Physics at the LHC

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Course ID:	1102-6_PLHC
Erasmus code / ISCED:	13.205 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:	Physics at the LHC
Name in Polish:	Fizyka w LHC (po angielsku)
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Physics
Course groups:	Courses in English
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) 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. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Short description:	This is a monographic course focused on the discussion of the role the experiments at the LHC can play in further development of the physics of elementary interactions and cosmology.
Full description:	The expectations linked to the experiments at the LHC are closely connected with the existing theory of elementary interactions called the Standard Model. We hope to get experimental hints for generalising the Standard Model so that we better understand the origin of the Fermi scale and get the explanation of the empirical facts that remain unexplained in the framework of the Standard Model (the existence of dark matter and the absence of antimatter in the universe). The main purpose of the course is to present those aspects of the Standard Model that most likely are important for searching for its extension. Furthermore, there will be discussed various theoretical scenarios for beyond the Standard Model theory both from the point of view of their theoretical value and the chances for their verification at the LHC. Program: 1. The beauty of the Standard Model as a renormalizable quantum field theory (the basic structure, local and global symmetries and their experimental verification, fermion masses, GIM mechanism 2. The Standard Model as an effective theory- limits on new physical scales 3. The Higgs mechanism and its possible realizations; the Higgs mechanism and a Higgs particle(s) 4. Vacuum stability and Landau pole in the one Higgs doublet theory 5. Unitarity of the longitudinal gauge boson scattering amplitudes and its consequences for possible extensions of the Standard Model 6. Hierachy problem 7. Arguments in favour of grand unification 8. Dark matter in extensions of the Standard Model Description by S. Pokorski, November 2009.
Bibliography:	The course will be based on original research publications Some textbooks with introduction to the Standard Model: 1. I.J.R. Aitchison i A.J.G. Hey, Gauge theories in particie physics 2. S. Pokorski, Gauge \|Field Theories 3. P.D.B. Collins, A.D.Martin i E.J.Squires, Particle Physics and Cosmology P. Ramond, Journeys beyond the Standard Model

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