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Studies of Higgs Boson Self-Interaction via Higgs Boson Pair Production in the ATLAS Experiment and the Development of Prior-Assisted Anomaly Detection Methods for New Physics Searches
Studies of Higgs Boson Self-Interaction via Higgs Boson Pair Production in the ATLAS Experiment and the Development of Prior-Assisted Anomaly Detection Methods for New Physics Searches
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105315
- ISBN
- 9798265432575
- DDC
- 593.7
- 저자명
- Cheng, Chi Lung.
- 서명/저자
- Studies of Higgs Boson Self-Interaction via Higgs Boson Pair Production in the ATLAS Experiment and the Development of Prior-Assisted Anomaly Detection Methods for New Physics Searches
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 363 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-05, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Wu, Sau Lan.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Particle physics stands at the forefront of humanity's endeavor to understand our physical reality, studying the elementary particles and the forces that govern their interactions. This thesis presents contributions to this scientific effort, detailing experimental research conducted as part of the ATLAS Collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It also introduces novel machine learning methods designed for model-agnostic searches for new physics. The work presented herein addresses fundamental questions at the heart of the Standard Model (SM) and explores avenues for discovering physics beyond it.The first part focuses on an investigation into the Higgs boson's self-interaction via Higgs boson pair production (HH) processes. Measuring the Higgs self-coupling is essential for experimentally reconstructing the Higgs potential, providing important insights into the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking and offering a window into physics beyond the Standard Model. This work presents a dedicated search in the HH to bb final state using the full 140fb-1 Run 2 dataset collected by the ATLAS experiment at √s=13 TeV. The analysis strategy was optimized for sensitivity to both the dominant gluon-gluon fusion and sub-dominant vector-boson fusion production modes. Furthermore, this thesis details the statistical combination of this search with four other ATLAS Run 2 HH analyses. At the time of publication, this combination yielded the most stringent constraints derived from the LHC Run 2 data: an observed (expected) 95% CL upper limit is set on the SM HH production signal strength modifier of µHH 2.9 (2.4). The combination constrains the Higgs boson trilinear self-coupling modifier, κλ = λHHH/λHHH SM, to the interval [-1.2, 7.2] (expected [-1.6, 7.2]) as well as the quartic HHVV coupling modifier, κ2V, to [0.6, 1.5] (expected [0.4, 1.6]) at 95% CL. These results are consistent with the Standard Model predictions.The second part shifts focus to model-agnostic search strategies, addressing the challenge of discovering unexpected new physics phenomena. Novel machine learning techniques for anomaly detection are introduced. This work presents a method called Prior Assisted Weak Supervision (PAWS), developed to significantly enhance search sensitivity by incorporating physics knowledge to guide the learning process. This physics knowledge, serving as a prior, defines a restricted, physically motivated space of potential signal functions, which focuses the search when looking for potential anomalies in the data. On benchmark simulated dijet resonance datasets, PAWS demonstrates over an order-of-magnitude improvement in sensitivity compared to conventional weakly supervised approaches. This method is further extended into a complete framework for statistical inference, Generator Based Inference (GBI), enabling not only the detection of anomalies but also the direct, quantitative measurement of their physical properties (e.g., particle mass, signal fraction) with well-defined confidence intervals. Studies on simulated datasets show the GBI-PAWS framework can detect signals with significances as low as 0.1σ and provide accurate, unbiased parameter estimates. While these methods show significant promise, their application to experimental data remains future work.Together, these efforts contribute to the ongoing exploration of fundamental physics, providing experimental constraints on the Higgs boson's self-interaction while introducing effective anomaly detection methodologies for future discoveries.
- 일반주제명
- Particle physics
- 일반주제명
- Physics
- 일반주제명
- Applied physics
- 키워드
- ATLAS experiment
- 기타저자
- The University of Wisconsin - Madison Physics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-05B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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