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dc.contributor.authorFaccioli, Pietro
dc.contributor.authorLourenço, Carlos
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-20T16:53:25Z
dc.date.available2023-01-20T16:53:25Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifierONIX_20230120_9783031088766_11
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60784
dc.description.abstractThis open-access book addresses the following questions: how does the polarization of a particle, i.e., the angular momentum state in which it is produced, manifest itself in nature? What are the concepts and tools needed to perform rigorous measurements providing complete and unambiguous physical information? Polarization measurements are important because they reflect the nature and coupling properties of a particle and provide unique insights into the underlying fundamental interactions, playing a central role in the study and understanding of the mechanisms of particle production. Besides gradually reviewing many fundamental notions, the book presents several case studies relevant to physics analyses underway at the LHC, including the lepton-antilepton decays of vector states (Drell–Yan, Z and W bosons, quarkonia, etc.). The book also offers a detailed discussion of cascade decays, where the vector particle is a daughter of another particle, as well as a survey of typical angular distributions of particles of any integer or half-integer spin. With a visual approach to the presentation of the concepts and frequent use of pedagogical examples, taken from real measurements, gedankenexperiments, or detailed simulations, the book focuses on aspects of polarization measurements that are sometimes underestimated or left unexplored in experimental analyses, such as the importance of the choice of the reference frame, the existence of frame-independent relations, and the shapes of the physically allowed parameter domains. Several examples are provided of pitfalls introduced when the intrinsic multidimensionality of the problem is neglected in exchange for a simplified analysis. Targeting an audience of graduate students, post-docs, and other researchers involved in analyses of LHC data, this book helps to establish a solid bridge between high precision data, existing or soon to be collected, and accurate measurements, including high-sensitivity tests of the Standard Model.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLecture Notes in Physics
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics::PHQ Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory)en_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDD Scientific standards, measurement etcen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics::PHP Particle and high-energy physicsen_US
dc.subject.otherAngular Distributions of Particle Decays
dc.subject.otherAngular Momentum in Experimental Hep
dc.subject.otherDecay of Standard-model Vector Bosons
dc.subject.otherFrame-invariant Relations
dc.subject.otherLHC Angular Momentum
dc.subject.otherPolarization Measurement in Hep
dc.subject.otherPolarizazion Frames
dc.titleParticle Polarization in High Energy Physics
dc.title.alternativeAn Introduction and Case Studies on Vector Particle Production at the LHC
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-031-08876-6
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5
oapen.relation.isFundedBya6b9c544-0620-4b29-9eee-7f1971ae9f49
oapen.relation.isbn9783031088766
oapen.imprintSpringer International Publishing
oapen.series.number1002
oapen.pages302
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