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+== [http://lattice.ft.uam.es/TAE2008/ Taller Altas Energías 2008 - Madrid] <br><br> Particle Physics Phenomenology and the LHC ==
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+=== Authors ===
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+   * Fabio Maltoni (lecturer)
+   * Claude Duhr (tutor)
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+=== Lectures ===
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+Find  the pdf of the 3 x 1.5 hours lecture:
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+   * [attachment:TAE1.pdf Lecture 1] : QCD at hadron colliders
+   * [attachment:TAE2.pdf Lecture 2] : SM of EW interactions :  SU(2)xU(1), EWSB, the Higgs mechanism 
+   * [attachment:TAE3.pdf Lecture 3] : Higgs, top and  BSM  phenomenology at the LHC
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+A brief tutorial on Software.MadGraph / Software.MadEvent can be found [attachment:mad-tutorial.pdf here].
+
+=== References ===
+ 
+   * Lecture 1 : [http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/theory/webber/QCDbook.html QCD and Collider Physics]  by Keith Ellis, James Stirling, Bryan Webber (Cambridge Monographs, 1996).
+   * Lecture 2 : "Standard Model of electroweak interactions", by A. Pich, [http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0502010 [hep-ph/0502010]].
+   * Lecture 3 : [:FurtherReading:Perspectives on LHC physics, Ed. by G. Kane and A. Pierce].
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+Answers to some of the questions asked during lecture can be found [:QandA:here].
+
+=== Tests and Exercises ===
+
+The following tests help to understand the lectures better, and to prepare for the exercises related to the different lectures:
+   * [:TestLecture1:Test for lecture 1].
+   * [:TestLecture2:Test for lecture 2].
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+A pdf with the exercises related to the lectures can be found [attachment:Exercises.pdf here]. <BR>
+Some of the exercises proposed can be "solved" or checked with Software.MadGraph / Software.MadEvent. <BR> 
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+====== Introduction to hadron collisions ======
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+   * [:SimpleKinematics:Kinematics at the LHC]: single particle quantities.
+   * [:2Jets:Jets] : Di-jet kinematics and rates in pp collisions. 
+   * [:3Jets:3 Jets] : Energy distributions in 3-jet events.
+   * [http://cp3wks05.fynu.ucl.ac.be/twiki/bin/view/Physics/WAsymm Drell-Yan] : Study the rapidity asymmetry at the Tevatron.
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+====== Higgs and top ======
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+   * [:HiggsPheno:Higgs] : Higgs phenomenology at hadron colliders.
+   * [:tt:top production] : %$t \bar t$% production, Tevatron vs LHC. 
+ 
+====== New Physics ======
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+   * [:tprime:t' production] : %$t'$% production at the LHC.
+   * [:X:New resonances]: Discover new resonances at the LHC.
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+=== Animations ===
+   * [http://madgraph.hep.uiuc.edu/Event/ Interactive Flash version] Note you may want to zoom in!
+   * [http://madgraph.hep.uiuc.edu/Event/fast_collisionx6.avi Fast movie (.avi) of collision] 
+   * [http://madgraph.hep.uiuc.edu/Event/collision.mov Guided movie (.mov) of collision] 
+
+=== Familiarize with Software.MadGraph  ===
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+   * Logon to the Software.MadGraph web site and register: http://madgraph.hep.uiuc.edu. 
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+   * Familiarize with the code by generating a few processes in QED + QCD trying to guess which diagrams appear. 
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+   * Look at the new physics models and check the particle and interactions content.
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+   * Generate events for a few selected processes and look at the plots:
+      * ttbar production with decays: pp>tt~>bb~mu+e-ve~vm
+      * VV production: pp>VV> leptons, with V=Z,W.  
+      * Single top + Higgs: pp>tHj  (QCD=0, QED=3, j=gudsc,p=gudscb). Show that there is a large negative interference between the diagrams.
+
+=== Analysis Tools ===
+
+   * a Fortran-based package: Software.MadAnalysis ([http://madgraph.phys.ucl.ac.be/cgi-bin/NewProcess/download.cgi Download it here])
+   * a Mathematica-based package: [http://www.jthaler.net/olympics/software.html Chameleon].
+
+=== MC101 ===
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+For those interested in Monte Carlo techniques, here are some exercises:
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+   * Write the simplest integration function based on the definition of average and error
+   * Importance sampling via an analytic transformation
+   * Von Neumann's rejection method : plain and improved
+   * Phase space for 1 -> n particles
+   * Vegas
+   * Top decay : comparison among the various methods
+   * qq -> tt production
+
+All exercises are presented and solved this Mathematica Notebook:  [attachment:mc101.nb mc101.nb].
+Reference: [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?eprint=hep-ph/0006269 Introduction to MC methods], by [http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~stefanw/ Stefan Weinzierl]
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