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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).
  • 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

  • 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.se

     

    Academic advisor at the Department of Physics: studievagledare@fysik.su.se

    Student office: studentexp@fysik.su.se