PHYS 6260: Experimental Methods in High Energy Physics

• Particles
• Kinematics of particle decays
• Invariant mass
• Passage of particles through matter (1)
• Passage of particles through matter (2)
• Passage of particles through matter (3)
• Tracking detectors
• Scintillation detectors
• Calorimeters
• Probability and statistics
• Probability distributions
• Measurement errors
• Parameter estimation
• The method of least squares
• The method of maximum likelihood
• Statistical tests and hypothesis testing
• Interpolation and extrapolation
• Roots of equations, minimization, numerical integration
• Random numbers and Monte Carlo techniques
• Monte Carlo programs
• Noise filtering
• Multivariate analysis
• Neural networks