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From Quarks to Hadrons: Low and Intermediate Energy Regime

Module PH2214

This module handbook serves to describe contents, learning outcome, methods and examination type as well as linking to current dates for courses and module examination in the respective sections.

Module version of SS 2015

There are historic module descriptions of this module. A module description is valid until replaced by a newer one.

Whether the module’s courses are offered during a specific semester is listed in the section Courses, Learning and Teaching Methods and Literature below.

available module versions
SS 2020SS 2017SS 2015

Basic Information

PH2214 is a semester module in English or German language at Master’s level which is offered in summer semester.

This Module is included in the following catalogues within the study programs in physics.

  • Specific catalogue of special courses for nuclear, particle, and astrophysics
  • Complementary catalogue of special courses for condensed matter physics
  • Complementary catalogue of special courses for Biophysics
  • Complementary catalogue of special courses for Applied and Engineering Physics

If not stated otherwise for export to a non-physics program the student workload is given in the following table.

Total workloadContact hoursCredits (ECTS)
150 h 75 h 5 CP

Responsible coordinator of the module PH2214 in the version of SS 2015 was Jan Michael Friedrich.

Content, Learning Outcome and Preconditions

Content

The lecture starts with the early, still quite simple experimental setups in order to study the nuclear force, in order to motivate the ongoing, often very elaborate research activities that aim to clarify the least known aspects of the strong force. Some key publications are discussed in detail, focusing on processes at intermediate energies which are governed by fundamental symmetries and a rich resonance spectrum. Of special interest is the chiral symmetry, which can be used for a systematic perturbation calculus , featuring high predictive power for the ongoing experimental studies. This approach allows for testing the quark substructure of matter complementary to deep-inelastic scattering.

Learning Outcome

After successful participation in the module, the students are able to understand experiments with strongly interacting particles, allowing to take on responsible work within the usually larger groups. The elementary interactions of protons, neutrons, pions and more strongly-interacting particles can be handled in detail, and used in estimates of planned experiments and in data analysis.

Preconditions

Successful participation in a particle and quantum physics module, whose concepts will be recapitulated.

Courses, Learning and Teaching Methods and Literature

Courses and Schedule

Learning and Teaching Methods

lecture and exercise sheets

Media

Presentation is provided in PDF, smartboard

Literature

is given in the first lecture

Module Exam

Description of exams and course work

In a written exam the learning outcome is tested using comprehension questions and sample problems.

In accordance with §12 (8) APSO the exam can be done as an oral exam. In this case the time duration is 25 minutes.

Exam Repetition

The exam may be repeated at the end of the semester.

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