TY - THES A1 - Karg, Stefan T1 - Calculations of multi-particle processes at the one-loop level: precise predictions for the LHC T1 - Berechnung von Vielteilchenprozessen auf Einschleifenniveau : präzise Vorhersagen für den Large Hadron Collider N2 - The Standard Model (SM) of elementary particle physics provides a uniform framework for the description of three fundamental forces, the electromagnetic and weak forces, describing interactions between quarks and leptons, and the strong force, describing a much stronger interaction between the coloured quarks. Numerous experimental tests have been performed in the last thirty years, showing a spectacular agreement with the theoretical predictions of the Standard Model, even at the per mille level, therefore validating the model at the quantum level. An important cornerstone of the Standard Model is the Higgs mechanism, which provides a possible explanation of electroweak symmetry breaking, responsible for the masses of elementary fermions and the W and Z bosons, the carriers of the weak force. This mechanism predicts a scalar boson, the Higgs boson, which has escaped its discovery so far. If the Higgs mechanism is indeed realised in nature, the upcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will be able to find the associated Higgs boson. The discovery of a Higgs boson by itself is not sufficient to establish the Higgs mechanism, the basic ingredient being the Higgs potential which predicts trilinear and quartic couplings. These have to be confirmed experimentally by the study of multi-Higgs production. We therefore present a calculation of the loop-induced processes gg to HH and gg to HHH, and investigate the observability of multi-Higgs boson production at the LHC in the Standard Model and beyond. While the SM cross sections are too small to allow observation at the LHC, we demonstrate that physics beyond the SM can lead to amplified, observable cross sections. Furthermore, the applicability of the heavy top quark approximation in two- and three-Higgs boson production is investigated. We conclude that multi-Higgs boson production at the SuperLHC is an interesting probe of Higgs sectors beyond the SM and warrants further study. Despite the great success of the SM, it is widely believed that this model cannot be valid for arbitrarily high energies. The LHC will probe the TeV scale and theoretical arguments indicate the appearance of physics beyond the SM at this scale. The search for new physics requires a precise understanding of the SM. Precise theoretical predictions are needed which match the accuracy of the experiments. For the LHC, most analyses require next-to-leading order (NLO) precision. Only then will we be able to reliably verify or falsify different models. At the LHC, many interesting signatures involve more than two particles in the final state. Precise theoretical predictions for such multi-leg processes are a highly nontrivial task and new efficient methods have to be applied. The calculation of the process PP to VV+jet at NLO is an important background process to Higgs production in association with a jet at the LHC. We compute the virtual corrections to this process which form the "bottleneck" for obtaining a complete NLO prediction. The resulting analytic expressions are generated with highly automated computer routines and translated into a flexible Fortran code, which can be employed in the computation of differential cross sections of phenomenological interest. The obtained results for the virtual corrections indicate that the QCD corrections are sizable and should be taken into account in experimental studies for the LHC. N2 - Das Standardmodell der Teilchenphysik bietet einen einheitlichen Rahmen zur Beschreibung dreier fundamentaler Kräfte. Die elektromagnetische und schwache Kraft beschreibt die Wechselwirkung zwischen Quarks und Leptonen, während die weit stärkere starke Kraft nur auf die farbgeladenen Quarks wirkt. Die zahlreichen experimentellen Tests, die in den vergangenen 30 Jahren durchgeführt wurden, sind in spektakulärer Übereinstimmung mit den theoretischen Vorhersagen des Standardmodells, sogar auf dem pro mille Niveau und bestätigen damit das Modell auf dem Quantenniveau. Ein Grundpfeiler des Standardmodells ist der Higgsmechanismus, der eine mögliche Erklärung für die elektro-schwache Symmetriebrechung liefert, die verantwortlich ist für die beobachteten Massen elementarer Fermionen und der W und Z Bosonen, den Trägern der schwachen Kraft. Dieser Mechanismus sagt ein skalares Boson, das Higgs Boson, voraus, das bisher noch nicht entdeckt wurde. Falls dieser Mechanismus wirklich in der Natur realisiert ist, wird der Large Hadron Collider (LHC) am CERN in der Lage sein, das zugehörige Higgs Boson zu entdecken. Die Entdeckung des Higgs Bosons für sich alleine gestellt reicht nicht aus, um den Higgsmechanismus zu etablieren, dessen zentraler Bestandteil das Higgspotential ist, welches trilineare und quartische Selbstkopplungen vorhersagt. Diese müssen im Experiment durch die Analyse von multipler Higgsproduktion bestätigt werden. Wir präsentieren daher die Berechnung der schleifen-induzierten Prozesse gg nach HH und gg nach HHH und untersuchen die Observierbarkeit von multipler Higgsproduktion am LHC im Rahmen des Standardmodells und darüber hinaus. Da die Standardmodell-Wirkungsquerschnitte zu klein sind, um die Produktion von drei Higgs Bosonen am LHC zu beobachten, zeigen wir, dass Physik jenseits des Standardmodells zu verstärkten und damit beobachtbaren Wirkungsquerschnitten führen kann. Darüber hinaus wird die Anwendbarkeit der Näherung eines schweren top Quarks auf die Produktion von zwei und drei Higgs Bosonen untersucht. Wir kommen zu dem Schluss, dass multiple Higgsproduktion am Super-LHC eine interessante Sonde des Higgs Sektors ist und weitere Untersuchungen rechtfertigt. Trotz des großartigen Erfolgs des Standardmodells wird weithin vermutet, dass dieses Modell seine Gültigkeit nicht bis zu beliebig hohen Energieskalen behält. Theoretische Argumente deuten auf Anzeichen neuer Physik jenseits des Standardmodells auf der TeV Skala hin, die der LHC untersuchen wird. Die Suche nach neuer Physik erfordert ein detailliertes Verständnis des Standardmodells. Präzise theoretische Vorhersagen sind nötig, die der experimentellen Genauigkeit der Experimente entsprechen. Für den LHC sind die meisten Analysen in nächst-führender Ordnung (NLO) erforderlich. Nur dann werden wir verlässlich erweiterte Modelle bestätigen oder falsifizieren können. Am LHC sind viele interessante Signaturen verknüpft mit Endzuständen, die mehr als zwei Teilchen beinhalten. Präzise theoretische Vorhersagen für solche Multiple-Teilchen-Prozesse stellen eine sehr große Herausforderung dar, für die neue und effiziente Methoden verwendet werden müssen. Die Berechnung des Prozesses PP nach VV+jet in nächst-führender Ordnung ist ein wichtiger Hintergrundprozess für die Higgsproduktion in Assoziation mit einem Jet am LHC. Wir berechnen die virtuellen Korrekturen zu diesem Prozess, welche die größte Schwierigkeit darstellt, eine Vorhersage mit NLO Präzision zu erhalten. Die resultierenden analytischen Ausdrücke wurden weitgehend automatisiert erzeugt und in einen flexiblen Fortran Code übersetzt, der für die Berechnung von totalen und differentiellen Wirkungsquerschnitten von phänomenologischem Interesse verwendet werden kann. Die erzielten Ergebnisse für die virtuellen Korrekturen deuten auf große QCD Korrekturen hin, die in experimentellen Studien für den LHC berücksichtigt werden sollten. KW - Higgs-Teilchen KW - LHC KW - Standard Modell KW - MSSM KW - gluon-gluon Wechselwirkung KW - intermediate boson production KW - Higgs bosons KW - standard model KW - gluon-gluon interactions KW - minimal supersymmetric standard model Y1 - 2007 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-27505 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Evidence for the associated production of the Higgs boson and a top quark pair with the ATLAS detector JF - Physical Review D N2 - A search for the associated production of the Higgs boson with a top quark pair (tt (b) over barH) is reported. The search is performed in multilepton final states using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at a center-of-mass energy root s = 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. Higgs boson decays to WW*, tau tau, and ZZ* are targeted. Seven final states, categorized by the number and flavor of charged-lepton candidates, are examined for the presence of the Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeVand a pair of top quarks. An excess of events over the expected background from Standard Model processes is found with an observed significance of 4.1 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 2.8 standard deviations. The best fit for the (tt (b) over barH) production cross section is sot (tt (b) over barH) = 790(-210)(+230) fb, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction of 507(-50)(+35) fb. The combination of this result with other tt (b) over barH searches from the ATLAS experiment using the Higgs boson decay modes to b (b) over bar, gamma gamma and ZZ* -> 4l, has an observed significance of 4.2 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 3.8 standard deviations. This provides evidence for the tt (b) over barH production mode. KW - Production cross-section KW - spontaneous symmetry breaking KW - Higgs bosons KW - Top quark KW - Parton distributions KW - pp collisions KW - Monte-Carlo KW - 8 TEV KW - Root s=7 KW - search KW - decay KW - model KW - symmetries Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-226569 VL - 97 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Measurements of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel with 36 fb\(^{-1}\) of \(pp\) collision data at root \(s\)=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector JF - Physical Review D N2 - Properties of the Higgs boson are measured in the two-photon final state using 36.1 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data recorded at root s = 13 TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Cross-section measurements for the production of a Higgs boson through gluon-gluon fusion, vector-boson fusion, and in association with a vector boson or a top-quark pair are reported. The signal strength, defined as the ratio of the observed to the expected signal yield, is measured for each of these production processes as well as inclusively. The global signal strength measurement of 0.99 +/- 0.14 improves on the precision of the ATLAS measurement at root s = 7 and 8 TeV by a factor of two. Measurements of gluon-gluon fusion and vector-boson fusion productions yield signal strengths compatible with the Standard Model prediction. Measurements of simplified template cross sections, designed to quantify the different Higgs boson production processes in specific regions of phase space, are reported. The cross section for the production of the Higgs boson decaying to two isolated photons in a fiducial region closely matching the experimental selection of the photons is measured to be 55 +/- 10 fb, which is in good agreement with the Standard Model prediction of 64 +/- 2 fb. Furthermore, cross sections in fiducial regions enriched in Higgs boson production in vector-boson fusion or in association with large missing transverse momentum, leptons or top-quark pairs are reported. Differential and double-differential measurements are performed for several variables related to the diphoton kinematics as well as the kinematics and multiplicity of the jets produced in association with a Higgs boson. These differential cross sections are sensitive to higher order QCD corrections and properties of the Higgs boson, such as its spin and CP quantum numbers. No significant deviations from a wide array of Standard Model predictions are observed. Finally, the strength and tensor structure of the Higgs boson interactions are investigated using an effective Lagrangian, which introduces additional CP-even and CP-odd interactions. No significant new physics contributions are observed. KW - Differential Cross-Sections KW - QCD Corrections KW - Search KW - Model KW - NNLO KW - Particle data analysis KW - Particle properties KW - Photons KW - Higgs bosons Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-226733 VL - 98 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Search for heavy resonances decaying to a photon and a hadronically decaying \({Z/W/H}\) boson in \(pp\) collisions at root \(s\)=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector JF - Physical Review D N2 - Many extensions of the Standard Model predict new resonances decaying to a Z, W, or Higgs boson and a photon. This paper presents a search for such resonances produced in pp collisions at root s = 13 TeV using a data set with an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb(-1) collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The Z/W/H bosons are identified through their decays to hadrons. The data are found to be consistent with the Standard Model expectation in the entire investigated mass range. Upper limits are set on the production cross section times branching fraction for resonance decays to Z.W + gamma in the mass range from 1.0 to 6.8 TeV and for the first time into H + gamma in the mass range from 1.0 to 3.0 TeV. KW - Parton Distributions KW - Gamma KW - Electroweak interaction KW - Higgs bosons Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-226079 VL - 98 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Search for the Decay of the Higgs Boson to Charm Quarks with the ATLAS Experiment JF - Physical Review Letters N2 - A direct search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a pair of charm quarks is presented. Associated production of the Higgs and Z bosons, in the decay mode ZH -> l(+)l(-) cc is studied. A data set with an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb(-1) of pp collisions at root s = 13TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC is used. The H -> cc signature is identified using charm-tagging algorithms. The observed (expected) upper limit on sigma(pp -> ZH) x B(H -> cc) is 2.7 (3.9(-2.1)(+2.1) ) pb at the 95% confidence level for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, while the standard model value is 26 fb. KW - Programm KW - Spontaneous symmetry breaking KW - Higgs bosons KW - Charm quark Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-226523 VL - 120 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a b(b)overbar pair in \(pp\) collisions at root \(s\)=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector JF - Physical Review D N2 - A search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair, t(t)overbarH, is presented. The analysis uses 36.1 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s = 13 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 and 2016. The search targets the H -> b(b)overbar decay mode. The selected events contain either one or two electrons or muons from the top-quark decays, and are then categorized according to the number of jets and how likely these are to contain b-hadrons. Multivariate techniques are used to discriminate between signal and background events, the latter being dominated by ft + jets production. For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, the ratio of the measured t(t)overbarH signal cross-section to the standard model expectation is found to be mu = 0.84(-0.61)(+0.64). A value of mu greater than 2.0 is excluded at 95% confidence level (C.L.) while the expected upper limit is mu < 1.2 in the absence of a t(t)overbarH signal. KW - ++ KW - Symmetries KW - program KW - MASS KW - spontaneous symmetry breaking KW - Higgs bosons KW - Top quark Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-226545 VL - 97 IS - 7 ER -