eprintid: 16446
rev_number: 13
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1067
dir: disk0/00/01/64/46
datestamp: 2014-02-27 10:14:56
lastmod: 2014-03-04 07:57:01
status_changed: 2014-02-27 10:14:56
type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Scharf, Veit Lorenz
title: Measurement of W\gamma\gamma production in proton-proton collisions and limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings using the ATLAS detector
subjects: ddc-530
divisions: i-130700
adv_faculty: af-13
cterms_swd: Elementarteilchenphysik
cterms_swd: Boson-Boson-Wechselwirkung
cterms_swd: Vektorboson
abstract: The measurement of the joined production processes of three electroweak gauge bosons allows to probe the gauge structure of the electroweak interaction. In the analysis presented, W boson production in association with two high energetic photons has been measured for the first time using proton-proton collision data recorded in 2012 with the ATLAS detector. The dataset corresponds to an integrated
luminosity of 20.3fb -1 collected at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt s = 8 TeV. Events are selected requiring the muonic decay channel of the W boson and two isolated photons. The production cross-section is measured in two restricted phase-space regions, with and without a requirement on the number of additional jets. It is found to be consistent with predictions at next-to-leading order precision in the strong coupling. The measurement is sensitive to new physics phenomena, namely anomalous quartic gauge boson couplings. In the absence of significant deviations from the Standard Model, 95% C.L.
frequentist CL S limits on quartic electroweak gauge boson couplings are set.
date: 2014
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00016446
ppn_swb: 1653536829
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-164463
date_accepted: 2014-01-21
advisor: HASH(0x55a9a634e8a8)
language: eng
bibsort: SCHARFVEITMEASUREMEN2014
full_text_status: public
citation:   Scharf, Veit Lorenz  (2014) Measurement of W\gamma\gamma production in proton-proton collisions and limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings using the ATLAS detector.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/16446/1/thesis_ub.pdf