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Studies of Higgs boson in its decay to a pair of tau-leptons and search for excited tau-lepton with the ATLAS detector
Mihule, Kristina ; Davídek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kvita, Jiří (referee) ; Lysák, Roman (referee)
The Standard Model (SM) describes known elementary particles and their interactions. The ATLAS experiment is located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN (Geneva). The ATLAS detector measures data from proton- proton collisions at high centre-of-mass energy. The collected data allow physi- cists to precisely study SM and look for evidence of particles beyond the Stan- dard Model. The presented thesis describes the analysis of Higgs boson decay to a pair of tau-leptons. The measurement of the Higgs boson production cross section is based on the data set collected by the ATLAS detector in proton-proton (pp) collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in the years 2015-18 (so-called Run 2). This dissertation presents the update of the algorithm of Higgs boson mass reconstruction for the Run 2 ATLAS conditions. The evaluation of fake tau-lepton background is also discussed. Further, this dissertation is dedicated to the search for excited tau-leptons in the Run 2 ATLAS data set. Contact interaction of the excited tau-leptons is assumed, which would occur if fermions were composite rather than elemen- tary. The analysed ATLAS data from pp collisions in Run 2 set do not contain signatures of excited tau-leptons production. Within the considered model with the compositeness scale Λ = 10 TeV, the upper...
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Produkce jetů s velkou příčnou hybností na LHC
Podškubka, Radek ; Kupčo, Alexander (advisor) ; Lysák, Roman (referee)
In the first part of the thesis, theoretical uncertainties of jet cross-section have been calculated for proton-proton collision at the center of mass energy of 8 TeV. For jet identification the anti-kT algorithm with scale parameter R = 0.6 was used. As the calculations showed, the major contribution to the total theoretical uncertainty comes from the uncertainty of parton distribution function parameters. In the second part of the thesis, the angular distribution of dijet events produced in proton-proton collisions at the center of mass energy 8 TeV were simulated using Pythia 8 Monte Carlo event generator. New physics model of quark compositeness that should manifest itself by quark contact interaction was studied using angular distribution of dijet events. Three angular variables were discussed and these variables were used to calculate 95% CL lower limit on contact interaction scale. The results were compared and it emerged that the sensitivity to contact interaction signals varies for these variables.
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Produkce jetů s velkou příčnou hybností na LHC
Podškubka, Radek ; Kupčo, Alexander (advisor) ; Lysák, Roman (referee)
In the first part of the thesis, theoretical uncertainties of jet cross-section have been calculated for proton-proton collision at the center of mass energy of 8 TeV. For jet identification the anti-kT algorithm with scale parameter R = 0.6 was used. As the calculations showed, the major contribution to the total theoretical uncertainty comes from the uncertainty of parton distribution function parameters. In the second part of the thesis, the angular distribution of dijet events produced in proton-proton collisions at the center of mass energy 8 TeV were simulated using Pythia 8 Monte Carlo event generator. New physics model of quark compositeness that should manifest itself by quark contact interaction was studied using angular distribution of dijet events. Three angular variables were discussed and these variables were used to calculate 95% CL lower limit on contact interaction scale. The results were compared and it emerged that the sensitivity to contact interaction signals varies for these variables.
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