2023/2024 Hauptseminar: Elementary Particle Physics

 

Hauptseminar (Master)  Elementary Particle Physics

Wednesday 3. DS (11:11-12:40), SE2/201

Dominik Stöckinger

In the seminar we will discuss the current status of elementary particle physics. Students will give talks about key experimental discoveries, fundamental theoretical concepts and a range of crucial phenomena. We will understand the construction of the Standard Model of particle physics, its main features and experimental tests. Potential topics of the talks will include:

- Phenomena of strong interactions from confinement to asymptotic freedom, from quarks and gluons to protons, neutrons and jets.

- Phenomena of weak interactions, parity violation and CP violation.

- Flavour physics and the role of three generations of quarks and leptons.

- The gauge structure of the Standard Model and its phenomenological implications.

- The principle of spontaneous symmetry breaking

- The Higgs sector, the Higgs boson and their role in the Standard Model.

- The discovery of the Higgs boson at LHC and the current status of Higgs physics.

- The discovery of the W- and Z-bosons.

- Theory of electroweak precision tests, predictions of the W-, Higgs and top-quark masses.

- Muon anomalous magnetic moment g-2 - experiment and theory.

- Physics programme of the LHC and other current and future experiments.

Organizer:

Dominik Stöckinger

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Students interested in participation are recommended to inscribe using the button "Einschreibung" or show up in the first week of the semester.