Hadron Collider Physics Summer School 2008

12 Aug 2008, 08:45 → 22 Aug 2008, 22:30 US/Central

1 West (Fermilab)

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Tuesday, 12 August

08:45 → 09:00 Welcome

08:45 Welcome

Speaker: Pier Oddone (Fermilab)

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080812Oddone/index.htm

09:00 → 10:15 SM / Precision EW

The Standard Model confronts the LHC: Electroweak Measurements, Status of QCD (perturbative and non perturbative). Top quark physics. Limits of the SM. Avenues for new physics.

09:00 SM / Precision EW - Lecture 1

Speaker: Guido Altarelli (Universita' di Roma Tre and CERN)

Slides 080812Altarelli.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080812Altarelli/index.htm

10:15 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 12:00 Trigger / DAQ

Trigger strategy, hardware, commissioning, calibration, alignment, simulation

10:45 Trigger / DAQ - Lecture 1

Speaker: Wesley Smith (University of Wisconsin)

Slides 080812_Smith.pdf 080812_Smith.ppt

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080812Smith/index.htm

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 QCD

QCD theory and parton model, Parton Density Functions, Parton level event generators, Hadronization and decay, Resummation; Underlying event and beam remnants

14:00 QCD - Lecture 1

Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford University)

Slides 080812_Zanderighi.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080812Zanderighi/index.htm

15:15 → 15:45 Break

15:45 → 17:00 Calorimetry

Hardware, commissioning, calibration, alignment, object reconstruction, object ID, simulation

15:45 Calorimetry - Lecture 1

Showers and Detectors

Speaker: Ursula Bassler (Irfu/SPP CEA-Saclay)

Slides 080812Bassler.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080812Bassler/index.htm

17:00 → 17:15 Break

17:15 → 18:30 Data Structure, Computing Model

Data model and analysis model, data reconstruction, and simulation and data sets

17:15 Data Structure, Computing Model

Speaker: Patricia McBride (Fermilab)

Slides LHC_computing.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080812McBride/index.htm

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

19:30 → 20:15 Open Panel Discussion

19:30 (no title)

Speakers: Giulia Zanderighi, Guido Altarelli, Patty McBride, Wesley Smith

20:15 → 21:30 LPC Reception / Tour of LHC@FNAL Operations Center

21:30 → 21:30 Bus to Hotel

Wednesday, 13 August

09:00 → 10:15 SM / Precision EW

The Standard Model confronts the LHC: Electroweak Measurements, Status of QCD (perturbative and non perturbative). Top quark physics. Limits of the SM. Avenues for new physics.

09:00 SM / Precision EW - Lecture 2

Speaker: Guido Altarelli (Universita' di Roma Tre and CERN)

Slides 080813_Altarelli.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080813Altarelli/index.htm

10:15 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 12:00 Trigger / DAQ

Trigger strategy, hardware, commissioning, calibration, alignment, simulation

10:45 Trigger / DAQ - Lecture 2

Speaker: Wesley Smith (University of Wisconsin)

Slides 080812_Smith.pdf 080812_Smith.ppt

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080813Smith/index.htm

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 QCD

QCD theory and parton model, Parton Density Functions, Parton level event generators, Hadronization and decay, Resummation; Underlying event and beam remnants

14:00 QCD - Lecture 2

Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford University)

Slides 080813Zanderighi.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080813Zanderighi/index.htm

15:15 → 15:45 break

15:45 → 17:00 Calorimetry

Hardware, commissioning, calibration, alignment, object reconstruction, object ID, simulation

15:45 Calorimetry - Lecture 2

Signal Treatment and Calibration

Speaker: Ursula Bassler (Irfu/SPP CEA-Saclay)

Slides 080813Bassler.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080813Bassler/index.htm

17:00 → 17:30 Break

17:30 → 18:45 Discussion Sessions

17:30 Calorimetry

Speakers: Florencia Canelli, Ursula Bassler

17:30 QCD

Speakers: Ed Berger, Giulia Zanderighi

17:30 SM / Precision EW

Speakers: Bogdan Dobrescu, Guido Altarelli

18:45 → 20:15 Dinner

20:15 → 21:15 Feedback and Open Discussion with School Co-Directors

21:30 → 21:30 Bus to Hotel

Thursday, 14 August

09:00 → 10:15 SM / Precision EW

The Standard Model confronts the LHC: Electroweak Measurements, Status of QCD (perturbative and non perturbative). Top quark physics. Limits of the SM. Avenues for new physics.

09:00 SM / Precision EW - Lecture 3

Speaker: Guido Altarelli (Universita' di Roma Tre and CERN)

Slides 080814Altarelli.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080814Altarelli/index.htm

10:15 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 12:00 Statistics

Theory, methods, and examples

10:45 Statistics - Lecture 1

Speaker: Ricardo Piegaia (University of Buenos Aires)

Slides 080814Piegaia.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080814Piegaia/index.htm

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 QCD

QCD theory and parton model, Parton Density Functions, Parton level event generators, Hadronization and decay, Resummation; Underlying event and beam remnants

14:00 QCD - Lecture 3

Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford University)

Slides 080814Zanderighi.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080814Zanderighi/index.htm

15:15 → 15:45 Break

15:45 → 17:00 Calorimetry

Hardware, commissioning, calibration, alignment, object reconstruction, object ID, simulation

15:45 Calorimetry - Lecture 3

Simulation and Reconstruction

Speaker: Ursula Bassler (Irfu/SPP CEA-Saclay)

Slides 080814Bassler.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080814Bassler/index.htm

17:00 → 17:30 Break

17:30 → 18:45 Accelerator Physics

Concepts of optics, emittance, magnets, RF systems, luminosity, Linear vs. circular machines, hadrons vs. electrons, fixed target vs. colliders, Instrumentation

17:30 Accelerator Physics

Speaker: Michael Syphers (Fermilab)

Slides HCPSSsyphers.pdf

Streamed video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080814Syphers/index.htm

Video HCPSSsyphers.mov

ZippedAnimations Animations.zip

18:45 → 19:45 Dinner

19:45 → 20:45 Open Panel Discussion

19:45 (no title)

Speakers: Guido Altarelli, Mike Syphers, Ursula Bassler

21:00 → 21:00 Bus to Hotel

Friday, 15 August

09:00 → 10:15 Heavy Flavor

Precision measurements and Standard Model tests using heavy-quark decays; Searches for New Physics in rare FCNC processes; B physics at the LHC

09:00 Heavy Flavor - Lecture 1

Speaker: Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)

Slides 080815_Neubert.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080815Neubert/index.htm

10:15 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 12:00 Statistics

Theory, methods, and examples

10:45 Statistics - Lecture 2

Speaker: Ricardo Piegaia (University of Buenos Aires)

Slides 080815Piegaia.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080815Piegaia/index.htm

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch Seminar

12:45 What Can the Open Science Grid Do for You?

Speaker: Ruth Pordes (Fermilab)

Slides 080815_Pordes.pdf

14:00 → 15:15 QCD

QCD theory and parton model, Parton Density Functions, Parton level event generators, Hadronization and decay, Resummation; Underlying event and beam remnants

14:00 QCD - Lecture 4

Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford University)

Slides 080815Zanderighi.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080815Zanderighi/index.htm

15:15 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:20 Recent Results from CDF and D0

Wine and Cheese Seminar

16:00 CDF Results

Speaker: Aurore Savoy-Navarro (LPHNE and Universite de Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)

Slides

• 080815_Savoy-Navarro.pdf
• 080815_Savoy-Navarro.ppt
• Answers_to_Marcela's_questions.pdf

16:40 D0 Results

Speaker: Andrew Askew (Florida State University)

Slides 080815_Askew.pdf

17:30 → 18:45 Discussion Sessions

17:30 Accelerator

Speakers: Eric Prebys, Mike Lamont, Mike Syphers

17:30 Heavy Flavor

Speakers: Enrico Lunghi, Matthias Neubert

17:30 QCD

Speakers: Ed Berger, Giulia Zanderighi

17:30 Statistics

Speakers: Ricardo Piegaia, Tom Junk

18:45 → 19:45 Dinner

19:45 → 20:45 (no title)

Speakers: Matthias Neubert, Mike Lamont, Mike Syphers, Ricardo Piegaia

19:45 → 20:45 Open Panel Discussion

21:00 → 21:00 Bus to Hotel

Saturday, 16 August

09:00 → 10:15 Heavy Flavor

Precision measurements and Standard Model tests using heavy-quark decays; Searches for New Physics in rare FCNC processes; B physics at the LHC

09:00 Heavy Flavor - Lecture 2

Speaker: Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)

Slides 080816_Neubert.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080816Neubert/index.htm

10:15 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 12:00 Statistics

Theory, methods, and examples

10:45 Statistics - Lecture 3

Speaker: Ricardo Piegaia (University of Buenos Aires)

Slides 080815Piegaia.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080816Piegaia/index.htm

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 The Large Hadron Collider

overview of CERN accelerator complex, LHC construction, commissioning status and schedule, LHC subsystems - cryogenics, electrical, collimators, abort system (machine protection). Shot-setup and HEP stores for LHC experiments, LHC upgrade scenarios

14:00 The Large Hadron Collider

Speaker: Mike Lamont (CERN)

Slides

• 080816_Lamont_1.pdf
• 080816_Lamont_1.ppt
• 080816_Lamont_2.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080816Lamont/index.htm

15:30 → 19:00 Fermilab Tours

Board buses in front of Wilson Hall by 15:30.
Sites include: Visitor area on 15th floor of Wilson Hall; Linac Gallery & Main Control Room; CDF; D0; SiDet; Grid Computing Center

19:00 → 21:30 BBQ Dinner

21:30 → 21:30 Bus to Hotel

Sunday, 17 August

10:00 → 20:00 Excursion to Chicago

Monday, 18 August

09:00 → 10:15 Supersymmetry (SUSY)

Theory and phenomenology

09:00 SUSY - Lecture 1

Speaker: Steve Martin (Northern Illinois University)

Slides 080818_Martin.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080818Martin/index.htm

10:15 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 12:00 Muons

Hardware, commissioning, calibration, alignment, object reconstruction, object ID, simulation

10:45 Muons - Lecture 1

Speaker: Darien Wood (Northeastern University)

Slides 080818_Wood.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080818Wood/index.htm

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 Higgs Boson Theory and Phenomenology

Standard Model and Beyond

14:00 Higgs - Lecture 1

Speaker: Howard Haber (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Slides 080818_Haber.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080818Haber/index.htm

15:15 → 15:45 Break

15:45 → 17:00 Tracking

Hardware, commissioning, calibration, alignment, object reconstruction, object ID, simulation

15:45 Tracking - Lecture 1

Speaker: David Stuart (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Slides 080818_Stuart.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080818Stuart/index.htm

17:00 → 17:30 Break

17:30 → 18:45 Extra Dimensions

Theory and phenomenology

17:30 Extra Dimensions - Lecture 1

Speaker: Eduardo Ponton (Columbia University)

Slides 080818_Ponton.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080818Ponton/index.htm

18:45 → 21:15 Steak Fry Dinner

21:30 → 21:30 Bus to Hotel

Tuesday, 19 August

09:00 → 10:15 Supersymmetry (SUSY)

Theory and phenomenology

09:00 SUSY - Lecture 2

Speaker: Steve Martin (Northern Illinois University)

Slides 080819_Martin.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080819Martin/index.htm

10:15 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 12:00 Muons

Hardware, commissioning, calibration, alignment, object reconstruction, object ID, simulation

10:45 Muons - Lecture 2

Speaker: Darien Wood (Northeastern University)

Slides 080819_Wood.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080819Wood/index.htm

12:00 → 12:15 Group Photo

Gather on front steps of Wilson Hall

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 Higgs Boson Theory and Phenomenology

Standard Model and Beyond

14:00 Higgs - Lecture 2

Speaker: Howard Haber (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Slides 080819_Haber.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080819Haber/index.htm

15:15 → 15:45 Break

15:45 → 17:00 Tracking

Hardware, commissioning, calibration, alignment, object reconstruction, object ID, simulation

15:45 Tracking - Lecture 2

Speaker: David Stuart (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Slides 080819_Stuart.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080819Stuart/index.htm

17:00 → 17:30 Break

17:30 → 18:45 Discussion Sessions

17:30 Extra Dimensions

Speakers: Eduardo Ponton, Ian Low

17:30 Higgs

Speakers: Carlos Wagner, Howard Haber

17:30 Muons and Tracking

Speakers: Darien Wood, David Stuart, Eric James, Ron Lipton

17:30 SUSY

Speakers: Joe Lykken, Steve Martin

18:45 → 19:45 Dinner

19:45 → 20:45 Open Panel Discussion

19:45 (no title)

Speakers: David Stuart, Eduardo Ponton, Howard Haber, Steve Martin

21:00 → 21:00 Bus to Hotel

Wednesday, 20 August

09:00 → 10:15 Supersymmetry (SUSY)

Theory and phenomenology

09:00 SUSY - Lecture 3

Speaker: Steve Martin (Northern Illinois University)

Slides 080820_Martin.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080820Martin/index.htm

10:15 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 12:00 Data Analysis

From triggers to analysis, background selections, different methods for searches vs. measurement, examples and cautionary tales, template methods, selecting analysis topics, Monte Carlo validation, systematics

10:45 Data Analysis - Lecture 1

Speaker: Beate Heinemann (University of California, Berkeley and LBNL)

Slides 080820_Heinemann.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080820Heinemann/index.htm

12:00 → 14:15 Lunch

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch Seminar

12:45 Preparing for the Next Step in One's Career - How to Look for a Job

Speaker: Rob Roser (Fermilab)

Slides 080820_Roser.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080820Roser/index.htm

14:15 → 15:30 Extra Dimensions

Theory and phenomenology

14:15 Extra Dimensions - Lecture 2

Speaker: Eduardo Ponton (Columbia University)

Slides 080820_Ponton.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080820Ponton/index.htm

15:30 → 16:00 break

16:00 → 17:00 Colloquium

16:00 Road to Discovery: LHC Commissioning and Early Physics Analyses

Speaker: Roberto Tenchini (University of Pisa)

Slides 080820_Tenchini.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080820Tenchini/index.htm

17:00 → 17:30 Break

17:30 → 18:45 Tracking

Hardware, commissioning, calibration, alignment, object reconstruction, object ID, simulation

17:30 Tracking - Lecture 3

Speaker: David Stuart (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Slides 080820_Stuart.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080820Stuart/index.htm

18:45 → 19:45 Dinner

19:45 → 20:45 Open Panel Discussion

19:45 (no title)

Speakers: Beate Heinemann, David Stuart, Eduardo Ponton, Roberto Tenchini, Steve Martin

21:00 → 21:00 Bus to Hotel

Thursday, 21 August

09:00 → 10:15 Strong Dynamics

Theory and phenomenology

09:00 Strong Dynamics - Lecture 1

Speaker: R. Sekhar Chivukula (Michigan State University)

Slides 080821_Chivukula.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080821Chivukula/index.htm

10:15 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 12:00 Data Analysis

From triggers to analysis, background selections, different methods for searches vs. measurement, examples and cautionary tales, template methods, selecting analysis topics, Monte Carlo validation, systematics

10:45 Data Analysis - Lecture 2

Speaker: Beate Heinemann (University of California, Berkeley and LBNL)

Slides 080821_Heinemann.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080821Heinemann/index.htm

12:00 → 12:30 Lunch

12:30 → 23:00 Trip to University of Chicago

12:30 Buses depart Wilson Hall (can bring your lunch)

13:45 Arrive at Adler Planetarium

14:10 3D presentation from the Space Visualization Group

Speaker: Dr. Mark SubbaRao

15:50 Cosmic Collisions

Speaker: Film

16:30 Depart Adler Planetarium

17:00 Arrive at University of Chicago

17:15 Welcome and Introductory Remarks

17:30 Connections between HEP and Cosmology

Speaker: Rocky Kolb (University of Chicago)

Slides 080821_Kolb.pdf

18:45 Cocktail Social

19:30 Banquet

21:00 Buses depart for Hotels

Friday, 22 August

09:00 → 10:15 Strong Dynamics

Theory and phenomenology

09:00 Strong Dynamics - Lecture 2

Speaker: R. Sekhar Chivukula (Michigan State University)

Slides 080822_Chivukula.pdf.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080822Chivukula/index.htm

10:15 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 12:00 Data Analysis

From triggers to analysis, background selections, different methods for searches vs. measurement, examples and cautionary tales, template methods, selecting analysis topics, Monte Carlo validation, systematics

10:45 Data Analysis - Lecture 3

Speaker: Beate Heinemann (University of California, Berkeley and LBNL)

Slides 080822_Heinemann.pdf

Video http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/HCPSS/080822Heinemann/index.htm

12:00 → 12:05 School ends