This up-to-date book reviews the experimental results on electroweak physics obtained at the Large Electron Positron collider, LEP, and those expected at the Large Hadron Collider, LHC. The LEP measurements are the cornerstones of precision tests of the electroweak Standard Model. The first part of the volume concentrates especially on the high-energy phase of LEP and the measurements of the mass of the W boson and the couplings between the electroweak gauge bosons, giving many details also on other physics effects like Colour Reconnection and Bose-Einstein correlations.
The discussion of the recent determination of the Standard Model parameters leads eventually to the future electroweak physics at the LHC. After introducing the experimental details, the improvements envisaged with respect to today’s measurements are summarized. The expectations for searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson conclude the presentation of LHC physics.
The reader obtains a concise view of the present day status of electroweak physics and an outlook to the near future, illustrated with many informative figures and tables.
