Electroweak Physics at the LHC

By: Matthias U. Mozer

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Synopsis: The book discusses the recent experimental results obtained at the LHCthat involve electroweak bosons. The results are placed into an appropriatetheoretical and historical context. The work pays special attention to therising subject of hadronically decaying bosons with high boosts, documentingthe state-of-the-art identification techniques and highlighting typical results. The text is not limited to electroweak physics in thestrict sense, but also discusses the use of electroweak vector-bosons as toolin the study of other subjects in particle physics, such as determinations ofthe proton structure or the search for new exotic particles. The book isparticularly well suited for graduate students, starting their thesis work ontopics that involve electroweak bosons, as the book provides a comprehensivedescription of phenomena observable at current accelerators as well as asummary of the most relevant experimental techniques.