FYS4555 – Particle Physics

After completing the course, you:

• master basic quantum field theory concepts essential to particle physics, and know how symmetries and conservation laws lead to the equations of motion, to the fundamental forces, and to the classification of particles.
• can apply Feynman diagrams and techniques, relativistic kinematics, and perturbation theory to study basic collision and decay processes.
• know about the current theory of particle physics and understand the role of experiments to shape the standard model of electroweak and strong interactions.
• know how particle physics explains the early Universe and its evolution.
• know how the electroweak theory explains phenomena such as matter-antimatter asymmetry and mass generation.
• cam explain how today’s research attempts to address mysteries in physics today, the nature of dark matter, the origin of antimatter, and the behaviour of the gravitational force at the microscopic scale.

Students admitted at UiO must apply for courses in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.

Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may apply to take this course as a single course student.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

• FYS-MEK1110 – Mechanics (discontinued) eller FYS1100 – Mechanics and Modelling
• FYS3110 – Quantum Mechanics
• FYS3120 – Analytical Mechanics and Electrodynamics
• FYS3500 – Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics

Attendance at the two first lectures is mandatory.

If you are unable to attend, the Department of Physics has to be informed no later than the same day (studieinfo@fys.uio.no), or else you will lose your place in the course.

The course is taught throughout the semester:

• 4 hours of lectures
• 2 hours of exercise

This course has 3 compulsory assignments, where all 3 must be approved before you can take the final exam.

See rules for mandatory activities/assignments.

• Final oral exam which counts 100 % towards the final grade.

This course has mandatory exercises that must be approved before you can sit the final exam.

Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a postponed examination at the beginning of the next semester.

Re-scheduled examinations are not offered to students who withdraw during, or did not pass, the original examination.