Information for Bachelor Student research projects in Subatomic Physics

Our group (Institute for Subatomic Physics) has research projects for Bachelor and Master students in the area of Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD) and the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP).


Getting Started

Getting started: software instructions
Slides from introduction meetings


Introduction to ALICE webpages (Mike Sas)


Useful links (mostly from
my SAP homepage)

Relevant UU courses:
NS-262B: Deeltjesfysica
NS-369B: Subatomaire Fysica
Particle Physics II Master's course: Lecture notes QCD from M. Botje

QCD/QGP:
Boek QCD and Collider physics (only on UU network)
Basics of pQCD (D. Soper)
CTEQ
Pythia and Hijing
TECHQM
Virtual Journal on QCD Matter

Statistics/Data analysis:
Wes Metzger's statistics course
(syllabus)
Numerieke Natuurkunde UvA/NIKHEF

Syllabus

Werkcollege (ROOT intro)


Other:
SPIRES preprint archive
Twitter feed of papers relevant to Heavy Ion Physics

LINUX/general computing:
Command line (shell) reference card
One page Linux Manual
software-carpentry
playterm (terminal/shell skills)

ROOT/C++:

ROOT website
     Tutorials and courses
     User Guide
     Code reference
AliRoot
     Code reference
Tips for debugging analysis code


C++:
C++ Primer
C++ tutorials (cpp-home.com)

Babar C++ online help
C++ tutorial (cplusplus.com)
learncpp.com
Tutorial (cprogramming.com)
C++ tutorial video series on YouTube<
Nikhef C++ course

C++ Books:
Thinking in C++



Publications

Some interesting papers about Heavy Ion Physics and the work in our group