Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the ATLAS Collaboration, CERN, Geneva
- Winner of a 2016 ATLAS Thesis Award
- Presents two diboson measurements with the ATLAS experiment and compares with Standard Model predictions
- Focuses on methods used to identify electrons from massive boson decay
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This thesis presents two production cross-section measurements of pairs of massive bosons using final states with leptons, made with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The first measurement, performed using data collected in 2012 at center-of-mass energy √ s = 8 TeV, is the first fiducial and differential cross-section measurement of the production of the Higgs Boson when it decays to four charged leptons (electrons or muons). The second measurement is the first fiducial and inclusive production cross-section measurement of WZ pairs at center-of-mass energy √ s = 13 TeV using final states with three charged leptons.
A significant portion of the thesis focuses on the methods used to identify electrons from massive boson decay—important for many flagship measurements—and on assessing the efficiency of these particle identification techniques. The chapter discussing the WZ pair cross-section measurement provides a detailed example of an estimate of lepton background in the context of an analysis with three leptons in the final state.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016, where he studied experimental parAcle
physics. He has been a member of the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN since 2008. Kurt is
currently working on the ATLAS Experiment as a postdoctoral fellow at DESY in Hamburg,
Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physics with Electrons in the ATLAS Detector
Authors: Kurt Brendlinger
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73930-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73929-8Published: 07 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89262-7Published: 07 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73930-4Published: 30 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 250
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 109 illustrations in colour
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation