Course on Physics at the LHC
from
Friday, 15 March 2013 (08:00)
to
Monday, 8 July 2013 (18:30)
Monday, 11 March 2013
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Friday, 15 March 2013
17:00
Standard Model 1
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Joao Varela
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
Standard Model 1
Joao Varela
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
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.
Saturday, 16 March 2013
Sunday, 17 March 2013
Monday, 18 March 2013
17:00
Standard Model 2
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Joao Varela
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
Standard Model 2
Joao Varela
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
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.
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Friday, 22 March 2013
Saturday, 23 March 2013
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Monday, 25 March 2013
17:00
Detectors 1
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Andre Tinoco Mendes
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
Detectors 1
Andre Tinoco Mendes
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
- Particles and their decays into stable particles. - Detector layout and geometry. - Calorimetry: - Electromagnetic and hadronic showers. - Energy reconstruction and resolution. - Jets and missing energy.
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Friday, 29 March 2013
Saturday, 30 March 2013
Sunday, 31 March 2013
Monday, 1 April 2013
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Thursday, 4 April 2013
Friday, 5 April 2013
Saturday, 6 April 2013
Sunday, 7 April 2013
Monday, 8 April 2013
17:00
Detectors 2
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Andre Tinoco Mendes
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
Detectors 2
Andre Tinoco Mendes
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
- Tracking: - Silicon (solid-state) trackers. - Track reconstruction, momentum measurement. - Muon detectors. - Trigger: - Level-1 latency and pipelining. - HLT: configuration flexibility and efficiency.
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Friday, 12 April 2013
Saturday, 13 April 2013
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Monday, 15 April 2013
17:00
Top Physics 1
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Michele Gallinaro
(
LIP Lisbon
)
Top Physics 1
Michele Gallinaro
(
LIP Lisbon
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
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)
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Friday, 19 April 2013
Saturday, 20 April 2013
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Monday, 22 April 2013
17:00
Top Physics 2
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Michele Gallinaro
(
LIP Lisbon
)
Top Physics 2
Michele Gallinaro
(
LIP Lisbon
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
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
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Friday, 26 April 2013
Saturday, 27 April 2013
Sunday, 28 April 2013
Monday, 29 April 2013
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Friday, 3 May 2013
Saturday, 4 May 2013
Sunday, 5 May 2013
Monday, 6 May 2013
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
17:00
Top Physics 3
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Antonio Onofre
(
Universidade de Coimbra (PT)
)
Top Physics 3
Antonio Onofre
(
Universidade de Coimbra (PT)
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
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)
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Friday, 10 May 2013
Saturday, 11 May 2013
Sunday, 12 May 2013
Monday, 13 May 2013
17:00
Statistics
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Pedrame Bargassa
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
Statistics
Pedrame Bargassa
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
* Basic Probability Density Functions * Error propagation * Hypothesis testing * Likelihood - TBC
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Friday, 17 May 2013
Saturday, 18 May 2013
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Monday, 20 May 2013
17:00
Higgs Physics 1
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Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva
(
CERN
)
Higgs Physics 1
Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva
(
CERN
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
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.
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Friday, 24 May 2013
Saturday, 25 May 2013
Sunday, 26 May 2013
Monday, 27 May 2013
17:00
Higgs Physics 2
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Patricia Conde Muino
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
Higgs Physics 2
Patricia Conde Muino
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
Summary of results from the discovery in the different channels. Case-study of the H->WW search at ATLAS.
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Friday, 31 May 2013
Saturday, 1 June 2013
Sunday, 2 June 2013
Monday, 3 June 2013
17:00
Polarization in LHC physics
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Pietro Faccioli
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
Polarization in LHC physics
Pietro Faccioli
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Friday, 7 June 2013
Saturday, 8 June 2013
Sunday, 9 June 2013
Monday, 10 June 2013
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Friday, 14 June 2013
Saturday, 15 June 2013
Sunday, 16 June 2013
Monday, 17 June 2013
17:00
SUSY 1
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Pedrame Bargassa
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
SUSY 1
Pedrame Bargassa
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
* 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
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Thursday, 20 June 2013
Friday, 21 June 2013
Saturday, 22 June 2013
Sunday, 23 June 2013
Monday, 24 June 2013
17:00
SUSY 2
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Pedrame Bargassa
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
SUSY 2
Pedrame Bargassa
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
* Searches of SUSY particles at past accelerators & LHC II
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Friday, 28 June 2013
Saturday, 29 June 2013
Sunday, 30 June 2013
Monday, 1 July 2013
17:00
Matter at high density and temperature
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Joao Seixas
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
Matter at high density and temperature
Joao Seixas
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
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
Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Thursday, 4 July 2013
Friday, 5 July 2013
Saturday, 6 July 2013
Sunday, 7 July 2013
Monday, 8 July 2013
17:00
Higgs Physics 3
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Andre Tinoco Mendes
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
Higgs Physics 3
Andre Tinoco Mendes
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
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.