Master program Physics (Nuclear, Particle, and Astrophysics)

Are you fascinated about understanding our world at the subatomic scale? Join us to learn more about the nuclei inside atoms down to the most elementary building blocks of matter!

At the Tandem accelerator in Garching, Master students and doctoral candidates from Jean-Côme Lanfranchi's group characterize the detectors. Neutrons are shot at it and the reaction is measured. This facility is unique in the world. Photo: TUM/Heddergott.

The Master's degree program in Physics (Nuclear, Particle and Astrophysics) is a two-year graduate program taught in German, designed to give students an insight into current research trends and new developments in nuclear, particle and astrophysics.

The general structure of all our Master's degree programs in Physics is similar. It is described on the curriculum page of the Master's degree program in Physics.

Specialization Areas

Students can specialize in one or more areas of their choice:

Including topics as astrophysics, astroparticle physics, high energy neutrino astronomy

Including topics as particle detectors, applications in interdisciplinary research, ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

Including topics as testing the Standard Model, highest energy particle colliders, modern detectors, data analysis and Monte Carlo methods

including topics as group theory, quantum field theory, quantum chromodynamics

including the possible special courses

  • PH2035 Plasmaphysik 1   
  • PH2036 Plasmaphysik 2  
  • PH2196 Fusionsforschung  
  • PH2037 Einführung in die Magnetohydrodynamik – Ideale Plasmaeffekte 
  • PH2175 Turbulenz in neutralen Fluiden und Plasmen 
  • PH2233 Angewandte Plasmaphysik: Große Wirbel (Zonal flows und andere Strukturen) in Kernfusionsreaktoren, auf dem Jupiter, in Klima und Astrophysik

recommended student seminars:

  • PH1326 Plasmaphysik und Fusionsforschung or           
  • PH1376 Seminar Plasma Physics