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
| dc.contributor.advisor | Strauss, Michael | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pearson, Benjamin | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Abbott, Braden | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Kao, Chung | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Watson, Deborah | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Harwell, Jeffrey | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-17T13:32:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-08-17T13:32:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-08-16 | |
| dc.date.manuscript | 2016-08-15 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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 different center-of-mass energies, sqrt(s) = 8 TeV in 2012 and sqrt(s) = 13 TeV in 2015, corresponding to two independent datasets with sizes given by their integrated luminosities of 20.3 fb-1 and 3.2 fb-1, respectively. No significant excess of data above the expected background is observed in either analysis, so upper limits are set on the production cross-section times branching ratio, as a function of the hypothesized boson mass, for the various signal models tested. The derived limits substantially improve upon previous results. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11244/44897 | |
| dc.language | en_US | en_US |
| dc.subject | particle physics | en_US |
| dc.subject | high-mass Higgs | en_US |
| dc.subject | diboson resonance | en_US |
| dc.subject | ATLAS CERN LHC | en_US |
| dc.thesis.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
| dc.title | 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 | en_US |
| ou.group | College of Arts and Sciences::Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy | en_US |
| shareok.nativefileaccess | restricted | en_US |
| shareok.orcid | 0000-0003-3071-3143 | en_US |