The search and discovery of the Higgs Boson :a brief introduction to particle physics /

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"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.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 object2. 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 Tevatron3. 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 data4. The ATLAS and CMS detectors -- 4.1. Overall detector structure -- 4.2. Particle identification5. Preparing for the search at the LHC -- 5.1. Standard model predictions -- 5.2. Simulation infrastructure -- 5.3. Evaluation of search strategies6. 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?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 involved. The Higgs boson may be the one particle that was studied the most before its discovery and the story from postulation in 1964 to detection in 2012 is a fascinating one. The story is told here while detailing the fundamentals of particle physics.Physics students (advanced undergraduate to young researchers).Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.Luis Roberto Flores Castillo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. His research is across high-energy physics with a focus on: measurement of the properties of the Higgs boson; searches for dark matter particles; and searches for new high-mass particles including participation on the ATLAS particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He received the Scientific Research Prize 2012 of the Mexican Physical Society.Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 10, 2016).

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

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English

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9781681740782

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SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light.
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Higgs bosons.
Particle and high-energy physics.

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