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Duration | 17 hours |
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Mode of learning | Online |
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- What you'll learn
- Discuss fundamental building blocks of the Standard Model, explore Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity, describe elementary Particle Physics.
- The discovery of a new fundamental particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN is the latest step in a long quest seeking to answer one of physics' most enduring questions: why do particles have mass? The experiments' much-anticipated success confirms predictions made decades earlier by Peter Higgs and others, and offers a glimpse into a universe of physics beyond the Standard Model.
- As Professor Peter Higgs continues his inspiring role at Edinburgh University's School of Physics & Astronomy, the experiments at the LHC continue.
- This free online course introduces the theoretical tools needed to appreciate the discovery and presents the elementary particles that have been discovered at the tiniest scales ever explored. Beginning with basic concepts in classical mechanics, the story unfolds through relativity and quantum mechanics, describing forces, matter and the unification of theories with an understanding driven by the tools of mathematics.
- Narrating the journey through experimental results which led to the discovery in 2012, the course invites you to learn from a team of world-class physicists at Edinburgh University. Learners participate in discussion of the consequences of the Higgs boson, to physics and cosmology, and towards a stronger understanding and new description of the universe.
- Photo of Professor Higgs Peter Tuffy, The University of Edinburgh.
The Discovery of the Higgs Boson at Coursera Curriculum
Theoretical description of physical phenomena
Why is the Higgs Boson discovery important?
Collisions, Higgs decays and the discovery plot
Introduction
Newton's Law
Harmonic oscillator
Gravitational forces and potential
Spatial translation symmetry
Rotational symmetry and time translation symmetry
Particles and fields in classical mechanics
Introducing the educators
Course Information
Physical phenomena from mathematical equations
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Summary of activities
Glossary
Newtonian dynamics
Conservation laws
Conservation laws
Newtonian dynamics
Discussion topics for classical mechanics
A theory of matter and light
Maxwell's equations
Special relativity: from experiment to theory
Particles of light
Particle-wave duality
The hydrogen atom
The photoelectric effect, quantum mechanics & special relativity
New phenomena at the atomic scale
Introducing the educators
Waves of light
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Elements of special relativity and quantum mechanics
Quiz on special relativity
Quantum mechanics
Test on special relativity
Quantum mechanics
Discussion topics for special relativity and quantum mechanics
A theory of matter and light
Relativistic wave equations
Dirac's equation
Interactions of matter and light
Elementary processes in QED
Higher-order processes and applications
QED & symmetries
Renormalisation
The theory of matter and light
Introducing the educators
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QED: matter and light
Field theory
QED
Field theory
QED
Discussion topics for quantum field theory
From QED to QCD and the weak force
The theory of strong interactions
The theory of weak interactions
Massless particles
Massive particles and bowl potentials
Superconductors and spontaneous symmetry breaking
Goldstone's theorem
The Higgs mechanism and the Higgs boson
Professor Boyle, in the Maxwell Building, with a copper pipe
QCD & strong interactions
Fundamental forces as gauge theories
Introducing the educators
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Summary of activities
Quiz on strong interactions
Weak interactions
Spontaneous symmetry breaking
Test on strong interactions
Weak interactions
Spontaneous symmetry breaking
Discussion topics for strong and weak interactions
The Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism and the Standard Model
The Higgs boson and the Standard Model
Higgs decay modes
The 1964 paper
The Higgs and the Standard Model
Introducing the educators
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Summary of activities
Higgs and the Standard Model
Higgs decay
Higgs and the Standard Model
Higgs decay
Discussion topics for the Higgs boson in the Standard Model
Experimental evidence for the Standard Model
Physics of Particle Colliders and early searches for the Higgs Boson
Searches at the LHC and the discovery of the Higgs boson
Higgs measurements and future colliders
Peter's commentary on the searches for the Higgs Boson
Bonus video: the experimental challenges
The Edinburgh group at the ATLAS experiment
The Edinburgh group at the LHCb experiment
Why is the sun burning so slowly?
Introduction to week 6
Introducing the educators
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Summary of activities
Early experimental searches for the Higgs Boson
Higgs boson searches at the LHC
Higgs boson searches at the LHC
Discussion topics for experimental searches
Beyond the Standard Model
L'imagination au pouvoir?
The hot Big Bang
Quantum vacuum & cosmology
The Higgs boson, scalar fields and inflation
Theories beyond the Standard Model
In conversation with John Ellis
Life at building 40
Behind the scenes footage
Looking into the future: the next steps
Introducing the educators
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Conclusions
Physics beyond the Standard Model
The hot Big Bang
Quiz on cosmology
Physics beyond the Standard Model
The hot Big Bang
Quiz on cosmology
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