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Abstract A search for flavor-changi
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Acknowledgments I first want to tha
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Table of Contents List of Tables .
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List of Tables 2.1 The fundamental
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List of Figures 2.1 The potential V
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5.15 Distributions of the 3ID analy
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This thesis is organized as follows
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the question whether each neutrino
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gauge invariant field strength tens
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for strong interactions. Although W
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particles. Because of the introduct
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which is introduced for mass genera
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2.3 Top Quark The large mass of the
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ATLAS Preliminary Data 2011 Channel
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as the masses of the quarks involve
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LEP HERA Tevatron LHC BR(t → qγ)
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to Wtb couplings, where limits on a
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tion at the collision point, and F
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The positive x-direction is defined
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large air-core toroids (one barrel
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3.3.3 Calorimetry The calorimetry i
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of ∼ 1% for the H → γγ and H
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esolution of 1 cm×1 ns with digita
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Luminosity measurement Accurate det
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least one hit on the A-side, at lea
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caps. The calorimeter selections ar
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ut instead fragment to color neutra
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Decays A large fraction of the part
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The ALGPEN program with HERWIG show
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Normalized to unit / 1.96429 GeV No
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Chapter 5 Event Selection 5.1 Intro
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Variable Cut pT >20 GeV Type MuID t
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Identification efficiency eff id 1
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(a) (b) Figure 5.4: Electron identi
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ε (P ) µ TL T 1 TL µ ε TL µ ε
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