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The Road to Discovery

Detector Alignment, Electron Identification, Particle Misidentification, WW Physics, and the Discovery of the Higgs Boson

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. John Alison

    1. Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

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  • Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider
  • Documents the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC
  • In depth description of modeling of mis-identified leptons
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction and Theoretical Background

    • John Alison
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Large Hadron Collider

    • John Alison
    Pages 11-14

  4. The ATLAS Experiment

    • John Alison
    Pages 15-23

  5. Reconstruction and Commissioning

    • John Alison
    Pages 25-35

  6. Detector Alignment

    • John Alison
    Pages 37-62

  7. TRT Alignment

    • John Alison
    Pages 63-100

  8. Electron Identification

    • John Alison
    Pages 101-127

  9. WW Physics

    • John Alison
    Pages 129-149

  10. The Fake Factor Method

    • John Alison
    Pages 151-209

  11. WW Cross Section Measurement

    • John Alison
    Pages 211-227

  12. Search for \(H\rightarrow \) WW \(^{( * )}\)

    • John Alison
    Pages 229-270

  13. Combined Higgs Results

    • John Alison
    Pages 271-285

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 287-302
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About this book

The research presented here includes important contributions on the commissioning of the ATLAS experiment and the discovery of the Higgs boson. The thesis describes essential work on the alignment of the inner tracker during the commissioning of the experiment and development of the electron identification algorithm. The subsequent analysis focuses on the search for the Higgs boson in the WW channel, including the development of a method to model the critical W+jet background. In addition, the thesis provides excellent introductions, suitable for non-specialists, to Higgs physics, to the LHC, and to the ATLAS experiment.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

    John Alison

About the author

John Alison received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.
As a graduate student his primary focus was searching for and studying the Higgs Boson in the WW-channel.
He is now a Fermi/McCormick fellow at the University of Chicago.
He is currently working on an upgrade to the ATLAS trigger system, (FastTracKer), which is an electronics system that rapidly finds and reconstructs charged particles in the inner tracker.
John's research interests include developing tools and algorithms used in the trigger and using the Higgs to probe for new physics.

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