Nuclear and Particle Physics

Scrutinising the SM at the LHC: top quarks & friends

by Carmen Diez Pardos (Uni Siegen (DE))

Europe/Stockholm
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Description

This will be a virtual seminar, and will be hosted in Zoom

Link: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/66228153960

Meeting ID: 662 2815 3960

This meeting is password protected, if you are interested in joining, send an email to rebeca.gonzalez.suarez@physics.uu.se

The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle and the only quark that decays before hadronisation, and thus gives direct access to its properties. With its large mass, it plays a crucial role for testing the predictions of the Standard Model (SM) and in the measurement of the Higgs boson properties. Moreover, various scenarios of physics beyond the SM expect the top quark to couple to new particles.

The large data samples collected at the CERN LHC allow performing very precise measurements of top quark production and properties, challenging the accuracy of the state-of-the-art SM theoretical predictions, as well as measuring for the first time very rare SM processes and extending the scope of searches for new physics phenomena. In this presentation, I will highlight a selection of recent top-quark physics measurements performed with the ATLAS and CMS experiments, exploring five orders of magnitude in cross section.