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Search for New Heavy Charged Bosons and Measurement of High-Mass Drell-Yan Production in Proton—Proton Collisions

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Authors:
  1. Markus Zinser

    1. Data Scientist at DB Analytics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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  • Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D thesis by the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
  • Presents a two-pronged approach towards further extending our knowledge: searching for signatures of new physics and performing precision measurements
  • Serves as an excellent point of reference for future PhD students working on collider based particle physics

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Preamble

    • Markus Zinser
    Pages 1-4

  3. Introduction to Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Theory Foundations

      • Markus Zinser
      Pages 7-38

    3. Theoretical Predictions and Simulation

      • Markus Zinser
      Pages 39-44

  4. The Experimental Setup

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. The Large Hadron Collider

      • Markus Zinser
      Pages 47-51

    3. The ATLAS Experiment

      • Markus Zinser
      Pages 53-72

    4. Particle Reconstruction and Identification in ATLAS

      • Markus Zinser
      Pages 73-88

  5. Search for New Physics in Final States with One Lepton Plus Missing Transverse Momentum at $$\sqrt{\varvec{s}}$$ = 13 TeV

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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  6. Search for New Physics in Final States with One Lepton Plus Missing Transverse Momentum at = 13 TeV

    1. Motivation

      • Markus Zinser
      Pages 91-93

    2. Analysis Strategy

      • Markus Zinser
      Pages 95-99

    3. Analysis

      • Markus Zinser
      Pages 101-153

    4. Statistical Interpretation

      • Markus Zinser
      Pages 155-171

    5. Conclusion and Outlook

      • Markus Zinser
      Pages 173-175

  7. High-Mass Drell-Yan Cross Section Measurement at $$\sqrt{varvec{s}}$$ = 8 TeV

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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  8. High-Mass Drell-Yan Cross Section Measurement at = 8 TeV

    1. Motivation

      • Markus Zinser
      Pages 179-182

    2. Analysis Strategy

      • Markus Zinser
      Pages 183-185

    3. Analysis of the Electron Channel

      • Markus Zinser
      Pages 187-212

    4. Electron Channel Cross Section Measurement

      • Markus Zinser
      Pages 213-234
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About this book

This book presents two analyses, the first of which involves the search for a new heavy charged gauge boson, a so-called W' boson. This new gauge boson is predicted by some theories extending the Standard Model gauge group to solve some of its conceptual problems. Decays of the W' boson in final states with a lepton (ℓ± = e± , µ±) and the corresponding (anti-)neutrino are considered. Data collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2015 at a center of mass energy of √s =13 TeV is used for the analysis.   

In turn, the second analysis presents a measurement of the double-differential cross section of the process pp->Z/gamma^* + X -> l^+l^- + X, including a gamma gamma induced contribution, at a center of mass energy of sqrt{s} = 8 TeV. The measurement is performed in an invariant mass region of 116 GeV to 1500 GeV as a function of invariant mass and absolute rapidity of the l^+l^-- pair, and as a function of invariant mass and pseudorapidity separation of the l^+l^-- pair. The data analyzed was recorded by the ATLAS experiment in 2012 and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3/fb. It is expected that the measured cross sections are sensitive to the PDFs at very high values of the Bjorken-x scaling variable, and to the photon structure of the proton.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Data Scientist at DB Analytics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Markus Zinser

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Search for New Heavy Charged Bosons and Measurement of High-Mass Drell-Yan Production in Proton—Proton Collisions

  • Authors: Markus Zinser

  • Series Title: Springer Theses

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00650-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00649-5Published: 08 October 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13137-1Published: 10 December 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00650-1Published: 25 September 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2190-5053

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 391

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 143 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Field Theories, String Theory

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