Validation of the background estimation in measurements of photon-induced WW production using pp→WZ events

Research output: Types of thesisBachelor thesis

Contributors

  • Amalia Beer - , TUD Dresden University of Technology (Author)

Abstract

The investigation of the self-coupling of electroweak gauge bosons opens up a broad field of possibilities to confirm predictions of the Standard Model and its underlying gauge theory. At the same time, precise analyses of such processes create the potential to discover deviations from well known physics. One of these processes is the γγ→WW process, which proceeds via quartic and trilinear self-coupling of photons and W bosons. In the evaluation of experimental findings from the ATLAS detector at the LHC (CERN), the precise determination of the qq→WW background is a particular challenge. In this work, the qq→WW background estimation from the γγ→WW analysis performed by the ATLAS Collaboration based on a Drell-Yan correction, is validated. For this purpose, a selection of events of the qq→WZ process is performed and then compared to the reweighted theory-based event samples from the Monte Carlo simulation Powheg+Herwig7. Thus, a good match of this correction with high purity selected WZ events is shown.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Qualification levelBachelor of Science
Supervisors/Advisors
  • Siegert, Frank, Supervisor
  • Sommer, Philip, Mentor
Defense Date (Date of certificate)7 Jan 2025
Publication statusPublished - 9 Dec 2024
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