Special Topics Physics : 029:225

Particle Physics Detectors and Collider Physics

Text: W.R. Leo, Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics -Springer-Verlag
Text: D.Green, The Physics of Particle Detectors-Cambridge Monographs
Text: D.Green: At the leading edge- The ATLAS and CMS LHC Experiments-World Scientific

SYLLABUS

I-Introduction to Nuclear Physics (History and basics)

II-Introduction to Particle Physics (History and basics)

III-Fundamental principles of particle physics

    Introduction - Fundamental particles and interactions
    Symmetries I - Relativity
    Quantum field theory - Quantum Mechanics + relativity
    Theory confronts experiment - Cross sections and decay rates
    Symmetries II - Gauge symmetries, the Standard Model
    Fermions and the weak interactions

IV-How Detectors are designed?

    Energy Loss
    Gaseous Detectors
    Scintillating Detectors
    Silicon Detectors
    Trackers- Case Study CMS
    Photonics in HEP
    Calorimeters
    Energy Loss of Heavy Particles
    Energy Loss of Electrons and Positrons
    Interactions of Photons
    Scattering

V-High PT Physics

1 - The Standard Model and EWSB
2 - Detectors Basics

2.1 SM Particles - Mapping into Detector Subsystems
2.2 Tracking and b Tags
2.3 EM Calorimetry - e and photon
2.4 Hadron Calorimetry - Jets of q and g and neutrino (missing Et)
2.5 Muon Systems
2.6 Complex Event Topologies in D0 and CDF
2.7 Fragmentation, Minimum Bias Events

3- Collider Physics

3.1 Phase space and rapidity - the "plateau"
3.2 Source Functions - protons to partons
3.3 Pointlike scattering of partons
3.4 2-->2 formation kinematics
3.5 2--1 Drell-Yan processes
3.6 2-->2 decay kinematics - "back to back"
3.7 Jet Fragmentation

4- Collider SM Experiments

4.1 QCD - Jets and Dijets, alphas determination
4.2 Prompt Photons
4.3 b Production at Fermilab
4.4 t Production at Fermilab
4.5 D-Y and Lepton Composites
4.6 EW Production

W Mass and Width

Pt of W and Z

bb Decays of Z, Jet Spectroscopy

4.7 Higgs Mass from Higgs

5 - Search Strategy at the LHC Precision EW Measurements

5.1 Cross Sections at the LHC
5.2 Higgs Loop Decays and Direct Decays
5.3 Higgs Production Rates

gg Fusion

WW Fusion and Tag Jets

Associated Production - HV, Htt

5.4 Higgs Branching Ratios and Search Strategy
5.5 Lower limit on Higgs mass
5.6 Luminosity and Discovery Limits
5.7 Others- Composites, Extra Dimension

6- SUSY and Open Questions in HEP

6.1 Generations
6.2 Parameters for Masses and Mixing
6.3 Mass Scales
6.4 Grand Unification
6.5 SUSY - p Stability and Coupling Constants
6.6 SUSY - Cross Sections at the LHC
6.7 SUSY Signatures and Spectroscopy
6.8 Cosmological Constants (and SUSY?)
6.9 SUSY and Gravity

VI-Hadron Colliders

     1.The physics of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
     2.CMS Experiment at LHC
     3. The US contribution to the CMS at LHC
     4. Experimental challenge at LHC

VII Projects

     1 Project A : Detectors and physics results from a fixed target experiment
     2 Project B : Detectors of physics results from a colliding beam experiment.
     3 Project C : Detectors for a medical research project
     4 Project D : Detectors and physics for a Space /Astrophysics High Energy

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