18–22 Oct 2021
America/New_York timezone

Development of novel experimental techniques to improve our understanding of the Higgs boson at the ATLAS experiment

20 Oct 2021, 09:30
10m
Parallel Sessions Higgs-boson precision physics Parallel: Precision and Properties

Speaker

Matthew Henry Klein (University of Michigan (US))

Description

With the full Run 2 pp collision dataset collected at 13 TeV by the ATLAS experiment, it is now possible to perform detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties in many production and decay modes. In many cases, novel experimental techniques were developed to allow for these measurements. This talk presents various such techniques, including embedding of simulated objects in data; special object weighting techniques to maximize statistical precision; developing special trigger, reconstruction, and identification algorithms for non-standard objects; special treatments of sources of two-point theory systematic uncertainties; and special developments in likelihood-based fitting techniques.

Primary authors

ATLAS Collaboration Imma Riu (IFAE Barcelona (ES))

Presentation materials