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Third generation SUSY and t¯t +Z production

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its experiments are some of the largest and most complex constructions in human history.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Although only the first generation \(u\)-quark, \(d\)-quark and electron make up the majority of matter.

  2. 2.

    The remainder of this section will closely follow prescriptions taken from [5, 11, 12]. These references should serve as a good introduction for the non-expert.

  3. 3.

    This choice is made to eliminate the unwanted Goldstone boson and the troublesome interaction terms it introduces. The specific gauge choice is \(\theta = - \tan {\varphi _1/\varphi _2}\), which in the transformation \(\varphi \rightarrow \varphi '\) results in \(\varphi '\) being real (\(\varphi '_{2}=0\)).

  4. 4.

    The description given in this section closely follows that of [16].

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McFayden, J. (2014). Introduction and Theoretical Background. In: Third generation SUSY and t¯t +Z production. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07191-6_1

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