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Enhancement in the double Higgs boson production by e+ e− annihilation and physics beyond the standard model. / Aprimoramento na produção em dobro de bóson de Higgs por aniquilação de e+ e− e física além do modelo padrão.Vásquez Tocora, Andrés Felipe 29 March 2018 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2018-03-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / The main goal of this dissertation is to show the enhancement of the cross-section for the double Higgs production through pair annihilation by including effective interactions and through the non-perturbative Sommerfeld effect. Bounds to some Wilson coefficients were obtained from such enhancement, this in the scenarios of the future e+ e− -colliders (FCC-ee, ILC, CLIC). In order to achieve this, some computational tools were implemented: FeynRules, FeynArts, FormCalc, and LoopTools. It is also shown the enhancement of the double Higgs production in 2HDM and MSSM, discussing the general framework of these two models. In addition, it is studied the threshold behavior of the cross-section for the double Higgs production when a hidden sector couples to the Higgs boson, yielding resonances below the threshold energy due to non-perturbative effects. We study the Sommerfeld effect in the double Higgs production in the scenario of e+ e− -colliders. The enhancement is discussed as generated from a hidden sector coupled to the Higgs boson. Below and above threshold enhancements are presented. Such analysis is of importance in the ILC project, which will operate up to the threshold energy √s = 250 GeV. The results has been achieved by the use of computational tools like FeynArts, FormCalc, and LoopTools. / O objetivo principal dessa dissertação é, mostrar o aprimoramento da seção de choque para a produção em dobro dos bósons de Higgs, por meio de aniquilação de pares, incluindo interações efetivas e através do efeito não perturbativo de Sommerfeld. De tais aprimoramentos, os limites para alguns coeficientes de Wilson foram obtidos, isso nos cenários de futuros aceleradores de e+e- (FCC-ee, ILC, CLIC). Para atingir estes resultados, algumas ferramentas computacionais foram implementadas: FeynRules, FeynArts, FormCalc e LoopTools. Também, é mostrado o aprimoramento da produção em dobro de bósons de Higgs no “2HDM” e “MSSM”, discutindo o marco geral desses dois modelos. Além disso, foi estudado o comportamento, perto do limite de produção, da seção de choque da produção em dobro dos bósons de Higgs, quando um setor escondido é acoplado ao Higgs, produzindo ressonâncias abaixo da energia limite de produção, devido à efeitos não perturbativos.
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Sinais de produção de novos bósons vetoriais no LHC / Signals of production of new vector bosons at the LHCDorival Gonçalves Netto 25 September 2009 (has links)
Neste trabalho realizamos uma abordagem fenomenológica da observação de novos bósons de spin-1 associados ao setor de Quebra de Simetria Eletrofraca. Como motivação a essa análise estudamos primeiramente o caso especial de modelos baseados no mecanismo de Quebra espontânea de Simetria por Condições de Contorno, os quais também apresentam uma torre de bósons vetoriais de Kaluza-Klein assegurando a unitariedade no espalhamento entre bósons gauge. Na análise fenomenológica efetuamos uma abordagem independente de modelo analisando o potencial do Large Hadron Collider (LHC) na detecção de novos bósons vetoriais associados ao setor de quebra de simetria. / In this work we performed a phenomenological observation of new spin-1 bosons associated with the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking sector. As motivation for this analysis we previously studied the special case of models based on the mechanism of Eletroweak Symmetry Breaking via Boundary Conditions, which also have a tower vector of Kaluza-Klein bosons ensuring unitarity in scattering between gauge bosons. In the phenomenological analysis we performed a model independent approach to analyzing the potential of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the detection of new vector bosons associated with the symmetry breaking sector.
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Searching for Vector-Like Quarks Using 36.1 fb^{-1} Of Proton-Proton Collisions Decaying to Same-Charge Dileptons and Trileptons + b-jets at √s = 13 TeV with The ATLAS DetectorJones, Sarah, Jones, Sarah January 2017 (has links)
Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, the search for new physics beyond
the Standard Model has been greatly intensified. At the CERN Large Hadron Collider
(LHC), ATLAS searches for new physics entail looking for new particles by colliding
protons together. Presented here is a search for a new form of quark matter called
Vector-like Quarks (VLQ), which are hypothetical particles that are expected to have
mass around a few TeV. VLQ can come in a variety of forms and can couple to
their Standard Model (SM) quark counterparts, particularly to the third generation.
They are necessary in several beyond the SM theories in order to solve the hierarchy
problem. This search uses 36.1 fb−1of proton-proton collision data collected with the
ATLAS detector at the LHC from August 2015 to October 2016. Only events with two
leptons of the same charge, or three leptons, plus b-jets and high missing transverse
energy are considered in the main analysis. This signature is rarely produced in the
SM, which means the backgrounds in this analysis are relatively low. This analysis
is sensitive to specific predicted decay modes from pair production of an up-type
VLQ with a charge of +2/3, T, an up-type VLQ with a charge of +5/3, T5/3, and
a down-type quark with a charge of −1/3, B, as well as single production of T5/3.
There is another theorized VLQ that this analysis is not sensitive to: B−4/3, due
to its primary decay mode, which is unable to produce the final-state signature of
interest. The results from this analysis suggest only a slight deviation of data from
SM backgrounds reaching as high as 1.89σ, which does not indicate evidence for
VLQ. A mostly frequentist statistical technique, called the CLS Method, is used to
interpret the data and set limits on the T, B, and T5/3 signal models. Using this
method, exclusion limits are set at the 95% confidence level, effectively excluding T
mass below 0.98 TeV, T5/3 mass below 1.2 TeV, and B mass below 1.0 TeV, assuming
singlet branching ratios. Also, branching ratio independent limits are set on the T
and B VLQ.
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The minimal scale invariant extension of the standard modelAlexander-Nunneley, Lisa Pamela January 2010 (has links)
The Minimal Scale Invariant extension of the Standard Model (MSISM) is a model of low-energy particle physics which is identical to the Standard Model except for the inclusion of an additional complex singlet scalar and tree-level scale invariance. Scale invariance is a classical symmetry which is explicitly broken by quantum corrections whose interplay with the quartic couplings can be used to trigger electroweak symmetry breaking. The scale invariant Standard Model suffers from a number of problems, however the inclusion of a complex singlet scalar results in a perturbative and phenomenologically viable theory. We present a thorough and systematic investigation of the MSISM for a number of representative scenarios along two of its three classified types of flat direction. In these scenarios we determine the permitted quartic coupling parameter space, using both theoretical and experimental constraints, and apply these limits to make predictions of the scalar mass spectrum and the energy scale at which scale invariance is broken. We calculate the one-loop effective potential and the one-loop beta functions of the pertinent couplings of the MSISM specifically for this purpose. We also discuss the phenomenological implications of these scenarios, in particular, whether they realise explicit or spontaneous CP violation, contain neutrino masses or provide dark matter candidates. Of particular importance is the discovery of a new minimal scale invariant model which provides maximal spontaneous CP violation, can naturally incorporate neutrino masses, produces a massive stable scalar dark matter candidate and can remain perturbative up to the Planck scale. It can be argued that the last property, along with the classical scale invariance, can potentially solve the gauge hierarchy problem for this model.
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Prospecting for New Physics in the Higgs and Flavor SectorsBishara, Fady 12 October 2015 (has links)
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Search for B → π τ ν with hadronic tagging at BelleHamer, Philipp 09 November 2015 (has links)
Eine Suche nach dem Zerfall B → π τ ν wird vorgestellt. Die Suche wird auf dem vollständigen Belle Datensatz durchgeführt, der 772E6 B anti-B Paare beinhaltet, die auf der Y(4s) Resonanz mit Belle Detektor am asymmetrischen e+e- KEKB Beschleuniger gesammelt wurden. Das τ Lepton wird in den Zerfallskanälen τ → e ν ν, τ → μ ν ν, τ → π ν und τ → ρ ν rekonstruiert. Eines der beiden B Mesonen, das Btag, wird mittels eines auf NeuroBayes beruhenden Algorithmus vollständig in einem hadronischen Zerfallskanal rekonstruiert. Der Rest des Kollisionsereignisses beinhaltet genau zwei geladene Spuren im Falle eines Signalzerfalls. Die weitere Trennung zwischen Signal und Untergrund wird mithilfe von Boosted Decision Trees durchgeführt. Ein Fit wird in der Verteilung der Extra Energie im elektromagnetischen Kalorimeter ECL, welche definiert ist als alle Energie die weder vom Btag noch von der rekonstruierten Signalseite stammt, durchgeführt. Kein signifikantes Signal wird beobachtet und ein oberes Limit von Br( B → π τ ν ) < 2.5E-4 basierend auf einem Vertrauensintervall von 90% wird bestimmt. Das Ergebnis ist in guter Übereinstimmung mit der Vorhersage des Standard Modells.
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Recherche d'un neutrino stérile avec l'expérience STEREO : construction du veto à muons et estimation du bruit de fond corrélé / Search for a sterile neutrino with the STEREO experiment : construction of a muon veto and estimation of the correlated backgroundZsoldos, Stephane 30 September 2016 (has links)
La réévaluation théorique du flux d'antineutrinos émis par les réacteurs nucléaires a révélé un déficit de 6% entre le flux observé et le flux attendu. Cette anomalie des antineutrinos de réacteur est significative à 2.7 σ, et une possible interprétation de ce résultat est l'existence d'un état stérile léger du neutrino vers lequel les neutrinos pourraient osciller à très courte distance. Le projet STEREO présenté dans ce manuscrit a pour objectif de prouver ou d'infirmer l'existence d'une telle oscillation.L'expérience est installée près (~10 m) du cœur compact du réacteur de recherche de l'Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) à Grenoble, France, qui produit un important flux d'antineutrinos électroniques avec une énergie comprise entre 1 et 10 MeV. Le volume utile du détecteur STEREO consiste en une structure de 2 m3 segmentée en six cellules identiques remplies de scintillateur liquide dopé au gadolinium et alignées dans la direction du cœur. La détection s'effectue à l'aide de la réaction beta-inverse.Cette configuration offre une excellente sensibilité à une éventuelle oscillation à courte distance en mesurant la distorsion relative du spectre des antineutrinos dans chaque cellule en fonction de l'énergie et de la distance.Les lignes expérimentales de faisceaux de neutrons de l'ILL produisent un fort bruit de fond qui a été caractérisé à l'occasion de plusieurs campagnes de mesure. Leur analyse a permis de valider le design des lourds blindages passifs installés autour du détecteur et de la zone d'installation pour modérer leurs effets sur l’expérience STEREO.De plus, un détecteur supplémentaire est installé au-dessus de STEREO pour signaler la présence d'un muon issu du rayonnement cosmique et définir un veto aux mesures physiques. Ces muons, lors de leur passage à travers les blindages du détecteur, peuvent produire des neutrons rapides capables d’imiter le signal attendu par les antineutrinos. Il est donc essentiel de définir un veto qui soit le plus efficace et homogène possible.Il prend la forme d'une cuve de 2.5 m3 remplie d'eau dont la détection est basée sur l’effet Tcherenkov. Cette lumière émise par le passage des muons est récoltée sur 20 tubes photomultiplicateurs répartis au-dessus de la cuve et un additif est rajouté dans l'eau pour améliorer la collection de lumière sur les photomultiplicateurs.Ce veto à muons couvre complètement le détecteur STEREO ainsi que ces blindagesL'étude de plusieurs configurations de ce veto à muons sous la forme de prototypes avant la construction de l'instrument final a permis de définir une méthode de déclenchement du signal pour les muons extrêmement efficace tout en conservant une sensibilité réduite aux autres particules. Ces nombreux tests ont par ailleurs permis la validation et l'optimisation de l'électronique développée pour l'expérience au LPSC qui est la même pour le détecteur STEREO et pour le veto à muons.Après avoir caractérisé le flux de muons sur place et l'efficacité du veto à muons, une simulation a été développée et a permis d'évaluer le nombre de faux événements dus à ces neutrons. Ainsi, ce résultat a confirmé les prérequis scientifiques de l'expérience, à savoir la capacité à sonder l'anomalie des antineutrinos de réacteur en 300 jours de données réacteur.Le détecteur est actuellement en place sur site et prévoit de livrer ses premiers résultats fin 2016. / The re-evaluation of the theoretical antineutrino flux emitted by nuclear reactors revealed a deficit of about 6% between the observed flux and the expected one. This so-called reactor antineutrino anomaly has a statistical significance of 2.7σ, and one possible explanation to this deficit could be the existence of a light sterile neutrino state into which reactor antineutrino oscillate at very short distances. The STEREO project, which will be presented in this thesis, aims to find an evidence of such oscillation.The measurement will take place at only few meters (~10 m) from the compact core of the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) research reactor in Grenoble, France, which provides a large flux of electron antineutrinos with an energy range from 1 to 10 MeV. The sensitive volume of the STEREO detector is 2m3 of organic liquid scintillator doped with Gadolinium, consisting of 6 cells stacked along the direction of the core and detecting anti-neutrinos via inverse beta decay.This setup will provide excellent sensitivity to short-baseline oscillations effects by precisely measuring any relative distortion of the antineutrino spectrum as a function of both energy and baseline.Close proximity to the reactor yield a high background environment from nearby experiments that is managed through heavy shielding surrounding the detector. Many measurements campaign has been performed to characterized this background and had allowed the improvement of the passive shielding design installed on-site.Moreover, an additional detector is settled above STEREO to tag the presence of an incoming cosmic muon and define a muon veto. These muons will produce fast neutrons during their interaction through the shieldings of STEREO and these neutrons can mimick the expected antineutrino signal. Therefore it is crucial to define the most efficient and homogenous veto to these muons.It consists of a tank of 2.5m3 of water detecting muons by their Cerenkov radiation. The light emitted is collected thanks to 20 photomultipliers positionned at the top of the tank and a chemical compound is added into the water to improve the light collection on the photomultipliers.This muon veto fully covers the STEREO detector along with its shieldings.Several configurations of the muon veto system using prototypes before the final instrumental has allowed to define a trigger system which allows an excellent efficiency to cosmic muons regarding a little sensitivity to others particles. These numerous tests were also used to check and optimize the dedicated electronics builded at LPSC, which is the same for both the STEREO detector and muon veto.After characterization of the muon flux on site and with respect to the muon veto efficiency, a simulation has been developped to evaluate the rate of fake antineutrino event expected from the muon-induced fast neutrons. Thus, this result has confirmed the scientific requirements of the experience, which is the ability to probe the reactor antineutrino anomaly in 300 days of reactor data.STEREO is at the moment being comissionned and will deliver his first results at the end of 2016.
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Interpréter les recherches de nouvelle physique au LHC à l’aide de modèles simplifiés / Understanding LHC searches for new physics with simplified modelsLaa, Ursula 15 September 2017 (has links)
La découverte récente du boson de Higgs complète le Modèle Standard de la physique des particules, mais aucun signal de nouvelle physique n’a été observé en dépit des nombreuses recherches effectuées par les expériences du Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Cependant le problème de hiérarchie et la présence de matière noire sont des motivations importantes pour considérer des théories qui prédisent de nouveaux états à l’échelle électro-faible, de fait, de nombreux travaux ont été initiés sur l’interprétation des résultats négatifs et leurs implications pour de tels scénarios. Les modèles simplifiés sont devenus une norme pour l’interprétation des recherches de supersymétrie (SUSY) au LHC, et plus récemment pour les recherches de matière noire. Le succès de cette approche vient d’un petit nombre de paramètres liés aux observables au LHC de façon claire, ce qui permet une optimisation efficace des stratégies de recherche. De plus, les modèles complets peuvent être projetés sur de tels modèles simplifiés ce qui permet une compréhension intuitive des contraintes sur l’espace des paramètres et un test rapide des contraintes du LHC. Puisque les relations entre les paramètres de modèles généraux et les modèles simplifiés ne sont pas en général directes, des outils numériques sophistiqués sont nécessaires pour faciliter cette projection.Cette thèse explore de nombreux aspects de l’interpretation des recherches du LHC par les modèles simplifiés, et de la façon dont ils sont utilisés pour faire le lien entre les observations expérimentales et les descriptions théoriques. En particulier le code SModelS est présenté, il permet la décomposition automatique de modèles généraux en modèles simplifiés inspirés par la SUSY, et de les tester aux contraintes expérimentales incluses dans une base de données. Sous certaines hypothèses SModelS peut être utilisé pour contraindre une grande classe de modèles comprenant un candidat à la matière noire. Ces hypothèses sont discutées en détail et des études de modèles supersymétriques (non-minimaux) utilisant SModelS pour l’évaluation rapide des contraintes expérimentales sont présentées. Ces études soulignent les avantages ainsi que les limitations de l’utilisation de modèles simplifiés. Finalement, concernant les modèles simplifiés pour la recherche de matière noire, des scénarios avec un médiateur de spin-2 sont étudiés en détail. / The recent discovery of the Higgs boson completes the standard model of particle physics, but no compelling signal for physics beyond the standard model has been observed despite the numerous searches performed by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Nevertheless, the hierarchy problem and the observation of dark matter are compelling arguments to study theories predicting new states at the weak scale, and a main effort has been directed towards understanding the negative search results and their implications for such weak scale new physics scenarios. Simplified models have become a standard in the interpretation of LHC searches for supersymmetry (SUSY), aiming at maximal model independence. More recently a similar approach was adopted for the interpretation of dark matter searches. The success of this approach is due to the fact that the small set of free parameters relates to the observables in LHC searches in a clear way, allowing an efficient optimisation of search strategies. Moreover, generic models can be projected on a simplified model description giving an intuitive understanding of the constraints on the parameter space, and providing a fast test against LHC constraints. As the relation between generic model parameters and simplified models is generally not straightforward, sophisticated computational tools are required to facilitate such a projection.This thesis explores the various aspects of simplified model interpretations of LHC searches and how they can be used to understand the results and bridge the gap between theoretical descriptions and experimental observations. In particular the software tool SModelS is presented, a tool that automates the mapping of generic models onto SUSY-like simplified model components, and that allows direct tests against corresponding experimental limits in the included database. Under certain assumptions SModelS can be used to constrain a wide class of new physics models with a dark matter candidate. These assumptions and some explicit tests are discussed in detail, followed by studies of (non-minimal) supersymmetric models using SModelS for the fast evaluation of constraints from SUSY searches. These studies highlight the capacity as well as the limitations of using simplified model results to study generic models. Finally regarding simplified models for dark matter searches, scenarios with a spin-2 mediator are studied in detail.
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Portal interactions within leptogenesis and precision observables -- and -- Quantum theory of orbitally-degenerate impurities in superconductorsLe Dall, Matthias 08 September 2017 (has links)
In the first part of the thesis, the need for physics beyond the Standard Model, as attested to by the evidence of dark matter, motivates us to study the effects of introducing
into
the standard theory of Leptogenesis a hidden sector scalar coupled to the Standard Model through the Higgs portal. We find that the new interactions are
not
constrained by the Davidson-Ibarra bound, thus allowing us to lower the mass scale of Leptogenesis into the TeV range, accessible to experiments. We then consider a broader class
of new physics models below the electroweak scale, and classify precision observables according to whether or not deviations from the Standard Model at current levels of
sensitivity can be explained purely in terms of new light degrees of freedom. We find that hadronic precision observables, e.g. those that test fundamental symmetries such as
electric dipole moments, are unambiguous pointers to new UV physics.
In the second part of the thesis, motivated by recent measurements of the spatial structure of impurities embedded in superconductors (SC), we study the effect of
superconductivity on impurity states by generalizing the Anderson model of a quantum s-wave impurity to include orbital degeneracy. We find
that the proximity effect induces an electron-electron attractive potential on the impurity site that mirrors the BCS pairing mechanism, resulting in the appearance of atomic
Cooper pairs within the superconducting energy gap, called Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states. We find that electron orbital degeneracy allows YSR states to have non-trivial orbital
quantum numbers thus opening the possibility for optical transitions among YSR states. We enumerate the one-photon selection rules that apply to YSR states, unveiling
transitions to the vacuum state that are forbidden in the normal state. / Graduate
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Recherche d'une résonance lourde dans le canal X→WW→eνμν avec le détecteur ATLAS au LHC / Search for heavy resonances in the X→WW→eνμν channel with the ATLAS detector at the LHCZhao, Yongke 03 June 2018 (has links)
Une recherche de résonance neutre et lourde X est effectuée dans le canal X→WW→eνμν en utilisant les données en collision pp correspondant à une luminosité intégrée d'environ 36,1 fb⁻¹, prises à une énergie dans le centre-de-masse de 13 TeV par le détecteur ATLAS au LHC. La résonance peut être soit un boson de Higgs scalaire lourd soit d'autres résonances lourdes aux spins différents. Deux scénarios de largeur sont étudiés pour un boson de Higgs lourd dans les modes de fusion gluon-gluon et de fusion vecteur-boson; une largeur soit étroite soit grande. Plusieurs hypothèses sont utilisées pour rechercher d'autres résonances, comme le modèle avec deux doublets de Higgs, le modèle de Georgi-Machacek, le modèle avec un triplet vectoriel en mode d'annihilation quark-antiquark, le modèle de Randall-Sundrum avec un graviton de spin 2 correspondant à un paramètre d'échelle de courbure de 1 ou 0,5 et un signal de spin 2 dans le mode de fusion vecteur-boson. Trois catégories d'événements indépendantes sont définies dans l'analyse : une catégorie inclusive où les espaces de phase en fusion vecteur boson sont exclus et deux autres catégories qui sont optimisées pour les signaux produits en mode de fusion vecteur-boson avec un jet ou au moins deux jets. Aucun excès significatif d'événements au-delà de la prédiction du bruit de fond du Modèle Standard ne se trouve dans la gamme de masse comprise entre 200 GeV et 5 TeV. Les limites supérieures sont obtenues sur le produit de la section efficace de la production de la résonance et du rapport de branchement X→WW. Pour les signaux de bosons de Higgs lourds, les valeurs supérieures à 6,4 pb et 1,3 pb à mH = 200 GeV et supérieures à 0,008 pb et 0,005 pb à 4 TeV sont exclues à un niveau de confiance de 95% pour la fusion gluon-gluon et la fusion vecteur-boson, respectivement. Pour les signaux prédits par le modèle avec un triplet vectoriel, les valeurs de masse inférieures à 1,3 TeV sont exclues. De la même manière, pour les signaux prédits par le modèle de Randall Sundrum, les valeurs de masse inférieures à 1,1 TeV et 850 GeV sont exclues pour le paramètre d'échelle de courbure de 1 et 0.5, respectivement. / A search for a heavy neutral resonance X is performed in the X→WW→eνμν decay channel using pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb⁻¹, collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The resonance can be either a heavy scalar Higgs boson or other heavy resonances with different spins. Two scenarios are considered for the heavy Higgs boson hypotheses with different decay widths in both the gluon-gluon fusion and the vector boson fusion production modes, namely a narrow-width approximation and a large width assumption. Several hypotheses are used for the interpretation to search for other resonances, like two Higgs doublet models, Georgi-Machacek model, heavy vector triplet model in the quark-antiquark annihilation mode, a bulk Randall-Sundrum graviton model with a spin-2 Graviton with a curvature scale parameter of either 1 or 0.5 and a spin-2 signal in the vector-boson fusion mode. Three orthogonal event categories are defined in the analysis: two vector-boson fusion categories which are optimised for the signals produced in the vector-boson fusion mode with one jet or at least two jets and one quasi-inclusive gluon-gluon fusion category where the vector boson fusion phase spaces defined by the two vector-boson fusion categories are excluded. No significant excess of events beyond the Standard Model background prediction is found in the mass range between 200 GeV and up to 5 TeV. Upper limits are set on the product of the production cross section of the resonance and the X→WW branching fraction. For heavy Higgs boson signals, values above 6.4 pb and 1.3 pb at 200 GeV and above 0.008 pb and 0.005 pb at 4 TeV are excluded at 95% confidence level for the gluon-gluon fusion and the vector-boson fusion production modes, respectively. For signals predicted by the heavy vector triplet model, mass values below 1.3 TeV are excluded. Similarly, for signals predicted by the bulk Randall-Sundrum graviton model, mass values below 1.1 TeV and 850 GeV are excluded for the curvature scale parameter of 1 and 0.5, respectively.
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