NLO QCD Corrections to Vector Boson Production in Association with Multiple Heavy and Light Jets

NLO QCD Corrections to Vector Boson Production in Association with Multiple Heavy and Light Jets
Author: Felix Richard Anger
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Release: 2018
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Abstract: Precise theory predictions for scattering processes are an important input for the physics program at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva. Notably the complex collider signatures of an electroweak vector boson and many jets that originate in either light partons (light jets) or bottom quarks (b jets) are relevant for both measurements of Standard Model processes as well as searches for new physics. In this thesis, we present new next-to-leading order QCD predictions for two related high-multiplicity processes at the LHC $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV. We show predictions for $Wb\bar{b}$ production in association with two and three light jets that we computed for the first time. In order to obtain the required one-loop amplitudes, we implement the numerical unitarity approach for massive particles in a new version of the BlackHat library. To this end, we devise and apply a new algorithm for the evaluation of D-dimensional unitarity cuts. It builds on a consistent embedding of external fermions states in dimensional regularization and reduces the computational complexity of our calculations. Furthermore, we present next-to-leading order QCD predictions for $V+n$-jet production in association with up to $n = 5$ light jets for $V = W^\pm$ and with up to $n = 4$ light jets for $V = Z$, which we extend to the higher center-of-mass energy of the Large Hadron Collider Run-II. For these processes we compare results obtained with fixed-order scales such as $\hat{H}_T^'/2$ with the MiNLO reweighting procedure

Measurements of Vector Bosons Produced in Association with Jets

Measurements of Vector Bosons Produced in Association with Jets
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Total Pages: 4
Release: 2008
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The latest D0 and CDF measurements of the W + jets and Z/[gamma]* + jets processes are described, along with a discussion of the comparisons that have been made to LO and NLO perturbative QCD predictions. The direct production of W{sup {+-}}/Z bosons in association with jets is a process of crucial importance at hadron collider experiments. The presence of a vector boson in the hard scatter means that these interactions occur at a scale that should make perturbative QCD applicable, and thus it is an excellent channel to test such predictions. Furthermore, many of the potential discovery channels for the Higgs boson and beyond standard model processes share a final state signature with the W{sup {+-}}/Z + jets process. It is thus vital for the success of existing and future hadron collider experiments that this process is understood, and recently there has been a huge amount of work put into the modeling of this process, with the appearance of many new Monte Carlo generators that are already widely used at both the Tevatron and LHC. In Sections 2 and 3 the latest W + jets and Z/[gamma]* + jets measurements from the Tevatron are presented, and in Section 4 we discuss the results and implications of some of the theory comparisons that have thus far been made.

Electroweak Physics at the LHC

Electroweak Physics at the LHC
Author: Matthias U. Mozer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2016-03-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319303813

The book discusses the recent experimental results obtained at the LHC that involve electroweak bosons. The results are placed into an appropriate theoretical and historical context. The work pays special attention to the rising subject of hadronically decaying bosons with high boosts, documenting the state-of-the-art identification techniques and highlighting typical results. The text is not limited to electroweak physics in the strict sense, but also discusses the use of electroweak vector-bosons as tool in the study of other subjects in particle physics, such as determinations of the proton structure or the search for new exotic particles. The book is particularly well suited for graduate students, starting their thesis work on topics that involve electroweak bosons, as the book provides a comprehensive description of phenomena observable at current accelerators as well as a summary of the most relevant experimental techniques.

Looking Inside Jets

Looking Inside Jets
Author: Simone Marzani
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2019-05-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030157091

This concise primer reviews the latest developments in the field of jets. Jets are collinear sprays of hadrons produced in very high-energy collisions, e.g. at the LHC or at a future hadron collider. They are essential to and ubiquitous in experimental analyses, making their study crucial. At present LHC energies and beyond, massive particles around the electroweak scale are frequently produced with transverse momenta that are much larger than their mass, i.e., boosted. The decay products of such boosted massive objects tend to occupy only a relatively small and confined area of the detector and are observed as a single jet. Jets hence arise from many different sources and it is important to be able to distinguish the rare events with boosted resonances from the large backgrounds originating from Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). This requires familiarity with the internal properties of jets, such as their different radiation patterns, a field broadly known as jet substructure. This set of notes begins by providing a phenomenological motivation, explaining why the study of jets and their substructure is of particular importance for the current and future program of the LHC, followed by a brief but insightful introduction to QCD and to hadron-collider phenomenology. The next section introduces jets as complex objects constructed from a sequential recombination algorithm. In this context some experimental aspects are also reviewed. Since jet substructure calculations are multi-scale problems that call for all-order treatments (resummations), the bases of such calculations are discussed for simple jet quantities. With these QCD and jet physics ingredients in hand, readers can then dig into jet substructure itself. Accordingly, these notes first highlight the main concepts behind substructure techniques and introduce a list of the main jet substructure tools that have been used over the past decade. Analytic calculations are then provided for several families of tools, the goal being to identify their key characteristics. In closing, the book provides an overview of LHC searches and measurements where jet substructure techniques are used, reviews the main take-home messages, and outlines future perspectives.

Foundations of Perturbative QCD

Foundations of Perturbative QCD
Author: John Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 637
Release: 2011-04-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1139500627

Giving an accurate account of the concepts, theorems and their justification, this book is a systematic treatment of perturbative QCD. It relates the concepts to experimental data, giving strong motivations for the methods. Ideal for graduate students starting their work in high-energy physics, it will also interest experienced researchers.

Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions

Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions
Author: Deog Ki Hong
Publisher: AIP Conference Proceedings (Nu
Total Pages: 670
Release: 2008-12-11
Genre: Science
ISBN:

This annual SUSY conference has become the world's largest international meeting devolted to new ideas in high energy physics. The main subject of the conference is theoretical and phenomenological aspects of supersymmetric theories, and dark matter and dark energy, and other comological connections. New, interesting results from various experimental groups are increasingly presented at the conference as well. With roughly 200 plenary and parallel presentations, SUSY08 will likely deliver energy and enthusiasm of both theorists and experimentalists who are searching the frontier of high energy physics.

Search for the "totally Unexpected" in the LHC Era

Search for the
Author: Antonino Zichichi
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2010
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814293245

Beyond Higgs / W.A. Bardeen -- Is N = 8 supergravity ultraviolet finite? / Z. Bern -- Extremal black holes and attractors / S. Ferrara -- Exotic mesons / L. Maiani -- The entropic principle and the landscape in SUSY gauge theories / H. Ooguri -- Warped dimensions / L. Randall -- Unitarity in the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism for gravity / C. 'tHooft -- AdS/CFT and light-front QCD / S.J. Brodsky -- Physics of the light quarks / H. Leutwyler -- BFKL equation and anomalous dimensions in N = 4 SUSY / L.N. Lipatov -- The color glass condensate and the glasma / L. McLerran -- Highlights from CERN / R. Aymar -- Highlights from Gran Sasso / E. Coccia -- Highlights from the CNGS & OPERA / Y. Declais -- Highlights from RHIC / B. Jacak -- Highlights from fermilab / P.J. Oddone -- Problems with three neutrinos / A. Bettini -- Double beta decay / E. Fiorini -- Rare decays in the 3rd family / M. Giorgi -- Cosmology and the unexpected / E.W. Kolb -- Complexity at the fundamental level : consequences for LHC / A. Zichichi -- Vertexing and flavour tagging at the international linear collider / E. Devetak -- The standard model Higgs search at the tevatron / W. Fisher -- Effective potentials in de Sitter background and application to the MSSM / B. Garbrecht -- Tuning the vertex detector simulation of H1 / M. Kramer -- Numerical calculation of electron g-2 at 4 loops in QED / S. Laporta -- Spinors and unitarity-cuts / P. Mastrolia -- Exploring the physics frontier with v[symbol]'s and v[symbol]'s in MINOS / J.P. Ochoa-Ricoux -- Modified dispersion relations and trans-planckian physics / M. Rinaldi -- A large TPC prototype for the international linear collider / P. Schade -- Lepton flavour violation : hints on the SUSY seesaw / A.M. Teixeira -- Background simulations for the international linear collider / A. Vogel -- A hadronic calorimeter for the international linear collider / N. Wattimena