LUND-HEP EST Students´ Point of View

1. LUND-HEP ESTStudents´ Point of View Alexandru Dobrin Lund University Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin

2. Overview • HEP-EST school • Who are we • Courses • Problem Based Learning • Supervised research • Conclusions Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin

3. HEP-EST School • Official start mid-August 2006, student arrival 1st of October 2006 • Integrate theory and experiment • Step 1: courses October 2006-end 2007 • Use PBL as a learning tool at the graduate level • Step 2: supervised research 2007-2010 • Program finished mid-August 2010 • http://www.hep.lu.se/Lund-HEP/ Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin

4. Who are we HEP-EST EU school on LHC physics (joint theory-experiment) • Nele Boelaert (BE) • Lisa Carloni (IT) • Richard Corke (UK) • Alexandru Dobrin (RO) • Christoffer Flensburg (SE) (faculty LU TP) • Jacob Groth-Jensen (DK) • Wei-Na Ji (CN) • Jie Lu (CN) Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin

5. Courses Problem Based Learning: • Introduction 1.5 ECTS [Johan Bijnens] • Relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory (QFT) 7.5 ECTS [Johan Bijnens] • A non-interacting scalar field • A non-interacting fermion field • Interaction and Feynman Rules • QED and applications • Divergences and how do we treat them • Numerical methods in physics (NUM) 7.5 ECTS [Leif Lönnblad] • Numeric integration • Monte Carlo • Optimization and minimization • Ordinary differential equations • Partial differential equations Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin

6. Courses • Phenomenology and experiment of particle physics (PEPP) 15 ECTS [Leif Lönnblad/Johan Bijnens/Paula Eerola/Anders Oskarsson/Evert Stenlund] • Matrix element description of hard processes • QCD cascades • Multi-particle production • Hadronic collisions • Minimum bias • Event properties • Basics of heavy ion physics • Flavour physics at the LHC • An experiment from start to end • Higgs detection from beginning to end Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin

7. Courses • The standard model and extensions (SME) 7.5 ECTS [Johan Bijnens] • Parameters of the Standard Model • Symmetries of the Standard Model • Non-perturbative methods • Extensions of the Standard Model I • Extensions of the Standard Model II • Experimental techniques in particle physics (EXP) 7.5 ECTS [Anders Oskarsson/Torsten Åkesson] • Interaction by particles in matter creates detector signal • Tracking for momentum and particle identification • Calorimetry and lepton identification • Analog and digital processing of detector signals • Accelerator techniques Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin

8. Courses • Statistics and error analysis and data analysis for particle and nuclear physics (SED) 7.5 ECTS [Oxana Smirnova/Evert Stenlund] • Principles of data correction • Experimental errors • Distributions • Event reconstruction • Understanding a sampling calorimeter • 6 ECTS complementary training: communication & presentation techniques, entrepreneurship, leadership & management Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin

9. Problem Based Learning Problem Based Learning We tried a new (for us) methodology • Group based • It is not a group project (see below) • Basic idea: get prepared for life-long learning • Provides better motivation then traditional lectures • It does not save time w.r.t. traditional lectures Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin

10. Problem Based Learning • Have a short story for a start • Use this to discuss and determine what should be learned • Go out and learn it • Not a group project: everyone should learn everything • Find out what everyone has learned and evaluate • Repeat with new subject/story Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin

11. Problem Based Learning Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin

12. Problem Based Learning Formalize into 7 steps after obtaining scenario/story: 1. Clarify terms and concepts not readily comprehensible. 2. Define the problem. 3. Analyse the problem. 4. Draw a systematic inventory of the explanations inferred from step 3. 5. Formulate learning objectives, followed by a few days of studies and work 6. Collect additional information outside the group and second meeting. 7. Synthesize and test the newly acquired information. A report is produced. The group evaluates how the work has gone and the meeting ends. Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin

13. LHC Experiments ATLAS ALICE e-p collisions Heavy ion collisions @ BNL Theoretical Physics Strong interaction Electroweak interaction Large extra dimensions R&D ILC Non-EPP applications Supervised Research Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin

14. Conclusions • Good for small topics, doesn’t fit for building entire theories step by step • Insures that everybody understands the topics • Learn to deal with a problem and work in a goal-oriented way • Things learned tend to stick longer in the memory • Due to every group member’s contribution, PBL can also enrich the information about the topics • PBLs are time consuming comparing with the normal courses • Also requires a lot of work from the supervisor • Doesn’t work well for theoretical courses Find something in the middle between PBL and normal lectures Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin

15. Conclusions • The idea of making a strongly interacting group of theory + experiment people is interesting • Got a chance to learn useful skills for following research work • Need to ensure that group interaction continues into research stages (we are already splitting off to our separate research areas) Keep up with science coffees and soccer games! Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin

16. Thank you for your attention! Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin