Particle and high-energy physics

This book discusses how relativistic quantum field theories must transform under strongly continuous unitary representations of the Poincare group.

Light awakens a child's curious self.

This book is a collection of articles on Physics with Trapped Charged Particles by speakers at the Les Houches Winter School.

Particle accelerators are essential tools for scientific research in fields as diverse as high energy physics, materials science and structural biology.

'Dorigo provides an engaging and insightful perspective on the pursuit of physics discoveries at CDF .

At Les Houches in January 2015, experts in the field of charged particle trapping came together for the Second Winter School on Physics with Trapped Charged Particles.

The book discusses hidden symmetries in the Anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) duality.

This thesis makes significant advances in the quantitative understanding of two intrinsically linked yet technically very different phenomena in quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

This book introduces two-dimensional supersymmetric field theories with emphasis on both linear and non-linear sigma models.

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Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) describes the interactions between elementary quarks and gluons as they compose the nucleons at the heart of atomic structure.

This book offers a review of the vibrant areas of geometric representation theory and gauge theory, which are characterized by a merging of traditional techniques in representation theory with the use of powerful tools from algebraic geometry, and with strong inputs from physics.

The wealth of recent cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure data has transformed the field of cosmology.

Astrophysical observations implying the existence of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, which are not described by the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, have led to extensions of the SM predicting new particles that could be directly produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

This book highlights two essential analyses of data collected during the LHCb experiment, based on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Field theory, relying on the concept of continuous space and time while confronted with the quantum physical nature of observable quantities, still has some fundamental challenges to face.

Despite the success of general relativity in explaining classical gravitational phenomena, several problems at the interface between gravitation and high energy physics still remain open.

Presenting the proceedings of FPCP 2018, this book reviews the status quo of flavor physics and discusses the latest findings in this exciting area.

This primer is a comprehensive collection of analytical and numerical techniques that can be used to extract the non-perturbative physics of quantum field theories.

This thesis make significant contributions to both the numerical and analytical aspects of particle physics, reducing the noise associated with matrix calculations in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and modeling multi-quark mesonic matters that could be used to investigate particles previously unseen in nature.

This book includes review articles in the field of elliptic integrals, elliptic functions and modular forms intending to foster the discussion between theoretical physicists working on higher loop calculations and mathematicians working in the field of modular forms and functions and analytic solutions of higher order differential and difference equations.

This thesis represents one of the most comprehensive and in-depth studies of the use of Lorentz-boosted hadronic final state systems in the search for signals of Supersymmetry conducted to date at the Large Hadron Collider.

This thesis presents innovative contributions to the CMS experiment in the new trigger system for the restart of the LHC collisions in Run II, as well as original analysis methods and important results that led to official publications of the Collaboration.

This PhD thesis is dedicated to a subfield of elementary particle physics called "e;Flavour Physics"e;.

This book presents four survey articles on various aspects of open quantum systems, specifically addressing quantum Markovian processes, Feller semigroups and nonequilibrium dynamics.

Are there truly fundamental entities in nature?

This primer is a collection of notes based on lectures that were originally given at IIT Madras (India) and at IFT Madrid (Spain).

This thesis reports the calculation of neutrino production for the T2K experiment; the most precise a priori estimate of neutrino production that has been achieved for any accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment to date.

This book describes the development of sources of negative ions and their application in science and industry.

This book is the first of its kind devoted to surface waves propagating across an external static magnetic field at harmonics of the electron cyclotron frequency.

SAINT JOAN OF NEW YORK is a novel about a math prodigy who becomes obsessed with discovering the Theory of Everything.

This book is exceptional in offering a thorough but accessible introduction to calorimetry that will meet the needs of both students and researchers in the field of particle physics.

This book treats the two-dimensional non-linear supersymmetric sigma model or spinning string from the perspective of supergeometry.

In this dissertation, we revisit the prospects of a strongly interacting theory for the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector of the Standard Model, after the discovery of a Higgs-like boson at 125GeV.

The natural generalization of the quantum-mechanical N-particle wave function to relativistic space-time is a function of N space-time points, and thus of N time variables.

This thesis documents the measurement of lifetime, width, mass, and couplings to two electroweak bosons of the recently-discovered Higgs boson using data from the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

This book is about the dark photon which is a new gauge boson whose existence has been conjectured.

This is the second edition of a well-received book that is a modern, self-contained introduction to the theory of gravitational interactions.

The three neutrinos are ghostly elementary particles that exist all across the Universe.

These lecture notes provide a systematic introduction to matrix models of quantum field theories with non-commutative and fuzzy geometries.

This book presents a high-level study of cosmology with interacting dark energy and no additional fields.

The work presented in this PhD dissertation is the first search at CMS for Higgs bosons produced in association with top quarks (ttH) in a final state consisting of only jets.

This book presents a basic introduction to quantum mechanics.

This thesis focuses on searches for squarks with the ATLAS detector in "e;compressed"e; scenarios where the scalar top is very close in mass to the lightest supersymmetric particle.

This thesis presents two analyses of semileptonic b ?

In this book, the author addresses selected topics in quantum mechanics that are not usually covered in books, but which are very helpful in developing a student's interest in, and a deeper understanding of the subject.

During Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider, the ATLAS experiment recorded proton-proton collision events at 13 TeV, the highest energy ever achieved in a collider.

This primer develops Conformal Field Theory (CFT) from scratch, whereby CFT is viewed as any conformally-invariant theory that describes a fixed point of a renormalization group flow in quantum field theory.

This book presents a string-theoretic approach to new ideas in particle physics, also known as Physics Beyond the Standard Model, and to cosmology.

This thesis presents two production cross-section measurements of pairs of massive bosons using final states with leptons, made with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.