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Chiral perturbation theory for lattice QCDBär, Oliver 02 March 2011 (has links)
Eine zusammenfassende Übersicht über die Formulierung der chiralen Störungstheorie (ChPT) für die Gitter Quantenchromodynamik (QCD) ist gegeben. Wir beginnen mit kurzen Zusammenfassungen der chiralen Störungstheorie für die Kontinuum-QCD sowie Symanziks effektiver Theorie für die Gitter-QCD. Anschließend wird die Formulierung der ChPT für die Gitter-QCD behandelt. Nach einem weiteren Kapitel über partial quenching und Theorien mit gemischten Wirkungen werden konkrete Anwendungen diskutiert: Wilson ChPT, staggered ChPT sowie Wilson ChPT mit einem chiral verdrehten Massenterm. Die folgenden Kapitel behandeln das Epsilonregime mit Wilsonfermionen sowie ausgewählte Resultate für ChPT mit gemischten Wirkungen. Den Abschluß bildet die Formulierung der chiralen Störungstheorie für schwere Vektormesonen mit Wilsonfermionen. / The formulation of chiral perturbation theory (ChPT) for lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is reviewed. We start with brief summaries of ChPT for continuum QCD as well as the Symanzik effective theory for lattice QCD. We then review the formulation of ChPT for lattice QCD. After an additional chapter on partial quenching and mixed action theories various concrete applications are discussed: Wilson ChPT, staggered ChPT and Wilson ChPT with a twisted mass term. The remaining chapters deal with the epsilon regime with Wilson fermions and selected results in mixed action ChPT. Finally, the formulation of heavy vector meson ChPT with Wilson fermions is discussed.
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Etude mathématique d'un modèle de fil ferromagnétique en présence d'un courant électriqueJizzini, Rida 25 March 2013 (has links)
Dans ma thèse, j’ai travaillé sur les modèles de fils en ferromagnétisme. J’ai obtenu les résultats suivants :- Existence de solutions très régulières pour les équations de Landau-Lifschitz en dimension 3.- Stabilité de profils de murs avec critère optimal de stabilité pour un fil soumis à un champ magnétique.- Stabilité de profils de murs pour un fil soumis à un courant électrique, dans le cas d’un fil à section circulaire et dans le cas d’un fil à section ellipsoïdale. - Justification des modèles monodimensionnels de fils. / In my thesis, I worked on models of wires in ferromagnetism. I got the following results:- Existence of very regular solutions for Landau-Lifschitz equations in dimension 3.- Optimal stability criterion for a wall in a ferromagnetic wire in a magnetic field.-Stability of walls in a ferromagnetic wire subjected to an electric current, in the case of a round wire and in the case of an ellipsoidal cross-section wire.- Justification of one-dimensional wires models.
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Lorentz violation in quantum field theoryBolokhov, Pavel Anatolievich 25 September 2007 (has links)
There are hints coming from some scenarios of modern String and Quantum Gravity theories that Lorentz invariance may not be an exact symmetry of Nature. The study of Lorentz violating theories therefore provides an insight into ultraviolet physics. We employ the Effective Field Theory technique to study the most general extension of the Standard
Model and its Supersymmetric modifications with Lorentz-violating interactions of mass dimension five. We provide a complete classification of the interactions in these theories and determine a typical experimental sensitivity to the size of Lorentz violation.
A detailed study of the operators that induce CPT-odd Electric Dipole Moments is performed and it is shown that they yield an independent constraint on Lorentz violating physics. We provide an application of Lorentz violating physics to the problem of generation of baryon asymmetry of the universe. A scenario of Leptogenesis driven by CPT-odd interactions is considered and confronted with experimental constraints on Lorentz-violating physics.
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Termodinâmica violando a invariância de Lorentz pela teoria de campos efetiva no regime ultravioleta e aplicações.SANTOS, Wagner Oliveira dos. 05 November 2018 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2017-08-09 / Capes / Nesta dissertação consideramos a proposta de modificação dos setores do fóton e
do férmion via à teoria de campos efetiva de Myers-Pospelov. Esta abordagem tem
como principal característica a violação da simetria de Lorentz através da introdução
de operadores de altas ordens derivativas de dimensão-5 e campos constantes. Consequentemente,a quebra desta importante simetria conduz a relações de dispersão
que sondam efeitos na escala de energia de Planck, onde efeitos da gravidade quântica
devem ser relevantes. Isso nos motiva a estudar as possíveis consequências destas relações de dispersão modificadas no comportamento termodinâmico de gases compostos por fótons ou férmions. Será mostrado que a violação da simetria de Lorentz pode ser interpretada como uma pseudo-interação repulsiva ou atrativa entre as partículas. Mostraremos também, por exemplo, que a relação de dispersão modificada do fóton, implica em um aumento da entropia do sistema, isto é, a quebra da simetria de Lorentz pode conduzir a um aumento no número de estados acessíveis do sistema. Além disso, aplicamos as propriedades destes gases a radiação de corpo negro e a dinâmica estelar de anãs brancas no modelo de Chandrasekhar. / In this dissertation, we consider a proposal which modifies the gauge and fermion
sectors via Myers-Pospelov effective field theory. The main feature of this approach
is the Lorentz symmetry violation through the introduction of higher-derivatives operators
of dimension-5 and constant fields. Hence, breaking this important symmetry
leads to dispersion relations probing effects in the Planck energy scale, that in turn,
sets the limit for which the quantum description of space-time becomes to be relevant.
It motivate us to study the possible implications of these modified dispersion relations
on thermodynamic behavior of photons and fermions gases. It will be shown that
the breakdown of Lorentz invariance can be interpreted as a repulsive or attractive
pseudo-interaction among the particles. Additionally, for instance, it will be shown
that the presence of a deformed dispersion relation for photons entails an increase in
the entropy of the system, e.g., the Lorentz symmetry violation may lead to an increase
in the number of microstates available to the system. In addition, we apply the properties
of these gases to black body radiation and stellar dynamics of white dwarfs in the
Chandrasekhar model.
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Sondando a violação de CP no setor escalar e de calibre por meio dos operadores efetivosFreitas, Felipe Ferreira de 30 March 2017 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2017-03-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / In this thesis we study the phenomenological consequences of several CP-violating structures
that could arise in the Standard Model effective field theory framework. Focusing
on operators involving electroweak gauge and/or Higgs bosons, we derive constraints
originating from Run I LHC data. We then study the capabilities of the present and future
LHC runs at higher energies to further probe associated CP-violating phenomena and we
demonstrate how differential information can play a key role. We consider both traditional
four-lepton probes of CP-violating in the Higgs sector and novel new physics handles
based on varied angular and non-angular observables. / Nesta tese é estudado as consequências fenomenológicas de diversas estruturas que violam
a simetria CP, surgidas no contexto do modelo padrão efetivo. Focando nos operadores
que envolvem os bósons de calibre e o Higgs, estabelecemos vínculos provenientes dos
dados do RUN I do LHC. Em seguida, é estudada a capacidade do RUN I e de futuros
RUNs do LHC em sondar os fenômenos associados à violação de CP e é demonstrado
como as informações provenientes das distribuições diferencias podem desempenhar um
papel chave para determinação destes vínculos. Para sondar efeitos físicos de violação de
CP, consideramos tanto as sondagens tradicionais utilizando o canal de decaimento do
Higgs em 4 léptons assim como novos observáveis angulares e cinemáticos empregados em
diferentes canais de produção e decaimento do Higgs.
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Equações de difusão para objetos unidimensionais no contexto das teorias de Yang-MillsTeixeira, Bruno Fernando Inchausp 07 March 2017 (has links)
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TESE.pdf: 797081 bytes, checksum: 36b77c687969ac7b12aeef2589d1d766 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / O confinamento de quarks e glúons continua sendo um dos maiores problemas da Física atual, mesmo depois de passados 50 anos da criação da cromodinâmica quântica. Existem diversas abordagens que procuram uma explicação para este comportamento. Um destes cenários consiste na supercondutividade dual, proposta por G. t’Hooft em 1978. Aqui, ele discute como a condensação de objetos cromomagnéticos poderia originar um potencial linear entre cargas cromoelétricas. Este mecanismo é um dos mais aceitos atualmente e nos dirige à algumas perguntas cruciais: como estes objetos poderiam se tornar relevantes em teorias de Yang-Mills puras? quais os tipos de objetos que devemos levar em consideração para gerar as propriedades do potencial confinante? Embora a primeira pergunta seja difícil de responder, a segunda pode ser atacada por técnicas diferentes, suportadas pelas descrições na rede e por descrições efetivas de ensembles 1. Nesta tese, me dedico a estudar uma classe de objetos que s˜ao bons candidatos a resolverem a segunda questão: monopólos e vórtices de centro. Quando estamos lidando com as teorias de Yang-Mills puras SU(N), o problema consiste que, em nível clássico, estes defeitos são singulares. Porém, recebendo suporte da rede (nosso laboratório em teoria quântica de campos), podemos imaginar que, devido a flutuações quânticas do vácuo, estes objetos poderiam adquirir algumas propriedades dimensionais, como tensão,rigidez e interações que ajudariam a caracterizar o ensemble magnético nos levando a descrições de campos efetivas, que podem ser utilizadas para extrair a corda elétrica confinante. Utilizando técnicas oriundas da física de polímeros obtivemos equações de difusão que representam objetos unidimensionais, como vórtices de centro em 3D ou monopólos em 4D. O surgimento de uma derivada covariante abeliana, no caso do ensemble de vórtices de centro e instantons correlacionados em 3D, e de uma derivada covariante não abeliana, no caso do ensemble de monopólos coloridos em 4D, foi fundamental paragerar os modelos efetivos correspondentes. Acreditamos que estas equações de difusão poderão ser úteis, no futuro, para relacionar as propriedades do potencial entre quarks e aquelas de seus possíveis ensembles correspondentes. / Nowadays, quark and gluon confinement continues to be one of the most important problems in Physics. It remains unsolved, although 50 years have passed since the foundations of quantum chromodynamics. There are various approaches aimed at explaining this behaviour. One of them is the dual superconductor scenario proposed by G. t’Hooft in 1978. The general idea is that the condensation of chromomagnetics objects could originate a linear potential between chromoelectric charges. This is a promising mechanism that posses some crucial questions: how could these objects be relevant in pure YangMills? what type of object would be needed in order to generate the properties of the confining potential? While the first question is very difficult, the second one can be approached by different techniques, guided by the lattice and effective ensemble descriptions. In this thesis, I’ve been working on some good candidates to solve the second question: monopoles and center vortices. When dealing with pure SU(N) Yang-Mills theory, the problem is that at the classical level these magnetic defects are singular. Nevertheless, supported by the lattice (our laboratory in quantum field theory), we can imagine that, due to quantum vacuum fluctuations, they could acquire dimensionful properties. The tension, stiffness, as well as possible interactions that characterize the magnetic ensemble lead to effective field descriptions, that could be used to extract the corresponding confining electric string. Based on techniques borrowed from the physics of polymers, we obtained diffusion equations that describe magnetic one-dimensional objects, such as center vortices in 3D and monopoles in 4D. The appearance of an Abelian covariant derivative, for an ensemble of chains in 3D, and a non Abelian one, in the case of coloured loops in 4D, was essential to generate the corresponding effective descriptions. We believe that these diffusion equations could be helpful in the future, to relate the properties of the interquark potential and those of the possible underlying ensembles.
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Precision calculations in effective theories for Higgs production / Calculs de précision dans des théories effectives pour la physique du boson de HiggsDeutschmann, Nicolas 08 September 2017 (has links)
Après une introduction générale, ce manuscrit contient deux chapitres préliminaires, l'un décrivant le contexte physique et l'autre les techniques mathématiques utilisées lors de cette thèse.Nous présentons ensuite les travaux développés au cours de cette thèse. Nous commençons par l'extraction de la correction du couplage de Yukawa du quark bottom dans la théorie effective du boson de Higgs par un calcul de correspondance à deux boucles entre cette théorie effective et le modèle standard. Cette correction était la pièce manquante pour l'amélioration de la prédiction de la section efficace de production du boson de Higgs en association avec deux quarks bottom.Les deux chapitres suivants couvrent différents aspects du calcul de la correction au deuxième ordre de la section efficace de production d'un boson de Higgs par fusion de gluon dans la théorie effective du modèle standard. Nous présentons d'abord le calcul des corrections virtuelles de ce processus et exploitons la structure établie des divergences ultraviolettes à une boucle et des divergences infrarouges pour extraire un contre terme à deux boucles qui nous a permis de renormaliser l'amplitude, que nous avons ensuite prolongé analytiquement aux régions physiques.Nous combinons alors ce résultat avec le calcul automatique des corrections par émission réelles par le logiciel Madgraph5_aMC@NLO, qui a permis l'intégration de la section efficace. Nous présentons les résultats pour la section efficace totale et deux distributions de variables cinématiques et commentons l'impact des corrections radiatives sur ces prédictions / After a general introduction, this manuscript presents two preliminary chapters, describing first the physics context and the mathematical techniques used in this thesis.We then present the work performed in this thesis. We start with extraction of the power-suppressed of the Yukawa coupling of the bottom quark in the Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT) by a two-loop matching calculation between the Standard Model and the HEFT. This correction was the missing piece to improve the prediction of the production cross section of a Higgs boson in association to a pair of bottom quarks.The two next chapters present different aspects of the NLO corrections to Higgs boson production through gluon fusion in the standard model effective field theory. We first present the evaluation of the virtual corrections to this process and use the known one-loop ultraviolet and infrared divergence structure to extract a two-loop counterterm that allowed us to renormalize the amplitude, which we then analytically continued to the physical regions.We then combine this result with the automatic calculation of the real emission corrections in the program Madgraph5_aMC@NLO. The results are presented for the total cross section and differential distributions and comment on the effect of radiative corrections on these predictions
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Tópicos em dinâmica de fluidos como uma teoria de campo / Topics in fluid dynamics as field theoryCoelho, David Montenegro, 1990- 31 August 2018 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2016 / Resumo: O interesse científico cresceu após confirmado por testes experimentais o comportamento do Plasma de Quark-Glúon como um fluido quase perfeito no LHC e RHIC. O objetivo desse trabalho é fornecer as bases teóricas da Effective Field Theory (EFT) na abordagem da Hidrodinâmica, pois vários recursos não-triviais na dinâmica relativística dos fluidos são claramente explicados por esse formalismo. Problemas teóricos na EFT sugerem a inclusão de uma nova formulação do Princípio de Hamilton compatível com o princípio da causalidade, através do Closed-Time-Path. Após resolvido esse problema, alcançamos o requisito necessário para derivar a hidrodinâmica dissipativa em altas ordens por meio da ação. Assim, conseguimos caracterizar a Lagrangeana de Navier-Stokes ao introduzir a quebra de simetria na preservação do difeomorfismo pelo volume por meio do termo $B^{-1}_{IJ}$. No entanto, uma análise pelo método de Ostrogradski levou à supressão dessa equação, através da inclusão da Lagrangeana de Israel-Stewart na expansão que é justificada por meios de argumentos de estabilidade e causalidade. Por fim, propomos uma variável $X_{IJ}$ na Lagrangeana de Israel-Stewart, simétrica, anisotrópica e dependente das condições iniciais que juntamente com os já estabelecidos graus de liberdade de campo, formam a base para a derivação bottom-up em altas ordens da EFT e propicia medidas para estudar turbulência e instabilidade no vácuo e outras situações que chegam da relação entre graus de liberdade macroscópico e microscópico / Abstract: Scientific interest grew after the behavior of the quark-gluon Plasma as a nearly perfect fluid in the LHC and RHIC. The objective of this dissertation is offer support to use the Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach to study hydrodynamics because many non-trivial features in relativistic fluid dynamics are clearly explained by this Lagrangian formalism. Theoretical problems in EFT considering by including a new formulation of the Hamiltonian principle that is compatible with the principle of causality for non-conservative field through the Closed-Time-Path formalism. After solving this problem, we reached requirement to derive the dissipative hydrodynamics in higher orders of action. We were able to characterize Navier-Stokes' Lagrangian by introducing the symmetry breaking of preserving diffeomorphism through the volume with the term $B^{-1}_{IJ} $ to the Lagrangian of Navier-Stokes. An analyse of Ostrogradski's method led to the removal of equation by including the Israel-Stewart term in the Lagrangian expansion that provides an extra justification by means of symmetry and causality arguments. Finally, we propose a variable $ X_ {IJ} $, Israel-Stewart's Lagrangian, symmetric, anisotropic and dependent on initial conditions together with an established degree of freedom of the field, which form the basis for the derivation of higher orders of the bottom up and promote steps to the study of turbulence by instability in the vacuum, and other situations arising from the relationship between macroscopic and microscopic degrees of freedom / Mestrado / Física / Mestre em Física / 147435/2014-5 / CNPQ
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Renormalization invariance of many-body observables within pionless effective field theory / Indépendance de la renormalisation d'observables à N corps dans une théorie effective des champs sans pionsDrissi, Mehdi 25 October 2018 (has links)
À l’heure actuelle, l’interaction entre nucléons est décrite par une théorie effective des champs chiraux. Dans ce cadre théorique, les contributions aux observables nucléaires sont organisées en suite d’importance décroissante. En particulier, le calcul de la contribution principale nécessite de résoudre exactement l’équation de Schrödinger pour un certain Hamiltonien. Une description alternative de l’interaction nucléaire, dite théorie effective des champs sans pion, considère uniquement des nucléons comme degrés de liberté et mène à la même nécessité d’une résolution exacte de l’équation de Schrödinger. En pratique, de tels calculs sont irréalistes, même numériquement, pour des observables à N corps dès que N >> 10. Par conséquent, des approximations supplémentaires doivent être développées. Dans cette thèse, des approximations non-perturbatives basées sur des fonctions de Green auto-cohérentes (SCGF) ainsi que des approximations basées sur des théories des perturbations à N corps (MBPT) sont considérées dans le cadre de la théorie effective des champs sans pion. Le but de cette thèse est d’étudier l’invariance par le groupe de renormalisation d’observables à N corps calculées avec ces approximations supplémentaires. L’espoir étant de pouvoir ensuite étendre les conclusions tirées au cas de la théorie effective des champs chiraux. Dans le cas des approximations SCGF, l’analyse des résultats numériques produits avec un code à l’état de l’art révèle une instabilité critique amenant à des observables dépendant de la renormalisation. Un correctif est proposé et devra être implémenté avant tout futur calcul SCGF au sein de la théorie effective des champs sans pion. Cette étude révèle l’importance critique des approximations numériques sur l’invariance par le groupe de renormalisation des observables. Dans le cas des approximations perturbatives basées sur MBPT, une étude formelle ouvre la voie pour dériver, de manière systématique, une renormalisation adéquate pour un large ensemble d’approximation à N corps. / The current paradigm to describe the nuclear interaction is within the frame of Chiral Effective Field Theory (ₓEFT) which organizes contributions to observables in a serie of decreasing importance. It happens that the leading contribution already requires to solve exactly the Schrödinger equation with a particular Hamiltonian. The same requirement is at play in pionless EFT which considers only nucleonic degrees of freedom. Such calculations are numerically intractable for A-body observables with A >> 10. One must design an additional expansion and truncation for many-body observables. In this thesis, non-perturbative approximations on the basis self-consistent Green’s function (SCGF) and on many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) are considered together with a pionless EFT. The goal of the present thesis is to investigate, in such framework, the renormalization invariance of many-body observables computed in A-body sectors with A >> 10. Hopefully the lessons learnt can be extended to ₓEFT. Analysis of numerical calculations realized with a state-of-the-art SCGF code reveals a critical numerical approximation leading to renormalization dependent observables. A necessary fix is proposed and must be implemented before any calculations based on SCGF and EFT in the future. This emphasizes the criticality of numerical approximations for any calculation within a pionless EFT. At the same time, renormalization invariance of observables computed within MBPT is studied formally, opening the path to formulate the renormalization of a wide range of many-body truncation schemes in the future.
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Recherche de la désintegration du boson de Higgs en deux leptons taus dans l'expérience ATLAS / Search for the Higgs boson decay into a pair of taus in ATLASHariri, Faten 30 October 2015 (has links)
Au LHC, l'un des buts essentiels à savoir était de trouver la dernière pièce manquante du modèle standard (MS), i.e. le boson de Higgs (H). La recherche fut couronnée de succès avec les données prises en 2012 et la découverte d'une nouvelle particule scalaire de masse ~126 GeV, se désintégrant en deux bosons (deux photons ou deux bosons électrofaibles ZZ or W+W-). Pour vérifier la compatibilité de la nouvelle particule avec les prédictions du MS, son couplage aux fermions devait être établi, ce qui motiva la recherche du Higgs dans le mode de désintégration en deux leptons taus ayant un rapport d'embranchement important. Dans ATLAS, cette analyse est divisée en trois canaux selon le mode de désintégration des leptons taus. Le travail présenté dans cette thèse concerne le canal “lepton-hadron”, où l'un des taus de l'état final se désintègre leptoniquement en un muon ou un electron, alors que l'autre se désintègre hadroniquement. Les canaux de l'analyse H→tau+ tau- sont caractérisés par de larges valeurs de l'énergie transverse manquante (MET) dans l'état final et adoptent la même technique pour identifier le lepton tau. Dans cette thèse, une contribution importante, mettant en relief l'amélioration obtenue avec une nouvelle MET, est montrée. En utilisant les traces chargées pour estimer la composante “molle” de MET dans les événements issus de collisions p-p, la sensibilité à l'empilement (pile-up), inévitable dans les collisionneurs hadroniques à haute luminosité, est bien réduite. Les erreurs systématiques associées à la composante molle ont été évaluées et leur dependence sur les conditions de pile-up et de modélisation de l'événement a été étudiée pour différentes définitions de MET. Ceci contribuera à améliorer les futures analyses H→tau+ tau-. Dans l'analyse “lepton-hadron”, le bruit de fond dominant provient des événements dont un jet de hadrons est mal identifié comme un tau se désintégrant hadroniquement (“fake tau”). Le travail discuté montre en détail l'estimation de ce bruit de fond pour les deux configurations les plus sensibles aux événements de signal H, i.e. les événements produits avec un Higgs bien boosté ou ceux produits par fusion de deux bosons vecteurs (mode VBF). L'état final de ces derniers est caractérisé par deux jets bien séparés en pseudorapidité, répartis sur les deux hemisphères, produits en association avec les produits de désintégration du H. Enfin, cette thèse rapporte une dernière contribution utilisant la théorie effective des champs pour la production du boson de Higgs et pour estimer les couplages de ce dernier (HEFT), et explorer la nouvelle physique au delà du MS de façon indépendante du modèle théorique. Le travail consiste à tester et valider le modèle “tauDecay” dans le cadre d'une caractérisation du Higgs utilisant HEFT au sein de Madgraph5_aMC@NLO. Après avoir écrit un outil permettant de fusionner les fichiers de production et de désintégration du Higgs (utile surtout en travaillant avec une précision au niveau NLO), la validation du modèle a été faite de 3 façons indépendantes: avec la génération d' événements au niveau d'éléments de matrice directement, avec l'outil créé et en désintégrant les taus avec MadSpin. Ce nouvel outil est prêt à être utilisé durant le Run-II du LHC. / In the LHC project, one of the major goals was the search for the last missing piece of the standard model (SM), namely the Higgs boson (H). The quest was successful during the Run I data taking in 2012 with the discovery of a new scalar of mass ~126 GeV, compatible with the SM Higgs boson, and decaying to two bosons (either two photons or two electroweak vector bosons ZZ or W+W-). To complete the picture, one needed to establish the couplings of the new particle to fermions. This motivated the search for the decay mode into two tau leptons predicted with a high branching ratio.Inside the ATLAS collaboration, the analysis was divided into three channels according to the decay modes of the tau pair. The work reported in this Ph.D describes the “ lepton-hadron ” analysis where one tau lepton decays leptonically into an electron or a muon and the other decays hadronically. Common features of all three analyses are the identification of the tau lepton and the presence of large missing transverse energy (MET) due to the escaping neutrinos from the tau decays. An important contribution reported in this dissertation concerns the improvement brought by a new MET determination. By using charged tracks to estimate the contribution of the soft energy component produced in the proton-proton collision, the sensitivity to the overlayed events (“ pile-up ”), unavoidable in a high luminosity hadron collider, is very much reduced. The systematic uncertainties associated to this soft component were estimated, their dependence on physics modeling and pile-up conditions studied for various track-based MET definitions. It will contribute to an improved H→tau+ tau- analysis with future data.In the lepton-hadron H analysis, the dominant background comes from events where a hadronic jet is misidentified as a hadronic tau (“ fake-tau ”). The work reports in detail how this fake-tau background has been estimated in the two most sensitive event configurations predicted for the H signal i.e. events where the H boson is highly boosted or produced by fusion of vector bosons (VBF); VBF events are characterized by two forward and backward jets in addition to the H decay products.Finally, the thesis reports on a last contribution performed with the Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT) to study the H couplings and probe new physics beyond SM in a model independent way. The work consisted in testing and validating the “TauDecay” model in association with the Higgs characterization framework in Madgraph5_aMC@NLO. After implementing a tool to merge H production and decay in a single step (especially useful with NLO requirements), the validation was done in three different ways: direct matrix element generation, with the implemented merging tool and using MadSpin to decay taus. The combined package is ready for use in the LHC Run II context.
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