Search for Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Bottom Quarks at ATLAS

• Main Author: Cheng, Yangyang (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Physics.; Cosmology.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Particle acceleration.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

This thesis reports on the search for dark matter in data taken with the ATLAS detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The identification of dark matter and the determination of its properties are among the highest priorities in elementary particle physics and cosmology. The most likely cand...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Standard Model and Beyond
• An Overview of Dark Matter
• The ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
• Dark Matter Searches at ATLAS
• Dark Matter + Higgs(→bb): Overview
• Dark Matter + Higgs(→bb): Z - 2HDM Simplified Model
• Dark Matter + Higgs(→bb): Physics Objects
• Dark Matter + Higgs(→bb): Event Selection
• Dark Matter + Higgs(→bb): Background Processes
• Dark Matter + Higgs(→bb): Systematic Uncertainties
• Dark Matter + Higgs(→bb): Results
• Conclusion
• References. .