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Contempory Topics in Particle Physics


  • Intro:
    1. Topics of the course
      • Bibliography.
      • Organization.
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  • Part_1 LEP Physics:
    1. Introduction to the particle physics.
      • Introduction to LEP accelerator.
      • LEP legacy.
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  • Part_2 Proton structure:
    1. Reminders
    2. Electrodinamics of Spin-1/2 particles
    3. The structure of hadrons
    4. Partons:
      • Quarks
      • Gluons
    5. Structure function in QCD
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  • Part_3 Hard scattering:
    1. Hard scattering and QCD factorization.
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  • Part_4 LHC Physics
    1. Kinematical Variables.
    2. Luminosity in colliding beam.
    3. Large Hadron Collider:
      • Luminosity
      • LHC running
      • Request to detectors
    4. Pile up.
    5. The experiments.
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  • Part_5 Detector performances
    1. Identification of jets and leptons.
    2. Expected physics.
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  • Part_6 Soft physics:
    1. Soft processes.
    2. Underlying event.
    3. Minimum bias.
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  • Part 7 WZ Boson:
    1. lectroweak results: Z and W bosons.
    2. W and Z cross section.
    3. Z and W + something else.
    4. Drell-Yan production cross section.
    5. Diboson production.
    6. Triple and Quartic Gauge coupling.
    7. Summary.

  • Part 8 Top quark:
    1. Top quark.
    2. Top Discovery.
    3. Top production & decay.
      • Dilepton decays
      • Lepton plus jets decay
      • All hadronic decay
    4. Inclusive cross section.
    5. Differential cross section.
      • Correction and Unfolding
      • ttbar differential top cross sections
    6. ttW and ttZ.

  • Part 9 Single top, mass of top:
    1. The heaviest quark: top
    2. Top mass:
      • Top mass: Fully hadronic channel
      • Top mass: boosted hadronic channel
      • Top mass: lepton + jets channel
      • Top mass: dilepton channel
    3. Single top:
      • single top production: t-channel
      • single top production: s-channel at 7-8 teV
      • single top production: tW-channel at sqrt(s)= 8 TeV
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  • Part_10 Dark Matter:
    1. Dark matter.
    2. Evidence for Dark matter.
      • Early evidence of DarK Matter: Rotation Curves
      • Evidence of DarK Matter: Gravitational lensing.
      • Dark matter and candidates.
    3. Scintillation detectors.
      • Experimental detection of Dark matter.
      • Indirect detection of Dark matter.
      • Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
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  • Part_11_dark_matter_direct_detection:
    1. Dark matter direct detection.
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  • Part_12 Quark Gluon Plasma:
    1. Quark Gluon Plasma.
    2. Alice.
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