Perspectives on LHC Physics

By: Aaron Pierce (Editor), Gordon Kane (Editor)

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, is the world's largest and highest energy and highest intensity particle accelerator. Here is a timely book with several perspectives on the hoped-for discoveries from the LHC.This book provides an overview on the techniques that will be crucial for finding new physics at the LHC, as well as perspectives on the importance and implications of the discoveries. Among the accomplished contributors to this book are leaders and visionaries in the field of particle physics beyond the Standard Model, including two Nobel Laureates (Steven Weinberg and Frank Wilczek), and presumably some future Nobel Laureates, plus top younger theorists and experimenters. With its blend of popular and technical contents, the book will have wide appeal, not only to physical scientists but also to those in related fields.

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Preface	p. v
The LHC - A "Why" Machine and a Supersymmetry Factory	p. 1
A "Why" Machine	p. 3
A Superpartner Factory	p. 5
Our String Vacuum	p. 9
After the Champagne	p. 10
Dark Matter at the LHC	p. 13
Introduction	p. 13
Weighing the Universe, or Why Expect Dark Matter?	p. 13
What is the Dark Matter?	p. 16
A Test Case: Supersymmetric Dark Matter	p. 18
Neutralinos at the LHC	p. 19
Simple Dark Matter	p. 20
What If We Don't See Dark Matter at LHC?	p. 21
Conclusions	p. 21
References	p. 22
LHC's ATLAS and CMS Detectors	p. 25
Introduction	p. 25
LHC: The machine	p. 26
LHC: Figures of challenge	p. 31
Detection, Particles and Physics	p. 32
ATLAS and CMS	p. 37
ATLAS/CMS duality	p. 39
Magnet systems	p. 40
ATLAS and CMS: Challenges Addressed	p. 43
Inner detectors	p. 43
Calorimetry	p. 45
Muon detectors	p. 47
Trigger Architecture	p. 49
Googles of data and the grid	p. 50
To Be Continued	p. 52
References	p. 52
Understanding the Standard Model, as a Bridge to the Discovery of New Phenomena at the LHC	p. 55
Introduction	p. 55
Signals of Discovery	p. 57
Mass peaks	p. 58
Anomalous shapes of kinematical distributions	p. 59
Counting experiments	p. 65
Measuring Parameters	p. 68
Conclusions	p. 70
References	p. 71
Thoughts on a Long Voyage	p. 75
The Landscape	p. 75
The Hierarchy	p. 77
Linkages	p. 81
The strong CP problem	p. 83
Supersymmetry Breaking and the Landscape	p. 84
Black Holes at the LHC?	p. 84
The "Top Priority" at the LHC	p. 87
Brief Introduction	p. 87
Top Quark in The Standard Model	p. 88
Top-quark decay in the SM	p. 89
Top-quark production in the SM	p. 90
New Physics in Top-Quark Decay	p. 93
Charged current decay: BSM	p. 93
Neutral current decay: BSM	p. 94
Top Quarks in Resonant Production	p. 95
X to tt, tb	p. 95
T to tZ, tH, bW	p. 97
Top-Rich Events for New Physics	p. 98
TT pair production	p. 98
Exotic top signatures	p. 101
Summary and Outlook	p. 102
References	p. 102
LHC Discoveries Unfolded	p. 109
Escape from Theory Space	p. 109
Dark Matter and Missing Energy	p. 112
Missing Energy at the LHC	p. 114
A Strategy for Early Discovery with Missing Energy	p. 117
Look-Alikes at the Moment of Discovery	p. 119
Twenty Questions	p. 121
Spin Discrimination with 100 pb[superscript -1]	p. 121
More Look-Alikes	p. 123
Simple Robust Discriminators	p. 129
Outlook	p. 130
References	p. 130
From BCS to the LHC	p. 133
References	p. 142
Searching for Gluinos at the Tevatron and Beyond	p. 143
Introduction	p. 143
Event Generation	p. 145
Signal	p. 145
Backgrounds	p. 147
Projected Reach of Searches	p. 148
Implications for the LHC	p. 150
Conclusions and Outlook	p. 152
References	p. 154
Naturally Speaking: The Naturalness Criterion and Physics at the LHC	p. 155
Naturalness in Scientific Thought	p. 155
Drowning by Numbers	p. 157
A Quantum Complication	p. 161
The Naturalness Criterion as a Principle	p. 163
An Account of Events	p. 165
The Paths Chosen by Nature	p. 167
Measuring Naturalness	p. 170
Anthropic Reasoning	p. 172
Naturalness versus Criticality	p. 174
Conclusions	p. 175
References	p. 176
Prospects for Higgs Boson Searches at the LHC	p. 179
Introduction	p. 179
Higgs Boson Production and Decay	p. 181
Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson	p. 184
Inclusive Higgs boson searches	p. 184
Higgs boson searches using vector boson fusion	p. 188
Higgs boson searches using the associated ttH production	p. 190
Combined signal significance	p. 191
Determination of Higgs Boson Properties	p. 193
Mass and total decay width	p. 193
Partial decay widths and couplings	p. 194
Spin and CP quantum number	p. 195
Search for MSSM Higgs Bosons	p. 196
Search for heavy MSSM Higgs bosons	p. 197
Discovery potential in various benchmark scenarios	p. 197
Conclusions	p. 201
References	p. 202
A Review of Spin Determination at the LHC	p. 205
Introduction	p. 205
Rate and Mass Measurement	p. 208
Angular Correlations in a General Decay Topology	p. 211
Mis-Pairing and Background	p. 212
Spin Determination of Electroweak Gauge-Boson Partners	p. 214
Charged boson partner's spin - Jet-W[superscript plus or minus] correlations	p. 214
Charged boson partner's spin - Jet-Z[superscript 0] correlations	p. 216
Neutral boson partner's spin	p. 217
Spin Determination of Standard Model Matter Partners	p. 218
Non-degenerate spectrum	p. 221
Degenerate spectrum	p. 221
Slope information	p. 222
Long cascade decays and total spin determination	p. 222
Off-Shell Decays	p. 224
Simulation tools to study spin correlations	p. 226
Conclusion and Outlook	p. 228
References	p. 229
Anticipating a New Golden Age	p. 233
Where We Stand	p. 233
Celebrating the standard model	p. 233
An unfinished agenda	p. 235
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking	p. 236
The cosmic superconductor	p. 236
Minimal model and search	p. 236
Unification and Supersymmetry	p. 237
Unification of charges	p. 237
Unification of couplings	p. 239
Unification Love SUSY	p. 241
SUSY as calibration	p. 246
Dark Matter	p. 246
Dark matter from supersymmetry	p. 246
"Mission accomplished"?	p. 247
Hidden Sectors and Portals	p. 253
Might the LHC see nothing?	p. 253
Motivations for hidden sectors	p. 255
Bringing method to the madness	p. 256
Summary and Conclusions	p. 256
References	p. 257
Strongly Interacting Electroweak Theories and Their Five-Dimensional Analogs at the LHC	p. 259
Introduction	p. 259
Higgsless Models	p. 261
The original technicolor model. Achievements and pitfalls	p. 261
5D Higgsless models	p. 264
Composite Higgs Models	p. 268
Higgs potential and vacuum misalignment	p. 270
Fermionic resonances	p. 272
LHC Phenomenology	p. 274
Heavy resonances at the LHC	p. 274
Experimental tests of a composite Higgs	p. 276
References	p. 280
How to Find a Hidden World at the LHC	p. 283
Particle Physics in the LHC Era	p. 283
Hidden Worlds	p. 285
Hidden Abelian Higgs Model (HAHM)	p. 286
Precision Electroweak	p. 288
Example LHC Phenomena of HAHM	p. 289
Beyond the Standard Model and the Hidden World	p. 295
References	p. 297
B Physics at LHCb	p. 299
Introduction	p. 299
b Physics at the LHC: Environment, Background, General Trigger Issues	p. 300
Detector Description and Performance	p. 302
Trigger	p. 303
VELO and tracking system	p. 305
Particle identification	p. 306
Physics Objectives	p. 307
Introduction of formalism	p. 308
Measurement of the B[subscript s] mixing phase [phi subscript s]	p. 309
B[subscript s] to [phi phi] as a probe for new physics	p. 311
Measurement of the weak decay-phase [gamma] from tree-level processes	p. 312
Example of radiative penguins: B[subscript s] to [phi gamma]	p. 315
Example of an electroweak penguin: B to K*[mu mu]	p. 316
Example of a Higgs-penguin: B[subscript s] to [mu superscript + mu superscript -]	p. 318
Conclusions and Outlook	p. 319
References	p. 320
The LHC and the Universe at Large	p. 323
Introduction	p. 323
The Dark Side of LHC	p. 324
The Gravitational Side of LHC	p. 330
Phase transitions at the terascale: the LHC-LISA connection	p. 331
Black hole physics and the LHC	p. 333
Conclusion	p. 335
References	p. 336
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