Discovery Of The Higgs Boson

by Aleandro Nisati, Vivek Sharma

Overview

The recent observation of the Higgs boson has been hailed as the scientific discovery of the century and led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics. This book describes the detailed science behind the decades-long search for this elusive particle at the Large Electron Positron Collider at CERN and at the Tevatron at Fermilab and its subsequent discovery and characterization at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Written by physicists who played leading roles in this epic search and discovery, this book is an authoritative and pedagogical exposition of the portrait of the Higgs boson that has emerged from a large number of experimental measurements. As the first of its kind, this book should be of interest to graduate students and researchers in particle physics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789814425872
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/18/2016
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 The Higgs boson in the Standard Model A. Djouadi M. Grazzini 1

2 Searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson at the LEP collider P. Igo-Kemenes A. L. Read 45

3 Searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson at the Tevatron collider W. C. Fisher T. R. Junk 71

4 Overview of the Large Hadron Collider and of the ATLAS and CMS experiments A. Nisati V. Sharma 103

5 Higgs boson observation and measurements of its properties in the II → ZZ → 4l decay mode A. Korytov K. Nikolupoulos 127

6 Observation of the diphoton decay of the Higgs boson and measurements of its properties J. Bendavid K. Tackmann 179

7 Observation of the Higgs boson in the H → W+W-(*) → l+vl-v final state E. Di Marco J. Strandberg 211

8 Evidence for Higgs boson decays to τ leptons M. Bachtis J. Kroseberg 245

9 Search for the Higgs boson in the bb final state at the LHC J. Konigsberg G. Piacquadio 273

10 Higgs boson search in the WW → Ivqq final state P. Govoni R. Sandström 323

11 Higgs boson search in the ZZ → llvv and llqq final states C. Gwilliam A. Vartak 345

12 Higgs combination and properties of the Higgs boson M. Duehrssen G. Petrucciani 377

13 Summary and outlook 411

Appendix A Statistical methods T. R. Junk A. Korytov A. L. Read 415

Appendix B Multivariate analysis techniques J. Bendavid W. C Fisher T. R. Junk 435

Acknowledgements 455

About the Authors 457