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  title info:
    title: Top-Quark Pair Production Cross Sections and Calibration of the Top-Quark Monte-Carlo Mass
    sub title: Measurements Performed with the CMS Detector Using LHC Run I Proton-Proton Collision Data
  name:
    name part: Kieseler, Jan.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 167 p. 52 illus., 31 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This thesis presents the first experimental calibration of the top-quark Monte-Carlo mass. It also provides the top-quark mass-independent and most precise top-quark pair production cross-section measurement to date. The most precise measurements of the top-quark mass obtain the top-quark mass parameter (Monte-Carlo mass) used in simulations, which are partially based on heuristic models. Its interpretation in terms of mass parameters used in theoretical calculations, e.g. a running or a pole mass, has been a long-standing open problem with far-reaching implications beyond particle physics, even affecting conclusions on the stability of the vacuum state of our universe. In this thesis, this problem is solved experimentally in three steps using data obtained with the compact muon solenoid (CMS) detector. The most precise top-quark pair production cross-section measurements to date are performed. The Monte-Carlo mass is determined and a new method for extracting the top-quark mass from theoretical calculations is presented. Lastly, the top-quark production cross-sections are obtained – for the first time – without residual dependence on the top-quark mass, are interpreted using theoretical calculations to determine the top-quark running- and pole mass with unprecedented precision, and are fully consistently compared with the simultaneously obtained top-quark Monte-Carlo mass.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Top Quark Production and Decay in Proton-Proton Collisions -- The LHC and the CMS Experiment -- Event Reconstruction and Selection -- Measurement of the Top-Quark Pair Production Cross Section -- Extraction of the Top-Quark Mass -- Calibration of the Top-Quark Monte-Carlo Mass -- Summary and Conclusions. .
  note: by Jan Kieseler.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum field theory
  subject:
    topic: String theory
  subject:
    topic: Elementary particles (Physics)
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Field Theories, String Theory
  classification: QC793-793.5
  classification: QC174.45-174.52
  classification: 539.72
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research
  identifier: 9783319400051
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40005-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 160615
    record change date: 20160615112317.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-40005-1