Open AccessTop quarks at the Tevatron: Measurements of the top quark production and decay with the D0 experiment
Author(s) -
S. Strandberg
Publication year - 2006
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/898403
Subject(s) - tevatron , physics , particle physics , top quark , nuclear physics , jet (fluid) , quark , bottom quark , standard model (mathematical formulation) , omega baryon , vertex (graph theory) , large hadron collider , history , graph , mathematics , archaeology , gauge (firearms) , discrete mathematics , thermodynamics
This thesis presents two measurements of the to pquark using 230 pb{sup -1} of data recorded with the D0 detector at the Tevatron accelerator. The first measurement determines the top pair production cross section at {radical}s = 1.96 TeV in proton-antiproton collisions. In the standard model of particle physics the top quark decays almost exclusively into a W boson and a b quark. Candidate events are selected by requiring that at least one jet in the event is tagged with the secondary vertex algorithm