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The Large Hadron Collider and the CMS Experiment

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Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the H → ZZ → l + l - qq Decay Channel at CMS

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This chapter is dedicated to the description of the experimental apparatus which made these measurements possible. Section 2.1 describes the Large Hadron Collider, the accelerator which provided 7 TeV proton-proton collisions which were analysed in this thesis. The collisions were reconstructed with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector, to which Sect. 2.2 is dedicated to. The two final sections of this chapter illustrate the lepton reconstruction techniques adopted in CMS.

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    The LHC is also capable of accelerating and colliding beams of lead ions at 2.76 TeV in the center of mass per nucleon. As this is not relevant for this thesis, it will not be treated.

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Pandolfi, F. (2013). The Large Hadron Collider and the CMS Experiment. In: Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the H → ZZ → l + l - qq Decay Channel at CMS. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00903-2_2

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