehn T, Uwer U
114 Teilnehmer/innen

 

       
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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 16 October.

Tutorials:
Thursdays, and Fridays,
will start on 23 / 24 October

The written examination
will take place on Tue  03 Feb, 14:00-17:00. A single A4 cheat sheet is allowed.

To be admitted to the examination,
60% of the points of the exercise sheets
are required. Admissions to the exam
of previous years are not accepted.

 

The lecture focuses on modern experimental particle physics. It will discuss the building blocks of matter and their inteactions. The lecture has theory blocks (QED, electroweak, QCD) given by Prof. T.Plehn. 

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


 

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

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

Date     Topic                                                           Lecturer
16/10/24

Organisational issues

Introduction (recap PEP4)

UU

UU
17/10/25 Important basic concepts (recap PEP4) UU
23/10/25 Dirac equation UU
24/10/25 Introduction to accelerators UU
30/10/25 1st Theory block: QED 1 TP
31/10/25 1st Theory block: QED 2  TP
06/11/25 1st Theory block: QED 3 TP
07/11/25 Detectors in particle physics 1 UU
13/11/25 Detectors in particle physics 2 UU
14/11/25 Measurement of ee-annihilation UU
20/11/25 Casimir effect SD
21/11/25 Weak Interaction 1 SD
27/11/25 2nd Theory block: Electroweak theory 1 TP
28/11/25 2nd Theory block: Electroweak theory 2 TP
04/12/25 2nd Theory block: Electroweak theory 3 TP
05/12/25 Pion decay SD
11/12/25 Neutrino-nucleon interactions (notes and slides) SD
12/12/25 W and Z boson physics UU
18/12/25 Measurement of Z boson properties UU
19/01/25 SU(2) and SU(3) Representations and Static Quark Model SD
08/01/26 Elastic scattering, form factors and proton radius UU
09/01/26 Deep-inelastic lepton-proton scattering UU
15/01/26 3rd Theory block: QCD 1 TP
16/01/26 3rd Theory block: QCD 2 TP
22/01/26 3rd Theory block: QCD 3 TP
23/01/26 Experimental tests of QCD UU
29/01/26 Neutrino masses SD
30/01/26 Neutrino mixing and 0νββ SD

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Particle Physics (MKEP1)
Wintersemester 2025/2026
Degenkolb S, Plehn T, Uwer U
114 Teilnehmer/innen
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