Course on Physics at the LHC
from
Monday, 2 March 2020 (07:00)
to
Friday, 26 June 2020 (18:40)
Monday, 2 March 2020
17:00
Experimental program at the LHC
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Joao Varela
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
Experimental program at the LHC
Joao Varela
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
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.
Tuesday, 3 March 2020
Wednesday, 4 March 2020
Thursday, 5 March 2020
Friday, 6 March 2020
17:00
Standard Model at the LHC
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Joao Varela
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
Standard Model at the LHC
Joao Varela
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
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.
Saturday, 7 March 2020
Sunday, 8 March 2020
Monday, 9 March 2020
17:00
Detectors 1
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Michele Gallinaro
(
LIP Lisbon
)
Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva
(
CERN
)
Detectors 1
Michele Gallinaro
(
LIP Lisbon
)
Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva
(
CERN
)
17:00 - 18:30
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.
Tuesday, 10 March 2020
17:00
Detectors 2
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Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva
(
CERN
)
Detectors 2
Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva
(
CERN
)
17:00 - 18:30
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.
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
Thursday, 12 March 2020
Friday, 13 March 2020
Saturday, 14 March 2020
Sunday, 15 March 2020
Monday, 16 March 2020
17:00
Statistics 1
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Pietro Vischia
(
Universite' Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
)
Statistics 1
Pietro Vischia
(
Universite' Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
\- Basics of probability \- Errors \- Probability density functions \- The likelihood principle \- Hypothesis testing \- Basics of multivariate algorithms
Tuesday, 17 March 2020
17:00
Statistics 2
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Pietro Vischia
(
Universite' Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
)
Statistics 2
Pietro Vischia
(
Universite' Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
\- Basics of probability \- Errors \- Probability density functions \- The likelihood principle \- Hypothesis testing \- Basics of multivariate algorithms
Wednesday, 18 March 2020
Thursday, 19 March 2020
Friday, 20 March 2020
Saturday, 21 March 2020
Sunday, 22 March 2020
Monday, 23 March 2020
17:00
Top Physics 1
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Michele Gallinaro
(
LIP Lisbon
)
Top Physics 1
Michele Gallinaro
(
LIP Lisbon
)
17:00 - 18:30
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)
Tuesday, 24 March 2020
17:00
Top Physics 2
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Michele Gallinaro
(
LIP Lisbon
)
Top Physics 2
Michele Gallinaro
(
LIP Lisbon
)
17:00 - 18:30
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
Wednesday, 25 March 2020
Thursday, 26 March 2020
Friday, 27 March 2020
Saturday, 28 March 2020
Sunday, 29 March 2020
Monday, 30 March 2020
17:00
Top Physics 3
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Antonio Onofre
(
Universidade de Coimbra (PT)
)
Top Physics 3
Antonio Onofre
(
Universidade de Coimbra (PT)
)
17:00 - 18:30
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)
Tuesday, 31 March 2020
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
17:00
Higgs Physics 1
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Ricardo Jose Morais Silva Goncalo
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
Higgs Physics 1
Ricardo Jose Morais Silva Goncalo
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
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.
Thursday, 2 April 2020
Friday, 3 April 2020
Saturday, 4 April 2020
Sunday, 5 April 2020
Monday, 6 April 2020
17:00
Higgs Physics 2
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Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva
(
CERN
)
Higgs Physics 2
Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva
(
CERN
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
Models, properties, and interpretation. Case-study of the coupling strengths. Case-study of the hypothesis test for different spin-parity assignments.
Tuesday, 7 April 2020
Wednesday, 8 April 2020
17:00
Higgs Physics 3
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Patricia Conde Muino
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
Higgs Physics 3
Patricia Conde Muino
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
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
Thursday, 9 April 2020
Friday, 10 April 2020
Saturday, 11 April 2020
Sunday, 12 April 2020
Monday, 13 April 2020
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
17:00
Higgs Physics 4
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Michele Gallinaro
(
LIP Lisbon
)
Higgs Physics 4
Michele Gallinaro
(
LIP Lisbon
)
17:00 - 18:30
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.
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Friday, 17 April 2020
Saturday, 18 April 2020
Sunday, 19 April 2020
Monday, 20 April 2020
17:00
SUSY 1
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Pedrame Bargassa
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
SUSY 1
Pedrame Bargassa
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
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
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
17:00
SUSY 2
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Pedrame Bargassa
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
SUSY 2
Pedrame Bargassa
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
* Searches of SUSY particles at past accelerators & LHC II
Thursday, 23 April 2020
Friday, 24 April 2020
Saturday, 25 April 2020
Sunday, 26 April 2020
Monday, 27 April 2020
17:00
Exotic processes and Dark Matter
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Michele Gallinaro
(
LIP Lisbon
)
Exotic processes and Dark Matter
Michele Gallinaro
(
LIP Lisbon
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
Searches for exotic particles and for Dark Matter candidates are discussed.
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
17:00
Rare decays
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Nuno Viegas Guerreiro Leonardo
(
LIP Lisbon
)
Rare decays
Nuno Viegas Guerreiro Leonardo
(
LIP Lisbon
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
This lecture presents the topic of rare decays of Standard Model particles, as a sensitive means towards detecting New Physics. While NP has not been revealed at the LHC so far via our direct searches, Rare Decays retain sensitivity to NP, even if its scale lies beyond the LHC collision energy. As it happens, the so-called "flavour anomalies" provide currently the most significant evidence for NP yet.
Thursday, 30 April 2020
Friday, 1 May 2020
Saturday, 2 May 2020
Sunday, 3 May 2020
Monday, 4 May 2020
17:00
Matter at high density and temperature
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Joao Seixas
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
Pietro Faccioli
(
LIP and IST, Lisbon
)
Matter at high density and temperature
Joao Seixas
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
Pietro Faccioli
(
LIP and IST, Lisbon
)
17:00 - 18:30
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
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
17:00
Future endeavors
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Joao Varela
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
Future endeavors
Joao Varela
(
LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part
)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room
Future endeavors in particle physics, both the High-Luminosity phase of the LHC and plans for future accelerators in particle physics are presented.
Thursday, 7 May 2020
Friday, 8 May 2020
Saturday, 9 May 2020
Sunday, 10 May 2020
Monday, 11 May 2020
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Thursday, 14 May 2020
Friday, 15 May 2020
Saturday, 16 May 2020
Sunday, 17 May 2020
Monday, 18 May 2020
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Thursday, 21 May 2020
Friday, 22 May 2020
Saturday, 23 May 2020
Sunday, 24 May 2020
Monday, 25 May 2020
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
Thursday, 28 May 2020
Friday, 29 May 2020
Saturday, 30 May 2020
Sunday, 31 May 2020
Monday, 1 June 2020
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
Thursday, 4 June 2020
Friday, 5 June 2020
Saturday, 6 June 2020
Sunday, 7 June 2020
Monday, 8 June 2020
09:25
Final Evaluation
Final Evaluation
09:25 - 09:30
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.
09:30
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
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Pedro Duarte
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
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Conference Room
http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04496
10:00
Search for dark matter produced in association with a single top quark or a top quark pair in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
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Bernardo Lopes Gonçalves
Search for dark matter produced in association with a single top quark or a top quark pair in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
Bernardo Lopes Gonçalves
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Conference Room
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01553
10:30
Search for Higgs boson pair production in events with two bottom quarks and two tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
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Miguel Pissarra Levy
Search for Higgs boson pair production in events with two bottom quarks and two tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
Miguel Pissarra Levy
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Conference Room
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.02909
11:00
Test of Lepton Flavor Universality by the measurement of the B0→D∗−τ+ντ branching fraction using three-prong τ decays
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Pedro M. F. Pereira
Test of Lepton Flavor Universality by the measurement of the B0→D∗−τ+ντ branching fraction using three-prong τ decays
Pedro M. F. Pereira
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Conference Room
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.02505
11:30
Measurements of ttH production and the CP structure of the Yukawa interaction between the Higgs boson and top quark in the diphoton decay channel
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João Seabra
Measurements of ttH production and the CP structure of the Yukawa interaction between the Higgs boson and top quark in the diphoton decay channel
João Seabra
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Conference Room
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10866
12:00
Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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Rodrigo Gazola
Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Rodrigo Gazola
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Conference Room
https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07240
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Wednesday, 10 June 2020
Thursday, 11 June 2020
Friday, 12 June 2020
Saturday, 13 June 2020
Sunday, 14 June 2020
Monday, 15 June 2020
Tuesday, 16 June 2020
Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Thursday, 18 June 2020
Friday, 19 June 2020
Saturday, 20 June 2020
Sunday, 21 June 2020
Monday, 22 June 2020
Tuesday, 23 June 2020
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Thursday, 25 June 2020
Friday, 26 June 2020