Single top in CMS: an early data strategy

by Dr A. Giammanco (Universita' di Louvain)

Thursday 1 Oct 2009, 15:00 → 17:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Conversi (Dip. di Fisica - Edificio G. Marconi)

Among the studies of the properties of Standard Model particles, single-top production attracts particular attention due to its direct connection with the third row of the CKM matrix and its sensitivity to anomalous couplings of the top quark. A new analysis strategy has been developed to measure the t-channel single top quark cross section with the CMS detector, aiming at the confirmation of the recent observation of single-top quark production by the Tevatron experiments. This strategy has been designed in a scenario of 200 pb-1 of data collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 10 TeV, with emphasis on the robustness against the systematics of a yet imperfectly calibrated detector and yet unknown amounts of background contamination.

Presentazione roma1oct2009_Giammanco.pdf