Student reception by appointment (iacopini@unifi.it)
Type of Assessment
Oral exam
Course program
The discrete symmetries P, C, T and their properties. The operator T2 and the spin. The electric dipole moment of an elementary system and its link with the P and T violation. Field theory recalls: the free vector field with and without mass and the Dirac field. Elicity and chirality. The decays of the pai0 and the positronium. The S matrix and its properties under CPT. Formalization of the scattering amplitude calculation. The phase space of two and three particles. Dalitz plot. The spin of the positive pion. The explicit cross section calculation of the quasi-elastic antineutrino scattering on proton. The decay width of the charged pion. The decay of the polarised and unpolarised muon. The decay of the neutron.