Speaker
Javier Alberto Murillo Quijada
(University of Birmingham (GB))
Description
A preliminary study of the top-quark width ($\Gamma_{top}$) is performed using the ATLAS collaboration official Monte Carlo (MC) samples corresponding to proton-proton collisions with centre of mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV and scaled to integrated luminosity $\int Ldt$ = 20.3$fb^{-1}$. Templates with different values of $\Gamma_{top}$ are generated assuming an underlying truth top mass distribution with relativistic Breit-Wigner shape, as modelled in the MC generator. The reconstructed top mass has been obtained by minimising a $\chi^{2}$ function and simulated experiments have been studied.
Summary
A preliminary study of the top-quark width ($\Gamma_{top}$) is performed using the ATLAS collaboration official Monte Carlo (MC) samples corresponding to proton-proton collisions with centre of mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV and scaled to integrated luminosity $\int Ldt$ = 20.3$fb^{-1}$. Templates with different values of $\Gamma_{top}$ are generated assuming an underlying truth top mass distribution with relativistic Breit-Wigner shape, as modelled in the MC generator. The reconstructed top mass has been obtained by minimising a $\chi^{2}$ function and simulated experiments have been studied.
Primary authors
Javier Alberto Murillo Quijada
(University of Birmingham (GB))
Dr
John Allan Wilson
(University of Birmingham (GB))
Juergen Thomas
(University of Birmingham (GB))
Simon Head
(University of Birmingham (GB))
