L’étude des mécanismes de production des quarkonia (J/ψ or Υ) dans les collisions proton-proton (pp) est intéressante car elle nécessite de prendre en compte les aspects perturbatifs et non perturbatifs de la ChromoDynamique Quantique (QCD). La production de quarkonia en fonction de la multiplicité des particules chargées a été mesurée pour la première fois dans les collisions pp avec le détecteur ALICE au Grand collisionneur de hadrons (LHC). Ces mesures présentent une corrélation non triviale qui peut conduire à une meilleure compréhension du mécanisme d’interaction partonique multiple dans l’état initial de la collision ainsi que des effets collectifs possibles dans les petits systèmes. L’étude du dernier échantillon de données enregistré au LHC en collisions pp aux énergies les plus élevées jamais atteintes en laboratoire (√s=13 TeV) permettra d’étudier des événements à forte multiplicité. Avec ALICE, les quarkonia sont mesurés jusqu’à des impulsions transverses nulles. Les charmonia (J/ψ, cc̄ ) sont détectés par leur désintégration en diélectrons à mi-rapidité (|y|< 0.9) et en dimuons en rapidité vers l’avant (2.5 < y < 4). Les bottomonia (Υ, bb̄) sont détectées par leur décroissance en dimuons en rapidité vers l’avant. La multiplicité des particules chargées est mesurée à l’aide de segments de traces avec le détecteur de silicium à pixels pour |η|< 1. Dans cette thèse, nous présenterons les premières mesures réalisées avec ALICE des productions relatives d’Υ(1S) et Υ(2S) en fonction de la multiplicité des collisions pp à √s =13 TeV. Nous discuterons du rapport relatif des Υ(2S) par rapport aux Υ(1S) en fonction de la multiplicité des particules chargées. La comparaison entre les J/ψ et les Υ(1S) mesurés en rapidité avant en fonction de la multiplicité sera également examinée. Ces études permettront d’examiner la dépendance possible de la corrélation mesurée avec les différentes masses des quarkonia considérés et les différents types de contenus en quark. La dépendance du domaine en rapidité et de l’énergie de la collision sera également considérée. / The study of quarkonium (J/ψ or Υ) in proton-proton (pp) collisions is interesting as both perturbative and non perturbative aspects of Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD) are involved in the production mechanism. The quarkonium production as a function of charged-particle multiplicity has been measured in a pp collisions with ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). They exhibit a non-trivial correlation that can lead to a better understanding of the multi-parton interaction mechanism in the initial state of the collision as well as possible collective effects in small systems. Thestudy of latest data sample recorded at the LHC in pp collisions at the highest collision energies everreached in the laboratory (√s = 13 TeV) will allow to investigate high multiplicity events. In ALICE,quarkonia are measured down to zero transverse momentum. Charmonia (J/ψ, cc̄) are detected viatheir decay into di-electrons at mid-rapidity (|y|< 0.9) and dimuons at forward rapidity (2.5 < y < 4).Bottomonia (Υ, bb̄) are detected via their decay into dimuons at forward rapidity. Charged-particlemultiplicity is measured using track segments in the silicon pixel detector in |η|< 1. In this thesis, we will present the first ALICE measurements of relative Υ(1S) and Υ(2S) productions as a function of multiplicity in pp collisions at √s =13 TeV. We will discuss the ratio of the relative Υ(2S) overΥ(1S) as a function of charged-particle multiplicity. The comparison between the relative J/ψ andΥ(1S) yields measured at forward rapidity as a function of multiplicity will also be discussed. This will provide insight of possible dependence of the measured correlation with different mass and quark contents as well as the evolution with rapidity range and the collision energy.

Le Modèle Standard de la physique des particules décrit trois des quatre interactions fondamentales et toutes ses prédictions ont été confirmées expérimentalement. Cependant, il reste encore des questions auxquelles le Modèle Standard ne peut répondre. Plusieurs pistes théoriques sont explorées et certaines prédisent de nouvelles particules se désintégrant en paire de quarks top-antitop qui pourraient être observé par le détecteur ATLAS auprès du collisionneur LHC.À partir de 2026, le LHC redémarrera après avoir fait l'objet d'une importante phase d'amélioration afin d'augmenter sa luminosité. C'est dans ce contexte que s'inscrivent les études réalisées sur FATALIC, une puce qui a été proposée pour le remplacement de l'électronique frontale du calorimètre hadronique à tuiles d'ATLAS. Les études ont montré que FATALIC est capable de reconstruire les paramètres d'un signal analogique en utilisant trois canaux de gain et un changement de gain dynamique. Les simulations ont démontré que les performances attendues de la voie rapide de FATALIC entraient dans les spécifications demandées.Ensuite, a été présentée une recherche de nouvelles résonances se désintégrant en paire de quarks top-antitop, utilisant 36,1 fb-1 de données issues des collisions proton-proton à 13 TeV au LHC pendant les années 2015 et 2016. Cette recherche s'est concentrée sur le canal de désintégration semi-leptonique de la paire top-antitop, où l'état final possède une signature comprenant exactement un lepton, des jets hadroniques et de l'énergie transverse manquante. L'estimation du bruit de fond multi-jets a été présentée en détail. Une recherche dans le spectre de masse invariante de la paire top-antitop a été effectuée pour les deux topologies résolue et boostée et la compatibilité des données par rapport aux prédictions du Modèle Standard a été testée. Aucune déviation significative par rapport aux prédictions du Modèle Standard n'a été trouvée et des limites sur les sections efficaces de production de signaux issus des modèles considérés furent mises.Les difficultés rencontrées lors de l'estimation des bruits de fond et du pré-traitement des incertitudes systématiques pour l'analyse à 36,1 fb-1 ont motivé la recherche d'une nouvelle méthode pour l'estimation du bruit de fond globale. L'algorithme Décomposition Fonctionnelle (FD) est une nouvelle méthode permettant de rechercher de nouvelles particules dans un spectre de masse invariante, en séparant la contribution du bruit de fond de celles des contributions résonantes. FD a été testé dans le but de vérifier ses performances sur des pseudo-données des analyses top-antitop et « 4t BSM ». Dans un premier temps, des tests ont été menés sur la propension de FD à créer de faux signaux dans les spectres de masses invariantes. La première version s'est montrée sensible à ce problème. FD a ensuite été amélioré pour réduire la sensibilité à la création de faux signal. Enfin, des études d'injections de signal ont été réalisées et FD a montré des difficultés à modéliser la contribution du signal et à la séparer du bruit de fond pour des largeurs de signal supérieures à 3%. / The Standard Model of particle physics describes three of the four fundamental interactions and all of its predictions have been experimentally confirmed. However, there are still questions that the Standard Model cannot answer. Several theoretical models are being explored and some predict new resonances that would decay into a top-antitop quarks pair that could be observed by the ATLAS detector at the LHC collider.In 2026, the LHC will restart after a significant improvement phase to increase its luminosity. It's in this context that the studies on FATALIC, a chip that has been proposed for the replacement of the front-end electronics of the ATLAS hadronic tile calorimeter, were achieved. The studies showed that FATALIC was able to reconstruct the parameters of an analog signal using three gain channels and a dynamic gain switch. The simulations showed that the expected performance of FATALIC's fast channel was within the required specifications.Then, a search for new particles decaying into a top-antitop quarks pair was presented, using 36.1 fb-1 data from the proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV of the LHC for the years 2015 and 2016. This search concentrate on the semi-leptonic decay channel of the top-antitop quarks pair, where the final state has a signature with exactly one lepton, hadronic jets and missing transverse energy. The estimate of the multi-jets background noise was presented. A search in the top-antitop invariant mass spectrum was performed in the two topology resolved and boosted and the compatibility of the data with respect to the Standard Model predictions was tested. No significant deviation from the Standard Model's predictions was found and limits on benchmark models signal cross sections were set.The difficulties encountered in estimating the background noises and on the profiling of the systematic uncertainties for the 36.1 fb-1 analysis has motivated the search for a new method to perform the global background estimate. The Functional Decomposition (FD) algorithm is a new method to search for new particles in an invariant mass spectrum, separating the contribution of the background noise to those of the resonant contributions. FD has been tested to verify its performance on pseudo-data from the top-antitop and « 4t BSM » analyses. First, tests were conducted to check if FD was creating spurious signal. The first version suffered of this problem and FD was then improved to reduce the amount of spurious signal. Finally, signal injection studies were carried out and FD showed difficulties to model the signal's contribution and to separate it from the background noise for signal with widths greater than 3%.

Under the influence of standardly used (however, very simplified) description of Coulomb-hadronic interference proposed by West and Yennie (1968) the protons have been interpreted as "transparent" objects; elastic collisions have been interpreted as more central than inelastic ones. This property may be hardly put in agreement with the fact that in the majority of hadronic collisions many different particles have been created at high energies. Using the more general eikonal model it will be shown that the protons may be interpreted in agreement with usual conception; elastic processes being more peripheral than inelastic ones. The contemporary TOTEM experiment at the LHC accelerator in CERN devoted to measurement of elastic pp scattering and diffractive processes at the highest ever reached energies will be described. The eikonal model will be explained to greater details, generalized and applied to experimental data of elastic pp collisions under different assumptions at 52.8 GeV (older ISR data measured at CERN) and also at much higher energy of 8 TeV (new TOTEM data). The impact of different assumptions on determination of several quantities specifying hadron interaction will be studied. Mainly the assumptions influencing behaviour of elastic collisions in dependence on impact parameter of colliding...

The discovery of a heavy neutral particle would be a direct hint for new physics beyond the Standard Model. In this thesis searches for new heavy neutral particles decaying into two tau leptons, which further decay into hadrons, are presented. They cover neutral Higgs bosons in the context of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM) as well as Z′ bosons, predicted by various theories with an extended gauge sector. Both analyses are based on the full 2012 proton-proton collision dataset taken by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The extended Higgs sector in the MSSM suggests additional heavy neutral Higgs bosons which decay into tau leptons in about 10% of the time. Given that the dominant final state, φ → b¯b, suffers from tremendous QCD initiated backgrounds, the decay into two tau leptons is the most promising final state to discover such new resonances. The fully hadronic final state is the dominant one with a branching fraction of about 42%. It governs the sensitivity, in particular at high transverse momentum when the QCD multijet background becomes small. Other theoretical extensions of the Standard Model, which are mainly driven by the concept of gauge unification, predict additional heavy particles arising from an extended underlying gauge group. Some of them further predict an enhanced coupling to fermions of the third generation. This motivates the search for Z′ bosons in the fully hadronic di-tau final state. One major challenge in physics analyses involving tau leptons is to have an outstanding performance of trigger and identification algorithms suitable to select real tau leptons with high efficiency, while rejecting fake taus originating from quark or gluon initiated jets. In this work a new tau trigger concept based on multivariate classifiers has been developed and became the default tau trigger algorithm in 2012 data-taking. An updated tau identification technique based on the log-likelihood approach has been provided for 2011 data-taking. Furthermore, a new framework has been developed to perform the tuning of the tau identification algorithm and exploited for the optimisation for 2012 data-taking, accordingly. The search for new heavy neutral Higgs bosons in the context of the MSSM has been performed exploiting the full 2012 dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb−1 taken at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 8 TeV. Updated event selection criteria and novel data-driven background estimation techniques have been developed and are suitable to increase the sensitivity of the analysis significantly. No deviations from the Standard Model prediction are observed, and thus 95% C.L. exclusion limits on the production cross section times branching ratio, σ(pp → φ) × BR(φ → ττ), are derived exploiting the CLs method. The exclusion ranges from 13.0 pb at 150GeV to 7.0 fb at 1 TeV for Higgs boson production in association with b-quarks and from 23.6 pb at 150GeV to 7.5 fb at 1 TeV for Higgs bosons produced via gluon-gluon fusion. The obtained exclusion limit on σ(pp → φ) × BR(φ → ττ) can be related to an exclusion of the MSSM parameter space in the MA-tan β-plane. Various benchmark scenario are considered. The ”standard candle” is the mhmax scenario, for which tan β values between 13.3 and 55 can be excluded at 95% C.L. in the considered mass range. Updated benchmark scenarios designed to incorporate the recently discovered SM-like Higgs boson were suggested and analysed as well. In the mhmod+ (mhmod−) scenario tan β values between 13.5 (13.3 ) and 55 (52 ) can be excluded. Finally, a search for heavy neutral resonances in the context of Z′ bosons was performed. As in the search for new Higgs bosons, no deviation from the Standard Model prediction is observed, and hence exclusion limits on the production cross section times branching ratio, σ(pp → Z′) × BR(Z′ → ττ), and on the Z′ boson mass are derived exploiting the Bayesian approach. Z′ bosons with MZ′ < 1.9 TeV can be excluded at 95% credibility, and thus mark the strongest exclusion limit obtained in the di-tau final state by any collider experiment so far.

Die Entdeckung eines geladenen Higgs-Bosons, H+, wäre ein unbestreitbarer Nachweis von Physik jenseits des Standardmodells. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Suche nach dem H+ mit Hilfe von Proton-Proton-Kollisionen, welche im Jahr 2011 mit dem ATLAS Experiment am Large Hadron Collider, LHC, des CERN aufgenommen wurden, beschrieben. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurde eine überarbeitete Analyse der Suche nach geladenen Higgs-Bosonen, die eine Verhältnismethode anwendet und damit die Sensitivität des traditionell direkten Suchansatzes stark verbessert, durchgeführt. Leichte geladene Higgs-Bosonen, welche eine Masse geringer als die des Top-Quarks aufweisen, können aus einem Top-Quark-Zerfall hervorgehen. Im Gegensatz zu den schweren geladenen Higgs-Bosonen sind die leichten aufgrund des hohen Produktionswirkungsquerschnitts von Top-Quark-Paaren am LHC potenziell mit den ersten Daten des Experiments beobachtbar. In den meisten Theorien und Szenarien sowie dem größten Bereich ihres Phasenraumes zerfallen leichte geladene Higgs-Bosonen meist im H± → τ±ν Kanal. Demzufolge spielen sowohl die τ-Identifikation als auch die τ-Fehlidentifikation eine besondere Rolle für die Suche nach geladenen Higgs-Bosonen. Eigens für die Ermittlung der Fehlidentifikationswahrscheinlichkeiten von Elektronen als hadronisch zerfallende τ-Leptonen wurde eine “tag-and-probe”-Methode, basierend auf Z → ee Ereignissen, entwickelt. Diese Messungen sind mit den allerersten Daten durchgeführt worden. Dabei haben diese einerseits für alle Analysen, welche die Elektronenveto-Algorithmen der τ-Identifikation nutzen, essenzielle Skalenfaktoren hervorgebracht. Andererseits wurde, beruhend auf diesen Ergebnissen, eine datenbasierte Abschätzungsmethode entwickelt und für die Untergründe der geladenen Higgs-Boson-Suche, die von der Fehlidentifikation von Elektronen als hadronisch zerfallende τ-Leptonen stammen, erfolgreich implementiert. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden Triggerstudien, mit dem Ziel höchstmögliche Signaleffizienzen zu gewährleisten, durchgeführt. Neuartige Triggerobjekte, basierend auf einer Kombination aus τ-Trigger und fehlender transversaler Energie-Trigger, wurden entworfen, überprüft und in das Triggermenü für die Datennahme im Jahr 2012 aufgenommen. Eine direkte Suche nach dem geladenen Higgs-Boson wurde in drei Kanälen mit einem τ-Lepton im Endzustand unter Berücksichtigung des gesamten Datensatzes des Jahres 2011 durchgeführt. Da kein signifikanter Überschuss, der von den Vorhersagen des Standardmodells abweicht, in den Daten beobachtet wurde, sind obere Ausschlussgrenzen auf B(t → bH+) gesetzt worden. Letztlich ist die Analyse des Kanals mit einem hadronisch zerfallenden τ-Lepton und einem Myon oder Elektron im Endzustand des tt ̄-Zerfalls, unter Anwendung der sogenannten Verhältnismethode, wiederholt worden. Diese Methode misst Verhältnisse von Ereignisausbeuten, anstatt die Verteilungen diskriminierender Variablen zu evaluieren. Folglich kürzen sich die meisten dominant beitragenden systematischen Unsicherheiten intrinsisch heraus. Die Daten stimmen mit den Vorhersagen des Standardmodells überein. Durch Zuhilfenahme der Verhältnismethode wurden die oberen Ausschlussgrenzen, im Vergleich zur direkten Suche, signifikant verbessert. Die Resultate der Verhältnismethode sind mit denen der direkten Suche, welche ein hadronisch zerfallendes τ-Lepton und zwei Jets im Endzustand des tt ̄-Zerfalls nutzt, kombiniert worden. Auf diese Art und Weise konnten obere Ausschlussgrenzen auf B(t → bH+) in einem Bereich von 0,8 %–3,4 % für geladene Higgs-Bosonen in einem Massenbereich für m_H+ zwischen 90 GeV und 160 GeV gesetzt werden. Sollte das Minimal Supersymmetrische Standardmodell (MSSM) in der Natur realisiert sein, so haben die hier ermittelten oberen Ausschlussgrenzen auf B(t → bH+) direkte Konsequenzen für die Identität des Higgs-Boson-ähnlichen Teilchens, welches im Jahr 2012 am LHC entdeckt wurde.:Kurzfassung v Abstract vii Contents ix 1 Introduction 1 2 Theoretical Framework 3 2.1 The Standard Model of Particle Physics 3 2.1.1 Particles, Fields and Interactions 3 2.1.2 Gauge Theory in a Nutshell 6 2.1.3 Brout-Englert-Higgs Mechanism 9 2.2 Supersymmetry 11 2.2.1 Sources of Supersymmetry Breaking 20 2.2.2 Two Higgs Doublet Model 21 2.2.3 Charged Higgs Boson Production and Decay 22 2.3 Current Status of charged Higgs Boson Searches 24 3 Monte Carlo Simulation 33 3.1 Methodology of Monte Carlo Simulation 33 3.2 Monte Carlo Simulation for Electron to t Mis-identification Analysis 35 3.3 Monte Carlo Simulation for H± Analysis with Data taken 2010 35 3.4 Monte Carlo Simulation for H± Analyses with Data taken 2011 37 4 LHC and the ATLAS Detector 41 4.1 The Large Hadron Collider 41 4.2 The ATLAS Detector 42 4.2.1 Magnet Systems 46 4.2.2 Inner Detector 47 4.2.3 Calorimeter Systems 50 4.2.4 Muon Spectrometer 60 4.2.5 Forward Detectors 61 4.2.6 Trigger and Data Acquisition 63 4.3 Data Taking 67 5 Event Selection and Data-Driven Background Estimation Techniques 73 5.1 Event Cleaning 74 5.2 Trigger for the Charged Higgs Boson Analyses 74 5.2.1 Trigger for the thad+Lepton and tlep+Jets Channels 75 5.2.2 Trigger for the thad+Jets Channel 77 5.3 Physics Object Reconstruction 77 5.3.1 Muons 77 5.3.2 Electrons 77 5.3.3 Jets 78 5.3.4 b-Tagging 79 5.3.5 Hadronically decaying t Leptons 79 5.3.6 Missing Transverse Momentum 79 5.3.7 Removal of Geometric Overlaps between Objects 80 5.4 Selection and Cut Optimisation 80 5.4.1 thad+Lepton Analysis Selection 80 5.4.2 tlep+Jets Analysis Selection 82 5.4.3 thad+Jets Analysis Selection 83 5.5 Background Estimations 84 5.5.1 Measurement of the t Lepton Mis-identification Probability from Electrons 84 5.5.2 Backgrounds with Electrons and Jets Mis-identified as t Leptons 88 5.5.3 Embedding Method 92 5.5.4 Multi-Jet Background 92 5.5.5 Backgrounds with Mis-identified Leptons 93 6 Direct Searches for the Charged Higgs Boson 95 6.1 Analysis of the thad+Lepton Channel 95 6.2 Analysis of the tlep+Jets Channel 95 6.3 Analysis of the thad+Jets Channel 98 6.4 Systematic Uncertainties 101 6.4.1 Systematic Uncertainties of Detector Simulation 101 6.4.2 Systematic Uncertainties of Generation of tt Events 103 6.4.3 Systematic Uncertainties of Data-Driven Background Estimates 103 6.5 Results 107 7 Indirect Search for the Charged Higgs Boson – The Ratio-Method 111 7.1 Ratio-Method: A Re-Analysis of the thad+Lepton Channel 111 7.2 Event Selection 112 7.3 Measured Event Yield Ratios 115 7.4 Systematic Uncertainties 115 7.4.1 Systematic Uncertainties of Detector Simulation 115 7.4.2 Systematic Uncertainties of Generation of tt Events 115 7.4.3 Systematic Uncertainties of Data-Driven Background Estimates 118 7.5 Results 119 7.5.1 Upper Limits obtained from Results of the Ratio-Method 119 7.5.2 Combination of Upper Limits obtained from Direct Searches for Charged Higgs Bosons in the thad+jets final state and the Ratio-Method Results 124 8 Comparison and Discussion of the Results 131 9 Summary and Outlook 137 A Monte Carlo Simulation Samples 141 A.1 Monte Carlo Simulation Samples for 2010 Analyses 141 A.1.1 Monte Carlo Simulation Samples for the Electron to t Lepton Mis-identification Analysis 141 A.1.2 Monte Carlo Simulation Samples for the H± Analysis 143 A.2 Monte Carlo Simulation Samples for 2011 Analyses 147 A.2.1 Monte Carlo Samples for H± Ratio-Method Search Analysis 147 List of Figures 149 List of Tables 153 Bibliography 155 Acknowledgements 179

In dieser Dissertation wird eine Suche nach der Produktion von ''down''-artigen b'' Anti-b'' Quark-Antiquark-Paaren einer sequentiellen vierten Generation von Fermionen präsentiert. Für die Suche wurden Endzustände mit zwei gleich geladenen Leptonen (e oder mu), mindestens zwei Jets (davon ein b-Jet), fehlender transversaler Energie und einer großen Summe der Transversalimpulse aller Elektronen, Muonen und Jets betrachtet. Für den Zerfall dieser b'' Anti-b'' Quark-Antiquark-Paare wurden zwei verschiedene Szenarien untersucht. Im ersten Szenario wird angenommen, dass beide b'' Quarks ausschliesslich in ein t Quark und ein W Boson zerfallen. Für das zweite Szenario werden variable Verzweigungsverhältnisse für die Zerfälle der b'' Quarks nach tW, cW und uW erlaubt. Die Suche wurde mit Daten durchgeführt, die von pp Kollisionen mit einer Schwerpunktsenergie von sqrt(s) = 8 TeV vom ATLAS Detektor am Large Hadron Collider aufgezeichnet wurden. Der benutzte Datensatz entspricht einer integrierten Luminosität von 14.3 fb^-1. Es wurde kein signifikanter Überschuss an Ereignissen über den erwarteten Ereignissen vom Untergrund beobachtet. Daher wurde im ersten Szenario eine untere Grenze auf die b''-Masse (m_b'') von 0.724 TeV mit einem Konfidenzniveau von 95% bestimmt. Im Falle des zweiten Szenarios mit variablen Verzweigungsverhältnissen wurden Ausschlussregionen mit einem Konfidenzniveau von 95% als Funktion der Masse des b''-Quarks und seiner Verzweigungsverhältnisse bestimmt. Die erhaltenen Grenzen auf m_b'' sind schwächer verglichen mit dem Ergebnis für ein Verzweigungsverhältniss von 100% für b''->tW. / This thesis presents a search for the production of down-type b'' anti-b'' quark-antiquark pairs of a sequential fourth generation of fermions. In this search, final states with two same-sign charged leptons (e or mu), at least two jets (including at least one b-jet), missing transverse energy and a large total sum of the transverse momenta of all electrons, muons and jets were considered. Two different scenarios were assumed for the decays of these $b'' anti-b'' quark pairs. In the first scenario the two b'' quarks were considered to decay exclusively into a t quark and a W boson. For the second scenario, variable branching fractions for the decays of the b'' quarks into tW, cW and uW were allowed. The search was performed using data from pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 8 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The used dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 14.3 fb^-1. No significant excess of events over the background expectation was observed. Hence a lower limit on the b'' mass of 0.724 TeV was set with 95% confidence level in the first scenario. In case of the second scenario with variable branching fractions, exclusion areas with 95% confidence level were derived as a function of the b'' mass and its decay branching fractions. These limits are less stringent compared to the result assuming a branching fraction of 100% for b''->tW.

In dieser Dissertation wird die Suche nach schweren neutralen pseudoskalaren A und skalaren H Higgs-Bosonen vorgestellt, die in gg-Fusionen erzeugt werden, und in ein Top-Antitop-Quark-Paar zerfallen. Gesucht wurde im vollständigen Datensatz von Proton–Proton-Kollisionen bei einer Schwerpunktsenergie von 8 TeV die vom ATLAS-Detektor am Large Hadron Collider aufgezeichnet wurde und einer integrierten Luminosität von 20.3 fb−1 entspricht. Der Signalprozess und der Haupthintergrund aus der Top-Quark-Paar-Produktion über starke gg-Fusionen-Prozesse, interferieren heftig, was zu einer Verzerrung des reinen Breit-Wigner-Resonanzpeak in eine Peak-Dip-Struktur führt. Diese Analyse ist die erste am LHC, die die Interferenz zwischen Signal und Hintergrundprozessen vollständig berücksichtigt. Die Suche stützt sich auf die statistische Analyse des invarianten Top-Quark-Paar-Massenspektrum, welches aus Ereignissen mit einem Elektron oder Myon mit hohem Transversalimpuls, einer hohen fehlenden Transversalenergie von dem nicht detektierten Neutrino und mindestens vier Jets rekonstruiert wird. In den Daten wird keine signifikante Abweichung vom erwarteten Standardmodell-Hintergrund beobachtet. Die Ausschließungsgrenzen wurden abgeleitet im Kontext des Typ II Two-Higgs-Doublet Model, für Higgs-Bosonen mit einer Masse von 500 und 750 GeV und mit niedrigerem tan(\beta)-Parameter, bei der tan(\beta) das Verhältnis der Vakuumerwartungswerte der beiden Higgs-Dublett-Felder ist. Diese Parameterregionen sind weitgehend unerforscht in Untersuchungen von beliebigen Endzuständen. / In this thesis a search is presented for heavy neutral pseudoscalar A and scalar H Higgs bosons, produced in gg fusion and decaying into a top-antitop quark pair. The search is conducted on the full proton-proton collisions dataset recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass collision energy of 8 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1. The signal process and the main background from top quark pair production via the gg fusion strong process, interfere heavily, distorting the signal shape from the pure Breit-Wigner resonance peak to a peak-dip structure. This analysis is the first one at the LHC that fully takes into account the interference between a signal and the background processes. The search relies on the statistical analysis of the top quark pair invariant mass spectrum, which is reconstructed in signal candidate events with a high-transverse momentum electron or muon, large missing transverse energy from the undetected neutrino and at least four jets. No significant deviation from the expected SM background is observed in data. Exclusion limits are derived in the context of the type-II Two-Higgs-Doublet Model, for Higgs boson masses of 500 and 750 GeV and in the low tan(\beta) parameter region, where tan(\beta) is the ratio of the vacuum expectation values of the two Higgs doublet fields. These parameter regions have been largely unexplored by searches in any final state.

Electroweak gauge bosons as central components of the Standard Model of particle physics are well understood theoretically and have been studied with high precision at past and present collider experiments. The electroweak theory predicts the existence of a scattering process of these particles consisting of contributions from triple and quartic bosonic couplings as well as Higgs boson mediated interactions. These contributions are not separable in a gauge invariant way and are only unitarized in the case of a Higgs boson as it is described by the Standard Model. The process is tied to the electroweak symmetry breaking which introduces the longitudinal modes for the massive electroweak gauge bosons. A study of this interaction is also a direct verification of the local gauge symmetry as one of the fundamental axioms of the Standard Model. With the start of the Large Hadron Collider and after collecting proton-proton collision data with an integrated luminosity of 20.3/fb at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector, first-ever evidence for this process could be achieved in the context of this work. A study of leptonically decaying WWjj, same-electric-charge diboson production in association with two jets resulted in an observation of the electroweak WWjj production with same electric charge of the W bosons, inseparably comprising WW->WW electroweak gauge boson scattering contributions, with a significance of 3.6 standard deviations. The measured production cross section is in agreement with the Standard Model prediction. In the course of a study for leptonically decaying WZ productions, methods for background estimation, the extraction of systematic uncertainties and cross section measurements were developed. They were extended and applied to the WZjj final state whereof the purely electroweakly mediated contribution is intrinsically tied to the scattering of all Standard Model electroweak gauge bosons: Wγ->WZ and WZ->WZ. Three charged leptons and a neutrino from the decay of the final state bosons allow inferences about the scattering process. A distinct signature is provided by the two accompanying tagging jets as remnants of the incoming quarks radiating the initial electroweak gauge bosons. The cross section of the electroweak WZjj production was measured to σ(fiducial, observed) = (0.63 +0.32 -0.28 (stat.) +0.41 -0.24 (syst.)) fb and was found to be consistent with the Standard Model prediction at next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics, σ(fiducial, theory) = (0.31 +0.03 -0.05) fb. Unfolded differential cross sections of kinematic variables sensitive to models of new physics were derived. Anomalous quartic electroweak gauge couplings are introduced as dimensionless coupling parameters of additional operators within an effective field theory approach. Constraints on the parameters of operators with dimension eight were set employing a unitarization prescription based on form factors.

Electroweak gauge bosons as central components of the Standard Model of particle physics are well understood theoretically and have been studied with high precision at past and present collider experiments. The electroweak theory predicts the existence of a scattering process of these particles consisting of contributions from triple and quartic bosonic couplings as well as Higgs boson mediated interactions. These contributions are not separable in a gauge invariant way and are only unitarized in the case of a Higgs boson as it is described by the Standard Model. The process is tied to the electroweak symmetry breaking which introduces the longitudinal modes for the massive electroweak gauge bosons. A study of this interaction is also a direct verification of the local gauge symmetry as one of the fundamental axioms of the Standard Model. With the start of the Large Hadron Collider and after collecting proton-proton collision data with an integrated luminosity of 20.3/fb at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector, first-ever evidence for this process could be achieved in the context of this work. A study of leptonically decaying WWjj, same-electric-charge diboson production in association with two jets resulted in an observation of the electroweak WWjj production with same electric charge of the W bosons, inseparably comprising WW->WW electroweak gauge boson scattering contributions, with a significance of 3.6 standard deviations. The measured production cross section is in agreement with the Standard Model prediction. In the course of a study for leptonically decaying WZ productions, methods for background estimation, the extraction of systematic uncertainties and cross section measurements were developed. They were extended and applied to the WZjj final state whereof the purely electroweakly mediated contribution is intrinsically tied to the scattering of all Standard Model electroweak gauge bosons: Wγ->WZ and WZ->WZ. Three charged leptons and a neutrino from the decay of the final state bosons allow inferences about the scattering process. A distinct signature is provided by the two accompanying tagging jets as remnants of the incoming quarks radiating the initial electroweak gauge bosons. The cross section of the electroweak WZjj production was measured to σ(fiducial, observed) = (0.63 +0.32 -0.28 (stat.) +0.41 -0.24 (syst.)) fb and was found to be consistent with the Standard Model prediction at next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics, σ(fiducial, theory) = (0.31 +0.03 -0.05) fb. Unfolded differential cross sections of kinematic variables sensitive to models of new physics were derived. Anomalous quartic electroweak gauge couplings are introduced as dimensionless coupling parameters of additional operators within an effective field theory approach. Constraints on the parameters of operators with dimension eight were set employing a unitarization prescription based on form factors.

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