November 30th 2018: Journal club is postponed till further notice
Welcome to LBNL ATLAS Journal club for Graduate students (and other students working with the ATLAS group).
We meet weekly on Wednesdays at 15:00-16:00 at Berkeley Lab.
Check the table below for the room, but usually in 50B-4205 or 50B-2222 which is in the Building 50 complex near blackberry gate (bus stop 65).
Each week one of our members will chair the discussion, which effectively mean they'll have a specific set of points they wish to go over.
However, everyone is expected to have read the paper and contribute to the discussion! No slides allowed, but supplementary material/plots is fine! 
Schedule for speakers/papers:
| Date | Topic | Paper | Chair | Room | Minutes | NB | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2018 | ||||||||||||
| 14th Nov. | HL-LHC yellow-paper quick-summaries |
| Rebecca | 50B-4205 | N/A | |||||||
| 24th Oct | Higgs Width Part 2: 'Indirect measurement' | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140%2Fepjc%2Fs10052-015-3542-2 | " | |||||||||
| 17th Oct | Higgs Width Part 1: 'Direct measurement' | http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HIGG-2013-12/ https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.072010 | Xiangyang | 50B-4205 | Questions from Google drive: Minutes, courtesy of Greg: Higg’s width_ 10%2F17%2F18.pdf | Introductory material: https://indico.cern.ch/event/389531/contributions/929514/attachments/1146827/1644468/LHCP2015talk.pdf | ||||||
| 10th Oct | B-tagging : Part 2 | " | Tim | 50B-4205 | ||||||||
3rd Oct | CANCELLED | Cancelled by chair | " | --- | Cancelled by chair | ----- | ||||||
| 26th Sept | B-tagging : Part 1 | Performance of b-Jet Identification in the ATLAS Experiment: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/11/04/P04008/pdf | Tim (expert: Ben) | 50B-4205 | Questions from Google drive: B-tagging_ inter-meeting links%2Fquestions.pdf | Extra material: https://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/postgrad/teaching/lhc/bTagging_2017.pdf https://indico.desy.de/indico/event/2161/session/3/contribution/7/material/slides/0.pdf | ||||||
| 19th Sept | CANCELLED | CANCELLED | CANCELLED | -- | Cancelled due to chair illness | |||||||
| 12th Sept | B-tagging : Question setup | Rebecca (standing in for Tim) | 50B-2222 | journalClubMinutes_2018_Sep12th.pdf | This is the first session in the new format and as such will only be ~15 min. See mattermost for the live page! | |||||||
| 5th Sept | " | -------------- | -------------- | ---- | " | -------------- | ||||||
| 29th Aug | " | --------------- | --------------- | ----- | " | --------------- | ||||||
22nd Aug | " | --------------- | --------------- | ------ | Rebecca & Neha at HCPSS | --------------- | ||||||
| 15th Aug | Summer break | --------------- | --------------- | ----- | --------------- | --------------- | ||||||
8th Aug | Special edition | We'll be discussing the future of the club and the schedule for upcoming papers. Also, there will be cake. | Rebecca | " | journalClubMinutes_2018_Aug_8.pdf | ~30-45 minute meeting | ||||||
| 1st Aug | Inclusive Top Cross-section : Part 3 | Mass review: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revip.2016.04.001 | " | Journal_club_8_01.pdf | Sections 5-6 + mass measurement discussion Thanks to Patrick for taking the minutes whilst Rebecca is at a workshop!! | |||||||
| 25th July | Inclusive Top Cross-section : Part 2 | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.02699.pdf | " | " | journalClubMinutes_2018_July_25.pdf | Suport note (password protected): https://cds.cern.ch/record/2120162/files/ATL-COM-PHYS-2016-021.pdf Sections 1-4 | ||||||
| 18th July | Inclusive Top Cross-section : Part 1 - Just Top Things | Yvonne's slides: Slides (pdf) | xiangyang + (Marjorie) | " | journalClubMinutes_2018_July_18.pdf | Extra material: PDG Top Quark review http://pdg.lbl.gov/2017/reviews/rpp2017-rev-top-quark.pdf Top overview: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/447/1/012012/pdf | ||||||
| 11th July | BREAK WEEK (LLP workshop) | --------------- | --------------- | ---- | --------------- | --------------- | ||||||
| 3rd July | " | " | " | " | JC_minutes_July3rd.pdf | " | ||||||
| 26th June | dEdx search | https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04520 | Greg + (Laura) | 50B-4205 | Journal_club_6_26_minutes.pdf | |||||||
| 20th June | WW scattering Part 3 - CMS vs ATLAS | 50B-2222 | ||||||||||
| 13th June | WW scattering Part 2 | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.6241.pdf | Cesar + (Emily or Aleksandra) | 50B-4205 | Support documents for 8 TeV analysis here: https://glance.cern.ch/atlas/analysis/papers/details?id=4163 13 TeV support note (via Emily), here: https://glance.cern.ch/atlas/analysis/papers/details.php?id=10545 Emily also linked her slides in the mattermost channel. | |||||||
| 6th June | Break week | ----------------------------- | ---- | ----- | --------------- | ------------------------ | ||||||
| 30th May | Dark Matter 3: the FUTURE | " | " | " | journalClubMinutes_2018_May_30.txt.pdf | |||||||
| 23rd May | Dark Matter 2: collider searches | " | " | 50B-4205 | JC_Minutes_23may2018.pdf | |||||||
| 16th May | Dark Matter 1: Intro, non-collider searches (sections 1-3) | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.05916v2.pdf | Neha + Karol | 50B-1237 | PDG Dark matter review: http://pdg.lbl.gov/2017/reviews/rpp2017-rev-dark-matter.pdf The Tasi Lecture on resonances (as suggested by Karol): http://users.ictp.it/~smr2244/tait-supplemental.pdf Mono-higgs diagram: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Feynman-diagrams-for-athe-EFT-and-bthe-Z-2HDM-models-The-ch-is-the-DM-particle-The_fig7_301482616 | |||||||
| 9th May | ------- | ------- | ------- | " | ----------------------------------- | Finals week - no meeting | ||||||
| 2nd May | ------- | ------- | ------- | " | ----------------------------------- | Dead week - no meeting | ||||||
| 25th April | WW scattering | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.6241.pdf | Cesar | " | journalClubMinutes_2018_Apr_25th.txt | Support documents for 8 TeV analysis here: https://glance.cern.ch/atlas/analysis/papers/details?id=4163 13 TeV support note (via Emily), here: https://glance.cern.ch/atlas/analysis/papers/details.php?id=10545 Emily also linked her slides in the mattermost channel. | ||||||
| 18th April | Strong force coupling constant, Part 2 | The future: http://inspirehep.net/record/1415422/files/C15-10-12.1_p115.pdf CMS R32 strong coupling constant: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2253091/files/SMP-16-008-pas.pdf Using R32 to constrain QCD properties: | Rebecca | 50B-4205 | journalClubMinutes_2018_Apr_18.txt | |||||||
| 11th April | -------- | ------------ | ----- | 50B-2222 | ------------- | Cancelled: I posted wrong paper!!  | ||||||
| 4th April | Strong force coupling constant, Part 1 | http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3376-y | Rebecca | " | journalClubMinutes_2018_Apr_04.txt | New paper!
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| 28th Mar | ------- | ------ | -------- | ------- | ------------ | Spring break - no meeting | ||||||
| 21st Mar | PDG Generator MC Part 3 : Misc topics | As below.
| Cheyenne | " | Minute taker not present | |||||||
| 14th Mar | PDG Generator MC Part 2 : Hadronization | As below: Section: 41.2 | Greg | 50B-4205 | journalClubMinutes_2018_Mar14th.txt | |||||||
| 7th Mar | PDG Generator MC review Part 1 | http://pdg.lbl.gov/2017/reviews/rpp2017-rev-mc-event-gen.pdf
| Cheyenne | 50B-2222 | New paper! | |||||||
| 28th Feb | -------- | -------- | ------- | ------ | -------- | Break week. No meeting. | ||||||
| 21st Feb | Charged particle multiplicity (3) ALICE | https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.01435 | " | 50B-4205 | journalClubMinutes_2018_Feb21st.txt | |||||||
| 14th Feb | Charged particle multiplicity (2) ATLAS | " | " | journalClubMinutes_2018_Feb14th.txt | ||||||||
| 7th Feb. | Charged particle multiplicity (1) ATLAS/CMS | Emily | " | journalClubMinutes_2018_Feb7th.txt | New topic! | |||||||
| 31st Jan. | " | " | " | 50B-2222 | journalClubMinutes_2018_Jan30th.txt | |||||||
| 24th Jan. | " | " | " | 50B-4205 | journalClubMinutes_2018_Jan24th.txt | NB: special room! | ||||||
| 17th Jan. | Luminosity | Luminosity_2011 | Patrick | 50B-2222 | journalClub_janaury17th2018.txt | NB: Now on Wednesdays @ 2pm | ||||||
| 10th Jan. | - | - | - | - | - | Meeting cancelled (Annual ATLAS group meeting) | ||||||
2017 | ||||||||||||
| 18th Dec. | - | - | - | - | - | Meeting cancelled (people absent) | ||||||
| 11th Dec. | - | - | - | - | - | Meeting cancelled (exams) | ||||||
| 4th Dec. | - | - | - | - | - | Meeting cancelled (dead week) | ||||||
| 27th Nov. | - | - | - | - | - | Meeting cancelled (people absent) | ||||||
| 20th Nov. | LHCb lepton universality (4) | " | " | " | Minute taker not present | LHCb paper wrapped up | ||||||
| 13th Nov. | cancelled | - | - | - | - | Meeting cancelled due to too many people being away. | ||||||
| 6th Nov. | LHCb lepton universality (3) | " | " | " | journalClubMinutes_Nov6th2017.txt | Some useful slides via xiangyang: LHCb.pdf | ||||||
| 30th Oct. | LHCb lepton universality (2) | https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05802 | Xiangyang | 50B-2222 | journalClubMinutes_Oct30th2017.txt | |||||||
| 23rd Oct. | Drell-Yan xsection (3) + LHCb lepton universality (1) | " | " | journalClubMinutes_Oct23rd2017.txt | Systematics of Drell-Yan + results, theory section of lepton universality paper. | |||||||
| 16th Oct. | Drell-Yan xsection (2) | " | " | " | journalClubMinutes_Oct16th2017.txt | |||||||
| 9th Oct. | Drell-Yan xsection (1) | Drell_yan_Elsevier | Nikola | 50B-2222 | journalClubMinutes_Oct9th2017.txt | New paper! | ||||||
| 2nd Oct. | Z'/CI - dilepton search (6) | " | " | " | journalClubMinutes_Oct9th2017.txt | |||||||
| 25th Sept. | Z'/CI - dilepton search (5) | " | " | " | journalClubMinutes_Sep25th2017.txt | |||||||
| 18th Sept. | Z'/CI - dilepton search (4) | " | Cesar | " | (minute-taker not present) | |||||||
| 11th Sept. | Z'/CI - dilepton search (3) | " | " | " | journalClubMinutes_Sep11th2017.txt | |||||||
| 5th Sept. | Z'/CI - dilepton search (2) | " | " | 50B-2222 | journalClubMinutes_Sep5th2017.txt | This meeting is moved to Tuesday b/c of Labour day. Note room change! | ||||||
| 28th Aug. | Z'/CI - dilepton search (1) | https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.02424 | Rebecca | 50B-4205 | ||||||||
Suggestions for papers are always welcome!
Pool of suggested papers:
- Top discovery: https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/9608003.pdf
- Top differential xsection: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.00727.pdf
- Min bias: Min_bias_2010
- W mass: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.07240.pdf
- Higgs Discovery, ATLAS: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7214 CMS: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7235 (ttH) (2019)
- Resonances in diPhoton: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.03833.pdf
- Pentaquark resonances (incl. Dalitz plots, change-of-frame, angular stuff) in LHCb: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03414
- Parton distributions functions (incl. something about angular dependence)
- How do we know a particle is fundamental? (composite Higgs, others?)
- LEP paper...
- Tau paper (good for new students)
- Combined performance muon (also good for new students)
- Something that requires knowledge of spin
- Analysis techniques: e.g. Recursive Jigsaw Reco (RJR) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.10733.pdf
- Jet cleaning and jet performance things: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasProtected/HowToCleanJets2017
- Guide to transverse projections and mass-constraining variables https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.095031
- Magnifying the ATLAS Stealth Stop Splinter: Impact of Spin Correlations and Finite Widths https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.00111.pdf
