Course on Physics at the LHC

chaired by Joao Varela (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
from to (Europe/Zurich)
at LIP ( Conference Room )
Av. Elias Garcia 14 1000 Lisboa Portugal
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Required background
Attendees are expected to have followed a basic course on particle physics and/or to be familiar with the following topics:
  • Basic concepts Elementary constituents of matter and interactions. Quantum numbers and conservation rules. Spin and symmetry groups. Relativistic kinematics. Cross-section. Natural units. Mass and lifetime. Resonances.
  • Structure of matter Elastic scattering and form factors. Inelastic scattering experiments. Nucleon structure functions. Scale invariance. Quark model. Parton distribution functions. Introduction to QCD.
  • Fundamental interactions Introduction to QED. Fermi interaction. Parity violation. Currents V-A and weak doblets. W and Z bosons. Cabibbo angle. Neutral currents. Electroweak interaction. Gauge symmetries. The Higgs mechanism. Weinberg-Salam model. CP violation.
Students are recommended to refresh their knowledge in particle physics prior to the Course. Suggested bibliography:
  • F. Halzen and A.D.Martin, ' Quarks and Leptons ', John Wiley and Sons (1984)
  • D. Griffiths, ' Introduction to Elementary Particles ', John Wiley and Sons (1987)
  • B.R.Martin, G. Shaw, ' Particle Physics ', John Wiley and Sons (1999)
Registration
The registration for the Course is open until 27th January. Due to space conditions the number of registrations will be limited. Applications should include a short CV specifying academic degrees, list of attended courses and marks. Registration should be done on the web address www.idpasc.lip.pt/LIP/events/2012_lhc_physics

Certificate
A certificate will be delivered after the Course upon regular attendance and successful final examination.

The content of the Course may be updated as a result of possible discoveries at LHC during the Course duration.

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Material:
Secretariat: Natália Antunes Email: lhc-course_idpasc@lip.pt
Go to day
  • Monday, 30 January 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Standard Model 1 1h30'
      1. Introduction to the Course. Objectives. Plan of lectures. Additional information.
      2. The LHC physics case. In a few slides review what are the main motivations for the LHC program. Short reminder of SM.
      3. The LHC experimental program. The LHC machine. The experiments. Basic comparison CMS, ATLAS, LHCb and Alice. 
      4. Experimental challenges: Cross-sections, rates. Trigger.  Pile-up. Radiation.
      
      Speaker: Joao Varela (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
      Material: Slides pdf file
  • Monday, 6 February 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Detectors 1 1h30'
      - Particles and their decays into stable particles.
      - Detector layout and geometry.
      - Calorimetry:
       - Electromagnetic and hadronic showers.
       - Energy reconstruction and resolution.
       - Jets and missing energy.
      Speaker: Andre Tinoco Mendes (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
      Material: Slides pdf file
  • Monday, 13 February 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Standard Model 2 1h30'
      1. Hadron interactions. A few reminders (kinematics, etc.). Proton-proton scattering. Hard scattering. 
      2. QCD and parton densities. Lepton-proton scattering. Scaling violation. Running coupling constant. 
      3. Monte Carlo generators. Parton showers: fragmentation and hadronization.
      4. Luminosity and cross-section measurements. Ingredients for cross-section measurement. Luminosity.
      5. Soft scattering, minimum bias events, underlying event characteristics.
      6. QCD and jet physics. Higher orders. Jet algorithms. Jet energy scale. Jet cross-section measurements. 
      7. W and Z bosons as standard candles at the LHC.  W and Z production cross-sections. W and Z decays.  Cross-section measurements. Mass measurements.
      8. Reminder of electroweak theory.  
      
      Speaker: Joao Varela (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
      Material: Slides pdf file
  • Monday, 27 February 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Detectors 2 1h30'
      - Tracking:
       - Silicon (solid-state) trackers.
       - Track reconstruction, momentum measurement.
       - Muon detectors.
      - Trigger:
       - Level-1 latency and pipelining.
       - HLT: configuration flexibility and efficiency.
      Speaker: Andre Tinoco Mendes (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
      Material: Slides pdf file
  • Monday, 5 March 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Top Physics 1 1h30'
      Top quark physics:
      - Introduction
      - Discovery
      - Tevatron vs LHC
      - Objects used in Top quark events
      - Heavy flavor tagging and mis-tagging
      - Top quark production (cross section, differential cross section)
      Speaker: Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)
      Material: Slides pdf file
  • Monday, 12 March 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Top Physics 2 1h30'
      Top quark properties and decays:
      - Properties: mass, mass difference, charge, lifetime, charge asymmetry, spin correlation
      - Decay: branching ratios (taus, Vtb)
      Speaker: Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)
      Material: Slides pdf file
  • Monday, 19 March 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Top Physics 3 1h30'
      Single top quark and rare decays:
      - Single Top quark
      - The Wtb vertex structure within and beyond the SM
      - Rare decays of top quarks (Flavor Changing Neutral Current)
      Speaker: Antonio Onofre (Universidade de Coimbra (PT))
      Material: Slides pdf file
  • Monday, 26 March 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Top Physics 4 1h30'
      Top quark studies in the search for New Physics:
      - New particles decaying to top quarks
      - BSM top decays
      - Top-like signatures
      - Boosted top
      - Top-tagging
      Speaker: Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)
      Material: Slides pdf file
  • Monday, 2 April 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Statistics 1h30'
      * Basic Probability Density Functions
      * Error propagation
      * Hypothesis testing
      * Likelihood - TBC
      Speaker: Pedrame Bargassa (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
      Material: Slides pdf filedown arrow
  • Monday, 16 April 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Higgs Physics 1 1h30'
      Introduction
      Reminder of some shortcomings of the SM: masses, WW scattering.
      The Higgs mechanism. Production and decay of the Higgs boson at colliders: LEP, Tevatron and LHC.
      Previous searches at LEP and the Tevatron.
      Speaker: Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
      Material: Slides pdf file
  • Monday, 30 April 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Higgs Physics 2 1h30'
      Case study of the H->gg search at CMS
      
      Fundamentals: CMS ECAL and single photon measurements.
      Mass resolution: energy resolution and vertex determination.
      Vertexing with the recoil.
      Photon energy resolution.
      Event classes and 2-jet tag.
      Multivariate analysis.
      Speaker: Andre Tinoco Mendes (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
      Material: Slides pdf file
  • Monday, 7 May 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Higgs Physics 3 1h30'
      Case study of the H->ZZ (4l and 2l2nu) search at CMS
      
      Leptons, jets and missing transverse energy: the main ingredients for many analysis at the LHC.
      Mass and transverse mass reconstruction. Shape analysis.
      The VBF topology.
      Systematic uncertainties associated to jet energy scale and MET.
      
      Speaker: Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
      Material: Slides pdf file
  • Monday, 14 May 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Higgs Physics 4 1h30'
      Higgsless scenarios. Study of vector boson scattering at high s^{1/2}.
      
      Speaker: Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
      Material: Slides pdf file
  • Monday, 21 May 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 SUSY 1 1h30'
      * General introduction SUSY
      * Description of the soft SUSY lagrangian
      * Phenomenological introduction to SUSY particles I: Squarks, gluino, sleptons, charginos, neutralinos, higgs
      
      Recommended reading:
      1/ "SuSY and such", S. Dawson, arxiv:hep-ph/9612229
      2/ "A Supersymmetry primer", S. P. Martin, arxiv:hep-ph/9709356
      Speaker: Pedrame Bargassa (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
      Material: Slides pdf file
  • Monday, 28 May 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 SUSY 2 1h30'
      * Phenomenological introduction to SUSY particles II: Squarks, gluino, sleptons, charginos, neutralinos, higgs
      * Searches of SUSY particles at past accelerators & LHC I
      Speaker: Pedrame Bargassa (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
      Material: Slides pdf file
  • Friday, 15 June 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 SUSY 3 1h30'
      * Searches of SUSY particles at past accelerators & LHC II
      Speaker: Pedrame Bargassa (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
      Material: Slides pdf file
  • Monday, 18 June 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Higgs exercise 1h30'
      Using TMVA to look into H->ZZ->4l
      Speaker: Cristovao Beirao Da Cruz E Silva (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
      Material: Slides pdf file
  • Monday, 25 June 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Matter at high density and temperature 1h30'
      Revision of the available heavy ion data from SPS to RHIC to LHC.
      General theoretical approaches to the problem: statistical QCD.
      Phase transitions.
      QCD phase diagram.
      Major observables:
               - Quarkonia suppression, including sequential suppression and recombination
               - Multiplicities
               - hydrodynamical flow
               - polarization observables
      Speaker: Joao Seixas (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
  • Monday, 2 July 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Polarization in LHC physics 1h30'
      Speaker: Pietro Faccioli (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
      Material: Slides powerpoint file
  • Monday, 9 July 2012
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Higgs Physics 5 1h30'
      Case study of the  H->bb search at ATLAS
      Speaker: Dr. Patricia Conde Muino (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
      Material: Slides pdf file