Experimental Collider Physics

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Pré-requisitos Recomendados

Formato do Curso

Bibliografia

• Livro texto
  • Practical Collider Physics, A. Buckley, C. White, and M. White (IOP Publishing Ltd, 2021)

• Bibliografia complementar
  • Experimental Particle Physics, D. Kar (IOP Publishing Ltd, 2019)
  • Particle Physics in the LHC Era, G. Barr, R. Devenish, R. Walczak, and T. Weidberg (Oxford University Press, 2016)
  • Experimental Techniques in Nuclear and Particle Physics, S. Tavernier (Springer-Verlag, 2010)
  • Advanced Instrumentation, edited by A. Sharma, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 666 (2012)

Programa do Curso

1. From Theory to Experiment

• 1.1 Perturbation Theory, Resummation and Parton showers
• 1.2 Hadronisation and Underlying event
• 1.3 Jet algorithms, Parton showers and NLO matrix elements

2. Statistics

• 2.1 Probability
• 2.2 Correlations
• 2.3 Statistical Estimators
• 2.4 Bayesian and Frequentist Inference
• 2.5 Sampling
• 2.6 Hypothesis Testing
• 2.7 Multivariate Methods and Machine Learning

3. Detection and Reconstruction

• 3.1 Detector Technologies and Trigger
• 3.2 Particle Reconstruction
• 3.3 Rogue Signals

4. Data Processing

• 4.1 Event Generation
• 4.2 Detector Simulation and Digitization
• 4.3 Reconstruction, Analysis-data Processing and Visualisation

5. Data Analysis

• 5.1 Data-taking, Object Definition and Event Selection
• 5.2 Observables
• 5.3 Performance Optimisation
• 5.4 Background Estimation
• 5.5 Uncertainties

6. Particle Searches

• 6.1 Diphoton Resonance Search
• 6.2 Jet Resonance Search
• 6.3 Semi-invisible Particle Searches: General Strategy
• 6.4 Accurate Background Modeling and LHC data

7. High-precision Measurements

• 7.1 Fiducial Definitions, Volumes and Cross-sections
• 7.2 Complex Object Reconstruction
• 7.3 Detector corrections and unfolding

8. Analysis Preservation and Reinterpretation

• 8.1 Global Statistical Fits and Reinterpreting Particle Searches
• 8.2 Analysis Preservation and Open Data