Orientador: Rogério Rosenfeld / Co-orientador: Maxime Gouzevich / Banca: Eduardo Pontón Bayona / Banca: André Sznajder / Banca: Sérgio Ferraz Novaes / Banca: Oscar José Pinto Éboli / Resumo: No Modelo Padrão que descreve a física das partículas elementares e suas interações o campo de Higgs pode ser imaginado como um campo composto formado por uma força forte ainda desconhecida. Tal hípótese é bastante atrativa para completar o Modelo Padrão a altas energias. Problemas como hierarquia e naturalidade podem ser mais facilmente evitados. No contexto de uma força forte porém métodos de cálculo baseados em expansões perturbativas não tem mais validade. Uma alternativa para entender as propriedades básicas desse tipo de teoria é trabalhar em termos de teorias de gravitacão com dimensões extras. Nesta tese focamos no caso de uma dimensão espacial extra. Características genéricas desse tipo de cenário são a existência de partículas de gravidade massivas, associadas com a métrica penta-dimensional que acopla com o Modelo Padrão para matéria, levando a assinaturas diretas em colisores de partículas (como o LHC no CERN). Tais partículas de gravidade se acoplam com o setor de Higgs. A descoberta do bóson de higgs abriu um novo camp o de investigação para sua detecção direta, no estado final com dois bósons de higgs. Nós usamos técnicas de Monte Carlo para estudar as estratégias de análise que levariam a um melhor reconhecimento de novas ressonâncias que decaem em pares de bósons de higgs em colisores hadrônicos, que podem ser interpretadas como partículas de gravidade massivas. Finalmente apresentamos as buscas experimentais por tais ressonâncias realizadas no contexto do experimento CMS com dados retirados do primeiro run do LHC (com uma energia de centro de massa de 8 TeV) / Abstract: The Higgs field of the Standard Model theory for elementary particles and interactions can be realized as a composite state from an underlying strong sector. Such hypothesis is very attractive as an ultraviolet completion of the Standard Model since it solves the hierarchy and avoids naturalness problems. The standard perturbative methods cannot be used in the context of strongly interacting theories, however thyose can be broadly describes in terms of extra dimensional models of gravity. We focus on the case of one additional Warped compact Extra Dimension (WED). The generic signatures of this scenario are the manifestation of heavy gravity particles, associated with the five dimensional metric, that couples with the Standard Model matter leading to direct collider signatures. The heavy gravity particles couples to the Higgs sector. The Higgs discovery had oponed a new investigation channel to LHC direct detection that is the di-higgs final state. We use Monte Carlo techniques to study the analysis strategies that would lead to a best recognition of new resonances decaying to a pair of higgses in hadron colliders, that can be interprets as the gravity particles. We finally present resonance searches performed with data taken by the CMS experiment on the 8 TeV LHC run. The results are interpreted as the gravity particles signatures in the WED context / Doutor

The present neutrino oscillation data are compatible with tri-bimaximal mixing, to leading order. The addition of an A₄ family symmetry and extended Higgs sector to the Standard Model can generate this mixing pattern, assuming the correct vacuum expectation value alignment of Higgs scalars. The effect of deviating this alignment is studied, for different types of A₄ models, with a phenomenological emphasis: the effect of perturbations on the model predictions for the neutrino oscillation and neutrino mass observables. The standard theoretical description of neutrino oscillations is presented, along with a summary of the past, present and future experimental efforts aimed at measuring the neutrino mixing parameters. Additionally, the current constraints on the sum of absolute neutrino masses and the amplitude for neutrinoless double beta decay, which is yet to be observed, are discussed. These constraints provide a model-independent test of family symmetery models. The Standard Model is reviewed, and extensions to the Standard Model such as the seesaw mechanism(s) are discussed: these are designed to endow neutrinos with mass, and can be incorporated into A₄ symmetry models. Models with different A₄ particle assignments are analysed for deviations from tribimaximal mixing. There are nine models presented in Chapter 5, with lepton doublets transforming as 3 (underlined) and right-handed charged leptons transforming as 1, 1', 1" (all underlined) ; five of these include right-handed neutrinos transforming as 3 (underlined) and make use of the seesaw mechanism. Chapter 6 contains the analysis of six models that assign all leptons to the 3 (underlined) representation, with four of these utilising the seesaw mechanism. The models are tested for any degree of fine tuning of the parameters that define the mass matrices. The effect of perturbations on the mixing angle observables, in particular sin² ∅₁₃ and sin² ∅₂₃, is studied, as well as the effect on the Jarlskog invariant, Jcp. Investigations of the (Mee)- ∑Mv parameter space allow for comparison with current data, and can lead to the possible exclusion of a particular model by constraints from future data.

This thesis presents a search for R-parity violating supersymmetry at sqrt(s)=13 TeV, using approximately 13.3 fb-1 of data collected by ATLAS in 2015 and the first half of 2016. Events are required to contain at least four leptons (electrons or muons only) that are not the product of a Z boson decay, and this requirement results in a low Standard Model background and a high sensitivity to various physics models beyond the Standard Model. No significant deviations from the Standard Model are observed in data, and results are used to set upper limits on the event yields from processes beyond the Standard Model. In a simplified model of chargino production with indirect R-parity violating decays, limits are extended by approximately 400 GeV relative to the Run 1 search, excluding chargino masses below 1.1 TeV.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Physics, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Mar. 27, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-218). Also issued in print.

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-224). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Carleton University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Carleton University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-79). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2008. / Principal faculty advisor: Qaisar Shafi, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-132).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2008. / "Graduate Program in Physics and Astronomy." Includes bibliographical references.