February 08, 1996 - February 08, 2029

  • Date:09ThursdayDecember 2010

    Top Physics in the Large Hadron Collider Era

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    Time
    11:15 - 12:30
    Title
    Racach Memorial Lecture
    Location
    Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
    LecturerProf. Gilad Perez
    Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
    Organizer
    Faculty of Physics
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about The top quark is the most massive, point-like, particle know...»
    The top quark is the most massive, point-like, particle known to exist in
    nature. It plays a major role both in the experimental and theoretical
    frontiers. Experimentally, observation of top quark is challenging, its
    signature is similar to that expected from new physics (NP) dynamics. The
    recent top rediscovery, at the LHC, is marking the beginning of the hunt for
    the unknown. Theoretically, top physics is possibly linked to electroweak
    symmetry breaking and likely to be part of the solution to the fine-tuning
    problem. We discuss theoretical aspects related to top jets, a new type of
    objects, which might be crucial for NP discovery. We also present our recent
    experimental results from the CDF, Tevatron experiment, regarding the first
    observation of ultra massive jets.
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