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Objectives
- The student understands the interactions of particles with matter and how detectors use these interactions in collider and astroparticle experiments.
- The student has a good knowledge of electromagnetic interactions, strong interactions (QCD and hadrons), weak interactions and the Higgs mechanism.
- The student has a good knowledge of the sources, propagation, acceleration and detection of cosmic rays.
- The student is able to describe the concordance model of cosmology and knows why we need new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics
- The student knows candidates of Dark Matter and how we search for them
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Experimental methods (3 lectures) :
1. Interactions of particles with matter (cross sections, decay rates)
2. Particle detectors
3. Observables (decay rates, cross sections), colliders and experiments
Standard Model of Particle Physics (4 lectures)
4. Particles, electromagnetic interactions (QED), Feynman graphs
5. strong interactions (QCD) , Hadrons
6. Weak interactions, CP violation
7. Higgs and Standard Model structure
Astroparticle physics (5 lectures)
8. Charged cosmic rays (satellites, balloons)
9. Charged cosmic rays (air shower)
10. Gamma rays
10. Neutrinos
11. Sources / acceleration
Beyond the Standard Model, Dark Matter (4 lectures)
13. Lambda CDM (links with "Gravity & the Cosmos"), big bang nucleosynthesis
14. Why do we need physics beyond the Standard Model ?
15. Dark Matter candidates
16. Dark Matter searches (direct, indirect, collider, etc.) |
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| Bachelor Physics, Natural Science or Chemistry
Recommended: Structure of Matter: Atomic and Molecular Physics (physics/chemistry), Spectroscopy of Atoms and Molecules (chemistry) |
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| Depending on the amount of students, oral or written examPresentations during problem sessions are graded, and part of the evaluation |
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