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Book SynopsisThe recent observation of the Higgs boson has been hailed as the scientific discovery of the century and led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics. This book describes the detailed science behind the decades-long search for this elusive particle at the Large Electron Positron Collider at CERN and at the Tevatron at Fermilab and its subsequent discovery and characterization at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Written by physicists who played leading roles in this epic search and discovery, this book is an authoritative and pedagogical exposition of the portrait of the Higgs boson that has emerged from a large number of experimental measurements. As the first of its kind, this book should be of interest to graduate students and researchers in particle physics.
Table of ContentsSection 1: Phenomenology of the Higgs Boson; Section 2: Higgs Searches at the Large Electron - Positron Collider; Higgs Searches at the Tevatron Collider; Section 3: Overview of the Higgs Searches at the Large Hadron Collider; Higgs Search in the Gamma - Gamma Final State; Higgs Search in the B - Bbar Final State Final State; Higgs Search in the Lepton - Neutrino Lepton - Neutrino Final State; Higgs Search in the Four Lepton Final State; Higgs Search in the Lepton - Lepton Neutrino - Neutrino Final State; Higgs Search in the Lepton - Lepton Jet - Jet Final State; Higgs Search in the Lepton - Neutrino Jet - Jet Final State; Combined Results on Higgs Boson Search; Section 4: Minimal Supersymmetric Higgs Boson Searches; Section 5: Interpretation of the Experimental Results.
