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

1 welcome - install gadget

2 coffee and cake

3 Introduction to Cosmology - theoretical basis

Minutes Lectures1.pdf

4 theory exercises

Paper Exercise.pdf

pictures primary1.dat

5 coffee and cake

6 computer exercises - gas/stars/DM

Tuesday, 16 November

7 structure formation - lecture

8 coffee and cake

9 numerical techniques - lecture

10 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

11 coffee and cake

12 exercises - visualization

13 dinner at "quattro fontane"

Wednesday, 17 November

14 post linear theory - lecture

Notes3 Lectures3a.pdf

15 coffee and cake

16 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

17 Introduction to event simulation at the LHC - lecture

URL for MadGraph tutorial + lecture URL of MadGraph

18 coffee and cake

19 exercises

Thursday, 18 November

20 Simulation at parton level with MadGraph program: event generation from the Web - lecture

21 coffee and cake

22 Towards a more realistic simulation: From partons to hadrons and jets - lecture

23 exercises

24 coffee and cake

25 exercises

Friday, 19 November

26 Full event simulation with MadGraph + Pythia. Simulation of Standard Model and Beyond the Standard Model physics - lecture

27 coffee and cake

28 Advanced techniques: Simulation of signal and backgrounds and full analysis - lecture

29 exercises

30 coffee and cake

31 exercises

32 concluding remarks....