Training, Support and Qualification Program

Fundamentale Präzisionsmessungen (Q-Ex-4)

Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dmitry Budker; Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Fertl
Shortname: 08.128.805
Course No.: 08.128.805
Course Type: Vorlesung/Übung
Format: online

Requirements / organisational issues

BSc in Physics or closely related fields.

For some topics the course will be taught as a classical lecture. But for others we will depart form the usual format of formal lectures and seminars and adopt a more efficient technique of tutorial-style presentations (occasionally, by the students) and an engaged group discussion.  In addition to introducing students to these topics, a secondary goal of the course is to enable the participants to make order-of-magnitude estimates and answer physics questions “on their feet".
This approach ideally prepares for the oral exam at the end of the semester and may be useful for students preparing for their Master or PhD defense.

Digital teaching

We plan to deliver this course fully through a digital learning platform with video conferences.
This way we get more independence of a possible rebounce of the Covid 19 cases.
According to the circumstances we will still try to arrange tours to various labs for interested participants of the course.

The exact digital learning platform will be decided on in time before the start of classes and will be communicated to the students.

Recommended reading list

Appropriate literature will be announced in the course.
While excerpts from some standard textbooks will be useful, many
for many topics the state-of-the-art is best summarized in current research
review articles.

Contents

The topics covered in this course will include (but will not be limited to):
 

Fundamental symmetries of Nature
Open “big questions” in modern physics
Symmetry violations in beta decay and atomic parity violation
Searches for the electric-dipole moments (EDM) of atoms, molecules, and the neutron
Introduction to dark matter
Experimental searches for ultralight bosonic dark matter
Atomic and nuclear clocks
Ion traps for fundamental physics
Atomic and diamond-based magnetometers
Nuclear magnetic resonance: NMR and fundamental physics
Anomalous magnetic moments of proton, neutrons, electrons and muons
Precision spectroscopy for neutrino mass measurements 

 

Additional information

Instruction language will be English.

Digitale Lehre

Short Description :
Registration on LMS

Description:
Dear students, please also sign up for the course at the Moodle learning platform https://lms.uni-mainz.de/moodle/login/index.php Best regards, Martin Fertl

Additional Information

Dates

Date (Day of the week) Time Location
11/03/2020 (Tuesday) 12:15 - 13:45 online
11/05/2020 (Thursday) 10:15 - 11:45 online
11/10/2020 (Tuesday) 12:15 - 13:45 online
11/12/2020 (Thursday) 10:15 - 11:45 online
11/17/2020 (Tuesday) 12:15 - 13:45 online
11/19/2020 (Thursday) 10:15 - 11:45 online
11/24/2020 (Tuesday) 12:15 - 13:45 online
11/26/2020 (Thursday) 10:15 - 11:45 online
12/01/2020 (Tuesday) 12:15 - 13:45 online
12/03/2020 (Thursday) 10:15 - 11:45 online
12/08/2020 (Tuesday) 12:15 - 13:45 online
12/10/2020 (Thursday) 10:15 - 11:45 online
12/15/2020 (Tuesday) 12:15 - 13:45 online
12/17/2020 (Thursday) 10:15 - 11:45 online
01/05/2021 (Tuesday) 12:15 - 13:45 online
01/07/2021 (Thursday) 10:15 - 11:45 online
01/12/2021 (Tuesday) 12:15 - 13:45 online
01/14/2021 (Thursday) 10:15 - 11:45 online
01/19/2021 (Tuesday) 12:15 - 13:45 online
01/21/2021 (Thursday) 10:15 - 11:45 online
01/26/2021 (Tuesday) 12:15 - 13:45 online
01/28/2021 (Thursday) 10:15 - 11:45 online
02/02/2021 (Tuesday) 12:15 - 13:45 online
02/04/2021 (Thursday) 10:15 - 11:45 online
02/09/2021 (Tuesday) 12:15 - 13:45 online
02/11/2021 (Thursday) 10:15 - 11:45 online