Particle Physics

Particle Physics WS2011/12
Time & place: Tue,Thu, 14:15 - 15:45, kHS, PI

This focus of the course are the experimental tests of the building blocks of matter and their fundamental interactions.

Heidelberg University Master of Science (Physics) core course (MKEP1)
8 credit points
Course requirements:

For admission to the final exam more than 50% of the points of the homework problems have to be achieved. Working in small groups is encouraged with a maximum group size of 3 people.
Successful completion of the course requires at least 30% of the points in the final exam.
Participation to the course can be canceled until Nov. 24.

Start of tutorials: 17.10.2011
suggestions box: https://mathphys.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de/kummerkasten/

Literature:

B.R. Martin, G. Shaw: Particle Physics, John Wiley.
D.H.Perkins: Introduction to High Energy Physics, Cambridge University Press.
F.Halzen, A.Martin: Quarks and Leptons, John Wiley.
D.Griffith: Introduction to Elementary Particles, John Wiley.
C.Berger: Elementarteilchenphysik, Springer (in German).

Useful Links:
   Tutorials
    Particle Data Group
    SPIRES

Preliminary Program:

Date	Subject	Keywords	Notes	Homework problems
11.10.	1. Introduction 1.1 Overview of Standard Model (SM) 1.2 Notation and tools 1.3 Cross section and decay rates	SM particles SM interactions SM vertices Feynman diagrams Relativistic kinematics Natural units	N1.pdf
13.10.	2. Description of particles 2.1 Klein-Gordon equation 2.2 Dirac equation	Lorentz invariant phase space Spinor gamma matrices	N2.pdf	H1.pdf
18.10.	2.3 Free particle solutions	Feynman-Stueckelbar-Interpretation discovery of the positron anti-particle spinor helicity	N3.pdf
20.10.	3. QED 3.1 Interaction by particle exchange 3.2 Feynman rules for QED 3.3 electron muon scattering	boson propagator s,t - channel process electron,muon tensor	N4.pdf	H2.pdf
25.10.	3.4 e+e- -> mu+mu- - annihilation	crossing symmetry chirality helicity conservation	N5.pdf
27.10.	3.5 Electron - proton scattering	Bhabha scattering running coupling constant Mott scattering	N6.pdf	H3.pdf
3.11.		formfactor magnetic interaction size of the proton	N7.pdf	H4.pdf
8.11.	3.6 Deep inelastic scattering 4. Strong interaction	Bjorken x structure function quark - parton - model	N8.pdf
10.11.	4.1 Symmetries and conservation laws	Isospin Clebsch - Gordon coefficients proton spin-flavour wave function	N9.pdf	H5.pdf
15.11.	4.2 QCD	meson wave function flavour multiplets SU(3) - colour	N10.pdf
17.11.	4.3 Local gauge invariance 4.4 Color factors and QQbar - potential 4.5 Jets	local phase transformation triple/quadric gluon vertex Feynman x_Frunning coupling constant asymptotic freedom	N11.pdf	H6.pdf
22.11.	4.6 Bound states	3-jet events triple gluon vertex from 4-jet events Breit-Wigner distribution Van Royen - Weisskopf decay width OZI rule	N12.pdf
24.11.	4.7 Quark gluon plasma	phase diagram thermal model J/Psi - suppression QCD chiral symmetry GOR - relation		H7.pdf
29.11.	5. Weak interaction 5.1 V-A structure 5.2 Charged and neutral currents	Parity violation Gamov - Teller decays muon decay pion decay
01.12.	5.3 Helicity	Goldhaber experiment		H8.pdf
06.12.	5.4 Neutrino scattering
08.12.	5.5 CKM Matrix			H9.pdf
13.12.	5.6 CP violation
15.12.	5.6 Unitarity triangle			H10.pdf
20.12.	6. Electroweak unification - Standard Model 6.1 precision tests
22.12.	6.2 Higgs mechanism			H11.pdf
10.01.	7. Neutrino oscillations 7.1 experimental observations
12.01.	7.2 direct mass limits 7.3 majorana particles			H12.pdf
17.01.	8. Particle Physics and Cosmology	dark matter dark energy
19.01.	9. Beyond the Standard Model	SUSY		H13.pdf
24.01.
26.01.
31.01.	Exam
02.02.