ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS -I

The course is aimed to present to the student experimental particle physics. A detailed description of some of the fundamental experiments in the field is also given.

Four hours of lesson per week. Twelve weeks in total.

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

• Particle Physics Experiments

​​ - muon neutrino discovery

- parity violation in beta and pion decay

- neutrino elicity measurement

- J/PSI discovery

- CP violation in K-long decay

- neutral currents and W-Z bosons discovery

- top quark discovery

- tau neutrino discovery

- OPERA experiment

• Quark model and colors
  • 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

• weak interactions

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

Quark mixing

1. Particle Physics, B.R. Martin, G. Shaw, John Wiley and Son
2. A. Bettini – Elementary Particle Physics – Cambridge University Press 2008;
3. G. Giacomelli – Kinematics of Particle Reactions - Physics Reports 26 (1987)285;
4. D.H. Perkins, Introduction to High Energy Physics, D.H. Addison-Wesley
5. R.N. Cahn, G.Goldhaber - The Experimental Fundation of Particle Physics – Cambridge University Press