Course on Physics at the LHC

Name: Course on Physics at the LHC
Start: 2018-03-06T07:00:00+00:00
End: 2018-06-15T18:40:00+01:00
Location: LIP

6 Mar 2018, 07:00 → 15 Jun 2018, 18:40 Europe/Lisbon

Conference Room (LIP)

Conference Room

LIP

Av. Prof. Gama Pinto 2 1649-003 Lisboa Portugal

Joao Varela (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part), Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)

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Required background
Attendees are expected to have followed a basic course on particle physics and/or to be familiar with the following topics:

Basic concepts Elementary constituents of matter and interactions. Quantum numbers and conservation rules. Spin and symmetry groups. Relativistic kinematics. Cross-section. Natural units. Mass and lifetime. Resonances.
Structure of matter Elastic scattering and form factors. Inelastic scattering experiments. Nucleon structure functions. Scale invariance. Quark model. Parton distribution functions. Introduction to QCD.
Fundamental interactions Introduction to QED. Fermi interaction. Parity violation. Currents V-A and weak doblets. W and Z bosons. Cabibbo angle. Neutral currents. Electroweak interaction. Gauge symmetries. The Higgs mechanism. Weinberg-Salam model. CP violation.

Students are recommended to refresh their knowledge in particle physics prior to the Course. Suggested bibliography:

F. Halzen and A.D.Martin, ' Quarks and Leptons ', John Wiley and Sons (1984)
D. Griffiths, ' Introduction to Elementary Particles ', John Wiley and Sons (1987)
B.R.Martin, G. Shaw, ' Particle Physics ', John Wiley and Sons (1999)
D. Perkins, `Introduction to High Energy Physics', Cambridge University Press (2000)

Registration
The registration for the Course is open until March 3. Registration should be done on the web address http://www.idpasc.lip.pt/LIP/events/2018_lhc_physics/index.php

Certificate
A certificate will be delivered after the Course upon regular attendance and successful final examination.

The content of the Course may be updated as a result of possible discoveries at LHC during the Course duration.

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Tuesday 6 March
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 1
  
  Experimental program at the LHC
  
  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.
  
  Speaker: Joao Varela (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
  
  course_intro.pdf
  
  Lecture1-Exp at LHC 2018.pdf
  
  Lecture1-Exp at LHC 2018.pptx
Wednesday 7 March
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 2
  
  Standard Model at the LHC
  
  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.
  
  Speaker: Joao Varela (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
  
  Lecture2-SM at LHC 2018.pdf
  
  Lecture2-SM at LHC 2018.pptx
Wednesday 14 March
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 3
  
  Detectors 1
  
  - Particles and their decays into stable particles.
  - Detector layout, geometry, particle flow
  - Tracking:
  - Silicon (solid-state) trackers.
  - Track reconstruction, momentum measurement.
  - Muon detectors.
  
  Speakers: Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon), Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
  
  detectors_March2018.pdf
Thursday 15 March
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 4
  
  Detectors 2
  
  - Calorimetry:
  - Electromagnetic and hadronic showers.
  - Energy reconstruction and resolution.
  - Jets and missing energy.
  - Trigger:
  - Level-1 latency and pipelining.
  - HLT: configuration flexibility and efficiency.
  
  Speaker: Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
  
  detectors_p2_March201.pdf
Monday 19 March
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 5
  
  Statistics
  
  - Basics of probability
  - Errors
  - Probability density functions
  - The likelihood principle
  - Hypothesis testing
  - Basics of multivariate algorithms
  
  Speaker: Pietro Vischia (Univ. Oviedo)
  
  2018-03-19_Statistics_LIP-LHC-Course_vischia.pdf
Thursday 22 March
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 6
  
  Top Physics 1
  
  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)
  
  Speaker: Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)
  
  top_lecture1_2018.pdf
Friday 23 March
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 7
  
  Top Physics 2
  
  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
  
  Speaker: Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)
  
  top_lecture2_2018.pdf
Monday 26 March
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 8
  
  Top Physics 3
  
  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)
  
  Speaker: Antonio Onofre (Universidade de Coimbra (PT))
  
  IDPASC_top_course2018.pdf
Monday 2 April
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 9
  
  Higgs Physics 1
  
  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.
  
  Speaker: Ricardo Jose Morais Silva Goncalo (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
  
  HiggsLecture1_final.pdf
Wednesday 4 April
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 10
  
  Higgs Physics 2
  
  Discovery of the Higgs boson in the different final states
  Case-study of the H->WW search
  Algorithms, challenges, tools
  Combination of search results
  
  Speaker: Dr Patricia Conde Muino (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
  
  SecondHiggsLecture_Conde_v0.pdf
Monday 9 April
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 11
  
  Higgs Physics 3
  
  Models, properties, and interpretation.
  Case-study of the coupling strengths.
  Case-study of the hypothesis test for different spin-parity assignments.
  
  Speakers: Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon), Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
  
  higgs_lecture3_properties2018.pdf
Wednesday 11 April
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 12
  
  Higgs Physics 4
  
  - 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.
  
  Speaker: Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)
  
  higgs_lecture4_bsm2018.pdf
Monday 16 April
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 13
  
  SUSY 1
  
  * 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
  
  Speaker: Pedrame Bargassa (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
  
  PB_SUSY_1.pdf
Wednesday 18 April
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 14
  
  SUSY 2
  
  * Searches of SUSY particles at past accelerators & LHC II
  
  Speaker: Pedrame Bargassa (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
  
  PB_SUSY_2.pdf
Wednesday 2 May
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 15
  
  Exotic processes and Dark Matter
  
  Searches for exotic particles and for Dark Matter candidates are discussed.
  
  Speaker: Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)
  
  DarkMatter_Exo_2018.pdf
Monday 7 May
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 16
  
  Heavy flavor physics and rare decays searches
  
  * 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)
  
  Speaker: Nuno Viegas Guerreiro Leonardo (LIP Lisbon)
  
  course_lhc_heavyflavor.pdf
Tuesday 8 May
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 17
  
  Matter at high density and temperature
  
  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
  
  Speakers: Joao Seixas (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part), Pietro Faccioli (LIP and IST, Lisbon)
  
  Heavy Ions at LHC.pdf
  
  Heavy Ions at LHC.pptx
Friday 15 June
- Tue 6 Mar
- Wed 7 Mar
- Wed 14 Mar
- Thu 15 Mar
- Mon 19 Mar
- Thu 22 Mar
- Fri 23 Mar
- Mon 26 Mar
- Mon 2 Apr
- Wed 4 Apr
- Mon 9 Apr
- Wed 11 Apr
- Mon 16 Apr
- Wed 18 Apr
- Wed 2 May
- Mon 7 May
- Tue 8 May
- Fri 15 Jun
- 18
  
  Final Evaluation
  
  The exam will consist in discussing a paper in a short presentation (~20 mins). A discussion with a few questions will follow.
- 19
  
  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
  
  https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.02942
  
  Speaker: Duarte Sarmento de Sousa Machado Fonte
  
  Duarte.pdf
- 20
  
  Search for dark matter produced with an energetic jet or a hadronically decaying W or Z boson at 13 TeV
  
  https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.01651
  
  Speaker: Raquel Joana Nunes
  
  LIP_CMS report-2011_MG.pdf
- 21
  
  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
  
  https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.03198
  
  Speaker: Aidan Kelly
  
  Aidan.pdf
- 22
  
  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
  
  https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04496
  
  Speaker: Pedro Duarte
  
  Pedro_Duarte.pdf
- 23
  
  Observation of ttH production
  
  https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02610
  
  Speaker: Marcio Pedroso
  
  LIP Seminar - Márcio.pdf
- 24
  
  Measurement of the cross section for top quark pair production in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions
  
  https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.02547.pdf
  
  Speaker: Mr Diogo BASTOS (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
  
  Physics at LHC_ Measurement of XS TTV.pdf
- 25
  
  Search for standard model production of four top quarks with same-sign and multilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
  
  https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10614
  
  Speaker: Vitor Fernandes
  
  Physics_at_the_LHC_-_4_top_Production_-_Vitor_M_N_Fernandes_1.0.pdf

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