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Search for New Heavy Charged Bosons and Measurement of High-Mass Drell-Yan Production in Proton—Proton Collisions

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In the first part of this chapter, a brief introduction into the Standard Model of particle physics and its interactions is given. This is followed by a discussion of the formalism which is needed to describe proton–proton (pp) collisions. Also the extraction of the needed ingredients to predict the outcome of these collisions is described, followed by a discussion of the Drell–Yan and photon induced process. Finally, the limitations and problems of the Standard Model are discussed and some theories which aim to solve these limitations are presented. The chapter ends with a discussion of models predicting new physics in the final state of a charged lepton and neutrino. The discussion follows to large parts the discussion in (Zinser M, Double differential cross section for Drell–Yan production of high-mass e\(^{+}\)e\(^{-}\)-pairs in pp collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment, 2013)

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Notes

  1. 1.

    There is a difference whether a fermion has left-handed or right-handed chirality. This is discussed in more detail in Sect. 2.1.5.

  2. 2.

    In this thesis the time axis is always along the abscissa.

  3. 3.

    There are additional loop diagrams which lead to the running of the masses of the leptons.

  4. 4.

    \(N_C=3\) is the number of color charges.

  5. 5.

    For using all flavors up to the b-quark.

  6. 6.

    Dokshitzer–Gribov–Lipatov–Altarelli–Parisi equations.

  7. 7.

    Tevatron is a proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab and was operated at \(\sqrt{s} = 1.8\) TeV and \(\sqrt{s} = 1.96\) TeV.

  8. 8.

    Meaning that they have spin 1/2 and both, a neutrino and an anti-neutrino exists.

  9. 9.

    The graviton is the hypothetical mediator of the gravitational force.

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