Measuring the Top Quark Mass at the LHC with Applications to New Physics

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• Benjamin Nachman (DAMPT)
• Tuesday 06 November 2012, 15:00-16:00
• Rutherford Seminar Room B.

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Recently, the CMS experiment at the LHC made a measurement of the top quark mass in the dilepton channel using the endpoints of kinematic distributions, including MT2 . In addition to the top quark mass, this method was applied to simultaneously measure the top quark, W boson and neutrino masses. Since dileptonic ttbar has a topology similar to new physics, the measurement is a testing ground for determining the masses of beyond the Standard Model particles. Furthermore, the variables used in the study are well-suited for new physics searches and thus many analyses are utilizing their separation power.

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