Madgraph School 2019 (India)

18 Nov 2019, 09:00 → 22 Nov 2019, 15:00 Asia/Kolkata

Alladi Ramakrishnan Hall (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences)

Prakash Mathews (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics), Ravindran Vajravelu (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences)

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has been extremely successful in unravelling the physics at the subatomic level to unprecedented accuracy.  The discovery of Higgs boson at the LHC is one of the mile stones in high energy physics.  The physics studies to understand its couplings and the properties will not only shed light on the details of the SM but also hint to physics beyond the SM.  In addition, top quark physics and related precision measurements at the LHC will be paramount importance to understand the nature of fundamental interactions.

Computation of various important observables within the frame work of quantum field theory will be extremely important to understand the data from the LHC.  Precise predictions from SM and BSM scenarios taking into account various higher order quantum effects as well as the experimental constraints have become a challenging task for the theorists. This school aims to provide exposure to the young graduate students and post doctoral fellows various aspects of these computations through a state-of-the-art tool namely MadGraph5_aMc@NLO in great detail.

MadGraph5_aMC@NLO is the new version of both MadGraph5 and aMC@NLO that unifies the leading order (LO) and next to leading order (NLO) computations using the automated tools within the MadGraph family.  MadGraph5_aMC@NLO provides the elements necessary for SM and beyond the SM phenomenology. This includes the computations of cross sections,      the generation of hard events and their matching with event generators, and the use of a variety of tools relevant to event manipulation and analysis.  Using this, one can simulate processes to LO accuracy for any user-defined Lagrangian, and to the NLO accuracy in QCD to SM processes.

Monday 18 November

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome coffee

09:30 → 10:30 Introduction to collider physics

Speakers: Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)), Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE))

Chennai-Collider.pdf

10:30 → 11:30 From Lagrangians to events

Speaker: Benjamin Fuks (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

feynrules_fuks.pdf

11:30 → 11:50 Coffee Break

11:50 → 12:50 Introduction to Event Generation

Speaker: Olivier Mattelaer (UCLouvain)

19_11_MG5_india.pdf

12:50 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 Review of the SM (EW)

Speakers: Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)), Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE))

Chennai-SM.pdf

15:00 → 15:20 coffee break

15:20 → 18:20 Tutorial

Speakers: Dr Kentarou Mawatari (Osaka U.), Kentarou Mawatari (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

1911chennai_T1.pdf

1911chennai_T1solution.pdf

1911chennai_T2.pdf

feynrules_tutorial.pdf

18:20 → 19:45 Free discussion

Tuesday 19 November

09:30 → 10:30 Higgs Physics

Speakers: Dr Ambresh Shivaji (UCLouvain), Ambresh Shivaji (I), Dr Ambresh Shivaji (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve), Ambresh Shivaji (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India)

HiggsPhysics.pdf

10:30 → 11:30 Basics of Parton Showers

Speaker: Leif Gellersen (Lund University)

ps.pdf

11:30 → 11:50 Coffee Break

11:50 → 12:50 Designing Analyses and Recasting

Speaker: Benjamin Fuks (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

ma5_fuks.pdf

12:50 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 Matching/Merging fixed order calculations with parton showers

Speaker: Leif Gellersen (Lund University)

mm.pdf

15:00 → 15:20 Coffee Break

15:20 → 18:20 Tutorial

18:20 → 19:45 Free discussion

Wednesday 20 November

09:30 → 10:30 Top Physics

Speaker: Ambresh Shivaji (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India)

TopPhysics.pdf

10:30 → 11:30 Precise predictions: Next to leading order I

Speaker: Huasheng Shao (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

NLO_lectures.pdf

11:30 → 11:50 Coffee Break

11:50 → 12:50 Precise predictions: Next to leading order II

Speaker: Huasheng Shao (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

12:50 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:10 Tutorial

Speaker: Dr Kentarou Mawatari (Osaka U.)

15:10 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:00 Phycis Colloquium : The top and Higgs windows onto new physics

Speaker: Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))

17:00 → 18:30 Tutorial

Speakers: Dr Kentarou Mawatari (Osaka U.), Kentarou Mawatari (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

ma5_tutorial.pdf

Tutorial_MG5aMC_Chennai2019_NLO.pdf

18:30 → 19:55 Free discussion

Thursday 21 November

09:30 → 10:30 Searching for new physics with effective field theories I

Speaker: Ken Mimasu (Université Catholique de Louvain)

Mimasu_EFT_1_FRMG5_Chennai.pdf

10:30 → 11:30 Precise predictions: Next to leading order III

Speaker: Huasheng Shao (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

11:30 → 11:50 Coffee Break

11:50 → 12:50 BSM Neutrinos Physics I

Speakers: Richard Ruiz (University of Pittsburgh), Richard Ruiz (Universite Catholique de Louvain), Richard Ruiz (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

rruiz_MGSchoolChennai_IntroNuBSM.pdf

12:50 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 19:30 Excursion to a beach: Mahabalipuram

19:30 → 21:30 Dinner

Friday 22 November

09:30 → 10:30 Searching for new physics with effective field theories II

Speaker: Ken Mimasu (Université Catholique de Louvain)

Mimasu_EFT_2_FRMG5_Chennai.pdf

10:30 → 11:30 BSM Neutrinos Physics II

Speakers: Richard Efrain Ruiz (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab)-Unknown-Unknown), Richard Ruiz (University of Pittsburgh), Richard Ruiz (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Richard Ruiz (Universite Catholique de Louvain)

rruiz_MGSchoolChennai_NuPhysLHC.pdf

11:30 → 11:50 Coffee Break

11:50 → 12:50 Searching for Dark Matter at colliders

Speaker: Kentarou Mawatari (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

1911chennai_mawatari.pdf

12:50 → 14:00 Lunch Break