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
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