QCD

• Lecturer: Alex Mitov
• Slides are available here.
• Lecture Times:
  • Tue 12 May 2pm-4pm (RDC Seminar Room D – D2.002)
  • Thu 14 May, 11:00 – 12:30 (RDC Meeting Room 2 – B2.009)

• Location: TBD (RDC)

Computing in HEP

• Lecturer: Terry Generet
• Lecture Times:
  • Mon, June 22, 10:00-11:00 (lecture on computing tools for HEP & preparation for tutorial) (RDC B2.009)
  • Mon, June 22, 11:30-12:30 (tutorial & exercises) (RDC D3.073)

• Instructions:
  

This lecture and tutorial are intended to introduce basic tools and software commonly used in HEP, assuming only basic knowledge of programming and Unix systems. The lecture introduces some of the most common software in HEP and the physics and maths behind them. The tutorial provides a guided tour through the basics of the SHERPA event generator specifically.

In order to save time and hassle, the tutorial makes use of a virtual machine, so you do not have to install any HEP software yourself. In preparation for the lecture and the tutorial, please follow the instructions below to install and run VirtualBox (note the alternative usage via UTM for MacOS users with ARM processors). Please try this well before the actual lecture in order to have some time to fix problems and to avoid any delays during the lecture/tutorial. If you prefer to install the HEP software we will be using on your own system, you can download the tutorial materials here. Please refer to ‘Tutorial.pdf’ for a list of software we will need.

Usage with VirtualBox (recommended for any system other than ARM-based MacOS):

• Install VirtualBox
• Download the virtual machine.
• Unzip the virtual machine.
• Start VirtualBox and click on “Open”. Navigate to the ‘HEPLecture.vbox’ file and open it. You should now see some information about the virtual machine on the right.
• After the import (might take a couple of minutes) you should be able to start the virtual machine by clicking on the green arrow labelled ‘START’.

Usage with UTM (recommended for ARM-based MacOS):

• Install UTM (https://mac.getutm.app/, click ‘Download’, not ‘Mac App Store’).
• Download the virtual machine.
• Unzip the virtual machine.
• Start UTM and click on ‘Create new virtual machine’.
• Choose ‘Emulate’, then ‘Other’, then click ‘Continue’.
• Choose ‘Drive image’ and import the .vdi file you unzipped before.
• Uncheck ‘UEFI boot’, click ‘Continue’, then click ‘Continue’ again and click ‘Save’.
• You should now be able to start the virtual machine.

Flavour Physics

• Lecturer: Matt Kenzie

• Location: TBD
• Lecture Times TBD

Search Strategies, limit setting and discoveries at the LHC and beyond

• Lecturer: Oleg Brandt

• Lecture Times: TBD

• Problem sheet No 1 and Problem sheet No 2.
• Syllabus: Hypothesis testing, the CLs method (central to understanding searches at the LHC) using the hunt for the Higgs boson at LEP, Tevatron, and the LHC for illustration, followed by representative examples how searches are designed.
• Important information:
  • In order to follow and fully benefit from the lecture, the students are expected read two papers beforehand:
    • The famous overview paper on the CLs method by Alex Read
    • The original ATLAS Higgs observation paper
  • Additional reading for the students (may be helpful for the understanding):
    • #12 – CLs iteslf,
    • #11 – hypothesis testing

BSM Physics

• Lecturer: Ben Gripaios

• Lecture Times: TBD (early June)

• Location: TBD

Particle detection technologies

NOTE: This is a series of lectures on related topics

Here is a link to all lectures. Description includes lectures’ names, times.  Additional materials like slides etc can also be found there.

Topics relating to Probability and Statistics in HEP

• Lecturer: Chris Lester

• Lecture Times: TBD

• Location: TBD