Introductory Experimental High Energy Physics

Period of duration of course
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Course info
Number of course hours
20
Number of hours of lecturers of reference
20
Number of hours of supplementary teaching
0
CFU 3
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Type of exam

Seminars

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Programme

Symmetries and Laws of Physics, the Basis of the Standard Model

Particle classification

Acceleration methods, present and future accelerators,

Particle beams, luminosity

Electroweak interaction and LEP physics

The constituents of the proton  strong interaction physics at LHC

Unit triangle CKM LHCb

Low energy / precision

mu-to-e - g-2 - neutron dipole moment - anti-hydrogen

Neutrinos

Double Beta decay

Dark matter

Gravitational waves

Educational aims

Learn the fundamentals of the Standard Model of particle physics and its limits also through the experiments that marked its development.

Bibliographical references

Perkins Introduction to high energy physics

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/introduction-to-high-energy-physics/2164D77FA13CC52D8B32130CF897E764

Maiani- Rolandi The standard theory of particle physics

https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789814733519_fmatter