Data Analys Tech High Ener Phys 2ed: 11 (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology, Series Number 11) - Softcover

Fr¿hwirth, R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521635489 ISBN 13: 9780521635486

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Now thoroughly revised and up-dated, this book describes techniques for handling and analysing data obtained from high-energy and nuclear physics experiments. The observation of particle interactions involves the analysis of large and complex data samples. Beginning with a chapter on real-time data triggering and filtering, the book describes methods of selecting the relevant events from a sometimes huge background. The use of pattern recognition techniques to group the huge number of measurements into physically meaningful objects like particle tracks or showers is then examined and the track and vertex fitting methods necessary to extract the maximum amount of information from the available measurements are explained. The final chapter describes tools and methods which are useful to the experimenter in the physical interpretation and in the presentation of the results. This indispensable guide will appeal to graduate students, researchers and computer and electronic engineers involved with experimental physics.

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Book Description

Now thoroughly revised and up-dated, this indispensable guide describes techniques for handling and analysing large and complex data samples obtained from high-energy and nuclear physics experiments. It includes pattern recognition techniques to group measurements into physically meaningful objects like particle tracks and methods of extracting maximum information from available measurements.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521635489
• ISBN 13: 9780521635486
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 412