Charged lepton flavour violating processes are highly suppressed in the standard model, but they are predicted to be enhanced in several new physics extensions including supersymmetry and models with leptoquarks or compositeness. Data collected with the BaBar detector at the SLAC PEP-II e$^+$e$^-$ asymmetric collider at a centre-of-mass energy of 10.36~GeV were used to search for electron-muon flavor violation in $\Upsilon (3S)\rightarrow e^{\pm}\mu^{\pm}$ decays. The search was conducted using a data sample in which 118 million $\Upsilon (3S)$ mesons were produced, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 27~$fb^{-1}$. There is no evidence of a signal in the $\Upsilon (3S)$ data and we report our results as upper limits on $\mathcal{B}(\Upsilon(3S)\rightarrow e^{\pm}\mu^{\mp})<3.6\times10^{-7}\mathrm{at~ 90\%~ CL}$. / Graduate

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Everything that humans have ever touched, created or built something from consists of a type of matter that only makes up 15 percent of the total matter in the universe. The remaining 85 percent is attributed to dark matter, a so far not discovered and non-luminous type of matter. In this thesis a potential dark matter particle candidate has been studied by investigating an extension of the SU(2) symmetry into a dark gauge sector, where the new sector is connected to the standard model through a vector-like fermion portal. In order to understand how such an extension is made, the Lagrangian density of the standard model and its different gauge sectors were derived. The cross sections of the process of pair production of dark matter particles and tau leptons in the final state due to proton-proton collisions at the LHC was simulated with the software \texttt{MadGraph}. The cross sections were used to draw significance contours for the exclusion and discovery regions for parts of the parameter space of the new model, for current and projected luminosities of the LHC. The projected luminosity scans also consider how lowering the uncertainty in the number of background events through hypothetical improvements to detectors would impact the exclusion and discovery contours. The significance contours were combined with relic density constraints, derived from comparisons between measurements of the Planck telescope and calculations from the software \texttt{MicrOMEGAs}. The resulting graphs show that there are non-forbidden regions of the parameter space that are significant for exclusion and discovery for luminosity of current searches. Increasing the luminosity while keeping the uncertainty in the number of background events the same yielded only minor increases to the exclusion and discovery contours. Combining the projected luminosities with improvements to the background uncertainty instead produced exclusion and discovery regions that were significantly larger than those for the current luminosity.

This thesis presents a search for resonant production of top-antitop quark pairs in final states containing at least one electron or muon. A number of beyond the standard model (BSM) theories incorporate a specific role for the top quark, resulting in resonances that preferentially decay to t(bar over t) pairs. The data sample analysed corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.05 fb^-1 recorded during 2011 using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The proton-proton centre-of-mass energy was 7 TeV. The search is tailored towards heavy resonances at the TeV-scale which therefore decay to top quarks with high transverse momentum. Large hadronic jets are used to reconstruct the energy carried by the hadrons and the substructure of these jets is studied in order to identify hadronically decaying top quarks. The reconstruction can therefore proceed even if the decay products of the top quark are highly collimated. This study represents the first use of jet substructure techniques in a search for t(bar over t) resonances using hadron-hadron collision data. The invariant mass of the reconstructed t(bar over t) pair is used to test compatibility of the data with the standard model prediction. No evidence for t(bar over t) resonances is found. Upper limits are derived on the production cross-section times branching ratio for narrow and wide resonant states, at the 95 % credibility level. An upper limit of 0.61 (0.65) pb is set for a narrow (wide) resonance with a mass of 1 TeV. Two specific BSM models are excluded within certain mass ranges: the narrow leptophobic Z' boson with mass 600 - 1150 GeV and the wide Kaluza-Klein gluon with a mass below 1.5 TeV. These results represent a significant improvement on those of previous searches performed at the ATLAS experiment, which did not use jet substructure techniques. In addition, the possibility of using jets which decrease in size as their transverse momentum increases is investigated using simulated data. The yield of events due to resonant t(bar over t) production increases by approximately 20 % compared to when using jets of fixed size. Furthermore, the resolution of the invariant mass of the reconstructed t(bar over t) pair is found to improve by almost one fifth. It is recommended that a calibration scheme be developed for these variable-sized jets, so that their potential to improve the sensitivity to t(bar over t) resonances can be investigated further.

For more than 30 years the Standard Model has been the theoretical foundation for particle physics. The theory has been verified successfully by experimental tests. Its biggest shortcoming is the non-discovery of the Higgs boson,responsible for giving the other particles masses. Despite its success there are hints that the Standard Model is not the complete theory and many extensions of it, such as supersymmetry, have been proposed. Extended theories often predict the existence of a charged Higgs boson and its detection will be a clear sign of physics beyond the Standard Model. The main focus in this thesis is on various phenomenological aspects of the charged Higgs boson. For favorable mass and couplings direct detection is shown to be possible at the Large Hadron Collider in production with an associated W boson. It is also shown how a light charged Higgs can have measurable effects on spin correlations in decays of pair-produced top quarks. The charged Higgs boson can also be seen indirectly, in for example B-meson decays, which can be used to put constraints on its mass and fermion couplings. Exclusion limits in two supersymmetric models are given together with a comparison with the discovery potentials for the LHC experiments. A tool for calculating properties, such as masses and decays, of both charged and neutral Higgs bosons in the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model is also presented. B-meson decays can also be used to test aspects of the strong interaction. Part of this thesis deals with improving and applying phenomenological models to B-meson decays. Although these models are not derived from first principles, their success shows that they capture important features of non-perturbative strong interactions.

The discovery reach for the ADD-type Large Extra Dimension (LED) scenario in the CMS Experiment at the LHC is presented by looking at the Monojet + Missing Energy signature, which arises as a result of a single graviton emission accompanied by a quark or gluon. Using Monte Carlo generated events, two LHC run scenarios were considered and compared namely a center-of-mass energy of 14 TeV and integrated luminosity of 100 pb&amp / #8722 / 1, and a center-of-mass energy of 10 TeV and integrated luminosity of 200 pb&amp / #8722 / 1. Details from extensive trigger studies are presented and offline selection techniques that optimize the signal excess over backgrounds are highlighted. As a result of this study, it is shown that the existing Tevatron limits on the ADD model can be improved through the implementation of this analysis in CMS Experiment with a factor of 3 using the the early LHC data.

Le principe d'invariance de jauge local est au centre de la physique des particules moderne. Dans le modèle standard (MS), il repose sur le groupe de jauge ad hoc SU(3)_c x SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y. L'idée d'étendre ce groupe de jauge est particulièrement attrayante dans une perspective de ``Grand Unified Theory'' (GUT) où le MS est la limite basse énergie d'une théorie plus fondamentale basée sur un groupe de jauge beaucoup plus large tel que SO(10) ou E(6). En effet, lors de la brisure de symétrie du groupe de GUT au MS, des facteurs de groupe non-brisés supplémentaires, tels que U(1) ou SU(2), peuvent apparaitre. Ce manuscrit est consacré à la phénoménologie de modèles avec un groupe de jauge étendu. En particulier, les études présentées sont centrées sur les modèles basés sur le groupe de jauge SU(2) x SU(2) x U(1) dénotés G(221). De manière générique, ces modèles prédisent de nouveaux bosons de jauges, Z' et W'.Après une brève présentation des modèles G(221), un nouveau code publique, PyR@TE, qui permet de déterminer les équations du groupe de renormalisation à deux boucles pour une théorie de jauge arbitraire est introduit. Ce code est ensuite utilisé pour déterminer les RGEs des modèles de la classe G(221). La suite du manuscrit est dédiée à la présentation des résultats obtenus sur le calcul des corrections radiatives QCD de la production électrofaible d'une paire de quarks top dans le cadre des modèles G(221), i.e. en présence d'un nouveau boson de jauge Z'. Ces résultats font l'objet d'une implémentation dans le générateur d'événements Monte Carlo POWHEG BOX et les premiers résultats numériques obtenus sont présentés. Les derniers développements concernant le calcul des corrections QCD à la production électrofaible de single-top sont également revus. Enfin, la dernière partie de ce manuscrit est consacrée à l'étude de l'impact de nouvelles résonances W', Z', telles que celles présentes dans les modèles G(221), sur l'interaction des neutrinos d'ultra-haute énergie dans l'atmosphère. Ces interactions sont recherchées par l'observatoire Pierre Auger dans les douches de particules produites par l'interaction des rayons cosmiques avec les particules de l'atmosphère. / The principle of local gauge invariance is a pillar of modern particle physics theories and in the SM relies on the ad-hoc gauge group structure SU(3)_c x SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y. Extending this gauge group is very well motivated in a Grand Unified Theory (GUT) perspective in which the SM is the low-energy limit of a more fundamental theory based on a larger gauge group like SO(10) or E(6). Indeed, the symmetry breaking (SB) of the underlying GUT gauge group, down to the SM one, leaves some additional group factors unbroken, such as U(1) or SU(2). In this spirit, we focus in this manuscript on the phenomenology of extended gauge group models and on the new heavy neutral and charged resonances, generically called Z' and W' predicted by these.In this manuscript we present different aspects of the phenomenology of the G(221) models. After reviewing these extensions, we present a public tool, PyR@TE, that aims at automating the calculation of RGEs at two-loop for arbitrary gauge theories and exemplify its use with the G(221) models. In a second part, we present our results for the calculation of the QCD corrections to the electroweak top-pair production as well as their implementation in a general purpose Monte Carlo generator allowing for a consistent matching of next-to-leading order (NLO) matrix elements with parton shower algorithms, the POWHEG BOX. We then review the status of our calculation of the QCD corrections to the electroweak single-top production. Finally, we present a different aspect of the phenomenology of new heavy resonances, Z', W' by studying their impact on the interaction of ultra-high energy neutrinos in the atmosphere. For definiteness we consider the Pierre Auger Observatory, which is sensible to showers initiated by neutrinos of extreme energies up to 10E12 GeV

Not so long ago, the value of the branching ratio of a neutral pion decay to an electron-positron pair (π0 → e− e+ ) has been updated and became more accurate thanks to the fact, that new measurements were performed at KTeV experiment at Fermilab. In this context it has been showed, that the Standard Model theoretical prediction is not precise enough. The resulting discrepancy was not explained yet. In presented work, there are summarized preceding results, al- ready computed correction were taken into account and newly the Bremsstrahlung contribution was thoroughly calculated. Besides, the contribution of π-loop cor- rections in terms of double-logarithms is estimated. In the end, because of the persisting disagreement of the accepted theory with the experiment, an additional contribution is suggested from beyond the Standard Model on the basis of models describing the dark matter. The latter mentioned is a hot candidate to explain many phenomena, for example the mysterious source of a great amount of γ-rays coming from the center of our galaxy and having the origin in the annihilation of electron-positron pairs. 1

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第23698号 / 理博第4788号 / 新制||理||1685(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科物理学・宇宙物理学専攻 / (主査)准教授 福間 將文, 准教授 吉岡 興一, 教授 萩野 浩一 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

The LHC at CERN is now undergoing a set of upgrades to increase the center of mass energy for the colliding particles to be able to explore new physical processes. The focus of this thesis lies on the so called phase II upgrade which will preliminarily be completed in 2023. After the upgrade the LHC will be able to accelerate proton beams to such a velocity thateach proton has a center of mass energy of 14 TeV. One disadvantage of the upgrade is that it will be harder for the atlas detector to isolate unique particle collisions since more and more collisions will occur simultaneously, so called pile-up. For 14 TeV there does not exist a full simulation of the atlas detector. This thesis instead uses data from Monte Carlo simulations for the particle collisions and then uses so called smearing functions to emulate the detector responses. This thesis focuses on how a mono-jet analysis looking for different wimp models of dark matter will be affected by this increase in pile-up rate. The signal models which are in focus are those which try to explain dark matter without adding new theories to the standard model or QFT, such as the effective theory D5 operator and light vector mediator models. The exclusion limits set for the D5 operators mass suppression scale at 14 TeV and 1000 fb-1are 2-3 times better than previous results at 8 TeV and 10 fb-1. For the first time limits have been set on which vector mediator mass models can be excluded at 14 TeV.