ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Particle Physics
Areas: Theoretical Physics
Center Faculty of Physics
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
To provide students an overview of the emerging field of astroparticle physics, understood as the exploration of the universe using high-energy photons, cosmic rays and neutrinos, and the search o dark matter and gravitational waves.
Familiarize students with the theoretical aspects of the field, and the novel detection methods using key experiments for the observation of astroparticles.
Scenarios 2 and 3: No changes
- Cosmic Rays (1st part): observations
Spectrum and Composition
Sources and Aceleration.
Propagation. Energy loss processes. GZK cutoff.
- Cosmic Rays (2nd part): detection. Extensive air showers.
Physical processes relevant for air shower production.
Cascade equations.
Particle fluxes in the atmosphere. Fenomenology.
Monte Carlo methods.
- Gamma rays
Fluxes.
Production and sources.
Propagation.
Detection.
- Neutrinos
Production. Neutrino fluxes.
Atmospheric neutrinos. Cosmogenic neutrinos.
Neutrino flux limits.
Neutrino oscilations.
- Dark matter and gravitational waves detection.
Scenarios 2 and 3: No changes
J.N. Bahcall "Neutrino astrophysics", Cambridge Univ. Press 1989.
T.K. Gaisser "Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics", Cambridge Univ. Press 1990.
C. Grupen "Astroparticle Physics", Springer-Verlag 2005.
M. Kachelriess "Lecture Notes on High Energy Cosmic Rays, arXiv:08001.4376v1 [astro-ph] 2008.
M.S. Longair "High Energy Astrophysics", Cambridge Univ. Press 1992-1994, 2 Vols.
T. Padmanabhan "Theoretical astrophysics", Cambridge Univ. Press 2000-2002 (3 Vols.)
G.B. Rybicki "Radiative Processes in Astrophysics", John Wiley & Sons 1979.
R. Schlickeiser "Cosmic Ray Astrophysics", Springer 2002.
P. Sokolsky "Introduction to Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray Physics" Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. 1989
T. Stanev "High Energy Cosmic Rays", Springer-Verlag 2004.
Internet resources:
Virtual classroom: it will include teaching material done by the professors and online resources.
NOTE: the USC is in the process of acquiring electronic bibliographic material. The professors will specify in the Virtual Classroom which material can be found in electronic format at the USC library when this is available.
Skills to study in more specialized topics of astroparticle physics. Ability to initiate scientific research in the framework of large international collaborations.
Likewise, studying the matter, the student will be able to integrate knowledge from different disciplines
as astrophysics, cosmology, nuclear and particle physics.
Scenarios 2 and 3: No changes
Classes and supervision of works and / or problems by the teacher.
Scenarios 2 and 3: No changes
Attendance, active participation and problems: 60 % of the total score.
Proposed works and projects: 40 % of the total score.
There is the posiblity to perform and exam only in case that it is required by the professor to properly evaluate the competences adquired by the student. The exam will be in-person in scenario 2 if the situation allows it, and telematic in scenario 3.
30 hours of class (20 h theory and 10 h seminar) , 1 h in very small group tutorials and 44 hours of homework for the student.
Scenarios 2 and 3: No changes
Attend the lessons, and perform the proposed work and problems.
Scenarios 2 and 3: No changes
CONTINGENCY PLAN in case of a change of scenario:
1) Objectives: No changes.
2) Contents: No changes.
3) Bibliographic material: No changes.
4) Competences: No changes.
5) Methodology:
5a) Scenario 2
Changes are not expected if the attendance is similar to previous years. If distance measures do not allow that all students could attend in-person and if there is no larger space then one of the following measures could be taken:
- Streaming of the lecture to a fraction of the students who will follow it from another room in the Physics building. There will be turns so that all students attend the lectures in the same conditions.
- Streaming of the lecture to a fraction of the students who will follow it from home. There will be turns so that all students attend the lectures in the same conditions.
Priority will be given to the use of classrooms for tests and exams.
Tutorial lectures could be in-person or telematic but will require appointment with the professors.
5b) Scenario 3
Teaching will be fully telematic and the lectures will be synchronous following the official schedule (unless for supervening causes that will be communicated to the students in advance)
Tutorial lectures will be telematic and will require appointment with the professors.
6) Assessment system: no changes, except in the case a final exam needs to be done by the student, in which case it will be in-person in scenario 2 if the situation allows it and telematic in scenario 3.
7) Study time and individual work: No changes
8) Recommendations for the study of the subject: No changes.
Enrique Zas Arregui
Coordinador/a- Department
- Particle Physics
- Area
- Theoretical Physics
- Phone
- 881813970
- enrique.zas [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Jaime Alvarez Muñiz
- Department
- Particle Physics
- Area
- Theoretical Physics
- Phone
- 881813968
- jaime.alvarez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom C |
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| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom C |
| 01.20.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Boardroom - Block II |
| 06.30.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 2 |