Measuring the Higgs boson mass using event-by-event uncertainties

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Authors
  • A. Castelli
Supervisors
Cosupervisors
Award date 25-09-2015
Number of pages 176
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
Abstract The thesis presents a measurement of the properties of the Higgs particle, performed by using the data collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2011 and 2012. The measurement is performed by using a three-dimensional model based on analytic functions to describe the signal produced by the Higgs boson decays. The model includes the information provided by the uncertainty measured event-by-event. A maximum likelihood fit is used to obtain an unbiased estimate of the mass, the signal strength and the decay amplitude of the Higgs particle.
Document type PhD thesis
Note Research conducted at: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Language English
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