• External Grants
• Lydia Beresford (YIG)
• Katharina Behr (YIG)
• Sarah Heim (YIG)
• Priscilla Pani (YIG)
• Kerstin Tackmann (ERC)

ATLAS External Grants Kerstin Tackmann (ERC)  · 

Differential Higgs distributions as a unique window to New Physics at the LHC

ERC Starting Grant Group of Kerstin Tackmann (2016-2021)

Research Activities

The ERC Starting Grant Group was embedded in the DESY ATLAS group. The group participated in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. We used the dataset that was collected by the ATLAS experiment between 2015 and 2018 to measure differential cross sections to study in detail the properties of the Higgs boson. For these measurements, we used Higgs boson decays into two photons and into four leptons, which can be reconstructed with high efficiency and excellent resolution. The measurements were compared to theoretical predictions, and we performed a measurement of the Higgs boson Yukawa couplings from the differential distributions, and are still completing a search for contributions of effects of physics beyond the Standard Model. As part of these measurements, we contributed to the reconstruction of photons and electrons and the identification of photons at the ATLAS experiment.

Excellent candidates interested in Bachelor, Masters or PhD theses are welcome to contact me any time.

Higgs measurements and studies	Photons and electrons
We contributed to	We contributed to
Differential cross section measurements in Higgs decays into two photons. Differential cross section measurements in Higgs decays into four leptons, working together with Sarah Heim's YIG Combination of the results in the two-photon and the four-lepton decay. Comparison of the measured distributions with theoretical predictions. Extraction of constraints on Yukawa couplings from Higgs transverse momentum spectrum. Extraction of constraints on potential new heavy particles and interactions from Higgs transverse momentum spectrum (ongoing).	Electron and photon reconstruction and software. Photon identification efficiency measurements. Correction of electron and photon electromagnetic shower shapes in simulation.

Group Members (during the complete time of the project)

Contact

Kerstin Tackmann Phone: +49 (0)40 8998 1445 E-Mail: Kerstin Tackmann Location: 1c / O2.303 DESY Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany

Publications

*Measurements of the Higgs boson inclusive and differential fiducial cross-sections in the diphoton decay channel with pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. The ATLAS Collaboration. arXiv:2202.00487 [hep-ex].

*Combined measurements of the total and differential cross sections in the H→γγ and the H→ZZ∗→4ℓ decay channels at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. The ATLAS Collaboration. ATLAS-CONF-2022-002.

*Background Modeling in the H→γγ Differential Cross Section Analysis. Nils Gillwald on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration. Proceedings of Science / International School for Advanced Studies 398, 572 (2021).

*Measurement and Interpretation of Higgs Boson Differential Cross Sections in the Diphoton Decay Channel and Measurement of the Photon Identification Efficiency in the ATLAS Experiment. Früd Braren. Doctoral Thesis. PUBDB-2020-04693.

*Measurements of the Higgs boson inclusive and differential fiducial cross sections in the 4ℓ decay channel at √s = 13 TeV. The ATLAS Collaboration. arXiv:2004.03969 [hep-ex]. Eur. Phys. J. C 80 (2020) 941.

*Electron and photon performance measurements with the ATLAS detector using the 2015-2017 LHC proton-proton collision data. The ATLAS Collaboration. arXiv:1908.00005 [hep-ex]. JINST 14 (2019) P12006.

*Combined measurement of the total and differential cross sections in the H→γγ and the H→ZZ∗→4ℓ decay channels at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. The ATLAS Collaboration. ATLAS-CONF-2019-032.

*Measurements and interpretations of Higgs-boson fiducial cross sections in the diphoton decay channel using 139 fb⁻¹ of pp collision data at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. The ATLAS Collaboration. ATLAS-CONF-2019-029.

*Measurements of the Higgs boson inclusive, differential and production cross sections in the 4ℓ decay channel at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. The ATLAS Collaboration. ATLAS-CONF-2019-025.

*Prospects for differential cross-section measurements of Higgs boson production measured in decays to ZZ and γγ with the ATLAS experiment at the High-Luminosity LHC. The ATLAS Collaboration. ATL-PHYS-PUB-2018-040.

*Measurement of the photon identification efficiencies with the ATLAS detector using LHC Run 2 data collected in 2015 and 2016. The ATLAS Collaboration. arXiv:1810.05087 [hep-ex]. Eur. Phys. J. C 79 (2019) 205.

*Measurements of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel using 80 fb⁻¹ of pp collision data at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. The ATLAS Collaboration. ATLAS-CONF-2018-028.

*Measurements of the Higgs boson production, fiducial and differential cross sections in the 4ℓ decay channel at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. The ATLAS Collaboration. ATLAS-CONF-2018-018.

*Measurements of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel with 36 fb^-1 of pp collision data at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. The ATLAS Collaboration. arXiv:1802.04146 [hep-ex]. Phys. Rev. D 98, 052005 (2018).
 
*Electron and photon reconstruction and performance in ATLAS using a dynamical, topological cell clustering-based approach. The ATLAS Collaboration. ATL-PHYS-PUB-2017-022.

*Measurement of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel with 36 fb^-1 pp collision data at the center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. The ATLAS Collaboration. ATLAS-CONF-2017-045.

*Measurement of fiducial, differential and production cross sections in the H->γγ decay channel with 13.3 fb^-1 of 13 TeV proton-proton collision data with the ATLAS detector. The ATLAS Collaboration. ATLAS-CONF-2016-067.