Week 1: Introduction to Particle Physics and Jets¶
Topics¶
This week’s assignments will guide you through the following topics:
Introduction to particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider
Jets and H(bb) tagging
Reading¶
Please read the following:
Slides on LHC and jets: 01-aboutHEPscience-forCapstone2020.pdf
Introduction of Ref. [2]
Tasks¶
No tasks this week.
Weekly Questions¶
Answer the following questions on Canvas:
What is a jet?
What is the Higgs boson?
How much data is generated by the LHC experiments per year before filtering and compression? What about after filtering and compression?