Within the framework of
this master course at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel divers series of
lectures are organized on the level of advanced master students and
starting PhD students.
An
introduction to low-energy supersymmetry and its
experimental aspects
Dr. Filip Moortgat (ETH Zurich)
February 9, 10 and 11, 2009 (announcement)
After a short review of the
shortcomings of the Standard Model, low‐energy
supersymmetry and the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) will
be
introduced. The basic phenomenology of supersymmetric particles,
including the
MSSM Higgs sector, will be discussed. Accelerator‐based search
techniques for these
particles will be reviewed, as well as methods that may allow the
determination
of their masses and quantum numbers. Finally, non‐accelerator searches
for
supersymmetric Dark Matter will be briefly reviewed.
- Link to slides
- List of reference articles
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An
experimental review of Neutrino Physics
Prof. Pierre Vilain (ULB) and Prof. Gaston Wilquet (ULB)
After a short historical
summary, the role of neutrino experiments in the
development of the electroweak Standard Model will be described. Deep
inelastic
scattering of neutrinos on nucleons has also provided valuable
information on the
nucleon structure, complementary to the results obtained with electron
and muon
probes. In the main part of the course, the convincing evidences that
neutrinos are
massive will be presented and the future prospects towards a complete
determination of the masses and the mixing matrix will be discussed. A
related
fundamental question, possibly within experimental reach, is whether
neutrinos are
Dirac or Majorana particles. Another quite active field of research is
the study of
neutrinos from astrophysical origin. The last part of the course will
try to give a
description of this field together with the possible connections
between neutrino
physics and cosmology.
- Link to slides
- List of reference articles
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