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 4 March 2024
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.
Tuesday 5 March 2024
Wednesday 6 March 2024
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.
Thursday 7 March 2024
Friday 8 March 2024
Saturday 9 March 2024
Sunday 10 March 2024

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

Monday 18 March 2024
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 19 March 2024
Wednesday 20 March 2024
17:00 Statistics 1 - Pietro Vischia (U. Oviedo)
Statistics 1
- Pietro Vischia (U. Oviedo)
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 21 March 2024
Friday 22 March 2024

17:00 Statistics 2
Statistics 2
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 23 March 2024
Sunday 24 March 2024

Monday 25 March 2024
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 26 March 2024
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
Wednesday 27 March 2024
Thursday 28 March 2024
Friday 29 March 2024
Saturday 30 March 2024
Sunday 31 March 2024

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

Monday 8 April 2024
17:00 Higgs Physics 1 - Ricardo Goncalo Ricardo Gonçalo (U. Coimbra/LIP)
Higgs Physics 1
- Ricardo Goncalo
- Ricardo Gonçalo (U. Coimbra/LIP)
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 9 April 2024
Wednesday 10 April 2024
17:00 Higgs Physics 2 - Pedro Silva (LIP) Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
Higgs Physics 2
- Pedro Silva (LIP)
- Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
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 11 April 2024
Friday 12 April 2024
17:00 Analysis tools - Inês Ochoa
Analysis tools
- Inês Ochoa
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP)
Saturday 13 April 2024
Sunday 14 April 2024

Monday 15 April 2024
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 16 April 2024
Wednesday 17 April 2024
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 18 April 2024
Friday 19 April 2024
Saturday 20 April 2024
Sunday 21 April 2024

Monday 22 April 2024
17:00 SUSY 1 - Cristovao Beirao da Cruz e Silva Cristóvão Silva (LIP)
SUSY 1
- Cristovao Beirao da Cruz e Silva
- Cristóvão Silva (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 23 April 2024
Wednesday 24 April 2024
17:00 SUSY 2 - Cristóvão Silva (LIP) Cristovao Beirao da Cruz e Silva
SUSY 2
- Cristóvão Silva (LIP)
- Cristovao Beirao da Cruz e Silva
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP) * Searches of SUSY particles at past accelerators & LHC II
Thursday 25 April 2024
Friday 26 April 2024
Saturday 27 April 2024
Sunday 28 April 2024

Monday 29 April 2024
17:00 Flavour anomalies and BSM - Alessio Boletti (LIP, Lisboa (PT)) Alessio Boletti
Flavour anomalies and BSM
- Alessio Boletti (LIP, Lisboa (PT))
- Alessio Boletti
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.
Tuesday 30 April 2024
Wednesday 1 May 2024
Thursday 2 May 2024
Friday 3 May 2024
Saturday 4 May 2024
Sunday 5 May 2024

Monday 6 May 2024
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.
Tuesday 7 May 2024
Wednesday 8 May 2024
Thursday 9 May 2024
Friday 10 May 2024
17:00 Quantum Computing for HEP - João Seixas (CeFEMA/LaPMET/ IST (also at LIP))
Quantum Computing for HEP
- João Seixas (CeFEMA/LaPMET/ IST (also at LIP))
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room (LIP)
Saturday 11 May 2024
Sunday 12 May 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday 8 July 2024
Tuesday 9 July 2024
14:00 Presentations
Presentations
14:00 - 18:00
Room: Conference Room (LIP)
Contributions

14:00 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)

14:40 Observation of γγ→ττ in proton-proton collisions and limits on the anomalous electromagnetic moments of the τ lepton - Ricardo Lage (FCUP/FEUP)

15:20 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 10 July 2024
Thursday 11 July 2024
Friday 12 July 2024
Saturday 13 July 2024