A Beauty-ful Boson - Giulia Di Gregorio

A Beauty-ful Boson

Search for the Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Vector Boson and Decaying into a Pair of b-quarks Using Large-R Jets with the ATLAS Detector
Buch | Hardcover
XX, 215 Seiten
2023 | 1st ed. 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-20012-0 (ISBN)
181,89 inkl. MwSt

The analysis described in this thesis is the search for the Higgs boson, decaying into bb pair, in the associated production with a vector boson, in the extreme Higgs boson transverse momentum region where the Higgs boson is reconstructed using the large-R jet technique. The use of the large-R jets allows to add a part of the phase space unexplored so far, which is particularly sensitive to possible new physics.

The analysed data have been collected at LHC by the ATLAS detector between 2015 and 2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of s = 13 TeV. The same dataset has been used to perform the differential pp ZH and pp WH cross-section measurements used to extract the information on the Higgs couplings and to put limits on Beyond the Standard Model effects.

Furthermore the analysis has been re-used to perform a cross-section measurement of the diboson ZZ and WZ processes because the dibosonand the Higgs processes have a similar topology. For the first time the ZZ(bb) and WZ(bb) cross-sections are measured at s = 13 TeV and the observed cross-section measurements are consistent with the Standard Model predictions.

lt;p>Giulia Di Gregori is a particle physics researcher originally from Italy. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Physics and her Master's degree in Physics of Fundamental Interactions at the University of Pisa. During her Master's degree she was selected for the CERN Summer Student Programme, which was her first involvement in high energy physics. Once graduated, she decided to approach the work on the ATLAS data analysis and began her PhD at the University of Pisa. Her PhD research was on the Higgs sector, in particular on the associated production of a vector boson, decaying leptonically, and of a Higgs boson, decaying into a pair of b-quarks. Giulia is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the ATLAS experiment at the University of Pisa.

1. Theoretical aspects and Analysis overview.- 2. The Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS experiment.- 3. Dataset and simulated event samples.- 4. Object reconstruction.- 5. Event Selection and categorization.- 6. Systematic uncertainties.- 7. Statistical Treatment.- 8 - Results of the VH(bb) boosted analysis.- 9. Cross-section measurements of the VZ production.- 10. Conclusions.- Appendix: A - EFT eigenvector results in the VH(bb) resolved analysis.- Appendix: B - The Tile Calorimeter design, calibration methods and the photomultiplier stability.- Appendix: C - Efficiency studies in the event selection.- Appendix: D - Pull plots.













Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Springer Theses
Zusatzinfo XX, 215 p. 123 illus., 108 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 538 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
Schlagworte Associated Production of the Higgs Boson with a Vector Boson • ATLAS Experiment • EFT Interpretation • Extreme Higgs Boson Transverse Momentum Region • Higgs Boson Cross-section Measurement • STXS • VH(bb) Analysis
ISBN-10 3-031-20012-8 / 3031200128
ISBN-13 978-3-031-20012-0 / 9783031200120
Zustand Neuware
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