The lecture introduces to experimental particle physics.
It is meant for students whose interest in the "fundamental
building blocks of matter and their interactions" was triggerd
during the course lecture "Physik 5". Starting from a few basic theoretical
concepts, the interactions of particles and the experimental
determination of the properties are presented. The lecture introduces
today's "Standard Model of Particle Physics" and summarizes the
experimental tests of the model. With the treatment of today's open
questions (e.g. mass generation, quark mixing, CP violation, neutrino
masses) the lecture reaches the state of research of experimental
particle physics.
Outline (Preliminary):
Fundmental concepts
Decay rates , cross sections and
Feynamn rules
Electromagnetic interactions (QED) of
pointlike particles
Electromagnetic interactions of
extended objects (Inealstic scattering)
Weak interactions (charge and
neutral currents)
Standard model of electroweak
interaction ( W,Z Bosons, Higgs-Mechanism)
Quark transitions (flavour mixing
and CP violation)
QCD (Quark and gluons,
e+e- annihilation to hadrons, deep-inelastic scattering)
Beyond the Standard Modell (Super-symmetry,
GUTs)
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.