DØ's Ph.D. Dissertations on Top Quark Physics

  80 graduate students have obtained a Ph.D. at DØ on top quark physics since 1993
  46 students analyzed Run II data (2003 – 2007), 32 analyzed Run I data (1993 – 2004), and 2 theses are on top quark theory
  One post-doctoral habilitation thesis has been completed

  Ph.D. dissertations listed by subject

  2008
      4.  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, (xxx pages)
      3.  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, (xxx pages)
      2.  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)
      1.  Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in the Lepton+Jets Channel Using b-Tagging at DØ
           Hwidong Yoo, Brown University, May 2008, (210 pages)

  2007
     12.  Search for Admixture of Scalar Top in the ttbar Lepton+Jets Final State
           Su-Jung Park, University of Rochester, December 2007, (215 pages)
     11.  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)
     10.  Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Hadronic Channel
           Hendrik Hoeth, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, October 2007, (xxx pages)
      9.  Evidence for Single Top Quark Production Using Bayesian Neural Networks
           Daekwang Kau, Florida State University, August 2007, (150 pages)
      8.  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 Single Top Quark Production at DØ Using a Matrix Element Method
           Jovan Mitrevski, Columbia University, July 2007, (280 pages)
      6.  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)
      5.  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, (xxx pages)
      4.  Measurement of the W Boson Helicity in Top Quark Decays
           Bryan Gmyrek, University of Arizona, May 2007, (172 pages)
      3.  Measuring Single-Top Production at DØ
           Thomas Gadfort, University of Washington, April 2007, (223 pages)
      2.  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)
      1.  Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in Lepton+Jets Events with Secondary Vertex Tagging
           Robert Harrington, Northeastern University, February 2007, (302 pages)

  2006
      *  Top Quark Physics at Hadron Colliders
           Arnulf Quadt, Universität Bonn, Habilitation thesis, November 2006, (166 pages)   Get the book from amazon.com !
      8.  Measurement of the Top Pair Production Cross Section in the Dimuon Final State
           Susan Burke, University of Arizona, December 2006, (184 pages)
      7.  Measurement of m_top via Neutrino Weighting in the Dilepton Decay Channels at DØ
           Jeffrey Temple, University of Arizona, November 2006, (169 pages)
      6.  Search for t-Channel Single Top Quark Production
           Philip Perea, University of California, Riverside, June 2006, (225 pages)
      5.  Measurement of the ttbar Invariant Mass Distribution and Search for ttbar Resonances
           Maren Vaupal, University of Wuppertal, Germany, May 2006, (133 pages)
      4.  Production Électrofaible du Quark Top au Run II de l'Experience DØ
           Benoit Clément, IReS de Strasbourg, France, April 2006, (260 pages)
      3.  Measurement of the Top Quark Production and Decay with the DØ Experiment
           Jonas Strandberg, Stockholm University, Sweden, April 2006, (155 pages)
      2.  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)
      1.  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)

  2005
     15.  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)
     14.  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)
     13.  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)
     12.  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)
     11.  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)
     10.  Measurement of the W Boson Helicity in ttbar Decays
           Christian Schmitt, Wuppertal University, Germany, June 2005, (163 pages)
      9.  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)
      8.  Recherche de la Production Electrofaible du Quark Top dans l'Experience DØ
           Mathieu Agelou, Université Paris VI, May 2005, (171 pages)
      7.  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)
      6.  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.  Top Quark Pair Production in Proton Antiproton Collisions
           Freya Blekman, Universiteit van Amsterdam, April 2005, (168 pages)
      4.  A Precision Measurement of the Top Quark Mass
           Kevin Black, Boston University, February 2005, (226 pages)
      3.  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)
      2.  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)
      1.  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)

  2004
      7.  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)
      6.  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)
      5.  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)
      4.  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)
      3.  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)
      2.  Top Quark Production at Hadron Colliders
           Lukas Phaf, Universiteit van Amsterdam, March 2004, (184 pages)
      1.  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)

  2003
      4.  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)
      3.  Helicity of the W Boson in Single-Lepton ttbar Events
           Florencia Canelli, University of Rochester, August 2003, (273 pages)
      2.  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)
      1.  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)

  2002
      2.  Determination of the Top Quark Mass Using Neural Networks
           Rajwant Kaur, Panjab University, August 2002, (176 pages)
      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)

  2001
      3.  Top Mass Using Kinematic Variables
           Yi-mei Huang, University of Michigan, December 2001, (129 pages)
      2.  Single Top Production in DØ and Phenomenological Aspects of t-Quark and Higgs Production
           Lev Dudko, Moscow State University, September 2001, (146 pages)
      1.  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)

  2000
           A quiet year for graduation

  1999
      4.  Top in emu Channel with Multivariate Techniques
           Harpreet Singh, University of California, Riverside, September 1999, (150 pages)
      3.  Spin Correlations in ttbar Production from ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV
           Suyong Choi, Seoul National University, August 1999, (331 pages)
      2.  Search for Single Top Production with the DØ Detector at the Tevatron Collider
           Jeffrey McDonald, Florida State University, May 1999, (157 pages)
      1.  Search for Charged Higgs Boson in Top Quark Decays at DØ
           Eric Smith, University of Oklahoma, April 1999, (146 pages)

  1998
           A quiet year for graduation

  1997
      6.  Search for Top in Electron-Muon Channel
           Vipin Bhatnagar, Panjab University , December 1997, (169 pages)
      5.  Measurement of ttbar Production Cross Section and Search for New Physics Beyond the Standard Model
           Sailesh Chopra, University of Michigan, December 1997 (119 pages)
      4.  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)
      3.  Measurement of the Top Quark Mass
           Eric Varnes, University of California, Berkeley, April 1997, (243 pages)
      2.  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)
      1.  The Jet Energy Scale and the Mass of the Top Quark
           Frank Hsieh, University of Michigan, January 1997, (123 pages)

  1996
      6.  Simulation of Fundamental Processes at Colliders
           Alexander Belyaev, Moscow State University, November 1996, (200 pages)
      5.  Top Quark in Multi-Jet Final States
           Eunil Won, University of Rochester, September 1996, (233 pages)
      4.  Search for Top Quark in the e+jets and mu-tag Channel at DØ
           Ssu-Min Chang, Northeastern University, August 1996, (200 pages)
      3.  The Top Quark in Muon+Jets from 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
           Cary Yoshikawa, University of Hawaii, May 1996, (176 pages)
      2.  La Recherche du Quark Top dans le Canal e+jets
           Jean Francois Lebrat, Université Paris XI, Orsay, May 1996, (204 pages)
      1.  A Search for the Top Quark Using Neural Networks
           Erfin Amidi, Northeastern University, March 1996, (200 pages)

  1995
      3.  Search for Top Quark in All-Jets Channel
           Cathy Cretsinger, University of Rochester, December 1995, (159 pages)
      2.  Search for the Top Quark in the Electron+Jets_Soft Muon Channel at DØ
           Hao-wei Xu, Brown University, September 1995, (111 pages)
      1.  Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in DØ
           Scott Snyder, SUNY, Stony Brook, May 1995, (308 pages)

  1994
      5.  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)
      4.  Search for Top in Dielectrons
           Varadarajalu Balamurali, University of Notre Dame, November 1994, (112 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)
      2.  Search for the Top Quark in Single Electron Plus Jets
           Raymond Hall, University of California, Riverside, September 1994, (132 pages)
      1.  Search for the Top Quark in the Muon+Jets Channel at DØ
           Joey Thompson, SUNY, Stony Brook, April 1994, (150 pages)

  1993
      1.  Search for Truth in the e-mu Channel at DØ
           James Cochran, SUNY, Stony Brook, December 1993, (176 pages)

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