# CERN Theses

2020-02-19
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 Boosting to the top: measurements of boosted top quarks and Higgs bosons with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider / Fenton, Michael Between 2015 and 2018, proton-proton collisions were performed at the highest energy ever achieved in man-made particle accelerators, with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN [...] CERN-THESIS-2019-295 CERN-THESIS-2019-295. - 2019. - 222 p.

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2020-02-19
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 Measurement of $W$ boson production in $pp$ collisions at 5.02 TeV and optimisation of electron identification in Pb+Pb collisions with the ATLAS detector / Kremer, Jakub Precise measurements of electroweak boson production at hadron colliders provide stringent tests of Standard Model predictions, including both the electroweak theory and quantum chromodynamics [...] CERN-THESIS-2019-172. - 152 p.

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2020-02-19
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 Determining the weak couplings |V$_{ub}$|/|V$_{cb}$| using semileptonic decays / Smith, Iwan Thomas This thesis will present the first observation of the decay $B$$_{s}^{0} → K$$^{-}$μ$^{+}$ν$_{μ}$ and the determination of |V$_{ub}$|/|V$_{cb}$| [...] 2019.

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2020-02-18
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 Search for a charged Higgs Boson at 13 TeV in the CMS experiment at the LHC, CERN / Verma, Ravindra Kumar In chapter 1, we present a brief theoretical overview of the standard model of particle physics where we discuss it’s successes and failures [...] CERN-THESIS-2019-293 CMS-TS-2020-001. - 2019. - 226 p.

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2020-02-15
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 Transverse pressure effect on superconducting Nb$_3$Sn Rutherford and $Re$BCO Roebel cables for accelerator magnets / Gao, Peng This thesis seeks to expand the understanding of the transverse pressure effects on state-of-the-art Nb$_3$Sn Rutherford and $Re$BCO Roebel cables for application in accelerator magnets [...] CERN-THESIS-2019-289. - 2019. - 170 p.

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2020-02-13
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 LHCb Vertex Locator Upgrade Development and Rare b-quark Decays in LHCb / Franco Lima, Vinicius This work describes contributions and results obtained within the scope of the LHCb collaboration [...] CERN-THESIS-2019-288 - 223 p.

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2020-02-12
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 Searching for Supersymmetry using the Higgs Boson / Weston, Thomas The Large Hadron Collider and its experiments constitute the largest particle physics research programme to date, allowing for extensive research of the existing Standard Model and for potential evidence of physics beyond that of our current comprehension [...] CERN-THESIS-2019-286 - 180 p.

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2020-02-12
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 Hydrodynamic characteristics of the medium produced in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 2.76\;\text{TeV}$ and $5.02\;\text{TeV}$ at the LHC using the ALICE setup / Gonzalez, Victor The finding that the medium produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, denominated as quark gluon plasma (QGP), behaves almost like an ideal fluid caused a flood of initiatives to try to determine their characteristics [...] CERN-THESIS-2019-287 - 322 p.

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2020-02-10
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 Search for resonant $WZ$ production in the fully leptonic final state with the ATLAS detector / Freund, Benjamin Diboson resonance searches are an essential test of electroweak symmetry breaking theories beyond the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics [...] CERN-THESIS-2019-285 - 191 p.

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2020-02-08
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 Performance studies for the measurement of B$^0$ mesons in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with the ALICE experiment / Vermunt, Luuk The Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is predicted by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) to exist at extremely high temperatures and/or energy densities [...] CERN-THESIS-2015-480. - 2015. - 56 p.

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