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The search and discovery of the Higgs Boson : a brief introduction to particle physics /
This book provides a general description of the search for and discovery of the Higgs boson (particle) at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The goal is to provide a relatively brief overview of the issues, instruments and techniques relevant for this search; written by a physicist who was directly...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
[2015]
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| Colección: | IOP concise physics.
IOP (Series). Release 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. From the night sky to universal building bocks
- 1.2. Tumbling down the rabbit hole
- 1.3. The need for a new object
- 2. Early Higgs searches
- 2.1. A note on units
- 2.2. From the postulation to the first direct searches
- 2.3. The Large Electron Positron (LEP) collider
- 2.4. The Tevatron
- 3. The Large Hadron Collider
- 3.1. Acceleration stages
- 3.2. Steering and focusing
- 3.3. Collision course and timing
- 3.4. Pileup
- 3.5. Data rates and trigger systems
- 3.6. Big data
- 4. The ATLAS and CMS detectors
- 4.1. Overall detector structure
- 4.2. Particle identification
- 5. Preparing for the search at the LHC
- 5.1. Standard model predictions
- 5.2. Simulation infrastructure
- 5.3. Evaluation of search strategies
- 6. Two example search channels
- 6.1. The diphoton channel
- 6.2. The four-lepton channel
- 6.3. A few comments on comparing the two channels
- 7. Quantifying evidence
- 8. Combination and confirmation
- 9. Particle physics and daily life
- 9.1. Direct applications
- 9.2. Spin-offs
- 10. Where to go from here?