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Particles and the Cosmos

2020/2021

Sascha Caron, Jörg Hörandel

NM109
first semester, 6 ec
28 hrs lecture Tuesday 8:30 - 10:15
28 hrs problem session Wednesday10:30 - 12:15

Exam:
Written exam.

Lectures:
Experimental methods (JRH)
01.09.2020 1. Interactions with matter
08.09.2020 2. Detectors
Standard model (SC)
15.09.2020 3. Particles, QED, Feynman rules
22.09.2020 4. Hadrons and QCD
29.09.2020 5. Hadrons and QCD
06.10.2020 6. Weak interactions, CP violation
13.10.2020 7. Higgs mechanism
Astroparticle physics (JRH)
03.11.2020 8. The birth of cosmic rays
10.11.2020 9. Cosmic rays in the Galaxy, in the heliosphere, and the Earth magnetic field
17.11.2020 10. Cosmic rays at the top of and in the atmosphere
24.11.2020 11. Cosmic rays underground - neutrino oscillations
01.12.2020 12. Neutrino oscillations
Beyond the Standard Model, Dark Matter (SC)
08.12.2020 13. Lambda CDM, Big-bang nucleosynthesis
15.12.2020 14. Dark matter - Beyond-the-standard-model reasons

Problem sessions:

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02.09.2020 tutorial 1
09.09.2020 tutorial 2
04.11.2020 tutorial 8
11.11.2020 tutorial 9
18.11.2020 tutorial 10
25.11.2020 tutorial 11
02.12.2020 tutorial 12

Teaching assistants: Abha Khakurdikar at ru.nl

Literature:
D. Griffiths
Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics, 2nd edition
Wiley
T. Stanev
High Energy Cosmic Rays
Springer


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