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.

Atlas Discovery Potential for a Heavy Charged Higgs Boson

Atlas Discovery Potential for a Heavy Charged Higgs Boson
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Total Pages: 21
Release: 2002
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The sensitivity of the ATLAS detector to the discovery of a heavy charged Higgs boson is presented. Assuming a heavy SUSY spectrum, the most promising channels above the top quark mass are H{sup {+-}} → tb and h{sup {+-}} → [tau]{sup {+-}}[nu]{sub [tau]} which provide coverage in the low and high tan [beta] regions up to ≈ 600 GeV. The achievable precisions on the charged Higgs mass and tan [beta] determination are also discussed. The H{sup {+-}} → W{sup {+-}}h° channel, though restricted to a small MSSM parameter space, shows a viable signal in NMSSM where the parameter space is less constrained. The observation of the channel H− → {tau}{sub L}− [nu]{sub {tau}} + c.c. may constitute a distinctive evidence for models with singlet neutrinos in large extra dimensions.