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Lectures on LHC Physics

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics ((LNP,volume 844))

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Understanding the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking—or slightly more specifically deciphering the Higgs mechanism—is the main goal of the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC. Observing some kind of Higgs boson and studying its properties involves many experimental and theoretical issues focused around understanding hadron collider data and QCD predictions to unprecedented precision. The latter will be the main topic of the second half of this lecture.

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Plehn, T. (2012). Higgs Physics. In: Lectures on LHC Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 844. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24040-9_1

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