Subject Area
Physics
Abstract
A search in the high momentum regime for new resonances, produced in association with a jet, decaying into a pair of bottom quarks is presented using an integrated luminosity of 80.5 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energy √s = 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The search was performed for low mass resonances, including the Standard Model Higgs boson and leptophobic Z' dark matter mediators, in the mass range of 100 GeV to 200 GeV. For the Standard Model Higgs boson, the observed signal strength is μH = 5.8 ± 3.1 (stat.) ± 1.9 (syst.) ± 1.7 (th.), which is consistent with the background-only hypothesis at 1.6 standard deviations. No evidence of a significant excess of events beyond the expected background is found and competitive limits on leptophobic Z' boson axial-vector couplings to Standard Model quarks with democratic couplings to all quark generations are set for the mass range considered. The dominant background in this analysis is irreducible multijet events from QCD interactions, which I modeled using a parametric function that was robust to fitting bias and spurious signals.
Degree Date
Summer 8-6-2019
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Department
Physics
Advisor
Stephen Sekula
Number of Pages
189
Format
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Feickert, Matthew, "A Search for Boosted Low Mass Resonances Decaying to the bb̅ Final State and Produced in Association with a Jet at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector" (2019). Physics Theses and Dissertations. 6.
https://scholar.smu.edu/hum_sci_physics_etds/6
