Large Hadron Collider phenomenology of vector-like quarks beyond the Narrow Width Approximation

The topic of this thesis is the phenomenology of Vector-Like Quarks (VLQs) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), with a focus on understanding the difference between the commonly adopted experimental VLQ search strategies that use the Narrow Width Approximation (NWA) in comparison to search strategies...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Brien, Dermot Oisin
Other Authors: Moretti, Stefano
Published: University of Southampton 2018
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.766760