Third Lisbon mini-school on Particle and Astroparticle Physics

5 Feb 2018, 10:00 → 7 Feb 2018, 17:10 Portugal

Inatel - Oeiras

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.

Monday, 5 February

The Standard Model in a nutshell

Lectures on the several topics of the school

1 The Standard Model in a nutshell

Speaker: Filipe Joaquim (CFTP)

11:30 Coffee Break

The Standard Model in a nutshell

Lectures on the several topics of the school

2 Symmetries and their role in particle physics

Speaker: Ivo Varzielas

Slides Ivo_Oeiras.pdf

3 Neutral meson oscillations and matter-antimatter asymmetry

Speaker: Miguel Nebot

Slides nebot.pdf

4 From Nuclei to quarks and gluons

Speaker: Elmar Biernat

Slides elmarBiernat_Oeiras_talk.pdf

13:30 Lunch

The adventure of Particle Physics

5 The Higgs boson adventure continues

Speaker: Patricia Conde-Muiño

Slides Higgs_Conde_v2.pdf

6 A 5D calorimeter to probe electroweak symmetry breaking at the LHC

Speaker: Pedro Silva

Slides pedro.pdf

7 Dynamics of quarks and gluons in a hot and dense medium

Speaker: Liliana Apolinário

Slides Liliana_Oeiras.pdf

16:30 Coffee Break

The adventure of Particle Physics

8 Catching neutrinos and cosmic rays

Speaker: Sofia Andringa

Slides sofia.pdf

9 RPCs from CERN to the Pampa

Speaker: Paulo Fonte

Slides RPC_Lisbon_mini-school.ppt

Tuesday, 6 February

Hands-on Higgs: Morning Session

10 Higgs Hands-on

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

Hands-on Neutrinos: Morning Session

slides Hands_on_Neutrinos18.pdf

11 Hands on neutrinos

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

Hands-on in Cosmic Rays: Morning Session

12 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)

11:00 Coffee Break

13:30 Lunch

Hands-on Higgs: Afternoon Session

Hands-on Neutrinos: Afternoon Session

slides Hands_on_Neutrinos18.pdf

Hands-on in Cosmic Rays: Afternoon session

16:30 Coffee Break

Wednesday, 7 February

Research Opportunities

13 The ATLAS experimenta at LHC (TBC)

Speaker: Ms Patricia CONDE MUíñO (LIP)

14 Upgrading the CMS detector for new physics

Speakers: Cristóvão Silva, Mr Giles Strong (LIP), Pedram Bargassa

Slides CMS_Oeiras2018.pdf

15 Theoretical Particle Physics: From accelerators to the Cosmos

Speaker: Mr Filipe Joaquim, (IST)

16 CP-odd (basis) invariants

Speaker: Ivo Varzielas (CFTP, IST)

Slides CPI.pdf

17 Phenomelogy of NHiggs Doublet Models

Speaker: Prof. Jorge Romão (CFTP-IST)

18 New Physics, Higgs Physics and the Flavour Problem

Speaker: Gustavo Castelo Branco (CFTP)

19 Flavour Phenomenology in the LHC era

Speaker: Miguel Nebot Gomez (CFTP)

Slides FlavourPhenomenologyNebot.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

Research Opportunities

20 Heavy Ion Phenomenology

Speaker: Guilherme Milhano (LIP)

Slides HIP.pdf

21 The COMPASS Experiment at CERN

Speaker: Catarina Quintans (LIP)

Slides quintans_Oeiras2018-LIP.pdf

22 Computing in High Energy Physics at LIP (TBC)

Speaker: Jorge Gomes (LIP)

23 Particle Physics Technologies applied to Space and Biomedical Applications

Speaker: Dr Patricia Gonçalves (LIP)

24 Data Analysis in the SNO+ Neutrino Physics Experiment

Speaker: Jose Maneira (LIP)

25 Hunting Cosmic Rays in the Pampa Argentina

Speaker: Mr Pedro Assis (LIP)

26 Messengers from beyond the ~100 TeV c.m. frontier

Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Cazon (LIP)

27 LATTES: a new detector concept for gamma-ray astrophysics

Speaker: Rúben Conceição (LIP)

Slides Ruben_LATTES_3rdLIP_CFTP_MiniSchool.pdf

Closing session

13:00 School Lunch