Search for New Heavy Charged Bosons and Measurement of High-Mass Drell-Yan Production in Proton-Proton Collisions

• Main Author: Zinser, Markus (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.

This book presents two analyses, the first of which involves the search for a new heavy charged gauge boson, a so-called W¢ boson. This new gauge boson is predicted by some theories extending the Standard Model gauge group to solve some of its conceptual problems. Decays of the W¢ boson in final sta...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I: Theory
• Theory Foundations
• Theoretical Predictions and Simulation
• Part II: The Experimental Setup
• The Large Hadron Collider
• The ATLAS Experiment
• Particle Reconstruction and Identification in ATLAS
• Part III: Search for New Physics in Final States with One Lepton Plus Missing Transverse Momentum at √s = 13 TeV
• Motivation
• Analysis Strategy
• Analysis
• Statistical Interpretation
• Conclusion and Outlook
• Part IV: High-mass Drell-Yan Cross Section Measurement at √s = 8 TeV
• Motivation
• Analysis Strategy
• Analysis of the Electron Channel
• Electron Channel Cross Section Measurement
• Muon Channel Cross Section
• Results and Interpretation
• Conclusion and Outlook
• Summary.