CERN Students Summer School 2008 Welcome to the 2008 Summer Students: You are ~216 students from 52 different countries ! Summer Students Team Ingrid Schmid Catherine Nederman James Purvis Virginie Blondeau (Student) Andreas Schopper Dirk Duellmann Werner Herr Christophe Grojean James Wells Fabio Cerutti (Chairman) July 2th 2008 Fabio Cerutti

CERN : World’s largest Particle Physics lab Founded in 1954 to consolidate and develop the European science Today CERN includes 20 permanent countries-members and as observers: Japan, Russian Federation, USA, India, Turkey, Israel, EU and UNESCO About 8000 User Physicists working for some time here (1/2 of HEP community) July 2th 2008 Fabio Cerutti

The advantages of working at CERN Put in common facilities, tools and resources: Possibility to realize very challenging experiments at the frontier of science Profit from the large community of theorists, experimentalists, accelerator, computing experts Work in a scientific environment dedicated to fundamental science Example of an international organization where people from all over the word work well together with the same objectives July 2th 2008 Fabio Cerutti

Science highlights at CERN Discovery of Neutral Currents 1972 Discovery of W and Z bosons (SPS) 1983 Search and measurement of the Direct component of CP Violation (1988-2001) Measurement of the number of light neutrino families (LEP) 1991 Precision test of SM theory and constraints on the Higgs boson mass (LEP) 1991-2000 Evidence for the quark-gluon plasma (Heavy Ions) Creation of anti-Hydrogen in the Lab (2002) July 2th 2008 Fabio Cerutti

Being @ CERN in Summer 2008: Very exciting period !!!! LHC Accelerator and detectors getting into operation: first beam injections Summer 2008 ! July 2th 2008 Fabio Cerutti

The CERN Students Summer School Old tradition: Fist school held in 1969 It is meant give you a first flavor of the world of research on HEP Through Series of lectures on theoretical and experimental physics Individual work within a CERN group Key point: Get involved in HEP research and the fundamental questions related to it and in addition Discuss directly with the people working at CERN to understand their motivations and way of thinking and of working July 2th 2008 Fabio Cerutti

Lectures: Topics and professors Topics : Relevant subjects in High Energy Physics at CERN and around the world The lecturers are chosen among the main actors of each field also on the basis of their pedagogical skills In order to accommodate with the heterogeneous students composition: several courses start with ‘basic introduction’ followed by more ‘Advanced’ lectures July 2th 2008 Fabio Cerutti

The 2008 program overview Introductory lectures: Today: Introduction to CERN and SS school: 2h Introduction to Particle Physics: 4h Introduction to Nuclear Physics: 4h Introduction to Cosmology: 5h Experimental Particle Physics: Accelerator physics: 5h Detectors: 5h Physics at Hadron Colliders: 4h Neutrino Physics: 4h CP violation: 4h LHC, ATLAS and CMS commissioning and start up ! : 3h July 2th 2008 Fabio Cerutti

Experimental Physics: The 2008 program overview Experimental Physics: Astroparticle Physics: 3h Antimatter in the LAB: 2h Heavy Ions – Quark matter Physics: 3h Theory: Fundamental concepts in particle physics: 6h The Standard Model of Particle Physics: 8h Beyond the Standard Model: 4h July 2th 2008 Fabio Cerutti

Other relevant topics related to particle physics research: The 2008 program overview Other relevant topics related to particle physics research: Introduction to Statistics: 4h Introduction to electronics: 3h Data Acquisition systems: 2h From raw data to physics results: 2h Special Seminars: Isolde Facility The GRID Medical Physics Future Linear Colliders Root July 2th 2008 Fabio Cerutti

…. And a Welcome drink today ~16:30 The 2008 program overview Discussion session: every day ~1/2h at the end of the session on the lectures of the day Workshops: See next presentation by C. D’ambrosio Student Poster Session: 6th of August 16:30 + Some very interesting guided visits …. And a Welcome drink today ~16:30 The Summer Student Program is considered a crucial activity by CERN: your feedback is important to constantly improve the quality/content of the lectures ! July 2th 2008 Fabio Cerutti

Suggestions for your summer at CERN Profit from lectures, seminars, workshops and discussions ASK QUESTIONS and be INTERACTIVE: right place to ask question is the discussion session Get involved into “real” experimental work Meet your colleagues Enjoy the region for admin. Problems/questions Ingrid and Virginie for info on lecture(r)s Fabio: fabio.cerutti@cern.ch July 2th 2008 Fabio Cerutti