Measurement of Single Top QUark Production at D(0) Using a Matrix Element Method.

Mitrevski, J.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Quark production;    Measurements;    Object reconstruction;    High energy physics;    Single top production;   

RP-ID  :  DE2007913191

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

Contents: The Standard Model (The Constituents, Symmetries and Gauge Theories, QED, and QCD, Electroweak Interactions); Single Top Production (Single Top Event Signature, Polarization Effects, Single Top and the Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model); Experimental Apparatus (Accelerator Chain, The D0 Detector), Object Reconstruction (Tracking, Primary Vertices, Calorimeter Preprocessing, Jets, Electrons, Muons, Missing Transverse Energy, b-Tagging Jets); The Analysis: Event Selection ( Background Processes, Signal and Background Modeling, Data and Triggers, Event Selection, Correcting the Monte Carlo Model Efficiencies and Resolutions, Modeling the Trigger for Monte Carlo Events; Normalizing the W+jets and Multijets Backgrounds to Data, b-Tagging, Event Yields, Cross Checks of the Background Model); The Analysis: Matrix Element Technique ( Matrix Element Technique Overview, Calculation of the Event Probability Density Functions, Normalization of the Probabilities, The Matrix Elements, Integration Details, Assignment Permutations, Object Transfer Functions, Single Top Discriminant, Cross-Check Samples); The Analysis: Extracting a Result (Systematic Uncertainties, Extracting a Measurement Using a Bayesian Approach, Generating Ensembles, Calibration of the Method, Expected Results).