Modern Experimental 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 2010

Introductory meeting:Thursday, January 21, at 14:15, in B113 (Fysikum). See the introductory notes here.

Lecturers: Oxana Smirnova, Vincent Hedberg, Peter Christiansen (contact details)

EXAM: Group 1: Friday March 20, 9:00-13:00, B113. Group 2: Monday April 6, 9:00-13:00, B113

course schedule

Course material:

• Official course syllabus (PDF)
• Basic concepts
• Leptons, quarks and hadrons
• Accelerators
• Particle interaction with matter and detectors
• Space-time symmetries
• Charge conjugation and parity
• Quark model: hadron quantum numbers, resonances
• Heavy ion physics
• Quark states and colours
• QCD
• Weak interactions
• Neutrino physics
• Beyond Standard Model
• ATLAS experiment at CERN
• Experimental Astroparticle Physics, part 1
• Experimental Astroparticle Physics, part 2

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• Notes on particle kinematics, cross-sections etc.

Problems:

• Particle physics problems
• Astroparticle physics problems: Exercise 1 and Exercise 2

Previous terms (including FYS225/FKF050)

• Spring term 2009
• Spring term 2008
• Spring term 2007
• Spring term 2006
• Spring term 2005
• Spring term 2004
• Spring term 2003
• Complete lecture notes of spring 2002 (PDF)
• Complete lecture notes spring 2001 (PDF file)
• Video recorded lectures from 2002 and 2003 are available at http://www.hep.lu.se/lectures/fys225/