Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics Elements

Module Module 2

The aim of  this module is to give knowledge to the student of subnuclear physics phenomenology, experiments in the field and fundamental discoveries.

With respect to the Dublin Descriptors, this course contributes to acquiring the following transversal skills:

- Knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course, students will have developed inductive and deductive reasoning 

skills. They will have acquired the main  experimentatal and phenomenological facts that led 

to the discovery of elementary particles and their interactions at a fundamental level. 

They will know basic elements of the Standard Model of Particle Physics.

- Ability to apply knowledge

students will be able to front in a deeper way  topics covered in more 

advanced courses of their study path.

- Autonomy of judgment

Acquisition of critical reasoning skills

- Communication skills

management of scientific information and bibliographic searches.

Ability to present with proper language and terminology  a scientific topic, 

illustrating its reasons and results

- Learning ability

Ability to update  knowledge through the reading of scientific publications, in Italian or 

English, in the fields of physics disciplines, also fronting topics not specifically studied 

during the course.

The second module takes just over 5 weeks. For each week there are 4 hours of frontal lessons, 

for a total of 21 hours (3 CFU).

Knowledge of General Physics, Derivatives, Integrals, Differential Equations.

Attendance to the course is normally mandatory (consult didactic Regulations of the Course of Studies).

• particles and quantum numbers
• Fermions and bosons. Particles and antiparticles
• Yukawa Forces
• Relativistic Kinematics
• Natural units

• Mesons and barions
• Barion number, Isospin, Strangenes, Charmnes, Bottomnes, Topnes
• Colors;
• asintotic freedom and confinement
• hadron jets
• vacuum polarization
• J/Psi discovery
• Charmonium and bottonium
• Deep Inelastic Scattering  e-e and e-p, Form factors, Structure function

• beta decays
• pion muon and kaon decay
• parity violation
• electroweak unification
• Gargamelle experiments and neutral currents
• UA1 e UA2 experiments - W and Z discovery

1. Particle Physics, B.R. Martin, G. Shaw, John Wiley and Son
2. D.H. Perkins, Introduction to High Energy Physics, D.H. Addison-Wesley

parity symmetry

invariant mass

discovery J/PSI

quark model