Search for a heavy scalar Boson in the 2 Higgs doublet model with the ATLAS detector / von Gunar Ernis. Wuppertal, 2. Oktober 2015
Inhalt
- Contents
- Introduction
- Theoretical Background
- The Standard Model of Particle Physics
- Symmetries and Gauge Theories
- The Brout-Englert-Higgs Mechanism
- Higgs-Boson Production and Decay Modes in the Standard Model
- Properties of the Higgs Boson in the Standard Model
- The 2-Higgs-Doublet Model
- The LHC and the ATLAS Experiment
- Object Definitions and Data Sets
- Process Description and Event Generation
- Process Features and Event Selection
- Signal and Background Discrimination
- Systematic Uncertainties
- Jet Modelling Uncertainties
- Lepton Modelling Uncertainties
- Missing Transverse Momentum Modelling Uncertainties
- Migration, Diboson Off-Shell Effect and Luminosity Uncertainties
- Cross-Section Uncertainties
- Statistical Methods
- The Likelihood Function
- Hypothesis Tests
- Calculation of Cross-Section Limits
- Incorporation of Systematic Uncertainties
- Results
- Exclusion Limits for the Standard Model-like Scenario
- Exclusion Limits for the 2-Higgs-Doublet Model Scenarios
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Ranking of Variables in Neural Network Training
- Separation of Signal and Background Events in the Neural Networks
- Danksagung