Particle physics seeks to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the universe: What are the basic building blocks of matter? How do they interact? And what lies beyond our current theories? The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) marked a milestone, yet also opened new challenges. Precision measurements of the Higgs and other Standard Model processes, as well as studies in flavour physics, now provide stringent tests of our theoretical framework. At the same time, searches for new particles and phenomena continue to probe the limits of known physics.
In parallel, research into neutrinos has revealed their surprising complexity, with oscillations indicating physics beyond the Standard Model. Observations of the universe also point to the existence of dark matter, whose nature remains one of the biggest open questions in science. Experiments designed to detect neutrinos and dark matter employ highly sensitive techniques to suppress backgrounds and capture the faintest of signals.
This course explores these frontiers — from collider physics at the LHC to neutrino experiments and dark matter searches — highlighting both the experimental methods and the theoretical challenges that shape the next generation of discoveries in particle physics.