Top physics with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

by F. Spanò (Royal Holloway , University of London)

Monday 21 Oct 2013, 14:00 → 15:30 Europe/Rome

Aula Conversi (Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed.G.Marconi)

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 mechanism and it is the basis of a rich set of links to possible new particle and interactions that could appear at the LHC by often modifying the production and decay of top quarks. Unprecedentedly abundant top quark production in proton proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is now opening doors on increasingly precise measurements of top quark properties and on frontier studi! es on top quark-related physics beyond the standard model at new scales of energy and distance. The most recent results on these topics will be reviewed using the data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC

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