Lecturers: S. Biondi (DIFA Postdoc) and C. Vittori (DIFA Postdoc)
Duration: 24 hours in March and April
Programme:
Vector Bosons measurements at LHC (Camilla Vittori)
1) context and mission of LHC
2) Fundamentals of hadron collisions
3) Luminosity
4) Fundamental particles and forces
5) The discovery of Z and W bosons
6) Why SM at hadron colliders?
7) How to measure a cross section?
8) W/Z production cross section measurements
9) Drell-Yan measurements
10) Z+HF @13 TeV
11) W mass measurement
12) The weak mixing angle measurement
Higgs measurements at LHC (Silvia Biondi)
• Theory reminder
• Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model
• Higgs mechanism
• 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
• focus on Higgs boson properties
• boosted regime: why so important
• Signal/background discrimination techniques
• boosted regimes
• tagging (H, W, Z, Top), large-radius jets substructure, re-clustering
• multivariate analysis and deep neural network
• Signal extraction techniques
• multidimensional fit, likelihood
• results interpretation
• systematic uncertainties treatment