SLAC ATLAS Forum

Calorimetry and Jets

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

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Ballam: 84-B188 (SLAC)

Ballam: 84-B188

SLAC
Description
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)
Lecture 2 (July 22, 2011)
Lecture 3 (August 3, 2011)
Lecture 4 (August 4, 2011)