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The search for the charged Higgs boson and a tau veto in the event selection

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dc.date.accessioned 2016-05-30T08:53:42Z und
dc.date.accessioned 2017-10-24T12:04:09Z
dc.date.available 2016-05-30T08:53:42Z und
dc.date.available 2017-10-24T12:04:09Z
dc.date.issued 2016-05-30T08:53:42Z
dc.identifier.uri http://radr.hulib.helsinki.fi/handle/10138.1/5517 und
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10138.1/5517
dc.title The search for the charged Higgs boson and a tau veto in the event selection en
ethesis.discipline Theoretical Physics en
ethesis.discipline Teoreettinen fysiikka fi
ethesis.discipline Teoretisk fysik sv
ethesis.discipline.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/C29de80f-21cd-424a-b706-b564d642b058
ethesis.department.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/3acb09b1-e6a2-4faa-b677-1a1b03285b66
ethesis.department Institutionen för fysik sv
ethesis.department Department of Physics en
ethesis.department Fysiikan laitos fi
ethesis.faculty Matematisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten sv
ethesis.faculty Matemaattis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta fi
ethesis.faculty Faculty of Science en
ethesis.faculty.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/8d59209f-6614-4edd-9744-1ebdaf1d13ca
ethesis.university.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/50ae46d8-7ba9-4821-877c-c994c78b0d97
ethesis.university Helsingfors universitet sv
ethesis.university University of Helsinki en
ethesis.university Helsingin yliopisto fi
dct.creator Havukainen, Joona
dct.issued 2016
dct.language.ISO639-2 eng
dct.abstract After the finding of a Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider of CERN, the next milestone in experimental particle physics is the detection of a new particle beyond the Standard Model. Many of the popular extensions of the Standard Model are so called Two-Higgs-doublet models, that include five physical Higgs bosons in total. Two of the bosons are neutral scalars, two are charged scalars and one is a pseudoscalar. The first part of this thesis presents the Standard Model of particle physics as a gauge field theory where the gauge principle is used to introduce interactions between the particles. Quantum electrodynamics, weak interactions and quantum chromodynamics with their properties are discussed. The electroweak symmetry breaking through the Higgs mechanism and its implications for the masses of the particles are shown. The considerations on the Standard Model are concluded by discussing some of the problems in the Standard Model. Supersymmetric extensions to the Standard Model are introduced, motivated by their potential to solve some of the problems and by the framework for new physics the supersymmetry provides. The Higgs sector in the more constrained minimal supersymmetry scenario is discussed and some of the properties for these new Higgs bosons are given. The latter part of the thesis focuses on the experimental aspects of high energy particle physics. The search for the charged Higgs boson in the H+ → τ+ ντ decay channel, with the tau lepton decaying into hadronic decay products is presented in detail. Vetoing collision events with more than one tau particle is shown to enhance the transverse mass resolution of the analysis, improving the signal detection. Methods for performing a tau veto are discussed and the problems in performing the tau veto are studied using 13 TeV collision event simulations and data from 2015 from the CMS detector at the LHC. No viable way of performing the tau veto in such a way that it improves the overall analysis is found. en
dct.language en
ethesis.language.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/languages/eng
ethesis.language English en
ethesis.language englanti fi
ethesis.language engelska sv
ethesis.thesistype pro gradu-avhandlingar sv
ethesis.thesistype pro gradu -tutkielmat fi
ethesis.thesistype master's thesis en
ethesis.thesistype.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/thesistypes/mastersthesis
dct.identifier.urn URN:NBN:fi-fe2017112251956
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