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Lecture |
Date
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Contents |
Overheads |
| 1 |
29/09/08 |
Welcome, Course details, Introduction to Colliders |
Intro |
| 2 |
03/10/08 |
Introduction to LEP, LEP-I Physics
(suggested web resources)
|
LEP-I
|
| 3 |
06/10/08 |
More e+ e- Facilities ....
LEP-II, B factories, Linear Collider
(suggested web resources)
|
BaBar
|
| 4 |
10/10/08 |
Heavy ion collisions and neutrino oscillation facilities
(suggested web resources)
|
Directed private reading I
|
| 5 |
13/10/08 |
ep Facilities, HERA, kinematics and event displays
(suggested web resources)
|
HERA
|
| 6 |
17/10/08 |
pp Facilities intro, the Tevatron and the top quark
(suggested web resources)
|
Tevatron
|
| 7 |
20/10/08 |
The LHC and Higgs phenomenology
|
LHC
|
| 8 |
24/10/08 |
Gaseous tracking detectors
|
trackers
|
| 9 |
27/10/08 |
Semiconductor trackers, track reconstruction
|
silicon
|
| 10 |
31/10/08 |
Electromagnetic and Hadronic Showers, Calorimeter Design
|
Calo
|
| 11 |
03/11/08 |
Triggering and Data Acquisition
|
trigger
|
| 12 |
07/11/08 |
Heavy ion collisions and neutrino oscillation facilities
(suggested web resources)
|
Directed private reading II
|
| 13 |
10/11/08 |
Cross sections, luminosity and Monte Carlos
|
MC
|
| 14 |
14/11/08 |
A binned cross section measurement
|
xsec
|
| 15 |
17/11/08 |
Error propagation, systematic errors
|
systs
|
| 16 |
21/11/08 |
Probability distributions
|
probs
|
| 17 |
24/11/08 |
Estimators, (log)-likelihood, the weighted mean
|
estimation
|
| 18 |
28/11/08 |
Chi2, Hypothesis testing
|
chi2
|
| 19 |
01/12/08 |
Signal significance, Case study
|
significance
Jack (Totem)
|
20 |
05/12/08 |
Case studies:
|
Sukhbinder (ATLAS trigger)
Patrick (QGP)
Amelia (Neutrino mass)
|
21 |
08/12/08 |
Case studies:
|
Rory (SUSY searches at the LHC)
Alex (Top discovery)
Tony (Neutrinoless double beta decay)
|
| Xtra Material |
|
Accelerator Physics
|
Nikhef
CERN
|