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University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

A search for top quarks in PP collisions using dileptons

Abstract

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A search for tt pairs in pp collisions with a center of mass energy ,fS = l.STeV is presented. The analysis looks for ti pairs which decayed through the chain ti -+ w+ bW-b -+ f+z;bf-vb where one of the b quarks is explicitly identified. In a sample of 109.4 ± 7.2 pb-1 of data, 6 tags in 4 events are found with an expected background of 1.53 ± .33 events. This results in an estimated production cross section of 4.6!tt pb at mtop = 175 Ge V / c2

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Physics
Year dc:date
2011

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Martin, Andrew James
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Liss, Tony M.

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
en

Identifiers

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Identifier
3953504
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/18839

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Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Martin, Andrew James. A search for top quarks in PP collisions using dileptons. Dissertation thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18839