Precision Electroweak Physics at Electron-Positron Colliders

Precision Electroweak Physics at Electron-Positron Colliders

Author: Stefan Roth

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 3540351647

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This up-to-date volume reviews the recent contributions of electron-positron colliders to the precision test of the electroweak Standard Model. In particular, it contains a short summary of the measurements at the Z resonance and gives an overview of the electroweak processes above the Z. Subsequently, the measurement of the W mass at LEP is discussed in detail. The implications for the precision test of the Standard Model are presented, giving the status of the global electroweak fit before the startup of Large Hadron Collider. The final chapters give an outlook on the electroweak physics at a future linear collider. The book also features many illustrations and tables. Readers obtain a coherent overview of the results of 20 years of electroweak physics conducted at electron-positron colliders.


Gauge Theories of the Strong and Electroweak Interaction

Gauge Theories of the Strong and Electroweak Interaction

Author: Manfred Böhm

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 796

ISBN-13: 3322801608

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This textbook gives a comprehensive summary of the gauge theories of the fundamental interactions. The authors stress the intimate connection between the basic experimental facts and the formulation of gauge theories of the strong and electroweak interaction. The concepts and technical tools of quantum field theory are presented. They are used to derive precision results of quantum chromodynamics and the standard model of the electroweak interaction of experiments in elementary particle physics. The book includes the latest experimental results and presents the actual status of the theory.


Perspectives on Lhc Physics

Perspectives on Lhc Physics

Author: G. L. Kane

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9812779760

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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 that will be crucial for finding new physics at the LHC, as well as perspectives on the importance and implications of the discoveries. Among the accomplished contributors to this book are leaders and visionaries in the field of particle physics beyond the Standard Model, including two Nobel Laureates (Steven Weinberg and Frank Wilczek), and presumably some future Nobel Laureates, plus top younger theorists and experimenters. With its blend of popular and technical contents, the book will have wide appeal, not only to physical scientists but also to those in related fields.


Search for the Higgs Boson

Search for the Higgs Boson

Author: John V. Lee

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781594548611

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The Higgs boson is an undiscovered elementary particle, thought to be a vital piece of the closely fitting jigsaw of particle physics. Like all particles, it has wave properties akin to those ripples on the surface of a pond which has been disturbed; indeed, only when the ripples travel as a well defined group is it sensible to speak of a particle at all. In quantum language the analogue of the water surface which carries the waves is called a field. Each type of particle has its own corresponding field. The Higgs field is a particularly simple one -- it has the same properties viewed from every direction, and in important respects in indistinguishable from empty space. Thus physicists conceive of the Higgs field being "switched on", pervading all of space and endowing it with "grain" like that of a plank of wood. The direction of the grain in undetectable, and only becomes important once the Higgs' interactions with other particles are taken into account. for instance, particles call vector bosons can travel with the grain, in which case they move easily for large distances and may be observed as photons - that is, particles of light that we can see or record using a camera; or against, in which case their effective range is much shorter, and we call them W or Z particles. These play a central role in the physics of nuclear reactions, such as those occurring in the core of the sun. The Higgs field enables us to view these apparently unrelated phenomenon as two sides of the same coin; both may be described in terms of the properties of the same vector bosons. When particles of matter such as electrons or quarks (elementary constituents of protons and neutrons, which in turn constitute the atomic nucleus) travel through the grain, they are constantly flipped "head-over-heels". this forces them to move more slowly than their natural speed, that of light, by making them heavy.


Particle Physics At The Year Of Light - Proceedings Of The Seventeenth Lomonosov Conference On Elementary Particle Physics

Particle Physics At The Year Of Light - Proceedings Of The Seventeenth Lomonosov Conference On Elementary Particle Physics

Author: Alexander I Studenikin

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2017-04-17

Total Pages: 595

ISBN-13: 9813224576

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The volume of these proceedings is devoted to a wide variety of items, both in theory and experiment, of particle physics such as electroweak theory, fundamental symmetries, tests of the standard model and beyond, neutrino and astroparticle physics, hadron physics, gravitation and cosmology, physics at the present and future accelerator.


Puzzles On The Electroweak Scale - Proceedings Of The 14th International Warsaw Meeting On Elementary Particle Physics

Puzzles On The Electroweak Scale - Proceedings Of The 14th International Warsaw Meeting On Elementary Particle Physics

Author: Zygmunt Ajduk

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1992-04-30

Total Pages: 650

ISBN-13: 9814555428

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The proceedings contains reviews and short communications on the following topics: status of the standard model, rare decays and CP violation, heavy quark physics, neutrino physics, Higgs bosons and electroweak breaking, nonperturbative effects in electroweak interactions, physics beyond the standard models, quantum chromodynamics and strong interactions.


Physics at the Terascale

Physics at the Terascale

Author: Ian Brock

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-05-04

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 3527634975

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Written by authors working at the forefront of research, this accessible treatment presents the current status of the field of collider-based particle physics at the highest energies available, as well as recent results and experimental techniques. It is clearly divided into three sections; The first covers the physics -- discussing the various aspects of the Standard Model as well as its extensions, explaining important experimental results and highlighting the expectations from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The second is dedicated to the involved technologies and detector concepts, and the third covers the important - but often neglected - topics of the organisation and financing of high-energy physics research. A useful resource for students and researchers from high-energy physics.