Advanced Elementary Particle Physics

This advanced course in elementary particle physics provides a comprehensive overview of fundamental theories and interactions, addressing key challenges and exploring potential solutions.

The course covers:

  • The standard model and its free parameters, gauge symmetry
  • The theory of electroweak interaction and related precision measurements
  • The SU(3) symmetry group, hadronic wave functions and dipole moments
  • Problems of the standard model: the hierarchy problem, dark matter
  • Possible theoretical solutions to the problems of the standard model, hypothetical particles
  • Methods for simulating particle collisions and estimating uncertainties
  • Experimental measurements of high-energy processes and how they test the standard model
  • Experimental measurements of the Higgs boson
  • Physics of the bottom quark (CP violation, measurements of heavy hadrons and connection to new exotic theories)
  • Experimental tests without particle colliders (the muon's dipole moment, the neutron's electric dipole moment, neutrinoless double beta decays, rare processes).

This is a second cycle course given at half speed during daytime. This course can also be taken as a third cycle course.


Teaching Format

The teaching and learning activities are lectures and problem solving classes.


Assessment

The course is examined by an oral examination and continual assessment through hand-in assignments.

Examiner

David Milstead, e-mail: milstead@fysik.su.se

The schedule will be available no later than one month before the start of the course. We do not recommend print-outs as changes can occur. At the start of the course, your department will advise where you can find your schedule during the course.


Note that the course literature can be changed up to two months before the start of the course.


Course reports are displayed for the three most recent course instances.








Course coordinator and teacher:
David Milstead, e-mail: milstead@fysik.su.se

 

Academic advisor at the Department of Physics: studievagledare@fysik.su.se

Student office: studentexp@fysik.su.se