Lectures on LHC physics

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-24040-9MaRDI QIDQ5894314zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tilman Plehn

Publication date 27 October 2011

Published in Lecture Notes in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4182

zbMATH Keywords

Higgs physicsLHC phenomenologyQCD

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Nuclear physics (81V35)

Abstract: With the discovery of the Higgs boson the LHC experiments have closed the most important gap in our understanding of fundamental interactions. We now know that the interactions between elementary particles can be described by quantum field theory, more specifically by a renormalizable gauge theory. This theory is valid to arbitrarily high energy scales and do not require an ultraviolet completion. In these notes I cover three aspects to help understand LHC results in the Higgs sector and in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model: many facets of Higgs physics, QCD as it is relevant for LHC measurements, and standard phenomenological background knowledge. The lectures should put young graduate students into a position to really follow advanced writeups and first research papers. In that sense they can serve as a starting point for a research project in LHC physics. With this new, significantly expanded version I am confident that also some more senior colleagues will find them useful and interesting.

Review text

This book is intended to be a brief but sufficiently detailed primer on LHC physics. It is divided into three distinct parts: The first part focuses on Higgs physics and collider searches. Starting with the most minimalistic and not renormalizable models describing massive gauge bosons, the author proceeds to discuss to the usual fundamental Higgs scalar. At the end of this part the usual set of ATLAS or CMS graphs are given. In the next part, the QCD part, the theory which describes Higgs production and everything else at the LHC are described. The DGLAP equation is derived. The stress is on the Drell-Yan process. The third and final part contains a discussion on LHC phenomenology. Here jet algorithms, helicity amplitudes, missing transverse energy etc are covered. The book ends with a list of references for further reading.

Recommendations

• Lectures on LHC physics
• Surveys in theoretical high energy physics 1. Lecture notes from SERC schools, Bombay, India, February 2008
• Particle physics at the LHC start
• Introduction to collider physics
• The black book of quantum chromodynamics. A primer for the LHC era

Cited in

(9)

• Surveys in theoretical high energy physics 1. Lecture notes from SERC schools, Bombay, India, February 2008
• Introduction to collider physics
• Introduction to the LHC experiments
• Particle physics at the LHC start
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5532595 (Why is no real title available?)
• The black book of quantum chromodynamics. A primer for the LHC era
• TASI lectures on collider physics
• The SAGEX review on scattering amplitudes Chapter 3: Mathematical structures in Feynman integrals
• Lectures on LHC physics

This page was built for publication: Lectures on LHC physics

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5894314)