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Particle Physics (MKEP1) WS2026/27

winter term 2026/27
Lecturer: Degenkolb S, Uwer U
124 participants

 

       
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Prof. Dr. S. Degenkolb
Prof. Dr. U. Uwer, 
Dr. Sacha Diefenbacher, 
(Prof. Dr. Tilman Plehn)

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Lectures:
INF 227, HS2
Thursdays, 14:15 - 16:00,
Fridays, 14:15 - 16:00.
Lectures will start on 15 October.

Tutorials:
Thursdays, and Fridays,
will start on 22 / 23 October

The date of the written examination
will be anounced as soon as it is scheduled by the central exam planning of the department.

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
SCD: Dr. S. Diefenbacher

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

Date     Topic                                                           Lecturer
15/10/26

Organisational issues

Introduction (recap PEP4)

UU

UU
16/10/26 Important basic concepts (recap PEP4) UU
22/10/26 Dirac equation UU
23/10/26 Theory I:   Introduction to QED 1 SAD
29/10/26 Theory I:   Introduction to QED 2 SAD
30/10/26 Theory I:   Introduction to QED 3 SAD
     

Exercise sheets

Practice groups

  • Group 1 (Susie Kim)
    25 participants
    INF 227 03.403, Fri 11:15 - 13:00
  • Group 3 (Prof. Ulrich Schmidt)
    25 participants
    INF 226, Golden-Box (EG), K1, Thu 16:15 - 18:00
  • Group 4 (Dr. Henning Soller)
    19 participants
    INF 226, Golden-Box (EG), K1, Fri 09:15 - 11:00
  • Group 5 (Prof. Monica Dunford)
    21 participants
    INF 227 03.402, Fri 09:15 - 11:00
  • Group 6 (Lena Nowatzki)
    24 participants
    INF 227 03.402, Thu 16:15 - 18:00
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Particle Physics (MKEP1)
winter term 2026/27
Degenkolb S, Uwer U
124 participants
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