The Road to Discovery Detector Alignment, Electron Identification, Particle Misidentification, WW Physics, and the Discovery of the Higgs Boson /

• Main Author: Alison, John (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Physics.; Particle acceleration.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.

The research presented here includes important contributions on the commissioning of the ATLAS experiment and the discovery of the Higgs boson. The thesis describes essential work on the alignment of the inner tracker during the commissioning of the experiment and development of the electron identif...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Theoretical Background
• The Large Hadron Collider
• The ATLAS Experiment
• Reconstruction and Commissioning
• Detector Alignment
• TRT Alignment
• Electron Identification
• WW Physics
• The Fake Factor Method
• WW Cross Section Measurement.