Dijet Angular Distributions in Proton-Proton Collisions

Dijet Angular Distributions in Proton-Proton Collisions
Author: Nele Boelaert
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2011-10-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642245978

This thesis is based on the first data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Its theme can be described as the classical Rutherford scattering experiment adapted to the LHC: measurement of scattering angles to search for new physics and substructure. At the LHC, colliding quarks and gluons exit the proton collisions as collimated particle showers, or jets. The thesis presents studies of the scattering angles of these jets. It includes a phenomenological study at the LHC design energy of 14 TeV, where a model of so-called large extra dimensions is used as a benchmark process for the sensitivity to new physics. The experimental result is the first measurement, made in 2010, by ATLAS, operating at the LHC start-up energy of 7 TeV. The result is compatible with the Standard Model and demonstrates how well the physics and the apparatus are understood. The first data is a tiny fraction of what will be accumulated in the coming years, and this study has set the stage for performing these measurements with confidence as the LHC accumulates luminosity and increases its energy, thereby probing smaller length scales.

Radiative Corrections: Status And Outlook - Proceedings Of The Tennessee International Symposium

Radiative Corrections: Status And Outlook - Proceedings Of The Tennessee International Symposium
Author: Bennie F L Ward
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 538
Release: 1995-05-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9814550817

This book presents the state of the art and the outlook for the theoretical and experimental aspects of radiative corrections to the SU2L x U₁ x SUc₃3 Standard Model (SM) of elementary particle physics. Particular emphasis is given to SM tests in high precision Z° physics and high energy hadron collider physics.

Radiative Corrections

Radiative Corrections
Author: N. Dombey
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1468490540

The Workshop on Radiative Corrections: Results and Perspectives was held at the University of Sussex in fine weather between July 9 and 14 1989. The Workshop was weIl timed: the day after its concluding session the first beam at LEP was circulated. The Original aims of the Workshop were twofold: first to review the existing theoretical work on electroweak radiative corrections in the light of the initial experiments at SLC and LEP, and to attempt to obtain a consensus on the best means of carrying out the calculations of the various processes. This aim became Working Group A on Renormalisation Schemes tor Electroweak Radiative Corrections. The second aim was to review the experimental implementation of radiative corrections and this became Working Group B. Here the problem was to obtain a consensus on the use of Monte Carlo event generators. At the time (March 1987) when Friedrich Dydak wrote to one of us (ND) to suggest a Workshop on the subject of electroweak radiative corrections to take place just before experiments at LEP were to begin, the main theoretical problem was that there was no agreement among theorists on the use of a specific renormalization scheme. Similarly, it was already becoming clear that it was going to be very difficult to compare the experimental results of different groups because they would use different event generators and experimental cuts of their data.

Deep Inelastic Scattering And Related Phenomena

Deep Inelastic Scattering And Related Phenomena
Author: Giulio D'agostini
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 814
Release: 1997-03-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9814546623

This workshop is the fourth of a series initiated in Durham (March 93), followed by Eilat (February 94) and Paris (April 95). The large interest and the great inflow of experimental data, coming mainly from HERA, are some of the reasons behind the decision to have this annual meeting, presently the most important one for this area of research. During the workshop, experimental results and theoretical aspects have been reported on subjects, which have been organised by working groups on: 1) hadron structure functions; 2) photoproduction and photon structure; 3) diffractive interactions; 4) hadronic final states; 5) spin effects in lepton nucleon scattering; 6) special session on theoretical advances. While the contributions to the working groups offer hot material for specialists, the reports by the conveners, as well as other contributions to the plenary sessions, offer to nonspecialists a complete overview of this research field.

High Energy Physics 99 Proceedings of the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Tampere, Finland, 15-21 July 1999

High Energy Physics 99 Proceedings of the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Tampere, Finland, 15-21 July 1999
Author: K Huitu
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1112
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780750306614

High Energy Physics 99 contains the 18 invited plenary presentations and 250 contributions to parallel sessions presented at the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics. The book provides a comprehensive survey of the latest developments in high energy physics. Topics discussed include hard high energy, structure functions, soft interactions, heavy flavor, the standard model, hadron spectroscopy, neutrino masses, particle astrophysics, field theory, and detector development.

Looking Inside Jets

Looking Inside Jets
Author: Simone Marzani
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2019-05-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030157091

This concise primer reviews the latest developments in the field of jets. Jets are collinear sprays of hadrons produced in very high-energy collisions, e.g. at the LHC or at a future hadron collider. They are essential to and ubiquitous in experimental analyses, making their study crucial. At present LHC energies and beyond, massive particles around the electroweak scale are frequently produced with transverse momenta that are much larger than their mass, i.e., boosted. The decay products of such boosted massive objects tend to occupy only a relatively small and confined area of the detector and are observed as a single jet. Jets hence arise from many different sources and it is important to be able to distinguish the rare events with boosted resonances from the large backgrounds originating from Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). This requires familiarity with the internal properties of jets, such as their different radiation patterns, a field broadly known as jet substructure. This set of notes begins by providing a phenomenological motivation, explaining why the study of jets and their substructure is of particular importance for the current and future program of the LHC, followed by a brief but insightful introduction to QCD and to hadron-collider phenomenology. The next section introduces jets as complex objects constructed from a sequential recombination algorithm. In this context some experimental aspects are also reviewed. Since jet substructure calculations are multi-scale problems that call for all-order treatments (resummations), the bases of such calculations are discussed for simple jet quantities. With these QCD and jet physics ingredients in hand, readers can then dig into jet substructure itself. Accordingly, these notes first highlight the main concepts behind substructure techniques and introduce a list of the main jet substructure tools that have been used over the past decade. Analytic calculations are then provided for several families of tools, the goal being to identify their key characteristics. In closing, the book provides an overview of LHC searches and measurements where jet substructure techniques are used, reviews the main take-home messages, and outlines future perspectives.

Qcd - 20 Years Later (In 2 Volumes)

Qcd - 20 Years Later (In 2 Volumes)
Author: H A Kastrup
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 895
Release: 1993-06-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9814554464

These proceedings provide a general summary of the theoretical and experimental results which have established QCD as the theory of the strong interactions in the past 20 years. The experimental status of this theory in e⁺e⁻ annihilation, deep inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering and hadron-hadron collisions is reviewed and the theoretical implications are critically discussed. In addition, our knowledge on the non-perturbative sector of QCD, based on lattice and sum rule approaches, is summarized.

Studies of CP-Violation in Charmless Three-Body b-Hadron Decays

Studies of CP-Violation in Charmless Three-Body b-Hadron Decays
Author: Daniel O'Hanlon
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2018-11-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030022064

This book highlights two essential analyses of data collected during the LHCb experiment, based on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The first comprises the first observation and studies of matter-antimatter asymmetries in two three-body b-baryon decays, paving the way for more precise measurements of the relatively unknown decay properties of b-baryon decays. The second is an analysis of a charged B meson decay to three charged pions, where previously large matter-antimatter asymmetries were observed in a model-independent analysis. Here a model of the decay amplitude is constructed using the unitarity-conserving ‘K-matrix’ model for the scalar contributions, so as to gain an understanding of how the previously observed matter-antimatter asymmetries arise; further, the model’s construction yields the most precise and comprehensive study of this decay mode to date.

Deep Inelastic Scattering (Dis 2001), Procs Of The 9th Intl Workshop

Deep Inelastic Scattering (Dis 2001), Procs Of The 9th Intl Workshop
Author: Graziano Bruni
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 882
Release: 2002-10-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814490075

The proceedings of DIS 2001 present the most updated status of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) physics. Topics like structure function measurements and phenomenology, QCD studies in DIS and photoproduction, spin physics and diffractive interactions are reviewed in detail, with emphasis on those studies that push the test of QCD and the Standard Model to the limits of their present range of validity, towards both the very high and the very low four-momentum transfers in the lepton-proton scattering. Moreover, this workshop coincided with the transition between the first period of experimentation at the HERA ep collider at DESY and the start of the updated HERA II operation — allowing a review of what has been learned up to now and a discussion on the main future directions of research in this field.