Introduction

• 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.

Experimental program at the LHC

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

Room: Conference Room 1. The LHC experimental program. The LHC machine. The experiments. Basic comparison CMS, ATLAS, LHCb and Alice. 2. Experimental challenges: Cross-sections, rates. Trigger. Pile-up. Radiation. 3. Introduction to the electroweak theory.

Standard Model at the LHC

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

Room: Conference Room 1\. Hadron interactions. A few reminders (kinematics, etc.). Proton-proton scattering. Hard scattering. 2\. QCD and parton densities. Lepton-proton scattering. Scaling violation. Running coupling constant. 3\. Monte Carlo generators. Parton showers: fragmentation and hadronization. 4\. Luminosity and cross-section measurements. Ingredients for cross-section measurement. Luminosity. 5\. QCD and jet physics. Higher orders. Jet algorithms. Jet energy scale. Jet cross-section measurements. 6\. 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

• Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)

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

• Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)

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.

Statistics

• Pietro Vischia (Univ. Oviedo)

Room: Conference Room \- Basics of probability \- Errors \- Probability density functions \- The likelihood principle \- Hypothesis testing \- Basics of multivariate algorithms

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)

Higgs Physics 1

• Ricardo Jose Morais Silva Goncalo (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

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 Discovery of the Higgs boson in the different final states Case-study of the H->WW search Algorithms, challenges, tools Combination of search results

Higgs Physics 3

• Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)

Room: Conference Room Models, properties, and interpretation. Case-study of the coupling strengths. Case-study of the hypothesis test for different spin-parity assignments.

Higgs Physics 4

• Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)

Room: Conference Room - Search for new physics in the Higgs sector. - The Higgs boson and processes beyond the SM. - Extensions of the SM, minimal and non-minimal extensions. - High mass searches. - MSSM Higgs searches: neutral, charged. - Light pseudoscalar, resonant and non-resonant Higgs pair production.

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

Exotic processes and Dark Matter

• Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)

Room: Conference Room Searches for exotic particles and for Dark Matter candidates are discussed.

Heavy flavor physics and rare decays searches

• Nuno Viegas Guerreiro Leonardo (LIP Lisbon)

Room: Conference Room * Recent highlights from LHC * Introduction to flavor physics (the standard model, quark masses and mixing, unitarity triangle) * Experiments and detection * Production and suppression (b hadron and quarkonia; pp and heavy ion collisions) * Spectroscopy (new particles, including unexpected, exotic ones) * Properties (lifetimes, flavor oscillations, CP violation) * Rare decays (indirect searches for physics beyond the standard model)

Matter at high density and temperature

• Pietro Faccioli (LIP and IST, Lisbon)
• 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

Final Evaluation Room: Conference Room The exam will consist in discussing a paper in a short presentation (~20 mins). A discussion with a few questions will follow.

Higgs boson width

• Ana Carvalho (IST)

Room: Conference Room Higgs boson width: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.3455.pdf

Dark Matter searches

• Joao Pedro Goncalves (IST)

Room: Conference Room Dark matter searches: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.03198.pdf

Diboson resonance searches

• Antonio Jacques da Costa (IST)

Room: Conference Room Diboson resonance search: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.3447.pdf