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QCD Radiation in Top-Antitop and Z+Jets Final States

Precision Measurements at ATLAS

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Authors:
  1. Kiran Joshi

    1. Christie Medical Physics and Engineering, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom

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  • Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Manchester, UK
  • Documents the first detector-corrected measurement of jet activity in top-antitop events at the LHC
  • Documents the first observation of vector boson fusion at a hadron collider
  • Contains phenomenological studies showing the important link between experiment and theory
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction to the Standard Model and Jet Vetoing

    • Kiran Joshi
    Pages 1-31

  3. Experimental Apparatus

    • Kiran Joshi
    Pages 33-43

  4. Reconstructing Physics Objects

    • Kiran Joshi
    Pages 45-53

  5. Event-Filter Muon Isolation

    • Kiran Joshi
    Pages 55-62

  6. Jet Vetoing in Top-Antitop Events

    • Kiran Joshi
    Pages 63-101

  7. Studies and Applications of Jet Vetoing in Boosted Topologies

    • Kiran Joshi
    Pages 103-128

  8. Measurements of Electroweak Z Boson + Dijet Production

    • Kiran Joshi
    Pages 129-175

  9. Conclusions

    • Kiran Joshi
    Pages 177-178
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About this book

This thesis contains new research in both experimental and theoretical particle physics, making important contributions in each. Two analyses of collision data from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC are presented, as well as two phenomenological studies of heavy coloured resonances that could be produced at the LHC. The first data analysis was the measurement of top quark-antiquark production with a veto on additional jet activity. As the first detector-corrected measurement of jet activity in top-antitop events it played an important role in constraining the theoretical modelling, and ultimately reduced these uncertainties for ATLAS's other top-quark measurements by a factor of two. The second data analysis was the measurement of Z+2jet production and the observation of the electroweak vector boson fusion (VBF) component. As the first observation of VBF at a hadron collider, this measurement demonstrated new techniques to reliably extract VBF processes and paved the way for future VBF Higgs measurements. The first phenomenological study developed a new technique for identifying the colour of heavy resonances produced in proton-proton collisions. As a by-product of this study an unexpected and previously unnoticed correlation was discovered between the probability of correctly identifying a high-energy top and the colour structure of the event it was produced in. The second phenomenological study explored this relationship in more detail, and could have important consequences for the identification of new particles that decay to top quarks.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Christie Medical Physics and Engineering, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Kiran Joshi

About the author

Kiran Joshi received his PhD in particle physics from the University of Manchester, where he worked on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. For this he received the John G Rutherglen memorial prize for outstanding work in experimental High Energy Physics.

He currently works as a Research Scientist at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: QCD Radiation in Top-Antitop and Z+Jets Final States

  • Book Subtitle: Precision Measurements at ATLAS

  • Authors: Kiran Joshi

  • Series Title: Springer Theses

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19653-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-19652-7Published: 25 June 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38713-0Published: 17 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-19653-4Published: 12 June 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2190-5053

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 178

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Measurement Science and Instrumentation

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