Yuen, Stephanie P. Y.: Analysis of the Higgs boson decay in the H → τhadτhad channel and CP properties with √s = 13 TeV collisions at the ATLAS detector. - Bonn, 2019. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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@phdthesis{handle:20.500.11811/8109,
urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5n-56497,
author = {{Stephanie P. Y. Yuen}},
title = {Analysis of the Higgs boson decay in the H → τhadτhad channel and CP properties with √s = 13 TeV collisions at the ATLAS detector},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2019,
month = nov,

note = {In 2012, the last unobserved particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics (SM), the Higgs boson, was discovered by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations in a number of its bosonic decay channels. This has been an important step in understanding the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking. Subsequent studies of the Higgs boson spin, parity, and coupling properties are vital in confirming whether the discovered Higgs boson is compatible with the SM Higgs boson. The topics of this dissertation are the analyses of the Higgs decay to a pair of hadronically decaying tau leptons and the Higgs charge-parity (CP) properties in the same decay channel using datasets collected during 2015 and 2016 from proton-proton collisions at the LHC, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 3.21 fb–1 and 32.9 fb–1, respectively.
In Higgs physics, the fermionic decay channels are important because they provide direct access to the Higgs boson Yukawa couplings. In the presented analysis of the Higgs decay to tau leptons (H →ττ), the signal extraction is performed by comparing the expected signal and background distributions to the observed di-tau mass distribution in data. An excess of signal events beyond the expected background yield is measured with an observed significance of 1.52σ, corresponding to a signal strength relative to the SM prediction of μ=0.62+0.25–0.24(stat) +0.36 –0.31 (syst)=0.62+0.44–0.40.
Subsequent studies of Higgs CP properties are performed in the same decay channel using the H →ττ analysis as the basis. While CP measurements in the bosonic decay channels have excluded deviations from SM Higgs boson CP quantum numbers, the fermionic decay channels provide unique CP information. If there are signs of CP mixing in the fermionic sector, the Higgs boson can possibly explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe.
The Higgs CP sensitivity is extracted by comparing the expected signal and background distributions to the observed data distribution constructed from experimental observables sensitive to Higgs CP mixing. Studies are performed to validate the signal extraction with toy experiments and to identify the main hindrance of the analysis, which is the limited integrated luminosity. A CP mixing angle of 10° is measured with an uncertainty of 18.3° for the case where the Higgs boson cross section is fixed to the SM prediction and an uncertainty of 27.5° where it is fitted. It is consistent with the SM prediction of φt = 0°.},

url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/8109}
}

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