Standard Model 1

• Joao Varela (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

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.

Standard Model 2

• Joao Varela (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

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.

Detectors 1

• Andre Tinoco Mendes (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

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.

Detectors 2

• Andre Tinoco Mendes (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

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.

Top Physics 1

• Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)

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)

Top Physics 2

• Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)

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

Top Physics 3

• Antonio Onofre (Universidade de Coimbra (PT))

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)

Statistics

• Pedrame Bargassa (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

Room: Conference Room * Basic Probability Density Functions * Error propagation * Hypothesis testing * Likelihood - TBC

Higgs Physics 1

• Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)

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.

Higgs Physics 2

• Patricia Conde Muino (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

Room: Conference Room Summary of results from the discovery in the different channels. Case-study of the H->WW search at ATLAS.

Polarization in LHC physics

• Pietro Faccioli (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

Room: Conference Room

SUSY 1

• Pedrame Bargassa (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

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

SUSY 2

• Pedrame Bargassa (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

Room: Conference Room * Searches of SUSY particles at past accelerators & LHC II

Matter at high density and temperature

• Joao Seixas (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

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

Higgs Physics 3

• Andre Tinoco Mendes (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

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.