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Exams
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All oral exams willtake place in the Stanza 241, Piano 2, Edificio Marconi (CU013).
Calendar of oral exams
Lecture schedule
- Monday, 12-14, Aula Conversi , Edificio Marconi (CU013)
- Wednesday 10-12, Aula Conversi , Edificio Marconi (CU013)
- Friday 8:30-10, Aula Majorana, Edificio Marconi (CU013): March 17, 24, 31, April 14, 28, May 5, 19
Lectures
| Date | Topic | Material |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-02-27 | Introduction. Collisions and decays. Decay width and lifetime. Branching fraction. Fermi Golden Rule. Two-body decay width calculation. (Grifiths Ch. 6) | board |
| 2023-02-29 | Collisions with fixed target and collinding beams. Cross section: definition and calculation with Fermi's Golden rule. Resonant cross section and the Breit-Wigner distribution. (Grifiths Ch. 6) | board |
| 2023-03-06 | Leptons, quarks, and hadrons. Leton and baryon numbers. Continuous and discrete symmetries. Quantum numbers and conservation laws. Charge Conjugation. (Terranova Ch. 5, Griffiths Ch. 4) | board |
| 2023-03-08 | Parity and charge parity of composite states. Isospin: hypothesis and experimental evidence. Strangeness, charge and hypercharge. Static quark model. Scalar meson octet. (Terranova Ch.8, Perkins Ch. 4, Griffiths Ch. 4) | board |
| 2023-03-13 | Static quark model. Meson multiplets. Producion and decay. Light meson mixing. (Terranova Ch.8, Goldhaber Ch. 5, Perkins Ch. 4, Griffiths Ch. 4, PDG ch. 15) | board |
| 2023-03-15 | Static quark model. Baryon multiplets. Prediction and discovery of Ω-. SU(4) flavor with charm quark. Hypothesis of new quantum number: color; (Terranova Ch.8, Goldhaber Ch. 5, Perkins Ch. 4, Griffiths Ch. 4, PDG ch. 15) | board |
| 2023-03-17, Fri @ 8:30 | Helicity of neutrinos. The Goldhaber experiment. (Terranova Ch. 10.6, Goldhaber Ch. 6, Perkins Ch. 7) | |
| 2023-03-20 | Color quantum number. Baryon and Meson wave functions. Similarities and differences between gluons and photon. Hadronic, semileptonic and leptonic decays. Features of 3 body decays. (Terranova Ch.8, Goldhaber Ch. 5, Perkins Ch. 4, 6.1, 6.2, Griffiths Ch. 8) | board |
| 2023-03-22, Wed | No lecture | |
| 2023-03-24, Fri @ 8:30 | QED at work. e+e- scattering: cross section. Bhabha and Moeller scattering. Mandelstam variables. u-, t-, and s-channel diagrams. Annihilation channel and muon pair production. Annihilation diagram. (Griffiths Ch.8, Perkins Ch. 5.1, 5.2) | board |
| 2023-03-27 | e+e- scattering: total and differential cross section. Experimental techniques. Experiments at PETRA. The JADE detector. e+e-→e+e-, μ+μ-,τ+τ-, hadrons (Griffiths Ch.8, Goldhaber Ch. 10) | board |
| 2023-03-29 | e+e- scattering: measurement of R. Charm quark. Discovery of J/Ψ at Brookhaven. (Griffiths Ch.8, Goldhaber Ch. 10) | board |
| 2023-03-31, Fri @ 8:30 | Discovery of J/Ψ at SLAC. J/Ψ properties. Charmonium resonances. Charmonium decay. OZI rule. (Goldhaber Ch. 9) | board |
| 2023-04-03 | Number of families in the standard model. Discovery of the τ lepton. Discovery of the bottom quark and Upsilon.Looking for the top quark. (Goldhaber Ch. 9, 11) | board |
| 2023-04-05 | Discovery of the top quark. Weak interactions. Number of neutrino flavors. (Goldhaber Ch. 14, 6, Griffiths Ch. 9, Perkins Ch. 9) | board |
| 2023-04-12 | No Lecture | |
| 2023-04-14, Fri @ 8:30 | Weak interaction as a chrial theory: Helicity and chirality. From Fermi model to current-current theory. Heavy weak mediator and Fermi constant GF (Terranova Ch. 10, Griffiths Ch. 9, Perkins Ch. 9, Goldhaber Ch. 6) | board |
| 2023-04-17 | Muon decay. Helicity suppression in pion decay. Neutron decay. (Griffiths Ch. 9, Perkins Ch. 9, Goldhaber Ch. 6) | board |
| 2023-04-19 | Lepton universality in weak interactions. Weak interaction of Quarks. Cabibbo angle. (Griffiths Ch. 9, Perkins Ch. 9, Goldhaber Ch. 6) | board |
| 2023-04-26 | The GIM mechanism. Tree and Loop diagrams. The Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix. Oscillation of neutral B mesons. Neutral Weak Current. (Griffiths Ch. 9, Perkins Ch. 9, Goldhaber Ch. 6) | board |
| 2023-04-28, Fri @ 8:30 | Discovery of Neutral Weak Current at CERN. Electroweak theory of Glashow-Weinberg-Salam. (Griffiths Ch. 9, Terranova Ch. 12, Perkins Ch. 9, Goldhaber Ch. 6) | board |
| 2023-05-03 | Discovery of W± and Z0 at CERN (Griffiths Ch. 9, Terranova Ch. 12, Perkins Ch. 9, Goldhaber Ch. 6) | board |
| 2023-05-05, Fri @ 8:30 | Measurement of Number of neutrino families at LEP. (Terranova 12.7, Goldhaber 13). CP Violation in neutral K mesons. (Goldhaber Ch. 7, Terranova 13.7) | |
| 2023-05-08 | CP Violation in neutral K. Quantum entanglement and coherent production of B mesons (Goldhaber Ch. 7, Terranova 13.7) | kaons(pdf) B(board) |
| 2023-05-10 | Oscillation of neutral B mesons. CP violation in neutral B meson. (Goldhaber Ch. 15, Terranova 13.7) | board |
| 2023-05-15 | Structure of hadrons: Rutherford and Mott cross sections. Elastic elecron-nucleon scattering. (Goldhaber Ch. 8, Perkins Ch. 5) | board |
| 2023-05-17 | electron-nucleon scattering for pointlike and extended target. Form factor. (Goldhaber Ch. 8, Perkins Ch. 5) | board |
| 2023-05-19, Fri @ 8:30 | electron-nucleon scattering for Dirac proton: Rosenbluth formula. Experimental proof of proton structure (Goldhaber Ch. 8, Perkins Ch. 5) | board |
| 2023-05-22 | Discovery of gluons at PETRA. Hadronic jets: experimental signature and techniques. | |
| 2023-05-24 | Hadronic jets. Properties of hadronic jets from uds, c, and b quarks | |
| 2023-05-29 | Deep Inelastic scattering. Probing structure functions at SLAC. Scaling. (Goldhaber Ch. 8, Perkins Ch. 5) | board |
| 2023-05-31 | Deep Inelastic scattering. Quark parton model. Parton density functions. (Goldhaber Ch. 8, Perkins Ch. 5) | board |
| 2023-06-05 | Physics at Large Hadron Collider. | slides |