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Updates, events related to the Computational Methods for Statistical Analysis in Experimental Physics (CMSAEP) lecture at CERN

LHC software course: students’ presentations (part 2)

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Who: Prof. Arno Heister

Room: CERN 354-1-016

Today we have the 2nd session of students’ presentations. The slides will be available shortly after the meeting starts from here.

Please bring your laptop.

Homework:

  • Update your presentations with details from the discussions afterwards and upload them again.
  • Find out details about Binomial, Poisson and Gaussian distributions.
  • How one can define a statistical error of a histogram?
  • What is the “central limit theorem”?
  • Test your EVO setup.

CMSAEP lecture – Introduction to ATLAS and CMS

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Who: Prof. Arno Heister

Room: CERN: 28-S-029

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. (In case you do not have a login please ask Guoan Hu.)

Please bring your laptop.

Homework:

  • CMS event display: Install on your computer or lxplus Fireworks.The instructions can be found here. (In case you cannot access the CMS internal pages look here).
  • Challenging: What is a gauge theorie? i.e. why/what makes classical electrodynamics is a gauge theorie?

CMSAEP lecture – Introduction to CERN, etc.

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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?