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Some typical questions during exams at UZH: | Some typical questions during exams at UZH: | ||
- | * Questions about your analysis (obviously). | + | * Questions about your analysis |
* What is the theoretical or experimental motivation of your model? What motivates your particular chosen set or range of parameter values? | * What is the theoretical or experimental motivation of your model? What motivates your particular chosen set or range of parameter values? | ||
* What are motivated variations of your signal model? E.g. different mass or coupling parameters. | * What are motivated variations of your signal model? E.g. different mass or coupling parameters. | ||
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* Specifics about certain **systematics** (nuisance parameters): | * Specifics about certain **systematics** (nuisance parameters): | ||
* Detector / accelerations questions: | * Detector / accelerations questions: | ||
- | * PDFs at LHC (quark, b quark, gluon content of proton and anti-proton), | + | |
* Difference between **LHC**, **LEP**, and **Tevatron**; | * Difference between **LHC**, **LEP**, and **Tevatron**; | ||
- | * How is **luminosity** measured? (PhD-level) | ||
* Higgs physics | * Higgs physics | ||
- | * In particular the different **Higgs production mechanism** at the LHC or LEP. | + | * In particular the different **Higgs production mechanism** at the LHC or LEP. See e.g. [[https://cds.cern.ch/record/578154/files/0208045.pdf|this article on LEP]], [[https:// |
- | * If you are very unlucky the **Higgs mechanism**. See e.g. [[https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LHCPhysics/CrossSections# | + | * If you are very unlucky the **Higgs mechanism**. |
* Especially for PhD exams: | * Especially for PhD exams: | ||
* About anything you wrote in your thesis. | * About anything you wrote in your thesis. | ||
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* **Hadronization** (formation of jet). | * **Hadronization** (formation of jet). | ||
* **Neutrinos**: | * **Neutrinos**: | ||
- | * Statistics at the LHC: type of test statistics, how to get **exclusion limits** (upper limits), ... | + | |
* Details about your object reconstruction & identification algorithms (taus, jets, b tagging, ...) | * Details about your object reconstruction & identification algorithms (taus, jets, b tagging, ...) | ||
+ | * How is **luminosity** measured? See e.g. [[https:// | ||
+ | * For what was the **Nobel Prize** in Physics awarded this/last year? See [[https:// | ||
* ... | * ... | ||