• Beck Hans Peter

• Beck Hans Peter

• Muster Augustin

Particle physics deals with the fundamental building blocks of matter and their interactions. The exploration of subatomic physics started in 1896 with Becquerel's discovery of radioactivity; and J.J. Thomson's discovery of the electron as a component of the atom; which was followed by Rutherford’s discovery of the atomic nuclei in 1911. With the further development of experimental tools and theoretical understanding, atoms, nuclei, nucleons, and finally the quarks have been discovered, analysed and understood as the fundamental structure of all matter.

With the understanding of the constituents of matter, i.e. the particles, and their interactions, insight in the birth and evolution of the Universe could be established that has led to a coherent picture, aligning and supporting measurements from cosmologist and astrophysics.

This course gives an introduction in the objectives, tools and methods of particle physics in five parts:

Preamble
Brief history and overview

Part I – Basic concepts
Resolving the structure of matter
Mass, energy, units

Part II – Accelerating particles
Electrostatic high-voltage generators
Linear accelerator
Cyclotron, Betatron, and Synchrotron

Part III – Interaction of radiation with matter
Particles traversing matter
Bethe-Bloch formula on the mean energy loss per path length
Mean range and Bragg peak

Part IV – Detecting particles
Bubble chamber, scintillation detector, wire chamber, čerenkov detector, Calorimeter

Part V – The Standard Model
Bosons and fermions, quarks and leptons, hadrons as baryons and mesons
Electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions

Particles and Nuclei – An Introduction to the Physical Concepts, 2015
Bogdan Povh, Klaus Rith, Christoph Scholz, Frank Zetsche, Werner Rodejohann
ISBN 978-3-662-46320-8 (hardcover, English edition, 2015) 

ISBN 978-3-662-49583-4 (softcover, English edition, 2015)
ISBN 978-3-642-37821-8 (softcover, German edition, 2013)
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783662463208

Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics, 2nd edition, 2014
Alessandro Bettini
ISBN 978-1-107-05040-2
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/physics/particle-physics-and-nuclear-physics/introduction-elementary-particle-physics-2nd-edition

Subatomic Physics, 3rd Edition, 2007
Ernest M Henley, Alejandro Garcia
ISBN 978-9-812-70056-8 (hardcover) 

ISBN 978-9-812-70057-5 (softcover) 

http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/6263

Particle Data Group – PDG
http://pdg.lbl.gov

L’examen aura lieu en présence, dans le respect des normes sanitaires.

Die Prüfung wird in Präsenz und gemäss den Gesundheitsnormen stattfinden.

L’examen aura lieu en présence, dans le respect des normes sanitaires.

Die Prüfung wird in Präsenz und gemäss den Gesundheitsnormen stattfinden.