Top Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: past, present and future from 7 to 13 TeV collisions (parte 1)

by Dr Francesco Spanò (Royal Holloway University of London)

Thursday 17 Mar 2016, 10:00 → 12:00 Europe/Rome

Aula B (Dipartimento di fisica e Astronomia)

The top quark is the most massive known fundamental constituent of matter. Its unexplained large mass suggests an important connection to the still mysterious electroweak symmetry breaking top quarks. Unprecedentedly abundant top quark production in proton-proton (pp) collisions at the LHC is allowing unprecedentedly precise measurements of top quark properties, the exploration of its connection to the Higgs boson and frontier studies on top quark-related physics beyond the standard model at new scales of energy and distance. A pedagogical review of the most recent and significant results in top physics will be given using data collected in LHC pp collisions at center-of-mass energies ranging from 7, 8 TeV (Run1) to the highest recently achieved 13 TeV (Run2). Available performance and prospects studies will also be included to discuss expectations and areas of improvements for the mentioned topics in the analysis of the forthcoming data to be collected in 13 TeV LHC pp collisions expected to resume in May 2016.