Modern Experimentaly Particle Physics
Lund University FYST17/FKF050 course
The course will address current research topics in particle and astroparticle physics, and will focus on aspects of current and future experiments in the area. The course consists of 2 major parts: Current Front-line Research and Experiments and Methods, representing 7.5 ECTS credits together.
Spring Term 2008
Introductory meeting: Friday, January 18, at 12:00, in H322 (Fysikum)
Lecturers: Oxana Smirnova, Peter Christiansen (contact details)
Course material:
- Official course syllabus (PDF)
- Introduction (PDF)
- Course schedule NB: EXAM DATE: March 28 (Friday) 9:00 to 13:00
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Modern experiments: Experimental Astroparticle Physics (A. De Angelis, two lectures in one file)
- Modern experiments: The International Linear Collider (L. Jönsson)
- Modern experiments: ATLAS, also available as a text supplement (P. Eerola)
- Modern experiments: Heavy-ion physics and ALICE detector: TPC (P. Christiansen)
- Computing challenges in modern particle physics (O.Smirnova)
- Notes on particle kinematics, cross-sections etc.
Problems:
- Chapters 1-4
- Chapters 5-7
- Chapters 5-7
- Astroparticle physics problems: Exercise 1 and Exercise 2
Previous terms
Textbook: Martin, B.R. & Shaw, G.: "Particle Physics" 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1997 (358 pages)