Experimental program at the LHC

• 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 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. 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)
• Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)

Room: Conference Room \- Particles and their decays into stable particles. \- Detector layout, geometry, particle flow \- Tracking: \- Silicon (solid-state) trackers. \- Track reconstruction, momentum measurement. \- Muon detectors.

Detectors 2

• Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)

Room: Conference Room \- Calorimetry: \- Electromagnetic and hadronic showers. \- Energy reconstruction and resolution. \- Jets and missing energy. \- 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

• Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)
• 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

• Joao Seixas (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
• Pietro Faccioli (LIP and IST, Lisbon)

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.

Search for charged Higgs bosons produced in vector boson fusion processes and decaying into a pair of W and Z bosons using proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

• Duarte Sarmento de Sousa Machado Fonte

Room: Conference Room https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.02942

Search for dark matter produced with an energetic jet or a hadronically decaying W or Z boson at 13 TeV

• Raquel Joana Nunes

Room: Conference Room https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.01651

Search for the production of dark matter in association with top-quark pairs in the single-lepton final state in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV

• Aidan Kelly

Room: Conference Room https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.03198

Observation of proton-tagged, central (semi)exclusive production of high-mass lepton pairs in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer

• Pedro Duarte

Room: Conference Room https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04496

Observation of ttH production

• Marcio Pedroso

Room: Conference Room https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02610

Measurement of the cross section for top quark pair production in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions

• Diogo BASTOS (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

Room: Conference Room https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.02547.pdf

Search for standard model production of four top quarks with same-sign and multilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

• Vitor Fernandes

Room: Conference Room https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10614