• Beck Hans Peter

• Beck Hans Peter

• Muster Augustin
• Schadt Jules

Particle physics deals with the fundamental building blocks of matter and their interactions. 
The exploration of subatomic physics started in 1896 with Becquerel's discovery of radioactivity; and J.J.Thomson's discovery of the electron as a component of the atom; which was followed by Rutherford’s discovery of the atomic nuclei in 1911. 
With the further development of experimental tools, theoretical understanding and an impressive world-wide ongoing experimental program, often involving powerful particle accelerator, quarks and leptons have been discovered and identified as the fundamental building blocks of all matter in the Universe.

This course gives an introduction in the objectives, tools and methods of particle and nuclear physics in six chapters:

1 – Basic concepts
Resolving the structure of matter
Natural units
Special Relativity
Particle decay and interactions
Fixed target vs. colliding beam experiments

2 – Accelerating Particles
Electrostatic high–voltage generators
Linear accelerator
Cyclotron
Betatron
Synchrotron
Beamlines and focusing

3 – Interaction of Radiation with Matter
Particles traversing matter
Bethe–Bloch: Mean energy loss per path length
Mean range and Bragg peak
Electrons and photons traversing matter
Electromagnetic shower
Nuclear interactions

4 – Detecting Particles
Bubble chamber
Scintillation
Wire chambers
Čerenkov detector
Calorimeter

5 – The Standard Model
Interaction types
Bosons and Fermions
Hadrons — Baryons and Mesons 
Electromagnetic, Weak, and Strong Interactions

6 – Building up the Nuclei
Nuclei are quark matter
Nuclear binding energies
Weizsäcker liquid droplet model
Nuclear decays
Fusion and fission
How the sun produces its energy
Radioactivity in the environment 

Particles and Nuclei – An Introduction to the Physical Concepts, 2015
Bogdan Povh, Klaus Rith, Christoph Scholz, Frank Zetsche, Werner Rodejohann
ISBN 978-3-662-46320-8 (hardcover, English edition, 2015) 

ISBN 978-3-662-49583-4 (softcover, English edition, 2015)
ISBN 978-3-642-37821-8 (softcover, German edition, 2013)
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783662463208

Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics, 2nd edition, 2014
Alessandro Bettini
ISBN 978-1-107-05040-2
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/physics/particle-physics-and-nuclear-physics/introduction-elementary-particle-physics-2nd-edition

Subatomic Physics, 3rd Edition, 2007
Ernest M Henley, Alejandro Garcia
ISBN 978-9-812-70056-8 (hardcover) 

ISBN 978-9-812-70057-5 (softcover) 

http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/6263

Particle Data Group – PDG
http://pdg.lbl.gov