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How to make a discovery: Search strategies at particle colliders
Schedule
21.10. introduction and selection of topics
28.10. seminar preparation
04.11. seminar preparation
11.11.
18.11.
25.11.
02.12. no seminar
09.12.
16.12. move seminar
23.12.
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13.01.
20.01.
27.01.
03.02.
10.02.
Literature
Essentials
1) Introduction to effective field theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0512222 (Neubert) [Sections 2, 3]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0470 (Willenbrock, Zhang) [ Sections 1, 2]
Extra material:
https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0510023 (Kaplan) [Section 1]
Part I: Lessons from the past
2) LEP and electroweak precision observables
Indirect evidence for top-quark and Higgs boson:
https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3187 (Quigg) [Sections D, E]
https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0303191 (Dawson) [Section 2.3]
Custodial symmetry:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1786 (Logan) [Section 5]
Extra material:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3415 (EWWG report LEP-2)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0503172 (Djouadi) [Sections 1.2, 1.3]
3) Flavor physics and minimal flavor violation
Here: flavor symmetry and flavor-changing neutral currents
https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05283 (Grinstein) [Sections 1.2, (1.4), 1.5, 1.6]
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0207036 (D'Ambrosio et al.) [Sections 1, 2]
Extra material:
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9806471 (Buras)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0661 (Isidori)
Part II: Indirect searches
4) Standard-model effective theory at the LHC
Example: Higgs sector
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.7191 (Englert et al.) [Sections 1, 2]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05516 (Plehn et al.)
Extra material:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0503172 (Djouadi) [Sections 2, 3]
5) High-energy precision observables
Example: top charge asymmetry
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1008.0742 (Bauer et al.) [Section 2]
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.3341 (Westhoff)
Extra material:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3007 (Czakon, Mitov)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5257 (Kamenik et al.)
6) Low-energy precision observables
Example: Muon anomalous magnetic moment
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0902.3360 (Jegerlehner, Nyffeler) [ Sections 1.3, 2]
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.7065 (Freitas et al.) [Sections 1, 2, + example]
Extra material:
http://muon-g-2.fnal.gov
Part III: Direct searches
7) Resonance searches at the LHC
Example: strongly coupling heavy bosons
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1106.0529v2 (Haisch, Westhoff) [Sections 2, 5]
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2206212/files/ATLAS-CONF-2016-069
Extra material:
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2141001/files/ATLAS-CONF-2016-014
8) Signatures with missing energy
Example: supersymmetry
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0912.3259 (Section 3B)
https://cds.cern.ch/record/2205162/files/SUS-16-015-pas
Extra material:
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9709356 (Martin)
"Perspectives on LHC physics", World Scientific (Lykken, Spiropulu) [Section 7.1]
9) Simplified models for collider searches
Example: dark matter
https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2893 (Abdallah et al.) [Sections II, III, VIII]
https://cds.cern.ch/record/2205746/files/EXO-16-037-pas
Extra material:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08002 (De Simone, Jacques)
Outlook
10) Future colliders
Here: 100-TeV proton-proton collider
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06495 (Arkani-Hamed et al.) [topic of your choice]
Experimental results
LHC-ATLAS: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasPublic
LHC-CMS: https://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/
LHCb: https://lhcb.web.cern.ch/lhcb/Physics-Results/LHCb-Physics-Results.html
Belle: https://belle.kek.jp
BaBar: http://www-public.slac.stanford.edu/babar/
Particle Data Group: http://www-pdg.lbl.gov
