Book description
Written by authors working at the forefront of research, this
accessible treatment presents the current status of the field of
collider-based particle physics at the highest energies available, as
well as recent results and experimental techniques.
It is clearly divided into three sections; The first covers the physics
-- discussing the various aspects of the Standard Model as well as its
extensions, explaining important experimental results and highlighting
the expectations from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The second is
dedicated to the involved technologies and detector concepts, and the
third covers the important - but often neglected - topics of the
organisation and financing of high-energy physics research.
A useful resource for students and researchers from high-energy physics.
Ian Brock is the Scientific Manager of the Helmholtz Alliance
"Physics at the Terascale". He is an experimental physics
professor currently on leave of absence from the University of Bonn.
During his career he has worked on seven different high-energy physics
experiments in Europe and the USA (TASSO, Crystal Ball, CLEO, L3, ZEUS,
ATLAS and CLEOc). He has a wide experience in the building and
maintaining of detectors, data analysis and statistical tools. He was
the main author of the Mn_Fit software package, which was widely used in
the high-energy physics community over the past 20 years.
Thomas Schorner-Sadenius studied physics in Hamburg an Munich and worked
on experiments at CERN (Crystal Barrel, OPAL, ATLAS, CMS) and at DESY
(H1, ZEUS). His main expertise is in data analysis in the field of QCD
studies, in triggering in high-energy physics experiments and in the
running and maintenance of large detector systems. Currently Thomas
Schorner-Sadenius is the leader of Analysis Centre of the Helmholtz
Alliance "Physics at the Terascale" and responsible for the
shaping of the analysis-related programme of the Alliance.
