Top quark physics in the Large Hadron Collider era

Abstract

We explore various aspects of top quark phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider and proposed future machines. After summarising the role of the top quark in the Standard Model (and some of its well-known extensions), we discuss the formulation of the Standard Model as a low energy effective theory. We isolate the sector of this effective theory that pertains to the top quark and that can be probed with top observables at hadron colliders, and present a global fit of this sector to currently available data from the LHC and Tevatron. Various directions for future improvement are sketched, including analysing the potential of boosted observables and future colliders, and we highlight the importance of using complementary information from different colliders. Interpretational issues related to the validity of the effective field theory formulation are elucidated throughout. Finally, we present an application of artificial neural network algorithms to identifying highly-boosted top quark events at the LHC, and comment on further refinements of our analysis that can be made.

arXiv commentv1: 220 pages. PhD thesis, based on 1506.08845, 1512.03360, 1607.04304, 1701.08784 and 1704.01782. v2: typo in eq. (2.62) fixed

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