Standard Model
1. Intro to model building and the SM
The gauge sector and SSB
Flavors: quarks and leptons
2. QED
QCD
The gauge sector of SM
Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Statistics
1. Introduction and review of fundamentals
Probability, random variables, pdfs
Parameter estimation, maximum likelihood
Statistical tests for discovery and limits
2. Further topics
Brief overview of multivariate methods
Nuisance parameters and systematic uncertainties
Experimental sensitivity
Mr. Stefan Hoeche (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
QCD and Monte-Carlo Event Generators • Recap and brief history of QCD
• Event structure at hadron colliders
• Perturbative QCD calculations
• Resummation and parton showers
• Matching fixed-order calculations and parton showers
• Non-factorizable terms and secondary interactions
• Hadronization & Particle decays
Prof. Robin Erbacher Erbacher (University of California)
Top Physis • A little bit of history of discoveries
• About the top quark
• Top quark pair production
• Single top quark - electroweak production
• Top quark mass
• Top quark properties
• Boosted top quarks
• Searches for new physics in top
Prof. Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)
Neutrino and Muon Physics
Wesley H. Smith (U. Wisconsin - Madison)
LHC Trigger and DAQ
• Introduction to LHC Trigger and DAQ
• Challenges & Architecture of ATLAS and CMS
• ATLAS and CMS Trigger and DAQ
• The future of ATLAS and CMS Trigger & DAQ
Dmitri Denisov (Fermilab)
Future Particle Colliders
• Why colliders?
• Overview of colliders
• Future colliders options and challenges – e+e–,
µ+µ–, pp colliders
• 100 TeV pp collider design
• Medium term future colliders proposals
• Next steps
D. Bortoletto (University of Oxford)
Tracking
• Fundamental issues in tracking
• Silicon detectors and their applications
• New ideas and developments for the HL-LHC
Ian Shipsey (Oxford)
Flavor Physics
• The Big Picture
• Role of flavor physics in the Big Picture
• Flavor Physics past and present
• Opportunities for achieving “transformational or
paradigm-altering” scientific advances: great discoveries.
