Summer 2005 : Fr 9:15 - 11:00
Phil 12 GrHS
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Lecturer: Ulrich Uwer
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Contents
The focus of the lecture are the experimental tests of
the
building blocks of matter and their fundamental
interactions:
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Test of QED in electron-positron annihilation
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Probing the structure of the nucleon
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The weak interaction: charged and neutral currents
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Electro-weak unification: Discovery of W and Z
Bosons
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Flavour oscillations and CP violation
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New particle and dark-matter searches
With the last two topics (Quark mixing, CP
violation
& neutrino mixing and New particle searches) the lecture
reaches
today's state of research of experimental particle physics.
Although the emphasis is put on the
experiments
the lecture also tries to motivate the thoeretical
descriptions
and tries to give "phenomenological" derivations of the necessary
formulas.
For better understanding the course starts with a
short
review of the calculation of transition amplitudes, cross sections and
decay rates. The Dirac equation is introduced and used to
motivate
the Feynman rules of QED. The basic cross sections for
fermion-fermion
scattering are derived.
The lectcure is meant for students whose interest in
the
fundamental building blocks of matter and their interactions was
triggerd
during the course lecture "Physik 5".
The course is part of the Graduate School "Particle
Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology". It is recommended for
diploma
and doctoral students in experimental/theoretical particle physics. The
series continues with a course on "Standard Model of particle
physics" in fall 2005.
Outline:
I . Introduction (script pdf.file)
II. Pre-requisites (script
pdf.file)
III. QED for "pedestrians" ( script part a
pdf.file
part b
pdf.file)
IV. ee Annihilation experiments below the Z resonance
(script
pdf.file)
V. Experimental studies of QCD
(script
part a pdf.file,
part b pdf.file )
VI. Probing the weak interaction
(script
part a ,
part b pdf.file)
VII. Electro-weak unification
(
pdf.file)
VIII Experimental test of the Standard Model (SM)
(
script pdf.file)
IX. Flavor violation
(
script part a )
(
part b pdf.file)
X. The quest for new physics beyond the
Standard Model
Literature:
D.H.Perkins:
Introduction
to High Energy Physics, Cambridge University Press.
D.Griffith: Introduction
to Elementary Particles, John Wiley.
F.Halzen, A.Martin: Quarks
and Leptons, John Wiley.
P.Renton: Introduction to
the Physics of Quarks and Leptons, Cambridge University Press.
E.Leader und E.Predazzi:
An Introduction to Gauge Theories and Modern Particle Physics, Band
1+2,
Cambridge Mongraphs.