Browsing by Author "Abbott, Braden"
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The Electric Dipole Moment of the Tau Lepton as a Signature of CP Violation
Dewald, Andrew (2019-08-01)We calculate a one-loop level electric dipole moment (EDM) of the tau lepton that arises from scalar/pseudoscalar Higgs mixing in a type II two Higgs doublet model. Numerical results at m_0 = 125 GeV give an EDM of 3.66 ... -
HIGH RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY OF ANTIMONIDE HETEROSTRUCTURES AND STREPSIPTERA EYES
Richert, Damien (2019-01-25)We study different Antimonide heterostructure resulting from a calibration step for infrared photodetector and infrared laser. Using SEM and AFM, we found a trend in the density of surface features on Antimonide heterostructures ... -
The Initial-Final Mass Relation Revisited: A Monte Carlo Approach with the Addition of the M67 White Dwarf Population
Canton, Paul (2018-12)The initial-final mass relation (IFMR) describes how the initial mass of a stellar object maps to its mass as a remnant. The focus of this work is to re-examine this relation for low to intermediate mass stars. Studies ... -
J/psi meson production in association with a W boson: Cross section ratio measurement with the ATLAS detector using 8 TeV pp data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
Bertsche, David (2016-05-13)The production mechanism of charmonium particles in hadronic collisions is not fully understood and is an active area of research. These mechanisms can be studied by examining the associated production of charmonium particles ... -
Measurement of the top quark pair production cross section with a tau lepton in the final state at the center of mass energy of 8 TeV
Hasib, Ahmed (2016)This dissertation presents the measurement of the inclusive cross section of the top quark pair production in the final state of a tau lepton with associated jets. The dataset used in this measurement is collected by the ... -
Measurement of the Top Quark Pole Mass and QCD Radiation in Top Quark Pair Production using Electron-Muon Events with b-Tagged Jets in Proton-Proton Collisions at 7-8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC
Bertsche, Carolyn (2015)As heavy as an atom of gold but much smaller than a proton, the top quark is the most massive fundamental particle known in the universe and an integral part of current particle physics research. The characteristics of the ... -
Observation of opposite sign WW with an associated photon production at a center of mass energy of 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
Lambert, Joseph (2022-12)The analysis presented in this thesis expects to provide the first observation of the opposite sign WW with an associated photon process and to measure its fiducial cross section. The analysis uses proton-proton collision ... -
Observation of the triboson process pp → W±W∓γ and limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings with the ATLAS detector
Wilbern, Daniel (2023-05-12)This thesis presents a search for evidence of $W^\pm W^\mp \gamma$ production from $p-p$ scattering with $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider using 140 fb$^-1$ of integrated luminosity. The case where the $W$ ... -
Phenomenology of the String Theory Landscape
Salam, Mohammed Shadman (2022)In this dissertation, we perform a thorough phenomenological study of the string theory landscape. To this end, we compare and contrast the data collected from particle accelerators and detectors against various models of ... -
Probing Flavor Changing Higgs Interactions at LHC and Future Hadron Colliders
Jain, Rishabh (2020-08)In this dissertation, we discuss the prospect of discovering flavor changing neutral Higgs (FCNH) interactions with quarks and leptons at current and future hadron colliders. Particularly, we have looked for $t \to c h^0$ ... -
Radiatively-driven Natural Supersymmetry
Mickelson, Daniel (2014-08-15)Within the framework of supersymmetric theories, a question arises: how can the W, Z, and h masses be so low (∼ 100 GeV) when the superpartner masses are so high (mSUSY > 1−2 TeV)? This is the little hierarchy problem, and ... -
Search for third generation vector-like leptons with the ATLAS detector
Muse, Joseph (2022-03-09)The Standard Model of particle physics provides a concise description of the building blocks of our universe in terms of fundamental particles and their interactions. It is an extremely successful theory, providing a ... -
Searches for a high-mass Higgs-like diboson resonance in the H-->WW-->lvqq decay channel using pp collisions at both sqrt(s) = 8 and 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
Pearson, Benjamin (2016-08-16)This work presents two searches for a high-mass Higgs boson in the H-->WW-->lvqq decay channel using the ATLAS detector to analyze the high-energy proton-proton collisions provided by the Large Hadron Collider at two ...