Precision electroweak physics at electron-positron colliders /
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| Author / Creator: | Roth, Ștefan. |
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| Imprint: | Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007. |
| Description: | ix, 172 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Springer tracts in modern physics, 0081-3869 ; v. 220 |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6126550 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Electroweak Interactions
- 1.1. Gauge Invariance and Formulation of the Theory
- 1.2. Parameters of the Theory
- 1.3. Radiative Corrections
- 1.4. Beyond the Standard Model
- References
- 2. The Accelerators SLC and LEP
- 2.1. The Stanford Linear Collider SLC
- 2.2. The Large Electron Positron Collider LEP
- 2.3. Calibration of the LEP Beam Energy
- 2.4. Detectors at Electron-Positron Colliders
- 2.5. Luminosity Measurement
- References
- 3. Electroweak Measurements on the Z Resonance
- 3.1. Fermion-Pair Production in e[superscript +]e[superscript -] Collisions
- 3.2. Measurement of the Z Lineshape
- 3.3. Forward-Backward Asymmetries
- 3.4. Tau Polarisation
- 3.5. Left-Right Asymmetry
- 3.6. Determination of the Effective Weak Mixing Angle
- 3.7. Effective Couplings and Weak Radiative Corrections
- References
- 4. Electroweak Physics Above the Z Resonance
- 4.1. Fermion-Pair Production Above the Z Resonance
- 4.2. Production of Electroweak Gauge Bosons
- 4.2.1. Compton Scattering
- 4.2.2. Single-Z Production
- 4.2.3. Single-W Production
- 4.2.4. Photon Production
- 4.2.5. Z-pair Production
- 4.3. Measurement of Z[gamma] Production
- 4.3.1. Neutrino-Pair Production in Z[gamma] Events
- 4.3.2. Reconstruction of the Z Resonance with Z[gamma] Events
- 4.3.3. Extraction of the Z Mass from the Mass Spectrum
- 4.3.4. Cross Check of the LEP Energy Calibration
- References
- 5. W-Boson Pair Production
- 5.1. Simulation of Four-Fermion Production
- 5.2. Hadronisation Models
- 5.3. Colour Reconnection in the qqqq Channel
- 5.4. Bose-Einstein Correlations in the qqqq Channel
- 5.5. Selection of W-Boson Pairs
- 5.5.1. Selection of Fully-Leptonic Events
- 5.5.2. Selection of Semi-Leptonic Events
- 5.5.3. Selection of Fully-Hadronic Events
- 5.6. Measurement of the W-Pair Cross Section
- 5.7. Measurement of W-Boson Polarisation
- 5.8. Triple Gauge Boson Couplings
- References
- 6. Measurement of the W Mass at LEP
- 6.1. The W Mass from the Threshold Cross Section
- 6.2. Measurement of the W Mass Using the Lepton Energy
- 6.3. Direct Reconstruction of the Invariant-Mass Spectrum
- 6.3.1. Identification of the Final State Fermions
- 6.3.2. Kinematic Fit
- 6.3.3. Jet Pairing in Fully-Hadronic Events
- 6.3.4. Photon and Gluon Radiation
- 6.4. Extraction of the W Mass
- 6.4.1. Monte-Carlo Re-Weighting and Binned Likelihood Fit
- 6.4.2. Monte-Carlo Re-Weighting and Box Fit
- 6.4.3. Event Likelihood from a Convolution Function
- 6.4.4. Fit of an Analytic Breit-Wigner Function
- 6.5. Systematic Uncertainties
- 6.5.1. Four-Fermion Generation and Photon Radiation
- 6.5.2. Hadronisation
- 6.5.3. Colour Reconnection
- 6.5.4. Bose-Einstein Effects
- 6.5.5. Detector Effects
- 6.5.6. LEP Beam Energy
- 6.5.7. Correlations
- 6.6. Results for W Mass and Width
- References
- 7. Fit of Electroweak Parameters to Precision Data
- 7.1. Direct W-Mass Measurement Facing Precision Data
- 7.2. Global Fit to Electroweak Data
- 7.3. Higgs Mass Prediction
- 7.4. Search for the Standard Model Higgs at LEP
- References
- 8. Electroweak Physics at an e[superscript +]e[superscript -] Linear Collider
- 8.1. The Physics Potential of an e[superscript +]e[superscript -] Linear Colhder
- 8.2. Electroweak Gauge Bosons
- 8.3. Precision Measurement of the Top Mass
- 8.4. Higgs Mass and Couplings
- 8.5. Complementarity of a Linear Collider and the LHC
- 8.6. The International Linear Collider ILC
- 8.7. Detector Development for the ILC
- References
- 9. Summary and Conclusions
- Index
