LEADER 03809nam 22005535 450 001 9910254622003321 005 20200702235811.0 010 $a3-319-43452-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-43452-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000776784 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-43452-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4620097 035 $a(PPN)194805190 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000776784 100 $a20160801d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeyond Standard Model Collider Phenomenology of Higgs Physics and Supersymmetry /$fby Marc Christopher Thomas 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (XIV, 101 p. 30 illus., 27 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5053 311 $a3-319-43451-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $aIntroduction -- Multiple Higgs and Vector Boson Production -- VLVL ? VLVL Scattering as a Model Independent Probe of the Higgs Coupling to Vector Bosons -- Supersymmetric Higgs -- Ruling Out Light Stops -- Conclusion. 330 $aThis thesis studies collider phenomenology of physics beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It also explores in detail advanced topics related to Higgs boson and supersymmetry ? one of the most exciting and well-motivated streams in particle physics. In particular, it finds a very large enhancement of multiple Higgs boson production in vector-boson scattering when Higgs couplings to gauge bosons differ from those predicted by the Standard Model. The thesis demonstrates that due to the loss of unitarity, the very large enhancement for triple Higgs boson production takes place. This is a truly novel finding. The thesis also studies the effects of supersymmetric partners of top and bottom quarks on the Higgs production and decay at the LHC, pointing for the first time to non-universal alterations for two main production processes of the Higgs boson at the LHC?vector boson fusion and gluon?gluon fusion. Continuing the exploration of Higgs boson and supersymmetry at the LHC, the thesis extends existing experimental analysis and shows that for a single decay channel the mass of the top quark superpartner below 175 GeV can be completely excluded, which in turn excludes electroweak baryogenesis in the Minimal Supersymmetric Model. This is a major new finding for the HEP community. This thesis is very clearly written and the introduction and conclusions are accessible to a wide spectrum of readers. 410 0$aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5053 606 $aParticles (Nuclear physics) 606 $aQuantum field theory 606 $aString models 606 $aElementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P23029 606 $aQuantum Field Theories, String Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P19048 615 0$aParticles (Nuclear physics) 615 0$aQuantum field theory. 615 0$aString models. 615 14$aElementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory. 615 24$aQuantum Field Theories, String Theory. 676 $a539.721 700 $aThomas$b Marc Christopher$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0803690 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254622003321 996 $aBeyond Standard Model Collider Phenomenology of Higgs Physics and Supersymmetry$91805135 997 $aUNINA