Searches for Heavy Resonances in All-Jet Final States with Top Quarks Using Jet Substructure Techniques with the CMS Experiment

Usai, Emanuele; Alexander, Schmidt

Book/Report/Dissertation / PhD Thesis

PUBDB-2017-13594

Searches for Heavy Resonances in All-Jet Final States with Top Quarks Using Jet Substructure Techniques with the CMS Experiment

Usai, E. (Corresponding author)Extern* ; Alexander, S. (Thesis advisor)

2017
Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg

Hamburg : Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY-THESIS 223 pp. (2017) [10.3204/PUBDB-2017-13594] = Dissertation, Universität Hamburg, 2017

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Report No.: DESY-THESIS-2017-047

Abstract: While the Standard Model is very successful in describing subnuclear phenomena, it is not a complete theory of particle physics. Several new theories have been developed to address its issues. Many extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of high-mass resonances. In some cases these resonances have an enhanced coupling to third generation quarks or to a hypothetical new generation of heavy non-chiral quarks. This thesis describes two searches for new phenomena compatible with these theories, in particular a search is presented for resonant top-antitop production, and the first search for heavy resonances decaying to a top quark and a heavy top quark partner T is shown.The searches target the all-jets decay channels and use data collected by the CMS Experiment at the CERN LHC between 2012 and 2015 at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV and 13 TeV. Due to the high mass of the resonances considered, the final state particles have a high Lorentz-boost. To reconstruct the hadronic decay of the top quarks and W bosons, jet substructure techniques such as top quark and W boson tagging algorithms, and boosted b jet identification are employed. These algorithms are studied with a particular focus on their validation and performance assessment.No signs of physics beyond the Standard Model are observed, but stringent limits are placed on the production of heavy resonances decaying to top-antitop quark pairs or a top quark and a heavy T quark.

Note: Dissertation, Universität Hamburg, 2017

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