Advanced Elementary Particle Physics
This advanced course in elementary particle physics provides a comprehensive overview of fundamental theories and interactions, addressing key challenges and exploring potential solutions.
The course covers:
- The standard model and its free parameters, gauge symmetry
- The theory of electroweak interaction and related precision measurements
- The SU(3) symmetry group, hadronic wave functions and dipole moments
- Problems of the standard model: the hierarchy problem, dark matter
- Possible theoretical solutions to the problems of the standard model, hypothetical particles
- Methods for simulating particle collisions and estimating uncertainties
- Experimental measurements of high-energy processes and how they test the standard model
- Experimental measurements of the Higgs boson
- Physics of the bottom quark (CP violation, measurements of heavy hadrons and connection to new exotic theories)
- Experimental tests without particle colliders (the muon's dipole moment, the neutron's electric dipole moment, neutrinoless double beta decays, rare processes).
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Course structure
This is a second cycle course given at half speed during daytime. This course can also be taken as a third cycle course.
Teaching format
The teaching and learning activities are lectures and problem solving classes.
Assessment
The course is examined by an oral examination and continual assessment through hand-in assignments.
Examiner
David Milstead, e-mail: milstead@fysik.su.se
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Schedule
The schedule will be available no later than one month before the start of the course. We do not recommend print-outs as changes can occur. At the start of the course, your department will advise where you can find your schedule during the course. -
Contact
Course coordinator and teacher:
David Milstead, e-mail: milstead@fysik.su.seAcademic advisor at the Department of Physics: studievagledare@fysik.su.se
Student office: studentexp@fysik.su.se
