DØ's Ph.D. Dissertations
on Top Quark Physics
106 graduate students have obtained a Ph.D. at DØ on top quark physics since 1993
71 students analyzed Run II data (2003 – 2011), 32 analyzed Run I data (1993 – 2004), and 3 theses are on top quark theory
Ph.D. dissertations listed in publication order
Top Pair Production Cross Section
Lepton+Jets
1.
Search for the Top Quark in the Muon+Jets Channel at DØ
Joey Thompson, SUNY, Stony Brook, April 1994, (150 pages)
2.
Search for the Top Quark in Single Electron Plus Jets
Raymond Hall, University of California, Riverside, September 1994, (132 pages)
3.
A Search for ttbar->electron+MET+jets Signature in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV
with the DØ Detector
Dhiman Chakraborty, State University of New York, Stony Brook, September 1994, (161 pages)
4.
Search for the Top Quark in the Electron+Jets_Soft Muon Channel at DØ
Hao-wei Xu, Brown University, September 1995, (111 pages)
5.
A Search for the Top Quark Using Neural Networks
Erfin Amidi, Northeastern University, March 1996, (200 pages)
6.
La Recherche du Quark Top dans le Canal e+jets
Jean Francois Lebrat, Université Paris XI, Orsay, May 1996, (204 pages)
7.
The Top Quark in Muon+Jets from 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Cary Yoshikawa, University of Hawaii, May 1996, (176 pages)
8.
Search for Top Quark in the e+jets and mu-tag Channel at DØ
Ssu-Min Chang, Northeastern University, August 1996, (200 pages)
9.
Measurement of the Top Quark Production in ppbar Collisions at 1.8 TeV Center of Mass Energy
Peter Tamburello, University of Maryland, September 1997, (141 pages)
10.
Measurement of ttbar Production Cross Section and Search for New Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Sailesh Chopra, University of Michigan, December 1997 (119 pages)
11.
Identification d'Électrons et Application à la Mesure de la Section Efficace de Production
du Quark Top avec le Détecteur DØ au Tevatron
Florian Beaudette, Université Paris XI, Orsay, April 2003, (182 pages)
12.
A Measurement of ttbar Production Cross Section in Electron+Jets Channel in ppbar Collisions
at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
Chunhui Han, University of Michigan, December 2003, (145 pages)
13.
A Measurement of the ttbar Production Cross Section in Proton-Antiproton Collisions
at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV with the DØ Detector at the Tevatron
Using Final States with a Muon and Jets
Markus Klute, Universität Bonn, February 2004, (170 pages)
14.
Measurement of the ttbar Production Cross Section at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV using Lifetime Tagging
Alexander Khanov, University of Rochester, July 2004, (153 pages)
15.
Étiquetage des Quarks Beaux et Mesure de la Section Efficace de Production de Paires
de Quarks Top à sqrt(s) + 1.96 TeV dans l'Expérience DØ
Sébastien Greder, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg, October 2004, (244 pages)
16.
Measurement of the ttbar Production Cross Section at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV in the e+jets
Final State of ppbar Collisions at the Tevatron
DooKee Cho, University of Rochester, February 2005, (116 pages)
17.
Measurements of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in Lepton+Jets Final States
using a Topological Multivariate Technique as well as Lifetime b-Tagging in Proton-Antiproton
Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV with the DØ Detector at the Tevatron
Tobias Golling, Universität Bonn, February 2005, (300 pages)
18.
Mesure de la Section Efficace de Production de Paires de Quarks Top/Antitop
dans les Collisions Proton/Antiprotons Racine de s Gale 1.96 TeV
Jean-Roch Vlimant, Université Paris VI, June 2005, (210 pages)
19.
Top-Quark and Charged Higgs Boson Production at Hadron Colliders: Data Analysis at the DØ Experiment
and Simulations for the ATLAS Detector
Nils Gollub, Uppsala University, December 2005, (4 papers, mu+jets)
20.
Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in pbar-p Collisions
at a Center-of-Mass Energy of 1.96 TeV
Gustavo Otero y Garzon, University of Illinois, Chicago, March 2006, (377 pages)
21.
Measurement of the Top Quark Production and Decay with the DØ Experiment
Jonas Strandberg, Stockholm University, Sweden, April 2006, (155 pages)
22.
Mesure de la Section Efficace de Production de Quarks Top en Paires dans la Canal Lepton+Jets à DØ
at à ATLAS et Interprétation en Terme de Higgs Chargé dans ATLAS
Florent Chevallier, LPSC, Grenoble, France, May 2007, (256 pages)
23.
Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in the Lepton+Jets Channel Using b-Tagging at DØ
Hwidong Yoo, Brown University, May 2008, (210 pages)
Dileptons
1.
Search for Truth in the e-mu Channel at DØ
James Cochran, SUNY, Stony Brook, December 1993, (176 pages)
2.
Search for Top in Dielectrons
Varadarajalu Balamurali, University of Notre Dame, November 1994, (112 pages)
3.
Search for the Top Quark in Dielectron Final States and the Response of the DØ Calorimeter to Jets
Robert Kehoe, University of Notre Dame, January 1997, (257 pages)
4.
Search for Top in Electron-Muon Channel
Vipin Bhatnagar, Panjab University , December 1997, (169 pages)
5.
Top in emu Channel with Multivariate Techniques
Harpreet Singh, University of California, Riverside, September 1999, (150 pages)
6.
Measurement of the ttbar Cross Section Using the Dimuon Channel in ppbar Collisions
at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
Robert McCroskey, University of Arizona, November 2004, (188 pages)
7.
Measurement of the ttbar Production Cross Section at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
and Top Mass in the Dielectron Channel
Joseph Kozminski, Michigan State University, April 2005, (218 pages)
8.
Measurement of ttbar Cross Section in ppbar Collider at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
in the Dielectron Final States at the DØ Experiment
Ashish Kumar, University of Delhi, October 2005, (210 pages)
9.
Measurement of ttbar Cross Section in ppbar Collider at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
Prolay Mal, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, November 2005, (353 pages)
10.
Measurement of the Top Pair Production Cross Section in the Dimuon Final State
Susan Burke, University of Arizona, December 2006, (184 pages)
11.
Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section
and an Estimate of the DØ Silicon Detector Lifetime
Sara Strandberg, Stockholm University, Sweden, March 2007, (216 pages)
12.
Mesure de la Section Efficace de Production de Paires de Quarks Top dans l'Etat Final Di-Electron
avec les Donnees Collectees par l'Experience DØ au RunIIa
Bertrand Martin dit Latour, IPHC, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, September 2008, (250 pages)
13.
Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in the Dilepton Channel
Using Lepton+Track Selection
Robert Wagner, Princeton University, September 2008, (137 pages)
14.
Top Quark Mass Measurement from Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section Measurements
and Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in the Electron-Muon Channel
Solene Chevalier-Thery, Saclay/Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), June 2010, (233 pages)
Alljets
1.
Search for Top Quark in All-Jets Channel
Cathy Cretsinger, University of Rochester, December 1995, (159 pages)
2.
Top Quark in Multi-Jet Final States
Eunil Won, University of Rochester, September 1996, (233 pages)
3.
Top Quark Pair Production in Proton Antiproton Collisions
Freya Blekman, Universiteit van Amsterdam, April 2005, (168 pages)
4.
Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in p
p
Collisions
at √s = 1.96 TeV, Hadronic Top Decays with the DØ Detector
Jeroen Hegeman, FOM-Institute NIKHEF and University of Amsterdam/NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 2009, (193 pages)
Hadronic Taus
1.
First Measurement of Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in Muon plus Hadronic Tau Final States
Haryo Sumowidagdo, Florida State University, November 2007, (121 pages)
2.
Mesure de la Section Efficace de Production de Paires de Quarks Top dans le Canal Lepton+Tau+Jets+MET
dans l'Expérience DØ et Interpré en Termes de Boson de Higgs Chargé
Florent Lacroix, Unversity Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, December 2008, (202 pages)
3.
Measurement of Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in Proton Antiproton Collisions
at √s = 1.96 TeV in the τ+Jets Final State Using 1 fb
-1
of Data
Sohrab Hossain, University of Oklahoma, December 2009, (153 pages)
4.
t
t
Production Cross Section Measurement in the Channel μ + τ + jets + MET
Jerome Jammes, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, September 2011, (181 pages)
Top Quark Mass
Lepton+Jets
1.
Search for Top in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV by Constrained Kinematic Fitting
Myungyun Pang, Iowa State University, December 1994, (111 pages)
2.
Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in DØ
Scott Snyder, SUNY, Stony Brook, May 1995, (308 pages)
3.
The Jet Energy Scale and the Mass of the Top Quark
Frank Hsieh, University of Michigan, January 1997, (123 pages)
4.
Maximal Use of Kinematic Information for Extracting Top Quark Mass in Single-Lepton ttbar Events
Juan Cruz Estrada Vigil, University of Rochester, July 2001, (155 pages)
5.
Top Mass Using Kinematic Variables
Yi-mei Huang, University of Michigan, December 2001, (129 pages)
6.
A Precision Measurement of the Top Quark Mass
Kevin Black, Boston University, February 2005, (226 pages)
7.
Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at DØ Run II with the Matrix Element Method
in the Lepton+Jets Final State
Philipp Schieferdecker, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, August 2005, (199 pages)
8.
Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in Lepton+Jets Events with Secondary Vertex Tagging
Robert Harrington, Northeastern University, February 2007, (302 pages)
9.
Precision Measurement of the Mass of the Top Quark in Lepton+Jets Events in ppbar Collisions
Carlos Garcia, University of Rochester, June 2007, (125 pages)
10.
Measurement of the Top Quark Mass With the Matrix Element Method in the Semileptonic Channel at DØ
Petra Haefner, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, September 2008, (194 pages)
11.
A Measurement of the Mass of the Top Quark Using the Ideogram Technique
Pieter Houben, NIKHEF/University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June 2009, (xxx pages)
Dileptons
1.
Measurement of the Top Quark Mass
Eric Varnes, University of California, Berkeley, April 1997, (243 pages)
2.
Determination of the Top Quark Mass Using Neural Networks
Rajwant Kaur, Panjab University, August 2002, (176 pages)
3.
A Measurement of the Mass of the Top Quark in the Dilepton Channels Using the
DØ Detector at Fermilab
Sarosh Fatakia, Boston University, January 2005, (302 pages)
4.
Measurement of the ttbar Production Cross Section at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
and Top Mass in the Dielectron Channel
Joseph Kozminski, Michigan State University, April 2005, (218 pages)
5.
Measurement of m_top via Neutrino Weighting in the Dilepton Decay Channels at DØ
Jeffrey Temple, University of Arizona, November 2006, (169 pages)
6.
Measurement of the Top Quark Mass using Dilepton Events and a Neutrino Weighting Algorithm
with the DØ Experiment at the Tevatron (Run II)
Joerg Meyer, Universität Bonn, July 2007, (116 pages)
7.
Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Electron-Muon Channel with the DØ Detector at the Tevatron
Marion Arthaud, LPNHE, Université Paris VII, June 2008, (192 pages)
8.
Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Dilepton Final State using the Matrix Element Method
Alexander Grohsjean, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, April 2009, (153 pages)
9.
Top Quark Mass in Events with Two Charged Leptons at the DØ Experiment
Daniel Boline, Boston University, January 2010, (123 pages)
10.
Top Quark Mass Measurement in the Dilepton Channel
Aurélien Croc, CEA Saclay, June 2011, (216 pages)
Alljets
1.
Measurement of the Top Mass in the Alljets Channel with the DØ Detector at the Fermilab
Tevatron Collider
Brian Connolly, Florida State University, April 2002, (235 pages)
2.
Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Alljets Channel at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV
Karel Soustruznik, Charles University Prague, July 2004, (xxx pages)
3.
Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Hadronic Channel
Hendrik Hoeth, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, October 2007, (203 pages)
4.
Measurement of Top Quark Mass in the All Hadronic Channel
at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV, ppbar Collisions at DØ
David Wai Kui Lam, University of Notre Dame, May 2008, (277 pages)
Other Top Quark Properties
1.
Search for Charged Higgs Boson in Top Quark Decays at DØ
Eric Smith, University of Oklahoma, April 1999, (146 pages)
2.
Spin Correlations in ttbar Production from ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV
Suyong Choi, Seoul National University, August 1999, (331 pages)
3.
Search for ttbar Resonances in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV
Supriya Jain, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, March 2003, (218 pages)
4.
Helicity of the W Boson in Single-Lepton ttbar Events
Florencia Canelli, University of Rochester, August 2003, (273 pages)
5.
Measurement of the B+- Lifetime and Top Quark Identification Using Secondary Vertex b-Tagging
Ariel Schwartzman, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 2004, (285 pages)
6.
Measurement of the W Boson Helicity in ttbar Decays
Christian Schmitt, Wuppertal University, Germany, June 2005, (163 pages)
7.
Anomalous gttbar Coupling in Single-Lepton ttbar Events from ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV
Kwok Ming (Leo) Chan, University of Rochester, November 2005, (xxx pages)
8.
Measurement of the ttbar Invariant Mass Distribution and Search for ttbar Resonances
Maren Vaupal, University of Wuppertal, Germany, May 2006, (133 pages)
9.
Measurement of the W Boson Helicity in Top Quark Decays
Bryan Gmyrek, University of Arizona, May 2007, (172 pages)
10.
Search for Admixture of Scalar Top in the ttbar Lepton+Jets Final State
Su-Jung Park, University of Rochester, December 2007, (215 pages)
11.
Study of the Top-W-b Coupling by Measuring the W helicity with the DØ Experiment
Vincent Siccardi, IPHC, Université Louis Pasteur, CNRS/IN2P3, Strasbourg, July 2008, (214 pages)
12.
Measurements and Searches with Top Quarks
Yvonne Peters, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, August 2008, (260 pages)
13.
Measurement of Differential Cross-Sections in the ttbar->l+jets Channel at √s = 1.96 TeV
with the DØ Experiment at Fermilab
Jiri Kvita, IPNP, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, April 2009, (298 pages)
14.
Resonance Searches with the t
t
Invariant Mass Distribution
Measured with the DØ Experiment at √s = 1.96 TeV
Thorsten Schliephake, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, July 2010, (260 pages)
15.
CP Violating Anomalous Top-Quark Coupling in p
p
Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV
Sehwook Lee, Iowa State University, March 2011, (312 pages)
Single Top Quarks
1.
Search for Single Top Production with the DØ Detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider
Jeffrey McDonald, Florida State University, May 1999, (157 pages)
2.
Single Top Production in DØ and Phenomenological Aspects of t-Quark Higgs Production
Lev Dudko, Moscow State University, September 2001, (146 pages)
3.
Recherche de la Production Electrofaible du Quark Top dans le Canal Electron+Jets
dans l'Experience DØ aupres du Tevatron
Emmanuel Busato, Université Paris VI, April 2005, (210 pages)
4.
Recherche de la Production Electrofaible du Quark Top dans l'Experience DØ
Mathieu Agelou, Université Paris VI, May 2005, (171 pages)
5.
Search for Single Top Quarks Produced in the s-Channel via Electroweak Interactions
at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV at the Tevatron
Shabnam Jabeen, University of Kansas, January 2006, (263 pages)
6.
Production Électrofaible du Quark Top au Run II de l'Experience DØ
Benoit Clément, IReS de Strasbourg, France, April 2006, (260 pages)
7.
Search for t-Channel Single Top Quark Production
Philip Perea, University of California, Riverside, June 2006, (225 pages)
8.
Measuring Single-Top Production at DØ
Thomas Gadfort, University of Washington, April 2007, (223 pages)
9.
Measurement of Single Top Quark Production at DØ Using a Matrix Element Method
Jovan Mitrevski, Columbia University, July 2007, (280 pages)
10.
Evidence for Single Top Quark Production Using Bayesian Neural Networks
Daekwang Kau, Florida State University, August 2007, (150 pages)
11.
Discovery of Single Top Quark Production
Dag Gillberg, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, May 2009, (199 pages)
12.
Measurement of the Electroweak Top Quark Production Cross Section
and the CKM Matrix Element V
tb
with the DØ Experiment
Matthias Kirsch, RWTH Aachen University, June 2009, (466 pages)
13.
Uncovering the Single Top: Observation of the Electroweak Top Quark Production
Jorge Benitez, Michigan State University, August 2009, (360 pages)
14.
Measurement of Single Top Quark Production in Tau+Jets Channel using Boosted Decision Trees at DØ
Zhiyi Liu, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, December 2009, (235 pages)
15.
Top Quark Produced Through the Electroweak Force: Discovery Using the Matrix Element Analysis
and Search for Heavy Gauge Bosons Using Boosted Decision Trees
Monica Pangilinan, Brown University, March 2010, (337 pages)
16.
Measurement of the Single Top Quark Production Cross Section in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.96 TeV
Andrés Tanasijczuk, Universidad de Buenos Aires, March 2010, (328 pages)
17.
Observation of t-Channel Single Top Quark Production
Nathan Triplett, Iowa State University, March 2011, (159 pages)
18.
Search for BSM Effects in Single Top Quark Production Processes
Maxim Perfilov, Moscow State University, April 2011, (120 pages)
19.
Measurement of the Single Top Quark Production Cross Section at √s = 1.96 TeV
Mark Padilla, University of California, Riverside, October 2011, (xxx pages)
Single Top Quark Theory
1.
Simulation of Fundamental Processes at Colliders
Alexander Belyaev, Moscow State University, November 1996, (200 pages)
2.
Top Quark Production at Hadron Colliders
Lukas Phaf, Universiteit van Amsterdam, March 2004, (184 pages)
3.
The Study of Processes with t-Quark and New Particles Based on Automation of All Stages of Modeling
Viacheslav Bunichev, Moscow State University, December 2009, (xxx pages)
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