Physics at Tevatron (1/3)

by Bedeschi, F (CERN)

Wednesday 30 Jul 2003, 09:15 → 10:00 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

Organiser(s): HR-RFA

Summary:
The outline of the lectures is as follows:
a. Relevance and features of the physics that can be done at the Tevatron;
b. Description and motivation of the Tevatron experiments;
c. Current physics results and prospects on: electroweak physics (W/Z, top, Higgs), QCD, beauty and charm quark physics.

Prerequisite knowledge:
- some basic understanding of HEP detectors. (e.g. what a drift chamber, a silicon detector or a calorimeter are)
- some very basic ideas about elementary particles and their interactions

Suggested references:
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/index.html and links therein
http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/pubcdf.html and links
http://www-d0.fnal.gov/public/index.html and links"

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