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Record Nr.

UNINA9910349507403321

Autore

Sarica Ulascan

Titolo

Measurements of Higgs Boson Properties in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s =7, 8 and 13 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider / / by Ulascan Sarica

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-25474-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 103 p. 59 illus., 45 illus. in color.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

539.7092

539.721

Soggetti

Nuclear physics

Heavy ions

Particle acceleration

Physical measurements

Measurement

Physics

Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons

Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics

Measurement Science and Instrumentation

Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Doctoral thesis accepted by Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA."

Nota di contenuto

Chapter1: The Standard Model and the Higgs Boson at the LHC -- Chapter2: The CERN Large Hadron Collider and the Compact Muon Solenoid Detector -- Chapter3: The Phenomenology of the Higgs Boson at the LHC -- Chapter4: Analysis of the Higgs boson properties during Run I and Run II of the LHC -- Chapter5: Summary and outlook.

Sommario/riassunto

This thesis documents the measurement of lifetime, width, mass, and couplings to two electroweak bosons of the recently-discovered Higgs boson using data from the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Both on-shell (at the mass of around 125 GeV) and off-shell



(above 200 GeV) Higgs boson production is studied and an excess of off-shell production with significance above two standard deviations is observed for the first time. The latter is a qualitative new way to study the Higgs field, responsible for generation of mass of all the known elementary particles. In addition, phenomenological tools have been developed with the Monte Carlo event generator and matrix element techniques for an optional analysis of LHC data. Optimization of the CMS data with careful alignment of the silicon tracker is also presented.