General info

Time: The course is given every year during the first part of the spring term (January - March).

Course plan: Official course syllabus (PDF).

Lecturers: Else Lytken , Peter Christiansen, Emanuele Laface (contact details).

Textbook: Martin and Shaw's "Particle Physics" 3rd edition, Wiley and sons
Chapters 3,8, and 10 from "Data analysis in high energy physics: a practical guide", O. Bahnke et al + lecture notes.
Link to e-book for the statistics book: here.

Extra material: Notes on particle kinematics, cross-sections etc. (PDF)

Spring Term 2016 (V16)

Introductory meeting: Monday January 18, 13:15 in K262( Introductory notes are available).

EXAM: Exam will be handed out Monday March 14,10:00 in A426 and should be turned in before 10:00 on Wednesday March 16.
(for additional pratise exercises, see sample questions).

The course takes place in January - March 2016. Lectures are held in room K262 Mondays and Wednesdays at 13:15-15:00; and in Audtitorium D at 13:15-15:00 on Fridays. A few exceptions from this in March, see schedule Lectures start on Wednesday, 20 January 2016.

COURSE SHEDULE

Projects Spring 2016

Some past project topics

Lecture notes (PDF):

• Introduction
• Symmetries and CP violation
• Neutrinos
• More on detectors
• LHC Physics I
• LHC Physics II
• MC and simulation
• Quark-gluon plasma and heavy-ion collisions I + II
• Statistics and hypothesis testing
• Statistical methods in particle physics
• Discovering the Higgs boson
• Beam Dynamics lectures I-IV
• Beyond the Standard Model I
• Beyond the Standard Model II
• The cosmic connection

Exercises:

• Particle physics exercises (hand in by 2016-02-01)
• Heavy ion physics exercises (hand in by 2016-02-19)