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Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRF-27-0269
Direction
DRF
Thesis topic details
Category
Corpuscular physics and outer space
Thesis topics
Search for Higgs boson pair production with the CMS experiment: from the full Run-3 analysis to the HL-LHC trigger strategies
Contract
Thèse
Job description
Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, the experimental program at the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) has entered an era of precision measurements, enabling increasingly stringent tests of the
Standard Model (SM). While all measured Higgs boson properties remain consistent with SM predictions, a central parameter of the scalar sector is essentially unconstrained: the Higgs boson self-coupling, ?H.
This parameter governs the shape of the Higgs potential and is intimately connected to the (meta)stability
of the electroweak vacuum and the long-term evolution of the Universe. Its measurement therefore
represents one of the major outstanding challenges of the present and future LHC physics programme.
By combining the exploitation of the full Run-3 dataset with the development of next-generation trigger
algorithms for the HL-LHC, this PhD Thesis Project establishes a direct connection between precision Higgs
measurements and detector innovation. Beyond improving the sensitivity of the current HH ?bbtt analysis,
the project aims to identify and overcome future key experimental limitations, developing new reconstruction
and selection strategies that will contribute to shaping the future CMS physics programme.
University / doctoral school
PHENIICS (PHENIICS)
Paris-Saclay
Thesis topic location
Site
Saclay
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2027
Person to be contacted by the applicant
Vernazza Elena
elena.vernazza@cern.ch
CEA
DRF/IRFU/DPHP/CMS
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
Malcles Julie
julie.malcles@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRFU/DPHP/CMS
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