Physics - Video Lectures on LHC and Tevatron

This is a collection of links to physics video lectures on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and Tevatron from CERN - LHC detectors, LHC experiments, LHC physics, Tevatron physics etc.

Video/text Statistics and Discoveries at the LHC (Dr. Glen Cowan, 2010)
Description: The lectures will give an introduction to statistics as applied in particle physics and will provide all the necessary basics for data analysis at the LHC. Special emphasis will be placed on the the problems and questions that arise when searching for new phenomena, ...
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Video....... Scenarios and Technological Challenges for a LHC Luminosity Upgrade:
1/5 - Introduction to the LHC Upgrade Program and Summary of Physics Motivations
2/5 - The Detector Upgrade and the Requirements on the Upgrade Scenarios
3/5 - Scenarios for the LHC Luminosity Upgrade
4/5 - Main Accelerator Science Challenges
5/5 - Main Accelerator Science Challenges

Video/text Understanding Cross Sections at the LHC (by Dr. Stephen Mrenna, 2009)
Description: My lectures will focus on the theoretical and phenomenological tools that will be needed to understand the Standard Model at the LHC. ...
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Video/text The Opposite Ends of Supersymmetry and their Implications for the LHC
(by Dr. James Wells, 2009)
Description: There have been many predictions for the mass patterns of superpartners. In these lectures I discuss two interesting opposite-end approaches to supersymmetry breaking that determine the superpartner masses: zero scalar mass ...
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Video/text Commissioning of the LHC super-conducting magnets systems
Description: 1/4) - Why and LHC Hardware Commissioning? Specificity and complexity of this machine, 2/4) - The challenges for getting the nominal cryogenic conditions, 3/4) - The challenges of powering the superconducting magnets, 4/4) - The challenges of safely powering the superconducting magnets.

Video/text QCD: are we ready for the LHC? (by S. Frixione, 2006)
Description: The LHC energy regime poses a serious challenge to our capability of predicting QCD reactions to the level of accuracy necessary for a successful programme of searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. ...

Video/text The LHC machine-experiment interface (2005)
Description: This series of lectures will cover some of the major issues at the boundary between the LHC machine and the experiments: 1) The physics motivation and expectations of the experiments regarding the machine operation. ...

Video/text Monte Carlo generators for the LHC (by T. Sjostarnd, 2005)
Description: Event generators today are indispensable as tools for the modelling of complex physics processes, that jointly lead to the production of hundreds of particles per event at LHC energies. ...

Video/text A walk through the LHC injector chain (by M. Benedikt, 2005)
Description: Proton linac, PS Booster, PS, SPS and the two transfer channels from SPS to LHC are used for LHC proton injection. The lectures will review the features of these faithful machines and ...

Video/text Technological challenges for LHC experiments, the CMS example
(by P. Sphicas, 2005)
Description: The LHC and its experiments will further our understanding of the last unsolved issue in the Standard Model, that of the mechanism via which the underlying Electroweak symmetry is broken, ...

Video/text Particle Identification at the LHC (by D. Fournier, 2004)
Description: After a short introduction on specific features of hadron collisions at the LHC (proton-proton and heavy ions), particle identification in soft collisions is addressed taking examples ...

Video/text Introduction to Monte Carlos for the LHC (by M. Seymour, 2003)
Description: I review the principles, physics and computer implementations of the Monte Carlo event generators of importance for LHC physics. ...

Video LHC experimental data : from today's data challenges to the promise of tomorrow
Description: The LHC experiments constitute a challenge in several discipline in both High Energy Physics and Information Technologies. This is definitely the case for data acquisition, processing and analysis. ...

Video/text Technological challenges for the LHC (2003)

Video Physics at a Future Collider beyond the LHC and a TeV Class Linear Collider
(by M. Battaglia, 2003)
Description: After the LHC will have probed the physics at the TeV frontier, new generations of colliders capable of reaching into the multi-TeV energy domain will need to be considered. ...
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Video/text Searching for Supersymmetry at the LHC (by F. Gianotti and G. Ridolfi, 2003)
Description: We will review the general motivations for proposing non-standard descriptions of fundamental interactions. We will give a simple and pedagogical presentation of the theoretical foundations of Supersymmetry, and ...

Video The LHC Machine/Experiment Interface (2002)
Description: This series of three lectures will provide an overview of issues arising at the interface between the LHC machine and the experiments, which are required for guiding the interaction between the collider and the experiments ...

Video Reliability issues at the LHC (by P. Kafka, 2002)
Description: The Lectures on reliability issues at the LHC will be focused on five main Modules on five days. Module 1: Basic Elements in Reliability Engineering Some basic terms, definitions and methods, ...

Video Tracking at the LHC (by K. Safarik, 2001)
Description: The lecture will start with a short history of particle tracking in high-energy physics. Then we will concentrate on tracking in the LHC experiments. We will discuss various tracking devices proposed for these experiments, ...

Video. LHC detectors ; Physics performance (1998)

Video........ LHC detectors : muon identification and measurements at the LHC (1998)

Video LHC detectors : tracking at LHC (1998)
Description: The role of tracking and vertexing for the LHC experiments will be described. The characteristics of the various tracking detectors will be illustrated and the motivations for the solution adopted will be ...

Video........ LHC detectors : requirements and design criteria for ATLAS (1998)

Video LHC physics beyond the Standard Model (by F. Pauss, 1991)
Description: Physics beyond the Standard Model will be discussed in the context of possible experimental signatures at the LHC. This includes the following physics topics: Supersymmetry, ...

Video Standard Model physics at the LHC (by D. Denegri, 1991)
Description: We will review the expectations for Standard Model Physics at LHC. The topics covered are: total and elastic cross-sections, jet and direct photon production, ...

Tevatron

Video/text Tevatron Physics Results (by Dr. B. Heinemann, 2007)
Description: I will summarize the physics results from the Tevatron experiments with particular emphasis on the experimental methods used in different kinds of analysis. ...
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Video/text Tevatron: The Cinderella Story or The Art of Collider Commissioning
(by Dr. Vladimir Shiltsev, 2007)
Description: The Tevatron Collider at Fermilab (Batavia, IL, USA) is the world's highest energy particle collider at 1.8TeV c.m.e. The machine was a centerpiece of the US and world's High Energy Physics for many years. ...