This lecture will give an introduction into the exciting field of hadron physics at particle accelerators. Main focus will be the production and study of mesons as conventional quark-antiquark states, as well as the study of exotic particles which do not fit into the established hadron schemes for mesons and baryons. Examples and results from very recent experiments will be presented, e.g., from the electron-positron collider experiment BESIII, where the AG Khoukaz is actively involved in.
Contents:
- Relativistic kinematics
- Quantum numbers and conservation laws in particle physics
- Isospin formalism
- SU(3) symmetry
- Production and decay of mesons and particle resonances
- Determination of hadron masses, lifetimes and quantum numbers
- Meson wave functions, mixed meson states and determination of mixing angles
- Quarkonia
- Determination of the strong coupling constant alpha_s
- Particle multiplets and possibilities to identify exotic particles
- Dalitz plots: Observation of new particles and determination of particle quantum numbers
- Study of exotic particles
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This lecture will give an introduction into the exciting field of hadron physics at particle accelerators. Main focus will be the production and study of mesons as conventional quark-antiquark states, as well as the study of exotic particles which do not fit into the established hadron schemes for mesons and baryons. Examples and results from very recent experiments will be presented, e.g., from the electron-positron collider experiment BESIII, where the AG Khoukaz is actively involved in.
Contents:
- Relativistic kinematics
- Quantum numbers and conservation laws in particle physics
- Isospin formalism
- SU(3) symmetry
- Production and decay of mesons and particle resonances
- Determination of hadron masses, lifetimes and quantum numbers
- Meson wave functions, mixed meson states and determination of mixing angles
- Quarkonia
- Determination of the strong coupling constant alpha_s
- Particle multiplets and possibilities to identify exotic particles
- Dalitz plots: Observation of new particles and determination of particle quantum numbers
- Study of exotic particles
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- Lehrende/r: Alfons Khoukaz