Prospects for tt̄ resonance searches at ATLAS / Tatjana Lenz. 2010
Content
- Introduction
- Theoretical Aspects of Top Quark Physics
- Basic Concepts of the Standard Model
- Standard Model Top Quark Pair Production and Decay
- Top Quark Pair Production in the BSM Models
- LHC and ATLAS Detector
- The Large Hadron Collider
- The Atlas Detector
- Forward Detectors
- Data Acquisition System
- Performance of the LHC and the ATLAS Experiment
- Event Simulation
- Main Aspects of Monte Carlo Event Simulation
- Detector Simulation
- Signal and Background Event Modeling
- Event Reconstruction
- Track Reconstruction in the Inner Detector
- Primary Vertex Reconstruction
- Charged Lepton Identification
- Jet Reconstruction
- Neutrino Reconstruction
- Topological Vertex Finder
- Properties of b-Quark Jets
- Association and Selection of Tracks and Jet Flavour Labelling
- b-Tagging Algorithms in ATLAS
- Topological Vertex Finder
- Secondary Vertex Reconstruction Performance
- Application to b-Tagging
- Performance in Rejecting Light Quark Jets
- The t Invariant Mass Distribution
- Event Selection
- Event Topology
- Analysis Strategy
- Selection Efficiency and Mass Resolution
- Systematic Uncertainties
- Resonance Width
- Heavy Resonance Searches at ATLAS
- Summary and Conclusions