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Proton (Anti-)Proton Collider Physics RWTH Aachen , WS 2003/2004 T. Hebbeker

Program:

• overview pp physics at high energies
• accelerators [SPS, Tevatron, LHC] and detectors
• history: major discoveries at SPS and Tevatron
• Standard Model: jets, W,Z, bottom, top
• Search for Higgs, SUSY and other new phenomena
• data analysis techniques

Prerequisites/Audience:

This course is suitable in particular for members of the Graduate College "Elementary Particle Physics at the TeV Scale"

Location:

exception: Thursday Oct 23, 28 A 301 (not before 4 pm !)

Time:

SPECIAL LECTURE: CANCELLED
G. Blazey (D0): `D0 proton antiproton physics at the Tevatron'

lecture period: Thursday Oct 16, 2003 till Thursday Feb 5, 2004; Xmas/new year break: Dec 22, 2003 - Jan 6, 2004

Lecturer:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hebbeker , Physikzentrum 26 A 208, Tel 0241 80 27331

Lecture notes (password protected):

• overview, part 1 (pdf)
• overview, part 2 (pdf)
• overview, part 3 (pdf)
• overview, part 4 (pdf)

• part 1 - accelerators and detectors (pdf)
• part 2 - accelerators and detectors (pdf)
• part 3 - accelerators and detectors (pdf)
• part 4 - accelerators and detectors (pdf)
• part 5 - Bottom Physics I (pdf)
• part 6 - Bottom Physics II (pdf)
• part 7 - Supersymmetry I (pdf)
• part 8 - Supersymmetry II (pdf)

Exercises (50 points in total = certificate!):

• part 1 (pdf)
• part 2 (pdf)
• part 3 (pdf)
• part 4 (pdf)
• part 5 (pdf)
• part 6 (pdf)
• part 7 (pdf)
• part 8 (pdf)
• part 9 (pdf)
• part 10 (pdf)
• part 11 (pdf)
• part 12 (pdf)

Useful documents

• UA1 proposal (CERN/SPSC/87-06)
• example program pythia_0
• example program pythia_Z (corrected version)
• example program pythia_E
• data file for jet algorithm
• UA1 pictures (collected by T.H.)
• List of jets reconstructed from first event (exercise no. 5)
• CERN yellow report CERN 2000-004, G. Altarelli and M.L. Mangano (editors), `Proceedings of the workshop on standard model physics (and more) at the LHC', Bottom production
• CERN yellow report CERN 2000-004, G. Altarelli and M.L. Mangano (editors), `Proceedings of the workshop on standard model physics (and more) at the LHC', B Decays

Interesting links

• Review of Particle Physics
• Root
• Pythia
• Pythia Miniguide (and Tutorial)
• Pythia6 library for Root (please check inside root if the Pythia version is from 2002)
• Rubbia, Nobel lecture 1994 (W,Z discovery)
• historical paper on kT algorithm: Phys. Rev. D.48 (1993) 3160
• paper on kT algorithm use in Tevatron run II: G.C. Blazey et al., "Run II Jet Physics", hep-ex/0005012
• D0 paper on inclusive jet cross section: Phys. Lett. B 525 (2002) 211
• CDF paper on top discovery: Phys. Rev. Lett. 73 (1994) 225
• CDF paper on X(3872): Fermilab-Pub-03/393-E
• CDF paper on B mixing: Phys. Rev. D60, 051101 (1999)
• CDF paper on CP violation: Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5513 (1998).
• Review of b physics at CDF by M. Paulini:Int. J. Mod. Phys. A14, 2791 (1999)
• "Supersymmetry primer" by S.P. Martin, hep-ph/9709356
• Latest paper on Supersymmetry Benchmarks by M. Battaglia et al, hep-ph/0306219
• Interactive Isajet/Isasugra calculation of SUSY masses

Evaluierung mit "EvaSys" - Ergebnisse

last modification: T.Hebbeker 2018-05-22