Selected topics from astrophysics and astroparticle physics

The objective of the course is to face students with selected scientific and research topics that are topical at a given moment and that will be presented to them by invited leading experts from their respective fields.

Students will acquire specialized knowledge from very specific fields of science. With the help of their course lecturer, they will transform this knowledge into an improved and in-depth understanding of astrophysics and astroparticle physics. Students can apply the obtained understanding of the synthesis of expert knowledge in all fields of science, while their in- depth knowledge of astrophysics and astroparticle physics can be used to continue their studies at the third level. Through the understanding of this field, students will gain insight into the latest research results in the field. The synthesis of specialized knowledge provides students the flexibility to work in various research fields.

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Selected scientific and research topics that are topical in the astrophysics and astroparticle physics at a given moment. Topics will be presented by both local and invited leading experts from their respective fields.

Students will learn:

• present open problems of astrophysics and astroparticle physics;

• experimental facilities, dealing with these problems;

• concepts of experimental aproaches used to solve them.

To be defined in agreement with the course principal and the lecturers; related to topics presented
by the lecturers.

• oral exam

Prof. dr. Samo Stanič je redni profesor za področje fizike na Univerzi v Novi Gorici. Samo Stanič is full professor of physics at the University of Nova Gorica.

Izbrane novejše objave / selected recent references:

1. O. Ballester et al., A 1.8 m class pathfinder Raman LIDAR for the Northern Site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - Technical Design, Remote Sens. 17(6), 1074 (2025).
2. B. Sripathi Acharya et al., Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to a dark matter signal from the Galactic centre, JCAP 01 057 (2021).
3. B.P. Abbott et al., Multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 848, 1-59 (2017).
4. A. Aab et al., AUGER Collaboration. Observation of a large-scale anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays above 8 × 1018eV , Science, 357, 1266-1270 (2017).
5. S.-W. Lin et al., Belle Collaboration. Difference in direct charge-parity violation between charged and neutral B meson decays, Nature, 452, 332–335 (2008).