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Description:: We lay out the phenomenological behavior of event-shape observables evaluated by solving optimal transport problems between collider events and reference geometries---which we name 'manifold distances'---to …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Cesarotti, Cari (Author); LeBlanc, Matt (Author)
Subject:: physics; High Energy Physics; Theoretical Physics; Optimal Transport; Large Hadron Collider; LHC; Particle Physics; HEP; QCD; Quantum Chromodynamics
Collection:: Open Publications at Brown

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Description:: A search for long-lived particles that are produced in proton-proton collisions at the CERN LHC, come to rest in the CMS detector, and decay to …
Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Alimena, Juliette (creator); Cutts, David (Director); Narain, Meenakshi (Reader); Fan, JiJi (Reader); Brown University. Physics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: particle physics; LHC; CMS; long-lived exotic particles; Muons
Language:: English
Collection:: Physics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Jet tagging is the process of identifying the particle that initiates a jet. It is a critical but challenging task in high-energy particle physics due …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Zhou, Yuanchen (Author); LeBlanc, Matt (Advisor); Brown University. Department of Physics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Physics; Large Hadron Collider; LHC; Particle Physics; AI/ML; Knowledge Distillation; Jet Tagging; Jet Substructure
Collection:: Physics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, significant efforts have been put into establishing its coupling to fermions, which is an essential feature …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Kwok, Ka Hei Martin (creator); Landsber, Greg (Advisor); Fan, Jiji (Reader); Cutts, David (Reader); Brown University. Department of Physics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: LHC; CMS Experiment; Higgs bosons; btagging
Collection:: Physics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: The top quark is the heaviest of the six observed quarks in the Standard Model (SM). Its mass is more than an order of magnitude …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Avetisyan, Aram (creator); Narain, Meenakshi (Director); Cutts, David (Reader); Guralnik, Gerald (Reader); Brown University. Physics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: CMS; LHC; Top Quark
Language:: English
Collection:: Physics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: A search for microscopic black hole production and decay in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV has been conducted using Compact Muon …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Tsang, Ka Vang (creator); Landsberg, Greg (Director); Jevicki, Antal (Reader); Narain, Meenakshi (Reader); Brown University. Physics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: High Energy Physics; LHC; CMS; Black Hole; Particles (Nuclear physics)
Language:: English
Collection:: Physics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has proven to be a very successful theory in explaining many experimental observations involving electroweak and strong interactions. …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Mao, Zaixing (creator); Heintz, Ulrich (Advisor); Cutts, David (Reader); Fan, Jiji (Reader); Brown University. Department of Physics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: New Physics; Beyond the Standard Model; Tau Leptons; LHC; CMS; Particle Physics - Experiment; Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Collection:: Physics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) will dramatically increase the volume collision data, giving significant challenges to current computing and storage capabilities. In this study, …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Dong, Shutong (Author); LeBlanc, Matt (Advisor); Brown University. Department of Physics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Physics; Large Hadron Collider; LHC; Particle Physics; AI/ML; Jet Tagging; Jet Substructure; Lossy Compression
Collection:: Physics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: The Standard Model (SM) has stood as one of the cornerstones of modern physics for the past 40 years; yet it is likely to remain …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Luk, Michael MH (creator); Heintz, Ulrich (Director); Narain, Meenakshi (Reader); Guralnik, Gerald (Reader); Brown University. Physics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: New physics; heavy quarks; top quarks; beyond the Standard Model; LHC; CMS
Language:: English
Collection:: Physics; Theses and Dissertations

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