Particle Physics II: Top Quarks and Jets at the LHC

Summer term 2026 (4022171)

Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik

The module Particle Physics II - Top-Quarks and Jets at the LHC is a lecture within the Master program in physics. The lecture can be followed as part of a major or minor subject in experimental particle physics. Basic knowledge from the courses Modern Experimental Physics III, Modern Theoretical Physics II and Computer Use in Physics from the Bachelor's program and Particle Physics I from the Master's program is assumed.

Lecturers:

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Klaus Rabbertz

Prof.Dr. Thomas Müller

Tutors:

Johannes Gäßler

Schedule

Lecture: Wednesdays, 14:00-15:30h, Physics High-rise 3/1, see also ILIAS for inscription. Start: 22.04.2026

Exercises: Tuesdays, 15:45-17:15h, Physics High-rise 11/12, see also ILIAS Start: 05.05.2026

Office hour: K. Rabbertz: On appointment

Preliminary plan:

ECTS

Transparencies and recordings (if applicable) of the lectures

ILIAS

Exercises

ILIAS

Weitere Downloads

Jet Physics at the LHC
K. Rabbertz

Literature (entries with links are OpenAccess, to be completed)

General and QCD

M.E. Peskin, D.V. Schroeder, "An introduction to Quantum Field Theory", Westview Press, (1995).

V.D. Barger, R.J.N. Phillips, "Collider Physics", Westview Press (1996).

R.K. Ellis, W.J. Stirling, B.R. Webber, "QCD and Collider Physics", Cambridge University Press (1996).

G. Dissertori, I.G. Knowles, M. Schmeling, "Quantum Chromodynamics", Oxford University Press (2002).

R. Cahn, G. Goldhaber, "The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics", Cambridge University Press (2009).

J. Collins, "Foundations of Perturbative QCD", Cambridge University Press (2011).

Particle Data Group, "The review of Particle Physics", PTEP 2022 (2022) 083C01.

F. Gross, E. Klempt et al., "50 Years of Quantum Chromodynamics", Eur.Phys.J.C 83 (2023) 1125.

Large Hadron Collider

J.M. Campbell, J.W. Huston, W.J. Stirling,"Hard Interactions of Quarks and Gluons: a Primer for LHC Physics", Rep. Prog. Phys. 70 (2007) 89.

T. Plehn, "Lectures on LHC Physics", Springer (2012). arXiv:/hep-ph/0910.4182

I. Brock, T. Schörner-Sadenius (Eds.), "Physics at the Terascale", Wiley-VCH Weinheim (2011).

Thomas Schörner-Sadenius (Ed.), "The Large Hadron Collider --- Harvest of Run 1", Springer (2015).

J. Campbell, J. Huston, F. Krauss, "The Black Book of Quantum Chromodynamics : a Primer for the LHC Era", Oxford University Press (2018).

Jet-Physik

G. Salam, "Towards Jetography", Eur.Phys.J. C 67 (2010) 637. arXiv:0906.1833

Top-Quark Physik

U. Husemann, "Top-Quark Physics: Status and Prospects", Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys. 95 (2017) 48-97, arxiv:1704.01356

F.-P. Schilling, "Top Quark Physics at the LHC: A Review of the First Two Years", Int. J. Mod. Phys. A27 (2012) 1230016, arxiv:1206.4484

J. Incandela, A. Quadt, W. Wagner, D. Wicke, "Status and Prospects of Top-Quark Physics", Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 63 (2009) 239, arxiv:0904.2499

W. Bernreuther, "Top quark physics at the LHC", J. Phys. G 35 (2008) 083001, arxiv:0805.1333

Habilitationsschriften

W. Wagner (Karlsruhe 2005)

A. Quadt (Bonn 2006)

F. Fiedler (München 2007)

M.-A. Pleier (Bonn 2008)

D. Wicke (Wuppertal 2009)