Diffraction in particle physics - NJSF131
Title: Difrakce v částicové fyzice
Guaranteed by: Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics (32-UCJF)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2015
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 4
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Mgr. Tomáš Sýkora, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Tomáš Sýkora, Ph.D.
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Annotation -
The lecture goes through theretical and experimental aspects of diffrection processes in particle physics.
Last update: Krtička Milan, prof. Mgr., Ph.D. (30.04.2019)
Course completion requirements -

oral exam with one problem to solve

Last update: Sýkora Tomáš, Mgr., Ph.D. (12.06.2019)
Literature -

Vincenzo Barone, Enrico Predazzi, High-Energy Particle Diffraction, ISBN-13: 978-354042107

Gilvan A. Alves, A Forward Proton Detector at DØ, http://www.cbpf.br/~gilvan/Proposal/fpd_pub.html

Last update: T_UCJF (19.03.2015)
Requirements to the exam -

The exam is oral. The student gets three questions from the topics listed in the syllabus of the lecture.

Last update: Sýkora Tomáš, Mgr., Ph.D. (12.06.2019)
Syllabus -
  • diffraction - definitions
  • kinematics of processes, Mandelstam variables
  • relativistic S-matrix, scattering amplitude
  • Regge theory
  • měkká difrakce soft diffraction
  • pomeron
  • deep inelastic scattering
  • hard difraction

Last update: T_UCJF (15.04.2011)