== [http://lattice.ft.uam.es/TAE2008/ Taller Altas Energías 2008 - Madrid] [[br]][[br]] Particle Physics Phenomenology and the LHC ==

=== Authors ===

   * Fabio Maltoni (lecturer)
   * Claude Duhr (tutor)

=== Lectures ===

Find  the pdf of the 3 x 1.5 hours lecture:

   * [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

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 : [wiki:FurtherReading Perspectives on LHC physics, Ed. by G. Kane and A. Pierce].

Answers to some of the questions asked during lecture can be found [wiki: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:
   * [wiki:TestLecture1 Test for lecture 1].
   * [wiki:TestLecture2 Test for lecture 2].

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> 


   
====== Introduction to hadron collisions ======

   * [wiki:SimpleKinematics Kinematics at the LHC]: single particle quantities.
   * [wiki:2Jets Jets] : Di-jet kinematics and rates in pp collisions. 
   * [wiki:3Jets 3 Jets] : Energy distributions in 3-jet events.
   * [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/wiki/WAsymm Drell-Yan] : Study the rapidity asymmetry at the Tevatron.

====== Higgs and top ======

   * [wiki:HiggsPheno Higgs] : Higgs phenomenology at hadron colliders.
   * [wiki:tt top production] : $t \bar t$ production, Tevatron vs LHC. 
 
====== New Physics ======

   * [wiki:tprime t' production] : $t'$ production at the LHC.
   * [wiki:X New resonances]: Discover new resonances at the LHC.


=== 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  ===

   * Logon to the Software.MadGraph web site and register: http://madgraph.hep.uiuc.edu. 

   * Familiarize with the code by generating a few processes in QED + QCD trying to guess which diagrams appear. 

   * Look at the new physics models and check the particle and interactions content.

   * 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 ===

For those interested in Monte Carlo techniques, here are some exercises:

   * 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]


-- Main.FabioMaltoni - 29 Aug 2008