Getting over the top

Speaker: Ayana Holloway, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

When: April 26, 2007 (Thu), 03:30PM to 04:30PM (add to my calendar)

This event is part of the HET Seminar Series.

Abstract: When the Large Hadron Collider begins colliding protons at 14 TeV next year it will produce a wealth of top quarks that decay within the ATLAS detector, allowing us to make precise measurements of many top properties predicted by the Standard Model. We eagerly anticipate that the collider will also produce more exotic events which can help us unravel the questions that this model leaves unanswered. I will discuss why understanding the top events in ATLAS data is an important prerequisite to seeing beyond the SM in many scenarios, and explain how important measurements using top quarks are linked to searches for new interactions.