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Phenomenological studies of top quark production in the forward region of phase space at the LHC

This thesis contains phenomenological studies of top quark production in the forward region of phase space at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The production of highly forward top quarks has so far not been observed in nature. As the LHCb detector at the LHC is instrumented in the forward region, th...

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Autor principal: Gauld, Rhorry
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1994275
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description This thesis contains phenomenological studies of top quark production in the forward region of phase space at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The production of highly forward top quarks has so far not been observed in nature. As the LHCb detector at the LHC is instrumented in the forward region, this opens the possibility of studying top quark properties in this yet unexplored region of phase space. This feasibility of performing cross section and charge asymmetry measurements of top quark pairs with available and future LHCb data is studied in detail. In both cases, potential analysis strategies are proposed, and sophisticated theoretical predictions are provided for both signal and background. By studying the expected experimental sensitivity of cross section measurements, the potential constraints on parton distribution functions is quantified. The sensitivity of the proposed charge asymmetry measurements with the full Run II LHCb data is also considered
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spelling cern-19942752019-09-30T06:29:59Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/1994275engGauld, RhorryPhenomenological studies of top quark production in the forward region of phase space at the LHCParticle Physics - ExperimentThis thesis contains phenomenological studies of top quark production in the forward region of phase space at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The production of highly forward top quarks has so far not been observed in nature. As the LHCb detector at the LHC is instrumented in the forward region, this opens the possibility of studying top quark properties in this yet unexplored region of phase space. This feasibility of performing cross section and charge asymmetry measurements of top quark pairs with available and future LHCb data is studied in detail. In both cases, potential analysis strategies are proposed, and sophisticated theoretical predictions are provided for both signal and background. By studying the expected experimental sensitivity of cross section measurements, the potential constraints on parton distribution functions is quantified. The sensitivity of the proposed charge asymmetry measurements with the full Run II LHCb data is also consideredCERN-THESIS-2014-266oai:cds.cern.ch:19942752015-02-25T08:09:07Z
spellingShingle Particle Physics - Experiment
Gauld, Rhorry
Phenomenological studies of top quark production in the forward region of phase space at the LHC
title Phenomenological studies of top quark production in the forward region of phase space at the LHC
title_full Phenomenological studies of top quark production in the forward region of phase space at the LHC
title_fullStr Phenomenological studies of top quark production in the forward region of phase space at the LHC
title_full_unstemmed Phenomenological studies of top quark production in the forward region of phase space at the LHC
title_short Phenomenological studies of top quark production in the forward region of phase space at the LHC
title_sort phenomenological studies of top quark production in the forward region of phase space at the lhc
topic Particle Physics - Experiment
url http://cds.cern.ch/record/1994275
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