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....
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....
- Particles and their decays into stable particles.
- Detector layout, geometry, particle flow
- Tracking:
- Silicon (solid-state) trackers.
- Track reconstruction, momentum measurement.
- Muon detectors.
- Calorimetry:
- Electromagnetic and hadronic showers.
- Energy reconstruction and resolution.
- Jets and missing energy.
- Trigger:
- Level-1 latency and pipelining.
- HLT: configuration flexibility and efficiency.
- Basics of probability
- Errors
- Probability density functions
- The likelihood principle
- Hypothesis testing
- Basics of multivariate algorithms
- Basics of probability
- Errors
- Probability density functions
- The likelihood principle
- Hypothesis testing
- Basics of multivariate algorithms
An overview of SM processes (excluding those that are explicitly covered in the following lectures, i.e. Top, B, Higgs)
Discovery of the Higgs boson in the different final states:
Algorithms, challenges, tools,
combination of results
Case-study of the H->bb search, H->bb observation
Algorithms, challenges, tools
Higgs measurements with H->bb
Searches for exotic particles and for Dark Matter candidates are discussed.
Introduction of (heavy) flavour and hadronic physics and QGP.
Production (QCD). Spectroscopy (standard and exotic states). Heavy ion collisions and QGP. Lifetime, flavour tagging, and meson oscillations. Higgs, fermion masses, CKM, and unitarity triangle. CP violation.
!NEWS!!
+ LFU anomaly (March 23rd, https://cerncourier.com/a/new-data-strengthens-rk-flavour-anomaly/)
+ Muon g-2...
The recent so-called flavor anomalies are introduced.
BSM through precision (mixing & CPV). Rare decays and FCNCs. Anomalies and LFU violation. Neutrinos and FIPs at LHC.
See also tomorrow 's LIP seminar: https://indico.lip.pt/event/901/
Future endeavors in particle physics, both the High-Luminosity phase of the LHC and plans for future accelerators in particle physics are presented.
The exam will consist in discussing a paper in a short presentation (~20 mins). A discussion with a few questions will follow.
https://cds.cern.ch/record/2758905
