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.
- 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
Gamma-ray fluxes. Introduction.
Production and sources of gamma-rays.
Propagation.
Gamma-ray detection
- Neutrinos
Production. Neutrino fluxes.
Atmospheric neutrinos. Cosmogenic neutrinos.
Neutrino flux limits.
Neutrino oscillations.
BASICA:
T. Stanev "High Energy Cosmic Rays", 2nd ed. Springer 2010.
M. Spurio “Probes of Multimessenger Astrophysics”, Springer 2018.
M. Pimenta “Introduction to Particle and Astroparticle Physics”, Springer 2018.
R. Engel, T.K. Gaisser, E. Resconi "Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics", 2nd ed. Cambridge Univ. Press 2016.
C. Grupen "Astroparticle Physics", Springer 2005.
COMPLEMENTARIA:
J.N. Bahcall "Neutrino astrophysics", Cambridge Univ. Press 1989.
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.
Internet resources:
Virtual classroom: it will include teaching material done by the professors and online resources.
Electronic books:
https://biblioteca-usc.gal/nova-coleccion-de-libros-electronicos/
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.
Classes and supervision of works and / or problems by the teacher.
Attendance, active participation and problems: 60 % of the total score.
Proposed works and projects: 40 % of the total score.
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.
Attend the lessons, and perform the proposed work and problems.
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
Lorenzo Cazon Boado
- Department
- Particle Physics
- Area
- Theoretical Physics
- lorenzo.cazon [at] usc.es
- Category
- Researcher: Ramón y Cajal
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