Top physics at ATLAS (Candidature CR1)

par Francesco Spano (Royal Holloway University of London)

jeudi 16 févr. 2012, 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 an important connection to the still mysterious electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism and it is the basis a rich set of links to possible new particle and interactions that could appear at the LHC by often modifying the production and decay of top quarks. Unprecedentedly abundant top quark production in proton proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is now opening doors on increasingly precise measurements of top quark properties and on frontier studies on top quark-related physics beyond the standard model at new scales of energy and distance. The most recent results on these topics will be reviewed using the data collected by the ATLAS detector.

Slides spanoTopPhysParis16thFeb2012.pdf