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Introduction to Top Quark Production and Decay in Proton-Proton Collisions

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Top-Quark Pair Production Cross Sections and Calibration of the Top-Quark Monte-Carlo Mass

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The properties of the top quark are important parameters of the SM and determine the precision of our understanding of nature to a wide extent.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Anti-fermions are expressed as right-handed doublets and left-handed singlets and are implied in the following.

  2. 2.

    Throughout this thesis, \(m_t^{\overline{{\text {MS}}}}\) corresponds to \(m_t^{\overline{{\text {MS}}}} (\mu =m_t^{\overline{{\text {MS}}}})\).

  3. 3.

    To all orders, this series shows the divergent behavior discussed before. However, it is well-defined for a fixed order in perturbation theory.

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