Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by Johns Hopkins University
- Provides new insights into the recently-discovered Higgs boson
- Develops numerical techniques for the analysis of Large Hadron Collider data
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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About this book
This thesis documents the measurement of lifetime, width, mass, and couplings to two electroweak bosons of the recently-discovered Higgs boson using data from the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Both on-shell (at the mass of around 125 GeV) and off-shell (above 200 GeV) Higgs boson production is studied and an excess of off-shell production with significance above two standard deviations is observed for the first time. The latter is a qualitative new way to study the Higgs field, responsible for generation of mass of all the known elementary particles. In addition, phenomenological tools have been developed with the Monte Carlo event generator and matrix element techniques for an optional analysis of LHC data. Optimization of the CMS data with careful alignment of the silicon tracker is also presented.
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Book Title: Measurements of Higgs Boson Properties in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s =7, 8 and 13 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Authors: Ulascan Sarica
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25474-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25473-5Published: 09 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25476-6Published: 09 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25474-2Published: 26 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 103
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation