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).

Evaluation: The course is completed by a written exam, see sample questions (PDF).

Lecturers: Oxana Smirnova, Vincent Hedberg, Alessandro de Angelis (contact details).

Textbook: Martin, B.R. & Shaw, G.: "Particle Physics" 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2008

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

Spring Term 2014 (VT14)

Introductory meeting: Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 10:15, in H530 (Introductory notes are available).

EXAM: Friday March 21, 9:00-13:00, H530 (see also sample questions)

• For those who can't come on Friday, another examination will take place on Tuesday, March 25, 9:00-13:00, at H530

The course takes place in January - March 2014, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 15:15 to 17:00 in room H530 (except February 12, February 26 and March 5, when lectures will be in room H322) . Lectures start on Friday, 24 January 2014.

COURSE SHEDULE

Lecture notes (PDF):

• 1. Basic concepts, leptons and quarks
• 2. Experimental methods - Accelerators
• 3. Particles interaction with matter and detectors
• 4. Space-time symmetries
• 5. CP Violation
• 6. Quark model: hadron quantum numbers, resonances
• 7. Quark states and colours
• 8. QCD, jets and gluons
• 9. Weak interactions: W and Z bosons
• 10. Electroweak unification
• 11. Neutrino physics
• 12. Beyond the Standard Model
• 13. Heavy ion physics
• 14. Computing in Particle Physics
• 15. Astroparticle Physics, part 1
• 16. Astroparticle Physics, part 2

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Problems:

• Particle physics problems, set 1 (hand in by 2014-02-07)
• Particle physics problems, set 2 (hand in by 2014-02-14)
• Particle physics problems, set 3 (hand in by 2014-02-28)