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| 3 | = '''Collider Physics: advanced topics''' (Bologna, PhD course 2020, 12h)= |
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| 5 | An introduction to collider physics, starting with QCD and then moving to Higgs-boson and top-quark phenomenology. |
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| 7 | Slides of the Glasgow school in 2019, focusing on top physics: |
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| 9 | 1. Week One: QCD for Colliders [https://www.dropbox.com/s/relhz216tr0ekke/Week1-QCD.pdf?dl=0 Slides] |
| 10 | 1. Week Two: Going Beyond the SM [https://www.dropbox.com/s/ydd27i69fhno0x9/Week2-SM.pdf?dl=0 Slides] |
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| 12 | == Supporting material == |
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| 14 | The course includes tests, simple exercises, fully worked out numerical calculations/simulations, and a complete and easy-to-use series of mathematica notebooks which allow the computation at next-to-leading order accuracy of the total production cross section of a Higgs boson in gluon-gluon fusion at the |
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| 19 | ===== Tests and exercises ===== |
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| 21 | [https://www.dropbox.com/s/9h3bofzb5nvy3xi/Collider-Bologna-2019.pdf?dl=0 Exercises] |
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| 23 | To solve the MadGraph exercises, please go to the [http://madgraph.physics.illinois.edu/ UIUC Server] and register with your data yet putting '''BUSSTEPP2019''' in the field "Institution". By doing that you will have running rights and you don't have to install the code. |
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| 25 | ==== Pheno applications ==== |
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| 27 | 1. DIS quarks : fermions vs scalars (Mathematica Notebook) [attachment:DIS_quark_fermionVSscalar.nb DIS_quark_fermionVSscalar.nb] |
| 28 | 1. W spin correlations (Mathematica Notebook) [attachment:wspincorr.nb wspincorr.nb] |
| 29 | 1. Exercises (Mathematica Notebook) [attachment:exercises.nb exercises.nb] |
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| 31 | ==== Higgs production at the LHC : A case study ==== |
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| 33 | 1. pp>H at LO (1-loop): details of the calculation (Mathematica Notebook) [attachment:HiggsGG-LO-mtfinite.nb HiggsGG-LO-mtfinite.nb] |
| 34 | 1. pp>H at NLO: details of the calculation (Mathematica Notebook) [attachment:higgsgg-nlo.nb higgsgg-nlo.nb] |
| 35 | 1. pp>H at NLO: cross section evaluation for the LHC (Mathematica Notebook+PDF libraries to be compiled) [attachment:phenHiggs.zip]. |
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| 37 | The original paper by Sally Dawson on the NLO calculation can be found [attachment:dawson_ggh_nlo.pdf here] and a note of the calculation results can be found in [http://inspirehep.net/record/1359548/files/95-122%20Maltoni.pdf here]. |
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| 39 | ===== Hands On LHC Phenomenology ===== |
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| 41 | * [wiki:DiscoverTheHiggs SM Higgs discovery at the LHC]: Three important channels |
| 42 | * [wiki:WarmingUpChallenge Simple Black Boxes]: New gauge bosons |
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| 44 | == Bibliography == |
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| 46 | The main references for the lectures are: |
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| 48 | * QCD and collider physics, The pink Book, by Ellis, Stirling and Webber, Cambridge Press. |
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| 51 | -- Main.FabioMaltoni - 2020-01-29 |
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