Name: Course on Physics at the LHC 2022
Start: 2022-03-02T07:00:00+00:00
End: 2022-06-30T18:40:00+01:00
Location: No location set

Monday 28 February 2022
Tuesday 1 March 2022
Wednesday 2 March 2022
17:00 Experimental program at the LHC - João Varela (LIP)
Experimental program at the LHC
- João Varela (LIP)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) 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.
Thursday 3 March 2022
17:00 Introduction to collisions at LHC - João Varela (LIP)
Introduction to collisions at LHC
- João Varela (LIP)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) 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.
Friday 4 March 2022
Saturday 5 March 2022
Sunday 6 March 2022

Monday 7 March 2022
17:00 Detectors 1 - Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
Detectors 1
- Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) \- Particles and their decays into stable particles. \- Detector layout, geometry, particle flow \- Tracking: \- Silicon (solid-state) trackers. \- Track reconstruction, momentum measurement. \- Muon detectors.
Tuesday 8 March 2022
Wednesday 9 March 2022
17:00 Detectors 2 - Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
Detectors 2
- Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) \- Calorimetry: \- Electromagnetic and hadronic showers. \- Energy reconstruction and resolution. \- Jets and missing energy. \- Trigger: \- Level-1 latency and pipelining. \- HLT: configuration flexibility and efficiency.
Thursday 10 March 2022
Friday 11 March 2022
Saturday 12 March 2022
Sunday 13 March 2022

Monday 14 March 2022
17:00 Standard Model processes - Jonathan Hollar (LIP) Jonathan Hollar (LIP)
Standard Model processes
- Jonathan Hollar (LIP)
- Jonathan Hollar (LIP)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) An overview of SM processes (excluding those that are explicitly covered in the following lectures, i.e. Top, B, Higgs)
Tuesday 15 March 2022
Wednesday 16 March 2022
17:00 Statistics 1 - Pietro Vischia (LIP/IST)
Statistics 1
- Pietro Vischia (LIP/IST)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) \- Basics of probability \- Errors \- Probability density functions \- The likelihood principle \- Hypothesis testing \- Basics of multivariate algorithms
Thursday 17 March 2022
Friday 18 March 2022
17:00 Statistics 2 - Pietro Vischia (LIP/IST)
Statistics 2
- Pietro Vischia (LIP/IST)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) \- Basics of probability \- Errors \- Probability density functions \- The likelihood principle \- Hypothesis testing \- Basics of multivariate algorithms
Saturday 19 March 2022
Sunday 20 March 2022

Monday 21 March 2022
17:00 Top Physics 1 - Michele Gallinaro (IST and LIP Lisbon)
Top Physics 1
- Michele Gallinaro (IST and LIP Lisbon)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) 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)
Tuesday 22 March 2022
Wednesday 23 March 2022
17:00 Top Physics 2 - Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
Top Physics 2
- Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) 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
Thursday 24 March 2022
Friday 25 March 2022
Saturday 26 March 2022
Sunday 27 March 2022

Monday 28 March 2022
17:00 Top Physics 3 - António Onofre (LIP)
Top Physics 3
- António Onofre (LIP)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) 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)
Tuesday 29 March 2022
Wednesday 30 March 2022
Thursday 31 March 2022
Friday 1 April 2022
Saturday 2 April 2022
Sunday 3 April 2022

Monday 4 April 2022
17:00 Higgs Physics 1 - Ricardo Gonçalo (U. Coimbra/LIP) Ricardo Goncalo
Higgs Physics 1
- Ricardo Gonçalo (U. Coimbra/LIP)
- Ricardo Goncalo
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) 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.
Tuesday 5 April 2022
Wednesday 6 April 2022
17:00 Higgs Physics 2 - Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN) Pedro Silva (LIP)
Higgs Physics 2
- Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
- Pedro Silva (LIP)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) Discovery of the Higgs boson in the different final states: Algorithms, challenges, tools, combination of results
Thursday 7 April 2022
Friday 8 April 2022
Saturday 9 April 2022
Sunday 10 April 2022

Monday 11 April 2022
17:00 Higgs Physics 3 - Rute Costa Batalha Pedro (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas (PT)) Rute Pedro (LIP)
Higgs Physics 3
- Rute Costa Batalha Pedro (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas (PT))
- Rute Pedro (LIP)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) Case-study of the H->bb search, H->bb observation Algorithms, challenges, tools Higgs measurements with H->bb
Tuesday 12 April 2022
Wednesday 13 April 2022
17:00 Higgs Physics 4 - Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
Higgs Physics 4
- Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) \- 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.
Thursday 14 April 2022
Friday 15 April 2022
Saturday 16 April 2022
Sunday 17 April 2022

Monday 18 April 2022
17:00 SUSY 1 - Pedrame Bargassa (LIP)
SUSY 1
- Pedrame Bargassa (LIP)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) * 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: 1/ "SuSY and such", S. Dawson, arxiv:hep-ph/9612229 2/ "A Supersymmetry primer", S. P. Martin, arxiv:hep-ph/9709356
Tuesday 19 April 2022
Wednesday 20 April 2022
17:00 SUSY 2 - Pedrame Bargassa (LIP)
SUSY 2
- Pedrame Bargassa (LIP)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) * Searches of SUSY particles at past accelerators & LHC II
Thursday 21 April 2022
Friday 22 April 2022
Saturday 23 April 2022
Sunday 24 April 2022

Monday 25 April 2022
Tuesday 26 April 2022
Wednesday 27 April 2022
Thursday 28 April 2022
Friday 29 April 2022
Saturday 30 April 2022
Sunday 1 May 2022

Monday 2 May 2022
Tuesday 3 May 2022
Wednesday 4 May 2022
17:00 Exotic processes and Dark Matter - Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
Exotic processes and Dark Matter
- Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) Searches for exotic particles and for Dark Matter candidates are discussed.
Thursday 5 May 2022
Friday 6 May 2022
Saturday 7 May 2022
Sunday 8 May 2022

Monday 9 May 2022
Tuesday 10 May 2022
17:00 Flavour anomalies and BSM - Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
Flavour anomalies and BSM
- Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) The so-called flavor anomalies are introduced. BSM through precision. Rare decays and FCNCs. Anomalies and Lepton Flavour Universality violation.
Wednesday 11 May 2022
17:00 Polarization measurements - Pietro Faccioli (LIP)
Polarization measurements
- Pietro Faccioli (LIP)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP)
Thursday 12 May 2022
Friday 13 May 2022
Saturday 14 May 2022
Sunday 15 May 2022

Monday 16 May 2022
Tuesday 17 May 2022
Wednesday 18 May 2022
Thursday 19 May 2022
Friday 20 May 2022
Saturday 21 May 2022
Sunday 22 May 2022

Monday 23 May 2022
17:00 Future endeavors in Particle Physics - João Varela (LIP)
Future endeavors in Particle Physics
- João Varela (LIP)
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) Future endeavors in particle physics, both the High-Luminosity phase of the LHC and plans for future accelerators in particle physics are presented.
Tuesday 24 May 2022
Wednesday 25 May 2022
Thursday 26 May 2022
Friday 27 May 2022
Saturday 28 May 2022
Sunday 29 May 2022

Monday 30 May 2022
Tuesday 31 May 2022
Wednesday 1 June 2022
Thursday 2 June 2022
Friday 3 June 2022
Saturday 4 June 2022
Sunday 5 June 2022

Monday 6 June 2022
Tuesday 7 June 2022
Wednesday 8 June 2022
Thursday 9 June 2022
Friday 10 June 2022
Saturday 11 June 2022
Sunday 12 June 2022

Monday 20 June 2022
Tuesday 21 June 2022
Wednesday 22 June 2022
Thursday 23 June 2022
Friday 24 June 2022
Saturday 25 June 2022
Sunday 26 June 2022

Monday 27 June 2022
Tuesday 28 June 2022
Wednesday 29 June 2022
Thursday 30 June 2022