Advanced Topics in Particle Physics - SS10
Organisation
Advanced topics in particle physics should complement the main series of lectures in particle physics and discuss current and exciting topics in particle physics. Topics covered in these lectures include CP violation in the K and B system, neutrino oscillations and direct measurements of neutrino masses.
The table of contents for the lectures can be found here. It will be updated regularly as the lectures proceed.
There will be either 2 or 4 hours of lectures per week. Exercises will be 2 hours long and will be held every other week. The first lecture will exceptionally be for only 1 hour and start at 12:15 on 13.04.2010. Lectures will be held in the IAP lecture hall.
From the week beginning 3 May onwards, exercise classes will be held on Thursday rather than Tuesday. The only exception is the last week of the semester, where the exercises will be in Tuesday and the lecture on Thursday.
The course is registered in ecampus. You can also sign up for the course there. If you are not yet registered with ecampus please do so, as it also allows us to send emails to all participants. Announcements, lecture notes, exercise sheets etc. will be uploaded there. A direct link to the course is here or here
Contact
Email address are in the domain physik.uni-bonn.de.
| Name | Phone | Room | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ian Brock | brock | 3616 | PI 259 |
| Markus Jüngst | juengst | 3603 | PI 143 |
| Tatevik Poghosyan | poghosyan | 2648 | PI 316 |
Markus Jüngst and Tatevik Poghosyan are the tutors for the exercises.
Lectures
Lectures will be held on Tuesday 12:15-14:00 and Thursday 08:15-10:00 in the IAP lecture hall. It was no possible to shift the Tuesday time to avoid completely blocking the lunch break.
| Date | Time | Number | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/04/2010 | 12:15 | 1 | 1.0 Introduction |
| 15/04/2010 | 08:15 | 2 | 2.0 Leptons, neutrinos and their masses |
| 20/04/2010 | 12:15 | 1 | Exercises |
| 22/04/2010 | 08:15 | 3 | 2.4 The third
neutrino 3.0 Neutrino oscillations |
| 27/04/2010 | 12:15 | 4 | 3.3 Theory of vacuum neutrino oscillations |
| 29/04/2010 | 08:15 | 5 | 3.6 Solar neutrinos |
| 04/05/2010 | 12:15 | 6 | 3.10 LSND, KARMEN
and MiniBOONE 4.0 CKM matrix parameters |
| 06/05/2010 | 08:15 | 2 | Exercises |
| 11/05/2010 | 12:15 | 7 | 4.4 |V_cd| |
| 13/05/2010 | 08:15 | Ascension day | |
| 18/05/2010 | 12:15 | 8 | 4.11 Unitarity triangle 5.0 Meson mixing and oscillations |
| 20/05/2010 | 08:15 | 3 | Exercises |
| 25/05/2010 | 12:15 | No lecture | |
| 27/05/2010 | 08:15 | No lecture | |
| 01/06/2010 | 12:15 | 9 | 5.4 Identifying
heavy quark events 6.0 CP violation in K system |
| 03/06/2010 | 08:15 | Fronleichnam | |
| 08/06/2010 | 12:15 | 10 | 6.2 Formalism for CP violation in the K system |
| 10/06/2010 | 08:15 | 4 | Exercises |
| 15/06/2010 | 12:15 | 11 | 6.3 Measurement
of ε' 7.0 CP violation in B system |
| 17/06/2010 | 08:15 | 12 | 7.2 Types of CP violation in B system |
| 22/06/2010 | 12:15 | 13 | 7.4 Measurement of CP violation in B system |
| 24/06/2010 | 08:15 | 5 | Exercises |
| 29/06/2010 | 12:15 | 14 | 8.0 Luminosity measurement |
| 01/07/2010 | 08:15 | 15 | 8.3 Luminosity determination at HERA |
| 06/07/2010 | 12:15 | 16 | 9.0 Bits and pieces |
| 08/07/2010 | 08:15 | 6 | Exercises |
| 13/07/2010 | 12:15 | 17 | 9.4
Geoneutrinos 10.0 Direct dark matter searches |
| 15/07/2010 | 08:15 | 18 | 10.1.3 Matter and energy content of the universe |
| 20/07/2010 | 12:15 | 7 | Exercises |
| 22/07/2010 | 08:15 | 19 | 10.2.2 Supersymmetry |
Lecture Notes
The notes and slides I use can be downloaded:
| Chapter | Title | Links | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapter 1 | Introduction | PDF, Figures+ | 15/04/2010 |
| Chapter 2 | Leptons, neutrinos and their masses | PDF, Figures+ | 27/04/2010 |
| Chapter 3 | Neutrino oscillations | PDF, Figures+ | 04/05/2010 |
| Chapter 4 | CKM matrix parameters | PDF, Figures+ | 17/05/2010 |
| Chapter 5 | Meson mixing and oscillations | PDF, Figures+ | 01/06/2010 |
| Chapter 6 | CP violation in K system | PDF, Figures+ | 15/06/2010 |
| Chapter 7 | CP violation in B system | PDF, Figures+ | 29/06/2010 |
| Chapter 8 | Luminosity measurement | PDF, Figures+ | 08/07/2010 |
| Chapter 9 | Bits and pieces | PDF, Figures+ | 22/07/2010 |
| Chapter 10 | Direct dark matter searches | PDF, Figures+ | 22/07/2010 |
The Feynman graphs etc. can be accessed directly from here.
Exercise Sheets
The exercise sheets are available from ecampus.
Homework should be handed in at (or before) the Thursday lecture in the week following the exercise class. We can then return the corrected homework at the next exercise class.
You are welcome to work together on the homework, but every should submit their own solutions.
In order to qualify for the final oral examination you should score at least 50% of the available points in the homework given during each exercise class.
Literature
Useful literature for the lectures:
- General:
- A. Seiden: Particle Physics - A Comprehensive
Introduction
Chapter 9 is most relevant as an introduction - Cahn and Goldhaber: Experimental Foundations of Particle
Physics - 2nd edition
Very nice collection of important papers together with explanations - Particle Data Book - 2008
http://pdg.lbl.gov or
http://pdg.web.cern.ch/pdg/
The particle physics bible - Chapters 11,12 and 13 contain very relevant reviews!
- A. Seiden: Particle Physics - A Comprehensive
Introduction
- Neutrinos:
- C. Giunti and C.W. Kim: Fundamentals of Neutrino Physics (2007)
and Astrophysics
Quite a new book with lots of detail - N. Schmitz: Neutrinophysik (1997)
Right topic, a bit dated; neutrino oscillations are not yet confirmed! - Pierre Vilain: Neutrino Physics, Lectures given at 2003 BND Summer School
- C. Weinheimer: Neutrino mass LP09
- Nobel prize 2002 to R. Davis, M. Koshiba, R. Giacconi
- M. Koshiba: Birth of Neutrino Astophysics EPS03
- Super-Kamiokande Collaboration: Evidence for oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos
- Y. Suzuki: Solar and and Atmospheric Neutrinos LP09
- A.Yu. Smirnov: The MSW Effect and Neutrino Astrophysics
- A.Yu. Smirnov: The MSW Effect and Solar Neutrinos
- A. Strummia,
F. Vissani: Neutrino
masses and mixings and ...
Recent lengthy review - R. Slansky, S. Raby, T. Goldman
and G. Garvey The
Oscillating Neutrino (1997)
A light-hearted introduction to neutrino oscialltions
- C. Giunti and C.W. Kim: Fundamentals of Neutrino Physics (2007)
and Astrophysics
- CKM matrix elements:
- R. Kowalewski and T. Mannel: Determination of Vcb and Vub, PDB 2008
- A. Ali, F. Barreiro, T. Lagouri: Prospects of measuring the CKM matrix element |Vts| at the LHC, arXiv:1005.4647v2 [hep-ph] 28 May 2010
- Mixing and oscillations:
- O. Schneider: B0-B0bar mixing, PDB 2008
- D. Asner: D0-D0bar mixing, PDB 2008
- CP violation:
- D. Wyler: Flavour Physics: What, Why and How
- Dark matter: