Potential MSc projects in this activity include:
- search for production of a pair of Higgs bosons;
- search for additional mass peaks in the two-photon spectrum below and far above the established mass peak at 125 GeV;
- search for Higgs bosons in the two-photon decay channel produced in association with dark matter;
- precision measurement of the Higgs boson mass;
- the study of robust statistical models for the data-driven estimation of the background under the Higgs boson signal peak in the two-photon mass spectrum.
You will work with fresh 13.6 TeV data taken during Run 3 (2022-25) as well as data taken during the 2015-18 run (Run 2) of the LHC at 13 TeV . You will participate in the ongoing development of the data analysis strategies (including the application of machine-learning approaches) and code, learn, further develop and apply advanced statistical techniques, and, thus, can contribute to furthering our understanding of the Brout-Englert-Higgs (mass-generating) mechanism, or test whether there is new physics beyond the SM (such as dark matter or anomalous 2-Higgs production).