last update May 2006
Location: Chamberlin 2135
Duration: 30 lectures on TR
11:00 AM-12:15 PM
Main aim of the course: introducing
the current state of the art of Astroparticle physics and understanding
experiments built to solve specific questions of this physics field
Syllabus (Textbooks and
readings
are suggested here)
Lectures
17 January: Introduction to Special
Relativity
19 January: Lorentz transformations and
relativistic kinematics
24 January: end of special relativity, beginning of Introduction to Standard Model
26 January: Standard Model
31 January: Standard Model and Neutrinos
7 February: Solar Neutrinos
9February: Atmospheric Neutrinos and
beginning of interaction of particles with
matter
14 February: interaction of particles and
radiation with matter
16 February: interaction radiation with matter
and electromagnetic and hadronic showers and
Exercises in class (solutions to come)
21 February: Cherenkov effect, Transition
Radiation and generalities on detectors
23 February: Scintillators and Phototubes,
new applications, Cherenkov detectors (threshold, RICH)
and MC methods in relation to Homework 6
24 February: Transition Radiation detectors
and Gas Filled detectors
28 February: Geiger-Mueller, Spectrometers
and Calorimeters
2 March: Cosmic Rays, composition and
spectrum, SN as sources of CRs
7 March: Invited lecture by Ellen Zweibel on first &
second order Fermi acceleration and propagation of CRs
9 March: Acceleration mechanisms, Hillas
Plot, Sources of CRs, CR spectra at low energies, solar modulation and
geomagnetic field effects
Spring break
21 March: Ballon
and satellite experiments
for primary CR measurements: PAMELA, AMS and Caprice 98
23 March: Invited Lectures by Prof. Eli Waxman on CRs
24 and 28 March: Invited Lecture
of
Prof. Karle on Gamma Astronomy (including Hw assignment due on Tue 4)
30 March: EAS detectors: Surface detectors,
Cherenkov, Fluorescence. Experiments: AGASA, Hires, Pierre Auger
4 April: EAS detectors: Pierre Auger.
A New technique: radio detection. LOFAR and
LOPES
6 April: TeV gamma sources and GLAST,
comparison between satellites and neutrino telescopes
18 April: Neutrino Astronomy, neutrino fluxes
and their connection to gamma ones, Stellar collapse and Chandrasekar
mass
20 April: Core Collapse SN, neutrino emission
and detection, Microquasars and W&B limit for extra-galactic sources
25 April: Muon and Tau energy losses,
neutrino cross sections, Neutrino Telescopes
27 April: Tau neutrinos and the regeneration
process, cascades and tracks, detector parameters, analysis methods
2 May: Gravitational wave Astronomy: theory
of GWs and analogies with em waves, signals and noise, detectors:
resonant bars
4 May: Gravitational wave astronomy:
interferometers (LIGO, Virgo, LISA)
Homeworks and suggested solutions
Homework 1 find also pdf version
Homework 2 find also pdf version
Homework 3 find also pdf version
Homework 4 find also pdf version
Homework 5 find also pdf version
Solution of class exercises
Homework 6 find also pdf version
Homework 7 find also pdf version
Homework 8 find also pdf version
Homework 9 find also pdf version
Homework 10 find also pdf version
Homework 11 find also pdf version
Prof. Karle's Hw: ROOT script for the solution of
the first part on the photon density from a vertical muon