ITP Lecture Archive

Proseminar on the Physics of the Large Hadron Collider – FS 2013

About
The proseminar is supervised by Prof. Charalampos Anastasiou and covers a wide range of topics related to the physics of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

It will take place on Mondays at HIT J53 from 10:00 to 12:00. Dates of the different presentations can be found further below.

Format
Each topic is assigned to a student who should prepare a presentation of around, but not more than, one hour duration.

Researchers of the institute (see list below) will help students in their preparation in a weekly meeting. They will provide literature and give a feedback on the student's progress. Students should keep them informed about their work in these meetings, starting (at least) 6 weeks before the date of the final presentation.

Requirements for passing the module

Schedule
The topics labeled by (B) are more introductory and thus appropriate for bachelor students

Topic Talk Date Student Tutor
Relativistic quantum mechanics (B) 25 February Tessarini Stefan Dr. Ruben Andrist
Cross-sections, decay rates and Feynman rules (B) 25 February Henry Clausen Dr. João Pires
Gauge symmetry (B) 4 March Lennart Schmidt Dr. João Pires
Spontaneous symmetry breaking: superconductivity (B) 4 March Sebastian Busschaert Dr. Ruben Andrist
Spontaneous symmetry breaking: The Higgs mechanism (B) 11 March Jakob Olbrich Dr. Claude Duhr
The Standard Model (B) 11 March Andrea Pelloni Dr. Claude Duhr
Symmetries of the Standard Model 18 March Frederik Lauf Dr. João Pires
Flavour physics 18 March Samuel Haberthuer Dr. Claude Duhr
Hadronic interactions (B) 25 March Marius Schraff Prof. Charalampos Anastasiou
Application to the most wanted particles in the LHC: W,Z,top (B) 25 March Colin Glomb Prof. Charalampos Anastasiou
Higgs boson production and decay. Confronting data (B) 8 April Christoph Dorn Prof. Charalampos Anastasiou
Composite Higgs boson models 8 April Marc Biber Dr. Florian Goertz
Extra dimensions I : Flat extra dimensions 15 April Nag Panchali Dr. Florian Goertz
Extra dimensions II : Warped extra dimensions 15 April Athos Fiori Dr. Florian Goertz
Supersymmetry 22 April Dominik Starl Dr. Adrián Carmona Bermúdez
Dark matter at the LHC 22 April Jerome Bonvin Dr. Adrián Carmona Bermúdez
Neutrino physics 29 April Joel Mabillard Dr. Adrián Carmona Bermúdez