Seminar for PhD students

Theoretical basis and selected experiments to determine the properties of neutrinos and their interactions (mass, spin, helicity, chirality, oscillations, charge-parity violation, interactions with leptons and quarks) and implications on physics beyond the Standard Model of elementary particles as well as on Cosmology.

Following topics are treated:matter and fields; symmetries and groups;recapitulation of important aspects of non-relativistic QM;electrodynamik of spinless particles; Feynman diagrams and propagators;concept of spin; Dirac equation; electrodynamik of particles with spin;Feynman rules;structure of hadrons and its measurement in deep-inelastic scattering.

The course focuses on the connection between particle physics theory and experimental results to provide a comprehensive modern view of the Standard Model. The covered topics are quantum electrodynamics (QED) and quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

The concepts and computational techniques acquired in the context of QED and QCD (during the Phenomenology of Particle Physics I course) will be applied and expanded to the weak interaction and electroweak theory. Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism will also be introduced completing the description of the Standard Model of particle physics.

Introduction to physics with emphasis on mechanics, electromagnetism and basic principles of quantum mechanics. Examples and exercises illustrate the basic concepts.

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