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- Abercrombie, Daniel, et al.
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Dark Matter benchmark models for early LHC Run-2 Searches : Report of the ATLAS/CMS Dark Matter Forum
- 2020
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Ingår i: Physics of the Dark Universe. - : Elsevier BV. - 2212-6864. ; 27
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This document is the final report of the ATLAS-CMS Dark Matter Forum, a forum organized by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations with the participation of experts on theories of Dark Matter, to select a minimal basis set of dark matter simplified models that should support the design of the early LHC Run-2 searches. A prioritized, compact set of benchmark models is proposed, accompanied by studies of the parameter space of these models and a repository of generator implementations. This report also addresses how to apply the Effective Field Theory formalism for collider searches and present the results of such interpretations.
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- Gollub, Nils, 1975-
(författare)
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Top-Quark and Charged Higgs Boson Production at Hadron Colliders : Data Analysis at the DØ Experiment and Simulations for the ATLAS Detector
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis treats two different projects, both aiming at experimental tests at hadron colliders of some specific predictions of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics and of its Minimal Supersymmetric extension (MSSM). The thesis is based on four papers.Papers I-III study the discovery potential for a heavy charged Higgs boson of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Charged Higgs bosons are part of the Higgs sector in many extensions to the SM and their detection would be an unambiguous sign of new physics.If the charged Higgs boson is heavier than the top quark, its dominant decay mode is into a top and a bottom quark. Searches in this decay channel at ATLAS are difficult mainly due to the large top-quark pair-production background. The possible gain obtained when requiring 4 b-tagged jets for the signal events is studied, but no significant improvement compared to an analysis requiring 3 b-tagged jets is found.If the masses of supersymmetric particles are sufficiently small, heavy charged Higgs bosons can decay into a chargino-neutralino pair. We show that in this decay channel charged Higgs bosons can be detected, given a favourable choice of parameters governing the MSSM.In a large-mass-splitting MSSM scenario, the charged Higgs decay into a W boson and a neutral Higgs can have a large branching fraction. We conclude, however, that charged Higgs searches in this decay channel are made difficult by a large, irreducible SM background.Paper IV describes a measurement of the top-quark pair production cross-section performed with the DØ detector at the Tevatron collider. Signal events in the muon+jets decay channel are selected using topological event characteristics and a preliminary result of σ(ttbar)=3.8 +1.1-1.1(stat) +0.9-0.8(syst) +0.3-0.2(lumi) pb is obtained using an integrated luminosity of 363/pb.
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- Isacson, Max
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Exploration of extended Higgs sectors, development of a displaced track trigger, and improvements in GRID middleware
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Two possible solutions to the Standard Model (SM) fine-tuning problem are presented in this thesis, MSSM and Compositeness. The Higgs sector of the MSSM can be tested by searching for charged Higgs bosons. Two direct searches for charged Higgs bosons decaying into a top- and bottom-quark are performed using 13.2 and 36.1 fb–¹ respectively of pp collision data collected at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. No significant excess over the SM background is observed and upper limits on σ(pp→tbH+)×B(H+→tb) between 0.07 and 2.9 pb are set at a 95% confidence level in the charged Higgs boson mass range 200–2000 GeV using the CLs method. The phenomenology of a vector-like top-partner decaying into a BSM (pseudo-) scalar is explored and interpreted in 2HDM and Compositeness models. The experimental reach is evaluated using γγ and Zγ final states, and the LHC is determined to be sensitive to top-partner and (pseudo-) scalar masses in the 1–2 TeV range both in the Run 2 and expected Run 3 datasets. Two hardware based hit collection methods targeting long-lived particles are studied for a regional track trigger in anticipation of the HL-LHC upgrade. The efficiency is estimated to be ~20% for a wide range of track parameters for tracks originating from a displaced vertex. The prospect of using GPU-computing on the LHC GRID is considered. Extensions of the ARC middleware Information Providers integrating local GPU information are demonstrated.
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