Physique - Université Paris Saclay

PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS
MASTER
SCIENCES
FONDAMENTALES
Physique
Physique
LOCATION
PARCOURS : Noyaux, Particules, Astroparticules
et Cosmologie
Orsay
Paris Sud (Orsay)
Paris
Paris6 (UPMC) and Paris7 (Paris-Diderot)
CONTACT
SCHOOL
Secretariat
• Catherine BOURGE [email protected]
Responsibles
• Marie-Hélène SCHUNE, [email protected]
• Iolanda MATEA, [email protected]
The Master’s degree M2 NPAC is intended for students training towards
research in nuclear physics, particle physics, astroparticles and cosmology. It
seeks to prepare students for an experimental or theoretical PhD in the main
research centres such as the CNRS, the Universities or the CEA. This training
is designed to provide students with the fundamental knowledge in the world
of the infinitely large (cosmology and astroparticles) and the infinitely small
(particle and nuclear physics).
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OTHER(S) PARTNERS
Université Paris DiderotParis 7 Paris VII ;
Université Pierre et Marie
Curie Paris VI
PREREQUISITES
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Candidates should have a strong background
in modern physics subjects such as quantum
mechanics and statistical physics. It is strongly
recommended to have already studied one of
NPAC main fields.
PEDAGOGICAL OBJECTIVES
RESEARCH
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The students have the possibility, in many occasions, to get used to
practice research. First, students work in pairs during a one-month project
in the first semester. They have to conduct a small experiment from the
design to the analysis. This project allows them to acquire knowledge in
instrumentation, data analysis, and detection techniques. The “Detector
Physics” course also involves an immersion in a research team: during
4 half-days, the students are welcomed in tandem in laboratories by
researchers and engineers working on an experiment under construction.
This program has a dual objective of, on the one hand introducing the
physics of the elementary particles, their fundamental interactions
as well as their assembly in atomic nuclei and the properties of
these nuclei; and on the other hand, teaching the students on the
understanding of the Universe, its geometry and its contents in terms
of dark matter and dark energy. The students are also taught about
astroparticles, which are alternative cosmic messengers opening new
windows on still opened questions. The scientific topics linked to this
training are very active and at the frontier of knowledge. For particle
physics, the most visible success is the recent discovery of the Higgs
boson (2013 Nobel Prize) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
In the cosmology and astroparticles domain, the 2011 Nobel Prize
has recognized research linked the Universe expansion and to dark
energy. The field of nuclear physics is also very active with the starting
up of SPIRAL2, an accelerator that should, among other issues,
provide some understanding of the origin of the elements and their
abundance on earth.
PERSPECTIVES
The Master 2 NPAC trains the future researchers of tomorrow. One of
NPAC main assets is its strong link with research. All the teachers are leading-edge researchers in their domain. The students work in laboratories,
during their internships and also when studying a selected researchers’
work, particularly in instrumentation. Indeed, these areas of research
require increasingly powerful and sophisticated instruments, their performances determining the advances of the discipline. The Master 2 NPAC
program thus includes lectures in both the detector physics and the accelerator physics fields. This training is recognized for its academic quality
by the IN2P3 laboratories in the Paris region, and all over France. NPAC
students are also welcome in theoretical and astrophysics laboratories.
After the NPAC 1-year training, about 90% of the students obtain a grant
to begin a PhD thesis. Most of the hosting laboratories are in Paris area,
but also elsewhere in France or abroad.
LABORATORIES
LAL, IPNO, IRFU, APC, CSNSM, LLR, LPNHE