First (2nd part) CFP Zewail City Mini-school on 'experimental tools in particle physics'

Scientific Programme

The daily program consists of 2 lectures and 1 tutorial session. During the 2nd part of the mini-school, the lecture sessions will cover the following topics: • Space-Time Symmetries: o Translational invariance o Rotational invariance o Parity , Charge conjugation, and Time Reversal • The Quark Model: o Isospin symmetry o The lightest hadrons o Colour o Charmonium and Bottomium • Weak Interactions: o Charged current reactions o The third generation o Neutral currents and the Unified theory o Gauge Invariance and the Higgs Boson • Experimental Methods: o Accelerators and Beams o Particle Interactions with Matter o Particle Detectors o Detector Systems and Experiments .... During the 1st part of the mini-school, the tutorial sessions will cover the following topics: • Introduction to C++ (2) • Monte-Carlo tools for event generations (2) • ROOT (2)