Experimental techniques in modern high energy physics : a beginner's guide / Kazunori Hanagaki, Junichik Tanaka, Makoto Tomoto, Yuji Yamazaki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanagaki, Kazunori, author.

Tanaka, Junichi, author.

Tomoto, Makoto, author.

Yamazaki, Yuji, author.

Series:

Lecture notes in physics ; 1616-6361 1001.

Lecture notes in physics, 1616-6361 ; 1001

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Nuclear physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 146 pages) : illustrations (some colour).

Place of Publication:

Tokyo, Japan : Springer, 2022.

Summary:

This open access book offers a concise overview of how data from large scale experiments are analyzed and how technological tools are used in practice, as in the search for new elementary particles. It focuses on interconnects between physics and detector technology in experimental particle physics, and includes descriptions of mathematical approaches. Readers find all the important steps in analysis, including reconstruction of the momentum and energy of particles from detector information, particle identification, and also the general concept of simulating particle production from collisions and detector responses. As the scale of scientific experiments becomes larger and data-intensive science emerges, the techniques used in the data analysis become ever more complicated, making it difficult for beginners to grasp the overall picture. The book provides an explanation of the idea and concepts behind the methods, helping readers understand journal articles on high energy physics. This book is engaging as it does not overemphasize mathematical formalism and it gives a lively example of how such methods have been applied to the Higgs particle discovery in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments, which led to Englert and Higgs being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2013. Graduate students and young researchers can easily obtain the required knowledge on how to start data analyses from these notes, without having to spend time in consulting many experts or digesting huge amounts of literature.

Contents:

Introduction

Basic Idea of Measurements in Particle Collisions

Apparatus

Statistics

Detector Calibration

Particle Identification

Event Simulation

Examples of Physics Analysis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9784431569312

4431569316

OCLC:

1367997232

Access Restriction:

Open access

Restricted for use by site license.