TY - BOOK ID - 77942991 TI - At the leading edge : the ATLAS and CMS LHC experiments PY - 2010 SN - 1282758314 9786612758317 9814277622 9789814277624 9789814277617 9814277614 9789814304672 9814304670 PB - Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, DB - UniCat KW - Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland) KW - Nuclear counters. KW - Symmetry (Physics) KW - Particles (Nuclear physics) KW - Elementary particles (Physics) KW - High energy physics KW - Nuclear particles KW - Nucleons KW - Nuclear physics KW - Invariance principles (Physics) KW - Symmetry (Chemistry) KW - Conservation laws (Physics) KW - Physics KW - Nuclear detectors KW - Nuclear radiation detectors KW - Radiation counters KW - Detectors KW - Radioactivity KW - Dosimeters KW - Ionization chambers KW - Particle tracks (Nuclear physics) KW - Period meter (Nuclear engineering) KW - Large Hadron Collider KW - Hadron colliders KW - Supercolliders KW - Instruments UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77942991 AB - Too often descriptions of detectors focus on the what and not the why. This volume aims to elucidate how the requirements of the physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) define the detector environment. In turn, the detector choices are made to adopt to that environment. The goal of LHC physics is to explore the mechanism for electroweak symmetry breaking. Because of the minuscule cross-sections which need to be explored, 0.1 fb, the LHC needs to provide 100 fb-1/yr, or an instantaneous luminosity of 1034 / (cm2 sec). With a bunch crossing interval of 25 nsec, well matched to detector speeds ER -