Graduation Semester and Year
2016
Language
English
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics and Applied Physics
Department
Physics
First Advisor
Amir Farbin
Abstract
The existence of a scalar Higgs particle poses a challenge to the Standard Model through an unnatural hierarchy problem with quadratic divergence. A supersymmetric framework, proposing heavy partners to every Standard Model particle, can solve this problem by introducing new loop diagrams that involve a new fermion-boson symmetry. The LHC has the potential to probe the energy scale necessary for creation of these particles and the ATLAS experiment is poised for discovery. The detected particles are studied by reconstructing the detected events in boosted frames that approximate each decay frame of the interaction with pairs of heavy, invisible particles. This Razor method was used in the analysis of data from 2011 and 2012 and then generalized to the Recursive Jigsaw method in 2015.
Keywords
Physics, CERN, ATLAS, HEP, Supersymmetry, SUSY, Razor, Recursive jigsaw
Disciplines
Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Bullock, Daniel, "Searches for Supersymmetric Particles with the ATLAS Detector using Boosted Decay Tree Topologies" (2016). Physics Dissertations. 123.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/physics_dissertations/123
Comments
Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington