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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisor: Roy F. Schwitters. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2006. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-81). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Measurements of the Ƭ lepton polarization and forward-backward polarization asymmetry near the Z° resonance using the OPAL detector are described. The measurements are based on analyses of [special characters omitted] decays from a sample of 144, 810 [special characters omitted] candidates corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 151 pb-1. Assuming that the Ƭ lepton decays according to V-A theory, the average Ƭ polarization near [special characters omitted] is measured to be [special characters omitted] = (-14.10 ± 0.73 ± 0.55)% and the Ƭ polarization forward-backward asymmetry to be [special characters omitted] = (-10.55 ± 0.76 ± 0.25)%, where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. Taking into account the small effects of the photon propagator, photon-Z° interference and photonic radiative corrections, these results can be expressed in terms of the lepton neutral current asymmetry parameters: AƬ = 0.1466 ± 0.0076 ± 0.0057, Ae = 0.1464 ± 0.0108 ± 0.0036. These measurements are consistent with the hypothesis of lepton universality and combine to give [special characters omitted] = 0.1455 ± 0.0073. Within the context of the standard model this combined result corresponds to sin [special characters omitted] = 0.23172 ± 0.00092. Combining these results with those from the other OPAL neutral current measurements yields a value of sin [special characters omitted] = 0.23211 ± 0.00068. / Graduate

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Carleton University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-146). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 254-261). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

A search for a heavy new particle Y decaying to a Standard Model Higgs boson H and another new particle X is presented. The search is performed using 139 fb−1 of p−p collision data at √s = 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector. The H boson is identified through its decays to bb, with the only assumption applied to X being that it decays hadronically. The X is identified through a novel anomaly detection method via the use of a Variational Recurrent Neural Network trained directly on data collected by the ATLAS detector. This effort marks the first application of a fully unsupervised machine learning method to an ATLAS analysis. An additional benchmark based on interpreting the Y → XH process in the context of a heavy vector triplet model in which the X decays to two quarks defines an additional signal region in which upper limits on the HVT process cross section are reported at 95% confidence level.