Name: Course on Physics at the LHC
Start: 2021-03-01T07:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-07-13T18:40:00+01:00
Location: LIP

Monday 1 March 2021
17:00 Experimental program at the LHC - 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 2 March 2021
Wednesday 3 March 2021
17:00 Introduction to collisions at LHC - Joao Varela (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
Introduction to collisions at 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.
Thursday 4 March 2021
Friday 5 March 2021
Saturday 6 March 2021
Sunday 7 March 2021

Monday 15 March 2021
17:00 Statistics 1 - 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 16 March 2021
Wednesday 17 March 2021
17:00 Statistics 2 - 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
Thursday 18 March 2021
Friday 19 March 2021
Saturday 20 March 2021
Sunday 21 March 2021

Monday 22 March 2021
17:00 Standard Model processes - Jonathan Jason Hollar (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
Standard Model processes
- Jonathan Jason Hollar (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room An overview of SM processes (excluding those that are explicitly covered in the following lectures, i.e. Top, B, Higgs)
Tuesday 23 March 2021
Wednesday 24 March 2021
17:00 Top Physics 1 - 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)
Thursday 25 March 2021
Friday 26 March 2021
Saturday 27 March 2021
Sunday 28 March 2021

Monday 29 March 2021
18:00 Top Physics 2 - Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)
Top Physics 2
- Michele Gallinaro (LIP Lisbon)
18:00 - 19:30
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
Tuesday 30 March 2021
Wednesday 31 March 2021
Thursday 1 April 2021
Friday 2 April 2021
Saturday 3 April 2021
Sunday 4 April 2021

Monday 5 April 2021
Tuesday 6 April 2021
17:00 Top Physics 3 - 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)
Wednesday 7 April 2021
17:00 Higgs Physics 1 - 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 8 April 2021
Friday 9 April 2021
Saturday 10 April 2021
Sunday 11 April 2021

Monday 12 April 2021
17:00 Higgs Physics 2 - 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 Discovery of the Higgs boson in the different final states: Algorithms, challenges, tools, combination of results
Tuesday 13 April 2021
Wednesday 14 April 2021
17:00 Higgs Physics 3 - Rute Costa Batalha Pedro (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
Higgs Physics 3
- Rute Costa Batalha Pedro (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room Case-study of the H->bb search, H->bb observation Algorithms, challenges, tools Higgs measurements with H->bb
Thursday 15 April 2021
Friday 16 April 2021
Saturday 17 April 2021
Sunday 18 April 2021

Monday 26 April 2021
17:00 SUSY 2 - 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
Tuesday 27 April 2021
Wednesday 28 April 2021
17:00 Exotic processes and Dark Matter - 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.
Thursday 29 April 2021
Friday 30 April 2021
Saturday 1 May 2021
Sunday 2 May 2021

Monday 10 May 2021
17:00 Future endeavors - 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.
Tuesday 11 May 2021
Wednesday 12 May 2021
Thursday 13 May 2021
Friday 14 May 2021
Saturday 15 May 2021
Sunday 16 May 2021

Monday 17 May 2021
Tuesday 18 May 2021
Wednesday 19 May 2021
Thursday 20 May 2021
Friday 21 May 2021
Saturday 22 May 2021
Sunday 23 May 2021

Monday 24 May 2021
Tuesday 25 May 2021
Wednesday 26 May 2021
Thursday 27 May 2021
Friday 28 May 2021
Saturday 29 May 2021
Sunday 30 May 2021

Monday 31 May 2021
Tuesday 1 June 2021
Wednesday 2 June 2021
Thursday 3 June 2021
Friday 4 June 2021
Saturday 5 June 2021
Sunday 6 June 2021

Monday 7 June 2021

09:15 Final Evaluation (date to be determined)
Final Evaluation (date to be determined)
09:15 - 09:20
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.
Tuesday 8 June 2021
Wednesday 9 June 2021
Thursday 10 June 2021
Friday 11 June 2021
Saturday 12 June 2021
Sunday 13 June 2021

Monday 21 June 2021
Tuesday 22 June 2021
Wednesday 23 June 2021
Thursday 24 June 2021
Friday 25 June 2021
Saturday 26 June 2021
Sunday 27 June 2021

Monday 28 June 2021
Tuesday 29 June 2021
Wednesday 30 June 2021
Thursday 1 July 2021
Friday 2 July 2021
Saturday 3 July 2021
Sunday 4 July 2021

Monday 5 July 2021
Tuesday 6 July 2021
Wednesday 7 July 2021
Thursday 8 July 2021
Friday 9 July 2021
Saturday 10 July 2021
Sunday 11 July 2021