| Código |
17552
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| Ano |
1
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| Semestre |
S1
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| Créditos ECTS |
6
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| Carga Horária |
TP(60H)
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| Área Científica |
Física
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Learning outcomes |
In this course unit, students will learn the fundamentals of particle physics, from an introduction to the fundamental particles and interactions of nature to the construction of the Standard Model. Students should acquire knowledge and skills on: experimental aspects, the solutions of the equations of relativistic quantum mechanics, the importance and implementation of symmetries, calculation of some QED and weak interaction processes (at tree level), QCD phenomenology and electroweak phenomenology, the Higgs mechanism and the lagrangean of the Standard Model. Physics topics beyond the Standard Model will also be explored, selected taking into account the students' interests.
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Syllabus |
1. Elementary particles and elementary interactions. Quarks, leptons, gauge bosons and the Higgs.
2. Experimental particle physics. Detectors, accelerators. Cross section, mean life
3. Symmetries, quarks, mesons and baryons.
4. Klein-Gordon equation. Dirac equation. Spinors. Maxwell's equations. Photons.
5. Lagrangian formulation, symmetries and conservation laws.
6. Gauge symmetry U(1) and the QED Lagrangian.
7. Elementary processes in QED. Diagrams and tree-level calculations.
8. Electron-proton scattering. Quarks and partons.
9. SU(3) gauge symmetry and QCD
10. Weak phenomenology. Decays, CP violation, neutrino physics.
11. The Higgs mechanism and the electroweak Standard Model.
12. Beyond the Standard Model.
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
In addition to a written test (60%), assessment includes work by students, with presentation and open discussion (40%).
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Main Bibliography |
Gordon Kane - Modern Elementary Particle Physics: Explaining and Extending the Standard Model, Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (2017)
Michael E. Peskin - Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics, Oxford University Press, USA (2019)
Alessandro De Angelis e Mário Pimenta - Introduction to Particle and Astroparticle Physics - Multimessenger Astronomy and its Particle Physics Foundations, Springer (2018)
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| Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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