Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Physics and Mathematical Physics, 2002? / Bibliography: p. 377-382.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 250-257). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (PhD)-Open University. BLDSC no.DX96698.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Baylor University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-122).

This thesis discusses recent advances in precision calculations of quantum chromodynamics and their application to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) physics program and beyond. The first half of the thesis is dedicated to the study of vector boson fusion Higgs (VBF) production; fully differential at the next-to-next-to-leading order level (NNLO), and inclusively at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N³LO). Both calculations are performed in the structure function approximation, where the VBF process is treated as a double deep inelastic scattering. For the differential calculation a new subtraction method, "projection-to-Born", is introduced and applied. We study VBF production in a number of scenarios relevant for the LHC and for Future Circular Colliders (FCC). We find NNLO corrections after typical cuts of 5-6% while differential distributions show corrections of up to 10-12% for some standard observables. For the inclusive calculation we find N³LO corrections at the order of 1-2‰. The second half of the thesis presents recent results on the matching of fixed order calculations with parton showers. We first present the POsitive Weight Hardest Emission Generator (POWHEG) method for matching next-to-leading order (NLO) calculations with parton showers. We then proceed to apply it to the case of vector boson fusion ZZjj production and discuss the results for scenarios relevant for the LHC and a possible FCC. In order to present the matching of a NNLO calculation with a parton shower, we next discuss the Multi-Scale Improved NLO (MiNLO) procedure. By applying a reweighting procedure to MiNLO improved Drell-Yan production, we obtain a generator which is NNLO accurate when integrated over all radiation while providing a fully exclusive description of the final state phase space. We compare the calculation to dedicated next-to-next-to-leading logarithm resummations and find very good agreement. The generator is also found to be in good agreement with 7 and 8 TeV LHC data.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-02-28Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:53:39Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 capdevillaroldan_rm_me_ift.pdf: 1695600 bytes, checksum: 56f8cc2724bbe924e0b430ebe1a3b24e (MD5) / Alguns aspectos da quebra de simetria quiral para quarks na representação fundamental são discutidos no contexto das equações de Schwinger-Dyson. Estudamos a equação de gap fermionica incluindo o efeito de uma massa dinêmica para os gluons. Ao estudar esta equação de gap verificamos que a intenção não é forte o suficiente para gerar uma massa dinâmica dos quarks compatível com os dados experimentais. Também discutimos como a introdução de um propagador confinante pode mudar este cenário, exatamente como foi proposto por Cornwall [1] recentemente, desta forma estudamos uma equação de gap completa, composta pela troca de um gluon massivo e por um termo confinante; M('p POT 2') = 'M IND. c('p POT 2') + 'M IND. 1g'('p POT 2'). Encontramos soluções assintótica desta equação de gap nos casos de constante de acoplamento constante e corredora. Este último caso corresponde a um aprimoramento do cálculo com constante de acoplamento constante feito por Doff, Machado e Natale [2] / Some aspects of chiral symmetry breaking for quarks in the fundamental representation are discussed in the framework of the Schwinger-Dyson equations. We study the fermionic gap equation including effects of dynamical gluon mass. Studying the bifurcation equation of this gap equation we verify that the interaction is not strong enough to generate a satisfactory dynamical quark mass. We also discuss how the introduction of a confining propagator may change this scenario as recently pointed out by Cornwall [1], so we study a complete gap equation composed by the one-dressed-gluon exchange term and a confining term: M('p POT 2') = 'M IND. c('p POT 2') + 'M IND. 1g'('p POT 2'). We find asymptotic solutions for this gap equation in the cases of constant coupling and running coupling constant. This last case is an improvement of the constant coupling calculation of Doff, Machado and Natale [2]

Orientador: Adriano Antonio Natale / Banca: Atílio Cucchieri / Banca: Márcio José Menon / Banca: Maria Beatriz de Leone Gay Ducati / Banca: Rogério Rosenfeld / Resumo: Através da solução das equações de Schwinger-Dyson (ESD) é possível estudar diversos aspectos importantes da QCD não-perturbativa como confinamento e quebra de simetria quiral; desta forma as ESD são, obviamente, muito interessantes para estudo da fenomenologia das interações hadrônicas. Após uma breve revisão sobre equações de Schwinger-Dyson (ESD) e sobre algumas soluções da ESD do propagador do glúon disponíveis na literatura, apresentamos possíveis testes fenomenológicos para estas soluções. Observaremos que apenas uma das soluções apresentadas descreve satisfatoriamente os dados experimentais, e esta solução é compatível com uma massa dinâmica para o glúon. Finalizando, supomos que o glúon têm uma massa dinâmica e calculamos seus efeitos sobre os decaimentos de quarkônios pesados / Abstract: Through the solution of Schwinger-Dyson equations (SDE) it is possible to study important features of nonperturbative QCD such as confinement and chiral symmetry breaking; in this way SDE are, obviously, very interesting for the study of phenomenology of hadronic interactions. After a brief review on SDE and some Solutions of gluon propagator SDE available in literature, we present possible phenomenological tests for these solutions. We shall observe that only one of the solutions presented describes satisfactorily the experimental data, and such solution is compatible with a dynamical mass for the gluon. Eventually, we assume that the gluon has a dynamical mass and calculate its effects on heavy quarkonia decays / Doutor

Resumo: As Regras de Soma da QCD foram usadas para a obtenção do fator de forma no vértice 'capa'capa"AST"'pi' e das constantes de decaimento, 'F IND.'capa' e 'F IND.'capa"AST"'. O método das Regras de Soma da QCD se baseia no princípio da dualidade no qual assume-se que é possível descrever simultâneamente um hadron em dois níveis: em termos dos graus de liberdade de quarks e gluons (chamado de lado da QCD) e em termos de graus de liberdade hadronicos (chamado de lado fenomenológico). As constantes de decaimento ficaram de acordo com os resultados experimentais. Entretanto, nosso trabalho mostrou que a corrente axial, usada para descrever o kaon, não é apropriada para descrever o fator de forma. / Abstract: The QCD Sum Rules had been used to evaluate the form factor in the vertex 'capa'capa"AST"'pi' and the decay constants, 'F IND.'capa' e 'F IND.'capa"AST"'. The method of QCD Sum Rules is based on the duality principle in which it is assumed that the hadrons can simultaneously be described in two levels: quarks and haadrons. The decay constants obtained are in good agreement with the experimental results. However, this work showed that the axial current, used to describe the meson k is not appropriate to study the form factor. / Orientador: Gastão Inácio Krein / Coorientador: Marina Nielsen / Banca: Miriam Enriquetta Bracco / Banca: Bruto Max Pimentel Escobar / Mestre

The quickest change detection (QCD) problem is to detect abrupt changes in a sensing environment as quickly as possible in real time while limiting the risk of false alarm. Statistical inference about the monitored stochastic process is performed through observations acquired sequentially over time. After each observation, QCD algorithm either stops and declares a change or continues to have a further observation in the next time interval. There is an inherent tradeoff between speed and accuracy in the decision making process. The design goal is to optimally balance the average detection delay and the false alarm rate to have a timely and accurate response to abrupt changes. The objective of this thesis is to investigate effective and scalable QCD approaches for real-world data streams. The classical QCD framework is model-based, that is, statistical data model is assumed to be known for both the pre- and post-change cases. However, real-world data often exhibit significant challenges for data modeling such as high dimensionality, complex multivariate nature, lack of parametric models, unknown post-change (e.g., attack or anomaly) patterns, and complex temporal correlation. Further, in some cases, data is privacy-sensitive and distributed over a system, and it is not fully available to QCD algorithm. This thesis addresses these challenges and proposes novel data-driven QCD approaches that are robust to data model mismatch and hence widely applicable to a variety of practical settings. In Chapter 2, online cyber-attack detection in the smart power grid is formulated as a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) problem based on the QCD framework. A universal robust online cyber-attack detection algorithm is proposed using the model-free reinforcement learning (RL) for POMDPs. In Chapter 3, online anomaly detection for big data streams is studied where the nominal (i.e., pre-change) and anomalous (i.e., post-change) high-dimensional statistical data models are unknown. A data-driven solution approach is proposed, where firstly a set of useful univariate summary statistics is computed from a nominal dataset in an offline phase and next, online summary statistics are evaluated for a persistent deviation from the nominal statistics. In Chapter 4, a generic data-driven QCD procedure is proposed, called DeepQCD, that learns the change detection rule directly from the observed raw data via deep recurrent neural networks. With sufficient amount of training data including both pre- and post-change samples, DeepQCD can effectively learn the change detection rule for all complex, high-dimensional, and temporally correlated data streams. Finally, in Chapter 5, online privacy-preserving anomaly detection is studied in a setting where the data is distributed over a network and locally sensitive to each node, and its statistical model is unknown. A data-driven differentially private distributed detection scheme is proposed, which infers network-wide anomalies based on the perturbed and encrypted statistics received from nodes. Furthermore, analytical privacy-security tradeoff in the network-wide anomaly detection problem is investigated.

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