Discovery of the higgs boson, measurements of its production, and a search for Higgs boson pair production.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Saxon, James C, author.

Contributor:

Williams, Hugh H., degree supervisor.

University of Pennsylvania. Physics and Astronomy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physics, Elementary Particles and High Energy.

Physics and Astronomy--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Physics and Astronomy.

Local Subjects:

Physics, Elementary Particles and High Energy.

Physics and Astronomy--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Physics and Astronomy.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages)

Contained In:

Dissertation Abstracts International 76-01B(E).

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania ; Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2014.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

This document chronicles the discovery of the Higgs boson and early measurements in the diphoton decay channel. Particular attention is paid to photon identification, to the coupling of the Higgs to the vector bosons, and to differential cross sections of the Higgs boson. As these measurements yielded good agreement to the predictions of the Standard Model, an additional search is performed, for Higgs boson pair production in the gammagammabb final state. The dataset used represents 5/fb of proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and 20/fb of collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV, recorded by the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2011 and 2012.

Notes:

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-01(E), Section: B.

Adviser: Hugh H. Williams.

Department: Physics and Astronomy.

Thesis Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2014.

Local Notes:

School code: 0175.

ISBN:

9781321144130

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.