4-8 July 2016
Kramer Law building
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<a href="http://events.saip.org.za/internalPage.py?pageId=10&confId=86">The Proceedings of SAIP2016</a> published on 24 December 2017

Estimation of the fake rate background in same sign W<sup>+mn</sup>W<sup>+mn</sup> production at the LHC with ATLAS Detector

5 Jul 2016, 16:10
1h 50m
Kramer Law building

Kramer Law building

UCT Middle Campus Cape Town
Board: B.212
Poster Presentation Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics Poster Session (1)

Speaker

Ms Xolisile Thusini (University of Cape Town)

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At the Large Hadron Collider, Vector Boson Scattering (VBS) has been identified as a promising interaction for understanding of the Elecroweak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB). One of its production mechanisms is the same sign W+mnW+mn production process, and has never been observed. This talk present an estimation of the fake background in same sign l+mnl+mn + EmissT + 2jets signature coming from the scattering of two W bosons with the same electric charge. The two W’s are required to decay leptonically considering electrons and muons only. The background processes that can mimic the signature of same sign sign l+mnl+mn + EmissT + 2jets are W +jet, ttbar, single top or QCD multijet processes where one or two jets are mis-reconstructed as leptons. The main objective is to estimate fake background coming from ttbar decay using Monte Carlo simulations. For this analysis only electrons were considered in the final state.

Please indicate whether<br>this abstract may be<br>published online<br>(Yes / No)

Yes

Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution

Dr Andrew Hamilton, University of Cape Town
Email: andrew.hamilton@uct.ac.za
Office Phone:(021) 650-3349

Apply to be<br> considered for a student <br> &nbsp; award (Yes / No)?

Yes

Level for award<br>&nbsp;(Hons, MSc, <br> &nbsp; PhD, N/A)?

MSc

Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)?

No

Primary author

Ms Xolisile Thusini (University of Cape Town)

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