Related papers: Toptet
Jet tagging has become an essential tool for new physics searches at the high-energy frontier. For jets that contain energetic charged leptons we introduce Feature Extended Supervised Tagging (FEST) which, in addition to jet substructure,…
The sensitivity of top quark pair production at the Large Hadron Collider to the presence and nature of an underlying Z' boson is studied, accounting for six-fermion decay with full tree-level Standard Model ttbar interference and all…
Single-lepton plus jets signals from $t\bar t$ production at hadron colliders generally give more spherically symmetrical events than the principal backgrounds from $W$ production. We show that sphericity and aplanarity criteria, applied to…
Using data consisting of top quarks produced with additional final leptons collected by the CMS detector at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=$13 TeV from 2016 to 2018 (138 fb$^{-1}$), a search for beyond standard model (BSM) physics is…
In many models of physics beyond the Standard Model the coupling of new states to third generation quarks is enhanced. A review is presented of searches by the CMS collaboration for heavy particles decaying to final states involving top…
In top quark production, the polarization of top quarks, decided by the chiral structure of couplings, is likely to be modified in the presence of any new physics contribution to the production. Hence the same is a good discriminator for…
We develop a matrix element based reconstruction method called event deconstruction. The method uses information from the hard matrix element and a parton shower to assign probabilities to whether a final state was initiated by a signal or…
A search for new particles that decay into top quark pairs (ttbar) is performed with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC using an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb^-1 of proton-proton (pp) collision data collected at a center-of-mass energy…
The top quark plays an important role in the grand scheme of particle physics, and is also interesting on its own merits. We present recent results from CDF on top-quark physics based on 100-200/pb of p-pbar collision data. We have measured…
Top-quark pair production is central to many facets of LHC physics. At leading order, the top and anti-top are produced in a back-to-back topology, however this topology accounts only for a minority of $t \bar t$ events with TeV-scale…
Results from the CDF and D0 collaborations from searches of physics beyond the standard model are presented in reactions involving high transverse momentum photons or jets in their final states.
In this contribution, we study the resonant pair production of heavy particles in hadronic final states using jet substructure techniques. We discuss a recently proposed resonance tagging strategy, which interpolates between the highly…
Contrary to the general trend of looking for new physics at energies beyond the current reach of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), this article proposes a strategy to look for light new physics via a meticulous study of well known and…
The final state with four $b$-quarks has generally the largest event rate in Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs ($h_{\rm SM}$) pair production, but also the largest backgrounds. We study such a final state using the $gg\to h_{\rm SM}h_{\rm SM}$…
We explore the usage of boosted as well as semi-boosted topologies in all-hadronic $t\bar{t}$ final states in simulated $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 14\,$TeV, with top quarks decaying into a boosted hadronic top-jet or a $W$-jet and an…
A search for pair production of up-type vector-like quarks ($T$) with a significant branching ratio into a top quark and either a Standard Model Higgs boson or a $Z$ boson is presented. The same analysis is also used to search for…
A search motivated by supersymmetric models with light top squarks is presented using proton-proton collision data recorded with the CMS detector at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV during 2011, corresponding to an integrated…
We apply techniques from Bayesian generative statistical modeling to uncover hidden features in jet substructure observables that discriminate between different a priori unknown underlying short distance physical processes in multi-jet…
We study the top quark pair events production in $pp$ collisions in the $\ell$+jets channel at the LHC energy of $\sqrt{s} = 14$ TeV for Standard Model as well as new physics processes. We explore the usage of semi-boosted topologies where…
A search is presented for a massive particle, generically referred to as a Z', decaying into a t t-bar pair. The search focuses on Z' resonances that are sufficiently massive to produce highly Lorentz-boosted top quarks, which yield…