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In this thesis, data collected by the CMS Experiment at the CERN LHC is analysed. The data was collected during LHC Run 2 in the years 2016-2018 and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 138 $\textrm{fb}^{-1}$. [...]

The International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation (SRI) is a unique and significant international forum held every three years in the community of synchrotron radiation (SR) and free electron lasers (FEL). It is the prime forum for fostering connections between cutting-edge synchrotron radiation instrumentation, science, and the requirements of the user community. [...]

The naturalness problem of the Standard Model (SM) challenges our understanding of the origin of mass. Several theories have been proposed to tackle the problem, one of them is the Composite Higgs Model (CHM) where the Higgs boson of the SM is not an elementary scalar but instead a composite object bound at a confinement scale of a TeV. [...]

Emerging high power THz sources pave the road for THz-driven manipulation and acceleration of ultra-shortelectron bunches, opening a path to an order of magnitude higher accelerating gradients than conventional radiofrequency (RF)-driven structures. In this thesis, THz waveguides are studied with theoretical methods that were established in the field of RFengineering for the characterization of accelerating devices. [...]

This thesis summarises the cross-section measurement of a Higgs boson de- caying into a bottom quark pair produced in association with a vector boson. The measurement is performed using the CMS data collected during Run 2 with the integrated luminosity of 138 /fb. [...]

Run 3 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has recently begun and heralds an era of unprecedented experimental precision. At the same time, several potential successors, future hadron- but also lepton colliders, advance in design and scheduling. [...]

In order to search for new physics at collider experiments it is necessary for Monte-Carlo (MC) event generators to simulate Standard Model (SM) physics to the highest possible level of precision. The current precision frontier for predictions from the SM is at an unprecedented accuracy level for observables at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC): Perturbative corrections to at least next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$ and next-to-leading order (NLO) in the electromagnetic coupling constant $\alpha$ must be included in the calculations. [...]

In this thesis, measurements of differential cross sections of top quark pair ($t\bar{t}$) production in proton-proton (pp) collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13 \text{ TeV}$ are presented. The analysis is based on data obtained with the CMS experiment during 2016, 2017 and 2018 in Run 2 of the LHC, which corresponds to an integrated luminosity of \lumivalueRunii. [...]

This book reviews the latest research, development, and future potential of polyimides and green polymer chemistry. It combines the major interdisciplinary research in this area. [...]

- written by world leading experts in the field - contains many worked-out examples, taken from daily life fire related practical problems - covers the entire range from basics up to state-of-the-art computer simulations of fire and smoke related fluid mechanics aspects, including the effect of water - provides extensive treatment of the interaction of water sprays with a fire-driven flow - contains a chapter on CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), the increasingly popular calculation method in the field of fire safety science