The aim of this module is to give knowledge to the student of subnuclear physics phenomenology, experiments in the field and fundamental discoveries.
With respect to the Dublin Descriptors, this course contributes to acquiring the following
transversal skills:
- Knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course, students will have developed inductive and deductive reasoning
skills. They will have acquired the main experimentatal and phenomenological facts that led
to the discovery of elementary particles and their interactions at a fundamental level.
They will know basic elements of the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
- Ability to apply knowledge:
students will be able to front in a deeper way topics covered in more
advanced courses of their study path.
- Autonomy of judgment:
Acquisition of critical reasoning skills
- Communication skills:
management of scientific information and bibliographic searches.
Ability to present with proper language and terminology a scientific topic,
illustrating its reasons and results
- Learning ability:
Ability to update knowledge through the reading of scientific publications, in Italian or
English, in the fields of physics disciplines, also fronting topics not specifically studied
during the course.
The second module takes just over 5 weeks. For each week there are 4 hours of frontal lessons,
for a total of 21 hours (3 CFU)
Knowledge of General Physics, Derivatives, Integrals, Differential Equations.
Attendance to the course is normally mandatory (consult didactic Regulations of the Course of Studies)
Subjects | Text References | |
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1 | fermions and bosons; particles and antiparticles | Particle Physics, B.R. Martin, G. Shaw, John Wiley and Son |
2 | the Quark Model and colour charges | Particle Physics, B.R. Martin, G. Shaw, John Wiley and Son |
3 | weak interaction | D.H. Perkins, Introduction to High Energy Physics, D.H. Addison-Wesley |
4 | other phenomenological topics of particlephysics | D.H. Perkins, Introduction to High Energy Physics, D.H. Addison-Wesley |
parity symmetry
invariant mass
discovery J / PSI
quark model