Room: 4-S-013

Preparation for the CMS P5 visit on Wednesday: Introduction to the Large Hadron Collider with examples from ATLAS and CMS (Slides in Quicktime format) Use your buphy login to download the files.

Introduction to CERN moved to next Friday.

Please bring your laptop.

Homework:

• CMS event display: Identify objects,particles you see in the first 23 CMS collision events. You will have to decompress the linked file. Instructions for special OS:
  • Mac/Linux/lxplus:
    • download and become familiar with iSpy
    • take the ig-file and look at the events
  • Microsoft Windows (until you will have lxplus access):
    • use the screenshots on the iSpy page
• Challenging: What is a gauge theorie? i.e. why/what makes classical electrodynamics is a gauge theorie?