Published in CERN Document Server, 2018
A dissertation submitted the faculty of the University of Chicago, Division of the Physical Sciences, Department of Physics, in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy: Thesis defense recording and slides
Download: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2644551/files/CERN-THESIS-2018-208.pdf
Published in Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019
This paper is the published result of Baojia Tong and my doctoral theses.
arXiv:1804.06174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2019)030
Published in Physical Review Letters B, 2019
This letter presents the world record limit on Higgs boson pair production at the LHC. My doctoral research contributed significantly to this result.
arXiv:1906.02025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135103
Published in Reviews in Physics, 2020
This document summarises the current theoretical and experimental status of the di-Higgs boson production searches, and of the direct and indirect constraints on the Higgs boson self-coupling, with the wish to serve as a useful guide for the next years.
arXiv:1910.00012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revip.2020.100045
Published in EPJ-C, 2024
This paper presents the first search for ZZ and ZH diboson production in the four b-jet final state. These processes will be absolutely critical to any future HH measurement in the bbbb channel as well understood standard candles.
arXiv:2403.20241
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13021-z
Published in Annals of Applied Statistics, 2024
This paper presents a new data driven background estimation technique for particle collider data using optimal transport and compares it with a sophisticated version of the traditional density ratio extrapolation.
arXiv:2208.02807
DOI: 10.1214/24-AOAS1916