Lecture Announcements
- Sep. 4th Introduction
- Sep. 11th Relativistic Kinematics, Collisions, CM and Lab frame
Reference Links for Lecture
- 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
-- 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
Course Projects