Cristiano BOZZA | NUCLEAR AND SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS

cod. 0522600030

NUCLEAR AND SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS

	0522600030
	DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA "E.R. CAIANIELLO"

	PHYSICS
	2015/2016

PERCORSO COMUNE

	YEAR OF COURSE 1
	YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2014
	SECONDO SEMESTRE

TEACHING UNITS

	SSD	CFU	HOURS	ACTIVITY	TYPE OF ACTIVITY
	FIS/01	6	48	LESSONS	SUPPLEMENTARY COMPULSORY SUBJECTS

PROFESSORS

	GIUSEPPE GRELLA T Curriculum
	CRISTIANO BOZZA Curriculum

	Objectives
	KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: THE COURSE PROVIDES A WIDE AND DEEP PICTURE OF THE EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE THAT LED TO THE STANDARD MODEL OF FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS AND ON THE OPEN ISSUES OF RESEARCH. APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO WORK OUT EXERCISES OR EXAMPLES UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE TEACHER. THEY ARE ALSO STIMULATED TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF CONCEPT DESIGN FOR HIGH-ENERGY EXPERIMENTS. COMMUNICATION SKILLS: STUDENTS ARE STIMULATED TO EXPLAIN CLEARLY AND RIGOROUSLY THE KNOWLEDGE THEY ACQUIRE. AT THE END OF THE COURSE THEY ARE REQUIRED TO CORRECTLY STATE THE SUBJECTS AND PROBLEMS OF THE COURSE, WHILE MASTERING THE FORMALISM USED IN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION ABOUT FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS. MAKING JUDGEMENTS: STUDENTS ARE LED TO LEARN WITH A CRITICAL APPROACH ALL THE SUBJECTS EXPLAINED BY THE TEACHER. EACH EXPERIMENTAL RESULT IS ANALYSED FROM PRACTICAL AND TECHNICAL POINTS OF VIEW, FOCUSING BOTH ON THE INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS AND ON THEIR CONNECTION TO THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK. THE SUBJECTS ARE SHOWN IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, SO THAT STUDENTS CAN DISCUSS THEM IN THE HISTORICAL AND LOGICAL CONTEXT OF EVOLVING KNOWLEDGE. THE CRITICAL CAPABILITIES ARE EXPECTED TO GROW, EVENTUALLY HELPING BOTH IN A FUTURE RESEARCH ACTIVITY AND IN PRACTICAL APPLICATION. CONTINUING EDUCATION: AT THE END OF THE COURSE, THE STUDENTS MUST HAVE A CONSISTENT PICTURE OF THE STANDARD MODEL OF PARTICLE INTERACTION, SO THAT THEY CAN AUTONOMOUSLY UNDERSTAND A TYPICAL PAPER OF A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL CONCERNING THE PHYSICS OF FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS.

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
THE COURSE PROVIDES A WIDE AND DEEP PICTURE OF THE EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE THAT LED TO THE STANDARD MODEL OF FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS AND ON THE OPEN ISSUES OF RESEARCH.

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO WORK OUT EXERCISES OR EXAMPLES UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE TEACHER. THEY ARE ALSO STIMULATED TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF CONCEPT DESIGN FOR HIGH-ENERGY EXPERIMENTS.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
STUDENTS ARE STIMULATED TO EXPLAIN CLEARLY AND RIGOROUSLY THE KNOWLEDGE THEY ACQUIRE. AT THE END OF THE COURSE THEY ARE REQUIRED TO CORRECTLY STATE THE SUBJECTS AND PROBLEMS OF THE COURSE, WHILE MASTERING THE FORMALISM USED IN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION ABOUT FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS.

MAKING JUDGEMENTS:
STUDENTS ARE LED TO LEARN WITH A CRITICAL APPROACH ALL THE SUBJECTS EXPLAINED BY THE TEACHER. EACH EXPERIMENTAL RESULT IS ANALYSED FROM PRACTICAL AND TECHNICAL POINTS OF VIEW, FOCUSING BOTH ON THE INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS AND ON THEIR CONNECTION TO THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK. THE SUBJECTS ARE SHOWN IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, SO THAT STUDENTS CAN DISCUSS THEM IN THE HISTORICAL AND LOGICAL CONTEXT OF EVOLVING KNOWLEDGE. THE CRITICAL CAPABILITIES ARE EXPECTED TO GROW, EVENTUALLY HELPING BOTH IN A FUTURE RESEARCH ACTIVITY AND IN PRACTICAL APPLICATION.

CONTINUING EDUCATION:
AT THE END OF THE COURSE, THE STUDENTS MUST HAVE A CONSISTENT PICTURE OF THE STANDARD MODEL OF PARTICLE INTERACTION, SO THAT THEY CAN AUTONOMOUSLY UNDERSTAND A TYPICAL PAPER OF A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL CONCERNING THE PHYSICS OF FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS.

	Prerequisites
	QUANTUM MECHANICS, COMPOSITION OF ANGULAR MOMENTA, CONTINUOUS SYMMETRIES, CLASSICAL ELECTROMAGNETISM AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY, RELATIVISTIC WAVE EQUATIONS OF MAXWELL, KLEIN-GORDON AND DIRAC, LAGRANGIAN FORMALISM AND PERTURBATIVE EXPANSION (FEYNMAN DIAGRAMS), COLLISION THEORY AND PARTIAL WAVE DECOMPOSITION KNOWLEDGE OF FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS. RADIOACTIVE DECAYS. NUCLEAR MODELS. PARTICLES CLASSIFICATION.

Prerequisites

QUANTUM MECHANICS, COMPOSITION OF ANGULAR MOMENTA, CONTINUOUS SYMMETRIES, CLASSICAL ELECTROMAGNETISM AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY, RELATIVISTIC WAVE EQUATIONS OF MAXWELL, KLEIN-GORDON AND DIRAC, LAGRANGIAN FORMALISM AND PERTURBATIVE EXPANSION (FEYNMAN DIAGRAMS), COLLISION THEORY AND PARTIAL WAVE DECOMPOSITION
KNOWLEDGE OF FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS. RADIOACTIVE DECAYS. NUCLEAR MODELS. PARTICLES CLASSIFICATION.

	Contents
	PHENOMENOLOGY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS: COMPTON, MOELLER, BHABHA SCATTERING. CROSSING BEAM MONITORING. ANNIHILATION TO FERMION-ANTIFERMION PAIRS. BREMSSTRAHLUNG, PAIR PRODUCTION AND SHOWERS. HIGHER-ORDER QED PROCESSES AND RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS; ANOMALOUS MAGNETIC MOMENT OF ELECTRON AND MUON, EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS. PHENOMENOLOGY OF WEAK INTERACTIONS: BETA DECAY, FERMI AND GAMOW-TELLER TRANSITIONS, KURIE PLOT, DIRECT NEUTRINO MASS MEASUREMENTS. THE FERMI THEORY OF BETA DECAY. EXPERIMENTAL PROOF OF PARITY VIOLATION. ENERGY SPECTRA OF ELECTRONS AND HELICITY. NEUTRINO HELICITY.EXPERIMENTAL FOUNDATION OF THE V-A THEORY. MUON DECAY. WEAK DECAYS OF HADRONS AND CABIBBO ANGLE. SELECTION RULES FOR DECAYS OF STRANGE PARTICLES. OBSERVATION OF STRANGENESS OSCILLATIONS. EXPERIMENTS ON WEAK CURRENTS, EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF NEUTRAL CURRENTS, ABSENCE OF FLAVOUR-CHANGING NEUTRAL CURRENTS AND IMPACT ON THE GIM MODEL. CP-VIOLATION IN WEAK INTERACTIONS AND THE CKM MATRIX. OBSERVATION OF THE W AND Z BOSONS. ELECTROWEAK UNIFICATIONS AND EXPERIMENTAL MEASUEMENTS OF THE WEINBERG ANGLE. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF THE HIGGS BOSON. PHENOMENOLOGY OF STRONG INTERACTIONS: SCATTERING THEORY AND PARTIAL WAVES. THE BREIT-WIGNER RESONANCE FORMULA. KINEMATICAL FACTORS. LORENTZ-INVARIANT MATRIX ELEMENT AND CROSS SECTION. ARGAND PLOTS. DALITZ PLOTS. THE DEUTERON. RESONANCES AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTAL DATA ON DELTA(1232). PHENOMENOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE STATIC QUARK MODEL. QUARKONIA, CHARMONIUM, BOTTOMONIUM. EXPERIMENTS ON DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING AND PARTON MODEL. EVIDENCE OF THE BJORKEN SCALING, SUM RULES, PARTON SPIN. CONNECTIONS WITH THE QUARK MODEL. STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS. LOGARITHMIC SCALING VIOLATIONS IN DIS EXPERIMENTS. CONFINEMENT. BASICS OF QCD. RUNNING COUPLING CONSTANTS; BASICS ON THE RENORMALIZATION GROUP, DEPENDENCY OF QUARK MASSES ON THE RENORMALIZATION SCHEME. FIT OF EXPERIMENTAL DATA ON PARTON DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS WITH EVOLUTION EQUATIONS. BASICS OF HEAVY ULTRARELATIVISTIC ION PHYSICS. HADRON SHOWERS. EXPERIMENTAL FRONTIERS OF FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS: NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS. ENERGY SPECTRA OF COSMIC RAYS, GZK CUTOFF. ASTROPARTICLES AND EXPERIMENTS OF GALACTIC NEUTRINO SOURCES. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF DECONFINEMENT AND QUARK-GLUON-PLASMA.

Contents

PHENOMENOLOGY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS: COMPTON, MOELLER, BHABHA SCATTERING. CROSSING BEAM MONITORING. ANNIHILATION TO FERMION-ANTIFERMION PAIRS. BREMSSTRAHLUNG, PAIR PRODUCTION AND SHOWERS. HIGHER-ORDER QED PROCESSES AND RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS; ANOMALOUS MAGNETIC MOMENT OF ELECTRON AND MUON, EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS.

PHENOMENOLOGY OF WEAK INTERACTIONS: BETA DECAY, FERMI AND GAMOW-TELLER TRANSITIONS, KURIE PLOT, DIRECT NEUTRINO MASS MEASUREMENTS. THE FERMI THEORY OF BETA DECAY. EXPERIMENTAL PROOF OF PARITY VIOLATION. ENERGY SPECTRA OF ELECTRONS AND HELICITY. NEUTRINO HELICITY.EXPERIMENTAL FOUNDATION OF THE V-A THEORY. MUON DECAY. WEAK DECAYS OF HADRONS AND CABIBBO ANGLE. SELECTION RULES FOR DECAYS OF STRANGE PARTICLES. OBSERVATION OF STRANGENESS OSCILLATIONS. EXPERIMENTS ON WEAK CURRENTS, EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF NEUTRAL CURRENTS, ABSENCE OF FLAVOUR-CHANGING NEUTRAL CURRENTS AND IMPACT ON THE GIM MODEL. CP-VIOLATION IN WEAK INTERACTIONS AND THE CKM MATRIX. OBSERVATION OF THE W AND Z BOSONS. ELECTROWEAK UNIFICATIONS AND EXPERIMENTAL MEASUEMENTS OF THE WEINBERG ANGLE. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF THE HIGGS BOSON.

PHENOMENOLOGY OF STRONG INTERACTIONS: SCATTERING THEORY AND PARTIAL WAVES. THE BREIT-WIGNER RESONANCE FORMULA. KINEMATICAL FACTORS. LORENTZ-INVARIANT MATRIX ELEMENT AND CROSS SECTION. ARGAND PLOTS. DALITZ PLOTS. THE DEUTERON. RESONANCES AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTAL DATA ON DELTA(1232). PHENOMENOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE STATIC QUARK MODEL. QUARKONIA, CHARMONIUM, BOTTOMONIUM. EXPERIMENTS ON DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING AND PARTON MODEL. EVIDENCE OF THE BJORKEN SCALING, SUM RULES, PARTON SPIN. CONNECTIONS WITH THE QUARK MODEL. STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS. LOGARITHMIC SCALING VIOLATIONS IN DIS EXPERIMENTS. CONFINEMENT. BASICS OF QCD. RUNNING COUPLING CONSTANTS; BASICS ON THE RENORMALIZATION GROUP, DEPENDENCY OF QUARK MASSES ON THE RENORMALIZATION SCHEME. FIT OF EXPERIMENTAL DATA ON PARTON DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS WITH EVOLUTION EQUATIONS. BASICS OF HEAVY ULTRARELATIVISTIC ION PHYSICS. HADRON SHOWERS.

EXPERIMENTAL FRONTIERS OF FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS: NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS. ENERGY SPECTRA OF COSMIC RAYS, GZK CUTOFF. ASTROPARTICLES AND EXPERIMENTS OF GALACTIC NEUTRINO SOURCES. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF DECONFINEMENT AND QUARK-GLUON-PLASMA.

	Teaching Methods
	THE COURSE INCLUDES THEORETICAL LESSONS / PRACTICAL LEARNING OBJECTIVE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF PHYSICS OF FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS. EACH LESSON CONSISTS OF EXPOSING ONE OR MORE ARGUMENTS FOLLOWED BY EXAMPLES AND APPLICATIONS.

	Verification of learning
	FINAL EXAM INTEGRATED WITH TERM PAPERS ON EXTENSIONS OF THE TOPICS COVERED.

	Texts
	1.MAIN TEXTBOOK A.S. BRAIBANT, G. GIACOMELLI, M SPURIO MAURIZIO SPURIO: PARTICLES AND FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS, SPRINGER. ISBN 978-94-007-2463 2.OTHER SUGGESTED TEXTBOOKS: A. J. HOREJSI: FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTROWEAK THEORY, CHARLES UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE, THE KAROLINIUM PRESS, ISBN: 80-246-0639-9 B. I. KAPLAN: NUCLEAR PHYSICS, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS : ADDISON-WESLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., 1955 C.LEW D. LANDAU, JEWGENI M. LIFSCHITZ: TEORIA QUANTISTICA RELATIVISTICA, EDITORI RIUNITI. D. R. N. CAHN AND G. GOLDHABER: THE EXPERIMENTAL FOUNDATIONS OF PARTICLE PHYSICS (PAPERBACK), CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. E. I. J. R. AITCHISON AND A. J. G. HEY, GAUGE THEORIES IN PARTICLE PHYSICS, CRC PRESS/TAYLOR AND FRANCIS, 2003/2004 F.R.E. MARSHAK, RIAZUDDIN AND C.P. RYAN: THEORY OF WEAK INTERACTIONS IN PARTICLE PHYSICS, WILEY-INTERSCIENCE, 1969.

Texts

1.MAIN TEXTBOOK
A.S. BRAIBANT, G. GIACOMELLI, M SPURIO MAURIZIO SPURIO: PARTICLES AND FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS, SPRINGER. ISBN 978-94-007-2463
2.OTHER SUGGESTED TEXTBOOKS:
A. J. HOREJSI: FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTROWEAK THEORY, CHARLES UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE, THE KAROLINIUM PRESS, ISBN: 80-246-0639-9
B. I. KAPLAN: NUCLEAR PHYSICS, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS : ADDISON-WESLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., 1955
C.LEW D. LANDAU, JEWGENI M. LIFSCHITZ: TEORIA QUANTISTICA RELATIVISTICA, EDITORI RIUNITI.
D. R. N. CAHN AND G. GOLDHABER: THE EXPERIMENTAL FOUNDATIONS OF PARTICLE PHYSICS (PAPERBACK), CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
E. I. J. R. AITCHISON AND A. J. G. HEY, GAUGE THEORIES IN PARTICLE PHYSICS, CRC PRESS/TAYLOR AND FRANCIS, 2003/2004
F.R.E. MARSHAK, RIAZUDDIN AND C.P. RYAN: THEORY OF WEAK INTERACTIONS IN PARTICLE PHYSICS, WILEY-INTERSCIENCE, 1969.

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