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     * Difference between **LHC**, **LEP**, and **Tevatron**; advantages/disadvantages, production mechanisms, ...     * Difference between **LHC**, **LEP**, and **Tevatron**; advantages/disadvantages, production mechanisms, ...
   * Higgs physics   * Higgs physics
-    * In particular the different **Higgs production mechanism** at the LHC or LEP. See e.g. [[https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LHCPhysics/CrossSections#Latest_plots|the cross section plots here]] or [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.03952.pdf|this paper]].+    * 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://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00043|this CMS article in Nature]][[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.03952.pdf|this paper on LHC]], or [[https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LHCPhysics/CrossSections#Latest_plots|the complete set of cross section and branching plots here]].
     * If you are very unlucky the **Higgs mechanism**.     * If you are very unlucky the **Higgs mechanism**.
   * Especially for PhD exams:   * Especially for PhD exams:
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     * **Hadronization** (formation of jet).     * **Hadronization** (formation of jet).
     * **Neutrinos**: oscillations, seesaw mechanism, ...     * **Neutrinos**: oscillations, seesaw mechanism, ...
-    * Statistics at the LHC: type of test statistics, how to get **exclusion limits** (upper limits), ...+    * **Statistics** at the LHC: type of test statistics, how to get **exclusion limits** (upper limits), ... See e.g. [[https://indico.cern.ch/event/173726/|these lectures]], or [[https://indico.cern.ch/event/763661/contributions/3169822/attachments/1733046/2802161/statistical_method_particle_physics.pdf|this talk]].
     * 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?+    * How is **luminosity** measured? See e.g. [[https://cms.cern/news/how-does-cms-measure-luminosity|this CMS article]], [[https://cds.cern.ch/record/2676164/files/LUM-18-002-pas.pdf|this PAS]], or [[https://indico.cern.ch/event/1231794/|this ATLAS talk]].
     * For what was the **Nobel Prize** in Physics awarded this/last year? See [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Physics#Laureates|this Wikipedia page]].     * For what was the **Nobel Prize** in Physics awarded this/last year? See [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Physics#Laureates|this Wikipedia page]].
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