Course Announcement - 8820.10 LHC Physics

[Hill, Christopher]

Dear all,

I have an update to the course announcement below.  We will use Gian Giudice’s new book, “A zeptospace odyssey: A journey into the Physics of the LHC” as a source of background reading material for this class.  It is pitched at a general audience level (it is not really a textbook), but nevertheless I think provides a very clear introduction to the main ideas at the forefront of HEP.  This will be supplemented by current ATLAS/CMS and hep-ph papers, which will remain the primary source material for the class.

-C

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Christopher S Hill
Professor
Department of Physics
3048 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH 43210-1117
614-688-7512 Office
chill at physics.osu<mailto:chill at physics.osu> osu.edu<http://osu.edu/>

On Jul 2, 2014, at 5:11 PM, Hill, Christopher <hill.1369 at osu.edu<mailto:hill.1369 at osu.edu>> wrote:

COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT - FALL 2014

Physics 8820 - 0010: Special Topics in Particle Physics
M/F at 12:45 PM - 2:05 PM in 3041 PRB

“LHC Physics” - Prof. Chris Hill

I will be offering a graduate level “special topics” course on LHC physics in the fall. The course will be an introduction to the research being conducted by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The course will cover the technical aspects of these experiments (how the detectors work), the techniques used to analyze the data (how LHC searches/measurements are made), and the impact of the results of these analyses (e.g. the discovery of the Higgs boson) on the theoretical issues at the forefront of HEP (e.g. the “Hierarchy Problem”). We will also assess the prospects for future discoveries (e.g. supersymmetry) that may be made in the coming years of LHC operation, and discuss the impact these would have on HEP and beyond (e.g. cosmology).

The course will meet two times a week. One session will be devoted to a lecture (given by me) while the other session will be a group discussion of the paper(s) being read for that week — there will typically be one or two of these and I will lead the discussion, but the entire class will be expected to participate.

Grade: 50% ~bi-weekly problem sets + 50% class participation

Texts: There may/may not be a suggested/required textbook to supplement the assigned journal articles that will be the primary resource. I am currently evaluating possible texts and will advise as soon as I can.

Prerequisites: None, but undergraduate level knowledge of particle physics and graduate level knowledge of special relativity and QM will be helpful.

If you have any questions about this course and/or would like more information feel free to stop by my office (PRB 3048) or send an email to chill at physics.osu.edu<mailto:chill at physics.osu.edu>

N.B: If you are even remotely interested in LHC physics note that this course will not be offered every year or even every other year, i.e. this may be the only time you will be able to take it!


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Christopher S Hill
Professor
Department of Physics
3048 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH 43210-1117
614-688-7512 Office
chill at physics.osu<mailto:chill at physics.osu> osu.edu<http://osu.edu/>


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