Lectures

• Detecting CP violation with B decays - Lectures at Genoa University - Nov 2022
  • Lecture 1 (pdf) : CP violation: CKM and SM
  • Lecture 2 (pdf) : Detecting: Detector requirements
  • Lecture 3 (pdf) : B-decays: sin2beta, phis, Bs->DsK

• Elementary Particles 2023 ( Brightspace ) Coursebase MyTimeTable Osiris Forms
  • Lecture Notes (NL), B. van Eijk, 2012
  • Lecture Notes, M. Merk, 2011
  • Lecture 1 (pdf) : Introduction to SM and Relativity (2020) (Exercises 1)
  • Lecture 2 (pdf) : Quantum Mechanics and Scattering (2020) (Exercises 2)
  • Lecture 3 (pdf) : Quarkmodel and Isospin (2020) (Exercises 3)
  • Lecture 4 (pdf) : Gauge Invariance and Interactions (2020) (Exercises 4)
  • Lecture 5 (pdf) : e+e- and DIS (2016)
  • Lecture 6 (pdf) : Higgs and CKM (2020)

• Particle Physics II 2020 (formerly known as "Physics of Anti-matter" and "CP violation") ( UvA ) ( UU )
  • Lecture Notes "PPII (CP Violation)", Feb 2020
  • Lecture 1 (pdf) : P, C and CP and the SM Lagrangian (2020)
  • Lecture 2 (pdf) : The CKM-matrix (2020) Recording 8-Feb-2013: (1: 1.3GB) (2: 1.0GB)
  • Lecture 3 (pdf) : Meson Mixing and Decays (2020) Recording 11-Feb-2013: (1: 1.0GB) (2: 1.1GB)
  • Lecture 4 (pdf) : CP in the B-system (2020) Recording 15-Feb-2013: (1: 1.1GB) (2: 0.9GB)
  • Lecture 5 (pdf) : CP in the B-system (II) (2020) Recording 25-Feb-2013: (1: 1.3GB) (2: 0.8GB)
  • Lecture 6 (pdf) Anomalies : CP in the K-system + Anomalies (2020) Recording 16-Mar-2020: (100MB)
  • Exercises
  • Literature
  • 7 lectures on Mondays and Wednesdays. 1st Lecture: Monday 3 February 2014, Exam: Wed 26 Feb 2014, 9:30-12:30, H.239
  • Calendar MSc Particle/Astroparticle Physics (Master Google Calendar)
  (Data nose)

• Rare B decays - Lecture in RD PhD session - 11 Dec 2019
  • Agenda
  • Slides

• Rare B decays - Topical Lectures Nikhef - Dec 2016
  • Agenda
  • Slides
  • Lecture 1: Introduction
  • Lecture 2: Effective Theory
  • Lecture 3: Bs->mu+mu-
  • Lecture 4: B0->K*mu+mu-

• CP violation - Capita Selecta VUB Brussels - April 2011 ( Description )
  • Lecture Notes CP Violation
    • Lecture 1: CP in the SM
    • Lecture 2: B-decays
    • Lecture 3: New Physics and the UT

• Hands on: Analyze real collisions from the Delphi experiment with LEP1 data
• Data sets
  
• Introduction
  

• LHCb introduction at Nikhef
• For students, jan 2009
  

• VU Master formulieren

Conferences

Talks on CDS

• 60th Int. Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics (26 Jan 2024)
• Conference Highlights from LHCb
• 3rd Int.Conf. on Detector Stability and Aging Phenomena in Gaseous Detectors (6 Nov 2023)
• Conference Radiation Tolerance of the LHCb Outer Tracker: in the Lab and in the Forward Region at the LHC
• Muon Workshop Liverpool (7 Nov 2022)
• Workshop Anomalies with muons at LHCb
• 110th Plenary ECFA meeting (22 Jul 2022)
• ECFA: LHCb and Belle II: present status and expectations (recording)
• 11th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (22 Nov 2021)
• CKM 2021: Present and future CKM studies from B physics at the LHC
• LHCb Upgrade II workshop Amsterdam (10 Apr 2019)
• LHCb Upgrade II: Physics Summary
• Towards the Ultimate Precision in Flavour Physics 2019
• TUPiFP: Lessons learned from LHCb about making precise flavour measurements (ppt)
• FSP 2018
• FSP (1 Oct 2018): CP violation
• ICHEP 2018
• ICHEP 2018: Rare decays of B, D, and K mesons (video)
• HL-LHC ECFA 2016
• HL-LHC ECFA 2016: Heavy flavour physics at high luminosity
• Physics@Veldhoven
• FOM Veldhoven 2016: Exploring the high-precision frontier with the LHCb detector
• IPRD13
• IPRD 2013: The Performance and Radiation Hardness of the Outer Tracker Detector for LHCb
• EPS 2013
• EPS 2013: Studies of the properties and decays of the Bc meson at LHCb PoS
• SLAC Summer Institute 2012
• SSI 2012: Heavy Flavor Physics Results from LHC
• APPS 2011
• APPS 2011: View on recent results of LHCb
• Beauty 2011
• Beauty 2011: b production cross section and fragmentation fractions at LHCb
• Heavy Quarks and Leptons 2010
• HQL2010: Search for New Physics with Rare Heavy Flavour Decays at LHCb
• IEEE NSS/MIC 2007
• N48-3: Ageing Phenomena in the LHCb Outer Tracker
• Imaging 2006
• Tracking with the LHCb Spectrometer (Detector Performance and Track Reconstruction)
• Miami 2005
• Search for New Physics with the LHCb Detector
• IEEE NSS/MIC 2005
• A High-Efficiency and High-Resolution Straw Tube Tracker for the LHCb Experiment
• HERA-LHC workshop 2004
  
• Summary WG2 - Oct 2004
  
• Summary for LHCb - Jan 2006
  
• 8th ICATPP Conference (Como 2003)
  
• Efficient Triggering with the LHCb detector for Precise CP Measurements
• Vertex 2002
  
• A Vertex Trigger for LHCb
• DIS 2000
  
• Proton Structure Functions F2 and xF3 at ZEUS

Local Presentations and Seminars

• Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) Nikhef
• SAC 13 Apr 2023 LHCb at Nikhef
• Seminar Genoa
• Seminar 23 Nov 2022 Precision Flavour Physics: Scrutiny of the SM
• IHEP Seminar Beijing
• Seminar 16 Nov 2022 Precision Flavour Physics: Scrutiny of the Standard Model at LHCb
• INPP seminar Demokritos
• Seminar 18 May 2021: The pattern of flavour anomalies (in light of recent results from LHCb) (rec)
• Nikhef colloquium
• Colloquium 8 May 2020: LHCb highlights (rec)
• LHCb Tuesday Meeting - 22 Oct 2019
• Scintillator Fiber Tracker for LHCb
  
• Scientific Advisory Comittee at Nikhef - Jul 2019
• LHCb at Nikhef
  
• Seminar Groningen - Mar 2018
• Flavour Anomalies
  
• Seminar Freiburg - Jan 2018
• Flavour Anomalies pdf
  
• Nikhef jaarvergadering - Dec 2015
• Tensions in flavour physics?
  
• NIKHEF jaarvergadering - Dec 2013
• Bfys: Introduction and overview
  
• LHCC - 12 June 2013
• 114th LHCC LHCb Status Report
  
• NNV Fysica 2012 - 30 May 2012
• Fysica 2012: LHCb: Indirect Searches for New Particles
  
• Colloquium Nikhef - 23 Sep 2011
• Precision Measurements at LHCb
  
• Colloquium CP3 Louvain - 27 Jan 2011
• Ready for Discoveries with Rare Decays at LHCb
  
• Colloquium HEF Nijmegen - 25 Nov 2010
• LHCb: Ready for Discoveries
  
• Nikhef Jamboree - Dec 2009
• OT
  
• Vidi 2007 - "No GUTs, no Glory: a Search for Grand Unified Theories with B-decays"
• NWO Mei 2007
• NNV vergadering - Oct 2006
• An Overview of the LHC
  
• NIKHEF Colloquium 2005 
• Selected highlights of the IEEE 2005 Nuclear Science Symposium
• The LHCb Detector and the Search for New Physics
  
• NIKHEF jaarvergadering - Dec 2004
• B-physics overview