This textbook provides an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to detectors in particle physics. It emphasises the core physics principles, enabling a deeper understanding of the subject for ...further and more advanced studies. In addition to the discussion of the underlying detector physics, another aspiration of this book is to introduce the reader to practically important aspects of particle detectors, like electronics, alignment, calibration, and simulation of particle detectors. Case studies of the various applications of detectors in particle physics are provided.
The primary audience is graduate students in particle or nuclear physics, in addition to advanced undergraduate students in physics.
Key Features:
Provides an accessible yet thorough discussion of the basic physics principles needed to understand how particle detectors work.
Presents applications of the basic physics concepts to examples of modern detectors.
Discusses practically important aspects like electronics, alignment, calibration and simulation of particle detectors.
Contains exercises for each chapter to further understanding.
Both authors have a long experience in teaching undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Oxford.
The Large Hadron–Electron Collider at the HL-LHC Aksakal, H; Alekhin, S; Allport, P P ...
Journal of physics. G, Nuclear and particle physics,
11/2021, Letnik:
48, Številka:
11
Journal Article
The recent determination of the local value of the Hubble constant by Riess et al., 2016 (hereafter R16) is now 3.3 sigma higher than the value derived from the most recent CMB anisotropy data ...provided by the Planck satellite in a ΛCDM model. Here we perform a combined analysis of the Planck and R16 results in an extended parameter space, varying simultaneously 12 cosmological parameters instead of the usual 6. We find that a phantom-like dark energy component, with effective equation of state w=−1.29−0.12+0.15 at 68% c.l. can solve the current tension between the Planck dataset and the R16 prior in an extended ΛCDM scenario. On the other hand, the neutrino effective number is fully compatible with standard expectations. This result is confirmed when including cosmic shear data from the CFHTLenS survey and CMB lensing constraints from Planck. However, when BAO measurements are included we find that some of the tension with R16 remains, as also is the case when we include the supernova type Ia luminosity distances from the JLA catalog.
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