Experimental particle physics :understanding the measurements and searches at the Large Hadron Collider /

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"Version: 20190801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Groundwork -- 1.1. Natural units -- 1.2. Particle content -- 1.3. Relativistic kinematics2. Collisions -- 2.1. Effecting collisions -- 2.2. Measure of collisions -- 2.3. Coordinates -- 2.4. Types of collisions3. Analysis objects -- 3.1. Detector objects -- 3.2. Jets and making them -- 3.3. Trigger -- 3.4. Preparing the data4. Theoretical view of collisions and simulating them -- 4.1. Theoretical overview from an experimentalist's perspective -- 4.2. Simulation programmes5. Analysis -- 5.1. Measurements and searches -- 5.2. Observables/techniques -- 5.3. Analyses steps -- 5.4. Detour : basic statistics -- 5.5. ROOT terms6. Uncertainties -- 6.1. Types of uncertainties -- 6.2. Sources of systematic uncertainties -- 6.3. Estimation of systematic uncertainties -- 6.4. Statistical methods used in uncertainty estimation7. Presenting and interpreting the results -- 7.1. Constructing the plots -- 7.2. Interpreting the plots8. Advanced topic : jet substructure -- 8.1. Large-radius jets -- 8.2. Grooming -- 8.3. Observables/taggers -- 8.4. Experimental results using jet substructure -- 8.5. Miscellaneous theoretical and experimental aspects9. Advanced topic : machine learning -- 9.1. Precursor : multivariate analyses -- 9.2. Machine learning in a nutshell -- 9.3. Applications in data analysis.This book is written for advanced undergraduate or beginning postgraduate student starting data analysis in experimental particle physics, more specifically at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Only assuming basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and special relativity, it recaps the current state of affairs in particle physics, before comprehensively introducing all the ingredients that go into an analysis. Including how each we go from electronic signals in the detectors to visualising what particles were produced in a collision, and how we determine if that is consistent with Standard Model predictions or indicate the presence of yet unseen particles. The results are usually represented in what we call plots, and the book ensures students can understand what goes into the making of the plots, and how to interpret them.University students studying experimental particle physics.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Deepak Kar is currently an associate Professor at the School of Physics, at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He obtained his PhD from the University of Florida in 2008 working on the CDF experiment at Tevatron in Fermilab. Previously, he was a post-doctoral researcher at University of Glasgow and also the Technische Universitsat, Dresden both working as a member of the ATLAS collaboration at Large Hadron Collider at CERN.Vladimir Fortov is a renowned physicist, and former president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and former Minister of Science and Technology and the country's Deputy Prime Minister. He is currently a professor and Head of the Department at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He has received many awards including the A.P. Karpinsky International Scientific Award in Physics and Chemistry, the P. Bridgeman Prize for Achievements in High Pressure Physics, and the Max-Plank Award in Physics for Pioneering Investigations of Strongly Coupled Plasmas.Title from PDF title page (viewed on September 5, 2019).

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1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).

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9780750321129

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Particles (Nuclear physics)
Particle & high-energy physics.
SCIENCE / Physics / Condensed Matter.
Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)

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