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Record Nr.

UNINA9910132153503321

Autore

Plehn Tilman

Titolo

Lectures on LHC Physics / / by Tilman Plehn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-05942-4

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 327 p. 62 illus., 20 illus. in color.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 886

Disciplina

539.736

Soggetti

Elementary particles (Physics)

Quantum field theory

Mathematical physics

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes Index.

Nota di contenuto

Higgs Physics -- QCD -- LHC Phenomenology -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the LHC experiments have closed the most important gap in our understanding of fundamental interactions, confirming that such interactions between elementary particles can be described by quantum field theory, more specifically by a renormalizable gauge theory. This theory is a priori valid for arbitrarily high energy scales and does not require an ultraviolet completion. Yet, when trying to apply the concrete knowledge of quantum field theory to actual LHC physics - in particular to the Higgs sector and certain regimes of QCD - one inevitably encounters an intricate maze of phenomenological know-how, common lore and other, often historically developed intuitions about what works and what doesn’t. These lectures cover three aspects to help understand LHC results in the Higgs sector and in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model: they discuss the many facets of Higgs physics, which is at the core of this significantly expanded second edition; then QCD, to the degree relevant for LHC measurements; as well as further standard phenomenological background knowledge. They are intended to serve as a brief but sufficiently detailed primer on LHC physics to



enable graduate students and all newcomers to the field to find their way through the more advanced literature, and to help those starting to work in this very timely and exciting field of research. Advanced readers will benefit from this course-based text for their own lectures and seminars.