Hadron Collider Physics Summer School 2008

Aug 12, 2008, 8:45 AM → Aug 22, 2008, 10:30 PM US/Central

1 West (Fermilab)

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Tuesday, August 12

8:45 AM → 9:00 AM Welcome

8:45 AM Welcome

Speaker: Pier Oddone (Fermilab)

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

9:00 AM → 10:15 AM 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.

9:00 AM 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 AM → 10:45 AM Break

10:45 AM → 12:00 PM Trigger / DAQ

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

10:45 AM 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 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:15 PM QCD

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

2:00 PM 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

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM Break

3:45 PM → 5:00 PM Calorimetry

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

3:45 PM 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

5:00 PM → 5:15 PM Break

5:15 PM → 6:30 PM Data Structure, Computing Model

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

5:15 PM 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

6:30 PM → 7:30 PM Dinner

7:30 PM → 8:15 PM Open Panel Discussion

7:30 PM (no title)

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

8:15 PM → 9:30 PM LPC Reception / Tour of LHC@FNAL Operations Center

9:30 PM → 9:30 PM Bus to Hotel

Wednesday, August 13

9:00 AM → 10:15 AM 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.

9:00 AM 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 AM → 10:45 AM Break

10:45 AM → 12:00 PM Trigger / DAQ

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

10:45 AM 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 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:15 PM QCD

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

2:00 PM QCD - Lecture 2

Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford University)

Slides 080813Zanderighi.pdf

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

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM break

3:45 PM → 5:00 PM Calorimetry

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

3:45 PM 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

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM Break

5:30 PM → 6:45 PM Discussion Sessions

5:30 PM Calorimetry

Speakers: Florencia Canelli, Ursula Bassler

5:30 PM QCD

Speakers: Ed Berger, Giulia Zanderighi

5:30 PM SM / Precision EW

Speakers: Bogdan Dobrescu, Guido Altarelli

6:45 PM → 8:15 PM Dinner

8:15 PM → 9:15 PM Feedback and Open Discussion with School Co-Directors

9:30 PM → 9:30 PM Bus to Hotel

Thursday, August 14

9:00 AM → 10:15 AM 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.

9:00 AM 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 AM → 10:45 AM Break

10:45 AM → 12:00 PM Statistics

Theory, methods, and examples

10:45 AM 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 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:15 PM QCD

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

2:00 PM QCD - Lecture 3

Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford University)

Slides 080814Zanderighi.pdf

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

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM Break

3:45 PM → 5:00 PM Calorimetry

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

3:45 PM 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

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM Break

5:30 PM → 6:45 PM Accelerator Physics

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

5:30 PM 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

6:45 PM → 7:45 PM Dinner

7:45 PM → 8:45 PM Open Panel Discussion

7:45 PM (no title)

Speakers: Guido Altarelli, Mike Syphers, Ursula Bassler

9:00 PM → 9:00 PM Bus to Hotel

Friday, August 15

9:00 AM → 10:15 AM 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

9:00 AM 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 AM → 10:45 AM Break

10:45 AM → 12:00 PM Statistics

Theory, methods, and examples

10:45 AM 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 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

12:45 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch Seminar

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

Speaker: Ruth Pordes (Fermilab)

Slides 080815_Pordes.pdf

2:00 PM → 3:15 PM QCD

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

2:00 PM QCD - Lecture 4

Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford University)

Slides 080815Zanderighi.pdf

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

3:15 PM → 4:00 PM Break

4:00 PM → 5:20 PM Recent Results from CDF and D0

Wine and Cheese Seminar

4:00 PM 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

4:40 PM D0 Results

Speaker: Andrew Askew (Florida State University)

Slides 080815_Askew.pdf

5:30 PM → 6:45 PM Discussion Sessions

5:30 PM Accelerator

Speakers: Eric Prebys, Mike Lamont, Mike Syphers

5:30 PM Heavy Flavor

Speakers: Enrico Lunghi, Matthias Neubert

5:30 PM QCD

Speakers: Ed Berger, Giulia Zanderighi

5:30 PM Statistics

Speakers: Ricardo Piegaia, Tom Junk

6:45 PM → 7:45 PM Dinner

7:45 PM → 8:45 PM (no title)

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

7:45 PM → 8:45 PM Open Panel Discussion

9:00 PM → 9:00 PM Bus to Hotel

Saturday, August 16

9:00 AM → 10:15 AM 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

9:00 AM 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 AM → 10:45 AM Break

10:45 AM → 12:00 PM Statistics

Theory, methods, and examples

10:45 AM 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 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:15 PM 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

2:00 PM 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

3:30 PM → 7:00 PM 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

7:00 PM → 9:30 PM BBQ Dinner

9:30 PM → 9:30 PM Bus to Hotel

Sunday, August 17

10:00 AM → 8:00 PM Excursion to Chicago

Monday, August 18

9:00 AM → 10:15 AM Supersymmetry (SUSY)

Theory and phenomenology

9:00 AM 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 AM → 10:45 AM Break

10:45 AM → 12:00 PM Muons

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

10:45 AM 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 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:15 PM Higgs Boson Theory and Phenomenology

Standard Model and Beyond

2:00 PM 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

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM Break

3:45 PM → 5:00 PM Tracking

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

3:45 PM 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

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM Break

5:30 PM → 6:45 PM Extra Dimensions

Theory and phenomenology

5:30 PM 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

6:45 PM → 9:15 PM Steak Fry Dinner

9:30 PM → 9:30 PM Bus to Hotel

Tuesday, August 19

9:00 AM → 10:15 AM Supersymmetry (SUSY)

Theory and phenomenology

9:00 AM 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 AM → 10:45 AM Break

10:45 AM → 12:00 PM Muons

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

10:45 AM 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 PM → 12:15 PM Group Photo

Gather on front steps of Wilson Hall

12:15 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:15 PM Higgs Boson Theory and Phenomenology

Standard Model and Beyond

2:00 PM 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

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM Break

3:45 PM → 5:00 PM Tracking

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

3:45 PM 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

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM Break

5:30 PM → 6:45 PM Discussion Sessions

5:30 PM Extra Dimensions

Speakers: Eduardo Ponton, Ian Low

5:30 PM Higgs

Speakers: Carlos Wagner, Howard Haber

5:30 PM Muons and Tracking

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

5:30 PM SUSY

Speakers: Joe Lykken, Steve Martin

6:45 PM → 7:45 PM Dinner

7:45 PM → 8:45 PM Open Panel Discussion

7:45 PM (no title)

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

9:00 PM → 9:00 PM Bus to Hotel

Wednesday, August 20

9:00 AM → 10:15 AM Supersymmetry (SUSY)

Theory and phenomenology

9:00 AM 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 AM → 10:45 AM Break

10:45 AM → 12:00 PM 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 AM 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 PM → 2:15 PM Lunch

12:45 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch Seminar

12:45 PM 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

2:15 PM → 3:30 PM Extra Dimensions

Theory and phenomenology

2:15 PM 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

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM break

4:00 PM → 5:00 PM Colloquium

4:00 PM 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

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM Break

5:30 PM → 6:45 PM Tracking

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

5:30 PM 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

6:45 PM → 7:45 PM Dinner

7:45 PM → 8:45 PM Open Panel Discussion

7:45 PM (no title)

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

9:00 PM → 9:00 PM Bus to Hotel

Thursday, August 21

9:00 AM → 10:15 AM Strong Dynamics

Theory and phenomenology

9:00 AM 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 AM → 10:45 AM Break

10:45 AM → 12:00 PM 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 AM 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 PM → 12:30 PM Lunch

12:30 PM → 11:00 PM Trip to University of Chicago

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

1:45 PM Arrive at Adler Planetarium

2:10 PM 3D presentation from the Space Visualization Group

Speaker: Dr. Mark SubbaRao

3:50 PM Cosmic Collisions

Speaker: Film

4:30 PM Depart Adler Planetarium

5:00 PM Arrive at University of Chicago

5:15 PM Welcome and Introductory Remarks

5:30 PM Connections between HEP and Cosmology

Speaker: Rocky Kolb (University of Chicago)

Slides 080821_Kolb.pdf

6:45 PM Cocktail Social

7:30 PM Banquet

9:00 PM Buses depart for Hotels

Friday, August 22

9:00 AM → 10:15 AM Strong Dynamics

Theory and phenomenology

9:00 AM 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 AM → 10:45 AM Break

10:45 AM → 12:00 PM 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 AM 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 PM → 12:05 PM School ends