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MASSIRONI, ANDREA. "Search for a Higgs Boson in the H - > WW - > IvIv channel at CMS." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/40097.
Full textBenaglia, Andrea Davide. "ECAL calibration studies for H > γγ searches and Higgs boson search in the H > WW > 1vq̄q final state with the CMS detector at the LHC." Palaiseau, Ecole polytechnique, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/index.php?halsid=fj3plg15k2dvvvvogj7v14vhf7&view_this_doc=pastel-00722897&version=1.
Full textThis thesis presents a three-year work in the CMS experiment, in the context of the first LHC proton-proton collisions. In particular, my studies concentrated on Higgs boson searches. This particle, whose existence is predicted by the Standard Model, has not been observed yet, and constitutes the main Physics target of many high-energy colliders. In the recent past, the LEP and Tevatron experiments allowed to exclude, at 95% confidence level, the existence of the Higgs boson for masses below 114 GeV/c2 and in the [147, 179] GeV/c2 mass range. Therefore, at the moment the subject of this thesis was being decided, the very low and very high mass ranges emerged as the most interesting and promising regions. With collision data collected in 2011 I have studied the response stability and uniformity of the electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL). Isolated electrons from W boson decays into electron- neutrino pairs have been used to characterize the ECAL response (local uniformity corrections, crystal transparency corrections, ageing of the readout channels). These studies are of great rel- evance for Higgs boson searches in the di-photon decay channel, which is the reference analysis for low-mass Higgs hypotheses and demands a supreme energy resolution to profit from the very narrow Higgs resonance. The other experimentally-allowed Higgs mass range has been tackled with the Physics analysis channel described in this thesis. In particular, I have studied the decay channel H → WW > lνqq, for Higgs mass hypotheses well above the 2mW threshold. This channel has the largest effective cross section (σ × B) for the Higgs boson, although the final state is contaminated by large background events from Standard Model sources. A complete analysis strategy has been defined, optimizing the selections that allow to enhance the signal presence in the final set of events. I have studied the performances of lepton reconstruction and identification and contributed to the development and characterization of a trigger, specifically designed for this channel. Finally, all sources of systematic uncertainties that affect the statistical interpretation of the result have been addressed. With no significant excess observed on the expected background yield, an upper limit on the Higgs boson production cross-section has been settled, for Higgs masses between about 320 and 400 GeV/c2
Delaere, Christophe. "Study of WW decay of a Higgs boson with the ALEPH and CMS detectors." Université catholique de Louvain, 2005. http://edoc.bib.ucl.ac.be:81/ETD-db/collection/available/BelnUcetd-06022006-185157/.
Full textBENAGLIA, ANDREA DAVIDE. "Higgs boson search in the H > WW > lv qq final state with the CMS detector at the LHC." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/35028.
Full textBenaglia, Andrea Davide. "ECAL calibration studies for H > gg searches and Higgs boson search in the H > WW > lvqq final state with the CMS detector at the LHC." Phd thesis, Ecole Polytechnique X, 2012. http://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00722897.
Full textDI, MATTEO LEONARDO. "CMS ECAL intercalibration with electrons from W and Z decays and Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the H > WW > lvqq channel with the CMS detector." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/41813.
Full textStrebler, Thomas. "Probing the Higgs coupling to the top quark at the LHC in the CMS experiment." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017SACLX044/document.
Full textThis thesis reports a study of the Higgs boson production in association with top quarks and decaying into τ leptons in proton-proton (pp) collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 13 TeV recorded with the CMS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC).This work has been carried out in the context of the Run 2 of the LHC, marked by an increase in the center-of-mass energy from 8 to 13 TeV together with an increase in the instantaneous luminosity of the collisions with respect to Run 1. To cope with this new data-taking conditions, CMS had initiated a full upgrade of the Level-1 trigger system achieved by 2016. This new system and in particular the new Level-1 electron and photon algorithm have successfully contributed to a large number of CMS results using Run 2 data. The commissioning of this new system and its performance measured with the first data collected with this new trigger are presented in details.A novel analysis technique based on the Matrix Element Method optimized for the search of the ttH, H->tautau process is also presented, including several generic tools which can be used in a large variety of H->tautau analyses. Results of the CMS analysis using this method based on 35.9 fb-1 collected in 2016 are presented. The background-only hypothesis is disfavored but not yet excluded by this analysis alone
Atteryd, Katarina. "Investigation of the WW excess observed by ATLAS and CMS at the LHC." Thesis, KTH, Fysik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-174064.
Full textBartsch, Valeria. "Simulation von Siliziumdetektoren und Studie des Higgs Zerfalls H ZZ 4u für CMS (LHC) = Simulation of silicon sensors and study of the Higgs decay H ZZ 4u for CMS (LHC) /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2003. http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz109022173abs.htm.
Full textBroutin, Clémentine. "Electron Measurements and Search for Higgs Bosons in Multi-Lepton Channels with the CMS Experiment at LHC." Palaiseau, Ecole polytechnique, 2011. http://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/61/75/14/PDF/these_cbroutin2.pdf.
Full textThis thesis presents three years of work with the CMS experiment, in the context of the first LHC collisions. Electron objects were studied in particular, as major tools for multi-lepton analyses, in particular the H → ZZ(∗) → 4ℓ analysis. During the first months of collisions, we took part in the validation of data registered by the electromagnetic calorimeter. We also measured the efficiency of the level-1 electron and photon trigger during the whole 2010 year. The plateau efficiency is of 99. 6 % (resp. 98. 5 %) on electrons in the barrel part (resp. In the endcap part) of the calorimeter. In order to optimize the discovery potential, we built a new electron charge measurement algorithm. In CMS, this measurement is affected by the large amount of material present in the inner tracker. The performance of this algorithm was measured on 2010 data, for electrons from Z boson decay passing a standard selection. The probability of charge mis-identification is of 1. 06 % (0. 19 % with a specific selection), in agreement with the simulation. The physics analysis that was built during this PhD searches doubly charged Higgs bosons decaying into lepton pairs. For the amount of data registered in 2010, one background event is expected to pass the selection, while the amount of signal events depends on the mass hypothesis and on the model. One event was found on data, in agreement with the background expectation, hence the signal was excluded on larger mass ranges than previous experiments: a mass limit was set between 122 GeV and 176 GeV, depending on the model
Bâty, Clément. "Contribution à la calibration des photons par les désintégrations radiatives Z --> \nu\nu gamma , dans l'expérience CMS au LHC (CERN)." Thesis, Lyon 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009LYO10239/document.
Full textThe LHC has started, since november 2009 taking data. This started a new era of discovery in particle physics. The CMS detector is one of the main experiment at the LHC (CERN). One goal of this experiment is the Higgs's boson discovery, that can be related to the electroweak symmetry breaking. After a contextual replacement of the LHC and CMS within the nowdays's particle physics, I will explain the whole chain allowing to go from the physical event to the nal analysis, in order to extract the reconstructed particles and the informations allowing, at the end, the discovery of new particles like the Higgs's boson. A rst part of my works was about the measurement and the study of the acquisition electronics's gains-ratios. This work aimed to have a precise measurement of the photons energy on the whole available energy band (35 MeV -> 1.7 TeV). In particular, my works were upon the validation of the dierent calibration methods for the VFE acquisition cards within the detector. A second part of my work was about the way that one have to generate the physics events avoiding double-counting between photons coming from matrix-element generators and those coming from parton-shower algorithms. In collaboration with phenomenologists physicists, an anti-double-counting veto have been created. At last, the nal part of my results was about the way the radiative decay of the Z° neutral electroweak gauge boson allow, by the selection of certied photons, the extraction of the photons energy scale inside the electromagnetical calorimeter of CMS
CIRIOLO, VINCENZO. "Study of the Higgs boson associated production with a vector boson in the Higgs boson diphoton decay channel with the CMS detector." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/241085.
Full textThis Ph.D. thesis presents a study of the associated production of the Higgs boson with a vector boson (VH) in proton-proton collisions, using data collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the CMS experiment in 2016 for an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb −1 . The study is restricted to final states were the Higgs boson decays in two photons (H→ γγ). After an introduction on the experimental and theoretical landscape that motivates this study (Chapter 1) and an overview of the CMS experiment (Chapter 2), the exper- imental work performed to ensure the best quality of the CMS ECAL reconstruction is described in detail (Chapter 3). The analysis method and the results are then described (Chapter 4), including the discussion of optimization steps that were identified and will be relevant for future developments. In particular, the channels with the vector boson decaying into a pair of quarks and the W boson decaying into a lepton and a neutrino are described This analysis, included in a paper recently submitted for publication, represents the first result on the measurement of the VH production process in the H→ γγ final state with the LHC Run 2 data.
Lunerti, Leonardo. "Study of the Higgs boson decay to two muons with the CMS detector at LHC." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/19303/.
Full textZhao, Yongke. "Recherche d'une résonance lourde dans le canal X→WW→eνμν avec le détecteur ATLAS au LHC." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SACLS103/document.
Full textA search for a heavy neutral resonance X is performed in the X→WW→eνμν decay channel using pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb⁻¹, collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The resonance can be either a heavy scalar Higgs boson or other heavy resonances with different spins. Two scenarios are considered for the heavy Higgs boson hypotheses with different decay widths in both the gluon-gluon fusion and the vector boson fusion production modes, namely a narrow-width approximation and a large width assumption. Several hypotheses are used for the interpretation to search for other resonances, like two Higgs doublet models, Georgi-Machacek model, heavy vector triplet model in the quark-antiquark annihilation mode, a bulk Randall-Sundrum graviton model with a spin-2 Graviton with a curvature scale parameter of either 1 or 0.5 and a spin-2 signal in the vector-boson fusion mode. Three orthogonal event categories are defined in the analysis: two vector-boson fusion categories which are optimised for the signals produced in the vector-boson fusion mode with one jet or at least two jets and one quasi-inclusive gluon-gluon fusion category where the vector boson fusion phase spaces defined by the two vector-boson fusion categories are excluded. No significant excess of events beyond the Standard Model background prediction is found in the mass range between 200 GeV and up to 5 TeV. Upper limits are set on the product of the production cross section of the resonance and the X→WW branching fraction. For heavy Higgs boson signals, values above 6.4 pb and 1.3 pb at 200 GeV and above 0.008 pb and 0.005 pb at 4 TeV are excluded at 95% confidence level for the gluon-gluon fusion and the vector-boson fusion production modes, respectively. For signals predicted by the heavy vector triplet model, mass values below 1.3 TeV are excluded. Similarly, for signals predicted by the bulk Randall-Sundrum graviton model, mass values below 1.1 TeV and 850 GeV are excluded for the curvature scale parameter of 1 and 0.5, respectively
Touquet, Gaël. "Recherche d'un boson de Higgs supplémentaire du MSSM se désintégrant en deux leptons tau avec l'expérience CMS." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE1343.
Full textAlthough all collider experimental observations are theoretically explained by the standard model (SM) of particle physics, the SM does not explain many natural phenomenon, such as gravity, dark matter, dark energy, matter-antimatter asymmetry, etc. SuperSymmetry (SUSY) is an extension of the SM that can address some of the issues in SM. The minimal version of this extension, the MSSM, is a two Higgs doublet model, which leads to the existence of five observable Higgs bosons. Three of those Higgs boson are neutral, and the Higgs boson found in 2012 could be one of them. This thesis presents an analysis of proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS detector in 2017 during the second run of the LHC at CERN, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 41.5fb⁻¹. The analysis is aimed at the search for a MSSM heavy neutral Higgs boson decaying to a pair of taus that subsequently decay hadronically (τh). One of the challenges of the studied final state is the copious amount of jets produced in pp collisions via QCD, since a jet can easily be misidentified as a τh. In order to mitigate this misidentification, a new τh identification technique based on a recursive deep neural network is presented. It is compared with the standard identification technique used in CMS. The extra Higgs boson would manifest itself as an excess of events in the distribution of the m_{T}^{tot} variable for the selected τhτh events. Upper limits at the 95% CL are determined in the m_{a}-{tan}β parameter space for the m_h^{max} scenario. Additionally, model-independent limits on the cross section times branching fractions for a single Higgs boson produced via either gluon-gluon fusion or in association with b-quarks are determined for mass hypotheses in the range 90 to 3200GeV
Bianchini, Lorenzo. "Recherche du boson de Higgs du modèle standard dans la voie de désintégration en leptons taus avec l'expérience CMS au LHC." Phd thesis, Ecole Polytechnique X, 2012. http://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00739907.
Full textD'AGNOLO, RAFFAELE TITO. "Naturalness at the LHC." Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/85873.
Full textFerri, Federico. "Le calorimetre electromagnetique de CMS pour la recherche du boson de Higgs H->ZZ^(*)->4e au LHC." Phd thesis, Ecole Polytechnique X, 2006. http://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00001953.
Full textFlowers, Sean Christopher. "Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks in the lepton plus jets channel." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu150043192139632.
Full textStefanidis, Efstathios. "Study of the WW scattering in the absence of light Higgs boson using the ATLAS Detector at LHC." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1446124/.
Full textJovicevic, Jelena. "Probing the Standard Model Higgs boson in the WW decay mode with the ATLAS detector at the LHC." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Partikel- och astropartikelfysik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-120272.
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ZUOLO, DAVIDE. "Development of silicon pixel sensors for the High Luminosity upgrade of the CMS experiment at LHC and search for Higgs boson pair production in the $bar b au^+ au^- :$ final state at $sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/308715.
Full textMy research activity during the PhD has focused mainly on the development of new silicon pixel sensors for the upgrade of the CMS experiment inner tracker in view of the CERN LHC High Luminosity phase (HL-LHC), an activity I started to work on during my master thesis. These sensors must be capable of surviving irradiation fluences up to a few 10^16 neq/cm^2 at ~ 3 cm from the interaction point. The R&D program carried out by an INFN ATLAS-CMS group, in collaboration with Fondazione Bruno Kessler, covers both planar and 3D pixel devices made on substrates obtained by the Direct Wafer Bonding technique. Using this technology, every fabrication process takes place on one side only of the wafer, with consequent cost savings. The active thickness of the planar sensors studied in this thesis is 100 um or 130 um, that of 3D sensors 130 um. Sensors belonging to the first batches have pixel cells with dimensions of 100 x 150 um^2, same as the sensors currently installed in CMS. These dimensions have been reduced to 25 x 100 um^2 and 50 x 50 um^2 in order to cope with the higher track multiplicity expected at HL-LHC. Prototypes of hybrid modules, bump-bonded to different readout chips, have been characterized in beam tests. Results on their performance before and after irradiation up to maximum fluence of ∼ 1 x 10^16 neq/cm^2 are reported in this thesis. After a couple of years working on the characterization of the new prototypes I became interested also on the impact of the pixel detector on the physics program of the experiment. At the beginning of my second year of PhD I started to look for a physics analysis where the information of the pixel detector is largely exploited. I chose to work on the search for double Higgs boson production in final states with 2 b-jets and 2 tau leptons since the reconstruction of the b-jets and tau leptons makes large use of vertexes and tracks information. Another reason why I chose this analysis is that it will benefit from the incremented statistics foreseen at HL-LHC, possibly leading to the first experimental evidence of HH production. Double Higgs searches play a fundamental role in the characterization of the Higgs boson as they represent the favorite channel to measure the Higgs boson trilinear self coupling. Any deviation from the theoretical predictions of the Standard Model would lead to sizable changes in both the kinematics and production rate of HH events, thus making double Higgs searches sensitive to new physics effects. The bbtau^+tau^-final state represents one of the most interesting channels to explore double Higgs production, because of the high branching ratio and the relatively small background contamination. The strategy developed to analyze data collected by the CMS experiment during the LHC Run 2 (2016 + 2017 + 2018), corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb^-1, is described in this thesis. The expected sensitivity of the analysis, targeting both the Gluon Fusion (GGF) and Vector Boson Fusion (VBF) production channels, is also reported.
Šćulac, Toni. "Measurements of the Higgs boson properties through its decay to four leptons in the CMS detector with 13 TeV pp collisions at LHC." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SACLX092/document.
Full textThis thesis reports on measurements of Higgs boson properties in the four-lepton channel in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the CMS detector. Significant improvements in many aspects of the analysis are introduced. My contribution is twofold, improving the electron selection efficiency measurements and leading the analysis of data recorded in 2017 as the main author. Results of the analysis of Run II data are presented for two data sets recorded in 2016 and 2017, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 35.9 fb−1 and 41.5 fb−1, respectively. The signal strength modifiers relative to the standard model prediction, the mass and decay width of the boson, differential and inclusive cross sections are measured. All results are in good agreement with standard model expectations for a 125 GeV Higgs boson within the uncertainties. Finally, a measurement of the signal strength modifiers on combined 77.4 fb−1 of data collected in 2016 and 2017 is also performed and is again found to be compatible with the SM predictions. New frontiers are reached as the statistical and systematical contributions to the total uncertainty on the inclusive signal strength measurement are found to be of the similar size
Cappello, Gigi. "Search for supersymmetric particles in opposite sign dilepton events with the CMS detector." Doctoral thesis, Università di Catania, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/1427.
Full textGlaysher, Paul Christopher Frederick. "Differential cross section measurements in H→ WW and prospects of observing H→ bb in future LHC runs at the ATLAS detector." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22074.
Full textBallabene, Eric. "Characterisation of ttH production at 13 TeV in the multijet topologies with CMS." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/19292/.
Full textDaci, Nadir. "Sélection des électrons et recherche du boson de Higgs se désintégrant en paires de leptons tau avec l'expérience CMS au LHC." Phd thesis, Université Paris Sud - Paris XI, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00953409.
Full textGEROSA, RAFFAELE ANGELO. "Search for new particles decaying into vector boson pairs at LHC with the CMS detector and prospects for the vector boson scattering at the future High Luminosity LHC." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/94351.
Full textCaillol, Cécile. "Scalar boson decays to tau leptons: In the standard model and beyond." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/229443.
Full textThis thesis presents a study of the scalar sector in the standard model (SM), as well as different searches for an extended scalar sector in theories beyond the standard model (BSM). All analyses have in common the fact that at least one scalar boson decays to a pair of tau leptons. The results exploit the data collected by the CMS detector during LHC Run-1, in proton-proton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 7 or 8 TeV.The particle discovered in 2012, H, looks compatible with a SM Brout-Englert-Higgs boson, but this statement is driven by the bosonic decay modes. The H-> tau tau decay mode is the most sensitive fermionic decay channel, and allows to test the Yukawa couplings of the new particle. The search for the SM scalar boson decaying to tau leptons, and produced in association with a massive vector boson W or Z, is described in this thesis. Even though a good background rejection can be achieved by selecting the leptons originating from the vector boson, Run-1 data are not sensitive to the small production cross sections predicted in the SM for the scalar boson. The combination with the gluon-gluon fusion and vector boson fusion production searches leads to an evidence for the decay of the H boson to tau leptons.Many BSM models, such as the minimal supersymmetric SM (MSSM) or models with two scalar doublets (2HDM), predict the existence of several scalar bosons. The decays of these bosons to tau leptons can be enhanced in some scenarios depending on the model parameters, which makes the di-tau decay mode powerful to discover BSM physics. Four searches for an extended scalar sector are detailed in this thesis. The first analysis searches for a pseudoscalar boson with a mass between 220 and 350 GeV, decaying to an SM-like scalar boson and a Z boson, in the final state with two light leptons and two tau leptons. Second, a search for the exotic decay of the new particle H to a pair of light pseudoscalar bosons, which is still allowed by all measurements made up to now, in the final state with two muons and two tau leptons is performed. Third, a mass region almost never explored at the LHC is probed by the search of a light pseudoscalar, with a mass between 25 and 80 GeV, decaying to tau leptons and produced in association with b quarks. The last analysis describes the search for a heavy resonance in the MSSM, decaying to a pair of tau leptons. None of these analyses has found any hint of new physics beyond the SM, but stringent limits on the cross section of such signals could be set.
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Li, Yichen. "Observation of the Higgs boson and measurement of its properties in the HWW* channel with the ATLAS detector at the LHC." Thesis, Paris 11, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA112046/document.
Full textThe Higgs boson decays to WW* is observed based on an excess of events over background of 6.1 standard deviations in the dilepton final state including all flavour channels (ee/μμ and eμ/μe) and jet multiplicity categories (nj = 0, 1,≥ 2), where theStandard Model expectation is 5.8 standard deviations. Evidence for thevector-boson fusion (VBF) production process is also obtained with a significance of3.2 standard deviations. The different favour channels eμ/μe have the best expected signal sensitivity. The low jet multiplicity categories are dominantly contributed by the gluon-gluon fusion (ggF) production process whereas the large jet multiplicity category has the best sensitivity to the VBF production process. The results are obtained from proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC, corresponding to 4.5fb-1 at √s = 7TeV and 20.3fb-1 at √s = 8TeV. The background contribution in each channel and jet multiplicity category varies and is determined mostly with data-driven techniques with dedicated control or validation regions. The dominant background processes are the continuum WW and top quark productions. In the same flavour channels (ee/μμ), the Drell-Yan process is another important background source. For a Higgs boson mass of 125.36GeV, the ratio of the measured value to the expected value of the total production cross section times branching ratio fraction is 1.09+0.16-0.15 (stat.) +0.17-0.14 (syst.). The corresponding ratios for the gluon fusion and vector-boson fusion production modes are 1.02 ± 0.19 (stat.)+0.22−0.18 (syst.) and 1.27+0.44-0.40 (stat.) +0.30-0.21 (syst.), respectively. At √s = 8TeV, the total production cross section is measured to beσ(gg → H → WW∗) = 4.6±0.9 (stat.)+0.8−0.7 (syst.) pb σ(VBFH → WW∗) = 0.51+0.17−0.15 (stat.)+0.13−0.08 (syst.) pb. The fiducial cross section is determined for the gluon-fusion process in exclusive final states with zero and one associated jet. In addition to the on-shell couplings, other properties of the Higgs boson, namely the spin quantum number and the total decay width, are also studied using the 8TeV data and the different flavour channels only. The spin study is based on the on-shell dominated event sample using the nj ≤ 1 jet categories. The Standard Model spin-parity JCP = 0++ hypothesis is compared with alternative hypotheses. The data are found to be consistent with the Standard Model and limits are placed on alternative spin hypotheses.The off-shell events in the high mass tail from the inclusive jet category are then used to measure the off-shell couplings and impose a constraint on the upper limit of the total width of the Higgs boson indirectly, when certain assumptions are made
Benhammou, Yan. "Contribution à l'étude du calorimètre électromagnétique à cristaux de PbWO4 de l'expérience CMS au LHC." Lyon 1, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997LYO10010.
Full textPleština, Roko. "Evidence for a Standard Model Higgs boson like particle decaying into four leptons with the CMS detector." Palaiseau, Ecole polytechnique, 2013. https://pastel.hal.science/pastel-00827458.
Full textThis thesis reports the discovery of the new boson recently observed at a mass near 125 GeV in the CMS experiment at CERN. The measurements of the properties of the new boson are reviewed. The results are obtained from a comprehensive search for the standard model Higgs boson in the H → ZZ decay channel, where both Z bosons decay to electron or muon lepton pairs. The search covers Higgs boson mass hypotheses in the range 110 < mH < 1000 GeV. The analysis uses proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 5. 1 fb^−1 at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and 12. 2 fb^−1 at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV. The new boson is observed with a local significance above the expected background of 4. 5 standard deviations. The signal strength μ, relative to the expectation for the standard model Higgs boson, is measured to be μ = 0. 80+0. 35-0. 28 at 126 GeV. A precise measurement of its mass has been performed and gives 126. 2 ± 0. 6 (stat) ±0. 2 (syst) GeV. The hypothesis 0+ of the standard model for the spin J = 0 and parity P = +1 quantum numbers is found to be consistent with the observation. The data disfavour the pseudoscalar hypothesis 0− with a CLs value of 2. 4%. No other significant excess is found, and upper limits at 95% confidence level exclude the ranges 113-116 GeV and 129-720 GeV while the expected exclusion range for the standard model Higgs boson is 118-670 GeV. A special emphases throughout the thesis has been put on lepton isolation. Lepton isolation being one of the key observables for the discovery is highly susceptible to pile-up conditions of the LHC machine. This thesis establishes a robust method to marginalize the effect of pile-up on isolation. The method is now used across different analysis in CMS. A special attention has also been put on measurements of the efficiencies of lepton identification, isolation and impact parameter requirements directly from data using leptonic decays of Z boson. The measurements were used to produce final per lepton scale factors when calculating the significance of excess of four lepton events
Martin, Franck. "Contribution à l'étude de la lecture des cristaux du calorimètre électromagnétique de l'expérience CMS au LHC." Lyon 1, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998LYO10106.
Full textCourbon, Benoit. "Reconstruction des photons et recherche d’un second boson de Higgs dans le canal di-photon au sein de l’expérience CMS au LHC." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE1187/document.
Full textA particle compatible with the Standard Model Higgs boson has been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in July 2012 by Atlas and CMS experiments. All the couplings measurements are so far compatible with those predicted by the Standard Model. However, this model is not able to address several fundamental physics issues and theories beyond the Standard Model, such as supersymmetry, have been proposed to address these questions. Some of them predict an extended Higgs sector with additional scalar or pseudoscalars at low mass.On the experimental point of view, the diphoton decay channel provides a clear signature and allows us to explore the Higgs sector with high precision.The studies presented in this thesis have been performed using the data collected by CMS at the LHC.The first part of the document is dedicated to photon reconstruction studies. First, a photon energy correction method is presented. Then, photon reconstruction performance is assessed in the context of the Phase I and Phase II detector upgrades, in high luminosity conditions.The second part of the document is dedicated to the search for an additional light Higgs boson (with a mass below 110 GeV) in the diphoton channel. First, the official results corresponding to the full 2012 dataset are exposed. Finally, results corresponding to 2015 data are presented
Rovelli, Chiara. "Lacalorimétrie électromagnétique de CMS et la recherche du boson de Higgs dans le canal de désintégration H->WW^(*) ->2e2nu." Palaiseau, Ecole polytechnique, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006EPXX0003.
Full textMachet, Martina. "Higgs boson production in the diphoton decay channel with CMS at the LHC : first measurement of the inclusive cross section in 13 TeV pp collisions, and study of the Higgs coupling to electroweak vector bosons." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016SACLS254/document.
Full textIn this document two analyses of the properties of the Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel with the CMS experiment at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) are presented.The document starts with a theoretical introduction of the Standard Model and the Higgs boson physics, followed by a detailed description of the CMS detector.Then, photon reconstruction and identification algorithms are presented, with a particular focus on the differences between the first and the second run of the LHC, the first run (Run1) took place from 2010 to 2012 with a centre-of-mass energy of 7 and then 8 TeV, while the second run (Run2) started in 2015 with a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. Performances of Run1 and Run2 reconstructions from the photon identification point of view are compared. Then the photon identification algorithm for the H->γγ analysis optimised for Run2 is presented. To do that a multivariate analysis method is used. Performances of the photon identification at 13 TeV are finally studied and a data-simulation validation is performed.Afterwards, the H->γγ analysis using the first Run2 data is presented. The analysis is performed with a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.7/fb. An event classification is performed to maximize signal significance and to studyspecific Higgs boson production modes. The observed significance for the standard model Higgs boson is 1.7 sigma, while a significance of 2.7 sigma is expected.Finally a feasibility study, having the aim of constraining the anomalous couplings of the Higgs boson to the vector bosons, is presented. This analysis is performed using the data collected at 8 TeV during Run1 at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.5/fb. This analysis exploits the production of the Higgs boson through vector boson fusion (VBF), with the Higgs decaying to 2 photons. The kinematic distributions of the dijet and diphoton systems, which depend from the spin-parity hypothesis, are used to build some discriminants able to discriminate between different spin-parity hypotheses. These discriminants allow to define different regions of the phase-space enriched with a certain spin-parity process. The Higgs boson signal yield is extracted in each region from a fit to the diphoton mass, allowing to determine the contributions of the different processes and then constrain the production of a pseudo-scalar (spin-parity 0-) Higgs boson
Andrea, Jérémy Bloch Daniel. "Mesure de la section efficace de production de paires de quarks top dans l'expérience CMS au LHC." Strasbourg : Université de Strasbourg, 2009. http://eprints-scd-ulp.u-strasbg.fr:8080/1127/01/ANDREA_Jeremy_2009_restrict.pdf.
Full textCadamuro, Luca. "Search for Higgs boson pair production in the bbtautau decay channel with the CMS detector at the LHC." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017SACLX059/document.
Full textThis thesis describes a search for Higgs boson pair (HH) production using proton-proton collision data collected at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. Events with one Higgs boson decaying into two bottom quarks and the other decaying into two tau leptons (HH -> bb tau+tau-) are explored to investigate both resonant and nonresonant production mechanisms. The measurement of HH production is experimentally challenging because of the tiny cross section predicted by the standard model of particle physics (SM). However, this process can reveal invaluable information on the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking by giving access to the Higgs boson trilinear self-coupling and, consequently, to the shape of the scalar potential itself. Moreover, HH production is sensitive to the presence of physics beyond the SM. Both the presence of new states decaying to HH and of anomalous Higgs boson couplings are investigated in this work.Tau leptons have a key role in this search and considerable effort has been devoted to ensure a high efficiency in their selection by the trigger system of the CMS experiment. In particular, the CMS Level-1 (L1) trigger was upgraded to face the increase in the centre-of-mass energy and instantaneous luminosity conditions expected for the LHC Run II operations. The upgrade opened up the possibility to develop an efficient and dedicated algorithm to reconstruct tau leptons decaying to hadrons (tauh) and a neutrino.The tau algorithm implements a sophisticated dynamic energy clustering technique and dedicated background rejection criteria. Its development, optimisation, implementation, and commissioning for the LHC restart are presented. The algorithm performance is initially demonstrated using a simulation and subsequently measured with the data collected with the CMS experiment. The excellent performance achieved is an essential element of the search for HH production.The investigation of the HH -> bb tau+tau- process explores the three decay modes of the tau+tau- system with at least one tauh object in the final state. A dedicated event selection and categorisation is developed and optimised to enhance the sensitivity, and multivariate techniques are applied for the first time to these final states to separate the signal from the background.Results are derived using an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1. They are found to be consistent, within uncertainties, with the SM background predictions. Upper limits on resonant production are set and interpreted in the context of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. Upper limits on nonresonant production constrain the parameter space for anomalous Higgs boson couplings. The observed and expected upper limit are about 30 and 25 times the SM prediction, respectively, corresponding to one of the most stringent limits set so far at the LHC.Finally, prospects for future measurements of HH production at the LHC are evaluated by extrapolating the current results to an integrated luminosity of 3000 fb-1 under different detector and analysis performance scenarios
Broutin, Clémentine. "Mesure des électrons et recherche de bosons de Higgs en canaux multi-leptons avec l'expérience CMS au LHC." Phd thesis, Ecole Polytechnique X, 2011. http://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00617514.
Full textDalchenko, Mykhailo. "Measurements of the Higgs boson mass and width in the four-lepton final state and electron reconstruction in the CMS experiment at the LHC." Palaiseau, Ecole polytechnique, 2014. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01115325/document.
Full textThis thesis document reports measurements of the mass and width of the new boson re- cently discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), candidating to be the Standard Model Higgs boson. The analysis uses proton-proton collision data recorded by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the LHC, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 5. 1 fb−1 at 7 TeV center of mass energy and 19. 7 fb−1 at 8 TeV center of mass energy. Set of events selecting Higgs boson via the H → Z Z decay channel, where both Z bosons decay to electron or muon lepton pairs, is used for the Higgs boson properties measurements. A precise measurement of its mass has been performed and gives 125. 6 ± 0. 4(stat) ± 0. 2 (syst) GeV. Constraints on the Higgs boson width were established using its off-shell production and decay to a pair of Z bosons, where one Z boson decays to an electron or muon pair, and the other to an electron, muon, or neutrino pair. The obtained result is an upper limit on the Higgs boson width of 22 MeV at a 95% confidence level, which is 5. 4 times the expected value in the standard model at the measured mass. Throughout the thesis, a particular attention has been put on the elec- tron momentum estimation. The combination of the momentum estimate with the tracker and the energy measurement with the electromagnetic calorimeter, allowing a significant improvement of the low transverse impulsion electrons measurement of the momentum, has been revisited and played an essential role in the Higgs boson discovery in the 4 leptons decay channel. The electron energy scale and resolution have been measured with very high precision using the Z boson decaying in electrons
Comandini, Devis. "Prospects for the Higgs boson self-coupling measurement with the Phase-II CMS detector upgrade using simulated pp collisions at √s = 27 TeV (High Energy LHC)." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/18478/.
Full textZini, Riccardo. "Studio della produzione VBF per la ricerca del decadimento in due muoni del bosone di Higgs con il rivelatore CMS a LHC." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/19955/.
Full textDONATO, SILVIO. "Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decaying to b quarks with the CMS experiment." Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/85894.
Full textJeanneau, Fabien. "Etude des détecteurs MICROMEGAS et GEM : recherche du boson de Higgs dans le canal H0 → WW → qql±ν avec l'expérience CMS." Mulhouse, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999MULH0577.
Full textZucchetta, Alberto. "Searches for signatures of an extended Higgs sector in final states with leptons and Higgs to bb decays at CMS." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3424106.
Full textIl modello standard (SM) delle particelle elementari, verificato sperimentalmente ad alta precisione, prevede l’esistenza di una particella scalare, il bosone di Higgs, grazie al quale avviene la rottura di simmetria elettrodebole ed è possibile spiegare le masse non nulle dei fermioni. La ricerca del bosone di Higgs è stata perseguita in passato da diversi esperimenti ai collisori LEP II e Tevatron, ma sempre con esito negativo. Solo nell’anno 2011, all’acceleratore LHC gli esperimenti ATLAS ed CMS hanno cominciato ad osservare le prime evidenze dell’elusiva particella, per poi confermane definitivamente la scoperta nel 2012. Tuttavia, pur essendo l’esistenza e le caratteristiche osservate del bosone di Higgs l’ennesima verifica sperimentale della validità del modello standard, esistono fenomeni naturali che esso non è in grado di spiegare, come ad esempio la massa dei neutrini o la materia oscura. Diverse estensioni del modello standard sono state proposte; diverse tra le più accreditate prevedono non uno, ma più bosoni. Con l’entrata a regime di LHC nel 2011 e le prime evidenze di un bosone di Higgs, una delle domande fondamentali a cui dare risposta era se il segnale che si stava osservando fosse dovuto al bosone di Higgs dello SM, oppure al più leggero dei diversi bosoni previsti dalle teorie oltre il modello standard. La risposta poteva venire sia dalla misura degli accoppiamenti dell’Higgs alle particelle dello SM, sia osservando processi e decadimenti non previsti dallo SM, o misurati con una frequenza maggiore dell’atteso. La produzione di un bosone di Higgs in associazione con quarks b, e il suo successivo decadimento in una coppia di quark b, è un processo difficilmente osservabile nel modello standard, pertanto la sua osservazione averebbe significato la presenza di nuova fisica. Precedenti ricerche a Tevatron hanno evidenziato un lieve eccesso in questo canale. In seguito alla scoperta del bosone di Higgs nel Luglio 2012 da parte degli esperimenti CMS e ATLAS, la conoscenza delle proprietà di questa particella, ivi compresa la sua massa, diventano informazioni che possono essere utilizzate per aumentare la sensibilità a ricerche di processi di nuova fisica. Uno dei canali che beneficia di questa informazione è la ricerca di un bosone pseudoscalare A, in particolare nel suo decadimento in un bosone Z e un bosone di Higgs leggero h, che si assume essere quello di massa 125 GeV recentemente scoperto. Lo stato finale consiste in una coppia di elettroni o muoni originati dal decadimento del bosone Z, e una coppia di quark b dal decadimento dell’Higgs. Questo canale, non previsto dallo SM, permette di sondare una regione dello spazio dei parametri di teorie oltre il modello standard per certi versi complementare a quella del canale con molti b nello stato finale.
Naranjo, Fong Ivo Nicolas. "Tau lepton reconstruction and search for Higgs bosons decaying to tau pairs in the CMS experiment at the LHC." Palaiseau, Ecole polytechnique, 2014. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01089488/document.
Full textThis thesis presents a search for Higgs bosons decaying into tau pairs in the context of the Standard Model (SM) and its minimal supersymmetric extension (MSSM) with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, using the data collected during the first years of operation at the LHC. After introducing the theoretical context relevant for the SM and MSSM Higgs bosons searches, the corresponding phenomenological aspects are discussed. The discovery of a scalar boson by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations in 2012 is then presented. The design and performance of the CMS experiment are described as well as the identification and measurements of physical objects needed for the analysis. The accent is put on the tau lepton reconstruction including in particular a novel tau isolation that uses the lifetime information. We optimized this tool in terms of tau identification efficiency and fake tau rejection, particularly suited for boosted taus. A new technique for rejecting the electrons faking taus is also presented: a discriminator based on a multivariate analysis which considerably reduces the contamination from electrons faking taus while preserving the efficiency of identification is exposed. The SM and MSSM Higgs boson searches in the di-tau final state are presented. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4. 9 fb-1 at sqrt{s}=7 TeV and 19. 7 fb-1 at sqrt{s}=8 TeV recorded by CMS respectively in 2011 and 2012. The focus is put on the most sensitive semi-leptonic decay channels: $$H\to\tau\tau\to l\tau_{h}$$ where $$l$$ is either an electron or muon and $$\tau_{h}$$ stands for hadronic tau decays. After combining all the decay channels in SM Higgs boson to di-tau search and in particular using the new anti-electron discriminator, an excess of observed events with respect to the background-only hypothesis is found. The statistical significance of this excess corresponds to 3. 2 standard deviations at a mass of 125 GeV. The measured signal strength is compatible with the SM Higgs signal expectation. This result constitutes an evidence for a coupling between the scalar boson and leptons. Finally, a new strategy in the search for the MSSM Higgs bosons is presented in this thesis. It combines both the novel tau isolation technique and a new refined categorization based on the $$\tau_{h}$$ transverse momentum. With respect to the previous CMS public result (2013), the sensitivity of the analysis presented in this document is improved by more than 30%. This is equivalent to an increase of the total integrated luminosity by a factor 3 to 4. The interpretation of the model independent upper limits on the cross-section times branching ratio of the production process shows no significant excess over the Standard Model backgrounds
Primavera, Federica <1985>. "Search for the MSSM Neutral Higgs Boson in the mu+mu- final state with the CMS experiment at LHC." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2014. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6215/1/Primavera_Federica_tesi.pdf.
Full textPrimavera, Federica <1985>. "Search for the MSSM Neutral Higgs Boson in the mu+mu- final state with the CMS experiment at LHC." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2014. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6215/.
Full textTenaglia, Giovanni. "Performance studies of the CMS distributed analysis system in the associated Higgs boson production with top quarks." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2014. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/7704/.
Full textMastrolorenzo, Luca. "Search for the Higgs boson decaying into tau lepton pairs with the Matrix Element Method and tau trigger optimization in the CMS experiment at the LHC." Palaiseau, Ecole polytechnique, 2015. https://theses.hal.science/tel-01257354/document.
Full textI performed my thesis work in Particle Physics at the Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet of the Ecole Polytechnique. I have participated to the analysis of the 8 TeV proton-proton collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and collected by the CMS experiment. The discovery of the Higgs boson has been a major breakthrough in particle physics as the mass of the vector bosons are explained through their interactions with the Higgs field. I worked on the newly discovered Higgs boson analysis. As its direct coupling to fermions remained to be exhibited, I focused on the search for the Higgs boson decaying in tau lepton pairs. The Higgs decay into a tau pair is the only channel allowing the couplings between the Higgs boson and the leptons to be measured. This is due to the large event rate expected in the Standard Model compared to the other leptonic decay modes. The Higgs boson decaying to tau lepton analysis is particularly challenging at the trigger level because the large background imposes high thresholds. I worked on a trigger that ran at the end of the data-taking using the missing transverse energy to lower the threshold on the single lepton. This approach allows the recovery of 41% of the signal events. Events with missing transverse momentum were selected in order to control the trigger rate. My personal contribution consisted in a thorough characterization of this trigger, including the measure of the associated uncertainty. The results of this approach led to an amelioration of 2% in the exclusion limits computed in the Higgs to taus semileptonic channel. For the Run 2, the center-of-mass energy of the LHC collisions has been increased to 13 TeV and the instantaneous luminosity will reach 2E34/cm2/s. To guarantee a successful and ambitious physics program under this intense environment, the CMS Trigger and Data acquisition system has been consolidated. In particular the Level 1 (L1, hardware based first level of the CMS trigger system) benefited from the recent microTCA technology allowing the calorimeter granularity to be better exploited with more advanced algorithms. Thanks to the enhanced granularity provided by the new system, an innovative dynamic clustering technique has been developed to obtain an optimized tau selection algorithm. I took the responsibility of developing a complete new tau trigger algorithm at L1 and measuring its performance. This original approach resulted in the first hardware tau lepton trigger efficient at a hadron collider with a sustainable rate. I had the opportunity to present a poster showing my work at the ICHEP-2014 conference, in Valencia and the proceedings were published in Nuclear Physics B afterwards. During my last year of PhD I focused on the Higgs decays into di-taus analysis, initiating the very first matrix element (ME) approach in this channel, starting with the most sensitive final state: the semileptonic decay mode. The aim is to increase the sensitivity of the analysis to the SM Higgs boson, with respect to the traditional methods. No ME-based analysis using tau leptons has ever been published. The novelty of my work is the treatment of the tau decay. In addition, I have derived a parameterization of the detector response through transfer functions. Finally, the numerical aspects related of multidimensional integrals computations have been tackled. I have fully characterized the method using simulated samples before applying it to the 8 TeV data. The performance in the context of the CMS Higgs into di-taus of this pioneering method are very promising, with a S/B ratio improved by a factor 3, and constitute a baseline for the analysis of the upcoming Run 2 data of the LHC