Data-to-theory
approach at the Large Hadron Collider
Data to theory at the
LHC
Regional Centre for Accelerator-based
Particle Physics (RECAPP), Harish-Chandra Research Institute,
Allahabad, and
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is
soon to start operating at CERN, Geneva, is expected to probe
the fundamental laws of interaction of all matter at
distance scales at an unprecedented level of minuteness. The
experiment collides two proton beams with each other head-on
and the decay products of this collision are expected to give
information regarding the fundamental laws of physics. The
task of extracting the footprints of some perhaps new laws
of physics from the mind-boggling mass of data (on an
average about a Peta Byte per year) is an extremely
difficult task.
Theorists and experimentalists world-wide are therefore engaged
in the pursuit of methods and concepts that ensure the best
and most reliable way of arriving at theoretical
scenarios from an analysis of the data at the LHC. The present
meeting is an effort to have intensive discussion in this
direction.
In a span of five days, three experimentalists
and four theorists will deliver 15 lectures altogether, covering
various aspects of this approach, A part of the lectures are
planned to be pedagogic in nature while the rest
will be directed towards consolidating further
collaboration on the various urgent projects before the particle
physics community.
There will be three, or at most four hours
of presentation every day, with provisions or intensive discussions,
in the idyllic setting of the IIAS campus. It is hoped that
EW collaborations and projects will be framed,
and the community of young researchers will feel better equipped,
through the presentations here, to tackle the many challenging
problems that lie before us during the LHC runs.
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