The Large Hadron Collider Harvest of Run 1
This comprehensive volume summarizes and structures the multitude of results obtained at the LHC in its first running period and draws the grand picture of today’s physics at a hadron collider. Topics covered are Standard Model measurements, Higgs and top
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Harvest of Run 1
The Large Hadron Collider
Thomas Schörner-Sadenius Editor
The Large Hadron Collider Harvest of Run 1
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Editor Thomas Schörner-Sadenius Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Hamburg Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-15000-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15001-7
ISBN 978-3-319-15001-7
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Foreword
The Large Hadron Collider is the largest scientific experiment mankind ever devised, and already the first period of data-taking was a tremendous success. The accelerator, detector and computing Grid performance surpassed all expectations. Only 4 years after the start-up the first major milestone was reached: Everybody who witnessed the discovery of a Higgs boson, the messenger of the Brout–Englert–Higgs field, in the year 2012 and appreciates the importance of its existence will certainly agree. The 2013 Nobel Prize in physics to Francois Englert and Peter Higgs is a testimony to this breakthrough result. This discovery and many other outstanding achievements of the LHC raise great hopes: The imminent restart of the physics programme in 2015 will increase the sensitivity by an order of magnitude while pushing the energy frontier to unprecedented values. We are looking forward to unravelling new mysteries that the universe may have in store for us. Technologically, the LHC was—and continues to be—a significant challenge, demanding numerous innovations and breakthroughs in areas so diverse as magnet development, detector sensitivity and robustness, and large-scale computing—to mention only a few. So far, these challenges have been well met, thanks to the ingenuity and perseverance of the staff at CER