Calorimetry and Jets

by Peter Loch (Department of Physics-College of Arts and Sciences-University o)

Thursday 21 Jul 2011, 12:00 → Friday 5 Aug 2011, 13:40 US/Pacific

Ballam: 84-B188 (SLAC)

Lectures on Calorimetry and Jets
(The following schedule is expected to change in details as the lectures go along.)

Lecture 1 (Thu July 21, 4pm - 6pm)
Introduction

1. LHC design and operations 2010 and 2011
2. Sources of particle jets at LHC
3. Measurements in a high luminocity/high energy hadron collider environment
4. Signal extraction, formation, and pile-up suppression in ATLAS
5. General view on calorimeter and jet response of calorimeters

Lecture 2 (Fri July 22, 10am - 12pm)
Finding jets

1. Theoretical and experimental requirements for jet finding and reconstruction
2. Jet finders: seeded and seedless cones, recursive recombination
3. Dynamics of jet finders
4. Jet finder algorithm performance estimates

Lecture 3 (Wed Aug 03, 2pm - 4pm)
Calorimeter signals for jet reconstruction

1. General observations for jet signals in the detector
2. Goals and principal methods of experimental jet reconstruction
3. Calorimeter signal definitions: towers and clusters
4. Topological cell clustering, noise suppression, local calibration

Lecture 4 (Thu Aug 04, 2pm - 4pm)
Jet signal features

Lecture 5 (Fri Aug 05, 2pm - 4pm)
Jet physics

Lecture 1 (July 21,2011) SLAC01.pdf SLAC01.pptx

Lecture 2 (July 22, 2011) SLAC02.pdf SLAC02.pptx

Lecture 3 (August 3, 2011) SLAC03.pdf SLAC03.pptx

Lecture 4 (August 4, 2011) SLAC04.pdf SLAC04.pptx