Lecture Contents

1) The subatomic physics: radioactivity and the discovery of electron (CDEL*, Ch. 1 and 2)

2) Scattering experiments. Cross section (CDEL, Sec. 3.1-3.6)

3) The discovery of the atomic nucleus, the discovery of the proton and the neutron (CDEL, Ch. 3.7-3.10)

4) The passage of radiation in matter (CDEL, Sec. 4.1-4.9)

5) Particle detectors (CDEL, chap. 4.10)

6) Interactions and particles (CDEL, Sec. 5.1-5.3)

7) Strong interactions and Yukawa's hypothesis (CDEL, Sec. 5.4-5.7)

8) Decay laws. Breit and Wigner formula (CDEL, Ch. 5.8-5.10)

9) Cosmic rays and the discovery of the positron (CDEL, Sec. 6.1-6.2)

10) Pions and muons (CDEL, Sec. 6.3-6.4)

11) Strange particles (CDEL, chap. 6.5)

12) Particle accelerators (CDEL, chap. 6.6)

13) The discovery of the antiproton (CDEL, chap. 6.7)

14) Neutrinos (CDEL, chap. 6.8)

15) The parity. Symmetries C and T (CDEL, Sec. 7.1-7.3)

16) Parity violation(CDEL, chap. 7.4)

17) Isospin (CDEL, chap. 7.5)

18) Hadronic resonances (CDEL, chap. 7.6)

19) The quark model (CDEL, chap. 7.7)

20) Property of nuclei: the masses and stability (CDEL, chap. 8)

Bibliography

1. *Carlo Dionisi ed Egidio Longo, Dispense del corso di Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, http://www.roma1.infn.it/people/longo/fnsn/testo.html (CDEL).

Other bibliography:

2. R.H. Cahn e G. Goldhaber, The experimental Foundations of Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2^nd Edition, 2011 (CG).

3. D. Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2^nd Edition (2008) (DG).

4. A. Das and T. Ferbel, Introduction to Nuclear Particle Physics, World Scientific, Singapore, 2^nd Edition (2009).

More advanced bibliography:

5. J. Beringer et al. (Particle Data Group), The Review of Particle Physics, Phys. Rev. D86, 010001 (2012) (PDG).

6. D.H. Perkins, Introduction to High Energy Physics, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2^nd Edition (2000).

7. B. Povh et al., Particles and Nuclei, Springer Verlag, DE, 2^nd Edition (2004) (BP).

8. Y.Kirsh & Y. Ne'eman, The Particle Hunters, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2^nd Edition (1996) (KN).

9. F. Halzen and A. Martin, Quarks and Leptons: An introductory course in Modern Particle Physics, Wiley and Sons, USA, Edition (1984).

Particle Detectors Bibliography:

10. William R. Leo, Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments, Springer Verlag (1994) (LEO).

11. C. Grupen, B. Shawartz, Particle Detectors, Cambridge University Press (2008) (CS).