Difference between revisions of "Bachelor student Projects"
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| + | Many theories that try to solve shortcomings of the Standard Model propose that the top quark, the most massive particle in the Standard Model, may have a partner. Supersymmetry, for example, predicts a spin-0 partner of the top quark, but does not predict its mass. The ATLAS experiment at the LHC is well equipped to search for heavy new particles that may be produced in high-energy proton-proton collisions. In this bachelor project we will try to improve the criteria that ATLAS uses to search for supersymmetric top quarks, focusing in particular on very massive particles with masses around 1 TeV.In order to select supersymmetric top quark candidates (the signal) in the ATLAS data we must apply selection criteria that cut away events that are not produced by supersymmetric top quarks (the background, or the noise). These selection criteria must be designed to be very effective for noise-reduction, while retaining as much of the signal as possible. | ||