Four main topics will form the backbone of the school:
1) Theoretical Physics,
2) Experimental Subatomic Physics, and
3) Accelerators and Technologies, and
4) Information Technologies and GRID.
Each topic is further
divided
into an initial set of recaps of essential background knowledge,
followed by
four main lecture themes, and finally a dedicated theme on
computing-related
aspects of the topic, including
Finally, six special
“star”
lectures will be organized during the school, to highlight the edge of
current
research and topics of special interest to the host region. These will
be more
pedagogical in nature, and could be opened to a wider audience, e.g.,
from the
host institution and its surroundings. There will be one such talk for
each of
the three main scientific themes. A further two slots are reserved for
presentations focusing on physics in
The lectures will be divided into full and half days, spread evenly across the program.
On full days, there will be 6 hours of lectures. On half days, there will be 3 lectures and either hands-on exercises or work on student projects in the afternoon. To round off the afternoon session on half days, a Q&A session or star lecture will be scheduled in the late afternoon / evening. Not counting the arrival and departure weekends and allowing one free/excursion day per week, we arrive at 16 days of school program. 5 afternoons will be required for the practical exercises, and 4 afternoons will be dedicated to work on the student projects, for a total of 9 half days and 7 full days. Leaving 1 hour aside for welcome and practical information, for a total of 68 lecture hours.
The theoretical physics (TH) theme will be concentrated in the first half of the school. The focus is on theoretical nuclear and particle physics, with the emphasis on particle physics, and the main purpose is to describe the Standard Model of particle physics, including its foundations in quantum field theory. Additional main topics will be physics beyond the Standard model, the interplay with astro-particle physics and cosmology, particle physics phenomenology, and computer physics.
We assign 17 lecture hours in total to the TH theme (including its “star” lecture).
The Experimental Subatomic Physics (EP) theme deals with what we know about subatomic physics from experiments and how we know it. It will be divided evenly over the duration of the school. A significant part of it will focus on reviews of the existing body of experimental knowledge, including particle physics, heavy-ion physics, and nuclear physics. Further, a course on data analysis will give participants an introduction to how raw data are transformed into final measurements, including calibrations, backgrounds and uncertainty estimations. The participants will also be given a thorough review of the extremely versatile range of modern particle detectors, such as those employed by the LHC experiments.
We assign 21 lecture hours to the EP theme (including its “star” lecture).
The Accelerators and Technologies (AT) theme will be concentrated in the second half of the school and will cover accelerators, the physics of particle beams, instrumentation, and related technologies, including highlights on the Large Hadron Collider, on cryogenics and materials science, on medical physics applications, and on information technology.
We assign 19 lecture hours and one practical session in total to the AT theme (including its “star” lecture).
The Information
Technology (IT)
theme mainly deals with practical sessions on GRID computing. Special
theoretical and experimental topics will be included in practical
sessions on
doing the
We assign 15 lecture hours and one practical session in total to the IT theme.