Publisher's Synopsis
Experimental Techniques in High-Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics is a compilation of outstanding reviews of the ingenious methods developed for experimentation in modern nuclear and particle physics. This book provides a balanced view of the major tools and technical concepts currently in use, and elucidates the basic principles that underly the detection devices. The main purpose of first chapter is to present an alternative to the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. The chapter presents an outline of the current formulation of the SM: the elementary particles and the fundamental interactions of the SM, and the basic problem inherent in the SM. Second chapter concerns on (TID), (DD) and (SEE) effects also high energy particles' effects on electronic properties of silicon. In third chapter, Genetic programming (GP) model has been used to discover a function that computes the rapidity distribution of created (total charged, positive and negative) pions for p?-Ar and p?-Xe collisions at 200 GeV/c and charged particles for p-pb collision at 5.02 TeV. In fourth chapter, an attempt is made to examine multifractality in multiparticle production in relativistic nuclear collisions; multifractality is investigated in 14.5 A GeV/c28Si-nucleus collisions. Fifth chapter summarizes the status of direct dark matter searches, focusing on the detector technologies used to directly detect a dark matter particle producing recoil energies in the keV energy scale. The phenomenological signal expectations, main background sources, statistical treatment of data and calibration strategies is discussed. The overall set of problems and solutions related to the use of Avalanche Photodiodes in the design, construction, test and operation of large electromagnetic calorimeters in nuclear and particle physics experiments, is described in sixth Chapter. In seventh chapter, we use the concept of e-Science to combine experiment, theory and computing in particle physics in order to achieve a more efficient research process. Particle physics applications are generally regarded as a driver for developing this global e-Science infrastructure. Eighth chapter focuses on muon colliders and their unique radiation characteristics, initial scoping calculations for tau colliders are presented. In ninth chapter, we discuss the impact of resummation on the numerical prediction for the associated Higgs boson production with top quarks at the LHC
