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[en] The top quark, being the heaviest of the six quarks in the Standard Model of Particle Physics, had not been discovered until 1995. Hence, many of its properties could not be measured at a high precision or even not be investigated at all so far. Since the top quark is so heavy, it might play a special role in electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB). Especially its coupling to the electroweak (EW) gauge bosons could reveal hints to New Physics, if there were deviations from the predictions by the Standard Model. The total cross section of the top quark pair production process with the additional emission of a photon (t anti tγ) has been determined with the ATLAS experiment as a first measurement of the couplings of EW gauge bosons to the top quark, since this process provides the largest cross section compared to other EW couplings. The t anti tγ cross section measurement has been performed in the semi-leptonic (e+jets and μ+jets) decay channel using a template fit method with 1.04 fb-1 of ATLAS data collected at a center-of-mass energy of √(s)=7 TeV in 2011. Various background sources have been investigated, using data-driven methods whenever possible; the impact of systematic uncertainties has been evaluated using a statistical ensemble of 3000 pseudo experiments. The result of the measurement yields a cross section of σtantitγ x BR=[1.84±0.49(stat.)+0.50-0.50(syst.)±0.07(lumi.)] pb at a significance of 2.9 σ.
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2012; 209 p; Diss. (Dr.rer.nat.)
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Miscellaneous
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Thesis/Dissertation; Numerical Data
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ANTIMATTER, ANTIPARTICLES, ANTIQUARKS, BARYON-BARYON INTERACTIONS, BOSONS, CROSS SECTIONS, DATA, DECAY, DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS, ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, ENERGY RANGE, FERMIONS, HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS, INFORMATION, INTERACTIONS, LEPTONS, MASSLESS PARTICLES, MATHEMATICAL MODELS, MATTER, NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS, NUMERICAL DATA, PARTICLE DECAY, PARTICLE INTERACTIONS, PARTICLE MODELS, PARTICLE PRODUCTION, POSTULATED PARTICLES, PROTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS, QUARKS, T QUARKS, TEV RANGE, TOP PARTICLES, WEAK PARTICLE DECAY
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