Higgs Boson Decays into a Pair of Bottom Quarks: Observation with the ATLAS Dete

Description: Higgs Boson Decays into a Pair of Bottom Quarks by Cecilia Tosciri Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description The discovery in 2012 of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) represents a milestone for the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. Publisher Description The discovery in 2012 of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) represents a milestone for the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. Most of the SM Higgs production and decay rates have been measured at the LHC with increased precision. However, despite its experimental success, the SM is known to be only an effective manifestation of a more fundamental description of nature. The scientific research at the LHC is strongly focused on extending the SM by searching, directly or indirectly, for indications of New Physics. The extensive physics program requires increasingly advanced computational and algorithmic techniques. In the last decades, Machine Learning (ML) methods have made a prominent appearance in the field of particle physics, and promise to address many challenges faced by the LHC.This thesis presents the analysis that led to the observation of the SM Higgs boson decay into pairs of bottom quarks. The analysis exploits the production of a Higgs boson associated with a vector boson whose signatures enable efficient triggering and powerful background reduction. The main strategy to maximise the signal sensitivity is based on a multivariate approach. The analysis is performed on a dataset corresponding to a luminosity of 79.8/fb collected by the ATLAS experiment during Run-2 at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. An excess of events over the expected background is found with an observed (expected) significance of 4.9 (4.3) standard deviation. A combination with results from other \Hbb searches provides an observed (expected) significance of 5.4 (5.5). The corresponding ratio between the signal yield and the SM expectation is 1.01 +- 0.12 (stat.)+ 0.16-0.15(syst.).The observation analysis was further extended to provide a finer interpretation of the V H(H → bb) signal measurement. The cross sections for the VH production times the H → bb branching ratio have been measured in exclusive regions of phase space. These measurements are used to search for possible deviations from the SM with an effective field theory approach, based on anomalous couplings of the Higgs boson. The results of the cross-section measurements, as well as the constraining of the operators that affect the couplings of the Higgs boson to the vector boson and the bottom quarks, have been documented and discussed in this thesis. This thesis also describes a novel technique for the fast simulation of the forward calorimeter response, based on similarity search methods. Such techniques constitute a branch of ML and include clustering and indexing methods that enable quick and efficient searches for vectors similar to each other. The new simulation approach provides optimal results in terms of detector resolution response and reduces the computational requirements of a standard particles simulation. Author Biography Cecilia Tosciri received her Master in Physics in 2016 from the University of Pisa (Italy). For her Masters thesis research, she was based at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Batavia, USA), working on a refined measurement of the top quark mass with the CDF experiment. She then obtained her PhD in Particle Physics from the University of Oxford in 2020. During the PhD, her research with the ATLAS experiment at CERN was focused on the measurement of the Higgs boson properties. As a Marie Skodowska-Curie fellow, she was also involved in an Innovative Training Network of the European Commissions H2020 Program, focused on machine learning techniques for data analysis in particle physics. Her PhD thesis was recognised with the 2020 ATLAS Thesis Award. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago (USA), and her research interests range from the commissioning of the new trigger system in ATLAS to the search for hints of New Physics. Details ISBN 3030879402 ISBN-13 9783030879402 Title Higgs Boson Decays into a Pair of Bottom Quarks Author Cecilia Tosciri Format Paperback Year 2022 Pages 159 Edition 1st Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG GE_Item_ID:141787355; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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