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Universe of elementary particles

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Course ID: 1100-WCE-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED: 13.2 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0533) Physics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title: Universe of elementary particles
Name in Polish: Wszechświat cząstek elementarnych dla humanistów
Organizational unit: Faculty of Physics
Course groups: General university courses
General university courses at Faculty of Physics
General university subjects
Course homepage: https://www.fuw.edu.pl/~zarnecki/WCE/
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 3.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.

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Language: Polish
Type of course:

general courses

Prerequisites (description):

Lecture addressed to students of humanistic faculties. No prior knowledge is required.


Short description:

The course is focused on elementary particles and their interactions, including their role in the origin and structure of the Universe.

Full description:

Lecture is an introduction to a rapidly developing new field of research - the intersection of the elementary particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology (called astroparticle physics). Mathematical apparatus will be limited in order to allow a wider audience to attend.

Program:

1. Introductory information on Standard Model

2. Detectors. Accelerators and colliders. Large-scale experiments

3. Hadrons, quarks and leptons

4.Theory of elementary interactions, Standard Model

5. Tests of the Standard Model and discovery of the Higgs particle

6. Extensions of the Standard Model

7. Origin and structure of the Universe, dark matter and dark energy

8. Gravitational waves

Estimated time of work:

- lecture 30h

- preparation to lecture 15h

- preparation to exam 20h

Sum: 65h

Last update: Aleksander Żarnecki, October 2020

Bibliography:

1. Martinus J.G. Veltman, Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics, World Scientific 2003

2. Frank Close, Kosmiczna Cebula - Kwarki i Wszechświat, PWN 1989

3. L. Lederman, D. Teresi, Boska cząstka, jeśli Wszechświat jest odpowiedzią, jak brzmi pytanie?, Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa 2005

4. M. J. G. Veltman, The Higgs Boson, Scientific American 255:88-94,1986 (Issue no 5).

5. Y. Nambu, A Matter of Symmetry, Scientific American, May 1992, str. 37

Learning outcomes:

The successful student:

KNOWLEDGE

- describes elementary constituents of matter, their basic properties and interactions

- understands the difference between classical and quantum description of the phenomena

- lists main successes and problems of the Standard Model

- describes relations between particle physics and evolution of the universe

SKILLS

- recognizes processes studied in the current particle physics experiments

- is able to rate the credibility of medial information

ATTITUDES

- understands the key role of experiment in the development of physics

Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

Assessment requirements:

presence at lectures, 50% of points from written tests.

Presence at lectures will be verified by short tests, which will be accessible on Kampus platform after each lecture. Results from lecture tests add (with weight of 0.5) to the final test results.

List of test questions will be made available on the lecture web page.

Classes in period "Winter semester 2023/24" (past)

Time span: 2023-10-01 - 2024-01-28
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Type of class:
Lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Aleksander Żarnecki
Group instructors: Aleksander Żarnecki
Course homepage: https://kampus-student2.ckc.uw.edu.pl/course/view.php?id=14454
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