Perspectives on LHC physics
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...
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New Jersey :
World Scientific
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Preface; 1. The LHC - A "Why" Machine and a Supersymmetry Factory G. Kane; 1.1 A "Why"Machine; 1.2 A Superpartner Factory; 1.3 Our String Vacuum; 1.4 After the Champagne; 2. Dark Matter at the LHC A. Pierce; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Weighing the Universe, or Why Expect Dark Matter?; 2.3 What is the DarkMatter?; 2.4 A Test Case: Supersymmetric Dark Matter; 2.4.1 Neutralinos at the LHC; 2.5 Simple DarkMatter; 2.6 What If We Don't See Dark Matter at LHC?; 2.7 Conclusions; References; 3. LHC's ATLAS and CMS Detectors M. Spiropulu & S. Stapnes; 3.1 Introduction; 3.1.1 LHC: The machine
- 3.1.2 LHC: Figures of challenge3.2 Detection, Particles and Physics; 3.3 ATLAS and CMS; 3.3.1 ATLAS/CMS duality; 3.3.2 Magnet systems; 3.4 ATLAS and CMS: Challenges Addressed; 3.4.1 Inner detectors; 3.4.2 Calorimetry; 3.4.3 Muon detectors; 3.5 Trigger Architecture; 3.5.1 Googles of data and the grid; 3.6 To Be Continued; References; 4. Understanding the Standard Model, as a Bridge to the Discovery of New Phenomena at the LHC M. L. Mangano; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Signals of Discovery; 4.2.1 Mass peaks; 4.2.2 Anomalous shapes of kinematical distributions; 4.2.3 Counting experiments
- 4.3 Measuring Parameters4.4 Conclusions; References; 5. Thoughts on a Long Voyage L. Susskind; 5.1 The Landscape; 5.2 The Hierarchy; 5.3 Linkages; 5.3.1 The strong CP problem; 5.4 Supersymmetry Breaking and the Landscape; 5.5 Black Holes at the LHC?; 6. The "Top Priority" at the LHC T. Han; 6.1 Brief Introduction; 6.2 Top Quark in The Standard Model; 6.2.1 Top-quark decay in the SM; 6.2.2 Top-quark production in the SM; 6.2.2.1. tt production via QCD; 6.2.2.2. Single top production via weak interaction; 6.2.2.3. Top quark and Higgs associated production; 6.3 New Physics in Top-Quark Decay
- 6.3.1 Charged current decay: BSM6.3.2 Neutral current decay: BSM; 6.4 Top Quarks in Resonant Production; 6.4.1 X tt, tb; 6.4.2 T tZ, tH, bW; 6.5 Top-Rich Events for New Physics; 6.5.1 T T pair production; 6.5.1.1. tt pure hadronic decay; 6.5.1.2. tt semi-leptonic decay; 6.5.2 Exotic top signatures; 6.6 Summary and Outlook; References; 7. LHC Discoveries Unfolded J. Lykken and M. Spiropulu; 7.1 Escape from Theory Space; 7.2 Dark Matter and Missing Energy; 7.3 Missing Energy at the LHC; 7.4 A Strategy for Early Discovery with Missing Energy; 7.5 Look-Alikes at the Moment of Discovery
- 7.6 Twenty Questions7.7 Spin Discrimination with 100 pb-1; 7.8 More Look-Alikes; 7.9 Simple Robust Discriminators; 7.10 Outlook; References; 8. From BCS to the LHC S. Weinberg; References; 9. Searching for Gluinos at the Tevatron and Beyond J. Alwall, M.-P. Le, M. Lisanti and J. G. Wacker; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Event Generation; 9.2.1 Signal; 9.2.2 Backgrounds; 9.3 Projected Reach of Searches; 9.4 Implications for the LHC; 9.5 Conclusions and Outlook; References; 10. Naturally Speaking: The Naturalness Criterion and Physics at the LHC G. F. Giudice; 10.1 Naturalness in Scientific Thought
- 10.2 Drowning by Numbers
