Collider Physics

by Barger,Vernon D.

• ISBN13: 9780201149456
• ISBN10: 0201149451
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-11-26
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

This updated edition of Collider Physics surveys the major developments in theoretical and experimental particle physics and uses numerous illustrations to show how the Standard Model explains the experimental results. Collider Physics offers an introduction to the fundamental particles and their interactions at the level of a lecture course for graduate students, with emphasis on the aspects most closely related to colliders - past, present, and future. It includes expectations for new physics associated with Higgs bosons and supersymmetry. This resourceful book shows how to make practical calculations and serves a dual purpose as a textbook and a handbook for collider physics phenomenology.

Author Biography

Vernon D. Barger is currently Vilas and J. H. Van Vleck Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute for Elementary Particle Physics Research at the University of Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Standard Electroweak Gauge Model

Lepton and Heavy Quark Decays

Basic e[superscript +]e[superscript -] and ve[superscript -] Processes

Partons and Scaling Distributions

Fragmentation

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)

Weak Boson Production and Decay

Jets

Heavy Quark Production

Monte Carlo Simulations

Higgs Boson

A Fourth Generation

Higher Symmetries

Conventions and Feynman Rules

Phase Space

Helicity Projection Techniques

Bibliography

Index

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