Exploring the Microcosmos

Following the lectures on Particle Physics, this course will establish a link with

Cosmic Rays and High-Energy Astrophysical phenomena like Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs)

and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN).

This relatively new research field has been dubbed Astroparticle Physics.

The course will start with an introduction of some simple aspects of the theory

of general relativity and cosmology, after which various astroparticle physics aspects

will be discussed in the light of experimental observations.

Just like the series on Particle Physics, also this course contains a practical component,

for which we will make use of the C++ based analysis framework (ROOT), which has been

developed at CERN, together with the (astro)physics analysis tools (NCFS-Pack), which have

been developed at the NCFS.

During the practical work, the students will investigate high-energy processes via computer

simulations using a physics event generator and perform analyses of experimental data

of various (astro)particle physics exeriments.

The interpretation of the experimental results will be performed by making use of

Below follows a chronological overview of the various lectures.

Additional information (e.g. literature list, software documentation etc.) can be found

on the webpage containing the full lecture notes.

Lecture Notes :

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