Name: 12th Course on Physics at the LHC 2023
Start: 2023-03-06T07:00:00+00:00
End: 2023-07-14T18:40:00+01:00
Location: No location set

Monday, March 6, 2023
5:00 PM Experimental program at the LHC - João Varela (LIP)
Experimental program at the LHC
- João Varela (LIP)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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.
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
5:00 PM Introduction to collisions at LHC - João Varela (LIP)
Introduction to collisions at LHC
- João Varela (LIP)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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.
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Friday, March 10, 2023
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Monday, March 13, 2023
5:00 PM Detectors 1 - Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
Detectors 1
- Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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, March 14, 2023
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
5:00 PM Detectors 2 - Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
Detectors 2
- Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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, March 16, 2023
Friday, March 17, 2023
Saturday, March 18, 2023
Sunday, March 19, 2023

Monday, March 20, 2023
5:00 PM Standard Model processes - Jonathan Hollar (LIP) Jonathan Hollar (LIP)
Standard Model processes
- Jonathan Hollar (LIP)
- Jonathan Hollar (LIP)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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, March 21, 2023
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Thursday, March 23, 2023
5:00 PM Statistics 1 - Pietro Vischia (U. Oviedo)
Statistics 1
- Pietro Vischia (U. Oviedo)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Conference Room (LIP) \- Basics of probability \- Errors \- Probability density functions \- The likelihood principle \- Hypothesis testing \- Basics of multivariate algorithms
Friday, March 24, 2023

5:00 PM Statistics 2
Statistics 2
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Conference Room (LIP) \- Basics of probability \- Errors \- Probability density functions \- The likelihood principle \- Hypothesis testing \- Basics of multivariate algorithms
Saturday, March 25, 2023
Sunday, March 26, 2023

Monday, March 27, 2023
6:00 PM Top Physics 1 - Michele Gallinaro (IST and LIP Lisbon)
Top Physics 1
- Michele Gallinaro (IST and LIP Lisbon)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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, March 28, 2023
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
6:00 PM Top Physics 2 - Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
Top Physics 2
- Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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, March 30, 2023
Friday, March 31, 2023
Saturday, April 1, 2023
Sunday, April 2, 2023

Monday, April 3, 2023
5:00 PM Top Physics 3 - António Onofre (LIP)
Top Physics 3
- António Onofre (LIP)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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, April 4, 2023
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
5:00 PM Higgs Physics 1 - Ricardo Gonçalo (U. Coimbra/LIP) Ricardo Goncalo
Higgs Physics 1
- Ricardo Gonçalo (U. Coimbra/LIP)
- Ricardo Goncalo
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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.
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Friday, April 7, 2023
Saturday, April 8, 2023
Sunday, April 9, 2023

Monday, April 10, 2023
5:00 PM 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)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Conference Room (LIP) Discovery of the Higgs boson in the different final states: Algorithms, challenges, tools, combination of results
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
5:00 PM Higgs Physics 3 - Rute Pedro (LIP) Rute Costa Batalha Pedro (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas (PT))
Higgs Physics 3
- Rute Pedro (LIP)
- Rute Costa Batalha Pedro (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas (PT))
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Conference Room (LIP) Case-study of the H->bb search, H->bb observation Algorithms, challenges, tools Higgs measurements with H->bb
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Friday, April 14, 2023
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Sunday, April 16, 2023

Monday, April 17, 2023
5:00 PM Higgs Physics 4 - Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
Higgs Physics 4
- Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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.
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
5:00 PM Exotic processes and Dark Matter - Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
Exotic processes and Dark Matter
- Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Conference Room (LIP) Searches for exotic particles and for Dark Matter candidates are discussed.
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Friday, April 21, 2023
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Monday, April 24, 2023
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Friday, April 28, 2023
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Monday, May 1, 2023
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
5:00 PM SUSY 1 - Cristovao Beirao da Cruz e Silva Cristóvão Silva (LIP)
SUSY 1
- Cristovao Beirao da Cruz e Silva
- Cristóvão Silva (LIP)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Friday, May 5, 2023
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Monday, May 8, 2023
5:00 PM SUSY 2 - Cristovao Beirao da Cruz e Silva Cristóvão Silva (LIP)
SUSY 2
- Cristovao Beirao da Cruz e Silva
- Cristóvão Silva (LIP)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Conference Room (LIP) * Searches of SUSY particles at past accelerators & LHC II
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
5:00 PM Flavour anomalies and BSM - Alessio Boletti
Flavour anomalies and BSM
- Alessio Boletti
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Conference Room (LIP) The so-called flavor anomalies are introduced. BSM through precision. Rare decays and FCNCs. Anomalies and Lepton Flavour Universality violation.
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Friday, May 12, 2023
5:00 PM Polarization measurements (TBC) - Pietro Faccioli (LIP)
Polarization measurements (TBC)
- Pietro Faccioli (LIP)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Conference Room (LIP)
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Sunday, May 14, 2023

Monday, May 15, 2023
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
5:00 PM Quantum Computing for HEP - João Seixas (LIP / IST)
Quantum Computing for HEP
- João Seixas (LIP / IST)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Conference Room (LIP)
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
5:00 PM Future endeavors in Particle Physics - João Varela (LIP)
Future endeavors in Particle Physics
- João Varela (LIP)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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.
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Friday, May 19, 2023
Saturday, May 20, 2023
Sunday, May 21, 2023

Monday, May 22, 2023
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Friday, May 26, 2023
Saturday, May 27, 2023
Sunday, May 28, 2023

Monday, May 29, 2023
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Friday, June 2, 2023
Saturday, June 3, 2023
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Monday, June 5, 2023
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Thursday, June 8, 2023
Friday, June 9, 2023
Saturday, June 10, 2023
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Monday, June 12, 2023
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Monday, June 19, 2023
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Monday, June 26, 2023
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Thursday, June 29, 2023
Friday, June 30, 2023
Saturday, July 1, 2023
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Monday, July 3, 2023
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Thursday, July 6, 2023
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Sunday, July 9, 2023