Page in English.

• Description
• Calendar
• Slides
• Bibliography

Description:

Advanced classes in Particle Physics for Master students.
Description of the course on the UCL website here. Beware: it is outdated.
This year, the classes will be split in a first part (roughly 2/3 of the hours) devoted to experimental studies of the Higgs boson, taught by me (Andrea Giammanco), and a second part devoted to particle detector techniques, taught by Prof. Krzysztof Piotrzkowski.

Unless some student requests to switch to English, classes are in principle in French. However, all written material (including this website) is in English. Specific jargon will be introduced in both languages, whenever possible. (The teacher is not a native speaker of any of the two...)

I will make use of slides (that you find below) but not 100% of the course will be based on them. The blackboard will be used a lot, for example to derive all the formulas and make any necessary digression.

I can be contacted at my @uclouvain.be and @cern.ch addresses (both are equivalent).

Calendar 2016-2017:

Official calendar here.

Slides:

• Chapter 1: Higgs boson theory recap
• Chapter 2: the Large Hadron Collider and how to search for the Higgs boson
• Chapter 3: the four-leptons final state
• Chapter 4: the di-photon final state
• Chapter 5: the di-tau, WW and bb final states
• Chapter 6: Higgs boson properties; and the ttH production mode
• Chapter 7: the tH production mode; some other selected research directions in particle physics

Bibliography:

Recommended reading:

• D. Perkins, "Introduction to High Energy Physics"; Chapter 8, "Electroweak interactions and the Standard Model"
• V. Barger, R. Phillips, "Collider Physics"; Chapter 2, "The Standard Electroweak Gauge Model"; Chapter 12, "Higgs Boson"
• J. Gunion et al., "The Higgs Hunter's Guide"; there is a copy in our library
• Particle Data Group, "Review of Particle Physics"; Free for download here