Experimental program at the LHC

• João Varela (LIP)

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.

Introduction to collisions at LHC

• João Varela (LIP)

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.

Detectors 1

• Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)

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.

Detectors 2

• Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)

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.

Standard Model processes

• Jonathan Hollar (LIP)
• Jonathan Hollar (LIP)

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

Statistics 1

• Pietro Vischia (U. Oviedo)

Room: Conference Room (LIP) \- Basics of probability \- Errors \- Probability density functions \- The likelihood principle \- Hypothesis testing \- Basics of multivariate algorithms

Statistics 2 Room: Conference Room (LIP) \- Basics of probability \- Errors \- Probability density functions \- The likelihood principle \- Hypothesis testing \- Basics of multivariate algorithms

Top Physics 1

• Michele Gallinaro (IST and LIP Lisbon)

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)

Top Physics 2

• Michele Gallinaro (LIP)

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

Top Physics 3

• António Onofre (LIP)

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)

Higgs Physics 1

• Ricardo Gonçalo (U. Coimbra/LIP)
• Ricardo Goncalo

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.

Higgs Physics 2

• Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
• Pedro Silva (LIP)

Room: Conference Room (LIP) Discovery of the Higgs boson in the different final states: Algorithms, challenges, tools, combination of results

Higgs Physics 3

• Rute Pedro (LIP)
• Rute Costa Batalha Pedro (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas (PT))

Room: Conference Room (LIP) Case-study of the H->bb search, H->bb observation Algorithms, challenges, tools Higgs measurements with H->bb

Higgs Physics 4

• Michele Gallinaro (LIP)

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.

Exotic processes and Dark Matter

• Michele Gallinaro (LIP)

Room: Conference Room (LIP) Searches for exotic particles and for Dark Matter candidates are discussed.

SUSY 1

• Cristovao Beirao da Cruz e Silva
• Cristóvão Silva (LIP)

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

SUSY 2

• Cristovao Beirao da Cruz e Silva
• Cristóvão Silva (LIP)

Room: Conference Room (LIP) * Searches of SUSY particles at past accelerators & LHC II

Flavour anomalies and BSM

• Alessio Boletti

Room: Conference Room (LIP) The so-called flavor anomalies are introduced. BSM through precision. Rare decays and FCNCs. Anomalies and Lepton Flavour Universality violation.

Polarization measurements (TBC)

• Pietro Faccioli (LIP)

Room: Conference Room (LIP)

Quantum Computing for HEP

• João Seixas (LIP / IST)

Room: Conference Room (LIP)

Future endeavors in Particle Physics

• João Varela (LIP)

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.