High Energy Collider Physics

Prof. N. Wermes
Dr. E. von Törne

Prof. Norbert Wermes, Dr. Eckhard von Törne, summer term 2010

Tutorial: Balint Radics, Götz Gaycken, Vadim Kostyukhin

    Course Content:
  1. Introduction
    Background and Outline, Why Hadron Colliders?
  2. Basics of Hadron-Hadron Collisions
    Hadron Collider basics, kinematics, rapidity, rapidity plateau in minbias evts, PDFs
  3. QCD
    Hard event, factorization theorem, Jets, Underlying event, QCD at a hadron collider (alpha_s(Q2) measurements), QCD-ISR, -FSR effects
  4. Detectors and colliders
    Detector concepts, Accelerator Basics: Lumi, Stochastic cooling, etc
  5. Electroweak Physics (SM)
    Weak decays, charged/ neutral currents Couplings, Weinberg angle, Full SM lagrangian, Higgs mechanism
  6. Physics at the Z peak
    mass measurements, Rb measurements, Radiative corrections and SM precision measurements and fits
  7. W,Z Bosons and other electroweak physics at Hadron Colliders
    Drell-Yan process, Kinematics of W and Z production, Mass measurements, transverse mass, Et-mis, W to e nu decay, W mu nu decay, Gauge boson pair production
  8. Top Quark
    Top mass determination, charge, spin, CKM matrix elements
  9. Higgs Search
    Higgs phenomenology, Review of LEP/Tevatron results, ppbar & pp collider methods
  10. Beyond the Standard Model
    Need to explain dark matter, SUSY, Extra dimensions, Other Higgs models