ABSTRACT

This updated edition of Collider Physics surveys the major developments in theoretical and experimental particle physics and uses numerous illustrations to show how the Standard Model explains the experimental results. Collider Physics offers an introduction to the fundamental particles and their interactions at the level of a lecture course for graduate students, with emphasis on the aspects most closely related to colliders--past, present, and future. It includes expectations for new physics associated with Higgs bosons and supersymmetry. This resourceful book shows how to make practical calculations and serves a dual purpose as a textbook and a handbook for collider physics phenomenology.

chapter 1|33 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|33 pages

The Standard Electroweak Gauge Model

chapter 3|42 pages

Lepton and Heavy Quark Decays

chapter 4|25 pages

Basic e + e − and νe − Processes

chapter 5|35 pages

Partons and Scaling Distributions

chapter 6|24 pages

Fragmentation

chapter 7|43 pages

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)

chapter 8|43 pages

Weak Boson Production and Decay

chapter 9|52 pages

Jets

chapter 10|66 pages

Heavy Quark Production

chapter 11|31 pages

Monte Carlo Simulations

chapter 12|39 pages

Higgs Boson

chapter 13|32 pages

A Fourth Generation

chapter 14|50 pages

Higher Symmetries