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Beyond Standard Model Collider Phenomenology of Higgs Physics and Supersymmetry

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Authors:
  1. Marc Christopher Thomas

    1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton , Southampton, United Kingdom

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  • Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Southampton, UK
  • Derives novel use of Higgs Boson production to test Standard Model predictions
  • Excludes electroweak baryogenesis from Minimal Supersymmetric Model
  • Includes accessible introduction and conclusions section for nonspecialist readers
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Marc Christopher Thomas
    Pages 1-10

  3. Multiple Higgs and Vector Boson Production

    • Marc Christopher Thomas
    Pages 11-25

  4. \(V_LV_L \rightarrow V_LV_L\) Scattering as a Model Independent Probe of the Higgs Coupling to Vector Bosons

    • Marc Christopher Thomas
    Pages 27-40

  5. Supersymmetric Higgs

    • Marc Christopher Thomas
    Pages 41-73

  6. Ruling Out Light Stops

    • Marc Christopher Thomas
    Pages 75-94

  7. Conclusion

    • Marc Christopher Thomas
    Pages 95-97

  8. Erratum to: Beyond Standard Model Collider Phenomenology of Higgs Physics and Supersymmetry

    • Marc Christopher Thomas
    Pages E1-E3

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 99-101
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This thesis studies collider phenomenology of physics beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It also explores in detail advanced topics related to Higgs boson and supersymmetry – one of the most exciting and well-motivated streams in particle physics. In particular, it finds a very large enhancement of multiple Higgs boson production in vector-boson scattering when Higgs couplings to gauge bosons differ from those predicted by the Standard Model. The thesis demonstrates that due to the loss of unitarity, the very large enhancement for triple Higgs boson production takes place. This is a truly novel finding.


The thesis also studies the effects of supersymmetric partners of top and bottom quarks on the Higgs production and decay at the LHC, pointing for the first time to non-universal alterations for two main production processes of the Higgs boson at the LHC–vector boson fusion and gluon–gluon fusion.


Continuing the exploration of Higgs boson and supersymmetry at the LHC, the thesis extends existing experimental analysis and shows that for a single decay channel the mass of the top quark superpartner below 175 GeV can be completely excluded, which in turn excludes electroweak baryogenesis in the Minimal Supersymmetric Model. This is a major new finding for the HEP community.


This thesis is very clearly written and the introduction and conclusions are accessible to a wide spectrum of readers.


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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton , Southampton, United Kingdom

    Marc Christopher Thomas

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Beyond Standard Model Collider Phenomenology of Higgs Physics and Supersymmetry

  • Authors: Marc Christopher Thomas

  • Series Title: Springer Theses

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43452-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43451-3Published: 01 November 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82828-2Published: 28 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43452-0Published: 01 August 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2190-5053

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 101

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour

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

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