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-master student projects in the Nikhef ATLAS group
-date: June 2012
+This page is out of date. Please go to [http://wiki.nikhef.nl/education/Master_Projects the new Master project page].
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-! style="background:#ffba00;" | General information
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-The [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/Atlas/SCTOfflineMonitoringShifts   Official SCT DQ shift twiki]
-The Nikhef ATLAS group leaders are Stan Bentvelsen and Paul de Jong.
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-! style="background:#3399ff;" | Scrutinizing top quarks in ATLAS for signs of new physics
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-'''<font color=#3399ff>Scrutinizing top quarks in ATLAS for signs of new physics</font>'''
-''' Supervisors:'''  prof. dr. Paul de Jong and Priscilla Pani (PhD student)
-''' Research description '''
-The LHC is a "top quark factory": more than 1 million top quark
-pairs are produced every year. Such large data sets give the
-opportunity to study top quark production and decay in great detail.
-New physics, such as 4th generation top-like quarks, or supersymmetric
-partners of the top quark, may lead to final states in the detector
-that look like top quark pairs, but are subtly different.
-A number of variables are suited to probe possible differences between
-Standard Model top quark production, and new physics. These include
-variables related to the missing energy in the event, but also other
-kinematic variables have been proposed.
-The goal of this master project is to study these variables in
-detail: what do they measure exactly and why are they sensitive?
-This will be done on simulated events, both representing SM top quark
-production and new physics production. Then, the knowledge gained
-will be applied to the ATLAS data of 2011 and 2012. If a deviation
-of SM-like behaviour is found, further studies will need to be done
-to estimate whether this is due to ununderstood detector behaviour,
-incomplete simulation of SM top quark pair production, or new physics.
-''' Relevant papers:'''
-Relavant publications:
-[http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.5805.pdf axXiv:1205.5805]
-[http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.5805.pdf axXiv:1205.4470]
-[http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.5805.pdf axXiv:1203.4813]

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