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Pinto, Pinoargote Andres. "Measurement of the W-Boson Mass with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC". Electronic Thesis or Diss., université Paris-Saclay, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024UPASP057.
Texto completoThe present work shows the current status of the determination of the W boson mass, using the LHC datasets in proton-proton collisions collected by the ATLAS detector at 5.02, 7 and 13 TeV. To achieve this, dedicated calibration procedures of the ATLAS Inner Detector (ID) and Muon Spectrometer (MS) have been designed and applied, and the W boson mass measurement strategy has been optimised.The ID calibration procedure considers possible biases in the muon track sagitta, geometrical deformations and magnetic field distortions. In the case of the MS, the alignment residuals between the ID and MS have been investigated, and the residual toroidal magnetic field present in the calorimeters has been re-evaluated. A dedicated muon momentum calibration has been implemented. After these corrections, the data-to-simulation agreement is found to be at the per mille level, and the corresponding uncertainties are propagated to the W-boson mass measurement.The present work also includes a detailed study of the W-boson mass fitting strategy. An analytical Profile Likelihood fit in the Gaussian limit has been implemented, allowing a proper decomposition of the fit uncertainties, improving over the usual “impacts”. In this scenario, the actual contribution of each systematic source to the final measurement uncertainty can be determined. The resulting measurement data can then be used consistently for further combinations and fits.The analytical fit was used to obtain a W mass measurement at 7 TeV with value 80366.5 ± 15.9 MeV, in good agreement with numerical fits. For the low pile-up dataset, the improved calibration and optimised fitting strategy result in an expected precision of 14.3 MeV. Combining with the 7 TeV data an ultimate precision of 10.3 MeV can be obtained.The compatibility and combination of the world W-boson mass using the new ATLAS 2024 measurement at 7 TeV with other measurements (LEP, CDF, D0, LHCb) was studied. The combination yields m_W = 80388.4 ± 10.3 MeV with 0.2% compatibility when CDF is included, and m_W = 80366.1 ± 11.7 MeV with 92% compatibility when CDF is removed, differing from the CDF result by 3.8σ
Tonero, Alberto. "Asymptotic safety and the electroweak interactions". Doctoral thesis, SISSA, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11767/4688.
Texto completoMenzel, Andreas. "Constraints on the Fourth-Generation Quark Mixing Matrix from Precision Flavour Observables". Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17711.
Texto completoThe Standard Model extended by an additional sequential generation of Dirac fermions (SM4) was excluded with a significance of 5.3 sigma in 2012. This was achieved in a combined fit of the SM4 to Electroweak Precision Observables and signal strengths of the Higgs boson. This thesis complements this excludion by a fit of the SM4 to a typical set of Flavour physics observables and the results of the previously performed Electroweak Precision fit. Quantities extracted in an SM3 framework are reinterpreted in SM4 terms and the adapted theoretical expressions are given. The resultant constraints on the SM4''s CKM matrix, its potentially CP-violating phases and the mass of the new up-type quark t'' are given. To compare the relative performance of the SM4 and the SM3, this work uses the chi^2 values achieved in the fit. The values of 15.53 for the SM4 and 9.56 for the SM4 are almost perfectly consistent with both models describing the experimental data equally well with the SM3 having six degrees of freedom more. The dimuon charge asymmetry ASL was not used as a fit input because the interpretation of its measurement was subject to debate at the time when the fits were produced, but its prediction in the fit was used as an additional test of the SM4. The SM3''s prediction differs from the experimental values by about 2 sigma, and the SM4''s prediction by about 3 sigma. \par In summary, these results do not suggest that any significant reduction of the 5.3 sigma exclusion could be achieved by combining the Electroweak Precision Observables and Higgs inputs with Flavour physics data. However, the exact effect of the Flavour physics input on the significance of the SM4''s exclusion cannot be given at this point because the CKMfitter software is currently not able to perform a statistically stringent likelihood comparison of non-nested models.
IACOBELLIS, Giuseppe. "Higgs connections: Electroweak Vacuum Stability and Cosmology". Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Ferrara, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11392/2487829.
Texto completoLa scoperta del bosone di Higgs a LHC e la determinazione del valore della sua massa ha aperto la possibilità di studiare il Modello Standard (MS) fino ad alte energie, rendendo possibile la verifica della consistenza della teoria e del suo range di validità, dal momento che lo consideriamo come un modello effettivo. In questo scenario, facendo uso dei dati sperimentali più aggiornati, molto interesse è stato riposto nello studio della stabilità del vuoto elettrodebole del MS e le sue particolari implicazioni sia nella fisica delle particelle che, soprattutto, in cosmologia. Il nostro lavoro si inserisce in questo contesto con un doppio fine: da un lato, proviamo a raffinare i più recenti calcoli dei vincoli di stabilità, alla luce dei dati sperimentali e degli approcci teorici più aggiornati, soprattutto relativi alla tecnica del potenziale effettivo; mentre, dall'altro lato, usiamo i risultati di questa analisi per studiare e porre vincoli ad alcune realizzazioni di inflazione cosmica nel contesto del puro MS e di sue estensioni minime. In particolare, abbiamo studiato alcune osservabili \emph{gauge}-indipendenti legate a due configurazioni stazionarie del potenziale del MS, estrapolato ad alte energie grazie all'approccio che fa uso del potenziale effettivo e delle equazioni del gruppo di rinormalizzazione, nella loro forma più aggiornata, vale a dire il NNLO: il valore della massa del quark top in corrispondenza del quale si ha la stabilità dle vuoto elettrodebole (criticality) e il potenziale valutato nel suo punto di flesso. Dimostrata l'indipendenza dalla scelta del gauge di queste osservabili, sono state stimate le incertezze relative. Il primo risultato rilevante, in accordo con la letteratura (con qualche discrepanza), è che la stabilità assoluta del MS non è completamente esclusa, data l'attuale finestra sperimentale: è, in linea di principio, possibile assumere il MS valido fino alla scala di Planck, dove ci aspettiamo che l'interazione gravitazionale cominci a diventare rilevante, senza alcuna inclusione di nuova fisica a basse scale energetiche ("desert scenario"). Partendo da questo punto, abbiamo provato a spiegare la fase inflazionaria primordiale all'interno del puro MS, sfruttando la configurazione del punto di flesso. Tuttavia, mostriamo che diventa in questi casi molto difficile riprodurre gli attuali vincoli sul rapporto tensore/scalare. Vista la necessità di introdurre nuovi gradi di libertà per includere nella teoria un ragionevole meccanismo per l'inflazione cosmica e, in maniera consistente, una stabilizzazione per il potenziale del MS, proviamo a passare in rassegna le principali caratteristiche di una delle possibili estensioni minime al MS, attraverso una simmetria globale U(1)_B-L, e a porre dei vincoli ai parametri propri del nuovo modello, in maniera tale da riuscire a raggiungere entrambi gli obiettivi. Lo scalare extra associato alla rottura di questa nuova simmetria, oltre a garantire la stabilizzazione mediante un effetto di soglia al tree-level, sarebbe responsabile della generazione della massa di un neutrino right-handed, che, a sua volta, fornisce, attraverso il meccanismo see saw di tipo I, le masse dei neutrini di bassa energia. In questo contesto, troviamo la finestra dei parametri accessibile sia per una fase inflazionaria funzionale, guidata dallo stesso scalare massivo, che per la stabilizzazione del modello: confermiamo i risultati riportati in letteratura, nonostante i lavori rilevanti svolgono le loro analisi o in configurazioni leggermente differenti, oppure raffrontano i loro risultati con vincoli sperimentali più datati, giungendo poi dunque a conclusioni diverse. Ad ogni modo, facendo riferimento allo stato dell'arte attuale dal punto di vista sperimentale, questa semplice realizzazione di estensione con nuova fisica del MS sembra non essere sufficiente. Una applicazione allo scenario con accoppiamento non minimale viene anche considerata.
Cacciapaglia, Giacomo. "Models of electroweak symmetry breaking in extra dimensions". Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/85850.
Texto completoCárcamo, Hernández Antonio Enrique. "Composite Vectors and Scalars in Theories of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking". Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/85833.
Texto completoPapucci, Michele. "Electroweak Symmetry Breaking with a compact extra dimension". Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/85837.
Texto completoMacorini, Guido. "One loop electroweak corrections for single top production at LHC". Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trieste, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10077/2708.
Texto completoIn this thesis we report and discuss the results for the first complete calcula- tion of the one-loop electroweak corrections for the two dominant processes of single Top production at the Large Hadron Collider: the tW-associated pro- duction and the t-channel process. We calculate the corrections working both in the Standard Model (SM) and in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM, as- suming a mSUGRA scenario), analysing the effect of the corrections on several observables and trying to understand whether deviations from the Standard Model prediction could be observable. The single Top production is the main source of information about the Top weak interaction, and a privileged laboratory to understand the symmetry breaking in the weak sector. Moreover at the hadronic colliders the single Top processes provide the only known way to measure directly the Vtb element of the CKM matrix, providing a fundamental test of the Standard Model struc- ture. For the tW production process we present the complete calculation of the one- loop electroweak effect, including the effect of the hard real photon emission; we combine our results with the available calculation for the QCD and SUSY QCD corrections, providing a complete one loop description of the process. Our interest has been concentrated on the particular quantities that we have defined as partial rates, with special emphasis on the low (400 GeV) final in- variant mass. In this region with the addition of SUSY QCD one-loop terms, the genuine SUSY contribution reaches an interesting 10% size. The analysis of t-channel process is limited to the pure electroweak componet (adding the soft photon emission only, to cancel the infrared divergences aris- ing from diagrams with virtual photon). The electroweak corrections for the t-channel are less sensitive to the presence of the SUSY particles: this conclusion holds for all the four examined bench- mark points in themSUGRA scheme. In addition, considering the small contri- bution of the known SUSY QCD corrections, we conclude that in themSUGRA scenario it will be probably impossible to detect at the LHC any deviation from the SM predictions. In the SMcontext the size of the electroweak correctionswithout the hard emis- sion seems to be very large, but we expect that the total effect should be con- siderably reduced adding the hard emission part.
Nella tesi vengono riportati e discussi i risultati per il calcolo completo delle correzioni radiative elettrodeboli ad un loop per i due processi dominanti nella produzioe di quark Top singoli al Large Hadron Collider: la produzione associata tW e il processo di "canale t". Le correzioni ad un loop sono calcolate sia nelModello Standard (SM) che nella sua estensione supersimmetrica minimale (MSSM, assumendo uno scenario di mSUGRA); si è quindi analizzato l’effetto delle correzioni su varie osservabili fisiche, tentando di comprendere se siano riscontrabili deviazioni misurabili dalle predizioni del Modello Standard. La produzione di quark Top singoli costituisce la principale fonte di informzioni riguardo le interazioni deboli del Top e per lo studio e la comprensione della rottura della simmetria elettrodebole. Inoltre ai collider adronici la produzione di quark Top singoli costituisce l’unico processo che permette una misura diretta dell’elemento Vtb della matrice CKM, costituendo dunque un test fondamentale per la struttua del Modello Standard. Per la produzione associata tW si presenta il calcolo completo dell’effetto elettrodebole ad un loop, includendo poi l’effetto dell’emissione di fotoni duri; si combinano dunque i nostri risultati con i risultati (noti in letteratura) per le correzioni di QCD e QCD supersimmetrica, fornendo una descrizione completa ad un loop del processo. Abbiamo concentrato il nostro interesse su paticolari osservabili dette "rate parziali", con speciale attenzione alla regione di bassemasse invarianti: in data regione, tenendo conto delle correzioni di QCD supersimmetrica, il contributo genuinamente supersimmetrico dell’effetto ad un loop raggiunge il 10%, costituendo una deviazione potenzialmente osservabile. L’analisi del canale t è limitata alla sola componente elettrodebole (con l’aggiunta dell’emissione di fotini "soft", in modo da ottenere un risultao IR-finito): le correzioni ad un loop elettrodeboli per questo processo si sno rivelate meno sensibili alla presenza di eventuali particelle supersimmetriche; questa conclusione è comune nei quatro scenari mSUGRA analizzati. Considerando inoltre che l’effetto della QCD supersimmetrica è piccolo, si può concludere che sarà verosimilmente impossibile osservare deviazioni dalle predizioni SM. Nel Modello Standard le correzioni dovute alla parte elettrodebole sembrano numericamente molto significative, ma ci può aspettare una drastica riduzione di tale effetto una volta aggiunta l’emissione di fotoni reali "hard".
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GRANATA, FEDERICO. "Electroweak and strong next-to-leading-order corrections to HV and HVj production at hadron colliders". Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/158128.
Texto completoThe discovery of the Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has opened an unprecedented era in the field of precision measurements. In view of the upcoming data from the 13 TeV Run of the LHC, accurate predictions for processes that involve the production of the Higgs boson are fundamental, in order to further investigate the phenomenon of electroweak symmetry breaking. At the energies reached by the LHC, the dominant corrections come from the QCD sector, where the first perturbative order (NLO) typically gives a contribution of 20-30% to the cross section. Electroweak (EW) NLO corrections, instead, amount to 5-10%, comparable with the second QCD perturbative order. Even if their effect is rather mild on the integrated cross sections, NLO EW corrections are known to alter the shape of many kinematic quantities, like the high-energy tails of some transverse-momentum distributions. Moreover, they play an important role in the study of the nature of dark matter and in its indirect detection. A precise knowledge of the high-energy tails, including EW corrections, is then mandatory in order to test the validity of these models. The EW sector has many differences with respect to QCD. Since in QED and QCD the virtual and real corrections involve the exchange of massless particles, they are separately divergent, and only their sum is finite. In these theories, then, the inclusion of real corrections is mandatory. When considering weak corrections, instead, because of the exchange of massive bosons, all the contributions to the NLO cross section are finite. Moreover, the radiated particles would subsequently decay, giving final states that can be experimentally distinguished from the leading-order ones. There are no technical reasons, then, to include the real emission of W and Z bosons. The result of considering only virtual EW corrections is the appearance of logarithms that involve the ratio between the energy of the process and the EW scale. They would represent the divergent part of the virtual corrections if the exchanged bosons were massless. These corrections become relevant at the TeV scale, where they usually give sizable negative contributions in the high-energy tails of some transverse-momentum distributions. It has been proven that, in the limit in which all the kinematic invariants involved are of the same order and much greater than the EW scale, the structure of EW virtual corrections is universal: it can then be computed once for all and applied to the desired processes. These high-energy results can be used to obtain a next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) approximation of the complete EW virtual corrections with a reduced computational cost. This thesis is focused on the description of two kinds of high-energy processes that involve the production of a Higgs boson, including both QCD and EW corrections. The first process is one of the main production modes of the Higgs boson at hadron colliders: the associated production with a vector boson, HV. This process is very important, since it allows to study the decay channel into a bottom-quark pair, that has the highest branching ratio in the Higgs boson mass region. The second relevant process analyzed is the associated production with a vector boson and a jet, HVj, that contributes to the background for supersymmetric events. At present, both the HV and Hvj processes are described at NLO+PS QCD accuracy. The NLO+PS accuracy in the EW sector is instead missing. The aim of this thesis is the description of the HV and HVj associated production processes at NLO+PS QCD+EW accuracy. We present numerical predictions for proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, focusing on observables that are sensitive to EW corrections. For each process, we analyze the differences between the NLO EW corrections and their NLL approximation, and the impact of the EW sector on the QCD results.
Panizzi, Luca. "One loop electroweak analysis for third family scalar quarks production at LHC". Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trieste, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10077/3064.
Texto completoThe thesis is devoted to the analysis of electroweak one-loop corrections to processes of production of scalar quarks of the third family at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the context of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM). Third family squarks are are predicted to be among the lightest supersymmetric particles, hence they could be among the first signals of new physics to be detected at the LHC. Moreover, a very light stop (with a mass of the same order of the top mass) might play a relevant role within a cosmological model of electroweak baryogenesis. A precise analysis of one-loop corrections to processes of production of stop and sbottom particles and the determination of theoretical predictions to be tested against LHC data are therefore mandatory to understand the properties of these particles. The EW NLO corrections to the most meaningful observables related to these processes (differential and total cross sections) have been calculated and the dependence on supersymmetric parameters of the considered observables has been analysed. The considered processes are: 1) PP -> gg -> stop-antistop (sbottom-antisbottom); 2) PP-> bg -> stop-chargino. In both cases the analysis has been performed within various mSUGRA scenarios. For this purpose three C++ codes which exploit Monte Carlo techniques for the integration of cross sections have been developed. For the stop-antistop production case the diagonal production shows a total cross section of the order of 10 picobarns in some scenarios which predict a light stop; electroweak corrections, however, are of the order of few percent for every scenario considered; through the definition of the partial rates it is possible to obtain correction near to 10% in the high invariant mass region. The analysis of the dependence of one-loop corrections on mSUGRA parameters has been performed and it has been verified that the dependence is quite mild (variations up to 4%). In the case of sbottom production the total cross sections are generally smaller than 1pb and the one-loop corrections are not very sizable. As far as the parametric dependence is concerned, for diagonal production of light sbottom an interesting dependence on the parameter tg(beta) has been found in a particular scenario. For the stop-chargino production process the total cross sections are of the order of the picobarn in scenarios where stop and charginos are not too massive. The one-loop corrections are of the order of few percent and, due to the small cross sections in the considered scenarios, they are unfortunaltely quite difficult to observe at the LHC; the analysis through the partial rates predicts higher corrections, though difficult to detect. Due to these results, the parametric analysis has been performed at tree level, where the observables depend on a limited number of supersymmetric parameters: the strongest dependence has been found to be on the stop mixing angle and on the supersymmetric parameter mu. The analysis of stop production processes within scenarios of electroweak baryogenesis has been performed in both cases. For the case of diagonal production of light stop-antistop pairs, the electroweak one-loop effect on the total cross section has been found to be quite mild. Due to the small stop mass the total cross section is however of the order of 10pb. Therefore, through the analysis of partial rate it is possible to predict effects of the order of 10% with a still detectable cross section. In the stop-chargino case, the total cross section has been found to be smaller than 1pb even in the lightest configuration, and the one-loop correction is 2%.
La presente tesi consiste nell'analisi delle correzioni elettrodeboli a 1 loop di alcuni processi di produzione di quark scalari della terza famiglia al Large Hadron Collider nell'ambito dell'estensione supersimmetrica minimale del Modello Standard (MSSM). Gli squark della terza famiglia sono particolarmente importanti perché si prevede che siano fra le particelle supersimmetriche più leggere, e per questo motivo potrebbero essere fra i primi segnali di nuova fisica ad essere osservati all'LHC. Inoltre, uno stop particolarmente leggero (con una massa dello stesso ordine di quella del top) potrebbe giocare un ruolo rilevante nell'ambito di un modello cosmologico di bariogenesi elettrodebole. Una precisa analisi delle correzioni a 1 loop dei processi di produzione di stop e sbottom con la determinazione di previsioni teoriche da verificare sperimentalmente ad LHC è quindi fondamentale per cercare di comprendere le proprietà di queste particelle. In questa tesi vengono calcolate le correzioni sui principali osservabili legati a questi processi (sezioni d'urto differenziali e totali) e viene analizzata la dipendenza dai parametri supersimmetrici degli osservabili considerati. I processi analizzati sono: 1) PP -> gg -> stop-antistop (sbottom-antisbottom); 2) PP -> bg -> stop-chargino. In entrambi i casi l'analisi è stata effettuata nel contesto di diversi scenari mSUGRA. Sono stati sviluppati per questo scopo tre codici in C++ che si avvalgono di tecniche di Monte Carlo per l'integrazione delle sezioni d'urto. Nel caso del processo di produzione di stop, si è verificato che per alcuni scenari che prevedono uno stop leggero, la produzione diagonale ha una sezione d'urto totale dell'ordine della decina di picobarn; le correzioni elettrodeboli però sono dell'ordine di qualche punto percentuale per tutti gli scenari considerati; tramite la definizione delle cosiddette rate parziali è possibile ottenere correzioni vicine al 10% nella regione di alte masse invarianti. E' stata poi eseguita un'analisi di come gli effetti a un loop dipendono dai parametri mSUGRA, verificando che la dipendenza è poco apprezzabile (variazioni del 4%). Nel caso di produzione di sbottom le sezioni d'urto sono generalmente inferiori al picobarn e le correzioni a 1 loop rimangono abbastanza limitate. Per quanto riguarda la dipendenza parametrica, per produzione diagonale di sbottom leggeri c'è una interessante dipendenza dal parametro tg(beta) in un particolare scenario supersimmetrico. Nel caso del processo di produzione di stop-chargino la sezione d'urto è dell'ordine del picobarn nei casi che prevedono stop e chargini non eccessivamente massivi. Anche in questo caso le correzioni a 1 loop sono di qualche punto percentuale, difficilmente visibili a LHC a causa delle basse sezioni d'urto negli scenari considerati; l'analisi delle rate parziale consente di ottenere correzioni maggiori, ma difficilmente osservabili. A causa della scarsa visibilità del processo, l'analisi parametrica è stata effettuata a livello albero, dove gli osservabili dipendono da un numero limitato di parametri supersimmetrici: la dipendenza maggiore risulta essere per l'angolo di mixing dello stop e dal parametro supersimmetrico mu. Per quanto riguarda l'analisi dei processi di produzione di stop nell'ambito di scenari di bariogenesi elettrodebole, nel caso di produzione diagonale di stop leggeri, l'effetto a 1 loop è scarso, ma data la piccola massa dello stop che determina una sezione d'urto dell'ordine della decina di picobarn, l'analisi della rate parziale permette di prevedere effetti dell'ordine del 10%. Nel caso di stop-chargino la sezione d'urto risulta essere inferiore al picobarn anche nella configurazione più leggera e la correzione a 1 loop è del 2%.
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BALLABENE, ERIC. "SEARCH FOR ELECTROWEAK PRODUCTION OF SUPERSYMMETRIC PARTICLES IN COMPRESSED MASS SPECTRA WITH THE ATLAS DETECTOR AT THE LHC". Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2434/943307.
Texto completoIn this thesis, two analyses searching for the production of supersymmetric particles through the electroweak interaction are presented: the chargino search, targeting the pair production of charginos decaying into W bosons and neutralinos, and the displaced track search, looking for mildly displaced charged tracks arising from the decays of higgsinos into pions. These searches target compressed phase spaces, where the mass difference between the next-to-lightest and lightest supersymmetric particle is relatively small. The searches use proton-proton collision data collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. In the chargino search, the targeted difference in mass between charginos and neutralinos is close to the mass of the W boson. In such phase space, the chargino pair production is kinematically similar to the WW background, which makes the chargino signal experimentally challenging to be discriminated from the WW background. A final state with two leptons from the leptonic decays of the W bosons, missing transverse momentum and no hadronic activity is considered, while advanced machine learning techniques are adopted to separate the supersymmetric signal from the backgrounds. Chargino masses up to about 140 GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level in the case of a mass splitting between chargino and neutralino down to about 100 GeV. The results supersede the previous ATLAS results in particularly interesting regions where the chargino pair production could have hidden behind the looking-alike WW background. In the displaced track search, the difference in mass between the produced supersymmetric particles and the lightest neutralinos goes down to 0.3 GeV. The experimental signature is one jet, missing transverse momentum, and a low momentum charged track with an origin displaced from the collision point, the last element being the first time it is used in a search of this kind at a hadron collider. The results show that the analysis has the sensitivity to exclude different signal hypotheses for higgsino masses up to 175 GeV if no excess is observed in data. For lower masses, the larger signal cross-section allows to achieve higher significance values for different mass splitting scenarios. All these signal hypotheses have not been probed by any existing analysis of LHC data.
CARRA, SONIA. "SEARCH FOR ELECTROWEAK PRODUCTION OF SUPERSYMMETRIC PARTICLES AT THE LHC RUN 2 WITH THE ATLAS DETECTOR". Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/608194.
Texto completoSestini, Lorenzo. "Search for a Higgs boson decaying to a pair of b quarks in the forward region of pp collisions with the LHCb detector". Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3423258.
Texto completoLHCb è uno spettrometro collocato nella regione in avanti delle collisioni p-p al Large Hadron Collider (pseudorapidità coperta 2 < eta < 5) progettato per la fisica dei quark b e c. Grazie alle sue uniche caratteristiche LHCb può effettuare misure di fisica elettrodebole e dei jet in uno spazio delle fasi complementare ai General Purpose detectors (GPD) ad LHC, ATLAS e CMS. In questa tesi sono sviluppate tecniche per identificare e ricostruire risonanze b b-bar con il rivelatore LHCb. I dati raccolti nel periodo Run I sono analizzati per identificare il decadimentto Z -> b b-bar, per misurare la sezione d'urto di questo processo e per determinare la scala di energia dei jet. Successivamente il campione viene utilizzato per stabilire il limite superiore sulla produzione di H-> b b-bar nella regione in avanti.
Dong, Peter Joseph. "Measurement of electroweak single top quark production in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV". Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1679373931&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Texto completoDovier, Giacomo Oliviero. "Semi-inclusive associated bottom-Higgs production at LHC: the complete one-loop electroweak in the MSSM". Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trieste, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10077/4815.
Texto completoIl bosone di Higgs il tassello mancante del Modello Standard: predetto da Peter Higgs negli anni sessanta, non ancora stato osservato sperimental- mente. Il Large Hadron Collider stato costruito con questo obiettivo in mente, assieme a molti altri. Uno dei processi pi interessanti per la pro- duzione di Higgs Supersimmetrico bg -> bH0 ( A0, h0). La natura dell'accoppiamento Yukawa nel MSSM lo rende predominate per alti valori di tan(beta) . In questa tesi vengono calcolate le correzioni elettrodeboli ad un loop alla sezione d'urto del processo nel MSSM, e viene mostrato come esse possano essere molto rilevanti per alcune regioni dello spazio dei parametri. Viene anche mostrato come i risultati siano indipendenti dalla scelta dello schema di rinormalizzazione tra DCPR and DR, ed anche come la consueta Improved Born Approximation non riproduca accuratamente i risultati ad un loop, mentre una diversa possibile approssimazione, la Reduced Vertex Approximation, in migliore accordo con il calcolo completo. Viene quindi eff ettuato un confronto con i risultati per un Two Higgs Doublet Modle, e viene mostrato come la di erenza con i risultati nel MSSM sia rilevante ad un loop, rendendo lo studio di questo processo una possibile via per discriminare tra i due modelli.
The Higgs particle is the missing piece of the Standard Model picture: pre- dicted by Peter Higgs in the late sixties, it has yet to be observed in a collider. The Large Hadron Collider has been built with this goal in mind, among many others. A very important channel to look at for SUSY Higgs production is bg -> bH0 (A0, h0). The nature of the MSSM Yukawa couplings make it dominant for high Values of tan(beta) . In my work I calculate the electroweak one loop corrections to the cross section of the process' cross section in the MSSM, and show that they can be very relevant for some regions of the parameters' space. It is also shown how the results obey a nice scheme independence at one loop for the two renormalization schemes DCPR and DR, as well as how the usual Improved Born Approximation fails in this case to reproduce the one loop results accurately, while a di fferent suggested Reduced Vertex Approximation is in better agreement with the full calculation. I then proceed to make a comparison with the results for a Two Higgs Doublets Model, and show that the di fference with the MSSM are big at the one loop level, such that this process could provide a way to discriminate between the two models.
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D'AGNOLO, RAFFAELE TITO. "Naturalness at the LHC". Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/85873.
Texto completoBellazzini, Brando. "The Higgs Boson from Extended Symmetries". Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/85838.
Texto completoCETORELLI, FLAVIA. "First observation of the electroweak production of a W+W- pair in association with two jets in the fully leptonic channel with the CMS detector at the LHC". Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/369032.
Texto completoThis thesis reports the first observation of the electroweak production of a W+W- pair of bosons in association with two jets in the fully leptonic final state. The analysis has been performed using the data sample collected by the CMS detector during the 2016-2018 p-p collisions at center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, provided by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The electroweak W+W- production belongs to the very rare class of vector boson scattering (VBS) processes, which are purely electroweak at tree level. The investigation of VBS processes is a central objective of the LHC since they are connected directly to the Higgs boson and the spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism of the electroweak interaction. The events were selected requiring the presence of two leptons (eμ) with opposite sign charges, two jets with large invariant mass and large pseudorapidity separation, and a certain amount of missing transverse momentum. Events are then separated into different categories considering the flavor of the charged leptons: ee, μμ, and eμ. The ttbar-tW productions constitute the main background of the analysis. Another important source of background is due to diagrams containing two QCD vertices, which produce the same final state as the signal (QCD-induced W+W- production). The Drell-Yan (DY) production contaminates the ee and μμ final states, while this background is highly suppressed in the eμ one. A deep neural network (DNN) was trained to separate the signal from the ttbar and the QCD-induced W+W- production in the eμ final state. The use of the DNN output as a discriminator in this category has boosted the performance of the analysis. Finally, the analysis reaches the observation of the electroweak W+W- signal with a statistical significance of 5.6 standard deviations, whereas 5.2 standard deviations were expected. Moreover, two cross sections are measured into two different fiducial phase spaces. The first one is an inclusive phase space, defined with cuts at parton level on the two outgoing partons: they are required to have a pT > 10 GeV and an invariant mass mqq > 100 GeV. The measured cross section in the inclusive phase space is 99 ± 20 fb to be compared with the theoretical expectation at the lowest order of 89 ± 5 fb. The second one is an exclusive volume, defined with requirements on observables at generator level that mimic the ones of the analysis signal region. In this fiducial volume, the cross section observed is 10.2 ± 2.0 fb, while the expected one is 9.1 ± 0.6 fb. These are the first measurements of the purely electroweak W+W- cross section; the results show good agreement with standard model expectations. The thesis also reports the work for the electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) calibration. The EFlow method, developed during this work, provides per-crystal intercalibration with a time granularity of about 1-2 days to correct the time drift in light response that is still visible after laser corrections. The method relies on the use of minimum bias events from soft collisions, as the φ-symmetry method, which are expected to have a uniform distribution in φ. The EFlow extends the idea of the φ-symmetry method, normalizing the energy of each crystal to the mean of the barrel. In this way, the response in time of each crystal is adjusted to the average drift of the barrel. The events with electrons from W and Z decays are used to correct the residual global drift. The corrections derived in this way are competitive with ones obtained by the method employed during Run II, which used the E/p distribution of electrons from W and Z decays. Thanks to the fine space-time granularity of these corrections and the rapidity of deriving them, the method may be implemented in Run III to provide the so-called “prompt” calibrations for the ECAL.
Carrazza, S. "PARTON DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS WITH QED CORRECTIONS". Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/284820.
Texto completoButtazzo, Dario. "Implications of the discovery of a Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV". Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/85868.
Texto completoLucente, Michele. "Implication of Sterile Fermions in Particle Physics and Cosmology". Doctoral thesis, SISSA, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11767/4803.
Texto completoPark, Kwangwoo. "Electroweak radiative corrections to neutrino-nucleon scattering". 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594490751&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=39334&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Texto completoTitle from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 27, 2009) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Wackeroth, Doreen, Baur, Ulrich Includes bibliographical references.