Road to Discovery

Road to Discovery

Detector Alignment, Electron Identification, Particle Misidentification, WW Physics, and the Discovery of the Higgs Boson

Alison, John

Springer International Publishing AG

08/2016

302

Mole

Inglês

9783319364384

15 a 20 dias

The research presented here includes important contributions on the commissioning of the ATLAS experiment and the discovery of the Higgs boson. In addition, the thesis provides excellent introductions, suitable for non-specialists, to Higgs physics, to the LHC, and to the ATLAS experiment.
Introduction and Theoretical Background.- The Large Hadron Collider.- The ATLAS Experiment.- Reconstruction and Commissioning.- Detector Alignment.- TRT Alignment.- Electron Identification.- WW Physics.- The Fake Factor Method.- WW Cross Section Measurement.
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