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ADVENTURE OF THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER, THE
Claude Guyot, Daniel Denegri, Lydia Roos, et al.
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World Scientific Publishing Company 
Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Naturwissenschaften allgemein
Beschreibung
An introduction to the world of quarks and leptons, and of their interactions governed by fundamental symmetries of nature, as well as an introduction to the connection that exists between worlds of the infinitesimally small and the infinitely large.
The book begins with a simple presentation of the theoretical framework, the so-called Standard Model, which evolved gradually since the 1960s. The key experiments establishing it as the theory of elementary particle physics, but also its missing pieces and conceptual weaknesses are introduced. The book proceeds with the extraordinary story of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN — the largest purely scientific project ever realized. Conception, design and construction by worldwide collaborations of the detectors of size and complexity without precedent in scientific history are discussed. The book then offers the reader a state-of-the art (2020) appreciation of the depth and breadth of the physics exploration performed by the LHC experiments: the study of new forms of matter, the understanding of symmetry-breaking phenomena at the fundamental level, the exciting searches for new physics such as dark matter, additional space dimensions, new symmetries, and more. The adventure of the LHC culminated in the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 (Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013). The last chapter of this book describes the plans for the LHC during the next 15 years of exploitation and improvement, and the possible evolution of the field and future collider projects under consideration.
The authors are researchers from CERN, CEA and CNRS (France), and deeply engaged in the LHC program: D Denegri in the CMS experiment, C Guyot, A Hoecker and L Roos in the ATLAS experiment. Some of them are involved since the inception of the project. They give a lively and accessible inside view of this amazing scientific and human adventure.
Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- About the Authors
- List of Insets and Digressions
- Introduction
- The Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics
- Key Experiments Establishing the Standard Model
- What the Standard Model Cannot Explain
- How Could New Physics Look Like?
- Back to the Big Bang
- The LHC
- What is a Particle Detector?
- The ATLAS and CMS Experiments
- LHC Start-Up and Data Taking
- Data Analysis
- The Higgs Boson: Search and Discovery
- Testing the Standard Model
- The Quest for New Physics
- LHCb and ALICE: The Physics of Flavour and of Hot & Dense Matter
- Looking Ahead
- Conclusions
- Units of Length, Time, Mass–Energy, and Some Typical Physical Scales
- Bibliography
- Index
Readership: Physics students as well as science enthusiasts.
This book presents what is beyond doubt the largest purely scientific project ever, the LHC — the Large Hadron Collider at CERN — and associated experiments ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE, culminating with the discovery of the Higgs boson in summer 2012. [...] Such discoveries, as those of the W, Z and now Higgs, are real landmarks in the history of sciences.' - Foreword by Carlo Rubbia (Nobel laureate in Physics, 1984)
'The book serves as a highly valuable refresher of modern concepts of particle physics, recalling theoretical ideas as well as explaining advanced detector technologies and analysis methods that set the stage for the LHC experiments and the Higgs-boson discovery. Even though the focus converges on the Higgs boson, the full LHC project and its rich physics playground are well covered, and furthermore embedded in the broader context of particle physics and cosmology, as the subtitle indicates. - CERN Courier
Key Features:
- The book describes the genesis of the LHC project and the associated experiments — currently the largest scientific instruments in the world
- The authors are at the origin of the LHC project, experiments and studies leading to the discovery of Higgs boson. All is shown in a historical perspective and from an experimentalist's point of view
- The presentation is attractive, with many explanatory colored pictures, diagrams and graphs
- This is an updated version of the earlier (2014) edition in French, containing most recent results obtained in 2016 and 2017 at higher collision energies
