6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4015689FNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
English
Partnership Agreement
Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
Faculty
Faculty of Science and Bio-engineering Sciences
Department
Physics
Educational team
Jorgen D'Hondt
Kirill Skovpen
Alberto Mariotti (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
26 contact hours Lecture
26 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
Course Content

Introduction and reminder of general concepts
Decay rates and cross sections
The Dirac equation
Interaction by particle exchange
Electron-positron annihilation
Electron-proton elastic scattering
Deep inelastic scattering
Symmetries and the quark model
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)
The weak interaction
The weak interactions of leptons
Neutrinos and neutrino oscillations
CP violation and the weak hadronic interactions
Electroweak unification
Test of the Standard Model
The Brout-Englert-Higgs boson

Course material
Handbook (Required) : Modern Particle Physics, Mark Thomson, Cambridge University Press, 9781107034266, 2013
Additional info

http://w3.iihe.ac.be/~jdhondt/Website/WebsiteCourses.html

Learning Outcomes

General Competencies

The student masters the phenomenolocial description of particle interactions and can bring these concepts to testable and measurable quantities. The student can interprete modern particle physics experiments into a theoretical framework.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • oral exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

    Note: Students receive problems for most of the chapters of the course. These are handed over to the assistant for correction and assesment. During the oral exam the course titular will select some problems the student has to defend and explain in the framework of the course.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Several exercises are distributed to the students during the year to be done autonomously. Some of the exercises are indicated as a task for the exam.

The oral exam is then divided in two parts: in the first part the student will be asked to present one of the main topic of the course; in the second part the student will explain and defend the solutions of the task.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Physics and Astronomy: Minor Research
Master of Physics and Astronomy: Minor Economy and Business
Master of Physics and Astronomy: Minor Education
Master of Teaching in Science and Technology: fysica (120 ECTS, Etterbeek) (only offered in Dutch)