General info

Time: The course is given every year during the first part of the spring term (January - March).

Course plan: Official course syllabus (PDF).

Lecturers: Else Lytken , Peter Christiansen, Ruth Pöttgen, Caterina Doglioni, Emanuele Laface (contact details).

Textbook: G. Barr et al. "Particle Physics in the LHC Era", Oxford Masters Series in Particle Physics, 2016
Chapters 3,8, and 10 from "Data analysis in high energy physics: a practical guide", O. Bahnke et al + lecture notes.
Link to e-books for the main book here and statistics book: here.

Extra material: Notes on particle kinematics, cross-sections etc. (PDF)

Spring Term 2020 (V20)

Introductory meeting: Tuesday January 21, 13:15 - 15 in K262 ( Introductory notes are available).

EXAM: Exam will be handed out Tuesday March 17,10:00 in A426 or by email and should be turned in before 10:00 on Thursday March 19.

The course takes place in January - March 2018. Lectures are held Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thurdays at 13:15-15:00 in K262; with a few exceptions, see schedule for details.

COURSE SHEDULE

Lecture notes (PDF):

• Introduction
• Symmetries and CP violation
• Neutrinos
• More on detectors
• LHC Physics I
• LHC Physics II
• MC and simulation
• Heavy Ions
• Statistics and hypothesis testing
• Statistical methods in particle physics
• Discovering the Higgs boson
• Beam dynamics 1
• Beam dynamics 2
• Beam dynamics 3
• Beam dynamics 4
• Dark Matter
• Beyond the Standard Model and the Cosmic Connection

Exercises:

• Particle physics exercise 1
• Particle physics exercise 2
• Heavy ion physics exercises (hand in by 2020-03-12)