Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider
- Documents the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC
- In depth description of modeling of mis-identified leptons
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
As a graduate student his primary focus was searching for and studying the Higgs Boson in the WW-channel.
He is now a Fermi/McCormick fellow at the University of Chicago.
He is currently working on an upgrade to the ATLAS trigger system, (FastTracKer), which is an electronics system that rapidly finds and reconstructs charged particles in the inner tracker.
John's research interests include developing tools and algorithms used in the trigger and using the Higgs to probe for new physics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Road to Discovery
Book Subtitle: Detector Alignment, Electron Identification, Particle Misidentification, WW Physics, and the Discovery of the Higgs Boson
Authors: John Alison
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10344-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10343-3Published: 24 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36438-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10344-0Published: 11 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 302
Number of Illustrations: 124 b/w illustrations, 99 illustrations in colour
Topics: Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Measurement Science and Instrumentation