General information
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-25-0393
Direction
DRF
Thesis topic details
Category
Miscellaneous
Thesis topics
Search for di-Higgs production in the multilepton channel with the ATLAS detector using 13.6 TeV data
Contract
Thèse
Job description
The Higgs boson, discovered in 2012 at the LHC, is at the origin of the electroweak symmetry breaking within the Standard Model (SM). Despite extensive studies on the Higgs properties, the Higgs self-coupling remains unexplored. This parameter is a key factor in determining the Higgs potential and the stability of the universe’s vacuum. Studying Higgs pair production is the only direct method for measuring this self-coupling, which will give crucial insights into the universe’s fundamental structure and the nature of the electroweak phase transition after the Big Bang. Di-Higgs production is predicted to have a very small cross-section within the SM. Among possible detection channels, the multilepton final state is promising due to its unique kinematic signature, though challenging due the need for precise lepton identification and advanced signal separation techniques using machine learning. This PhD project focuses on searching for di-Higgs production in the multilepton channel with 13.6 TeV ATLAS data, taking advantages from the increased data and energy in Run 3 and aiming to approach SM sensitivity.
University / doctoral school
PHENIICS (PHENIICS)
Paris-Saclay
Thesis topic location
Site
Saclay
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2025
Person to be contacted by the applicant
DELIOT Frédéric
frederic.deliot@cern.ch
CEA
DRF/IRFU
CEA-Saclay
Irfu/DPhP
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX
0169086424
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
DELIOT Frédéric
frederic.deliot@cern.ch
CEA
DRF/IRFU
CEA-Saclay
Irfu/DPhP
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX
0169086424
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