Overview
- Recipient of the ATLAS Collaboration's 2012 Thesis Award
- Reports important measurements allowing Higgs and other particle signals to be corrected for various types of photon background
- Nominated as an outstanding contribution by CERN
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Photon Physics at the LHC
Book Subtitle: A Measurement of Inclusive Isolated Prompt Photon Production at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
Authors: Michael Hance
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33062-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-33061-2Published: 09 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51124-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-33062-9Published: 08 November 2012
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 144
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Measurement Science and Instrumentation