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AT THE LEADING EDGE
The ATLAS and CMS LHC Experiments
edited by Dan Green (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
USA)
Too often descriptions of detectors focus on
the "what" and not the "why". This volume
aims to elucidate how the requirements of the
physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) define
the detector environment. In turn, the detector
choices are made to adopt to that environment. The
goal of LHC physics is to explore the mechanism
for electroweak symmetry breaking. Because of the
minuscule cross-sections which need to be explored,
0.1 fb, the LHC needs to provide 100 fb-1/yr, or an
instantaneous luminosity of 1034 / (cm2 sec). With a
bunch crossing interval of 25 nsec, well matched to
detector speeds, there will be 25 events occupying
each bunch crossing.
Thus the physics requires fast, finely segmented,
low noise and radiation resistant detectors which
provide redundant measurements of the rarely
produced electrons and muons. To achieve those
goals, new ground was broken in constructing the
A Toroidal LHC Apparatus (ATLAS) and Compact
Muon Solenoid (CMS) detectors in the vertex
detectors, tracking systems, calorimetry, strong
magnets, muon systems, front end electronics,
trigger systems, and in the data acquisition
methods used.
Readership: Physicists and graduates in particle
physics.
| 500pp (approx.) |
Scheduled Spring
2010 |
| 978-981-4277-61-7: |
US$120 / £90 |
| 978-981-4304-67-2(pbk): |
US$58 / £44 |
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Advanced
Series on Directions in High Energy Physics - Vol. 21
PERSPECTIVES ON
SUPERSYMMETRY II
edited by Gordon L Kane University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
USA)
This superb book will allow interested physicists
to understand the coming experimental and
theoretical progress in supersymmetry and
the implications of discoveries of superpartners,
and will also help students and workers to quickly
learn new aspects of supersymmetry they want to
pursue.
Contents:
- A Supersymmetry Primer (S P Martin)
- Twenty Open Questions in Supersymmetric
Particle Physics (K R Dienes & C Kolda)
- Supergravity Unified Models (R Arnowitt
& P Nath)
- Soft Supersymmetry-Breaking Terms from
Supergravity and Superstring Models (A Brignole et al.)
- Mass Density of Neutralino Dark Matter (J D
Wells)
- A Wino-Like LSP World: Theoretical and
Phenomenological Motivations (D Feldman & G Kane)
- Reevaluating the Cosmological Origin of Dark
Matter (S Watson)
- Z' Physics and Supersymmetry (M
Cvetic & P Langacker)
- Searches for Supersymmetry at High-Energy
Colliders (J Feng et al.)
- Low-Energy Supersymmetry at Future Colliders (J
F Gunion & H E Haber)
- Computational Tools for Supersymmetric
Calculations (H Baer)
- Charge and Color Breaking (J A Casas)
- Regularisation of Supersymmetric Theories (I
Jack & D R T Jones)
- Supersymmetric Loop Effects (P H Chankowski
& S Pokorski)
- Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking (G F
Giudice & R Rattazzi)
- Probing Physics at Short Distances with
Supersymmetry (H Murayama)
- Supersymmetry and String Theory (M Dine)
- Supersymmetry and Inflation (L Randall)
| 580pp |
May 2010 |
| 978-981-4307-48-2: |
US$125 / £94 |
| 978-981-4307-49-9(pbk): |
US$58 / £44 |
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