Top-Quark Pair Production Cross Sections and Calibration of the Top-Quark Monte-Carlo Mass Measurements Performed with the CMS Detector Using LHC Run I Proton-Proton Collision Data / by Jan Kieseler.

This thesis presents the first experimental calibration of the top-quark Monte-Carlo mass. It also provides the top-quark mass-independent and most precise top-quark pair production cross-section measurement to date. The most precise measurements of the top-quark mass obtain the top-quark mass param...

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Main Author: Kieseler, Jan (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Top Quark Production and Decay in Proton-Proton Collisions -- The LHC and the CMS Experiment -- Event Reconstruction and Selection -- Measurement of the Top-Quark Pair Production Cross Section -- Extraction of the Top-Quark Mass -- Calibration of the Top-Quark Monte-Carlo Mass -- Summary and Conclusions. . 
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