Particle Data Analysis in High Energy Physics

Final Exam Questions

Lecture Notes

1. Introduction
2. Overview of Particle Physics (More Krane, Koyuturk)
3. Relativistic Kinematics
4. Experimental Concepts
5. Particle Interaction with Matter
6. Accelerators & Detectors
7. Cosmic Rays
8. ROOT
9. Probability and Random Variables
10. Statistics 1
11. Statistics 2 (NeutrinoMass.root | Higgs2ggDiscovery.C, | mgg.root)
12. Monte Carlo Methods
13. CERN Open Data Analysis
14. Introduction to Pythia 8

Additional Materials

Xterm, WSL and ROOT Installation Guide - for Windows users
root and pyroot programs - written during the lectures