LHCPHENONET

Advanced Particle Phenomenology in the LHC era

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'The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the largest and most complex single experiment ever performed in the history of mankind. The physics program of the LHC is motivated by fundamental questions about the laws of nature, such as explaining the origin of mass, understanding the early universe and the structure of space and time, unravelling the nature of dark matter and providing glimpses of extra spatial dimensions or grand unification of forces. Any of these insights would definitely constitute a revolution in our view on the world. The LHCPhenoNet unites throughout Europe young and energetic leadership in theoretical particle physics with emphasis on LHC phenomenology. Most of its team and task leaders have made highly significant and innovative contributions in the last years within the theory of strong interactions, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), or the electroweak sector of the SM by addressing key issues at the interface to the experiments. The network members are poised to lead the theoretical particle physics community to meet the new challenges presented by LHC physics and to provide in a unified European effort excellent training for young theoretical physicists in this field, at both the doctoral and post-doctoral level. With the challenges of the machine operation driving the LHC start-up, the proposed timeline of the initial training network matches the currently foreseen LHC running schedule and thus allows full exploitation and interpretation of the early data. The field of theoretical particle physics is also currently driven by the development of customized open-source software as well as by applications of products from commercial enterprises especially in the field of symbolic manipulation and computer algebra, such as Maple and Mathematica from our private sector partners. The proposed network LHCPhenoNet is designed to provide optimal training conditions for early stage researchers in an interdisciplinary environment.'

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With the challenges of the machine operation driving the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, an Initial Training Network (ITN) has been designed to provide optimal training conditions for early-stage researchers in a multidisciplinary environment.

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Funded with EUR 4.5 million from the European Commission, the 'Advanced particle phenomenology in the LHC era' (http://www.lhcphenonet.eu/ (LHCPHENONET)) network unites young theoretical physicists from around Europe. Most of its team members have made significant contributions to the theory of strong interactions binding quarks and holding atomic nuclei together.

Through the LHCPHENONET project, nearly 40 young researchers have the opportunity to pursue their research in 1 of 11 leading research institutions and 3 partners from the industrial environment. They are supported by approximately 160 physicists from 28 European universities and research institutes, the University of Buenos Aires and CERN.

The LHCPHENONET network, which was formed in January 2011 and will be supported by the European Commission until December 2014, is poised to meet the new challenges presented by the LHC experiment. The proposed ITN timeline matches the foreseen LHC running schedule to allow the exploitation and interpretation of early data.

A special start was made in July 2012 with CERN's official announcement that there is evidence of the long-sought Higgs boson particle. Several meetings and workshops were organised to review the state of the art in the phenomenology at the LHC. The events also hosted discussions on future developments of customised open source software for precision physics at colliders.

A key component of the LHCPHENONET network's training activity is the doctoral students' schools, organised by the different network teams. Here, participants from around the world discussed higher order perturbative corrections in the Standard Model. They explained that the basic building blocks of matter interact, governed by four fundamental forces.

This way they contributed to the definition with the best possible accuracy of the Higgs boson production and decay channels at the LHC. During the first 24 months of LHCPHENONET network members published 250 scientific papers. They have illustrated that the Standard Model is currently the best description of the sub-atomic world.

Nonetheless, new information from experiments at the LHC should help find more missing pieces of the physics puzzle hidden deep in the sub-atomic world.