A Precision Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass
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A Precision Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass
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Author : Kevin Matthew Black
language : en
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Release Date : 2005
A Precision Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass written by Kevin Matthew Black and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
This dissertation describes the measurement of the top quark mass using events recorded during a {approx} 230 pb{sup -1} exposure of the D0 detector to proton-anti-proton (p{bar p}) collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The Standard Model of particle physics predicts that the top quark will decay into a bottom quark and a W boson close to 100% of the time. The bottom quark will hadronize (bind with another quark) and produce a jet of hadronic particles. The W bosons can decay either into a charged lepton and a neutrino or a pair of quarks. this dissertation focuses on the top quark (t{bar t}) events in which one W decays hadronically and the other decays leptonically. Two methods of identifying t{bar t} events from the large number of events produced are used. The first is based on the unique topology of the final state particles of a heavy particle. By using the topological information of the event, the t{bar t} events can be efficiently extracted from the background. The second method relies on the identification of the remnants of the long lived bottom quarks that are expected to be produced in the decay of almost every top quark. Because the largest background processes do not contain bottom quarks, this is an extremely efficient way to select the events retaining about 60% of the t{bar t} events and removing almost 90% of the background. A kinematic fit to the top quark mass is performed on the t{bar t} candidate events using the final state particles that are seen in the detector. A likelihood technique is then used to extract the most likely value of the top quark mass, m{sub t}, and signal fraction. The result for the topological selection is m{sub t} = 169.9 {+-} 5.8(statistical){sub -7.8}{sup +8.0}(systematic) GeV while the results on the sample selected from identification of a b quark in the event is m{sub t} = 170.6 {+-} 4.2(statistical){sub -6.8}{sup +6.3}(systematic) GeV.
Top Quark Physics At Hadron Colliders
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Author : Arnulf Quadt
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-08-16
Top Quark Physics At Hadron Colliders written by Arnulf Quadt and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-16 with Science categories.
This will be a required acquisition text for academic libraries. More than ten years after its discovery, still relatively little is known about the top quark, the heaviest known elementary particle. This extensive survey summarizes and reviews top-quark physics based on the precision measurements at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, as well as examining in detail the sensitivity of these experiments to new physics. Finally, the author provides an overview of top quark physics at the Large Hadron Collider.
A Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass In The Dilepton Decay Channel At Cdf Ii
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Author : Bodhitha Anjalike Jayatilaka
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
A Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass In The Dilepton Decay Channel At Cdf Ii written by Bodhitha Anjalike Jayatilaka and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass In The Dilepton Final State Using The Matrix Element Method
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Author : Alexander Grohsjean
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-10-01
Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass In The Dilepton Final State Using The Matrix Element Method written by Alexander Grohsjean and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with Science categories.
The main pacemakers of scienti?c research are curiosity, ingenuity, and a pinch of persistence. Equipped with these characteristics a young researcher will be s- cessful in pushing scienti?c discoveries. And there is still a lot to discover and to understand. In the course of understanding the origin and structure of matter it is now known that all matter is made up of six types of quarks. Each of these carry a different mass. But neither are the particular mass values understood nor is it known why elementary particles carry mass at all. One could perhaps accept some small generic mass value for every quark, but nature has decided differently. Two quarks are extremely light, three more have a somewhat typical mass value, but one quark is extremely massive. It is the top quark, the heaviest quark and even the heaviest elementary particle that we know, carrying a mass as large as the mass of three iron nuclei. Even though there exists no explanation of why different particle types carry certain masses, the internal consistency of the currently best theory—the standard model of particle physics—yields a relation between the masses of the top quark, the so-called W boson, and the yet unobserved Higgs particle. Therefore, when one assumes validity of the model, it is even possible to take precise measurements of the top quark mass to predict the mass of the Higgs (and potentially other yet unobserved) particles.
Top Quark Pair Production Cross Sections And Calibration Of The Top Quark Monte Carlo Mass
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Author : Jan Kieseler
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-06-15
Top Quark Pair Production Cross Sections And Calibration Of The Top Quark Monte Carlo Mass written by Jan Kieseler and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-15 with Science categories.
This thesis presents the first experimental calibration of the top-quark Monte-Carlo mass. It also provides the top-quark mass-independent and most precise top-quark pair production cross-section measurement to date. The most precise measurements of the top-quark mass obtain the top-quark mass parameter (Monte-Carlo mass) used in simulations, which are partially based on heuristic models. Its interpretation in terms of mass parameters used in theoretical calculations, e.g. a running or a pole mass, has been a long-standing open problem with far-reaching implications beyond particle physics, even affecting conclusions on the stability of the vacuum state of our universe. In this thesis, this problem is solved experimentally in three steps using data obtained with the compact muon solenoid (CMS) detector. The most precise top-quark pair production cross-section measurements to date are performed. The Monte-Carlo mass is determined and a new method for extracting the top-quark mass from theoretical calculations is presented. Lastly, the top-quark production cross-sections are obtained – for the first time – without residual dependence on the top-quark mass, are interpreted using theoretical calculations to determine the top-quark running- and pole mass with unprecedented precision, and are fully consistently compared with the simultaneously obtained top-quark Monte-Carlo mass.
Precision Top Quark Mass Measurements At Cdf
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language : en
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Release Date : 2012
Precision Top Quark Mass Measurements At Cdf written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
We present a precision measurement of the top-quark mass using the full sample of Tevatron √s = 1.96 TeV proton-antiproton collisions collected by the CDF II detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 8.7 fb−1. Using a sample of t{bar t} candidate events decaying into the lepton+jets channel, we obtain distributions of the top-quark masses and the invariant mass of two jets from the W boson decays from data. We then compare these distributions to templates derived from signal and background samples to extract the top-quark mass and the energy scale of the calorimeter jets with in situ calibration. The likelihood fit of the templates from signal and background events to the data yields the single most-precise measurement of the top-quark mass, mtop = 172.85 ± 0.71 (stat) ± 0.85 (syst) GeV/c2.
High Energy Physics
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 1981
High Energy Physics written by and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with categories.
Precision Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass In Lepton Jets Final States
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language : en
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Release Date : 2015
Precision Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass In Lepton Jets Final States written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Hadron Collider Physics 2005
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Author : Mario Campanelli
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-08-17
Hadron Collider Physics 2005 written by Mario Campanelli and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-17 with Science categories.
This book gathers the proceedings of The Hadron Collider Physics Symposia (HCP) 2005, and reviews the state-of-the-art in the key physics directions of experimental hadron collider research. Topics include QCD physics, precision electroweak physics, c-, b-, and t-quark physics, physics beyond the Standard Model, and heavy ion physics. The present volume serves as a reference for everyone working in the field of accelerator-based high-energy physics.
Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass From B Tagged Events In The Lepton Plus Jets Channel In Pp Collisions At Square Root Of S
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Author : Nathan Robert-Claire Eddy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass From B Tagged Events In The Lepton Plus Jets Channel In Pp Collisions At Square Root Of S written by Nathan Robert-Claire Eddy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.