57th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics "LHC Phenomenology" 17- 29 August 2003 John Burnett Hall, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9JF, Scotland

General Information

SUSSP57 is the 57th in the Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics series. A brief history of this series of Schools can be found here (hyperlink). With the LHC under construction, and due to come on line in 2007, it is timely for a summer school to focus on LHC phenomenology. At a time when most of the experimental effort is directed to detector construction and software development, it is vitally important to focus young members of the experimental community on the physics that the LHC will deliver. At the same time there is a continuing need to bring more young theorists into phenomenology, and in particular to inform them about the basis properties and capabilities of the machine, detectors and software required for physics analyses.

The range of physics covered by the LHC is very broad: from the searches for the Higgs boson and physics beyond the Standard Model, to detailed studies of Quantum Chromodynamics, the B-physics sectors and the properties of hadronic matter at high energy density as realised in heavy-ion collisions. The school will aim to cover all these at a pedagogical level, starting with a basic introduction to the Standard Model and its most likely extensions. Theoretical training will be supplemented by courses on the detector capabilities and search strategies.

In summary, the aim of the school will be to equip young particle physicists with the basic tools to extract the maximum benefit from the various LHC experiments

The fee for the school is 700 GBP; this includes meals and accommodation in University residences.
 

Provisonal Timetable

The timings will be: 9.00 Lecture 1, 10.15 Coffee, 10.45 Lecture 2, 12.30 Lunch, 14.00 Lecture 3, 15.15 Coffee, 15.45 Lecture 4, 17.00 end of Lectures. 18.30 Dinner, 19.30 Discussion Session, from approx. 21.00 bar.

	Morning (9.00-12.30)	Afternoon (14.00-17.00)	Evening (19.30-21.00)
Sunday (August 17)	Arrival	Arrival	Welcome Party
Monday	Lectures	Lectures	Discussion Session
Tuesday	Lectures	Lectures	Discussion Session
Wednesday	Lectures	Excursion	Whisky Tasting
Thursday	Lectures	Lectures	Discussion Session
Friday	Lectures	Lectures	Discussion Session
Saturday	Lectures	Excursion	Free
Sunday	Free	Free	Free
Monday	Lectures	Lectures	Discussion Session
Tuesday	Lectures	Lectures	Discussion Session
Wednesday	Lectures	Lectures	Discussion Session
Thursday	Lectures	Lectures	School Dinner
Friday (August 29)	Lectures	Departure	Departure

 

Organising Committee

Tony Doyle (Glasgow, Co-Director)
James Stirling (IPPP, Co-Director)
Colin Froggatt (Glasgow)
Michael Krämer (Edinburgh)
Chris Maxwell (IPPP)
Paul Soler (Glasgow)
 

Secretariat

SUSSP57
Linda Wilkinson