FU:ETFNCF0001 Intro. to Particle Physics - Course Information

ETFNCF0001 Introduction to Particle Physics

Extent and Intensity

2/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

RNDr. Josef Juráň, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. Ing. Peter Lichard, DrSc. (lecturer)
prof. Ing. Peter Lichard, DrSc. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

RNDr. Josef Juráň, Ph.D.
Institute of physics in Opava

Timetable

Thu 12:15–13:50 SM-UF

• Timetable of Seminar Groups:

ETFNCF0001/A: Wed 14:45–16:20 309, P. Lichard

Prerequisites (in Czech)

(FAKULTA(FU)&&SOUHLAS)

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

A goal of this course is to provide basic information about present knowledge of structure and interactions of subnuclear particles. The course is lectured from phenomenological and historical point of view. It is based on experimental results which led to present picture of nature.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful graduation from the subject, a student will be able to identify and summarize important milestones in history of particle physics; to describe and explain experimental methods in particle physics; to describe structure and interactions of subnuclear particles.

Syllabus

• Main topics:
  • History and current state of particle physics. Key discoveries, experiments and ideas.
  • Structure and interaction of particles; leptons, quarks, gauge bosons, hadrons; mesons and baryons.
  • Stable and unstable particles, resonances. Antiparticles.
  • Kinematics of collisions and decays. Conservation laws, relativistic invariants; cross section; luminosity; longitudinal and transverse momentum, rapidity.
  • Mean lifetime, partial decay width, branching fraction and branching ratio, Dalitz plot.
  • Experimental methods of particle physics. Basic principles and types of particle accelerators. Linear accelerators electrostatic and high frequency; circular accelerators of electrons, protons and heavy ions.
  • Primary and secondary beams, targets; accumulators and colliders, accelerator complexes.
  • Physical principles and characteristics of detectors; the most important types of detectors; calorimeters and spectrometers, detector systems.
  • Properties of hadrons. Mass, charge, spin, baryon number, spatial (P) parity, isospin and its third component, charge (C) parity, G parity.
  • Flavor and its relation to quark structure.
  • Experimental determination of mass, spin and parity of pions.
  • Conservation laws connected with strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions.
  • Properties of leptons. Lepton numbers, experimental evidences of differentness of electron neutrino and antineutrino, and electron and muon antineutrinos; number of types of neutrinos; possible violations of lepton numbers; solar neutrinos.

Literature

recommended literature
• Davídek T., Leitner R. Elementární částice. Od prvních objevů po současné experimenty, Matfyzpress, 2014
• Davídek T., Leitner R. Řešené příklady z fyziky elementárních částic, Matfyzpress, 2014
• Žáček J. Úvod do fyziky elementárních částic. Nakladatelství Karolinum, 2005. ISBN 9788024611099. info
• Nosek D. Jádra a částice, řešené příklady, Matfyzpress, 2005
• Dosch, H.G. Za hranicemi nanosvěta. Leptony, kvarky, kalibrační bosony. Academia, 2011. ISBN 978-80-200-1871-7. info
• Close F. Částicová fyzika. Praha, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7363-160-4. info
• Close F. - Marten M. - Sutton C. The Particle Odyssey. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0198609438. info
• Griffiths D. J. Introduction to Elementary Particles. Wiley, 2008

Teaching methods

Monological (lecture, briefing)
Tutorial
Students' self-study
One-to-One tutorial

Assessment methods

homework
random test
written test
oral and written exam

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Erasmus

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