With the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC at CERN in 2012, the Standard Model is now complete, yet unanswered questions are still present. In example the Standard Model does not explain the hierarchy between the weak and Planck scales, nor it includes a dark matter candidate, nor it explain the origin of barion asymmetry. For this reason, one of the goals of particle physics research is to find new hints of physics beyond the Standard Model that could answer some of these questions. Analyses searching for di-boson resonances are a very powerful tool to investigate many beyond the Standard Model scenarios such as extension of the Higgs sector, Heavy Vector triplets (W' and Z' ) or excited states of Gravitons. These searches exploit many decay channels of the two bosons allowing to select topologies with varied signal to background ratios and statistics. This thesis describes the search for new resonances decaying to a pair of massive vector bosons (X → WW, W Z) in a 36.1 fb −1 data sample of proton-proton collisions produced at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 13TeV collected with the ATLAS detector. The final state is reconstructed through the semi-leptonic decays lνqq (l = e, μ) of the two vector bosons.

Ricerca di risonanze di-bosoniche nello stato finale semi-leptonico (lvqq) in collisioni protone-protone a $\sqrt{s}= 13$ TeV collezionate con il rivelatore ATLAS.

BIESUZ, NICOLO VLADI
2018

Abstract

With the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC at CERN in 2012, the Standard Model is now complete, yet unanswered questions are still present. In example the Standard Model does not explain the hierarchy between the weak and Planck scales, nor it includes a dark matter candidate, nor it explain the origin of barion asymmetry. For this reason, one of the goals of particle physics research is to find new hints of physics beyond the Standard Model that could answer some of these questions. Analyses searching for di-boson resonances are a very powerful tool to investigate many beyond the Standard Model scenarios such as extension of the Higgs sector, Heavy Vector triplets (W' and Z' ) or excited states of Gravitons. These searches exploit many decay channels of the two bosons allowing to select topologies with varied signal to background ratios and statistics. This thesis describes the search for new resonances decaying to a pair of massive vector bosons (X → WW, W Z) in a 36.1 fb −1 data sample of proton-proton collisions produced at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 13TeV collected with the ATLAS detector. The final state is reconstructed through the semi-leptonic decays lνqq (l = e, μ) of the two vector bosons.
6-feb-2018
Italiano
ATLAS
diboson
graviton
heavy vector triplet
resonances
semileptonic
Roda, Chiara
Forti, Francesco
Meoni, Evelin
Nikolaidou, Rosy
Sozzi, Marco
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