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Title: | Searches for new physics using Dijet Angular Distributions in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector | ||||||
Author: | Buckingham, Ryan Mark |
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0000 0004 2747 1347
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Awarding Body: | University of Oxford | ||||||
Current Institution: | University of Oxford | ||||||
Date of Award: | 2013 | ||||||
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Angular distributions of jet pairs (dijets) produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of- mass energy √s = 7 TeV have been studied with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider using the full 2011 data set with an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb−1, and reaching dijet masses up to 4.5 TeV. All angular distributions are consistent with QCD predictions. Analysis of the dijet angular distribution, using a novel technique simultaneously employing the dijet mass, is employed. This analysis is sensitive to both resonant new physics and phenomena with a slow-onset in mass. Using this technique, new exclusion limits have been set at 95% credibility level for several hypotheses of physics beyond the standard model including: quantum gravity scales, with 6 extra dimensions, below 4.11 TeV, quark contact interactions below a compositeness scale of 7.6 TeV, and excited quarks with a mass below 2.75 TeV. In a large and complex scientific experiment, such as ATLAS, the collection, management and usability of coherent data and metadata is a challenging operation. The availability of these data to physicists within the experiment is essential to all analysis efforts. A new web-based interface called “RunBrowser”, which makes ATLAS and LHC operations data available to the ATLAS Collaboration, is introduced.
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Supervisor: | Issever, Cigdem | Sponsor: | STFC | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.581349 | DOI: | Not available | ||||
Keywords: | Particle physics ; Large Hadron Collider ; Jets ; Extra Dimensions ; Black Holes | ||||||
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