Fisica | NUCLEAR AND SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS

cod. 0522600030

NUCLEAR AND SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS

	0522600030
	DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA "E.R. CAIANIELLO"

	PHYSICS
	2014/2015

PERCORSO COMUNE

	YEAR OF COURSE 1
	YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2014
	SECONDO SEMESTRE

TEACHING UNITS

	SSD	CFU	HOURS	ACTIVITY	TYPE OF ACTIVITY
	FIS/01	6	48	LESSONS	SUPPLEMENTARY COMPULSORY SUBJECTS

	Objectives
	KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: THE COURSE PROVIDES A WIDE AND DEEP PICTURE OF THE CURRENT KNOWLEDGE AND RESEARCH FIELDS IN HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS. APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO WORK OUT EXERCISES OR EXAMPLES UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE TEACHER. THEY ARE ALSO STIMULATED TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF CONCEPT DESIGN FOR HIGH-ENERGY EXPERIMENTS. COMMUNICATION SKILLS: STUDENTS ARE STIMULATED TO EXPLAIN CLEARLY AND RIGOROUSLY THE KNOWLEDGE THEY ACQUIRE. AT THE END OF THE COURSE THEY ARE REQUIRED TO CORRECTLY STATE THE SUBJECTS AND PROBLEMS OF THE COURSE, WHILE MASTERING THE FORMALISM USED IN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION ABOUT FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS. MAKING JUDGEMENTS: STUDENTS ARE LED TO LEARN WITH A CRITICAL APPROACH ALL THE SUBJECTS EXPLAINED BY THE TEACHER. EACH EXPERIMENTAL RESULT IS ANALYSED FROM PRACTICAL AND TECHNICAL POINTS OF VIEW, FOCUSING BOTH ON THE INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS AND ON THEIR CONNECTION TO THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK. THE SUBJECTS ARE SHOWN IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, SO THAT STUDENTS CAN DISCUSS THEM IN THE HISTORICAL AND LOGICAL CONTEXT OF EVOLVING KNOWLEDGE. THE CRITICAL CAPABILITIES ARE EXPECTED TO GROW, EVENTUALLY HELPING BOTH IN A FUTURE RESEARCH ACTIVITY AND IN PRACTICAL APPLICATION. CONTINUING EDUCATION: AT THE END OF THE COURSE, THE STUDENTS MUST HAVE A CONSISTENT PICTURE OF THE STANDARD MODEL OF PARTICLE INTERACTION, SO THAT THEY CAN AUTONOMOUSLY UNDERSTAND A TYPICAL PAPER OF A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL CONCERNING THE PHYSICS OF FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS.

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
THE COURSE PROVIDES A WIDE AND DEEP PICTURE OF THE CURRENT KNOWLEDGE AND RESEARCH FIELDS IN HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS.

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO WORK OUT EXERCISES OR EXAMPLES UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE TEACHER. THEY ARE ALSO STIMULATED TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF CONCEPT DESIGN FOR HIGH-ENERGY EXPERIMENTS.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
STUDENTS ARE STIMULATED TO EXPLAIN CLEARLY AND RIGOROUSLY THE KNOWLEDGE THEY ACQUIRE. AT THE END OF THE COURSE THEY ARE REQUIRED TO CORRECTLY STATE THE SUBJECTS AND PROBLEMS OF THE COURSE, WHILE MASTERING THE FORMALISM USED IN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION ABOUT FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS.

MAKING JUDGEMENTS:
STUDENTS ARE LED TO LEARN WITH A CRITICAL APPROACH ALL THE SUBJECTS EXPLAINED BY THE TEACHER. EACH EXPERIMENTAL RESULT IS ANALYSED FROM PRACTICAL AND TECHNICAL POINTS OF VIEW, FOCUSING BOTH ON THE INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS AND ON THEIR CONNECTION TO THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK. THE SUBJECTS ARE SHOWN IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, SO THAT STUDENTS CAN DISCUSS THEM IN THE HISTORICAL AND LOGICAL CONTEXT OF EVOLVING KNOWLEDGE. THE CRITICAL CAPABILITIES ARE EXPECTED TO GROW, EVENTUALLY HELPING BOTH IN A FUTURE RESEARCH ACTIVITY AND IN PRACTICAL APPLICATION.

CONTINUING EDUCATION:
AT THE END OF THE COURSE, THE STUDENTS MUST HAVE A CONSISTENT PICTURE OF THE STANDARD MODEL OF PARTICLE INTERACTION, SO THAT THEY CAN AUTONOMOUSLY UNDERSTAND A TYPICAL PAPER OF A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL CONCERNING THE PHYSICS OF FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS.

	Prerequisites
	QUANTUM MECHANICS, COMPOSITION OF ANGULAR MOMENTA, CONTINUOUS SYMMETRIES CLASSICAL ELECTROMAGNETISM AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY RELATIVISTIC WAVE EQUATIONS OF MAXWELL, KLEIN-GORDON AND DIRAC FEYNMAN DIAGRAMS COLLISION THEORY AND PARTIAL WAVE DECOMPOSITION KNOWLEDGE OF FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS

	Contents
	RADIATION - MATTER INTERACTION ELECTROMAGNETIC PROCESSES: COMPTON, MOELLER, BHABHA SCATTERING. CROSSING BEAM MONITORING. ANNIHILATION TO FERMION-ANTIFERMION PAIRS. BREMSSTRAHLUNG, PAIR PRODUCTION AND SHOWERS. HIGHER-ORDER QED PROCESSES AND RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS; ANOMALOUS MAGNETIC MOMENT OF ELECTRON AND MUON, EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS. NUCLEAR MODELS. YUKAWA THEORY. WEAK DECAYS OF NUCLEI AND PARTICLES. FERMI AND GAMOW-TELLER TRANSITIONS, KURIE PLOT, DIRECT NEUTRINO MASS MEASUREMENTS. EXPERIMENTAL PROOF OF PARITY VIOLATION. HELICITY AND THE V-A THEORY. SELECTION RULES. OBSERVATION OF STRANGENESS OSCILLATIONS. WEAK CURRENTS AND THE GIM MODEL. CP-VIOLATION. OBSERVATION OF THE W AND Z BOSONS. ELECTROWEAK UNIFICATIONS AND EXPERIMENTAL MEASUEMENTS OF THE WEINBERG ANGLE. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF THE HIGGS BOSON. STRONG INTERACTIONS. SCATTERING THEORY AND PARTIAL WAVES. THE BREIT-WIGNER RESONANCE FORMULA. KINEMATICAL FACTORS. DALITZ PLOTS. ELASTIC SCATTERING. RESONANCES. PHENOMENOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE STATIC QUARK MODEL. QUARKONIA, CHARMONIUM, BOTTOMONIUM. DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING. PARTON MODEL. EVIDENCE OF THE BJORKEN SCALING, SUM RULES, PARTON SPIN. CONNECTIONS WITH THE QUARK MODEL. STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS. LOGARITHMIC SCALING VIOLATIONS IN DIS EXPERIMENTS. CONFINEMENT. RUNNING COUPLING CONSTANTS. PARTON DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS. BASICS OF HEAVY ULTRARELATIVISTIC ION PHYSICS. HADRON SHOWERS. NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS. ENERGY SPECTRA OF COSMIC RAYS, GZK CUTOFF. ASTROPARTICLES AND EXPERIMENTS OF GALACTIC NEUTRINO SOURCES. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF DECONFINEMENT AND QUARK-GLUON-PLASMA.

Contents

RADIATION - MATTER INTERACTION

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROCESSES: COMPTON, MOELLER, BHABHA SCATTERING. CROSSING BEAM MONITORING. ANNIHILATION TO FERMION-ANTIFERMION PAIRS. BREMSSTRAHLUNG, PAIR PRODUCTION AND SHOWERS. HIGHER-ORDER QED PROCESSES AND RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS; ANOMALOUS MAGNETIC MOMENT OF ELECTRON AND MUON, EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS.

NUCLEAR MODELS.

YUKAWA THEORY.

WEAK DECAYS OF NUCLEI AND PARTICLES. FERMI AND GAMOW-TELLER TRANSITIONS, KURIE PLOT, DIRECT NEUTRINO MASS MEASUREMENTS. EXPERIMENTAL PROOF OF PARITY VIOLATION. HELICITY AND THE V-A THEORY. SELECTION RULES. OBSERVATION OF STRANGENESS OSCILLATIONS. WEAK CURRENTS AND THE GIM MODEL. CP-VIOLATION. OBSERVATION OF THE W AND Z BOSONS. ELECTROWEAK UNIFICATIONS AND EXPERIMENTAL MEASUEMENTS OF THE WEINBERG ANGLE. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF THE HIGGS BOSON.

STRONG INTERACTIONS. SCATTERING THEORY AND PARTIAL WAVES. THE BREIT-WIGNER RESONANCE FORMULA. KINEMATICAL FACTORS. DALITZ PLOTS. ELASTIC SCATTERING. RESONANCES. PHENOMENOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE STATIC QUARK MODEL. QUARKONIA, CHARMONIUM, BOTTOMONIUM. DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING. PARTON MODEL. EVIDENCE OF THE BJORKEN SCALING, SUM RULES, PARTON SPIN. CONNECTIONS WITH THE QUARK MODEL. STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS. LOGARITHMIC SCALING VIOLATIONS IN DIS EXPERIMENTS. CONFINEMENT. RUNNING COUPLING CONSTANTS. PARTON DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS. BASICS OF HEAVY ULTRARELATIVISTIC ION PHYSICS. HADRON SHOWERS.

NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS.
ENERGY SPECTRA OF COSMIC RAYS, GZK CUTOFF.
ASTROPARTICLES AND EXPERIMENTS OF GALACTIC NEUTRINO SOURCES.
EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF DECONFINEMENT AND QUARK-GLUON-PLASMA.

	Teaching Methods
	LECTURES WITH THE AID OF SLIDES AND MULTIMEDIA MATERIAL. A FEW SIMPLE COMPUTATIONS ARE PERFORMED BY STUDENTS UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE TEACHER.

	Verification of learning
	THE ORAL EXAM CONSISTS OF A WIDE DISCUSSION COVERING LARGE FRACTIONS OF THE SUBJECTS OF THE COURSE IN DUE DETAIL. THE ABILITY TO DRAW LOGICAL LINKS IS ESPECIALLY REQUIRED, BUT QUANTITATIVE NOTIONS ARE ALSO CONSIDERED IMPORTANT WHEN THEY CONTAIN RELEVANT INFORMATION.

	Texts
	STUDENTS ARE SUGGESTED TO USE THE SLIDES SHOWN DURING THE LECTURES, WHICH ARE THE REFERENCE TEXT FOR THE DETAIL OF THE CONTENTS OF THE COURSE; THEY RECEIVE SUCH SLIDES DURING THE COURSE, AND AT THE END THE FULL MATERIAL CAN BE PROVIDED BY THE TEACHER AS A SINGLE TEXT. THE COURSE FOLLOWS FAIRLY CLOSELY THE TEXTBOOK: 1) “INTRODUCTION TO HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS” – D. PERKINS – ADDISON WESLEY / CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2) “PARTICELLE E INTERAZIONI FONDAMENTALI” – S. BRAIBANT, G. GIACOMELLI, M. SPURIO – SPRINGER

Texts

STUDENTS ARE SUGGESTED TO USE THE SLIDES SHOWN DURING THE LECTURES, WHICH ARE THE REFERENCE TEXT FOR THE DETAIL OF THE CONTENTS OF THE COURSE; THEY RECEIVE SUCH SLIDES DURING THE COURSE, AND AT THE END THE FULL MATERIAL CAN BE PROVIDED BY THE TEACHER AS A SINGLE TEXT.
THE COURSE FOLLOWS FAIRLY CLOSELY THE TEXTBOOK:
1) “INTRODUCTION TO HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS” – D. PERKINS – ADDISON WESLEY / CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
2) “PARTICELLE E INTERAZIONI FONDAMENTALI” – S. BRAIBANT, G. GIACOMELLI, M. SPURIO – SPRINGER

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