Duration: 24 hours in November/December
Programme:
First part “Measurements of W/Z bosons and top quark at LHC” (12 hours taught by Camilla Vittori)
- Context and mission of LHC
- Fundamentals of hadron collisions
- Luminosity
- Fundamental particles and forces
- The discovery of Z and W bosons
- Why SM at hadron colliders?
- How to measure a cross section?
- W/Z production cross section measurements
- Drell-Yan measurements
- Z+HF @13 TeV
- W mass measurement
- The weak mixing angle measurement
Second part “Higgs measurements and New Physics searches at the LHC” (12 hours taught by Giuseppe Carratta)
- Theory reminder
- Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model
- Higgs mechanism
- Higgs boson as a portal to New Physics (some HDBS models + SeeSaw mechanismes)
- Higgs boson discovery by ATLAS and CMS
- Higgs boson production and decay modes
- Higgs boson mass measurement by ATLAS and CMS
- Overview of ATLAS and CMS analyses about Higgs (measurements & searches)
- Signal/background discrimination techniques
- Machine Learing techinques (MVA, DNN)
- Signal extraction techniques
- multidimensional fit, likelihood
- results interpretation
- systematic uncertainties treatment