Second Lisbon mini-school on Particle and Astroparticle Physics

6 Feb 2017, 10:00 → 8 Feb 2017, 17:10 Portugal

Hotel do Mar - Sesimbra

The Lisbon mini-school on Particle and Astroparticle Physics provides under-graduated students with a comprehensive introduction to the field, covering both theoretical and experimental aspects.
This school will give insigth to recent discoveries and to open challenges and will stress the research opportunities in the field in Portugal.

The school is mainly aimed to third year under-graduated students who have completed the course in Quantum Mechanics I.

notes Hands_on_Neutrinos17.pdf Neutrino.C

Monday, 6 February

10:00 → 11:30 The Standard Model in a nutshell

Lectures on the several topics of the school

10:30 The Standard Model in a nutshell

Speaker: Filipe Joaquim (CFTP)

11:30 → 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 → 13:30 The Standard Model in a nutshell

Lectures on the several topics of the school

12:00 Symmetries and their role in particle physics

Speaker: Ivo Varzielas

Slides varzielas_symmetries_particle_physics.pdf

12:30 Searching for New Physics

Speaker: Igor Ivanov (CFTP)

13:00 From Nuclei to quarks and gluons

Speaker: Elmar Biernat

13:30 → 15:00 Lunch

15:00 → 16:30 The adventure of Particle Physics

15:00 Needles in the haystack

Speaker: Nuno Leonardo (LIP)

Slides leonardo_needles_in_haystack.pdf

15:30 Messengers from the Universe

Speaker: Ruben Conceição (LIP/IST)

Slides Conceicao_MessengersUniverse.pdf

16:00 Three quarks for Muster Mark

Speaker: Marcin Stolarski (LIP)

Slides stolarski_3quarkspdf.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 → 19:30 The adventure of Particle Physics

17:00 Looking for the Dark side of the Universe

Speaker: Francisco Neves (LIP)

17:30 From the Higgs boson to the industry

Speaker: António Onofre (LIP)

18:30 Welcome Drink

Tuesday, 7 February

09:00 → 13:30 Hands-on Higgs: Morning Session

09:00 Higgs Hands-on

Speakers: Prof. Jorge Romão (CFTP/IST), Ricardo Gonçalo (LIP)

Exercise Exercise.tar.gz

Slides HiggsHandsOn_new.pptx

09:00 → 13:30 Hands-on Neutrinos: Morning Session

09:00 Hands on neutrinos

Speakers: Mr Filipe Joaquim, (IST), Sofia Andringa (LIP)

Slides Hands_on_Neutrinos.pdf

09:00 → 13:30 Hands-on in Cosmic Rays: Morning Session

09:00 Unveiling cosmic particles with muons: the cosmic connection

Our cosmos is full of radiation. Its composition is made of massless particles (photons) and different mass particles such as protons, electrons, positrons and heavier nuclei. Their observation is a consequence of being accelerated with striking energies on the cosmos accelerator, at singular supernova regions.
Muons are smoking guns of these primary cosmic particles. They are relatively short lived particles that are generated on interactions of primaries on the top of the atmosphere, ten kilometers above earth surface. Its detection upon earth is due to its high energy that allows its survival for kilometers as was explained by the Einstein relativity. On this hands-on project we are going to use a bi-scintilator telescope to detect muons and to measure its rate (number of muons per second). From that measurement and its normalization that requires a small Monte-Carlo program to calculate the telescope geometrical acceptance, we shall be able to estimate the muon vertical intensity and compare its value with literature.

Speakers: Mr Fernando Barão (LIP), Rúben Conceição (LIP)

notes Exercise guide webpage Unveiling_cosmic_particles_with_muons_the_cosmic_connection.Feb_2017.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

13:30 → 15:00 Lunch

15:00 → 19:00 Hands-on Higgs: Afternoon Session

15:00 → 19:00 Hands-on Neutrinos: Afternoon Session

15:00 → 19:00 Hands-on in Cosmic Rays: Afternoon session

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee Break

Wednesday, 8 February

09:00 → 11:20 Research Opportunities

09:30 Rare and not-so-rare events: precision measurements and searches

Speaker: Nuno Leonardo (LIP)

Slides 01_leonardo_precision_and_searches.pdf

09:40 Machine learning applied to Higgs physics

Speaker: Giles STRONG (LIP)

Slides 02_Srong_MachineLearning.pdf

09:50 Multivariate tool for search of SUperSYmmetric particles

Speaker: Pedrame BARGASSA (LIP)

Slides 03_Bargassa_SUSY.pdf

10:00 Fast sensors in LHC experiments and autonomous driving

Speaker: João Varela (LIP)

Slides 04_Varela_FastDetectors.pdf

10:10 Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Puzzles

Speaker: Pedro Assis (LIP)

Slides 05_Assis_CosmicRayPuzzles.pdf

10:20 The Pierre Auger Observatory: reaching beyond the 100 TeV frontier

Speaker: Lorenzo Cazon (LIP)

Slides 06_Cazon_AUGER.pdf

10:30 Gamma ray physics at high altitude in the southern hemisphere

Speaker: Bernardo Tome (LIP)

Slides 07_Tome_LATTES.pdf

10:40 SNO+ neutrino experiment

Speaker: Sofia Andringa (LIP)

Slides 08_Andringa_SNOp.pdf

10:50 From accelerators to the Cosmos

Speaker: Filipe Joaquim (IST)

Slides 09_Joaquim_AcceleratorCosmos.pdf

11:00 Constraining multi-Higgs dark matter

Speaker: Igor IVANOV (IST)

Slides 10_Ivanov_multiHiggsDarkMatter.pdf

11:10 CP-odd (basis) invariants

Speaker: Ivo DE MEDEIROS VARZIELAS (IST)

Slides 11_Varzielas_CPV.pdf

11:20 → 11:50 Coffee Break

11:50 → 13:30 Research Opportunities

11:50 Open Questions in Particle Physics for the XXI century

Speaker: Gustavo CASTELO BRANCO (IST)

Slides 12_Branco_open_questions.pdf

12:00 Study of ratio of charged kaons multiplicity at high momenta

Speaker: Marcin STOLARSKI (LIP)

Slides 13_Stolarski_COMPASS.pdf

12:10 Breakup reactions in halo nuclei towards the first FAIR experiments

Speaker: Daniel GALAVIZ (FCUL)

Slides 14_Galaviz_FAIR.pdf

12:20 A lattice QCD, física de partículas com HPC (computação de alta performance)

Speaker: Pedro BICUDO (IST)

Slides 15_Bicudo_LatticeQCD9pp.pdf

12:30 Hadron properties

Speaker: Teresa Peña (IST)

Slides 16_Pena_Hadrons.pdf

12:40 Probing the most perfect liquid

Speaker: Liliana APOLINÁRIO (LIP)

Slides 17_Apolinario_QGP.pdf

12:50 Investigação na experiência ATLAS: detectores e trigger

Speaker: Patricia CONDE MUíñO (LIP)

Slides 18_Muino_ATLASUpgrade.pdf

13:00 Investigação na experiência ATLAS: análise de física

Speaker: Ricardo GONÇALO

Slides 19_Goncalo_ATLASphysics.pdf

13:10 Higgs reloaded

Speaker: João Paulo SILVA (IST)

Slides 20_Silva_HiggsReloaded.pdf

13:20 Propriedades de Modelos com vários Higgs

Speaker: Jorge ROMÃO (IST)

Slides 21_Romao_HiggsAndPhysicsBSM.pdf

13:30 → 16:30 School Lunch