Lectures On Lhc Physics

Author : Tilman Plehn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319059432

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Lectures on LHC Physics by Tilman Plehn Pdf

With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the LHC experiments have closed the most important gap in our understanding of fundamental interactions, confirming that such interactions between elementary particles can be described by quantum field theory, more specifically by a renormalizable gauge theory. This theory is a priori valid for arbitrarily high energy scales and does not require an ultraviolet completion. Yet, when trying to apply the concrete knowledge of quantum field theory to actual LHC physics - in particular to the Higgs sector and certain regimes of QCD - one inevitably encounters an intricate maze of phenomenological know-how, common lore and other, often historically developed intuitions about what works and what doesn’t. These lectures cover three aspects to help understand LHC results in the Higgs sector and in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model: they discuss the many facets of Higgs physics, which is at the core of this significantly expanded second edition; then QCD, to the degree relevant for LHC measurements; as well as further standard phenomenological background knowledge. They are intended to serve as a brief but sufficiently detailed primer on LHC physics to enable graduate students and all newcomers to the field to find their way through the more advanced literature, and to help those starting to work in this very timely and exciting field of research. Advanced readers will benefit from this course-based text for their own lectures and seminars. .

Author : Laurent Baulieu,Karim Benakli,Michael R. Douglas,Bruno Mansoulie,Eliezer Rabinovici,Leticia F. Cugliandolo
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191043833

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Theoretical Physics to Face the Challenge of LHC by Laurent Baulieu,Karim Benakli,Michael R. Douglas,Bruno Mansoulie,Eliezer Rabinovici,Leticia F. Cugliandolo Pdf

The book gathers the lecture notes of the Les Houches Summer School that was held in August 2011 for an audience of advanced graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in particle physics, theoretical physics, and cosmology, areas where new experimental results were on the verge of being discovered at CERN. Every Les Houches School has its own distinct character. This one was held during a summer of great anticipation that at any moment contact might be made with the most recent theories of the nature of the fundamental forces and the structure of space-time. In fact, during the session, the long anticipated discovery of the Higgs particle was announced. The book vividly describes the fruitful and healthy "schizophrenia" that is the rule among the community of theoreticians who have split into several components: those doing phenomenology, and those dealing with highly theoretical problems, with a few trying to bridge both domains. The lectures by theoreticians covered many directions in the theory of elementary particles, from classics such as the Supersymmetric Standard Model to very recent ideas such as the relation between black holes, hydrodynamics, and gauge-gravity duality. The lectures by experimentalists explained in detail how intensively and how precisely the LHC collider has verified the theoretical predictions of the Standard Model, predictions that were at the front lines of experimental discovery during the 70's, 80's and 90's, and how the LHC is ready to make new discoveries. They described many of the ingenious and pioneering techniques developed at CERN for the detection and the data analysis of billions of billions of proton-proton collisions.

Author : Tilman Plehn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319059426

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Lectures on LHC Physics by Tilman Plehn Pdf

With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the LHC experiments have closed the most important gap in our understanding of fundamental interactions, confirming that such interactions between elementary particles can be described by quantum field theory, more specifically by a renormalizable gauge theory. This theory is a priori valid for arbitrarily high energy scales and does not require an ultraviolet completion. Yet, when trying to apply the concrete knowledge of quantum field theory to actual LHC physics - in particular to the Higgs sector and certain regimes of QCD - one inevitably encounters an intricate maze of phenomenological know-how, common lore and other, often historically developed intuitions about what works and what doesn’t. These lectures cover three aspects to help understand LHC results in the Higgs sector and in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model: they discuss the many facets of Higgs physics, which is at the core of this significantly expanded second edition; then QCD, to the degree relevant for LHC measurements; as well as further standard phenomenological background knowledge. They are intended to serve as a brief but sufficiently detailed primer on LHC physics to enable graduate students and all newcomers to the field to find their way through the more advanced literature, and to help those starting to work in this very timely and exciting field of research. Advanced readers will benefit from this course-based text for their own lectures and seminars. .

Author : Giles Barr,Robin Devenish,Roman Walczak,Tony Weidberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191065453

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Particle Physics in the LHC Era by Giles Barr,Robin Devenish,Roman Walczak,Tony Weidberg Pdf

This text gives an introduction to particle physics at a level accessible to advanced undergraduate students. It is based on lectures given to 4th year physics students over a number of years, and reflects the feedback from the students. The aim is to explain the theoretical and experimental basis of the Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics with the simplest mathematical treatment possible. All the experimental discoveries that led to the understanding of the SM relied on particle detectors and most of them required advanced particle accelerators. A unique feature of this book is that it gives a serious introduction to the fundamental accelerator and detector physics, which is currently only available in advanced graduate textbooks. The mathematical tools that are required such as group theory are covered in one chapter. A modern treatment of the Dirac equation is given in which the free particle Dirac equation is seen as being equivalent to the Lorentz transformation. The idea of generating the SM interactions from fundamental gauge symmetries is explained. The core of the book covers the SM. The tools developed are used to explain its theoretical basis and a clear discussion is given of the critical experimental evidence which underpins it. A thorough account is given of quark flavour and neutrino oscillations based on published experimental results, including some from running experiments. A simple introduction to the Higgs sector of the SM is given. This explains the key idea of how spontaneous symmetry breaking can generate particle masses without violating the underlying gauge symmetry. A key feature of this book is that it gives an accessible explanation of the discovery of the Higgs boson, including the advanced statistical techniques required. The final chapter gives an introduction to LHC physics beyond the standard model and the techniques used in searches for new physics. There is an outline of the shortcomings of the SM and a discussion of possible solutions and future experiments to resolve these outstanding questions. For updates, new results, useful links as well as corrections to errata in this book, please see the book website maintained by the authors: https://pplhcera.physics.ox.ac.uk/

Author : G. L. Kane,Aaron Pierce
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789812779762

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Perspectives on Lhc Physics by G. L. Kane,Aaron Pierce Pdf

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, is the world's largest and highest energy and highest intensity particle accelerator. Here is a timely book with several perspectives on the hoped-for discoveries from the LHC.This book provides an overview on the techniques that will be crucial for finding new physics at the LHC, as well as perspectives on the importance and implications of the discoveries. Among the accomplished contributors to this book are leaders and visionaries in the field of particle physics beyond the Standard Model, including two Nobel Laureates (Steven Weinberg and Frank Wilczek), and presumably some future Nobel Laureates, plus top younger theorists and experimenters. With its blend of popular and technical contents, the book will have wide appeal, not only to physical scientists but also to those in related fields.

Author : Tao Han
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814468824

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Dawn Of The Lhc Era, The (Tasi 2008) - Proceedings Of The 2008 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute In Elementary Particle Physics by Tao Han Pdf

This book contains material from the lecture courses conducted at the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI, Colorado, USA) on high energy physics and cosmology in 2008. Three series of lectures are presented in parallel in the areas of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) phenomenology and experimentation; advanced theoretical topics beyond the standard model; and neutrino oscillation, astroparticle physics and cosmology. The phenomenology lectures cover a broad spectrum of standard research techniques used to interpret present-day and LHC data. The new physics lectures focus on modern speculations about physics beyond the standard model, with an emphasis on supersymmetry, grand unification theories, extra-dimensional theories, and string phenomenology, which may be tested at the LHC. The lecture series on neutrino physics, astroparticle physics and cosmology treats recent developments in neutrino oscillations, theories and searches of dark matter and dark energy, cosmic microwave background radiation, and density perturbation theory. The lectures are of pedagogical nature in presentation, and are accessible to advanced graduate students and researchers in high energy physics and cosmology.

Author : John Campbell,Joey Huston,Frank Krauss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191014994

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The Black Book of Quantum Chromodynamics — A Primer for the LHC Era by John Campbell,Joey Huston,Frank Krauss Pdf

The Black Book of Quantum Chromodynamics is an in-depth introduction to the particle physics of current and future experiments at particle accelerators. The book offers the reader an overview of practically all aspects of the strong interaction necessary to understand and appreciate modern particle phenomenology at the energy frontier. It assumes a working knowledge of quantum field theory at the level of introductory textbooks used for advanced undergraduate or in standard postgraduate lectures. The book expands this knowledge with an intuitive understanding of relevant physical concepts, an introduction to modern techniques, and their application to the phenomenology of the strong interaction at the highest energies. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, it also serves as a comprehensive reference for LHC experimenters and theorists. This book offers an exhaustive presentation of the technologies developed and used by practitioners in the field of fixed-order perturbation theory and an overview of results relevant for the ongoing research programme at the LHC. It includes an in-depth description of various analytic resummation techniques, which form the basis for our understanding of the QCD radiation pattern and how strong production processes manifest themselves in data, and a concise discussion of numerical resummation through parton showers, which form the basis of event generators for the simulation of LHC physics, and their matching and merging with fixed-order matrix elements. It also gives a detailed presentation of the physics behind the parton distribution functions, which are a necessary ingredient for every calculation relevant for physics at hadron colliders such as the LHC, and an introduction to non-perturbative aspects of the strong interaction, including inclusive observables such as total and elastic cross sections, and non-trivial effects such as multiple parton interactions and hadronization. The book concludes with a useful overview contextualising data from previous experiments such as the Tevatron and the Run I of the LHC which have shaped our understanding of QCD at hadron colliders.

Author : Raghavan Rangarajan,M. Sivakumar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811025914

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Surveys in Theoretical High Energy Physics - 2 by Raghavan Rangarajan,M. Sivakumar Pdf

The book presents pedagogical reviews of important topics on high energy physics to the students and researchers in particle physics. The book also discusses topics on the Quark–Gluon plasma, thermal field theory, perturbative quantum chromodynamics, anomalies and cosmology. Students of particle physics need to be well-equipped with basic understanding of many concepts underlying the standard models of particle physics and cosmology. This is particularly true today when experimental results from colliders, such as large hadron collider (LHC) and relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC), as well as inferences from cosmological observations, are expected to further expand our understanding of particle physics at high energies. This volume is the second in the Surveys in Theoretical High Energy Physics Series (SThEP). Topics covered in this book are based on lectures delivered at the SERC Schools in Theoretical High Energy Physics at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, and the University of Hyderabad.

Author : T. Binoth,C. Buttar,P. J. Clark,E.W.N. Glover
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439837719

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LHC Physics by T. Binoth,C. Buttar,P. J. Clark,E.W.N. Glover Pdf

Exploring the phenomenology of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, LHC Physics focuses on the first years of data collected at the LHC as well as the experimental and theoretical tools involved. It discusses a broad spectrum of experimental and theoretical activity in particle physics, from the searches for the Higgs boson and physics beyond t

Author : Antonino Zichichi
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813148697

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Status of Theoretical Understanding and of Experimental Power for LHC Physics and Beyond by Antonino Zichichi Pdf

Proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics, ISSP 2014, 52nd Course, ERICE, Erice, 24 June – 3 July 2014.

Author : Luis Alvarez-Gaumé,Michelangelo Mangano,Emmanuel Tsesmelis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642308444

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From the PS to the LHC - 50 Years of Nobel Memories in High-Energy Physics by Luis Alvarez-Gaumé,Michelangelo Mangano,Emmanuel Tsesmelis Pdf

This collection of lectures and essays by eminent researchers in the field, many of them nobel laureates, is an outgrow of a special event held at CERN in late 2009, coinciding with the start of LHC operations. Careful transcriptions of the lectures have been worked out, subsequently validated and edited by the lecturers themselves. This unique insight into the history of the field includes also some perspectives on modern developments and will benefit everyone working in the field, as well as historians of science.

Author : Martin Schmaltz,Elena Pierpaoli
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814525237

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Searching for New Physics at Small and Large Scales by Martin Schmaltz,Elena Pierpaoli Pdf

This volume is a compilation of the lectures at TASI 2012, held in Boulder, Colorado, June 2012. The program comprises two parallel lecture series on particle physics and on cosmology. The particle physics lectures covers LHC related experimental techniques, phenomenology, as well as basics in physics beyond the standard model. The cosmology series give a general introduction to modern cosmology with special attention to the topics of dark matter, the microwave background and alternatives to the standard model of cosmology. The lectures are accessible to graduate students at the initial stages of their research careers. Contents:Dark Energy Models (R R Caldwell)Cosmological Perturbations (J Lesgourges)Implications of the Higgs Boson and the LHC for the MSSM (A Pierce)Astrophysical Probes of Dark Matter (S Profumo)Modified Gravity (F Schmidt)TASI 2012 Lectures on Inflation (L Senatore)Jet Substructure (J Shelton)Introduction to QCD (P Skands)Super-Tricks for Superspace (D Bertolini, J Thaler and Z Thomas)TASI 2012 Participants (The Students) Readership: Graduate students and researchers in high energy physics, astroparticle physics and cosmology. Keywords:High Energy Physics;Cosmology;Dark Matter;Physics Beyond Standard Model

Author : Antonino Zichichi
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814293235

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Search for the "totally Unexpected" in the LHC Era by Antonino Zichichi Pdf

From 29 August to 7 September 2007, a large group of distinguished lecturers and young physicists from various countries met in Erice, Italy, at the ?Ettore Majorana? Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture (EMFCSC) to attend the 45th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics: ?Search for the ?Totally Unexpected? in the LHC era?.This book is a collection of lectures delivered during the course, which covered the most recent advances in theoretical physics and the latest results from the current experimental facilities. In the School's effort to encourage and promote young physicists achieve recognition at an international level, students who distinguished themselves for the excellence of their research have been given the opportunity to publish their presentation in this volume.

Author : Asim O. Barut,W. Brittin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Nuclear physics
ISBN : UCSC:32106016812171

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Lectures in Theoretical Physics by Asim O. Barut,W. Brittin Pdf

Author : Antonino Zichichi
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814522496

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What is Known and Unexpected at LHC by Antonino Zichichi Pdf

Contents:Hot Theoretical Topics:Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes: From QCD to N = 8 Supergravity (Z Bern)The Measure Problem in Cosmology (R Bousso)Black Holes and Qubits (M J Duff)Perturbative and Non-Perturbative Aspects of N = 8 Supergravity (S Ferrara)The Gravitational S-Matrix: Erice Lectures (S B Giddings)Seminars on Specialized Topics:Direct Evidence of Oscillation from II to III Family Neutrinos (Y Declais)Probing the Small Distance Structure of Canonical Quantum Gravity using the Conformal Group (G 't Hooft)The QGCW Project — Technological Challenges to Study the New World (H Wenninger)Highlights from Laboratories:The LHC and Beyond — Status, Results and Perspectives (R D Heuer)Highlights from FERMILAB (P J Oddone)Anti- and Hypermatter Research at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research FAIR (H Stoecker)Highlights from BNL-RHIC (S Vigdor)Highlights from GRAN SASSO (L Votano)Highlights from ISS-AMS (S C C Ting)Special Sessions for New Talents:Four-Qubit Entanglement: Lessons of a Black Hole (L Borsten)A Simple Way to Take into Account Back Reaction on Pair Creation (P Burda)Search for a High-Mass Higgs Boson at the Tevatron (D Gerbaudo)Twisted Strings in Extended Abelian Higgs Model (A Lukács)Positronium Hyperfine Splitting (A Miyazaki)How I Failed to Find any New Fundamental Particles (M Mulhearn) Readership: Graduate students, researchers and academics in the field of subnuclear physics. Keywords:Black Holes;QCD;SUSY;QED;Collider;Attractors