| 34 | | * [wiki:DeadCone Radiation from heavy quarks]: the dead cone in $e^+e^- \to Q \bar Q g$. |
| 35 | | * [wiki:GluonSpin Spin of the gluon]: Vector vs scalar in the angular correlations of $ e^+ e^- \to$ 4 jets. |
| 36 | | * [wiki:2Jets Jets] : Di-jet kinematics and rates in pp collisions. |
| 37 | | * [wiki:3Jets 3 Jets] : Energy distributions in 3-jet events in pp collisions. |
| 38 | | * [wiki:Tt top production] : $t \bar t$ production, Tevatron vs LHC. |
| 39 | | * [wiki:WAsymm Drell-Yan]: rapidity asymmetry at the Tevatron and LHC. |
| 40 | | * [wiki:TopDecaySpinCorrelations Spin correlations in top decay], by [http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/theory/webber/ Bryan Webber]. |
| 41 | | |
| 42 | | === Monte Carlo integration === |
| 43 | | |
| 44 | | A short introduction to the techniques of Monte Carlo integration. Exercises proposed during lecture are collected in this Mathematica Notebook: [attachment:mc101.nb mc101.nb]. |
| 45 | | |
| 46 | | === LHC Phenomenology === |
| 47 | | |
| 48 | | * [wiki:DiscoverTheHiggs SM Higgs discovery at the LHC]: Three important channels |
| 49 | | * [wiki:WarmingUpChallenge Simple Black Boxes]: New gauge bosons |
| 50 | | |
| 51 | | === How to familiarize with MadGraph === |
| 52 | | |
| 53 | | All exercises proposed can be "solved" or checked with MadGraph / MadEvent. Here is how to familiarize with the code. |
| 54 | | |
| 55 | | * Logon to the MadGraph web site and register. |
| 56 | | |
| 57 | | * Familiarize with the code by generating a few processes in QED and QCD trying to guess which diagrams appear. What is the minimum number of jets have to be asked for in $e^+e^-$ collisions so that the triple gauge vertex appear? |
| 58 | | |
| 59 | | * Look at the new physics models and check the particle and interactions content. |
| 60 | | |
| 61 | | * Generate events for a few selected processes and look at the plots: |
| 62 | | * ttbar production with decays: pp>tt~>bb~mu+e-ve~vm |
| 63 | | * VV production: pp>VV> leptons, with V=Z,W. |
| 64 | | * Single top + Higgs: pp>tHj (QCD=0, QED=3, j=gudsc,p=gudscb). Show that there is a large negative interference between the diagrams |
| 65 | | |
| 66 | | -- Main.FabioMaltoni - 2013-03-03 |
| | 43 | -- Main.FabioMaltoni - 2013-06-06 |