Pedro's trunk of papers

Useful links to Particle Physics papers, reviews, preprints, manuals, etc

Reviews

• Physics at the high energy frontier: the Large Hadron Collider project (Editors: George Kalmus, Robert Brown, David Evans, Valerie Gibson, Richard Nickerson). Proceedings of the Royal Society Discussion meeting held in May 2011, published in Philosophical Transactions A (including articles on the Physics, the SM, the detectors and the collider) - flyer - read articles online
• A Supersymmetry Primer, by Stephen P Martin

Higgs

• The Anatomy of Electro-Weak Symmetry Breaking, by A Djouadi (encyclopaedic!)
  • The Higgs boson in the Standard Model (Volume I)
  • The Higgs bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Model (Volume II)
• Higgs discovery papers (July 2012):
  • Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
  • Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

Statistics

• Introduction to statistics and data analysis for physicists, G Bohm and G Zech
• Statistical error of efficiency determination from weighted events, by Benno List
• Plotting the differences between data and expectation, by G Choudalakis and D Casadei

Detector-related

• Special JINST issue with detailed papers on the LHC detectors (ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, ALICE, etc) and the LHC itself
• b-tagging in ATLAS: ATLAS-CONF-2011-102 and ATLAS-CONF-2010-091
• Letter of Intent for the Phase-I Upgrade of the ATLAS experiment: CERN-LHCC-2011-012
• Letter of Intent for the Phase-II Upgrade of the ATLAS experiment: CERN-LHCC-2012-022