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This open access book offers a concise overview of how data from
large scale experiments are analyzed and how technological tools
are used in practice, as in the search for new elementary
particles. It focuses on interconnects between physics and detector
technology in experimental particle physics, and includes
descriptions of mathematical approaches. Readers find all the
important steps in analysis, including reconstruction of the
momentum and energy of particles from detector information,
particle identification, and also the general concept of simulating
particle production from collisions and detector responses. As the
scale of scientific experiments becomes larger and data-intensive
science emerges, the techniques used in the data analysis become
ever more complicated, making it difficult for beginners to grasp
the overall picture. The book provides an explanation of the idea
and concepts behind the methods, helping readers understand journal
articles on high energy physics. This book is engaging as it does
not overemphasize mathematical formalism and it gives a lively
example of how such methods have been applied to the Higgs particle
discovery in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments, which led
to Englert and Higgs being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for
2013. Graduate students and young researchers can easily obtain the
required knowledge on how to start data analyses from these notes,
without having to spend time in consulting many experts or
digesting huge amounts of literature.
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