LHC Physics - Spring 2022
This is a fourteen-hour course given in seven weeks. The target audience is first year particle physics master students at the UniGe. Similar material was shown in spring 2023, with the addition of hands-on exercises based on toy data and open data (material to be added).Course contents:
Week 1: Introduction to the LHC: why and how
What was happening in the particle physics world when the LHC started being discussed? Why was the LHC needed? How did its approval happen? Are there other similar projects?In LHC physics we use a large number of slang words (luminosity, pile-up, transverse momentum, underlying event, hard scattering, ...). What do these mean?