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The Higgs Boson Produced With Top Quarks in Fully Hadronic Signatures

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Authors:
  1. Daniel Salerno

    1. Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  • Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Winner of the CMS Thesis Award 2018
  • Detailed insights to a complicated search at CMS leading to the world first observation of ttH production
  • An accessible description of the CMS experiment including thorough coverage of the trigger and data acquisiton system

Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Daniel Salerno
    Pages 1-6

  3. Theoretical Background

    • Daniel Salerno
    Pages 7-44

  4. Experimental Setup

    • Daniel Salerno
    Pages 45-84

  5. Trigger and Object Reconstruction

    • Daniel Salerno
    Pages 85-106

  6. The Matrix Element Method

    • Daniel Salerno
    Pages 107-134

  7. Analysis Strategy

    • Daniel Salerno
    Pages 135-171

  8. Results and Combination

    • Daniel Salerno
    Pages 173-192

  9. Conclusions

    • Daniel Salerno
    Pages 193-195

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 197-207
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About this book

The work presented in this PhD dissertation is the first search at CMS for Higgs bosons produced in association with top quarks (ttH) in a final state consisting of only jets. The results presented in this book uncover a new class of ttH events that will help us elucidate our understanding of the Yukawa sector interactions between the Higgs boson and the top quark. Despite this being the most common decay signature for ttH, a large contamination of SM backgrounds makes it the most challenging for extracting a signal from data. The PhD thesis presents many sophisticated tools and techniques that were developed in order to overcome these challenges. These tools pave the way for future analyses to investigate other standard model and beyond-standard model physics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Daniel Salerno

About the author

After a bachelor degree at the University of Melbourne and a masters degree at the Sapienza university of Rome, Daniel Salerno completed a PhD in experimental high energy physics at the University of Zurich. On the promise of a successful search for ttH production, he was awarded a grant by the University of Zurich to pursue a short-term postdoc.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Higgs Boson Produced With Top Quarks in Fully Hadronic Signatures

  • Authors: Daniel Salerno

  • Series Title: Springer Theses

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31257-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31256-5Published: 06 November 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31259-6Published: 06 November 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31257-2Published: 25 October 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2190-5053

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 207

  • Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 65 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory

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