2012 Michigan REU Student Presentations - Second Meeting

The development and progress in the scintillating fiber detector for the AEgIS experiment.

I will briefly introduce myself, jet physics and my current research on inclusive jet and dijet cross-section data of ATLAS and CMS. In the end of this talk, I want to share my perspectives as a summer student at CERN in this exciting moment for particle physics.

Continuation of the first talk on how to maximize the reconstruction of the single top produced through electroweak processes, with the focus on the leptonic channel due to the high probability of new physics appearing in such channels. In this short talk, the simple rudimentary tactics that were applied to a Monte Carlo single top sample and their effectiveness will be discussed.

To improve the purity of the sample without harming efficiency too badly: Can It Be Done?

Update on my progress in validating Fatras FastSim with Geant4 Hadronic Interactions for the ISF framework.

I will discuss my current research into new and improved methods for identifying top quarks in 6+ jet events with missing transverse energy. Specifically, I will discuss methods I have developed to reconstruct tops, and my future plans for my project in the coming weeks.

An update on my examination of TileCal corrupted data.

Decays of the heavy baryons Λc+  and Λb are presently affected by a large uncertainty of 22% in the decay of Λc. As a result, it is meaningful to find a way to tag it by MC.

I will present my progress on the ALICE Physics Selection Quality Assurance.  

A SM Higgs boson or other new physics can affect the process of vector boson scattering and the cross section behavior is quite different at high energy. New heavy resonances may be found.( I hope so)

Using multiple jet algorithms to compare data, it is possible to see differences between each algorithm, in terms of average jet area, and transverse momentum.

Optimization of the cut-based analysis with 2011 data and MC.