Nuclear, Particle and Astrophysics

Course of studies

Degree

Master

Duration of study (semesters)

4

Language

Deutsch

Location

Garching

Description of course of studies

The Master in Nuclear, Particle and Astrophysics is a two year full time programme with 120 CP in total. The programme is consecutive to the Physics Bachelor programme and leads to actual research contents.

During first year students choose from the wide catalogue of specialty modules, according to their interests. The catalogue consists of chosen topics from experimental to theoretical Physics and represents the scientific profile of the Physics-Department at TUM. The research areas cover Condensed matter (KM), Particle-, Nuclear- and Astrophysics (KTA) and Biophysics (BIO). The applied fields in these areas compose the contents for the study programme Applied and Engineering Physics (AEP). Examples of the catalogue are listed at the end of the course description. Four elective modules (worth 20 CP) have to be chosen from the focus KTA, two more elective courses (10 CP) from the complementary fields.

The programme is consolidated by the mandatory course in Theoretical Particlephysics (10CP) and completes hereby the broad profile and professional focus of the physics course. Additional students have to pass a Proseminar and the advanced laboratory. These are thematically assigned to the main focus and will be credited as course achievements.

Connections to neighbouring sciences and applications of Physics in Engineering or Medicine are ensured through the Non-physical electives. Students can choose exams compassing 8 CP from a catalogue that is to be defined by the examinations board. Two CP will be credited as course achievements from the module “Soft skills”.

During second year students concentrate on their research project which can be carried out either at one of the institutes of the physics department of TUM or one of the associated institutes (Max Planck Institutes, etc.). Students are directly involved in the research on a recent topic in either Theoretical or Experimental Physics whilst working on their project. The research is supplemented by the Master Seminar (10 CP) and the Masters-Praktikum (15 CP) which provide necessary prerequisites in conception and creation for the following Master’s thesis (30 CP). The Master’s thesis has to be defended in the concluding Master Colloquium (5 CP).

Examples of special courses:
Modules for study programme assigned to Nuclear, Particle and Astrophysics:

• Applied muclear physics methods in interdisciplinary research
• Astro particle physics
• Computational physics
• Computational astrophysics
• Effective field theories
• Introduction to astrophysics
• Introduction to mgnetohydrodynamics - ideal plasma effects
• Introduction to plasma physics
• Formation and detection of gravitation waves
• Advanced quantum field theory
• Life sciences: radiation biophysics
• Neutrino physics
• Neutron scattering and complementary methods
• Nuklear astrophysics
• Particle detectors - theory and practice
• Key experiments of partice physics
• Special relativity
• Scattering theory
• Particle physics with high energy accelerators
• Partice physics with neutrons
• Theoretical elementary particle physics
• Observational high-energy astrophysics
• Introduction to quantum field theory
• Group theory
• Molecular Dynamics Simulations: from principles to applications
• Nuklear astrophysics
• Particle detectors - theory and practice
• Plasma physics and fusion
• Spintronik
• Composition and developement of stars
• Particle physics with cosmic and terrestric accelerators
• Theoretical astrophysics

Curriculum (link)

http://www.ph.tum.de/angebot/master/masterplan?language=en

Course of studies

Nuclear, Particle and Astrophysics

Internship

Application and admission

Application

Online application, http://portal.mytum.de/studium/onlinebewerbung/index_html/document_view?

Aptitude test

yes

Information on the aptitude test

http://www.ph.tum.de/angebot/master/bewerbung/eignung

Start of course

Winter and summer semester, winter semester recommended

Application Period

May 31 for winter semester, December 31 for summer semester

Admission notification

Online after verification of application documents

Application documents

→ Curriculum vitae (CV) in tabular form
→ Letter of motivation
Application for admission (Online Application), Academic Records transcript of records of bachelor’s degree or equivalent (officially authenticated copy), copy of TOEFL/IELTS scores, Resume, personal ID (copy), Curriculum Vitae, passport-size photo
Attention! You´ll get a check list of all required papers after filling the online-application.

Application documents (International students)

Application for admission (Online Application), Academic Records transcript of records of bachelor’s degree or equivalent (officially authenticated copy), copy of TOEFL/IELTS scores, Resume, personal ID (copy), Curriculum Vitae, passport-size photo
Attention! You´ll get a check list of all required papers after filling the online-application.

Application form/ Online application (Link)

http://portal.mytum.de/studium/onlinebewerbung/index_html/document_view?

Information | Counselling

Academic counseling

Dr. Martin Sass

General student counseling (Link)

http://portal.mytum.de/studium/studienberatung/

Contact

Studienberatung

Study and examination regulations

Examination regulations (Link)

http://www.ph.tum.de/angebot/master/legal

Examination information

For the recognition of already earned semesters & examinations, please contact the office of the faculty’s examination board.

Further links

Website of course of studies (link)

http://www.ph.tum.de/angebot/master?language=en

Department website

http://www.ph.tum.de

Student´s representatives (link)

http://mpi.fs.tum.de/FBP

Women's representatives (link)

http://www.ph.tum.de/fakultaet/beauftragte/#Gleichstellung

Study abroad program coordinator

Dr. Maria Eckholt