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Discovery of Single Top Quark Production: Springer Theses

Autor Dag Gillberg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 oct 2014
The top quark is by far the heaviest known fundamental particle with a mass nearing that of a gold atom. Because of this strikingly high mass, the top quark has several unique properties and might play an important role in electroweak symmetry breaking—the mechanism that gives all elementary particles mass. Creating top quarks requires access to very high energy collisions, and at present only the Tevatron collider at Fermilab is capable of reaching these energies.
Until now, top quarks have only been observed produced in pairs via the strong interaction. At hadron colliders, it should also be possible to produce single top quarks via the electroweak interaction. Studies of single top quark production provide opportunities to measure the top quark spin, how top quarks mix with other quarks, and to look for new physics beyond the standard model. Because of these interesting properties, scientists have been looking for single top quarks for more than 15 years.
This thesis presents the first discovery of single top quark production.  It documents one of the flagship measurements of the D0 experiment, a collaboration of more than 600 physicists from around the world. It describes first observation of a physical process known as “single top quark production”, which had been sought for more than 10 years before its eventual discovery in 2009. Further, his thesis describes, in detail, the innovative approach Dr. Gillberg took to this analysis. Through the use of Boosted Decision Trees, a machine-learning technique, he observed the tiny single top signal within an otherwise overwhelming background.
This Doctoral Thesis has been accepted by Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781461427988
ISBN-10: 1461427983
Pagini: 156
Ilustrații: XIV, 142 p.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:2011
Editura: Springer
Colecția Springer
Seria Springer Theses

Locul publicării:New York, NY, United States

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Research

Cuprins

Introduction.- Theoretical Background.- Experimental Setup.- Event Reconstruction.- Analysis: Event Selection.- Analysis: Decision Trees.- Analysis: Measurements.- Summary.

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This original, outstanding thesis presents the first discovery of single top quark production and documents one of the flagship measurements of the D0 experiment, a collaboration of more than 600 particle physicists from around the world. It describes the first observation of a physical process known as “single top quark production,” which had been sought for more than 10 years before its eventual discovery in 2009.
This thesis describes, in detail, an innovative approach of using Boosted Decision Trees, a machine-learning technique, to observe the tiny single top signal within an otherwise overwhelming background. The final result was published in August 2009 in Physical Review Letters, the most prestigious journal in the field of experimental particle physics. It was further made an “editor’s choice” in that publication and was highlighted in the journal Physics as one of the most interesting and significant results published in all of physics at that time.

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Nominated as an outstanding contribution by Simon Fraser University Explores the groundbreaking, long-sought-after discovery of single top quark production Documents one of the flagship measurements of the D0 experiment, a collaboration of more than 600 physicists from around the world Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras