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Search For Charged Higgs Bosons In The Tau+Nu Final State With 139 Inverse Fb Of Pp Collision Data At Sqrt(S)=13 Tev With The Atlas Experiment, Elliot Wesley Parrish Jan 2022

Search For Charged Higgs Bosons In The Tau+Nu Final State With 139 Inverse Fb Of Pp Collision Data At Sqrt(S)=13 Tev With The Atlas Experiment, Elliot Wesley Parrish

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation uses 139 inverse fb of pp collision data collected at a center of mass energy of sqrt(s)=13 TeV by the ATLAS detector to search for charged Higgs bosons decaying to a tau lepton and a neutrino in association with a top quark. Two subchannels are defined based on the leptonic decay (tau+lepton) or hadronic decay (tau+jets) of the associated top quark. Parameterized Neural Networks are investigated and optimized to improve signal separation from background in both subchannels across a wide charged Higgs boson mass range of 80 GeV to 3000 GeV. Expected exclusion limits at 95% confidence on …


Studies Of Vector Boson Scattering In The Semileptonic Zv Channel With The Cms Detector At √S = 13 Tev, Ramanpreet Singh Jan 2022

Studies Of Vector Boson Scattering In The Semileptonic Zv Channel With The Cms Detector At √S = 13 Tev, Ramanpreet Singh

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation reports on the search for the vector boson scattering (VBS) in semileptonicZV channel, where the Z boson decays to a pair of leptons (electrons or muons), and the other vector boson V (either W or Z) decays hadronically to a pair of jets, in association of two large pseudorapidity jets i.e. ZVjj → l+l−jjjj, l = e or μ. The search used 137 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data collected by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with center-of-mass energy (√s) of 13 TeV from 2016 to 2018. VBS is a key process …


Measuring The Diphoton Production From Higgs Boson Decays And In Association With Heavy Flavor Jets, Brianna Lynn Dwyer Jan 2022

Measuring The Diphoton Production From Higgs Boson Decays And In Association With Heavy Flavor Jets, Brianna Lynn Dwyer

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

In this dissertation, two important measurements are presented related to diphoton production, the differential cross-section measurement of the Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel as well as a measurement on inclusive diphoton production with associated heavy-flavor jets. Selections between the two analyses are complimentary, making them a natural pairing in the context of this dissertation. The cross-section measurement is performed in a fiducial region of phase space to closely matches experimental selections. This allows for a largely model-independent measurement, providing a meticulous test of the Standard Model as well as other theoretical predictions. The production of diphoton + heavy-flavor …