Hadronic jets : an introduction / Andrea Banfi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banfi, Andrea, author.

Contributor:

Morgan & Claypool Publishers, publisher.

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 2.

IOP concise physics

[IOP release 2]

IOP concise physics, 2053-2571

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Hadrons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Distribution:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2016]

Place of Publication:

San Rafael [California] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2016]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

text file

Biography/History:

Dr. Andrea Banfi is a Lecturer by at the University of Sussex. He obtained his PhD in physics in 2002 and has worked for many renowned institutions active in high-energy physics. His research is focused on the phenomenology of particle physics, in particular on the study of hadronic jets at hadron colliders. His main contribution is the development of a theoretical framework to perform precision predictions for observables involving jets in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). In particular, he performed the first all-order QCD calculation for the cross section for Higgs production without any additional jets, a crucial observable for Higgs discovery. His research is deeply linked with the activity of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Therefore, he is regularly invited to participate in meetings of various CERN working groups on the phenomenology of particle physics at the LHC.

Summary:

Jet physics is an incredibly rich subject detailing the narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon in a particle physics or heavy ion experiment. This book is a general overview of jet physics for scientists not directly involved in the field. It presents the basic experimental and theoretical problems arising when dealing with jets, and describing the solutions proposed in recent years.

Contents:

Preface

1. Introduction

1.1. The basics of elementary particle physics

2. Jet algorithms

2.1. Cone or sequential algorithms?

2.2. Novel jet clustering procedures

3. QCD for jet physics

3.1. Collinear splitting in QCD

3.2. Fixed-order QCD calculations

3.3. Multi-parton branching

3.4. At the boundary of perturbative QCD

4. Jets as discovery tools

4.1. Optimising the jet radius

4.2. Boosted objects and jet substructure

4.3. Quark-gluon jet discrimination.

Notes:

"Version: 20160201"--Title page verso.

"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on March 10, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781681740737

9781681742014

OCLC:

944375515

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.