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SUMMARY:Alex Sherman - Vector-like and Standard Model Electroweak Single Pr
	oduction of a Top Quark in Association with a Z Boson
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Alex Sherman\n\nPart of the Preliminary Oral Exam.\n\
	nExamining Committee:  Kevin Black\, John Butler\, Ken Lane\, and Ophelia T
	sui\n\n![Alex](/resources/event-image/1613/fa541ac_small)\n\nAbstract:\n\nT
	he Standard Model (SM) contains three generations of chiral quarks. Due to 
	constraints in the cross section and decay behavior of the 125 GeV Higgs bo
	son\, it is strongly disfavored that there exists a fourth generation of he
	avy chiral quarks. However\, many models predict the existence of a new gen
	eration of heavy vector-like quarks (VLQ) which do not couple to the Higgs 
	in the same manner and are consistent with current SM measurements. These V
	LQs decay to SM particles and could be detected through one or multiple dec
	ay paths.\nI will outline a search for VLQ Top Partners using the ATLAS det
	ector at the Large Hadron Collider\, as well as a proposed measurement for 
	the SM production and decay of a single top quark in association with a Z b
	oson.
LOCATION:PRB 261\, 3 Cummington Mall\, 02215
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