Name: 14th Course on Physics at the LHC 2025
Start: 2025-02-17T17:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-07-04T20:00:00+01:00
Location: No location set

Monday, February 17, 2025
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: Seminar Room ("sala Seminarios") (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, February 18, 2025
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
5:30 PM Introduction to collisions at LHC - João Varela (LIP)
Introduction to collisions at LHC
- João Varela (LIP)
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Seminar Room ("sala Seminarios") (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, February 20, 2025
Friday, February 21, 2025
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Monday, February 24, 2025
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: Seminar Room ("sala Seminarios") (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, February 25, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
5:00 PM Top Physics 2 - Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
Top Physics 2
- Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Seminar Room ("sala Seminarios") (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, February 27, 2025
Friday, February 28, 2025
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Monday, March 3, 2025
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
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: Seminar Room ("sala Seminarios") (LIP) An overview of SM processes (excluding those that are explicitly covered in the following lectures, i.e. Top, B, Higgs)
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Friday, March 7, 2025
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Monday, March 24, 2025
5:00 PM Analysis tools - Inês Ochoa (LIP)
Analysis tools
- Inês Ochoa (LIP)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Seminar Room ("sala Seminarios") (LIP)
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Friday, March 28, 2025
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Monday, March 31, 2025
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: Seminar Room ("sala Seminarios") (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 1, 2025
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
5:00 PM 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)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Seminar Room ("sala Seminarios") (LIP) Discovery of the Higgs boson in the different final states: Algorithms, challenges, tools, combination of results
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Friday, April 4, 2025
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Sunday, April 6, 2025

Monday, April 7, 2025
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: Seminar Room ("sala Seminarios") (LIP) Case-study of the H->bb search, H->bb observation Algorithms, challenges, tools Higgs measurements with H->bb
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Friday, April 11, 2025
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Sunday, April 13, 2025

Monday, April 21, 2025
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
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: Seminar Room ("sala Seminarios") (LIP) * Searches of SUSY particles at past accelerators & LHC II
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Friday, April 25, 2025
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Monday, April 28, 2025
5:00 PM Flavour anomalies and BSM - Alessio Boletti (LIP, Lisboa (PT)) Alessio Boletti
Flavour anomalies and BSM
- Alessio Boletti (LIP, Lisboa (PT))
- Alessio Boletti
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Seminar Room ("sala Seminarios") (LIP) The so-called flavor anomalies are introduced. BSM through precision. Rare decays and FCNCs. Anomalies and Lepton Flavour Universality violation.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Friday, May 2, 2025
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Monday, May 5, 2025
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: Seminar Room ("sala Seminarios") (LIP) Searches for exotic particles and for Dark Matter candidates are discussed.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
5:00 PM Heavy Ions - Helena Santos (LIP) Helena Santos (FCUL)
Heavy Ions
- Helena Santos (LIP)
- Helena Santos (FCUL)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Seminar Room ("sala Seminarios") (LIP)
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Friday, May 9, 2025
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Monday, May 12, 2025
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Friday, May 16, 2025
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Monday, May 19, 2025
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: Seminar Room ("sala Seminarios") (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 20, 2025
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Friday, May 23, 2025
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Monday, May 26, 2025
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Friday, May 30, 2025
Saturday, May 31, 2025
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Thursday, June 5, 2025
Friday, June 6, 2025
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Monday, June 9, 2025
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Monday, June 16, 2025
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Monday, June 23, 2025
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
Friday, June 27, 2025
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Sunday, June 29, 2025

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