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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:// | ||
| * ... | * ... | ||
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