JGU Jogustine Courselists

Seminar 2 (M.Sc.) - Kern- und Teilchenphysik

Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Lucia Masetti
Shortname: 08.128.80105
Course No.: 08.128.80105
Course Type: Seminar

Requirements / organisational issues

There will be a meeting on Tuesday, July 7th, at 15:30 in the ETAP seminar room (Staudingerweg 7, 4. Stock, room 04-225) to distribute the seminar topics.

Please send an email to masetti AT uni-mainz.de with a prioritised list of your desired topics (minimum 2, maximum 5) well in advance of the meeting.

Contents

The following topics can be chosen:

  1. A Gem of a Detector for High Precision Tracking 
  2. Charge Distribution of the Neutron 
  3. CP Violation with B Mesons 
  4. Determination of Neutrino Masses in the Cosmos 
  5. Determination of Neutrino Masses in the Laboratory 
  6. Dirac or Majorana? Understanding the nature of the neutrino with neutrinoless double beta decays
  7. Direct Search for Dark Matter 
  8. Effective Field Theories in Flavour Physics
  9. Electron Scattering Experiments at MESA  
  10. Evidence of Iron-60 from past Supernovae in deep-ocean ferromanganese crusts
  11. Experiments on Neutron Skins of Nuclei 
  12. Flavour Changing Currents
  13. Freeze-in dark matter and long-lived particles
  14. Gauge Anomaly Cancellation in the Standard Model
  15. Geometric Aspects of Hamilton Mechanics
  16. Gravitational waves (focus on experiment)
  17. Gravitational Waves (focus on theory) 
  18. Higgs boson mass and width 
  19. High precision measurement of the weak mixing angle at MESA: A sensitive test of the Standard Model
  20. How to detect tumors with wax - a novel approach to positron emission tomography 
  21. Indirect Search for Dark Matter Using Gamma Telescopes
  22. Inflation: Theory and testability of models
  23. Leptogenesis and neutrino masses 
  24. Looking for dark matter and neutrinos with liquid argon deep underground
  25. Mass Matrices and Mass Diagonalization 
  26. Neutrino Astronomy 
  27. Neutron star and the equation of state of dense matter
  28. Nuclear Weapons and non-proliferation
  29. Online Track Reconstruction 
  30. Probing the alpha-particle beyond its ground state: is there a puzzle?
  31. Probing the Standard Model with the new MESA accelerator
  32. Production and Detection of Dark Matter at LHC 
  33. Proton Radius Puzzle and Lattice QCD
  34. QCD Axions and the Peccei-Quinn Mechanism to solve the Strong CP problem
  35. QCD Phase Diagram 
  36. Quark Confinement 
  37. Search for Exotic Nuclear Structures at Radioactive-Ion Beam Facilities
  38. Search for Extra Dimensions (and more) at LHC 
  39. Search for Lepton Flavour Violation 
  40. Search for Particles of a Dark Sector at MESA
  41. Spin and CP properties of the Higgs Boson 
  42. Symmetries in Quantum Mechanics - The Wigner Theorem 
  43. The Cabibbo Anomaly: What’s wrong between Neutron and Kaon Decays?
  44. The Future of Radioactive-Ion Beam Facilities: What can we expect from FAIR, FRIB and RIBF
  45. The hunt for new particles at the new Beam Dump Facility at CERN
  46. The muon g-2: a strong indication for New Physics?
  47. The nucleosynthesis of the elements
  48. The Quest for the Tiniest Lepton Mixing Angle
  49. The search for the tetraneutron: Can four neutrons stick together?
  50. The Solar Neutrino Puzzle 
  51. The super-Poincaré algebra
  52. The WIMP miracle (Dark Matter Theory)

Dates

Date (Day of the week) Time Location
10/19/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
10/26/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
11/02/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
11/09/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
11/16/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
11/23/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
11/30/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
12/07/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
12/14/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
12/21/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
01/11/2027 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
01/18/2027 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
01/25/2027 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
02/01/2027 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik