Physics of e/sup +/-e/sup -/ colliders: present, future, and far future

Conference · Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984

OSTI ID:5616687

Peskin, M E

The presentation of this lecture will proceed as follows: Section 2 reviews the features of e/sup +/-e/sup -/ collisions according to the standard gauge theory of strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions. This discussion reviews a few of the most important features of e/sup +/-e/sup -/ collisions at currently accessible energies and the expectations for e/sup +/-e/sup -/ reactions which produce the intermediate vector bosons Z/sup 0/ and W/sup + -/. Section 3 reviews some of the experimental work done at the current generation of e/sup +/-e/sup -/ colliders; this discussion emphasizes the search for new types of elementary particles. Section 4 is a theoretical digression, introducing a number of ideas about physics at the energy scale of 1 TeV. Section 5 discusses (rather superficially) a number of technical aspects of electron-positron colliders designed to reach the TeV energies. Finally, Section 6 discusses various possible effects which could appear in e/sup +/-e/sup -/ collisions as the result of new physics appearing at 1 TeV or above. 41 refs., 35 figs.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 5616687
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-3495; CONF-8307126-8; ON: DE85009895
• Resource Relation: Conference: 3. annual summer school on high energy accelerators, Upton, NY, USA, 6 Jul 1983; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products. Original copy available until stock is exhausted
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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