PHYS3015 _ Particle Physics

Lecture Announcements

- Sep. 4th Introduction

- Sep. 11th Relativistic Kinematics, Collisions, CM and Lab frame

Reference Links for Lecture

- IceCube Neutrino Telescope

- Neutrino Summer School 2012

- Particle Physics Data Group (PDG)

- Preprint searches: inspirehep, arXiv

Suggested Course Project Topics

(1) Discoveries at LHC

-- Observation of the Higgs Boson

-- Observation of the Top Quark

-- Pentaquark Observation

-- The CMS Detector

-- The ATLAS Detector

-- LHC Accelerator

(2) Discoveries at Tevatron

-- Accelerators at Fermilab

-- The CDF Detector: An Overview

-- The D0 Detector

-- Observation of the top quark Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2626 (1995)

-- Single Top Quark Phys.Rev.Lett. 103 (2009) 092002

(3) Measurements at LEP

-- LEP Accelerator

-- The ALEPH Detector Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A294 (1990) 121-178

-- Z-Boson Mass

-- W-Boson Mass

(4) Indirect Search for Dark Matter from the Sun

-- Evidence for Dark Matter

-- Dark Matter distribution in our Galaxy

-- Dark Matter Density near the Earth

-- Dark Matter Annihilation in the Sun

-- MeV Neutrinos from Dark Matter Annihilation in the Sun

-- Search for dark matter in Dwarf spheriodal galaxies

(5) Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galaxy

-- Fermi Gamma-ray space telescope Astrophys.J. 697 (2009) 1071-1102

-- 130GeV Gamma-ray Line

-- Extragalactic gamma-ray flux

-- Galactic Center Excess

-- 3.5keV line

-- ATIC Excess

-- PAMELA / AMS-02 Positron fraction

(6) Direct Search for Dark Matter

-- CDMS Experiment

-- Xenon Experiment

-- KIMS Experiment

-- DM-Ice Experiment

-- COUPP Experiment

-- DAMA Experiment

(7) Colliders and Accelerators for the next Decade

-- Next Linear Collider (ILC)

-- RISP

-- Muon Collider

-- CLIC

-- Super-LHC

(8) Neutrino Oscillations

-- The Solar Neutrino Problem

-- The Kamiokande Detector

-- The SNO Experiment

-- RENO Experiment

-- Dayabay Experiment

(9) Neutrino Telescopes

-- Lake Baikal

-- IceCube Neutrino Telescope

-- ANTARES Detector

(10) Cosmic Accelerators

-- Particle Acceleration in the Sun

-- The Cosmic Ray Spectrum

-- Gamma Ray Bursts

-- AGN - Active Galactic Nuclei

Connection of Particle physics with Cosmology

-- The WIMP Miracle

Neutrinoless double beta decay

Particle production after Big bang

Silicon Vertex Detectors

Supersymmetry