Estimation of the W+ jet background in the analysis of semileptonic top quark pair events / von Thorsten T. Boek. 2013
Inhalt
- Elementary Particle Physics
- The ATLAS Experiment
- The Large Hadron Collider
- The ATLAS Detector
- Muon Spectrometer
- Calorimeter Design
- Inner Detector Tracking System
- Forward Detectors
- Readout, Data Acquisition and Detector Control
- LHC Computing Grid
- Event Reconstruction and Modeling
- Event Reconstruction
- Track and Vertex Reconstruction
- Inner Detector Survey
- Electron Reconstruction and Identification
- Muon Reconstruction
- Jet Reconstruction
- Missing Transverse Energy
- Modeling of Simulated Events
- Event Selection and Background Modeling
- Selection of Semileptonic t Events
- Data Samples and Simulated Events
- Multi-Jet Background Modeling
- W+jet Background Estimation
- Systematic Uncertainties
- W+Jets Background Estimation using Z+Jets Events
- Comparison of W and Z Boson Events
- W+jets Modeling using Z+jets Events
- W+jets Normalization using the W+Njet/Z+Njet Ratio
- Motivation
- Estimation of the W and Z boson Ratio
- Extrapolation of Rn
- Data Driven Determination of R4extrap
- Treatment of Systematic Uncertainties
- W+4jet Normalization Based on Data
- Conclusion
- Summary
- Analysis of Top Quark Resonances
- Reconstruction of Event Candidates
- Mini Isolation
- Resolved Analysis
- Boosted Analysis
- Systematic Uncertainties
- Signal and Background Samples
- Event Yields
- Statistical Analysis
- Compatibility with the Null Hypothesis
- Determination of an Upper Cross Section Limit
- Application of the W+jets Estimation based on the RN Method
- Upper Cross Section Limits on t Resonances
- Summary
- Conclusion and Outlook
- Acknowledgment
- Literature
- List of Figures
- List of Tables