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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Modelo de dois dubletos de higgs / Two Doublet Model

Silva, Paulo José Ferreira Porfírio da 07 March 2013 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:14:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 488644 bytes, checksum: cfa40ce443721729f5648cc16dcec63d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / In this dissertation we did a complete review of the StandardModel(SM), emphasizing the weak interactions, this in order to treat an extension of theMP with addition of a doublet of scalar theory, known in the literature asModel with Two Higgs doublets (2HDM). We will treat this model from the point of view of both aspects: when two doublets develop the expected value of the vacuum(vev) and when only one develops doublets vev, utilize the potential of 2HDM does not violate CP. These two models are particularly important because they are quite simple and can solve some problems that are open in Physics, one of the most important is the dark matter (DM). Furthermore, we will use the formalism of oblique parameters, radiative corrections involving first order, to parameterize the effects of New Physics (NP). We will present the phenomenology to obtain 2HDMI and regions that are in agreement with the experimental data. / Nesta dissertação fizemos uma revisão completa doModelo Padrão (MP), dando ênfase as interações fracas, isto com o intuito de tratarmos de uma extensão do MP com adição de um dubleto de escalar a teoria, conhecida na literatura como Modelo com Dois Dubletos de Higgs(2HDM)1. Iremos tratar deste modelo sob o ponto de vista de dois aspectos: quando os dois dubletos desenvolvem valor esperado do vácuo(vev) e quando apenas um dos dubletos desenvolve vev, utilizamos o potencial do 2HDM que não viola CP. Particularmente, esses dois modelos são importantes porque eles são bastante simples e podemresolver alguns problemas que estão emaberto na Física, um dosmais importantes é amatéria escura(ME). Além disso, iremos utilizar o formalismo de parâmetros oblíquos, que envolve correções radiativas de primeira ordem, para parametrizar os efeitos da Nova Física(NF). Apresentaremos a fenomenologia para o 2HDMI e obteremos as regiões que estão de acordo com os dados experimentais.
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Transonic Flutter for aGeneric Fighter Configuration / Transoniskt fladder för en generiskflygplanskonfiguration

Bååthe, Axel January 2018 (has links)
A hazardous and not fully understood aeroelastic phenomenon is the transonic dip,the decrease in flutter dynamic pressure that occurs for most aircraft configurationsin transonic flows. The difficulty of predicting this phenomenon forces aircraft manufacturersto run long and costly flight test campaigns to demonstrate flutter-free behaviourof their aircraft at transonic Mach numbers.In this project, subsonic and transonic flutter calculations for the KTH-NASA genericfighter research model have been performed and compared to existing experimentalflutter data from wind tunnel tests performed at NASA Langley in 2016. For the fluttercalculations, industry-standard linear panel methods have been used together with afinite element model from NASTRAN.Further, an alternative approach for more accurate transonic flutter predictions usingthe full-potential solver Phi has been investigated. To predict flutter using this newmethodology a simplified structural model has been used together with aerodynamicmeshes of the main wing. The purpose of the approach was to see if it was possibleto find a method that was more accurate than panel methods in the transonic regimewhilst still being suitable for use during iterative design processes.The results of this project demonstrated that industry-standard linear panel methodssignificantly over-predict the flutter boundary in the transonic regime. It was alsoseen that the flutter predictions using Phi showed potential, being close to the linearresults for the same configuration as tested in Phi. For improved transonic accuracy inPhi, an improved transonic flow finite element formulation could possibly help .Another challenge with Phi is the requirement of an explicit wake from all liftingsurfaces in the aerodynamic mesh. Therefore, a method for meshing external storeswith blunt trailing edges needs to be developed. One concept suggested in this projectis to model external stores in "2.5D", representing external stores using airfoils withsharp trailing edges. / Ett farligt och inte helt utrett aeroelastiskt fenomen är den transoniska dippen, minskningeni dynamiska trycket vid fladder som inträffar för de flesta flygplan i transoniskaflöden. Svårigheten i att prediktera detta fenomen tvingar flygplanstillverkare attbedriva tidskrävande och kostsam flygprovsverksamhet för att demonstrera att derasflygplan ej uppvisar fladderbeteende i transonik inom det tilltänkta användningsområdet.I detta projekt har fladderberäkningar genomförts i både underljud och transonikför en generisk stridsflygplansmodell i skala 1:4 ämnad för forskning, byggd som ettsamarbete mellan KTH och NASA. Beräkningarna har också jämförts med fladderresultatfrån vindtunnelprov genomförda vid NASA Langley under sommaren 2016. Förfladderberäkningarna har industri-standarden linjära panelmetoder används tillsammansmed en befintlig finit element modell för användning i NASTRAN.Vidare har ett alternativt tillvägagångssätt för att förbättra precisionen i transoniskafladderresultat genom att använda potentiallösaren Phi undersökts. En förenkladstrukturmodell har använts tillsammans med aerodynamiska nät av huvudvingen föratt prediktera fladder. Syftet med denna metodik var att undersöka om det var möjligtatt hitta en metod som i transoniska flöden var mer exakt än panelmetoder men somfortfarande kunde användas i iterativa design processer.Resultaten från detta projekt visade att linjära panelmetoder, som de som används iindustrin, är signifikant icke-konservativa gällande fladdergränsen i transonik. Resultatenfrån Phi visade potential genom att vara nära de linjära resultaten som räknadesfram med hjälp av panelmetoder för samma konfiguration som i Phi. För ökad transonisknoggrannhet i Phi kan möjligen en förbättrad transonisk element-formuleringhjälpa.En annan utmaning med Phi är kravet på en explicit vak från alla bärande ytor idet aerodynamiska nätet. Därför behöver det utvecklas en metodik för nätgenereringav yttre laster med trubbiga bakkanter. Ett koncept som föreslås i denna rapport är attmodellera yttre laster i "2.5D", där alla yttre laster beskrivs genom att använda vingprofilermed skarpa bakkanter.
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The Fall and Rise of Antimatter: Probing Leptogenesis and Dark Matter Models

Vertongen, Gilles V.M.P. 25 September 2009 (has links)
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), together with the analyses of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies, confirm what our day to day experience of life attests : antimatter is far less present than matter in the Universe. In addition, these observables also permit to evaluate that there exists about one proton for every 10^{10} photons present in the Universe. This is in contradiction with expectations coming from the standard hot big bang, where no distinction between matter and antimatter is made, and where subsequent annihilations would lead to equal matter and antimatter contents, at a level 10^{−10} smaller than the observed one. The Standard Model of fundamental interactions fails to explain this result, leading us to search for ‘Beyond the Standard Model’ physics. Among the possible mechanism which could be responsible for the creation of such a matter asymmetry, leptogenesis is particularly attractive because it only relies on the same ingredients previously introduced to generate neutrino masses. Unfortunatelly, this elegant proposal suffers from a major difficulty : it resists to any tentative of being probed by our low energy observables. In this thesis, we tackle the problem the other way around and propose a way to falsify this mechanism. Considering the type-I leptogenesis mechanism, i.e. a mechanism based on the asymmetric decay of right-handed neutrinos, in a left-right symmetric framework, we show that the observation of a right-handed gauge boson W_R at future colliders would rule out any possibility for such mechanism to be responsible of the matter asymmetry present in our Universe. Another intriguing question that analyses of the anisotropies of the CMB confirmed is the presence of a non-baryonic component of matter in our Universe, i.e. the dark matter. As hinted by observations of galactic rotation curves, it should copiously be present in our galactic halo, but is notoriously difficult to detect directly. We can take advantage on the fact that antimatter almost disappeared from our surroundings to detect the contamination of cosmic rays from standard sources the annihilation products of dark matter would produce. The second subject tackled in this work is the study of the imprints the Inert Doublet Modem (IDM) could leave in (charged) cosmic rays, namely positrons, antprotons and antideuterons. This model, first proposed to allow the Bout-Englert-Higgs particle to evade the Electroweak Precision Test (EWPT) measurements, introduces an additional scalar doublet which is inert in the sense that it does not couple directly to fermions. This latter property brings an additional virtue to this additional doublet : since it interacts weakly with particles, it can play the role of dark matter. This study will be done in the light of the data recently released by the PAMELA, ATIC and Fermi-GLAST collaborations, which reported e^± excesses in two different energy ranges.
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Lepton Flavor Violation In The Two Higgs Doublet Model

Sundu, Hayriye 01 June 2007 (has links) (PDF)
The lepton flavor violating interactions are interesting in the sense that they are sensitive the physics beyond the standard model and they ensure considerable information about the restrictions of the free parameters, with the help of the possible accurate measurements. In this work, we investigate the lepton flavor violating H+ ! W+l and the lepton flavor conserving H+ ! W+l decays in the general two Higgs doublet model and we estimate decay widths of these decays. After that, we analyze lepton flavor violating decay ! i in the same model and calculate its branching ratio. We observe that the experimental results of the processes under consideration can give comprehensive information about the physics beyond the standard model and the existing free parameters.
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Lepton Flavor Violating Radion Decays In The Randall-sundrum Scenario

Korutlu, Beste 01 February 2008 (has links) (PDF)
The lepton flavor violating interactions are worthwhile to examine since they are sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model. The simplest extension of the Standard Model promoting the lepton flavor violating interactions are the so called two Higgs doublet model which contains an additional Higgs doublet carrying the same quantum numbers as the first one. In this model, the lepton flavor violating interactions are induced by new scalar Higgs bosons, scalar h^0 and pseudo scalar A^0, and Yukawa couplings, appearing as free parameters, are determined by using the experimental data. On the other hand, the possible extra dimensions are interesting in the sense that they ensure a solution to the hierarchy and cosmological constant problems and also result in the enhancement in the physical quantities of various processes. In the present work, we predict the branching ratios of lepton flavor violating radion decays r-&gt / e^+- mu^-+, r-&gt / e^+- tau^-+ and r-&gt / mu^+- tau^-+ in the two Higgs doublet model, including a single extra dimension, in the framework of the Randall Sundrum scenario. We observed that the branching ratios of the processes we study are at most at the order of 10^-8 for the small values of radion mass and it decreases with the increasing values of the radion mass. Among the LFV decays we study, the r-&gt / mu^+- tau^-+ decay would be the most suitable one to measure its branching ratio.
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Phenomenology of Higgs Bosons Beyond the Standard Model

Wouda, Glenn January 2015 (has links)
After a long history of searches, a Higgs boson H was discovered by the ATLAS and the CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012. Its properties fit well the ones predicted by the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. However, the SM can not explain other established properties of Nature, such as the existence of Dark Matter. For this reason, models beyond the SM should be considered. Such models often predict the existence of several Higgs bosons and this thesis explores some of those models. In particular, the possibility to discover a charged Higgs boson, which would be a clear sign of physics beyond the SM, is studied. A commonly studied extension of the SM is the framework of two-Higgs-doublet models (2HDMs), where there are five Higgs bosons. By confronting the parameter spaces of some 2HDMs with publically available data from the LHC, the prospects for finding the 2HDM Higgs bosons is presented through the calculation of production cross sections and decay branching ratios in various channels. A new kind of 2HDM, called the Stealth Doublet Model is presented and the properties of the Higgs bosons are studied. In this model, it is shown that in particular the properties of the charged Higgs boson H± have new features not exhibited in earlier studied models. Within the parameter space compatible with the LHC results, the production cross section for H± can be sizeable enough to be experimentally observed. Finally, the discovery prospects at the LHC, for a H± in the pp → tH± process, with the decays H± → HW± and H → bb, is studied in various models beyond the Standard Model. It is shown that for the supersymmetric models, this channel is beyond the discovery reach of the LHC. In some of the other studied models, in particular the Aligned 2HDM, the situation is improved and the channel is feasible.
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The Inclusive Semileptonic Decays Of The B-meson In A Cp Softly Broken Two Higgs Doublet Model

Acar, Hilal 01 January 2004 (has links) (PDF)
In this work, the B-&gt / X_dell ell decays are examined in the context of a CP softly broken two Higgs doublet model. The differential branching ratio, forward-backward asymmetry, CP-violating asymmetry, CP-violating asymmetry in the forward-backward asymmetry and polarization asymmetries of the final lepton in this decay are studied. The dependencies of these physical parameters on the model parameters are analyzed by paying a special attention to the effects of neutral Higgs boson (NHB) exchanges and possible CP violating effects. It has been found that NHB effects are quite significant for the tau mode and the above-mentioned observables seems to be promising as a testing ground for new physics beyond the SM, especially for the existence of the CP-violating phase in the theory.
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Méthode d'Équilibrage Harmonique Multi-Frequentielle pour la Simulation des Doublets d'Hélices Contra-Rotatives : application à l'aéroélasticité / Multi-frequential Harmonic Balance Approach for the Simulation of Contra-Rotating Open Rotors : Application to Aeroelasticity

Gomar, Adrien 14 April 2014 (has links)
La mécanique des fluides numérique a permis d'optimiser de nombreux systèmes dont, notamment, les moteurs d'avions. Dans l'industrie aéronautique, les calculs numériques d'écoulements sont principalement limités à des approches stationnaires de par le coût prohibitif des simulations instationnaires. Néanmoins, les écoulements qui se développent dans les machines tournantes, à savoir les principaux composants d'un moteur d'avion, sont majoritairement périodiques en temps. En partant de cette hypothèse de périodicité temporelle, des approches dites spectrales en temps ont vus le jour il y a plus de quinze ans. Elles restent principalement limitées à des écoulements mono-fréquentiels, à savoir composés d'une seule fréquence de base et de ses harmoniques. Récemment, une méthode d'équilibrage harmonique multi-fréquentielle a été développée et implémentée dans le code de calcul elsA, élargissant le champ des applications possibles. En particulier, l'étude de l'aéroélasticité des machines tournantes multi-étagées devient alors envisageable.Cette thèse se propose d'appliquer la méthode d'équilibrage harmonique multi-fréquentielle pour étudier l'aéroélasticité d'une configuration nouvelle de moteur d'avion: les doublets d'hélices contra-rotatives. La méthode est tout d'abord validée analytiquement et numériquement sur des cas tests linéaires et non-linéaires avec succès. Deux problèmes sont soulevés pour l'utilisation d'une telle méthode sur des configurations aéroélastiques arbitraires: le conditionnement du terme source et la convergence de la méthode. Des approches originales ont été développées afin d'améliorer le conditionnement et de fournir une estimation a priori du nombre d'harmoniques nécessaire pour obtenir un certain niveau de convergence. La méthode d'équilibrage harmonique est ensuite validée sur un cas standard d'aéroélasticité des machines tournantes et montre des résultats très proches de ceux expérimentaux. L'applicabilité de la méthode est finalement démontrée pour la simulation de l'aéroélasticité des doublets d'hélices contra-rotatives. / Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has allowed the optimization of many configurations among which aircraft engines. In the aeronautical industry, CFD is mostly restricted to steady approaches due to the high computational cost of unsteady simulations. Nevertheless, the flow field across the rotating parts of aircraft engines, namely turbomachinery blades, is essentially periodic in time. Years ago, Fourier-based time methods have been developed to take advantage of this time periodicity. However, they are, for the most part, restricted to mono-frequential flow fields. This means that only a single base-frequency and its harmonics can be considered. Recently, a multi-frequential Fourier-based time method, namely the multi-frequential Harmonic Balance (HB), has been developed and implemented into the elsA CFD code, enabling new kinds of applications as, for instance, the aeroelasticity of multi-stage turbomachinery.The present PhD thesis aims at applying the HB approach to the aeroelasticity of a new type of aircraft engine: the contra-rotating open rotor. The method is first validated on analytical, linear and non-linear numerical test problems. Two issues are raised, which prevent the use of such an approach on arbitrary aeroelastic configurations: the conditioning of the multi-frequential HB source term and the convergence of the method. Original methodologies are developed to improve the condition number of the simulations and to provide a priori estimates of the number of harmonics required to achieve a given convergence level. The HB method is then validated on a standard configuration for turbomachinery aeroelasticity. The results are shown to be in fair agreement with the experimental data. The applicability of the method is finally demonstrated for aeroelastic simulations of contra-rotating open rotors.
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Modélisation hors adaptation des performances individuelles d'un doublet d'hélices contrarotatives / Individual performance modelization of contra rotating propellers in off-design conditions

Dubosc, Matthieu 02 February 2016 (has links)
Dans le cadre du projet européen Clean Sky, Snecma construit un démonstrateur de Contra Rotating Open Rotor (CROR). La conception du système de régulation du moteur nécessite d'avoir connaissance du comportement aérodynamique de chacune des hélices du doublet. Les objectifs de cette thèse sont dans un premier temps de comprendre les interactions entre les différents éléments constitutifs d'un CROR ayant un effet sur les performances des hélices, d'isoler leurs contributions respectives et dans un deuxième temps de développer un modèle prédictif des performances individuelles des hélices d'un CROR intégrable dans un environnement de calcul de cycles thermodynamiques. Pour cela, le comportement des hélices en doublet est rapproché de celui d'hélices isolées dont les effets macroscopiques sont bien connus. Des calculs Euler et NS3D ont servi de base pour proposer un couplage entre les hélices isolées permettant de retrouver le champ de vitesses induits entre les hélices d'un calcul doublet. Pour respecter les exigences de rapidité d'exécution et de robustesse numérique imposées par l’environnement de calcul de cycles thermodynamiques, les performances individuelles des hélices du doublet sont calculées à partir de champs hélice isolée. Une approche monodimensionnelle permet de calculer les vitesses induites propres des hélices à partir de la traction et de la puissance absorbée et une méthode pour estimer les vitesses induites mutuelles à partir des vitesses induites propres est donnée. Le calcul des performances individuelles des hélices d'un doublet contrarotatif est itératif. Cette méthode estime les performances avec une erreur relative inférieure à 5%. Elle est utilisée dans le développement du système de régulation du démonstrateur CROR SAGE2. / Within the scope of the European research project Clean Sky, Snecma builds a ground demonstrator of the concept engine Contra Rotating Open Rotor (CROR). Engine control system design requires knowing how each propeller will behave aerodynamically under the interaction of each other. The aim of this work is to design a predictive model of contra rotating propeller individual performance fitting in a thermodynamic cycle calculation environment. A coupling is proposed in order to represent the dual propellers thanks to isolated propeller behavior. It has been shown that by matching the isolated propellers thrust and torque to the doublet values, the good values of mutual induced velocities can be found. Hence contra rotating propellers individual performance can be reached with a good variation in parameters. In addition to that, in order to meet withthermodynamic cycle calculation environment requirements of rapidity and numerical robustness, performance is calculated from pre-generated propeller maps. One-dimensional approach is used to calculate mutual induced velocities from propellers thrust and torque. Contra rotating propellers individual performance calculation is an iterative process. The method developed gives the performance within a 5% relative error margin and is currently used for the design of the ground demonstrator control system.
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Effects of heavy Higgs bosons in the hadronic production of top-quark pairs including QCD corrections

Galler, Peter 13 February 2018 (has links)
In dieser Disseratation wird eine mögliche Erweiterung des Standardmodells der Elementarteilchen (SM) im Higgs-Sektor mithilfe von Topquarkpaarproduktion am Large Hadron Collider untersucht. Insbesondere wird dabei auf das sogenannte Zwei-Higgs-Duplettmodell eingegangen. Dieses Modell führt mehrere Spin-0 Bosonen (auch Higgsbosonen genannt) zusätzlich zum SM-Higgsboson ein. Dabei wird in dieser Arbeit von der Annahme ausgegangen, dass diese zusätzlichen Higgsbosonen schwer genug sind um in ein Top-Antitop-Paar zu zerfallen. Somit können die experimentellen Signaturen dieser neuen Teilchen mit Hilfe von Observablen der Topquarkpaarproduktion untersucht werden. Dazu wird die resonante Erzeugung von schweren Higgsbosonen und deren Zerfall in Topquarkpaare bis einschließlich Quantenkorrekturen in der nächst-zu-führenden Ordnung (NLO) in der QCD-Kopplungskonstanten berechnet. Weiterhin wird die volle Spininformation des Top-Antitop-Paares beibehalten, welche die Analyse von spinabhängigen Observablen erlaubt. Diese können, insbesondere in Falle von Top-Antitop-Spinkorrelationen, sehr sensitiv auf Effekte schwerer Higgsbosonen sein. Dies zeigt sich besonders in Vergleich zu spinunabhängigen Observablen. Die Sensitivität von spinabhängigen Observablen kann zudem noch durch entsprechende Schnitte auf den Phasenraum von Top- und Antitopquark verstärkt werden. In dieser Dissertation wird ein Verfahren vorgestellt, mit dessen Hilfe sich die Spinkorrelationen identifizieren lassen, welche die größte Sensitivität auf die Effekte schwerer Higgsbosonen aufweisen. Außerdem wird durch die Berechnung der Beiträge zur NLO u.a. gezeigt, dass diese Beiträge wichtig sind um aussagekräftige und robuste Observablen zu definieren. Die Ergebnisse der NLO, die in dieser Arbeit vorgestellt werden, sind die ersten ihrer Art für die resonante Erzeugung von schweren Higgsbosonen und deren Zerfall in Topquarkpaare. / In this dissertation a possible extension of the standard model of particle physics (SM) in the Higgs sector is investigated using top-quark pair production at the Large Hadron Collider as a probe. In particular, the so-called two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM) is studied. The 2HDM introduces several spin-0 bosons (which are also called Higgs bosons) in addition to the SM Higgs boson. In this thesis these additional Higgs bosons are assumed to be heavy enough to decay into a top-antitop quark pair. Thus, the experimental signatures of these new particles can be studied through observables of top-quark pair production. To this end the resonant production of heavy neutral Higgs bosons and their decay into top-quark pairs in calculated up to next-to-leading order corrections in the QCD coupling constant retaining the full spin information of the top-antitop pair. This allows to analyse spin dependent observables which can be more sensitive to effects of heavy Higgs bosons than spin independent ones especially in the case of top-antitop spin correlations. The additional application of kinematical cuts on the phase space of top and antitop quarks can enhance the sensitivity further. In this thesis a method is presented that can be used to construct the spin correlation which is most sensitive to the effects of heavy Higgs bosons on top-quark pair production. Furthermore, it is shown that the next-to-leading order corrections are required to construct observables which entail robust predictions. The results for the next-to-leading order in the QCD coupling constant presented in this thesis were the first ones given for resonant heavy Higgs production and decay into top-quark pairs.

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