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A Search for tt Resonances in the Single Lepton Final State with the ATLAS Experiment

Altheimer, Andrew David

A search for undiscovered particles decaying into top-antitop quark pairs produced in proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider utilizing 20.3 fbโปยนof data collected at โˆš๐’” =8 ๐“๐ž๐• center-of-mass energy during the 2012 data taking period is presented. The invariant mass spectrum of events containing multiple jets, exactly one lepton, and missing transverse energy and which are consistent with the decay of a top-antitop quark pair is studied and found to be consistent with that predicted by the Standard Model. Upper limits on the production cross section times branching ratio of several benchmark signal models are set at a 95\% confidence level.

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Academic Units
Physics
Thesis Advisors
Brooijmans, Gustaaf
Degree
Ph.D., Columbia University
Published Here
August 6, 2014