ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 102 Hours of tutorials: 6 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Particle Physics
Areas: Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Theoretical Physics
Center Faculty of Physics
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
This course introduces more advanced contents in Particle Physics, both theoretical and experimental. The course is designed as a continuation of the course Particle Physics I of the first semester of the Master. The main goal is the integral formation of researchers in Particle Physics, both theorists and experimentalists.
The specific objectives of the course are: the knowledge of the currently advanced theoretical and experimental elements in QCD and in EW, in particular at high densities and temperatures, as well as the flavour physics in quarks and neutrinos; the knowledge of the limits of the Standard Model (SM), as well as the more common extensions used to outpass those limits; the relation between Particle Physics and Cosmology, and the new generations of experiments to look further than the SM.
As a result of the course, the student will get a deep knowledge of the SM and of its more common extensions, as a fundamental tool for the research in Particle Physics and related domains.
Advanced aspects in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Quiral symmetry and rupture of the quiral simmetry quiral; QED and QCD in intense fields; trace anomlay; Instantons; QCD at high temperature and density; Advanced phenomenological applications.
Advanced aspects of the Electroweak Theory (EW). Neutrino oscillations; Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa and Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrices; CP Violations and oscillations in neutral mesons.
Physics beyond the Standar Model. Limits of the SM; Relation between Particle Physics and Cosmology: dark matter; the masses and the nature of the neutrinos; Supersimmetry; Models with minimal flavour violation; Exotic searches.
D. Griffiths, “Introduction to Elementary Particles”, Wiley-VCH, 2009.
A. Bettini, “Introduction to Elementary Particles Physics”, Cambridge 2009.
P. Langacker, “The Standard Model and Beyond”, Taylor and Francis 2010.
E. Leader and E. Predazzi, “An introduction to gauge theories and modern particle physics”, Cambridge 1996.
V. Fadin and L. N. Lipatov, “QCD perturbative and non perturbative” Cambridge 2010.
J. Kapusta and C. Gale, “Finite Temperature: Principles and Applications”, Cambridge 2006.
M. Thomson, "Modern Particle Physics", Cambridge 2013.
The alumni will have telematic access to the relevant bibliographic resources.
The professors will provide aditional complematary and modern bibliografy.
In this course, the student will understand the currently advanced elements, both theoretical and experimental of QCD and of the EW theory.
To develop the ability to compute the physical observables, to interpret and analyze the experimental data; To establish the relation among theory, phenomenological models, and experimental measurements.
To put the SM in its context: to understand its limitations and to related with other domains in Physics, in particular with Cosmology; To think of experiments that could check the validity of the SM.
Students will acquire and practice basic and transversal competencies, common to all the subjects of the master,like the following:
CG01 - Acquire the ability to perform team research work.
CG02 - Be able to analyze and synthesize.
CG03 - Acquire the ability to write texts, articles or scientific reports according to publication standards.
CG04 - Become familiar with the different modalities used to disseminate results and disseminate knowledge in scientific meetings.
CG05 - Apply knowledge to solve complex problems.
CB6 - Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and / or application of ideas, often in a research context
CB7 - Knowledge about how to apply the knowledge acquired and their ability to solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study
CB8 - Ability to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgments based on information
that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments
CB9 - Ability to communicate conclusions and the knowledge and ultimate reasons that sustain them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way
CB10 - Learning skills allowing to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.
Transversal competences are
CT01 - Ability to interpret texts, documentation, reports and academic articles in English, scientific language par excellence.
CT02 - Develop the capacity to make responsible decisions in complex and / or responsible situations.
The specific competences for this subject are:
CE06 - Become familiar with the standard model of fundamental interactions and their possible extensions.
CE07 - Acquire the training for the use of the main computational tools and the management of the main experimental techniques of Nuclear and Particle Physics.
The course will be organized in expositive lectures, combined with specific seminars on topics of current interest.
The classes will be in in person but occasinally an event could be organized via Teams.
The calsses will be in any of the following languages: gallician, spanish or english.
The tasks and exercices to be prepared by the students will include the computation of observables, the design of experiments, possible theoretical proposals, the interpretation of experimental results, etc. For this, both analytical and computational methods will be used.
The course will be accessible via the "Aula Virtual" of the USC.
The expository, interactive classes and tutorials will preferably be done in person, and if this is not possible, they will be held online.
Students will be able to present their work and solved exercises via email or in the virtual classroom.
The tutoring classes will be done in person or online by appointment.
In the case that some of the exercises and probes were done in an ilegal way, it will apply the "Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións”.
The student performance will be graded according to the level of his/her participation in the classroom (40%) and to the homework results (60%).
Aproximately 90 hours.
Active participation in the classroom. Homework should be carried out in a daily basis, whenever possible, avoiding the workload to increase from week to week.
Elena Gonzalez Ferreiro
- Department
- Particle Physics
- Area
- Theoretical Physics
- Phone
- 881813979
- elena.gonzalez.ferreiro [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Jose Angel Hernando Morata
Coordinador/a- Department
- Particle Physics
- Area
- Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics
- Phone
- 881814024
- jose.hernando [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Bin Wu
- Department
- Particle Physics
- Area
- Theoretical Physics
- bin.wu [at] usc.es
- Category
- Researcher: Ramón y Cajal
Arnau Brossa Gonzalo
- Department
- Particle Physics
- Area
- Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics
- arnau.brossa [at] usc.es
- Category
- Researcher: Juan de la Cierva Programme
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