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-24-0377
Direction
DRF
Thesis topic details
Category
Corpuscular physics and outer space
Thesis topics
Study of the production of pairs of Higgs bosons in the bbtt decay channel
Contract
Thèse
Job description
The CMS group at CEA-Saclay/IRFU/DPhP proposes a thesis on the search for double Higgs boson production in the decay channel with a pair of bottom quarks and a pair of tau leptons. The study of this production gives a direct access to the Higgs boson self-coupling, parameter still to be measured. The selected student will take part to research activities well established within CMS, within the CEA group, in link with other institutes in France and abroad. He or she will have to develop an analysis using the Run 3 data of LHC, and in particular to optimise the trigger strategy with regard to previous such analyses. Several publications are foreseen: a first one using the data collected in 2022 and 2023, combined with Run 2 if the sensitivity gain is as large as expected, and a second one using the full Run 2 and Run 3 data. A contribution to the combination of HH results in the different sensitive channels is also foreseen. In parallel, the student will be able to also take part in activities related to detector upgrades, in particular in calorimetry, benefiting from the great expertise of the group in this domain.
University / doctoral school
Thesis topic location
Site
Saclay
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2024
Person to be contacted by the applicant
Portales Louis louis.portales@in2p3.fr
CEA
DRF/IRFU/DPHP/CMS
CEA SACLAY- SPP - Bat 141
91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette
+33 1 69 08 86 83
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
Malcles Julie julie.malcles@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRFU/DPHP/CMS
CEA SACLAY- SPP - Bat 141
91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette
+33 1 69 08 86 83
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