Universität Wien

260088 VU Precision measurements with quarks and leptons (2021S)

6.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 26 - Physik
Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 15 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

The course will take place remotely on Zoom.

Gianluca Inguglia is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Precision measurements with quarks and leptons
Time: Mar 8, 2021 05:00 PM Vienna
Every week on Mon, Wed, until Jun 23, 2021, 32 occurrence(s)

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https://cern.zoom.us/j/65082635866?pwd=RXhLdU1aZkx5elFYSExoNGNVWGJHQT09

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Passcode: 1050

  • Monday 08.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Digital
  • Wednesday 10.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Digital
  • Monday 15.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Digital
  • Wednesday 17.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Digital
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  • Monday 21.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Digital
  • Wednesday 23.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

After successful completion of the course, students will be able to understand the most important phenomenological and experimental tools to understand and perform precision experiments in the quark and the lepton sector of the standard model. They will understand where in the standard model CP violation arises and can explain how different techniques are implemented to search for it. They can describe various experiments for the discovery of charmonium and bottomonium including recently discovered exotic states. Students will be familiar with the most important techniques for the search of rare and forbidden decays in heavy mesons and with the different new physics scenarios that might play a role in different rare processes. Students will learn the main properties of leptons and how these can be used in the search for new physics via precision measurements. They will also be able to describe how accelerator experiments are used for the search of dark matter. In the final part of the course students will learn how to use different statistical techniques in the search of new physics and via hands-on examples will be able to identify what questions are to be answered in different precision measurements.
Frontal (remote) lectures and homework.

Assessment and permitted materials

-Three homeworks counting for 20% each,
- up to 10% will be the attendance
- up to 30% will be given to a final presentation of the student on a selected topic

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

The CKM matrix, heavy meson mixing, CP violation in the quark sector, quarkonium (charmonium, bottomonium, exotica), rare B and D decays, PMNS matrix, precision measurements in the (charged) lepton sector, dark sector models and searches at colliders, main statistical distribution and properties, hypothesis testing, figure of merits, systematic effects, setting upper limits, claiming a discovery.

Reading list

Material available to download will be provided during the lectures.

Statistics:
G. Cowan, “Statistical data analysis”.
R. J. Barlow "Statistics, a guide to statistical methods in the physical sciences"

Association in the course directory

M-ERG

Last modified: Fr 12.05.2023 00:21