FISICA ADRONICA CON SONDE ELETTRODEBOLI

To provide students, regardless of the curriculum of studies they have chosen, advanced training in nuclear and particle physics, with particular reference to the structure of the hadronic matter, to the force of electroweak interaction and to the physics of neutrinos.

Methods and production techniques of electroweak probes.

1) Interaction of charged particles with matter. Polarization effects. Cerenkov radiation. Multiple Scattering.

2) Interaction of photons with matter. Production of photon beams: a) Bremsstrahlung on: i) amorphous matter and ii) crystals; b) Positron annihilation in flight; c) Compton backscattering of laser light on electrons. Features of the polarized beams.

3) Muon neutrino beams and their production by charged particle accelerators - Neutrinos produced in the Earth's atmosphere - Neutrinos of astrophysical origin.

Properties of hadronic matter.

4) Photonuclear reactions. Emission of photoneutrons. Photo-production of mesons.

5) Baryonic resonances and their excitation. Electron scattering experiments on hadron target currently underway at Jefferson Lab.

Particle detection and high energy radiation.

6) Cosmic rays. Cosmic muons. Detection of muons and neutrinos

7) Electromagnetic and Hadronic showers. Electromagnetic calorimeters. Hadronic calorimeters.

8) Time Projection Chambers and their use in High Energy Physics. ICARUS TPC for short range oscillation experiments at the FermiLab.

1) E. Segrè: Nuclei and particles; Zanichelli, Bologna

2) W.S.C. Williams: Nuclear and Particle Physics; Clarendon Press, Oxford

3) C. Gruben – B. Shwartz: Particle Detectors; Cambridge Monographs 9780521840064