MEASUREMENT OF BOOSTED DIFFERENTIAL TOP QUARK PAIR PRODUCTION CROSS SECTION AT 13 TEV WITH THE CMS DETECTOR
| dc.contributor.author | Dittmer, Susan J. | |
| dc.contributor.chair | Thom-Levy, Julia | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Perelstein, Maxim | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Wittich, Peter | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-03T19:27:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-10-03T19:27:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-12-30 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis describes a measurement of the differential top quark pair production cross section for top quarks with high transverse momentum (pt) in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The measurement is performed using data collected by the CMS experiment during the 2016 data-taking period, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1. The measurement is performed using events where one top quark decays hadronically and is reconstructed as a single large-radius t jet with pt > 400 GeV, while the other top quark decays leptonically to a b jet, an electron or a muon, and a neutrino. Jet substructure techniques are used to identify the large-radius jet as a t jet candidate. The measurement demonstrates that current simulations overpredict the rate of top quark pair production at high pt, providing valuable feedback on the accuracy of current simulation. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.7298/X489142S | |
| dc.identifier.other | Dittmer_cornellgrad_0058F_10698 | |
| dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/cornellgrad:10698 | |
| dc.identifier.other | bibid: 10474199 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/59096 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.subject | boosted | |
| dc.subject | Particle physics | |
| dc.subject | top quark | |
| dc.subject | CMS | |
| dc.subject | LHC | |
| dc.subject | cross section | |
| dc.subject | semileptonic | |
| dc.title | MEASUREMENT OF BOOSTED DIFFERENTIAL TOP QUARK PAIR PRODUCTION CROSS SECTION AT 13 TEV WITH THE CMS DETECTOR | |
| dc.type | dissertation or thesis | |
| dcterms.license | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/59810 | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Physics | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Cornell University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctor of Philosophy | |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph. D., Physics |
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