Electroweak Physics at the LHC

✍ Scribed by Matthias U. Mozer (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 121
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 267
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book discusses the recent experimental results obtained at the LHC that involve electroweak bosons. The results are placed into an appropriate theoretical and historical context. The work pays special attention to the rising subject of hadronically decaying bosons with high boosts, documenting the state-of-the-art identification techniques and highlighting typical results. The text is not limited to electroweak physics in the strict sense, but also discusses the use of electroweak vector-bosons as tool in the study of other subjects in particle physics, such as determinations of the proton structure or the search for new exotic particles. The book is particularly well suited for graduate students, starting their thesis work on topics that involve electroweak bosons, as the book provides a comprehensive description of phenomena observable at current accelerators as well as a summary of the most relevant experimental techniques.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-18
Theory Overview....Pages 19-26
Experimental Signatures of EWK Bosons....Pages 27-39
EWK Bosons and QCD....Pages 41-53
Electroweak Parameters....Pages 55-62
EWK Bosons and the Higgs Boson....Pages 63-84
Diboson Resonances....Pages 85-97
Nonresonant Multi-Boson Production....Pages 99-112
Conclusion....Pages 113-115

✦ Subjects

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory;Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons;Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics