Particle Physics Experiments at High Energy Colliders

Big particle colliders at laboratories around the world over the past 40 years have had big detectors built in to record flying debris resulting from particle collisions. A wondrous world of fascinating and largely unanticipated particles have been discovered in these big detectors, such as the six quarks and the six leptons. There is presently a vast array of detector technologies for measuring the coordinates of particles, for counting the numbers of particles in calorimeters, for measuring time intervals and therefore velocities, etc... A high energy collider detector would package chosen technologies to achieve a desired overall capability to measure the products of collisions. This would, in turn, reveal the underlying physical processes that are either part of the known standard model, or that contradict the standard model and thereby go beyond its known boundaries. This book is for graduate and undergraduate students, and also useful as a general guide for physicists designing big detectors. Sidebars are used to demonstrate the simplicity of some of the physics essential to the understanding of particles and detectors (usually starting from first principles), and also for anecdotes.

Spis treści:
Chapter 1.The particles of high energy particle physics
Chapter 2. The evolution of detectors in high energy physics
Chapter 3. Measurement of momentum
Chapter 4. Measurement of energy
Chapter 5. Measurement of distance and time
Chapter 6. Measurements related to particle identification
Chapter 7. Data acquisition, or recording the measurements
Chapter 8. The perfect detector: measure everything
Chapter 9. Real detectors, past and present
Chapter 10. Future Colliders
Chapter 11. Overview and speculations on the future

Nota biograficzna:
John Hauptman obtained his PhD in experimental high energy physics at UC Berkeley in 1974 studying the interactions of hyperons in the 82–inch hydro gen bubble chamber. His work includes experiments in the 25–inch and 40–inch bubble chambers at LBL and SLAC, work on the electron ring accelerator at LBL, pion and kaon form factor experiments at Fermilab, the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) at Berkeley/SLAC, the D0 experiment at Fermilab, the CMS experiment at CERN, the DREAM calorimeter tests at CERN, and numerous smaller physics and instrumentation studies. Presently he leads the 4th Concept detector group on the International Linear Collider.