Search for the Flavor-Changing Neutral Current in Top Pair Events in sqrt(s) = 8 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider Using the ATLAS Detector

In this dissertation, a search for the flavor-changing neutral current in top-antitop events is presented. The flavor-changing neutral current is forbidden at tree level in the Standard Model and suppressed at higher order due to the GIM mechanism. In the Standard Model, the top quark is expected to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brost, Elizabeth
Other Authors: Majewski, Stephanie
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20406