Master - Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie

Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg 61
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Code: MVHE3
Programme: Master of Science (Physics)
Course Title: Standard Model of Particle
Physics
Type: Lecture with Exercises
Credit Points: 8
Workload: 240 h
Teaching Hours:
6/week
Mode:
WPM
Term:
SS
Module Parts :
• Lecture on “Standard Model of Particle Physics” (4 hours/week)
• Exercises with homework (2 hours/week)
Module Contents:
The focus of the lecture is the experimental tests of the building blocks of matter and The
course will cover the Standard Model of Particle Physics from the theoretical and from the
experimental perspective. The gauge theories of electroweak and strong interactions and
their experimental tests will be described. The present status of the Standard Model, open
experimental questions, and some directions of beyond the Standard Model physics are
discussed. The course will include the necessary relativistic quantum field theory but with
emphasis on applications rather than formal details.
Objective: Theoretical and experimental introduction into the Standard Model of Particle
Physics. The lectures are therefore given by a theoretician and an experimentalist. Tutorials
offer the possibility to discuss open questions and the exercises.
Necessary/useful Knowledge: Content of PEP5 (Bachelor) or MKEP1 (Master), PTP4
(Bachelor), MKTP1 (Master)
Recommended Literature: To be announced by lecturer
Specialties: Exercises with homework
Form of Testing and Examination: To be defined by lecturer before beginning of course
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