Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg

Lecture: High Energy Frontier - Recent Results from the LHC ((WS 12/13))



General Information

Specicalisation Lecture (2SWS lecture) 2 LP/CP

Lecturers:

Dr. Ralf Averbeck (R.Averbeck “@” gsi.de) , Prof. Andre Schoening (schoening “@” physi.uni-heidelberg.de), Dr. Jeroen Van Tilburg (jeroen.van.tilburg “@” cern.ch)

Prerequisites:

Master Courses MKEP1 (Particle Physics) and/or MVHE3 (Standard Model)

Organisation:

the course is divided into three blocks of lectures:

  • The High Energy Frontier at ATLAS + CMS

  • Heavy Ion Physics at ALICE

  • Heavy Flavour Physics at LHCb

Contents:

This lectures deals with current research topics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and covers the three main topics.

High Energy Frontier,Part I

ATLAS and CMS are Multi-Purpose experiments, designed and constructed to discover the predicted Higgs-boson and to search for New Physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics. The lecture will summarize the most recent results of the Higgs searches including the recent discovery of the Higgs-like particle. In addition selected results obtained in the search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model are summarized.

Heavy Ions, Part II

ALICE is the experiment at the LHC dedicated to the investigation of nucleus-nucleus collisions at the high-energy frontier. In such collisions a Quark-Gluon Plasma, the strongly interacting phase of matter which filled the universe for a few microseconds after the Big Bang is produced. In this course, the physics of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions will be introduced and recent results from the LHC will be discussed. Topics include:

  • global observables in heavy-ion collisions

  • thermodynamics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

  • relativistic hydrodynamics and initial conditions

  • evolution of the Quark-Gluon Plasma and collective flow

  • electromagnetic probes

  • high momentum probes (jets)

  • heavy quarks and quarkonia

Heavy Flavour Physics, Part III

In this course recent results obtained be LHCb and their theoretical impact in heavy flavour physics are highlighted and discussed. The following topics will be treated:
  • beauty and charm decays
  • physics of neutral meson mixing
  • types of CP violation
  • penguin decays and their sensitivity to new particles
  • flavour-changing neutral currents
  • Rare decays



Dates: Thursday 14:15-16:00 Place: Conference 1-3 , INF 226

Date

Topic Thursday (Link)

Lecturer

18.10.12

LHC Accelerator

A.Schöning

25.10.12

Searches for New Physics I

A.Schöning

01.11.12

Fronleichnam

-

08.11.12

Searches for New Physics II

A.Schöning

15.11.12

Higgs Discovery I

A.Schöning

22.11.12

Heavy Ions I

R.Averbeck

29.11.12

Heavy Ions II

R.Averbeck

06.12.12

Higgs Discovery

A.Schöning

13.12.12

Heavy Ions III

R.Averbeck

20.12.12

Heavy Ions IV

R.Averbeck

10.01.13

Heavy Flavor I

J.Van Tilburg

17.01.13

Heavy Flavor II

J.Van Tilburg

24.01.13

Heavy Flavor III

J.Van Tilburg

31.01.13

Heavy Flavor IV (+ examination)

J.Van Tilburg

07.02.13

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