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Collider Particle Physics

Master degree in Physics

Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

A.A. 2025/26

Prof. Claudio Luci

Next Exam session: please send an email to find a suitable date.

  • Lectures timetable:

    (Lectures will start on Tuesday September 30th 2025)

    day time classroom
    Tuesday 14-16 aula Careri
    Wednesday 8-11 aula Careri





    • Topics to study for the exam:


    Slides presented during the lectures (2025-26)

  • Course Introduction (program, books, exam, etc...)
  • Accelerators (2025)
  • ISR and "soft" Physics (2025)
  • A brief overview of the SM (2023)
  • SppS and W/Z discoveries (2025)
  • SM tests at the SppS (2025)
  • LEP Collider, Detectors and Experimental Methods (2025)
  • LEP Physics at the Z pole (2025)
  • LEP-2 Physics (2025)
  • Tevatron and top physics (2025)
  • HERA Lectures(2025)
  • LHC: Collider and Detectors (2025)
  • LHC Physics (2025)
  • Recent Results on Higgs Physics (2025)
  • CP Violation in the B0 system

    Other useful material

  • Partial wave expansion and optical theorem
  • ISR collider
  • ISR Physics
  • Review paper on the Luminosity at proton Colliders (from ISR to LHC)
  • Standard Model genesis by Weinberg
  • W/Z discovery at the SppS collider (Rubbia and Di Lella)
  • Liouville theorem and the stochastic cooling
  • Collider Physics Lecture by Schwarz
  • Collider Physics Lecture by Tao Han (2004)
  • Precision Electroweak Measurement on the Z resonance at LEP (Physics Report 2006)
  • J. Mnich: Experimental test of the SM at the Z resonance at LEP
  • E. Torrence: asymmetries at SLC
  • A. Blondel: Number of neutrinos measurement from the Z line shape
  • The new measurement of the number of neutrino families (2020)
  • Electroweak Measurements in Electron-Positron Collisions at W-Boson-Pair Energies at LEP (Physics Report 2013)
  • P. Nason: top mass measurements at the hadron colliders
  • CMS W mass measurementi (2024)

    • Web links with useful material

  • LEP electroweak working group web page
  • CERN symposium on the 50/40 years of the discovery of neutral current and W/Z bosons (31-10-2023)

  • PDG (Particle Data Group) Web Page

    • Surfing on the web

    Buon Lavoro


    Se avete commenti o suggerimenti, mandate una mail a: claudio.luci@roma1.infn.it