Lectures during the spring term of 2009

Lecture 1. Quantum Chromodynamics, Asymptotic freedom, The strong coupling constant, Electron-positron annihilation, Jet physics, Discovery of the gluon in TASSO at PETRA. (slides in pdf)
Lecture 2. Elastic ep-scattering, Differential cross section, Form factors, Inelastic ep scattering, Discovery of quarks at SLAC, Structure functions, Deep inelastic scattering, Measurement of structure functions with H1 at HERA. (slides in pdf)
Lecture 3. Gauge invariance, Electroweak unification, Coupling constants, Point-like interactions, W and Z bosons, Discovery of neutral current by Gargamelle at the CERN PS. (slides in pdf)
Lecture 4. Discovery of the W and Z bosons by UA1 at the SPS, The Large Electron Positron Collider (LEP). (slides in pdf)
Lecture 5. Precision studies of the W and Z bosons by DELPHI at LEP, Leptonic charged current reactions. (slides in pdf)
Lecture 6. Hadronic charged current reactions, Quark mixing, The top quark, The discovery of the top quark by CDF at the Tevatron. (slides in pdf)
Lecture 7. Neutral current reactions, Test of flavour conservation by E787 at the AGS, The Higgs boson, Search for the Higgs at LEP, Search for the Higgs by ATLAS at the LHC. (slides in pdf)
Lecture 8. Discovery of the electron-, muon- and tau-neutrino, Neutrino oscillations, Solar neutrino measurements, The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. (slides in pdf)
Lecture 9. Atmospheric neutrinos, Super-Kamiokande, Short and long baseline experiments, The MINOS experiment, CNGS and the OPERA experiment, Extra-galactic neutrinos, AMANDA and ICECUBE. (slides in pdf)
Lecture 10. The Standard Model, Grand Unified Theories, Proton decay, Supersymmetry, SUSY searches by DELPHI, SUSY search by ATLAS, Gravitation and extra dimensions, Graviton search by DELPHI, Dark matter, Dark Energy. (slides in pdf)
Lecture 11. CERN, The Large Hadron Collider, Magnets and cavities, Experiments at the LHC, Detection of particles, The ATLAS experiment, Search for the Higgs, Black holes, Dark matter, Dark Energy, The unification of forces, The World Wide Web, The computer grid. (slides in ppt)