Particle and nuclear physics I Kern- und Teilchenphysik I
PHY211, HS 2020
Prof. Laura Baudis Physik-Institut
https://www.physik.uzh.ch/de/lehre/PHY211/HS2020.html
Lecture days and times
• Wednesday 10:15 - 12:00 h
• Friday 10:15 - 12:00 h
• Lecture hall: Y16 G05 (capacity is 27 students)
• PDF of scripts will be posted on OLAT
• Podcasts will be posted on OLAT
• Zoom info: see OLAT
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Exercises and tutorials
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Friday 10:15 - 12:00 h (every second Friday)
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2 Groups
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1. Group: Dr. Michelle Galloway, Y16-G-05
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2. Group: Dr. Junting Huang, Y36-J-33
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Assistants will alternate in the 2 rooms (see next page)
Exercises and tutorials
Exercises and tutorials
• First exercise class: 25.09.2020
• First sheet handout date: Friday, 18.09, distributed in the lecture and online on the website
• First sheet hand in date: 25.09
• hand in: always at the beginning of the exercise class
• Next sheets: in the exercise classes on Fridays and online
• Exercise groups: 27 students in Y16-G-05 and 13 students in Y36-J-33 (see next slide)
• After the sheets are handed in, discussed and corrected, the solutions will also be posted on the website
Exercises and tutorials
• Y16-G-05 • Y36-J-33
Kneubühl, Jessica, jessica.kneubuehl@gmx.ch
KT-I Laboratory: PHY221
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Separate module, compulsory for physics major 180 and 150
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One experiment and one report (one week Monday plus Thursday)
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Positronium lifetime, angular correlation (
60Co decay)
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Dr. Olaf Steinkamp - detailed info in the second hour today
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Info to the experiments also on the website:
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https://www.physik.uzh.ch/de/lehre/PHY211/HS2020.html
Prerequisites for KT-I
• Physik I
• Physik II
• Physik III, IV
• Analysis I, II; Linear algebra I, II
• MMP I, II
• Mechanics, Electrodynamics
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Grades
• To be eligible for the exam, regular attendance in the exercise sessions is required
• 50% grades in exercises
• At least one demonstration on the blackboard
• Written exam: January x (tbd), 10:00 -12:00 h, in Y16G05
• Repetition date: tbd
Lecture topics
1 Organisation, content, literature; lab (Olaf Steinkamp) Introduction, basic concepts
2 Natural units and forces as quantum fields 3 Interactions and Feynman diagrams
4 Scattering processes and decay rates 5 Nuclear shapes, sizes and properties 6 Elastic scattering on nucleons
7 Nuclear stability and nuclear force
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Lecture topics
8 Nuclear modes, fusion and fission 9 Nuclear shell model
10 Particle identification 11 Detectors
12 Accelerators
13 Deep inelastic scattering and structure functions 14 Quarks, gluons and strong interaction
Lecture topics
15 Hadrons
16 Particle production in e+e- collisions 17 Symmetries and conservation laws 18 Dirac equation
19 Introduction to the weak interaction 20 Parity violation
21 CP violation
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Literature
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Mark Thomson, Modern Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press
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B. Pohv, K. Rith, C. Scholz, F. Zetsche, W. Rodejohann, Teilchen und Kerne, Springer, Berlin, 9. Auflage
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C. Berger, Elementarteilchenphysik, Springer, Berlin, 3. Auflage
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David Griffith, Introduction to Elementary Particles, Wiley 2nd edition
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B.R. Martin, G. Shaw, Particle Physics, Wiley and Sons, 4th edition,
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