Name: 13th Course on Physics at the LHC 2024
Start: 2024-03-04T17:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-07-13T04:40:00+01:00
Location: No location set

Monday, March 4, 2024
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 5, 2024
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
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 7, 2024
Friday, March 8, 2024
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Sunday, March 10, 2024

Monday, March 11, 2024
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 12, 2024
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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 14, 2024
Friday, March 15, 2024
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Monday, March 18, 2024
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 19, 2024
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Friday, March 22, 2024

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 23, 2024
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Monday, March 25, 2024
5:00 PM Top Physics 1 - Michele Gallinaro (IST and LIP Lisbon)
Top Physics 1
- Michele Gallinaro (IST and LIP Lisbon)
5:00 PM - 6:30 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 26, 2024
5:00 PM Top Physics 2 - Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
Top Physics 2
- Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
5:00 PM - 6:30 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
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Friday, March 29, 2024
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Monday, April 1, 2024
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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)
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Friday, April 5, 2024
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Sunday, April 7, 2024

Monday, April 8, 2024
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.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
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
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Friday, April 12, 2024
5:00 PM Analysis tools - Inês Ochoa
Analysis tools
- Inês Ochoa
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Conference Room (LIP)
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Sunday, April 14, 2024

Monday, April 15, 2024
5:00 PM 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)
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
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
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.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Sunday, April 21, 2024

Monday, April 22, 2024
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
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
5:00 PM SUSY 2 - Cristóvão Silva (LIP) Cristovao Beirao da Cruz e Silva
SUSY 2
- Cristóvão Silva (LIP)
- Cristovao Beirao da Cruz e Silva
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Conference Room (LIP) * Searches of SUSY particles at past accelerators & LHC II
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Friday, April 26, 2024
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Sunday, April 28, 2024

Monday, April 29, 2024
5:00 PM Flavour anomalies and BSM - Alessio Boletti Alessio Boletti (LIP, Lisboa (PT))
Flavour anomalies and BSM
- Alessio Boletti
- Alessio Boletti (LIP, Lisboa (PT))
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.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Friday, May 3, 2024
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Monday, May 6, 2024
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.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Friday, May 10, 2024
5:00 PM Quantum Computing for HEP - João Seixas (CeFEMA/LaPMET/ IST (also at LIP))
Quantum Computing for HEP
- João Seixas (CeFEMA/LaPMET/ IST (also at LIP))
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Conference Room (LIP)
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Sunday, May 12, 2024

Monday, May 13, 2024
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.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Friday, May 17, 2024
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Sunday, May 19, 2024

Monday, May 20, 2024
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Friday, May 24, 2024
Saturday, May 25, 2024
Sunday, May 26, 2024

Monday, May 27, 2024
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Friday, May 31, 2024
Saturday, June 1, 2024
Sunday, June 2, 2024

Monday, June 3, 2024
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Friday, June 7, 2024
Saturday, June 8, 2024
Sunday, June 9, 2024

Monday, June 10, 2024
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Friday, June 14, 2024
Saturday, June 15, 2024
Sunday, June 16, 2024

Monday, June 17, 2024
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Friday, June 21, 2024
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Sunday, June 23, 2024

Monday, June 24, 2024
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Friday, June 28, 2024
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Monday, July 1, 2024
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Friday, July 5, 2024
Saturday, July 6, 2024
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Monday, July 8, 2024
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
2:00 PM Presentations
Presentations
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Conference Room (LIP)
Contributions

2:00 PM Precise W boson mass measurement: Measurement of the W-boson mass and width with the ATLAS detector using proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV - Jose' Bastos (IST, University of Lisbon)

2:40 PM Observation of γγ→ττ in proton-proton collisions and limits on the anomalous electromagnetic moments of the τ lepton - Ricardo Lage (FCUP/FEUP)

3:20 PM Search for dark photons in Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV - Rui Miranda (Universidade do Porto)
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Friday, July 12, 2024
Saturday, July 13, 2024