Search for Higgs Boson Pair Production in the bb̅ τ+ τ- Decay Channel

Search for Higgs Boson Pair Production in the bb̅ τ+ τ- Decay Channel
Author: Luca Cadamuro
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2018-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030040550

This thesis presents innovative contributions to the CMS experiment in the new trigger system for the restart of the LHC collisions in Run II, as well as original analysis methods and important results that led to official publications of the Collaboration. The author's novel reconstruction algorithms, deployed on the Field-Programmable Gate Arrays of the new CMS trigger architecture, have brought a gain of over a factor 2 in efficiency for the identification of tau leptons, with a very significant impact on important H boson measurements, such as its decays to tau lepton pairs and the search for H boson pair production. He also describes a novel analysis of HH → bb tautau, a high priority physics topic in a difficult channel. The original strategy, optimisation of event categories, and the control of the background have made the result one of the most sensitive concerning the self-coupling of the Higgs boson among all possible channels at the LHC.

Particle Physics Reference Library

Particle Physics Reference Library
Author: Herwig Schopper
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2020
Genre: Heavy ions
ISBN: 3030382079

This first open access volume of the handbook series contains articles on the standard model of particle physics, both from the theoretical and experimental perspective. It also covers related topics, such as heavy-ion physics, neutrino physics and searches for new physics beyond the standard model. A joint CERN-Springer initiative, the "Particle Physics Reference Library" provides revised and updated contributions based on previously published material in the well-known Landolt-Boernstein series on particle physics, accelerators and detectors (volumes 21A, B1,B2,C), which took stock of the field approximately one decade ago. Central to this new initiative is publication under full open access

Discovery Of The Higgs Boson

Discovery Of The Higgs Boson
Author: Aleandro Nisati
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2016-08-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 981442546X

The recent observation of the Higgs boson has been hailed as the scientific discovery of the century and led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics. This book describes the detailed science behind the decades-long search for this elusive particle at the Large Electron Positron Collider at CERN and at the Tevatron at Fermilab and its subsequent discovery and characterization at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Written by physicists who played leading roles in this epic search and discovery, this book is an authoritative and pedagogical exposition of the portrait of the Higgs boson that has emerged from a large number of experimental measurements. As the first of its kind, this book should be of interest to graduate students and researchers in particle physics.

The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon

The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon
Author: Fred Jegerlehner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2008
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540726330

This book reviews the present state of knowledge of the anomalous magnetic moment a=(g-2)/2 of the muon. The muon anomalous magnetic moment is one of the most precisely measured quantities in elementary particle physics and provides one of the most stringent tests of relativistic quantum field theory as a fundamental theoretical framework. It allows for an extremely precise check of the standard model of elementary particles and of its limitations.

Weak Scale Supersymmetry

Weak Scale Supersymmetry
Author: Howard Baer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 557
Release: 2023-01-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1009289845

This OA text develops the basic concepts of supersymmetry for experimental and phenomenological particle physicists and graduate students.

The Higgs Hunter's Guide

The Higgs Hunter's Guide
Author: John F. Gunion
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2018-03-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0429976070

The Higgs Hunter's Guide is a definitive and comprehensive guide to the physics of Higgs bosons. In particular, it discusses the extended Higgs sectors required by those recent theoretical approaches that go beyond the Standard Model, including supersymmetry and superstring-inspired models.

The Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider
Author: Lyndon R. Evans
Publisher: EPFL Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Hadron colliders
ISBN: 9782940222346

Describes the technology and engineering of the Large Hadron collider (LHC), one of the greatest scientific marvels of this young 21st century. This book traces the feat of its construction, written by the head scientists involved, placed into the context of the scientific goals and principles.

Data Analysis in High Energy Physics

Data Analysis in High Energy Physics
Author: Olaf Behnke
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2013-08-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3527653430

This practical guide covers the essential tasks in statistical data analysis encountered in high energy physics and provides comprehensive advice for typical questions and problems. The basic methods for inferring results from data are presented as well as tools for advanced tasks such as improving the signal-to-background ratio, correcting detector effects, determining systematics and many others. Concrete applications are discussed in analysis walkthroughs. Each chapter is supplemented by numerous examples and exercises and by a list of literature and relevant links. The book targets a broad readership at all career levels - from students to senior researchers. An accompanying website provides more algorithms as well as up-to-date information and links. * Free solutions manual available for lecturers at www.wiley-vch.de/supplements/

The Additional Dimensions

The Additional Dimensions
Author: Austin Williams
Publisher: Machine Books
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2015-03-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Given the unprecedented opportunities that architects have been given to build in China since the turn of the century, it is surprising that we should focus on a modest middle school in the suburbs of Beijing Yet, as Austin Williams explains, the Chinese firm Atelier Fronti have tried with Baiziwan Middle School to make architecture relevant in a process which has very little regard for it. World / Building is a series of essays exploring how contemporary architecture informs the world. And how the world informs it. It is also a platform for architectural critics to explore in depth their craft through a building that explores this conundrum. It asks the obvious question, "what should architecture do?" and the less obvious one: “how should it be judged?”