Advanced simulation techniques in particle physics and cosmology

15 Nov 2010, 09:15 → 20 Nov 2010, 09:30 Europe/Copenhagen

Aud A (NBI)

This elite PhD course in Copenhagen will provide the students with detailed and state-of-the-art knowledge of simulation techniques, which are crucial for interpretation of data from particle colliders or observations in astrophysics.

Teachers: Dr. Fabio Maltoni and Dr. Andrea Maccio.
Assistants: Dr. Steen Hansen, Dr. Rasmus Mackeprang, Dr. Stefania Xella.

Sponsored by:

The faculty of Natural Science (Copenhagen University)
Nordforsk
NBIA (Niels Bohr International Academy)
DARK (Dark Cosmology Centre)
DISCOVERY

The course runs over 5 days, from 9 till 17, and gives 5 ECTS points.

For further information, please contact Course Admin

document Reimbursement_form.pdf

Paper running_gadget.pdf

Monday 15 November

09:15 → 10:30 welcome - install gadget

10:30 → 11:00 coffee and cake

11:00 → 12:30 Introduction to Cosmology - theoretical basis

Minutes Lectures1.pdf

14:00 → 15:30 theory exercises

Paper Exercise.pdf

pictures primary1.dat

15:30 → 16:00 coffee and cake

16:00 → 18:00 computer exercises - gas/stars/DM

Tuesday 16 November

09:15 → 10:30 structure formation - lecture

10:30 → 11:00 coffee and cake

11:00 → 12:30 numerical techniques - lecture

14:00 → 15:30 exercises - cosmological simulations

AHF-Halofinder amiga-v0.0.tgz

AHF-manual AHF.pdf

Exercise2 Exercise2.pdf

FoF fof.tar

Gad2Tip2 Gad2Tip2.tar

gadget2ascii gadget2ascii.f

grafic_code grafic-2.101.tar.gz

Notes2.pdf Lectures2.pdf

Tipsy tipsy.tar.gz

vel2gadget vel2gadget.tar

15:30 → 16:00 coffee and cake

16:00 → 18:00 exercises - visualization

19:00 → 22:00 dinner at "quattro fontane"

Wednesday 17 November

09:15 → 10:30 post linear theory - lecture

Notes3 Lectures3a.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 coffee and cake

11:00 → 12:30 exercise - make a movie

Exercise4 Exercise4.pdf

GadgetMakefile Makefile

GadgetRun GadgetRun.tar

Images.tar Images.tar

Redshift_file redshift_output.dat

shell_smooth shell_smooth

shell_tipsy moviemacro4

smooth.tar smooth.tar

14:00 → 15:30 Introduction to event simulation at the LHC - lecture

URL for MadGraph tutorial + lecture URL of MadGraph

15:30 → 16:00 coffee and cake

16:00 → 18:00 exercises

Thursday 18 November

09:15 → 10:30 Simulation at parton level with MadGraph program: event generation from the Web - lecture

10:30 → 11:00 coffee and cake

11:00 → 12:30 Towards a more realistic simulation: From partons to hadrons and jets - lecture

14:00 → 15:30 exercises

15:30 → 16:00 coffee and cake

16:00 → 18:00 exercises

Friday 19 November

09:15 → 10:30 Full event simulation with MadGraph + Pythia. Simulation of Standard Model and Beyond the Standard Model physics - lecture

10:30 → 11:00 coffee and cake

11:00 → 12:30 Advanced techniques: Simulation of signal and backgrounds and full analysis - lecture

14:00 → 15:30 exercises

15:30 → 16:00 coffee and cake

16:00 → 17:30 exercises

17:30 → 17:45 concluding remarks....