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Search for the lepton flavour violating decays B0→e±μ∓ and B0s→e±μ∓ with LHCb Run 2 data

A large variety of new physics models suggest that the rates for lepton flavour violating

b

-hadron decays may be much higher than predicted in the Standard Model, which leads to a high interest in the search for such decays. This thesis presents the se ...

EPFL2024

Overview of fast particle experiments in the first MAST Upgrade experimental campaigns

Matteo Vallar

MAST-U is equipped with on-axis and off-axis neutral beam injectors (NBI), and these external sources of super-Alfv & eacute;nic deuterium fast-ions provide opportunities for studying a wide range of phenomena relevant to the physics of alpha-particles in ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Reconstruction of decays to merged photons using end-to-end deep learning with domain continuation in the CMS detector

Rakesh Chawla, Arvind Shah, Andrea Rizzi, Matthias Finger, Federica Legger, Sun Hee Kim, Jian Zhao, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Tagir Aushev, Hua Zhang, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Yixing Chen, Tian Cheng, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Gabriele Grosso, Valérie Scheurer, Meng Xiao, Maren Tabea Meinhard, Qian Wang, Michele Bianco, Varun Sharma, Jessica Prisciandaro, Joao Varela, Sourav Sen, Ashish Sharma, Seungkyu Ha, David Vannerom, Csaba Hajdu, Sanjeev Kumar, Sebastiana Gianì, Kun Shi, Abhisek Datta, Guido Andreassi, Miao Hu, Siyuan Wang, Muhammad Waqas, Anton Petrov, Jian Wang, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Muhammad Ansar Iqbal, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Testing lepton flavour universality in $B^+\to K^+\pi^+\pi^-\ell^+\ell^-$ decays with LHCb

Sara Celani

This PhD thesis aims at testing one of the fundamental properties of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics: the lepton flavour universality (LFU), which states that

W

and

Z

bosons are equally coupled to the three lepton generations. In this work, ...

EPFL2023

The present and future status of heavy neutral leptons

Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Lesya Shchutska, Marco Drewes, Jean-Loup Tastet, Inar Timiryasov, Juraj Klaric

The existence of nonzero neutrino masses points to the likely existence of multiple Standard Model neutral fermions. When such states are heavy enough that they cannot be produced in oscillations, they are referred to as heavy neutral leptons (HNLs). In th ...

2022

Exploring the potential of FCC-hh to search for particles from B mesons

Alexey Boyarsky, Lesya Shchutska

The Future Circular Collider (FCC-hh) is a proposed successor of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). FCC-hh would push both the energy and intensity frontiers of searches for new physics particles. In particular, due to higher energy and luminosity than at th ...

Springer Nature2022

Turbulent transport regimes in the tokamak boundary and operational limits

Paolo Ricci, Maurizio Giacomin

Two-fluid, three-dimensional, flux-driven, global, electromagnetic turbulence simulations carried out by using the GBS (Global Braginskii Solver) code are used to identify the main parameters controlling turbulent transport in the tokamak boundary and to d ...

2022

Lifshitz point at commensurate melting of chains of Rydberg atoms

Frédéric Mila, Natalia Chepiga

The recent investigation of chains of Rydberg atoms has brought back the problem of commensurateincommensurate transitions into the focus of current research. In two-dimensional classical systems or in one-dimensional quantum systems, the commensurate melt ...

2021

Probing the explanation of the muon (g-2) anomaly and thermal light dark matter with the semi-visible dark photon channel

Nikolaos Charitonidis, Philip Crivelli

We report the results of a search for a new vector boson (A') decaying into two dark matter particles chi 1 chi 2 of different mass. The heavier chi(2) particle subsequently decays to chi 1 and an off-shell Dark Photon A'* -> e(+)e(-). For a sufficiently l ...

SPRINGER2021

Self-interacting neutrinos: Solution to Hubble tension versus experimental constraints

Emmanuel Stamou

Exotic self-interactions among the Standard Model neutrinos have been proposed as a potential reason behind the tension in the expansion rate, H-0, of the universe inferred from different observations. We constrain this proposal using electroweak precision ...

American Physical Society2021

MeV-scale seesaw and leptogenesis

Marco Drewes, Michele Lucente, Valerie Fiona Domcke

We study the type-I seesaw model with three right-handed neutrinos and Majorana masses below the pion mass. In this mass range, the model parameter space is not only strongly constrained by the requirement to explain the light neutrino masses, but also by ...

Springer Nature2021

Schwinger production of scalar particles during and after inflation from the first principles

Oleksandr Sobol

By using the first-principles approach, we derive a system of three quantum kinetic equations governing the production and evolution of charged scalar particles by an electric field in an expanding universe. Analyzing the ultraviolet asymptotic behavior of ...

American Physical Society2020

Generation and observation of fast deuterium ions and fusion-born alpha particles in JET D-He-3 plasmas with the 3-ion radio-frequency heating scenario

Henri Weisen, Javier García Hernández, Alberto Mariani, Samuele Mazzi

Dedicated experiments to generate energetic D ions and D-(3) He fusion-born alpha particles were performed at the Joint European Torus (JET) with the ITER-like wall (ILW). Using the 3-ion D-(D-NBI)-(3) He radio frequency (RF) heating scenario, deuterium io ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

Amplitude analysis for the measurement of the photon polarisation in B rightarrow K pi pi gamma decays

Violaine Bellée

This work proposes a method to measure the photon polarisation in

B^+ \rightarrow K^+ \pi^- \pi^+ \gamma

decays and prepares the necessary elements for this measurement using the data sets collected by the LHCb experiment at CERN in

2011

,

2012

, $2016 ...

EPFL2020

Effect of fuel isotope mass on q-profile formation in JET hybrid plasmas

Matteo Fontana

The initial current ramp phase of JET hybrid plasmas is used to optimise the target q-profile for main heating to allow access to high beta and avoid MHD instabilities. Mixed protium-deuterium experiments, carried out at JET since the installation of the b ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

Design and Simulation of Gamma Spectrometry Experiments in the CROCUS Reactor

Andreas Pautz, Oskari Ville Pakari, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Fanny Vitullo

Gamma rays in nuclear reactors, arising either from fission or decay processes, significantly contribute to the heating and dose of the reactor components. Zero power research reactors offer the possibility to measure gamma rays in a purely neutronic envir ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

Interpretative and predictive modelling of Joint European Torus collisionality scans

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Transport modelling of Joint European Torus (JET) dimensionless collisionality scaling experiments in various operational scenarios is presented. Interpretative simulations at a fixed radial position are combined with predictive JETTO simulations of temper ...

2019

Development and validation of a double focalizing magnetic spectrometer for beta spectrum measurements

François Bochud, Guido Haefeli

In the framework of the EMPIR project MetroBeta, the development and optimization of a double focalizing magnetic spectrometer have been realized in order to measure the beta spectra shape. The acquisition is designed to perform, after focalization by the ...

2019

Kinetic approach to the Schwinger effect during inflation

Oleksandr Sobol

Using the kinetic approach, we study the impact of the charged particle dynamics due to the Schwinger effect on the electric field evolution during inflation. As a simple model of the electric field generation, we consider the kinetic coupling of the elect ...

American Physical Society2019

Runaway electron beam stability and decay in COMPASS

Karin Söderström, Joan Decker, Gergely Papp

This paper presents two scenarios used for generation of a runaway electron (RE) beam in the COMPASS tokamak with a focus on the decay phase and control of the beam. The first scenario consists of massive gas injection of argon into the current ramp-up pha ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019