Umfang:
1 online resource (222 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783642051692
Serie:
Springer Tracts in Modern Physics Series v.235
Inhalt:
This up-to-date review offers a concise synthesis of the status of electroweak physics today, and an outlook to the near future, illustrated with many informative figures and tables. Results are discussed with both LEP and LHC measurements.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- to 1 Theoretical Framework -- 1.1 Electroweak Interactions -- 1.2 Quantum Chromodynamics -- 1.3 Electroweak Radiative Corrections -- 1.4 Extensions to the Standard Model -- 1.5 Z Boson Production and Decay in e+e- Collisions -- 1.6 W Boson Production at LEP -- 1.7 Z and W Boson Production at Tevatron and the LHC -- 1.8 Standard Model Higgs Boson Production and Decay at the LHC -- 1.9 Comparison of Theory and Experiment -- 1.9.1 Hadronisation Models -- 1.9.2 Detector Simulation -- References -- to 2 The LEP Experiments -- 2.1 The LEP Collider -- 2.2 LEP Energy Calibration -- 2.3 The ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL Experiments -- References -- to 3 Gauge Boson Production at LEP -- 3.1 Z Pole Measurements at LEP and SLD -- 3.2 Neutral Boson Production Above the Z Peak -- 3.2.1 Photon Production -- 3.2.2 Single Z and Z-Pair Production -- 3.2.3 Z+ Production -- 3.2.4 Anomalous Neutral Gauge Boson Couplings -- 3.3 Measurement of the W-Pair Cross-Section -- 3.4 Measurement of Single-W Production -- 3.5 Determination of Triple Gauge Boson Couplings -- 3.6 Final State Interactions in W Boson Decays -- 3.6.1 Bose-Einstein Correlations -- 3.6.2 Colour Reconnection -- 3.7 Measurement of the W Boson Mass -- References -- to 4 Electroweak Measurements and Model Analysis of Electroweak Data -- 4.1 W Boson Mass Measurements at LEP and Tevatron -- 4.2 Top Mass Measurement at the Tevatron -- 4.3 Low-Q2 Measurements -- 4.3.1 Muon Lifetime Measurement -- 4.3.2 Atomic Parity Violation -- 4.3.3 Møller Scattering at EA316 -- 4.3.4 Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering at NuTeV -- 4.3.5 Running of QED -- 4.3.6 Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon -- 4.4 Model Analysis of Electroweak Data -- 4.5 Electroweak Constraints on New Particles -- References -- to 5 The ATLAS and CMS Experiments at the LHC.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783642051685
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783642051685
Sprache:
Englisch
