30 January 2019 to 1 February 2019
Nelson Mandela University
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

Improving the top-quark reconstruction on the W$^\prime$ search in the hadronic channel.

31 Jan 2019, 11:50
20m
Room 0017 (Nelson Mandela University)

Room 0017

Nelson Mandela University

Nelson Mandela University Room 0017 Ground Floor Building 127 Science Building South Campus Summerstrand

Speaker

Fortune Nhlanhla Mhlanga (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

Description

The search for W$^\prime \to tb $ decays in the hadronic final states using the full run 2 data, which was collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is on going. Reconstruction of the top-quark is one of the crucial steps in this search. To conduct the study of improving the top-quark reconstruction, two signal samples, which had 2 and 3.5 TeV W$^\prime$ masses were studied. These signal samples enabled us to study methods that are used to choose the large-Radius jet (large-R jet) to be our top-quark candidate in the detector level, then compare it to the same large-R jet of the top-quark in the particle level if they match. This helps us to better estimate the top-quark selection efficiency in this search. There are two methods of choosing the large-R jet top-quark candidate that were studied. These methods both yielded approximately 82 \% match to the large-R jet of the top-quark in the particle level.

Author

Fortune Nhlanhla Mhlanga (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

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