ECTS - University of Pisa
| Modules | Area | Type | Hours | Teacher(s) | |
| PARTICELLE ELEMENTARI 1 | FIS/04 | LEZIONI | 54 |
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The student who successfully completes the course will know the following topics. The discrete symmetries CPT in Elementary particles and the conservation laws. The first experiments that detected symmetry violations of Parity P,Charge Conjugation C and their product CP. Elementary weak interactions, an introduction to neutrino oscillations. Hadronic physics measurements at e+e- Colliders. The discovery of quark c and elementary QCD model.
- In the written exam (3 hours, 2 exercises each with 3 or 4 questions), the student must demonstrate his/her knowledge of the course material, its capability to and to organize an effective and correctly written reply. - With the oral presentation, to be made to the teachers, the student must demonstrate the ability to approach a circumscribed research problem, and organize an effective exposition of the results.
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Further information:
The student is strongly advised to pass the written test before admission to the final oral exam. At the link: https://corsidf.df.unipi.it/claroline/course/index.php?cid=114BB interested students will find texts and solutions of the previous years written tests and various additional scientific and historical papers and references.
Delivery: face to face
Learning activities:
Attendance: Advised
Teaching methods:
The discrete symmetries CPT in Elementary particles, the conservation laws, the first experiments that detected symmetry violations of P,C and CP. Elementary weak interactions. Hadronic physics measurements at e+e- Colliders. Charm quark discovery and elementary QCD model.
1) One textbook among: D.H. Perkins - Introduction to High Energy Physics -- Cambridge U.P. (2000). D. Griffiths - Introduction to elementary particles - Wiley (2008). A. Bettini - Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics - Cambridge U.P. (2008). Further reading: Cahn, Goldhaber - The experimental foundations of Particle Physics - Cambridge U.P. (2009). M.S. Sozzi - Discrete symmetries and CP Violation - Oxford G.T. (2008). Povh, Rith, Scholz, Zetsche - Particles and nuclei - Springer 6-th Ed. (2008). 2) Interactions of the radiation with matter and particle detectors, one textbook among: D. Green - The physics of particle detectors - Cambridge U.P. (2000). C. Grupen - Particle detectors - Cambridge U.P. (1996). W.R. Leo -Techniques for nuclear and particle physics experiments - Springer-Verlag (1994). Further reading: J.D. Jackson - Classical Electrodynamics - Wiley (1998). T. Ferbel (ed.) - Experimental techniques in HEP - Addison Wesley (1987). K. Kleinknecht - Detectors for particle radiation - Cambridge U.P. (1998). 3) Useful general reference: Particle Data Group - Review of particle physics - pdg.lbl.gov 3) At the link: https://corsidf.df.unipi.it/claroline/course/index.php?cid=114BB interested students will find texts and solutions of the previous years written tests and various additional scientific and historical papers and references.
