Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Collaborate and work in a team.
• Have developed practical skills in physics through practical sessions in the laboratory and sessions during which they have worked individually and in groups.
• Master expertise.
• Have acquired knowledge and a thorough understanding of specialist areas of physics in connection with mathematics and/or advanced laboratory practices required for these sectors.
• Collaborate and work in a team.
• Have developed practical skills in physics through practical sessions in the laboratory and sessions during which they have worked individually and in groups.
• Grow personally and professionally.
• Have developed the skills that will enable them to continue to acquire knowledge independently.

Learning Outcomes of UE

Learn basic particle physcis via its experimental aspects  :  fundamental constituents and their interactions; symmetris and conservation laws, via a description of different experiments and explanation of  the corresponding results.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

Course
Reminders, Introduction, Theoretical Basis - Accelerators and detectos - Historical discoveries - Matter particles: leptons  & quarks - Interactions : description & unification - Symmetries & conservation laws

Labs
- operation of a cloud chamber
- operation of a cosmic ray telescope
- analysis of particle collision events (bublle chambers,  LEP and LHC events)
- recap on accelerators  & experiments,  particles and  interactions
 

Prior Experience

Not applicable