NSCPHD1289 Nordic Winter School on Cosmology and Particle Physics

This intensive course on Cosmology and Particle Physics is aimed at both theorists and experimentalists in these fields.Lectures will alternate between more theoretical topics that are not generally taught in conventional courses and more phenomenological approaches based on data. The course includes a thorough introduction to the subject of Effective Field Theory and its uses in describing low-energy phenomena on the basis of (unknown) dynamics at higher energy scales. Particular emphasis will be on the use of Effective Field Theory in the context of Beyond Standard Model Physics, as relevant for the new runs at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Other topics in Beyond Standard Model Physics includes neutrino physics and the discovery potential for both neutrinos of cosmic origina as well as the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy at the IceCube experiment at the South Pole. This latter topic will be put into broader context through a series of general lectures on astroparticle physics and theories of Dark Matter. Finally the school will include an overview of the current status of theories of Inflationar Cosmology and a general introduction to the analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background data.