Search for Higgs Boson Pair Production in the bb̅ τ+ τ- Decay Channel : with the CMS detector at the LHC / by Luca Cadamuro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cadamuro, Luca., Author.

Series:

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, 2190-5053

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Quantum field theory.

String models.

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.

Local Subjects:

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2018.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.

Summary:

This thesis presents innovative contributions to the CMS experiment in the new trigger system for the restart of the LHC collisions in Run II, as well as original analysis methods and important results that led to official publications of the Collaboration. The author's novel reconstruction algorithms, deployed on the Field-Programmable Gate Arrays of the new CMS trigger architecture, have brought a gain of over a factor 2 in efficiency for the identification of tau leptons, with a very significant impact on important H boson measurements, such as its decays to tau lepton pairs and the search for H boson pair production. He also describes a novel analysis of HH → bb tautau, a high priority physics topic in a difficult channel. The original strategy, optimisation of event categories, and the control of the background have made the result one of the most sensitive concerning the self-coupling of the Higgs boson among all possible channels at the LHC.

Contents:

Preamble

Introduction to Higgs Boson Pair Production

Experimental Apparatus

The L1 τ Trigger

Event Selection and Categorization

Modelling of Physics Processes

Results on HH → bbτ +τ −

Future prospects for HH searches

Conclusions

Appendix.

ISBN:

3-030-04055-0