Top physics with the ATLAS detector at the LHC (candidature CR1)

par Francesco Spanò (Columbia University)

jeudi 24 mars 2011, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Paris

1222-RC-08 (LPNHE)

The top quark is the most massive known fundamental constituent of matter. Its unexplained large mass suggests a connection to the still mysterious electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism and a rich set of links are postulated between final states with top quarks and possible new particles and interactions that can manifest themselves at the Large Hadron Collider. Top/anti-top pairs are expected to be abundantly produced at the LHC (even at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV ) and they will play a major role in detector commissioning. Finally top/anti-top pairs also represent a major background to most searches for new physics at the LHC. A review will be presented on the latest measurements involving top quarks performed by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron collider using the dataset collected in 2010.

Slides spanoTopPhysicsParis24thMarch2011.pdf