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Project: B5

Title:          Analysis of production and decay of the Higgs boson with CMS data

DESY group:     CMS

Type:           Online project

Duration:       19th july - 10th sep 2021

Description: 
In the year 2012 the Higgs boson was discovered, whose most prominent decay mode is the
decay into a pair of b quarks. Our group is centrally involved in the analysis of this
Higgs boson decay, in the topology where the Higgs boson is produced in association
with a vector boson. The analysis is performed with the full dataset of the CMS experiment
recorded in the Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Machine learning techniques
are important to achieve the highest sensitivity. The student will be involved in the
detailed analysis work for this decay channel, which also includes follow-up studies
and preparations of the Run 3 analysis.


Special Qualifications expected:
C++ programming, ideally experience with Root;  ideally also Python scripting and
some first experience with machine learning

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