Physics at the TerascaleISBN: 978-3-527-41001-9
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514 pages
June 2011
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PART I The Physics
1. Setting the Scene
2. The Standard Model: Our Picture of the Microcosm
3. Electroweak and Standard Model Tests: The Quest for Precision
4. Hard QCD: Still going strong
5. Monte Carlo Generators and Fixed-order Calculations: Predicting the (Un)expected
6. The Higgs Boson: Still Elusive after 40 Years
7. Supersymmetry
8. Quark Flavour Physics
9. Top Quarks: The Peak of the Mass Hierarchy?
10. Beyond SUSY and the Standard Model: Exotica
11. Forward and Diffractive Physics: Of Rapidity Gaps and Small Angles
PART II The Technology
12. Accelerators: The Particle Smashers
13. Detector Concepts: From Technologies to Physics Results
14. Tracking Detectors: Following the Charges
15. Calorimeters: Precise Energy Measurements
16. Muon Detectors: Catching Penetrating Particles
17. Luminosity Determination: Normalising the Rates
18. Trigger Systems in High Energy Physics Experiments
19. Grid Computing in High-Energy Physics
PART III The Organisation
20. The Sociology and Management of Terascale Experiments: Organisation and Community
21. Funding of High Energy Physics
22. The Role of the Big Labs
23. Communication, Outreach and the Terascale
PART IV Appendices
Index
1. Setting the Scene
2. The Standard Model: Our Picture of the Microcosm
3. Electroweak and Standard Model Tests: The Quest for Precision
4. Hard QCD: Still going strong
5. Monte Carlo Generators and Fixed-order Calculations: Predicting the (Un)expected
6. The Higgs Boson: Still Elusive after 40 Years
7. Supersymmetry
8. Quark Flavour Physics
9. Top Quarks: The Peak of the Mass Hierarchy?
10. Beyond SUSY and the Standard Model: Exotica
11. Forward and Diffractive Physics: Of Rapidity Gaps and Small Angles
PART II The Technology
12. Accelerators: The Particle Smashers
13. Detector Concepts: From Technologies to Physics Results
14. Tracking Detectors: Following the Charges
15. Calorimeters: Precise Energy Measurements
16. Muon Detectors: Catching Penetrating Particles
17. Luminosity Determination: Normalising the Rates
18. Trigger Systems in High Energy Physics Experiments
19. Grid Computing in High-Energy Physics
PART III The Organisation
20. The Sociology and Management of Terascale Experiments: Organisation and Community
21. Funding of High Energy Physics
22. The Role of the Big Labs
23. Communication, Outreach and the Terascale
PART IV Appendices
Index
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