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2005 PiTP

Tentative Program Schedule

July 18 - 29, 2005


For information on PROGRAM PRE-REQUISITES/SUGGESTED PRE-READING, click here.

2005 Daily Program Announcements

Practicum Assignments from Prof. Matchev will be posted on his website - click here

WEEK 1* (Click on abbreviated topic listing or scroll down to see expanded description)
All events held in Wolfensohn Hall, unless otherwise noted

July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22
9:00 a.m. Welcome & Information Session
(Chiara Nappi, Princeton University)
9:15 a.m. "Intro SM"
(M. Peskin)
Lecture Notes
"SM at C"
(D. Zeppenfeld)
Lecture Notes
(modified 7-20)
"Detectors"
(H. Schellman)
schedule change
Lecture Notes
&
Figures

"QCD"
(L. Dixon)
Lecture Notes

"QCD"
(L. Dixon)
Lecture Notes
10:15 a.m. COFFEE BREAK (Fuld Hall Common Room)
10:45 a.m. "Intro SM"
(M. Peskin)
Lecture Notes
"QCD"
(L. Dixon)
Lecture Notes
(as revised 7-21-05)

schedule change
"Detectors"
(H. Schellman)
See Lecture Notes & Figures links above
"Detectors"
(H. Schellman)
Supplement
Also see Lecture Notes & Figures links from 7/20
"Detectors"
(H. Schellman)
Also see Lecture Notes & Figures links from 7/20
11:45 a.m. "Orient BSM"
(J. Bagger)
Lecture Notes & Blackboard Notes
"Intro SM"
(M. Peskin)
Lecture Notes
"SM at C"
(D. Zeppenfeld)
Lecture Notes
"SM at C"
(D. Zeppenfeld)
Lecture Notes
& Supplement

"SM at C"
(D. Zeppenfeld)
Lecture Notes

1:00 p.m. LUNCH (Institute Dining Hall)
(NOTE: Dining Hall serves only until 1:30 p.m.)
INSTITUTE APPAREL SALE
12:30-2:30 p.m.

(Upper level, Dining Hall) 
2:00 p.m. Q&A with morning Lecturers
2:15 p.m. "Registering Your Laptop"
James Stephens

(Bloomberg Hall Lecture Hall)
2:30 p.m. Practicum on Simulations (K. Matchev)
3:30 p.m. AFTERNOON TEA BREAK (Fuld Hall Common Room)
3:50 p.m. Q&A with morning Lecturers Q&A with morning Lecturers Q&A with morning Lecturers Q&A with morning Lecturers
4:50 p.m. STRETCH BREAK
5:00 p.m. Igor Klebanov (Princeton University) "Perspective on QCD from String Theory"
Lecture Notes
Lance Dixon  "Twistors and Perturbative QCD"
Lecture Notes
5:20 p.m. Grocery Shuttle #1 loads
(Fuld Hall)
5:50 p.m. Grocery Shuttle #2 loads
(Fuld Hall)
For information on SUGGESTED PRINCETON SITES/WEEKEND ACTIVITIES, click here.
WEEK 2* (Click on abbreviated topic listing or scroll down to see expanded description)
All events held in Wolfensohn Hall, unless otherwise noted
  July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29
9:15 a.m. "Sig BSM"
(I. Hinchliffe)
Lecture Notes
"Sig BSM"
(I. Hinchliffe)
Lecture Notes
"Sig BSM"
(I. Hinchliffe)
Lecture Notes
"Sig BSM"
(I. Hinchliffe)
See Lecture Notes from 7/27

"Cosmo/particle"
(J. Feng)
Lecture Notes

10:15 a.m. COFFEE BREAK (Fuld Hall Common Room)
10:45 a.m. "Higgs Exp"
(C. Tully)
Lecture Notes
& Lecture Notes v2
"Higgs Exp"
(C. Tully)
Lecture Notes
"Exotic Signatures"
(S. Thomas)
Lecture Notes
"Cosmo/particle"
(J. Feng)
Lecture Notes
"Cosmo/particle"
(J. Feng)
Lecture Notes
11:45 a.m. "SUSY"
(H. Murayama)
Lecture Notes
"SUSY"
(H. Murayama)
Lecture Notes

"SUSY"
(H. Murayama)
Lecture Notes

"SUSY"
(H. Murayama)
Lecture Notes

"SUSY"
(H. Murayama)
Lecture Notes
1:00 p.m. LUNCH (Institute Dining Hall)
(NOTE: Dining Hall serves only until 1:30 p.m.)
2:30 p.m. Practicum on Simulations (K. Matchev)
3:30 p.m. AFTERNOON TEA BREAK (Fuld Hall Common Room)
3:50 p.m. Q&A with morning Lecturers Q&A with morning Lecturers Q&A with morning Lecturers Q&A with morning Lecturers
4:50 p.m. STRETCH BREAK
5:00 p.m. Edward Witten (Institute for Advanced Study) "Axions in String Theory"
Lecture Notes

Nathan Seiberg (Institute for Advanced Study) 
"Dynamical SUSY Breaking"
Lecture Notes

5:20 p.m. Grocery Shuttle #1 loads
(Fuld Hall)
5:50 p.m. Grocery Shuttle #2 loads
(Fuld Hall)
6:30 p.m.

Buffet Dinner hosted by Dr. and Mrs. Goddard
(Dining Hall)

*This schedule is subject to change.

LECTURERS and LECTURE DESCRIPTIONS

Michael Peskin, SLAC, Stanford University
Topic: Introduction to the Standard Model (Abbreviation: "Intro SM")


The Standard Model of particle physics and its experimental foundations: e+e-annihilation, total cross sections, jets, heavy quarks; weak interactions in neutrino scattering, ppbar collision, and precision experiments at the Z; studies of W and top; a glimpse of future e+e-physics   

 

 
Jonathan Bagger, Johns Hopkins University
Topic: General Orientation to Beyond the Standard Model  (Abbreviation: "Orient BSM")


General perspective on new physics of the 100 GeV -TeV scale. Why do we expect physics beyond the Standard Model? What are the experimental constraints so far? Why are we so excited about the LHC?
 

 
Dieter Zeppenfeld, University of Karlsruhe
Topic:
Standard Model at Colliders  (Abbreviation: "SM at C")

Description of hadron-hadron collider events using the parton model, general characteristics of events, event gen­eration and parton showers. Standard Model reactions and tests: jet production, W and Z production, heavy quark production. Higgs production processes.

 
 
Heidi Schellman, Northwestern University
Topic: Collider Detectors  (Abbreviation: "Detectors")


What do physics events look like at hadron colliders? Parameters of hadron colliders. Detection methods for elementary particles: tracking, vertex detection, calorimetry. Why are the LHC detectors designed as they are?
 
 

Lance Dixon, SLAC, Stanford University
Topic: QCD at Colliders  (Abbreviation: "QCD")   


Perturbative QCD beyond the leading order: Why is this needed for collider physics? Why do infrared divergences appear, and how do we deal with them? What does it mean to compare theory and experiment in QCD?


Ian Hinchliffe, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Topic:
Signatures of Physics Beyond the Standard Model  (Abbreviation: "Sig BSM")   

Most im­portant signatures of new physics at colliders (missing energy, jet pairs at high E
T, anomalous lepton pair, Z, W production, heavy quark production). What models of new physics might give rise to these signatures. What are the Standard Model backgrounds? What will be needed to observe new physics above these backgrounds?


  

Christopher Tully, Princeton University
Topic:
Experimental Study of Higgs Bosons  (Abbreviation: "Higgs Exp")   

Search for the Higgs boson at LEP, and prospects for Higgs boson experiments at the LHC.


  
Hitoshi Murayama, University of California, Berkeley
Topic:
Supersymmetry (Abbreviation: "SUSY")   

Review of global SUSY formalism, SUSY models of particle physics, experimental signatures of SUSY. Spectroscopy measurements in supersymmetry. Models of supersymmetry breaking and their experimental implications. Can we test string theory at colliders?


 
Scott Thomas, Stanford University
Topic: Exotic Signatures of New Physics at the LHC
(Abbreviation: "Exotic Signatures")

Stable and late-decaying particles and black holes.

 
Jonathan Feng, University of California, Irvine
Topic:
Implications of Particle Physics for Cosmology (Abbreviation: "Cosmo/particle")   

The new picture of the universe from cosmology. What insights can collider measurements give us into the issues raised by this picture? What can we learn about dark matter at colliders?

 

Konstantin
Matchev, University of Florida
Topic:  Practicum on Simulations


Guided exercises illustrating the use of these simulation tools for LHC physics.