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Disclaimer: The following is a rough outline of the course, things are likely to shift around a bit as we progress through the semester.
Date | Lecture |
Sep 20 |
Introduction and basic concepts |
Sep 22 |
Introduction to lab course |
Sep 27 | Natural units and interactions |
Sept 29 | Exercise 1 |
Oct 4 |
Interactions and Feynman diagrams |
Oct 6 |
Detectors and accelerators |
Oct 11 |
Scattering processes, decay rates and cross sections |
Oct 13 | Exercise 2 |
Oct 18 |
Guest lecture Clemens Lange: Nuclear properties |
Oct 20 | Guest lecture Clemens Lange: Radioactive decay, types of radiation, fusion and fission |
Oct 25 |
Elastic scattering on nucleons, form factors, inelastic scattering |
Oct 27 |
Exercise 3 |
Nov 1 |
DIS and structure function |
Nov 3/8 |
Quarks, gluons and strong interaction |
Nov 10 |
Exercise 4 |
Nov 15 |
Particles in e+e- collisions |
Nov 17 | Jets and scaling violation |
Nov 22 | Symmetries and conservation laws |
Nov 24 | Exercise 5 |
Nov 29 | Dirac equation |
Dec 1 | Solutions of the Dirac equation |
Dec 6 | Phenomenology of weak interaction |
Dec 8 | Exercise 6 |
Dec 13 | Weak interaction, W and Z boson |
Dec 15 | Exercise 7 |
Dec 20 | Parity and CP violation in weak interaction |
Dec 22 | Exam preparation and Q&A |