DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS

Academic Year 2017/2018 - 1° Year - Curriculum NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
Teaching Staff: Alessia Rita TRICOMI and Giuseppe POLITI
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: FIS/01 - Experimental physics
Taught classes: 28 hours
Laboratories: 30 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

The course aims to introduce the student to the analysis techniques in Nuclear and High Enrgy Physics. Students will acquire experiences with object-oriented programming as well as the main software tools used in the analysis of real physics case. Particular emphasyis will be devoted to the statistical approach.


Detailed Course Content

Introduction to data analysis technique in High Energy Physics

Probability density function and Monte Carlo method.

Object-Oriented Programming

Multivariate analysis

ROOT and MTVA package

Introduction to GEANT4

Development and analysis of real data chosen between Nucleare and High Energy Physics applications


Textbook Information

Data Analysis - G. Cowan