Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Includes substantial introduction to Standard Model and Beyond Standard Model theories
- Presents a broad search for BSM physics in decays of scalar bosons to tau leptons
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Theoretical Bases
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Experimental Bases
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BSM Physics Analyses
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Status and Prospects
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About this book
This thesis presents a study of the scalar sector in the standard model (SM), as well as various searches for an extended scalar sector in theories beyond the SM (BSM). The first part of the thesis details the search for an SM Higgs boson decaying to taus, and produced by gluon fusion, vector boson fusion, or associated production with a vector boson, leading to evidence for decays of the Higgs boson to taus. In turn, the second part highlights several searches for an extended scalar sector, with scalar boson decays to taus. In all of the analyses presented, at least one scalar boson decays to a pair of taus. The results draw on data collected by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector during proton–proton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 7 or 8 TeV.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Scalar Boson Decays to Tau Leptons
Book Subtitle: in the Standard Model and Beyond
Authors: Cécile Caillol
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70650-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70649-8Published: 23 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88973-3Published: 04 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70650-4Published: 15 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 276
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations, 99 illustrations in colour
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics