Rammes, Marcus: Measurement of the pp -> tTy inclusive cross section in the semi-leptonic decay channel with the ATLAS detector. 2012
Inhalt
- Abstract
- Zusammenfassung
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Acronyms
- 0 Preface
- Part I Introduction
- 1 The Standard Model of Particle Physics
- 1.1 Gauge Groups and Symmetries
- 1.2 Quantum Field Theories (QFT)
- 1.3 The Weak Force
- 1.4 Local Gauge Invariance and Quantum Electrodynamics
- 1.5 The GSW Theory
- 1.6 The Higgs Mechanism
- 1.7 Quantumchromodynamics
- 1.8 Renormalization
- 1.9 The Standard Model
- 1.10 Quark Mixing
- 1.11 Challenges to the SM and Possible Extensions
- 2 The Top Quark
- 2.1 Properties of the Top Quark
- 2.2 Top Quark Physics at Hadron Colliders
- 2.3 Top Quark Production Mechanisms
- 2.4 Top Quark Decay
- 3 Electroweak Couplings to the Top Quark
- 3.1 Approaches to Anomalous EW Top Quark Couplings
- 3.2 Top Quark Pair Production with an Additional Photon
- 4 The Large Hadron Collider
- 4.1 Proton Pre-Acceleration
- 4.2 LHC Performance
- 4.3 Luminosity Measurement
- 4.4 The LHC Detectors
- 4.5 Pile-up
- 5 The ATLAS Detector
- 5.1 Coordinate System
- 5.2 The Inner Detector
- 5.3 The Calorimetry System
- 5.4 The Muon Spectrometer
- 5.5 The Magnet Systems
- 5.6 The Trigger and Data Acquisition (DAQ) System
- Part II Analysis
- 6 Monte Carlo Generators
- 7 Physical Objects and Reconstruction
- 8 Dataset
- 9 Object Definitions and Event Selection
- 9.1 Electrons
- 9.2 Muons
- 9.3 Triggers and Trigger Matching
- 9.4 Photons
- 9.5 Energy Rescaling
- 9.6 Jets
- 9.7 Missing Transverse Energy
- 9.8 Treatment of EMC Hardware Failures
- 9.9 Event Selection
- 10 Signal and Background Modeling
- 10.1 Simulation Chain
- 10.2 Simulation of Signal Events
- 10.3 Background Samples
- 10.4 Signal Phase Space Overlap Removal
- 10.5 Pileup Reweighting
- 10.6 Event Weights
- 10.7 MC Uncertainties
- 10.8 Event Yields
- 11 Cross Section Measurement
- 11.1 Identification of Hadron Fakes
- 11.2 Choice of the Isolation Discriminator
- 11.3 Modeling of Signal and Background Contributions
- 11.4 Estimation of Prompt Photon Background Contributions
- 11.5 Result of the Template Fit
- 12 Systematic Uncertainties
- 12.1 Method
- 12.2 Pseudo Data
- 12.3 Sources of Systematic Uncertainties
- 12.4 Combination of Uncertainties
- 13 Results
- 14 Summary and Outlook
- Part III Appendix
- A Breakdown of Z/W+Jets, Di-Boson and Single TopMC Contributions
- B List of Monte Carlo Samples
- C Additional Plots
- References
- Acknowledgements