dc.contributor.advisor | Bean, Alice | |
dc.contributor.author | Clutter, Justace Randall | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-07-25T22:09:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-07-25T22:09:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-04-28 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10931 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6416 | |
dc.description.abstract | A search for dijet resonance production in a four-jet all-hadronic final state from the DO detector at Fermilab's Tevatron is presented. The data set, acquired at a ppbar center-of-mass energy of sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV, contains primarily multijet events and represents approximately 1 fb-1 of data. The cross section limits for associated Higgs production and Technicolor processes are determined through a background subtraction method using data to estimate the background. This four-jet channel is potentially very powerful, but is extremely challenging due to the large multijet background from QCD processes. Background rejection is performed by utilizing b-tagging, pre-selection cuts, a multi-variate boosted decision tree discriminant, and the correlated information contained in the M(bb) and M(jj) dijet invariant masses. The search for VH (WH+ZH) processes yields a 95% confidence level observed upper limit of 20.4 pb on the VH cross section for a Higgs mass of 115 GeV/c2. Additionally, a 95% confidence level observed upper limit of 16.7 pb was set for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV/c2 and 24.6 pb was set for a Higgs boson mass of 135 GeV/c2. The same data set was used to place limits on the Technicolor process ρTC→ WπTC where the technirho mass was fixed to 240 GeV/c2. For a technipion mass of 115 GeV/c2 we find a 95% confidence level observed upper limit on the cross section of 49 pb. The technipion masses of 125 GeV/c2 and 140 GeV/c2, the 95% confidence level observed upper limits are 57 pb and 71 pb, respectively. | |
dc.format.extent | 201 pages | |
dc.language.iso | EN | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Elementary particles and high energy physics | |
dc.subject | Fermilab | |
dc.subject | Hadronic | |
dc.subject | Higgs boson | |
dc.subject | Technicolor | |
dc.subject | Tevatron | |
dc.title | Search for VH and Technicolor Production in the qqbb Final State Using the RunII D0 Detector | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Baringer, Phil | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Wilson, Graham | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Ralston, John | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Lerner, David | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Physics & Astronomy | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | Ph.D. | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
kusw.bibid | 8085490 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |