The format of the class is such that we will go through a published article (which can be accessed via the link mentioned below) each week. Since this class meets multiple times per week, we will focus on one aspect of the paper in each class such as main physics takeaways, the language, figures and discuss amongst ourselves about what one can learn from each paper (both +s and -s).
Week 1 - August 22-26 (classes starting on the 24th) https://inspirehep.net/literature/1316501 Discovery of the gluon - overview
Week 2 - August 29th - Sept 2nd https://inspirehep.net/literature/142123 Experimental evidence for the Gluon
Week 3 - Sept 5th - 9th https://inspirehep.net/literature/100719 Experimental look at jet substructure
Week 4 - Sept 12th - 16th https://inspirehep.net/literature/2001955 A more modern look at 2-particle correlation from e+e-
Week 5 - Sept 19th - 23rd https://inspirehep.net/literature/393099 Observation of the top quark at colliders
Week 6 - Sept 26th - 30th https://inspirehep.net/literature/1849683 SeaQuest Nature paper on anti-quark asymmetry in proton
Week 7 - October 3rd - 7th https://inspirehep.net/literature/1206610 Long range correlations and ridge in small systems from ALICE
Week 8 - October 10th - 14th (13,14th - fall break) https://inspirehep.net/literature/731670 J/Psi from PHENIX in AuAu collisions
Week 9 - October 17th - 21st https://inspirehep.net/literature/1203133 Identification of b-jets from CMS
Week 10 - October 24th - 28th https://inspirehep.net/literature/1783875 Groomed jet substructure from STAR
Week 11 - October 31st - Nov 4th https://inspirehep.net/literature/1790256 Fully unfolded lund plane in pp collisions from ATLAS
Week 12 - Nov 7th - 11th https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23004 STAR first measurement of vorticity in heavy ion collisions
Week 13 - Nov 14th - 18th https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0360-0 PHENIX QGP droplet in small systems
Week 14 - Nov 21st - 25th - Thanksgiving break
Week 15 - Nov 28th - Dec 2nd https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.052302 Breit-Wheeler process in heavy ion collisions
Week 16 - Dec 5th - 8th https://inspirehep.net/literature/1124337 ATLAS Higgs paper (also include the CMS higgs paper)
Finals week - Presentations and discussions
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