INTRODUCTORY REFERENCES FOR STUDENTS

DØ Experiment

• The DØ Home Page
  • See especially For the Public
• The DØ Upgrade: The Detector and Its Physics (1996)
  • Now slightly out of date, but still the best place to get an overview of what DØ is about.
• Columbia trigger projects on DØ
  • The Level-2 Muon Trigger
    Second Level Input Computer Overview (Aug. 2000)
  • The Silicon Track Trigger
    A Silicon Track Trigger for the DØ Experiment in Run II (Sep. 1998)
  • The Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger Upgrade
    DØ Run 2b Technical Design Report: Fermilab-Pub-02-327-E (Sep. 2002)

Physics Reviews

• The Particle Adventure
  • Discusses all aspects of particle physics at an introductory level.
• The Standard Model of Particle Physics, M.K. Gaillard, P.D. Grannis, F.J. Sciulli.
  • A nice, concise introduction to the SM. See also my new phenomenon bibliography for more reviews.
• B Physics at the Tevatron: Run II and Beyond, the Run II B-Physics working group.
  • This document outlines all the main issues in B-Physics. See also the the workshop report.
• SUSY and Such, S. Dawson.
  • The most straightforward introduction to Supersymmetry I have found.
• CDF Statistics Committee Homepage
  • Lots of good introductory information about probability and statistics

Analysis

• Root Homepage
  • Bill Seligman's Root Tutorial gives you a nice introduction on how to use Root