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Experimental Elementary Particles Physics

Sapienza Università di Roma

A.A. 2015/2016 - Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Fisica

Prof. Cesare Bini


Lecture time Week day Room
9-11 tuesday Aula 2 (Edificio Fermi)
9-11 thursday Aula 2 (Edificio Fermi)

Aim of the lectures

The aim of the course is to present how the experiments in elementary particle physics are designed and how the data taken in these experiments are analyzed in order to get the physics results. A selection of old and recent experiments are considered and discussed. At the end, the students should be able to understand and discuss research papers describing measurements done in elementary particle physics experiments.

Beginning of the course: September 29th Aula 2 - 9.00

Slides of the lectures

1. Hystorical introduction

2. The logic of an EPP experiment

3. Quantities to measure in EPP

4. How to design an EPP experiment

4.1 The projectiles and the targets: cosmic rays and particle accelerators
4.2 The detectors: examples of detector designs
4.3 Let's design an experiment from the beginning

Problems with solutions

5. How to analyze data

Special lecture - 1 : The ATLAS Muon System (M.Corradi)

Special lecture - 2 : The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab (S.Miscetti) (part 1) (part 2)

Special lecture - 3 : Study of the properties of the Higgs boson at LHC (S.Rosati)