1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910441659903321

Autore

Radford, Andrew

Titolo

Relative clauses : structure and variation in everyday English / Andrew Radford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge [etc.], : Cambridge University press, 2019

ISBN

9781108492805

9781108729680

Descrizione fisica

xi, 314 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 161

Disciplina

425

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

425 RAD 3

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910726274603321

Autore

Burzynski Jackson

Titolo

A Search for Exotic Higgs Decays : Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Long-Lived Particles / / by Jackson Burzynski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

9783031304668

9783031304651

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 pages)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5061

Disciplina

539.721

Soggetti

Particles (Nuclear physics)

Quantum field theory

Quantitative research

Particle accelerators

Particle Physics

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory

Data Analysis and Big Data

Accelerator Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The Standard Model -- Physics Beyond the Standard Model -- The Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS Detector -- Event Reconstruction -- Reconstruction of Long-Lived Particle Decays.

Sommario/riassunto

This work describes a search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson to two long-lived, neutral, spin-0 particles which subsequently decay to pairs of b quarks, giving the striking signature of displaced hadronic jets in the ATLAS inner detector. Several other ATLAS searches have probed this decay topology previously, excluding branching ratios of the Higgs boson to long-lived particles (LLPs) of more than 10% for proper lifetimes greater than 100mm. These searches relied on dedicated triggers designed to select events with LLPs decaying in the ATLAS calorimeter or muon spectrometer. The lack of an equivalent trigger for LLP decays in the ATLAS inner detector has been a limiting



factor in probing LLP lifetimes less than 100mm. To circumvent the difficulty of triggering on LLP decays, the search presented in this thesis exploits the ZH associated production mode, relying on leptonic trigger signatures to select interesting events. This is the first search for Higgs boson decays into LLPs to exploit this analysis methodology and additionally makes use of several novel methods for both background rejection and background estimation. No excess over Standard Model predictions is observed, and upper limits are set on the branching ratio of the Higgs boson to LLPs . Depending on the mass of the LLP, branching ratios greater than 10% are excluded for lifetimes as small as 4mm and as large as 100mm, probing an important gap in the ATLAS exotic Higgs decay programme. In comparison to the previous searches for Higgs decays to LLPs, these are among the most stringent limits placed on this scenario, and for LLPs with masses below 40 GeV these results represent the strongest existing constraints on the branching ratio of the Higgs boson to LLPs in this lifetime regime.