Course on Physics at the LHC

Name: Course on Physics at the LHC
Start: 2013-03-15T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2013-07-08T18:30:00+02:00
Location: LIP

15 Mar 2013, 08:00 → 8 Jul 2013, 18:30 Europe/Zurich

Conference Room (LIP)

Conference Room

LIP

Av. Elias Garcia 14 1000 Lisboa Portugal

Joao Varela (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part), Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)

Description

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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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Support

lhc-course_idpasc@lip.pt

Friday 15 March
- Fri 15 Mar
- Mon 18 Mar
- Mon 25 Mar
- Mon 8 Apr
- Mon 15 Apr
- Mon 22 Apr
- Wed 8 May
- Mon 13 May
- Mon 20 May
- Mon 27 May
- Mon 3 Jun
- Mon 17 Jun
- Mon 24 Jun
- Mon 1 Jul
- Mon 8 Jul
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Standard Model 1 1h 30m
  
  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)
  
  Slides
Monday 18 March
- Fri 15 Mar
- Mon 18 Mar
- Mon 25 Mar
- Mon 8 Apr
- Mon 15 Apr
- Mon 22 Apr
- Wed 8 May
- Mon 13 May
- Mon 20 May
- Mon 27 May
- Mon 3 Jun
- Mon 17 Jun
- Mon 24 Jun
- Mon 1 Jul
- Mon 8 Jul
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Standard Model 2 1h 30m
  
  1. Introduction to the electroweak theory. 2. Hadron interactions. A few reminders (kinematics, etc.). Proton-proton scattering. Hard scattering. 3. QCD and parton densities. Lepton-proton scattering. Scaling violation. Running coupling constant. 4. Monte Carlo generators. Parton showers: fragmentation and hadronization. 5. Luminosity and cross-section measurements. Ingredients for cross-section measurement. Luminosity. 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.
  
  Speaker: Joao Varela (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
  
  Slides
Monday 25 March
- Fri 15 Mar
- Mon 18 Mar
- Mon 25 Mar
- Mon 8 Apr
- Mon 15 Apr
- Mon 22 Apr
- Wed 8 May
- Mon 13 May
- Mon 20 May
- Mon 27 May
- Mon 3 Jun
- Mon 17 Jun
- Mon 24 Jun
- Mon 1 Jul
- Mon 8 Jul
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Detectors 1 1h 30m
  
  - 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)
  
  Slides
Monday 8 April
- Fri 15 Mar
- Mon 18 Mar
- Mon 25 Mar
- Mon 8 Apr
- Mon 15 Apr
- Mon 22 Apr
- Wed 8 May
- Mon 13 May
- Mon 20 May
- Mon 27 May
- Mon 3 Jun
- Mon 17 Jun
- Mon 24 Jun
- Mon 1 Jul
- Mon 8 Jul
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Detectors 2 1h 30m
  
  - 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)
  
  Slides
Monday 15 April
- Fri 15 Mar
- Mon 18 Mar
- Mon 25 Mar
- Mon 8 Apr
- Mon 15 Apr
- Mon 22 Apr
- Wed 8 May
- Mon 13 May
- Mon 20 May
- Mon 27 May
- Mon 3 Jun
- Mon 17 Jun
- Mon 24 Jun
- Mon 1 Jul
- Mon 8 Jul
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Top Physics 1 1h 30m
  
  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)
  
  Slides
Monday 22 April
- Fri 15 Mar
- Mon 18 Mar
- Mon 25 Mar
- Mon 8 Apr
- Mon 15 Apr
- Mon 22 Apr
- Wed 8 May
- Mon 13 May
- Mon 20 May
- Mon 27 May
- Mon 3 Jun
- Mon 17 Jun
- Mon 24 Jun
- Mon 1 Jul
- Mon 8 Jul
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Top Physics 2 1h 30m
  
  Top quark properties and decays: - Properties: mass, mass difference, charge asymmetry, spin correlation - Decay: branching ratios (taus, heavy flavor content of ttbar events, Vtb) 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)
  
  Slides
Wednesday 8 May
- Fri 15 Mar
- Mon 18 Mar
- Mon 25 Mar
- Mon 8 Apr
- Mon 15 Apr
- Mon 22 Apr
- Wed 8 May
- Mon 13 May
- Mon 20 May
- Mon 27 May
- Mon 3 Jun
- Mon 17 Jun
- Mon 24 Jun
- Mon 1 Jul
- Mon 8 Jul
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Top Physics 3 1h 30m
  
  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))
  
  Slides
Monday 13 May
- Fri 15 Mar
- Mon 18 Mar
- Mon 25 Mar
- Mon 8 Apr
- Mon 15 Apr
- Mon 22 Apr
- Wed 8 May
- Mon 13 May
- Mon 20 May
- Mon 27 May
- Mon 3 Jun
- Mon 17 Jun
- Mon 24 Jun
- Mon 1 Jul
- Mon 8 Jul
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Statistics 1h 30m
  
  * Basic Probability Density Functions * Error propagation * Hypothesis testing * Likelihood - TBC
  
  Speaker: Pedrame Bargassa (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
  
  Slides
Monday 20 May
- Fri 15 Mar
- Mon 18 Mar
- Mon 25 Mar
- Mon 8 Apr
- Mon 15 Apr
- Mon 22 Apr
- Wed 8 May
- Mon 13 May
- Mon 20 May
- Mon 27 May
- Mon 3 Jun
- Mon 17 Jun
- Mon 24 Jun
- Mon 1 Jul
- Mon 8 Jul
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Higgs Physics 1 1h 30m
  
  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)
  
  Slides
Monday 27 May
- Fri 15 Mar
- Mon 18 Mar
- Mon 25 Mar
- Mon 8 Apr
- Mon 15 Apr
- Mon 22 Apr
- Wed 8 May
- Mon 13 May
- Mon 20 May
- Mon 27 May
- Mon 3 Jun
- Mon 17 Jun
- Mon 24 Jun
- Mon 1 Jul
- Mon 8 Jul
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Higgs Physics 2 1h 30m
  
  Summary of results from the discovery in the different channels. Case-study of the H->WW search at ATLAS.
  
  Speaker: Dr Patricia Conde Muino (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
  
  Slides
Monday 3 June
- Fri 15 Mar
- Mon 18 Mar
- Mon 25 Mar
- Mon 8 Apr
- Mon 15 Apr
- Mon 22 Apr
- Wed 8 May
- Mon 13 May
- Mon 20 May
- Mon 27 May
- Mon 3 Jun
- Mon 17 Jun
- Mon 24 Jun
- Mon 1 Jul
- Mon 8 Jul
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Polarization in LHC physics 1h 30m
  
  Speaker: Pietro Faccioli (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
  
  Slides
Monday 17 June
- Fri 15 Mar
- Mon 18 Mar
- Mon 25 Mar
- Mon 8 Apr
- Mon 15 Apr
- Mon 22 Apr
- Wed 8 May
- Mon 13 May
- Mon 20 May
- Mon 27 May
- Mon 3 Jun
- Mon 17 Jun
- Mon 24 Jun
- Mon 1 Jul
- Mon 8 Jul
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  SUSY 1 1h 30m
  
  * General introduction SUSY * Description of the soft SUSY lagrangian * Phenomenological introduction to SUSY particles I: Squarks, gluino, sleptons, charginos, neutralinos, higgs * Phenomenological introduction to SUSY particles II: Squarks, gluino, sleptons, charginos, neutralinos, higgs * Searches of SUSY particles at past accelerators & LHC I 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)
  
  Slides
Monday 24 June
- Fri 15 Mar
- Mon 18 Mar
- Mon 25 Mar
- Mon 8 Apr
- Mon 15 Apr
- Mon 22 Apr
- Wed 8 May
- Mon 13 May
- Mon 20 May
- Mon 27 May
- Mon 3 Jun
- Mon 17 Jun
- Mon 24 Jun
- Mon 1 Jul
- Mon 8 Jul
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  SUSY 2 1h 30m
  
  * Searches of SUSY particles at past accelerators & LHC II
  
  Speaker: Pedrame Bargassa (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
  
  Slides
Monday 1 July
- Fri 15 Mar
- Mon 18 Mar
- Mon 25 Mar
- Mon 8 Apr
- Mon 15 Apr
- Mon 22 Apr
- Wed 8 May
- Mon 13 May
- Mon 20 May
- Mon 27 May
- Mon 3 Jun
- Mon 17 Jun
- Mon 24 Jun
- Mon 1 Jul
- Mon 8 Jul
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Matter at high density and temperature 1h 30m
  
  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)
  
  Slides
Monday 8 July
- Fri 15 Mar
- Mon 18 Mar
- Mon 25 Mar
- Mon 8 Apr
- Mon 15 Apr
- Mon 22 Apr
- Wed 8 May
- Mon 13 May
- Mon 20 May
- Mon 27 May
- Mon 3 Jun
- Mon 17 Jun
- Mon 24 Jun
- Mon 1 Jul
- Mon 8 Jul
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Higgs Physics 3 1h 30m
  
  Combination of search results. Models, properties, and interpretation. Case-study of the coupling strengths. Case-study of the hypothesis test for different spin-parity assignments.
  
  Speaker: Andre Tinoco Mendes (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
  
  1209.0040
  
  1307.1347
  
  Slides