Mauro Donegà: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2018 |
| Name | Dr. Mauro Donegà |
| Address | Inst. f. Teilchen- und Astrophysik CERN, 32-4-C16 Route de Meyrin 1211 Genève 23 SWITZERLAND |
| Telephone | +41 44 633 92 58 |
| mdonega@ethz.ch | |
| URL | https://people.phys.ethz.ch/~mdonega/ |
| Department | Physics |
| Relationship | Lecturer |
| Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 402-0000-09L | Physics Lab 3   Only for Physics BSc (Programme Regulations 2016) resp. Interdisciplinary Sciences BSc (Physical-Chemical Direction) | 7 credits | 1V + 1U + 13P | M. Donegà, S. Gvasaliya | |
| Abstract | This laboratory course provides basic training of experimental skills. These are experimental design, implementation, measurement, data analysis and interpretation, as well as error analysis. The experimental work has to be complemented by a concise written report, which trains the scientific writing skills. Manuals for the individual experiments are available in English. | ||||
| Learning objective | Students learn to independently perform advanced experiments and document them scientifically correct. Students are required to attend the safety lecture on the first day of the course and sign an "Attendance confirmation sheet". Students will be asked to present their sheet to access the laboratory rooms and perform the experiments. The following aspects are emphasized: - understanding complicated physical phenomena - structured approach to experiments with complex instruments - various practical aspects of experimenting and determining uncertainties - learning the relevant statistical methods for data analysis - interpretation of measurements and uncertainties - describing the experiments and the results in a scientifically proper manner, in direct analogy to publishing - ethical aspects of experimental research and scientific communication The experiments are complemented by a series of mandatory lectures covering the most important elements of statistics needed to correctly analyse the measured data. The main lectures topics are: - combinatorial calculus - probability distributions - error propagation - parameters estimation (least squares and likelihood fits) | ||||
| Content | We offer experiments covering the following topics: Basic topics from mechanics, optics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism and electronics; as well as central topics from nuclear and particle physics, quantum electronics, quantum mechanics, solid state physics and astrophysics. | ||||
| Lecture notes | Instructions for experiments are available in English. | ||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | From a variety of over 50 experiments, students have to perform 4 experiments covering different topics. The experimental work is complemented by writing a scientific report. | ||||
| 402-0240-00L | Advanced Physics Laboratory II Prerequiste: "Advanced Physics Laboratory I" completed. Before enroling in "Advanced Physics Laboratory II", please enrol in "Advanced Physics Laboratory I". Enrol at most once in the course of the Bachelor programme! To have this course recognised instead of a proseminar or a semester paper please contact the Study Administration. | 9 credits | 19P | M. Donegà, S. Gvasaliya | |
| Abstract | This laboratory course provides basic training of experimental skills. These are experimental design, implementation, measurement, data analysis and interpretation, as well as error analysis. The experimental work has to be complemented by a concise written report, which trains the scientific writing skills. Manuals for the individual experiments are available in English. | ||||
| Learning objective | Students learn to independently perform advanced experiments and document them scientifically correct. The following aspects are emphasized: - understanding complicated physical phenomena - structured approach to experiments with complex instruments - various practical aspects of experimenting and determining uncertainties - learning the relevant statistical methods for data analysis - interpretation of measurements and uncertainties - describing the experiments and the results in a scientifically proper manner, in direct analogy to publishing - ethical aspects of experimental research and scientific communication The experiments are complemented by a series of mandatory lectures covering the most important elements of statistics needed to correctly analyse the measured data. The main lectures topics are: - combinatorial calculus - probability distributions - error propagation - parameters estimation (least squares and likelihood fits) | ||||
| Content | We offer experiments covering the following topics: Basic topics from mechanics, optics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism and electronics; as well as central topics from nuclear and particle physics, quantum electronics, quantum mechanics, solid state physics and astrophysics . | ||||
| Lecture notes | Instructions for experiments are available in English. | ||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | From a variety of over 50 experiments, students have to perform 4 experiments covering different topics. The experimental work is complemented by writing a scientific report. | ||||
| 402-0241-00L | Advanced Physics Laboratory I IMPORTANT: You may not enrol repeatedly in the course of the Bachelor programme. | 9 credits | 1V + 1U + 17P | M. Donegà, S. Gvasaliya | |
| Abstract | This laboratory course provides basic training of experimental skills. These are experimental design, implementation, measurement, data analysis and interpretation, as well as error analysis. The experimental work has to be complemented by a concise written report, which trains the scientific writing skills. Manuals for the individual experiments are available in English. | ||||
| Learning objective | Students learn to independently perform advanced experiments and document them scientifically correct. The following aspects are emphasized: - understanding complicated physical phenomena - structured approach to experiments with complex instruments - various practical aspects of experimenting and determining uncertainties - learning the relevant statistical methods for data analysis - interpretation of measurements and uncertainties - describing the experiments and the results in a scientifically proper manner, in direct analogy to publishing - ethical aspects of experimental research and scientific communication The experiments are complemented by a series of mandatory lectures covering the most important elements of statistics needed to correctly analyse the measured data. The main lectures topics are: - combinatorial calculus - probability distributions - error propagation - parameters estimation (least squares and likelihood fits) | ||||
| Content | We offer experiments covering the following topics: Basic topics from mechanics, optics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism and electronics; as well as central topics from nuclear and particle physics, quantum electronics, quantum mechanics, solid state physics and astrophysics. | ||||
| Lecture notes | Instructions for experiments are available in English. | ||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | From a variety of over 50 experiments, students have to perform 4 experiments covering different topics. The experimental work is complemented by writing a scientific report. | ||||
| 402-0740-00L | Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics | 8 credits | 3S | M. Backhaus, M. Donegà | |
| Abstract | The Standard Model of particle physics is a monumental achievement of human ingenuity. While typically approached from the theoretical side, in this proseminar we will collect the experimental evidence upon which the Standard Model has been built. | ||||
| Learning objective | This course integrates knowledge of all detector components (tracking, calorimetry, trigger) in discussing the experiments as a whole. It is meant to be complementary to the "Experimental Methods" course 402-0725-00L which introduces different detector technologies. It also augments the particle physics master curriculum and is meant to be followed in parallel to PPP I (402-0891-00L) or PPP II (402-0702-00L). | ||||
| Content | The course will not follow the historical trajectory of experimental particle physics. It will instead try to give a modern view of the results of the experiments and show where they fit in the theoretical construction. The students will read the original papers collected in the seminal text by Cahn and Goldhaber. The theory will be distilled to the very basics using the textbook by Bettini. Introductory material: - Review of basic relativistic kinematics (Lorentz transformations, invariant mass, etc..) - Passage of particles through matter: Bethe Bloch dE/dx, bremsstrahlung, photon interactions, electromagnetic showers, hadronic showers, Cherenkov radiation, Transition Radiation Experimental papers discussed in the course: - Deep Inelastic scattering - J/psi and tau discovery - strong interaction: gluons and jets (anti-k_t jet clustering) - parity violation, neutrino observation, neutrino helicity - neutral current, W/Z discovery - number of neutrino families, muon pair production asymmetry, W+W- production - top/bottom discoveries - Higgs discovery and properties - CP violation in the kaon system - Neutrino oscillations The course is completed with in class detector demonstrations: - cloud chamber - cosmics rays with plastic scintillators - cerenkov light in water - silicon detectors | ||||
| Literature | Cahn, Goldhaber "Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics" (2nd edition), Cambridge University Press Bettini, “Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics” Cambridge University Press | ||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Recommended: Phenomenology of Particle Physics I (or II) (in parallel) | ||||
| 402-0899-65L | Higgs Physics | 6 credits | 2V + 1U | M. Donegà, M. Grazzini | |
| Abstract | The course introduces the theory and phenomenology of the recently discovered Higgs boson. With this course the students will receive a detailed introduction to the physics of the Higgs boson in the Standard Model. They will acquire the necessary theoretical background and learn about the main experimental methods used for the discovery of the Higgs boson. | ||||
| Learning objective | With this course the students will receive a detailed introduction to the physics of the Higgs boson in the Standard Model. They will acquire the necessary theoretical background to understand the main production and decay channels of the Higgs boson at high-energy colliders, and the corresponding experimental signatures. | ||||
| Content | Theory part: - the Standard Model and the mass problem: WW scattering and the no-lose theorem - the Higgs mechanism and its implementation in the Standard Model - radiative corrections and the screening theorem - theoretical constraints on the Higgs mass; the hierarchy problem - Higgs production in e+e- collisions - Higgs production at hadron colliders - Higgs decays to fermions and vector bosons - Higgs differential distributions, rapidity distribution, pt spectrum and jet vetoes - Higgs properties and beyond the Standard Model perspective - Outlook: The Higgs sector in weakly coupled and strongly coupled new physics scenarios. Experimental part: Introductory material: - basics of accelerators and detectors - reminders of statistics: likelihoods, hypothesis testing - reminders of multivariate techniques: Boosted Decision Trees and Neural Networks Main topics: - pre-history (pre-LEP) - LEP1: measurements at the Z-pole - Electroweak constraints - LEP2: towards the limit mH<114 GeV - TeVatron searches - LHC: -- main channels overview -- dissect one analysis -- combine information from all channels -- differential measurements -- off-shell measurements | ||||
| Literature | - Higgs Hunter's Guide (by S.Dawson, J. Gunion, H. Haber and G. Kane) - A. Djouadi, The Anatomy of electro-weak symmetry breaking. I: The Higgs boson in the standard model, Phys.Rept. 457 (2008) 1. - PDG review of "Passage of particles through matter" http://pdg.lbl.gov/2014/reviews/rpp2014-rev-passage-particles-matter.pdf - PDG review of "Accelerators" http://pdg.lbl.gov/2014/reviews/rpp2014-rev-accel-phys-colliders.pdf - "The searches for Higgs Bosons at LEP" M. Kado and C. Tully, Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 2002. 52:65-113 - "Combination of Tevatron searches for the standard model Higgs boson in the W+W- decay mode" HWW TeVatron combination - http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.4162 - "Evidence for a particle produced in association with weak bosons and decaying to a bottom-antibottom quark pair in Higgs boson searches at the TeVatron" http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6436 - "Higgs Boson Studies at the Tevatron" http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6346 - “Asymptotic formulae for likelihood-based tests of new physics” Cowan, Cranmer, Gross, Vitells http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.1727 - "Precise determination of the mass of the Higgs boson and tests of compatibility of its couplings with the standard model predictions using proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV" https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.8662 - "Measurement of the Higgs boson mass from the H→γγ and H→ZZ∗→4ℓ channels with the ATLAS detector using 25 fb−1 of pp collision data" http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3827 - "Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pp Collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments" http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07589 - "Measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates and constraints on its couplings from a combined ATLAS and CMS analysis of the LHC pp collision data at √s=7 and 8 TeV" https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02266 - "Projections of Higgs Boson measurements with 30/fb at 8 TeV and 300/fb at 14 TeV" https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/HigProjectionEsg2012TWiki | ||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Prerequisites: Quantum Field Theory I, Phenomenology of Particle Physics I | ||||