The Legos of matter. Beyond protons, neutrons and electrons

Presentation

What is everything we know made of? Beyond atoms, protons, neutrons and electrons, matter can be many other things. The goal of particle physics is to understand what the most fundamental pieces of nature are and how they relate to each other to form the world around us.

A whole century of research with the largest (and most expensive) experiments in human history has enabled humanity to develop a theory of nature that explains it almost perfectly. However, this theory fails to explain countless observations in astronomy and cosmology. So how can you solve this puzzle?

In this course we will discover that the universe is much richer and more diverse than we think. Session by session, we will fragment the world of subatomic particles and learn how all of particle physics fits together, until it stops fitting. From mathematical foundations to how experiments work, from the smallest to the largest, the fabric of nature holds many secrets for us.

Program

1. Where does all this particle physics come from? A brief historical introduction
2.The Foundations of the Subatomic World: Quantum Physics and Feynman Diagrams
3. Colliding and observing: how particle accelerators and detectors work
4. Far beyond electromagnetism: electric charge and light
5.Color theory is not what you expected: a journey inside the atomic nucleus
6. The origin of mass: the Higgs boson and the electroweak unification
7. Neutrinos: the ghost particles
8.Even more ghostly: dark matter
9.Beyond Earth: Particle Physics in Astronomy and Cosmology
10.The future of particle physics

Teachers

Toni Bertólez Martínez, predoctoral researcher at the Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics of the University of Barcelona and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences, and science disseminator on the social media channels "Del buit al tot" and "Neurones Fregides"

Prices and discounts

In order to benefit from any discount, it must be properly entered at the time of registration. Once the enrollment process is complete, no discount will be applied.

At the start of the registration process, the price of the course is shown without discount until the moment when the interested party enters the code of the collective to which he belongs. The codes are:

• UB Community: (MUB90U9B)
  Students
  Administration and service staff
  Professors and research staff
  UB group members
  Students and former students of Gaudir UB, Els Juliols UB, School of Modern Languages, University of Experience and Hispanic Studies
  Alumni UB members
  Students pre-enrolled at the University of Experience 
• Community IL3-UB: (MUB90U9B) (students, staff, teachers).
• Subscribers of the ARA newspaper (SDARAU9B)
• TresC and Comunitat de Cultura members (TR3SC9UB)
• Members of the Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Barcelona (CMB56U9B)
• Members of the Col·legi d’Educadores i Educadors Socials de Catalunya (MCESCU9B)

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