Photon Physics at the LHC A Measurement of Inclusive Isolated Prompt Photon Production at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector /
This thesis reports on the first studies of Standard Model photon production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) using the ATLAS detector.� Standard Model photon production is a large background in the search for Higgs bosons decaying into photon pairs, and is thus critical to understand.� The thesis...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Series: | Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33062-9 |
| Summary: | This thesis reports on the first studies of Standard Model photon production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) using the ATLAS detector.� Standard Model photon production is a large background in the search for Higgs bosons decaying into photon pairs, and is thus critical to understand.� The thesis explains the techniques used to reconstruct and identify photon candidates using the ATLAS detector, and describes a measurement of the production cross section for isolated prompt photons.� The thesis also describes a search for the Higgs boson in which the analysis techniques used in the measurement are exploited to reduce and estimate non-prompt backgrounds in diphoton events. |
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| Physical Description: | XII, 144 p. 96 illus., 57 illus. in color. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9783642330629 |
| ISSN: | 2190-5053 |