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Course on Physics at the LHC 2022

2 March 2022 to 30 June 2022
Europe/Lisbon timezone

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  1. 1. Experimental program at the LHC
    João Varela (LIP)
    02/03/2022, 17:00

    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....

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  2. 2. Introduction to collisions at LHC
    João Varela (LIP)
    03/03/2022, 17:00

    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....

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  3. 3. Detectors 1
    Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
    07/03/2022, 17:00

    - Particles and their decays into stable particles.
    - Detector layout, geometry, particle flow
    - Tracking:
    - Silicon (solid-state) trackers.
    - Track reconstruction, momentum measurement.
    - Muon detectors.

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  4. 4. Detectors 2
    Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
    09/03/2022, 17:00

    - Calorimetry:
    - Electromagnetic and hadronic showers.
    - Energy reconstruction and resolution.
    - Jets and missing energy.
    - Trigger:
    - Level-1 latency and pipelining.
    - HLT: configuration flexibility and efficiency.

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  5. 5. Standard Model processes
    Jonathan Hollar (LIP), Jonathan Hollar (LIP)
    14/03/2022, 17:00

    An overview of SM processes (excluding those that are explicitly covered in the following lectures, i.e. Top, B, Higgs)

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  6. 6. Statistics 1
    Pietro Vischia (LIP/IST)
    16/03/2022, 17:00

    - Basics of probability
    - Errors
    - Probability density functions
    - The likelihood principle
    - Hypothesis testing
    - Basics of multivariate algorithms

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  7. 7. Statistics 2
    Pietro Vischia (LIP/IST)
    18/03/2022, 17:00

    - Basics of probability
    - Errors
    - Probability density functions
    - The likelihood principle
    - Hypothesis testing
    - Basics of multivariate algorithms

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  8. 8. Top Physics 1
    Michele Gallinaro (IST and LIP Lisbon)
    21/03/2022, 17:00

    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)

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  9. 9. Top Physics 2
    Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
    23/03/2022, 17:00

    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

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  10. 10. Top Physics 3
    António Onofre (LIP)
    28/03/2022, 17:00

    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)

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  11. 11. Higgs Physics 1
    Ricardo Goncalo, Ricardo Gonçalo (U. Coimbra/LIP)
    04/04/2022, 17:00

    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.

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  12. 12. Higgs Physics 2
    Pedro Silva (LIP), Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
    06/04/2022, 17:00

    Discovery of the Higgs boson in the different final states:
    Algorithms, challenges, tools,
    combination of results

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  13. 13. Higgs Physics 3
    Rute Costa Batalha Pedro (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas (PT)), Rute Pedro (LIP)
    11/04/2022, 17:00

    Case-study of the H->bb search, H->bb observation
    Algorithms, challenges, tools
    Higgs measurements with H->bb

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  14. 14. Higgs Physics 4
    Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
    13/04/2022, 17:00

    - 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.

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  15. 15. SUSY 1
    Pedrame Bargassa (LIP)
    18/04/2022, 17:00
    • 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: ...

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  16. 16. SUSY 2
    Pedrame Bargassa (LIP)
    20/04/2022, 17:00
    • Searches of SUSY particles at past accelerators & LHC II
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  17. 17. Exotic processes and Dark Matter
    Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
    04/05/2022, 17:00

    Searches for exotic particles and for Dark Matter candidates are discussed.

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  18. 18. Flavour anomalies and BSM
    Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
    10/05/2022, 17:00

    The so-called flavor anomalies are introduced.

    BSM through precision. Rare decays and FCNCs. Anomalies and Lepton Flavour Universality violation.

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  19. 19. Polarization measurements
    Pietro Faccioli (LIP)
    11/05/2022, 17:00
  20. 20. Future endeavors in Particle Physics
    João Varela (LIP)
    23/05/2022, 17:00

    Future endeavors in particle physics, both the High-Luminosity phase of the LHC and plans for future accelerators in particle physics are presented.

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  21. 27. Search for dark photons in Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
    Rafael Filipe Teixeira Boto
    17/06/2022, 10:00

    JHEP 03 (2021) 011: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.14009.pdf

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  22. 21. Search for CP violation in ttH and tH production in multilepton channels at 13 TeV
    Atiye Abedinnia
    17/06/2022, 10:30

    CMS-PAS-HIG-21-006: http://cds.cern.ch/record/2803420

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  23. 22. High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector
    Tatiana Soraia da Silva Mendes
    17/06/2022, 11:00

    Nature 376 (2022) 170: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk1781

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  24. 23. Direct observation of the dead-cone effect in quantum chromodynamics
    André Duarte
    17/06/2022, 11:30

    Nature 605 (2022) 440: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04572-w

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  25. 24. Search for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production in final states with two bottom quarks and two tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
    Zahra Mohebtash
    17/06/2022, 12:00

    CMS-HIG-20-010: http://cds.cern.ch/record/2803419

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  26. 28. Measurements of production cross sections of polarized same-sign W boson pairs in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
    Sima Bashiri
    17/06/2022, 12:30

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09429

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  27. 25. Precision measurement of the W boson decay branching fractions in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
    Guilherme Soares
    17/06/2022, 14:00

    arXiv:2201.07861: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07861

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  28. 26. Search for charged Higgs bosons produced in vector boson fusion processes and decaying into vector boson pairs in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
    Nuno Dos Santos Fernandes
    17/06/2022, 14:30

    EPJC 81 (2021) 723: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04762

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