Studies on particle physics

• Grant number: 06/04575-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2007
• End date: December 31, 2007
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: Orlando Luis Goulart Peres
• Grantee: Maurílio Ferreira Salgado
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

We will discuss the foundations of particle physics, going from order of size of study object of particle physics, the symmetry principle, the gauge principle, some elements of relativity, group theory, knowe interactions for the dynamics of very small distance and very high energies. At the end we will discuss the neutrino phenomenology and to introduce to the topic of neutrino oscillations, an analogy of the 2-level spin system in non-relativistic Quantum mechanics. (AU)