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Nuclei, quarks, leptons

2024/2025
Programme:
Physics, Second Cycle
Orientation:
Physics of elementary particles and nuclei
Year:
1. year
Semester:
first
Kind:
mandatory
ECTS:
8
Language:
slovenian
Lecturer (contact person):
Hours per week – 1. semester:
Lectures
3
Seminar
0
Tutorial
2
Lab
0
Prerequisites

Enrollment into the program, familiarity with the content of Nuclear and Particle Physics course.

Content (Syllabus outline)

Content (Syllabus outline):

Readings

F. Halzen, A.D. Martin, Quarks and Leptons, Wiley 1984,
M. Rosina, Jedrska fizika, DMFA,
D. Perkins, Introduction to High Energy Physics, Cambridge University Press 2000,
B. Povh, K.Rith, C.Scholtz, F.Zetsche, Teilchen und Kerne, Springer 1999,
B. Povh, M. Rosina, Scattering and Structures, Springer 2005.

Objectives and competences

Familiarity with basic concepts in the filed of nuclear and particle physics.

Intended learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding:
Basic understanding of concepts in the field of nuclear and particle physics. Understanding of interactions among elementary particles. Capability of theoretical predictions and experimental results connection. Critical evaluation and usage of new knowledge in the field of nuclear and particle physics.

Application:
Understanding of interactions amiong elementary particles, their effect on the Universe evolution and matter stability. Understanding of basic detection principles.

Reflection:
Critical evaluation of theoretical predictions using experimental results.

Transferable skills:
Understanding of phenomena and their explanation using experimental results.

Assessment

Written exam
Oral exam
grading: 5 (fail), 6-10 (pass) (according to the Statute of UL)

Lecturer's references

Peter Križan
• I. Adachi et al. [Belle Collaboration], Measurement of B- tau- nu with a Hadronic Tagging Method Using the Full Data Sample of Belle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 (2013) 131801
• I. Adachi et al., Precise measurement of the CP violation parameter sin2phi_1 in B0-> c cbar K0 decays, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2012) 171802

Jernej Fesel Kamenik
• Svjetlana Fajfer, Jernej F. Kamenik, Ivan Nisandzic, Jure Zupan “Implications of Lepton Flavor Universality Violations in B Decays”,
Phys.Rev.Lett. 109 (2012) 161801.
Ilja Dorsner, Svjetlana Fajfer, Admir Greljo, Jernej F. Kamenik “Higgs Uncovering Light Scalar Remnants of High Scale Matter Unification”, JHEP 1211 (2012) 130.
• Darius A. Faroughy, Admir Greljo, Jernej F. Kamenik, "Confronting lepton flavor universality violation in B decays with high-pT tau lepton searches at LHC", Phys.Lett.B 764 (2017), 126-134

Borut Paul Kerševan
1. ATLAS Collaboration, CINDRO, Vladimir, DELIYERGIYEV, Maksym, DOLENC, Irena, FILIPČIČ, Andrej, FRATINA, Saša, GORIŠEK, Andrej, KERŠEVAN, Borut Paul, KRAMBERGER, Gregor, MAČEK, Boštjan, MANDIĆ, Igor, MIJOVIĆ, Liza, MIKUŽ, Marko, TYKHONOV, Andrii, et al., ATLAS Collaboration. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Physics letters. Section B. [Print ed.]. 2012, vol. 716, no. 1, str. 1-29. ISSN 0370-2693. DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.020. [COBISS-SI-ID 26060071]
2. ATLAS Collaboration, CINDRO, Vladimir, FILIPČIČ, Andrej, GORIŠEK, Andrej, HITI, Bojan, KERŠEVAN, Borut Paul, KRAMBERGER, Gregor, MAČEK, Boštjan, MANDIĆ, Igor, MIJOVIĆ, Liza, MIKUŽ, Marko, MUŠKINJA, Miha, NOVAK, Jakob, NOVAK, Tadej, LEBAN, Blaž, HOWARD, Alissa, et al. A detailed map of Higgs boson interactions by the ATLAS experiment ten years after the discovery. Nature : the international weekly journal of science. [Print ed.]. 2020, vol. 607, str. 52-59. ISSN 0028-0836. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04893-w. [COBISS-SI-ID 134080259]
3. ATLAS Collaboration, CINDRO, Vladimir, FILIPČIČ, Andrej, GORIŠEK, Andrej, HITI, Bojan, KERŠEVAN, Borut Paul, KRAMBERGER, Gregor, MAČEK, Boštjan, MANDIĆ, Igor, MIJOVIĆ, Liza, MIKUŽ, Marko, MUŠKINJA, Miha, NOVAK, Jakob, NOVAK, Tadej, et al., ATLAS Collaboration. Test of the universality of τ and μ lepton couplings in W-boson decays with the ATLAS detector. Nature physics. [Online ed.]. 2021, vol. 17, no. 7, str. 813-818. ISSN 1745-2481. DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01236-w. [COBISS-SI-ID 73934339]