Hüske, Nils Kristian: The Higgs boson in the Standard Model : theoretical constraints and a direct search in the WH channel at the Tevatron. 2010
Inhalt
- 0 Foreword
- Theory
- 1 The Standard Model of Particle Physics
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Elementary Particles
- 1.3 Fundamental Forces
- 1.4 Electroweak theory and spontaneous symmetry breaking
- 1.5 Quantum Chromodynamics
- 1.6 The Standard Model
- 2 The Higgs boson
- 2.1 Constraints on the Higgs Boson Mass
- 2.1.1 Direct Searches at LEP
- 2.1.2 Indirect constraints from EW Precision Measurements
- 2.1.3 Combining Direct and Indirect Constraints
- 2.2 Higgs Searches at the Tevatron
- 3 Implications of the Higgs Boson Mass for the SM and Cosmology
- Experiment
- 4 THE WH ANALYSIS
- 5 Experimental Apparatus
- 5.1 Fermilab
- 5.2 Accelerator Chain
- 5.3 The DØ Detector
- 5.3.1 Tracking System
- 5.3.2 Magnets
- 5.3.3 Preshower System
- 5.3.4 Calorimeter
- 5.3.5 Luminosity Monitor
- 5.3.6 Muon System
- 5.3.7 Triggers
- 5.3.8 Data Quality and Acquisition
- 5.4 Object Reconstruction
- 5.4.1 Tracks
- 5.4.2 Vertices
- 5.4.3 Electron reconstruction and identification
- 5.4.4 Muon reconstruction and identification
- 5.4.5 Jets
- 5.4.6 Missing Transverse Energy
- 5.5 Corrections
- 5.5.1 Lepton Identification
- 5.5.2 Lepton Resolution
- 5.5.3 Jet Energy Scale Correction
- 5.5.4 Vertex Confirmation
- 5.6 Tagging of b quark jets
- 6 MODELING OF PHYSICS PROCESSES
- 6.1 Generators
- 6.2 Detector Simulation
- 6.3 Simulated Processes
- 6.3.1 Cross Section Correction
- 6.3.2 Simulated Event Tables
- 6.3.3 Experimental k factors and heavy flavor scale factors for W+jets and Z+jets samples
- 6.4 Event Correction
- 6.5 ALPGEN Reweighting
- 6.5.1 Z Boson Transverse Momentum
- 6.5.2 Jet det in the ICD region
- 6.5.3 Jet
- 6.5.4 Lepton
- 6.5.5 W pT and R
- 6.6 Multijet Background Estimation
- 6.7 Jet Corrections in Simulated Events
- 6.8 Tagging Correction Factors
- 7 ANALYSIS
- Conclusion and Outlook
- Appendix