In 2012 the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collected 19.7 fb-1of data at a center of mass energy of 8 TeV. This thesis presents two analyses focusing on the Z boson. The first is a search for the never before seen decay of a...
Planets and planetary systems change in brightness as a function of time. These "light curves" can have several features, including transits where a planet blocks some starlight, eclipses where a star obscures a planet's flux, and rotational variations where a planet reflects light differently as it spins. One can measure...