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Physics at the LHC
Lecturer: Silvia Masciocchi, Nikole Skidmore, Pavel Starovoitov
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10 participants
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Lectures: Wednesdays 16:15 - 18:00 SR 2.402, INF227 |
Journal club: Thursdays 9:15 - 11:00 00.101 INF 226 |
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In this lecture we present detector technologies employed by three high-energy physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. We will discuss recent physics results on
The lecture course will also include a journal club showcasing some of the experiments most cited papers |
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Practice groups
- Group LEC (Masciocchi, Skidmore, Starovoitov)
10 participants
Wed 16:15 - 18:00Thu 9:15 - 11:00
Lectures
SM : Silvia Masciocchi
NS : Nicole Skidmore
PS : Pavel Starovoitov
| Date | Topic | Lecturers | Material |
| 16.10. | An intoduction to the LHCb detector and precision measurements at the LHC | NS | |
| 23.10. | Lepton flavor universality - hunting for new physics | NS | |
| 30.10. | Measuring the CKM phase gamma - exploring matter vs. antimatter | NS | |
| 06.11. | Pentaquarks - Beyond conventional baryons and mesons | NS | |
| 13.11. |
Introduction to calorimetry; Hadron jets (definition, reconstruction) |
PS | Slides |
| 20.11. |
Hadron jets calibration |
PS | Slides |
| 27.11. |
Jet triggers Jet production measurements Searches for new phenomena in events with jets |
PS | Slides |
| 04.12. |
Searches for new phenomena in events with jets Interpretation of measurements |
PS | Slides |
| 11.12. | -- break -- | ||
| 18.12. | The ALICE experiment to investigate properties of hot QCD matter | SM | Slides |
| 25.12. | Christmas | ||
| 01.01 | New Year | ||
| 08.01. | General properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) | SM | Slides |
| 15.01. | Bulk particle production and the QGP fluid dynamic description | SM | Slides |
| 22.01. | Hard probes: heavy flavors and charmonia | SM | Slides |
| 29.01. | Common topic 1 | NS, PS, SM |
Literature
Experiments:
Books and reviews:
- M. Thomson: Modern Particle Physics
- D. Perkins: Introduction to High Energy Physics
- G. Salam: Towards Jetography
- R. Wigmans : Calorimetry
- K. Grupen: Particle Detectors
- D. Green: High pT Physics at Hadron Colliders
- G. Cowan: Statistical Data Analysis
- L. Lyons: Statistics for Nuclear and Particle Physicists
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