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v1 v2 1 1 2 2 3 == [http://cdsagenda5.ictp.trieste.it/full_display.php?email=0&ida=a07179 Signaling the Arrival of the LHC Era] <br /><br />Top Quark Physics at the LHC ==3 == [http://cdsagenda5.ictp.trieste.it/full_display.php?email=0&ida=a07179 Signaling the Arrival of the LHC Era] [[br]][[br]] Top Quark Physics at the LHC == 4 4 5 5 === Authors === … … 25 25 Decay 26 26 27 * [ :TopWidth:Top width]: Calculate the width of the top quark.28 * [ :DeadCone:Radiation from heavy quarks]: the dead cone in %$e^+e^- \to Q \bar Q g$%.29 * [ :TopDecaySpinCorrelations:W+ polarization in top decays].27 * [wiki:TopWidth Top width]: Calculate the width of the top quark. 28 * [wiki:DeadCone Radiation from heavy quarks]: the dead cone in $e^+e^- \to Q \bar Q g$. 29 * [wiki:TopDecaySpinCorrelations W+ polarization in top decays]. 30 30 31 31 Production 32 32 33 * [ :tt:top production] : %$t \bar t$%production and single top at Tevatron vs LHC.34 * [ :scalar:scalar vs fermion top cross sections at hadron colliders] : Compare the production of scalar and fermion heavy color triplets in hadron collisions.35 * [ :SpinCorr:Spin Correlations in top production]33 * [wiki:tt top production] : $t \bar t$ production and single top at Tevatron vs LHC. 34 * [wiki:scalar scalar vs fermion top cross sections at hadron colliders] : Compare the production of scalar and fermion heavy color triplets in hadron collisions. 35 * [wiki:SpinCorr Spin Correlations in top production] 36 36 37 37 === Light material on the heaviest quark === … … 52 52 * Look at the new physics models and check the particle and interactions content. 53 53 * Generate events for a few selected processes and look at the plots: 54 * ttbar production with decays: pp >tt~>bb~mu+e-ve~vm55 * Single top + Higgs: pp >tHj (QCD=0, QED=3, j=gudsc,p=gudscb). Show that there is a large negative interference between the diagrams.54 * ttbar production with decays: pp>tt~>bb~mu+e-ve~vm 55 * Single top + Higgs: pp>tHj (QCD=0, QED=3, j=gudsc,p=gudscb). Show that there is a large negative interference between the diagrams. 56 56 57 57 Analysis Tools … … 67 67 * Importance sampling via an analytic transformation 68 68 * Von Neumann's rejection method : plain and improved 69 * Phase space for 1 - >n particles69 * Phase space for 1 -> n particles 70 70 * Vegas 71 71 * Top decay : comparison among the various methods 72 * qq - >tt production72 * qq -> tt production 73 73 74 74 All exercises are presented and solved this Mathematica Notebook: [attachment:mc101.http://cp3wks05.fynu.ucl.ac.be/twiki/pub/Physics/TAE2008/mc101.nb mc101.nb]. Reference: [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?eprint=hep-ph/0006269 Introduction to MC methods], by [http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~stefanw/ Stefan Weinzierl]