Fundamental interactions : proceedings of the 21st Lake Louise Winter Institute, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, 17-23 February, 2006 / editors, Alan Astbury, Faqir Khanna, Roger Moore.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Lake Louise Winter Institute, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Astbury, A.

Khanna, F. C. (Faqir Chand), 1935-

Moore, Roger (Roger W.)

Conference Name:

Lake Louise Winter Institute (21st : 2006)

Lake Louise Winter Institute

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear reactions--Congresses.

Nuclear reactions.

Particles (Nuclear physics)--Congresses.

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Particles (Nuclear physics)--Measurement--Congresses.

Standard model (Nuclear physics)--Measurement--Congresses.

Standard model (Nuclear physics).

Astrophysics--Congresses.

Astrophysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This proceedings volume contains the latest developments in particle physics in collider experiments. The contributions cover new results such as the production of quark-gluon plasma in the heavy-ion collider, the new techniques for precision measurement at low energies, and the status of neutrino physics at various laboratories including the new facilities that are at the planning stage. <i>Sample Chapter(s)</i><br>Chapter 1: Making Precision Measurements at Hadron Colliders: Two Lectures (1,408 KB)<br> <br><i>Contents:</i><ul><li>Making Precision Measurements at Hadron Colliders: Two Lectu

Contents:

CONTENTS ; Preface ; Making Precision Measurements at Hadron Colliders: Two Lectures ; Lecture I: The Electroweak Scale: Top, the W and Z, and the Higgs via Mw and Mtop; 1. Introduction and Purpose ; 2. Problems in Making Precision Measurements ; 3. Some History and Cultural Background ; 4. The Tevatron and the LHC

5. The Anatomy of Detectors at Hadron Collider: Basics 6. Calibration Techniques: CDF as an Example ; 7. W and Z°Production as PDF Probes; 8. 'QCD'- Jet Production, Quark and Gluons, ISR, FSR; 9. Min Bias, Zero Bias, and the UEV: 'Soft' Physics; 10. The MTop - Mw Plane and the Higgs Mass; 11. Measuring the Top Quark Mass and Cross-section

12. Theoretical Motivation and Experimental Caution 13. Direct Search for the Higgs ; 14. Precision Measurements in B Physics ; 15. Expert Topics: Challenges for Students ; 16. Summary ; 17. Acknowledgments ; References ; Evidence for a Quark-Gluon Plasma at RHIC; 1. Introduction

2. Large Energy and Particle Densities Created at RHIC 3. Observation of Strong Elliptic Flow at RHIC ; 4. Is the System Thermalized? ; 5. Suppression of Large Transverse Momentum Particles ; 6. Effects of Jet Quenching on Azimuthal Correlations ; 7. J/ψ; 8. Summary and Conclusions

References Fundamental Experiments at Low Energies ; Abstract ; Introduction ; Symmetry tests by low-energy experiments ; CPT invariance and parity violation ; Electric Dipole Moment ; Absolute mass of the neutrino ; Scalar or Tensor Contributions to Weak Interaction

Unitarity of the CKM Matrix

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611912079

9781281912077

1281912077

9789812772541

9812772545

OCLC:

879024098