Measurements of Higgs boson properties using the diphoton decay channel with the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment
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Author(s)
Scott, Edward John Titman
Type
Thesis
Abstract
Measurements of Higgs boson production cross sections with the Higgs boson decaying into a pair of photons are reported. Events with two photons are selected from a sample of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2016 and 2017, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 77.4/fb. Cross sections for gluon fusion and vector boson fusion production, relative to the corresponding standard model predictions, are measured to be 1.15 ± 0.15 and 0.83 +0.37 −0.31 respectively. These two production modes are further measured in kinematic regions within the simplified template cross section framework. All results are found to be in agreement with the standard model expectations.
Version
Open Access
Date Issued
2019-05
Date Awarded
2019-09
Copyright Statement
Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives Licence
Advisor
Zenz, Seth
Davies, Gavin
Sponsor
Science and Technology Facilities Council (Great Britain)
Publisher Department
Physics
Publisher Institution
Imperial College London
Qualification Level
Doctoral
Qualification Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)