Academic Offerings: Summer Programs

Italo-Hellenic Summer Program of Physics on the Physics of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
School of Sciences in Como

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is currently being installed in a 27-kilometer ring buried deep below the countryside in the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland. When operation begins in 2007, the LHC will be the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. High-energy protons in two counter-rotating beams will be made to collide in a search for signatures of supersymmetry, dark matter and the origins of mass. Held annually in Lecce, Italy, the aim of the School is to gather together young researchers and to provide them with the tools for physics at the LHC. It is designed for Ph.D. students and post-docs, in both experimental and theoretical high-energy physics, from Italy, Greece and other European and Mediterranean countries. The theory lectures are directed mainly to experimentalists and the experimental lectures to theorists.  A total of 32 hours of lectures are delivered, split evenly between theoretical and experimental topics.

The scientific program includes, on the theory side: electro-weak physics, QCD, Monte-Carlo tools, Higgs physics, physics beyond the standard model, B physics, quark–gluon plasma. The experimental areas include: trigger and DAQ, tracking, calorimetry, muon identification, accelerator physics, top analysis at CDF, ALICE and LHCb.

The program is sponsored by the Universities of Insubria, Lecce and Piemonte Orientale, the INFN, the Province of Lecce and the Union of Municipalities of the Grecia Salentina.