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SUMMARY:Search for WWW Production in the Fully Leptonic Channel Using the A
	TLAS Detector at 8 TeV
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Alex Long\n\nPart of the Departmental Seminars.\n\nDi
	ssertation Committee:  Butler\, Black\, Bose\, Lane\, Erramilli\n\nIn 2012 
	a resonance with a mass of 125 GeV resembling the elusive Higgs boson was d
	iscovered simultaneously by the ATLAS and CMS experiments using data collec
	ted from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.  With more data from the 
	LHC\, the evidence continues to mount in favor of this being the Higgs boso
	n of the Standard Model.  This would finally confirm the mechanism for Spon
	taneous Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB) necessary for describing the m
	ass structure  of the electroweak gauge bosons.  In 2013\, Peter Higgs and 
	Francois Englert were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their work in 
	developing this theory of EWSB now referred to as the Higgs mechanism.  The
	 explanation for EWSB is often referred to as the last piece of the puzzle 
	required to build a consistent theory of the Standard Model.  But does that
	 mean that there are no new surprises to be found? Many electroweak process
	es have yet to be measured and are just starting to become accessible with 
	the data collected at the LHC.  Indeed\, this unexplored region of electrow
	eak physics may provide clues to as of yet unknown new physics processes at
	 even higher energy scales.  Using the 2012 LHC data recorded by the ATLAS 
	experiment\, we seek to make the first observation of one such electroweak 
	process\, the massive tri-boson final state: WWW.  It represents one of the
	 first searches to probe the Standard Model WWWW coupling directly at a col
	lider.  This search looks specifically at the channel where each W boson de
	cays to a charged lepton and a neutrino\, offering the best sensitivity for
	 making such a measurement.  In addition to testing the Standard Model dire
	ctly\, we also use an effective field theory approach to test for the exist
	ence of anomalous quartic gauge couplings which could offer evidence for ne
	w physics at higher energies than those produced by the LHC.\n\n\n![Long](/
	resources/event-image/1500/8793ddf_original)
LOCATION:PRB 365\, 3 Cummington Mall\, 02215
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