| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Theoretical and Experimental Physics | |||||||||
| Chosen research area (module) | High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics | |||||||||
| Nature and level of studies | Basic (undergraduate) academic studies | |||||||||
| Name of the course | Elementary Particle Physics | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | Prof. Petar Adžić | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | Vukašin Milošević/Nikola Konjik/Dr Predrag Milenović | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||||||||
| ECTS | 6 | Status (required/elective) | ||||||||
| Access requirements | Special Theory of Relativity, Nuclear Physics, Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics | |||||||||
| Aims of the course | Students of the fourth year should get a basic education and become familiar with phenomena in the field of High Energy Physics and to earn an adequate knowledge needed when they get enrolled in Master and doctoral studies in this field. In the first part of the course, going mostly through theoretical lectures, students should get acquainted with phenomenology and features of particles and fundamental interactions acting between them. Students are expected to become familiar with basic elements of the physics within and beyond the Standard model. In the second part of the course, they follow lectures on the most important phenomena in the field of Particle Physics and astroparticle physics from the experimental aspect: become acquainted with basic features of physics of particles accelerators and detectors with special emphasis on experiments and results of experiments performed at large accelerator installations in the world. | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | Students should earn a level of satisfactory knowledge in the field of High Energy Physics through lectures and material adjusted to enable them necessary preparation for continuation of their education in Master and doctoral studies in this field. After passing this course, students should also have more comfortable approach when joining as active researchers in High Energy Physics, particularly in experiments within large international collaborations. | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | 1.
Elementary particles: Introduction and history. Relativistic kinematics.
Classification of particles and phenomena. Interactions of charged particles
with matter. Interactions of EM radiation with matter. Interaction of neutral
particles. 2. Interactions and fields: Classical and quantum mechanical picture of interactions. Interection cross section. Feynman diagrams. EM interaction U(1). Weak interaction SU(2). Strong interaction SU(3). Graviational interaction. Decays and resonant states. 3. Conservation laws and principles of invariance: Operators of Translation, Rotation, Parity, Charge exchange, Charge conjugate. Time invariance. Invariance and violation of P, CP and CPT. Charge invariance and gauge invariance. Gauge transformations. 4. Physics within and beyond the Standard model of elementary particles: Basic elements of the Standard model. Intermdiate vector bosons Z0,W- и W+. Production and detection of Z0 and W-W+ pairs of bosons. Electro-Weak interaction. Coupling strengths with leptons and quarks. Sponteneous violation of Electro-Weak interaction and Higgs mechanism. Production and detection of Higgs boson. 5. Physics beyond Standard model: Basic elements of Theory of Supersymmetry (SUSY). Basic elements of Grand Unification Theory-GUT:SU(5). Proton decay. Neutrino physics: phenomena, oscillations. Dirac and Majorana neutrino. Magnetic monopoles. 6. Astroparticle physics and Cosmology: Nucleosynthesis and Big Bang model. Hubble law and expansion of universe. Friedmann equations. Barion-antibarion asymmetry and CP symmetry violation. Dark matter and Dark energy. 7. Experimental methods in high energy physics: Introduction to accelerator phytsics. Types of accelerators. Experiments with beams of accelerated leptons, hadrons and heavy ions. Beam dynamics and Liuville theorem. Secondary beams and mass separators. Acceleration of charged particles at relativistic and ultrarelativistic energies. Experiments with colliding beams. Accelerator installations in the world. 8. Detectors: Detectors of charged particles. Detectors of EM radiation. Shower detectors (Calorimeters). Detectors for neutral particles. Large multilyer detectors for complex experiments. 9. Important experiments. |
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| Examples/ practical classes | ||||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | M. Thomson: Elementary Particle Physics, Wiley, 2016. | |||||||||
| 2 | B.R. Martin, G. Shaw: Particle Physics, Wiley, 2008; G. Kane: Modern Particle Physics, Westview Press, 1993 | |||||||||
| 3 | D. Perkins: Introduction to High Energy Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2000. | |||||||||
| 4 | R.C. Fernow: Introduction to Experimental Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1989. | |||||||||
| 5 | Published papers in scientific journals. | |||||||||
| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| 2 | 3 | Seminars | Consultations | |||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Theoretical lectures, exercises and solution of problems, and some examples of analysis of original experimental data obtained by one of experiments at the Large hadron collider-LHC at CERN | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 10 | written examination | 30 | |||||||
| practicals | oral examination | 40 | ||||||||
| papers | ||||||||||
| presentations | 20 | |||||||||