Particle Physics

Theory

An excellent overview of the field of Particle physics is provided in the Los Alamos primer. Note that this is a rather old book (1984!). The 'state of the art' has advanced exponentially beyond that, but it has also become exponentially more complex. This is a good short introduction to the basic concepts.

Journals to refer to for overview articles on what is the current known status in theory/phenomenology:

• Reviews of Modern Physics
• Reports on Progress in Physics. For example, Hard Interactions of Quarks and Gluons: A Primer for LHC Physics, Rept.Prog.Phys. 70 (2007) 89
• Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science

Parton Distribution Functions (PDF)

The main source of information for the PDF's used universally is LHAPDF: LHAPDF main website Use this paperas the reference for LHAPDF What is the current (as in 2013) best undertanding of PDF's in general, is reviewd in this paper: S. Forte and G. Watt, Progress in the Determination of the Partonic Structure of the Proton, Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci. 63 (2013) 291–328

Pythia stuff

Codes for various type of QCD processes put into pythia: Documentation here (also sublinks inside the page for diffractive, non-single-diffractive etc

Effective Field Theory

• Lecture notes (condensed) from Ian Stewart's course at MIT. Full course contents including lecture videos are available at the OCW website
• Review article on Effective field theory
• Heavy duty article from one of the old masters of QFT, Howard Georgi at Harvard

Statistical data analysis

• This book gives an excellent introduction to data analysis techniques used in Particle Physics

CMS data analysis

Initial focus area is Higgs->tautau: Main twiki page

Papers/projects the group is currently working on

The 'working' Twiki is where people working on various sub-topics share information about what's going on, tasks to be done, software recipes.

Note that you need a CERN computing account and CMS membership to access any of the above pages.

Literature Background - PhD seminar Spring 2016
Determination of charge carrier mobilities and properties in diamond using TCT

• Main reference paper on the use of Transient Current Technique (TCT) to determine the properties of charge carries in diamond. Paper here
• A broad overview of diamond detector applications in particle physics. Bethe Forum presentation here
• Thesis on the characterization of low temperature behaviour of charge carriers in diamond is here Chapter 5 is especially relevant for the work in this seminar.
• Thesis by G. Kramberger (Llubjana) on signal characteristics in semiconductors here

References

Here are a couple of standard references for instrumentation in particle physics. Hard copies of the books are available in my lab or office.

• From the perspective of experiments, William Leo's timeless classic Techniques of Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics is hard to beat.It is an older book, but many of the principles set forth in the book are still widely applied.
• From a theoretical perspective, there are B-LHC books and A-LHC books (Before and After-). One book that focuses on all the concepts relevant to particle physics in the A-LHC era is Christopher Tully's Elementary Particle physics in a nutshell.
• This link points to a collection of lecture notes from my course EP408 on Experimental Methods of Particle and Nuclear physics (Spring 2013).

Statistics and error analysis

• A web book on error analysis in physical measurement is available here
• Basic general introduction to statistics here
• Classic textbooks on data analysis from experiments are:
  • D.C. Baird, Experimentation: An Introduction to Measurement Theory and Experiment Design (Prentice-Hall, 1962)
  • E.M. Pugh and G.H. Winslow, The Analysis of Physical Measurements (Addison-Wesley, 1966)
  • J.R. Taylor, An Introduction to Error Analysis (University Science Books, 1982)