Scalar Boson Decays to Tau Leptons in the Standard Model and Beyond /

• Main Author: Caillol, Cécile (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.; Mathematical physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

This thesis presents a study of the scalar sector in the standard model (SM), as well as various searches for an extended scalar sector in theories beyond the SM (BSM). The first part of the thesis details the search for an SM Higgs boson decaying to taus, and produced by gluon fusion, vector boson...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I: Theoretical Bases
• The Standard Model of Particle Physics
• Physics Beyond the Standard Model
• Statistics
• Part II: Experimental Bases
• Experimental Setup
• Event Generation, Simulation and Reconstruction
• Tau Lepton Reconstruction and Identification
• Part III: SM Physics Analyses
• Search for the SM Scalar in the ZH → ``Ττ Channel
• Search for the SM Scalar in the WH → Eµτh Channel
• Combination of Searches for the SM Scalar Boson Decaying to Taus
• Part IV: BSM Physics Analyses
• Search for a Heavy Pseudoscalar Boson a Decaying to Zh in the ``Ττ final State
• Search for Exotic Decays of the SM-Like Scalar Boson in the µµττ final State
• Search for a Light Pseudoscalar Decaying to Taus
• Search for a Heavy Di-Tau Resonance in the MSSM
• Part V: Status and Prospects
• Overview of LHC Results and Prospects for Future Colliders
• Conclusion.