Searches for Massive Highly Ionising Particles at the ATLAS Experiment and in Polar Volcanic Rocks, and Performance Studies of the First Level ATLAS Trigger System

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics describes the elementary particles and their interactions. Despite passing a number of high precision falsification tests, it is argued that the SM suffers from a number of shortcomings. Many Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) theories have therefore been pos...

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Main Author: Bendtz, Katarina
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Fysikum 2016
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-127981
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