Introduction to Particle Physics Course overview Jørgen Beck Hansen Autumn 2006

About me 9 years research fellow and staff at CERN, Switzerland Worked on Large-Electron-Positron (LEP) and Large-Hadron-Collider(LHC) Started as research associate the NBI Particle Physics group (HEP) this year Office: Blegdamsvej 21 (building M) mc-8

Course synopsis 1.Basic concepts 2.Leptons, quarks and hadrons 3.Experimental methods 4.Space-Time Symmetries 5.Hadrons: quantum numbers and excited states 6.Hadrons: quark states and colour 7.QCD, jets and gluons 8.Weak interactions: W and Z bosons 9.Weak interactions: electroweak unification 10.Weak interactions: charge conjugation and parity 11.Beyond the standard model Crash course: ~200 pages in 7 weeks

Practicalities Litterature: B.R. Martin & G. Shaw, ”Particle Physics”(2nd edition), 1997, publ. John Wiley & Sons Ltd Strongly recommended to look at the course web-page –Lots of additional information –Points to several GOOD introductionary sites Credits to former teacher: Mogens Dam for slides etc. Non-trivial timetable since both Jens-Jørgen Gårdhøje and I have to travel during the course Painless Particle Physics: ParticleAdventure.org

Course Schedule (preliminary) WeekMondayThursday 28/8-1/914:00-16:00: Particle Physics Chapter 1 + appendix A 9:00-12:15: Particle Physics - Chapter 2 + appendix B, Exercises: Ch 1: :00- 16:00: Particle Physics - Chapter (part) 4/9-8/913:00-16:00: Particle Physics Chapter 4 (rest) + 5, Exercises: Ch 2+4 9:00-12:15: Particle Physics - Chapter 6, Exercises: Ch :00- 16:00: Particle Physics - Chapter (part) 11/9-15/914:00-16:00: Nuclear Physics9:00-11:00: Nuclear Physics 11:15-12:15: Particle Physics - Chapter 8 (rest) 13:00-16:00: Particle Physics - Chapter 9, Exercises: Ch /9-22/914:00-16:00: Nuclear Physics9:00-11:00: Nuclear Physics 11:15-12:15: Particle Physics - Chapter 10 (part) 13:00-16:00: Particle Physics - Chapter 10 (rest), Exercises: Ch /9-29/914:00-16:00: Nuclear Physics9:00-11:00: Nuclear Physics 11:00-13:00: Nuclear Physics 14:00-16:00: Nuclear Physics 2/10-6/1014:00-16:00: Nuclear Physics9:00-11:00: Nuclear Physics 11:00-13:00: Nuclear Physics 14:00-16:00: Nuclear Physics 9/10-13/1014:00-16:00: Nuclear Physics9:00-11:00: Nuclear Physics 11:15-12:15: Particle Physics - Chapter 11 13:00-16:00: Particle Physics - Review of main topics, Exercises: ch 10

Where to go from here? This course give you the first peak into the wonderful world of particle physics Explain you how to “navigate and swim” in the shallow end of the pool Particle physics ”fag-pakke”: 1.Theory: General reletivity – Poul Olesen 2.Theory: Particle physics – Poul Henrik Damgaard 3.Experiment: Experimental methods – Peter Hansen 4.Experiment: High P t physics at the frontier -- JBH Teach you to swim in deep unknown waters

CERN Summer Student Programme A unique opportunity to enjoy a summer in Switzerland, learning bleeding-edge science and technology and meeting new friends from all over the world Google “CERN Summer Student”, or go directly to urces/external/recruitment/Students/students.as p 2-3 months of training at CERN: work in a research group, lectures, student sessions, visits to experiments, workshops,…

Particle Physics in a nutshell? Formalism is 4-vectors (“kinematics”) Physics content is quantum mechanics Plus a big bag of new particles and concepts Special relativity Quantum mechanics + APPLIED special relativity and quantum mechanics

The MAGIC key Natures deepest secret (and we cannot directly see deeper) Gives us quantum mechanics and string theory Add the “de Broglie” relation:  h/p Re-define units: h=c=1 The intuitive understanding of particle physics and its numerical mechanics