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Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Dilepton Final State Using the Matrix Element Method

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Authors:
  1. Alexander Grohsjean

    1. CEA Saclay Irfu/SPP, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

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  • Describes an important advance in measuring mass of top quark
  • With many colour illustrations
  • Nominated as an outstanding contribution by the University of Munich
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Alexander Grohsjean
    Pages 1-4

  3. Experimental Environment

    • Alexander Grohsjean
    Pages 5-16

  4. Event Reconstruction and Simulation

    • Alexander Grohsjean
    Pages 17-31

  5. The Top Quark and the Concept of Mass

    • Alexander Grohsjean
    Pages 33-44

  6. The Matrix Element Method

    • Alexander Grohsjean
    Pages 45-75

  7. Measurement of the Top Quark Mass

    • Alexander Grohsjean
    Pages 77-118

  8. Improved Mass Measurement

    • Alexander Grohsjean
    Pages 119-135

  9. Conclusion

    • Alexander Grohsjean
    Pages 137-142

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 143-148
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The main pacemakers of scienti?c research are curiosity, ingenuity, and a pinch of persistence. Equipped with these characteristics a young researcher will be s- cessful in pushing scienti?c discoveries. And there is still a lot to discover and to understand. In the course of understanding the origin and structure of matter it is now known that all matter is made up of six types of quarks. Each of these carry a different mass. But neither are the particular mass values understood nor is it known why elementary particles carry mass at all. One could perhaps accept some small generic mass value for every quark, but nature has decided differently. Two quarks are extremely light, three more have a somewhat typical mass value, but one quark is extremely massive. It is the top quark, the heaviest quark and even the heaviest elementary particle that we know, carrying a mass as large as the mass of three iron nuclei. Even though there exists no explanation of why different particle types carry certain masses, the internal consistency of the currently best theory—the standard model of particle physics—yields a relation between the masses of the top quark, the so-called W boson, and the yet unobserved Higgs particle. Therefore, when one assumes validity of the model, it is even possible to take precise measurements of the top quark mass to predict the mass of the Higgs (and potentially other yet unobserved) particles.

Authors and Affiliations

  • CEA Saclay Irfu/SPP, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    Alexander Grohsjean

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Dilepton Final State Using the Matrix Element Method

  • Authors: Alexander Grohsjean

  • Series Title: Springer Theses

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14070-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Berlin Heidelberg 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-14069-3Published: 16 September 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26501-3Published: 05 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-14070-9Published: 01 October 2010

  • Series ISSN: 2190-5053

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 150

  • Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics

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