Top Quark and Higgs Boson Physics at Hadron Colliders

密歇根州立大学集团计划继续使用费米实验室的对撞机探测器（CDF）进行顶夸克物理学研究，并利用CDF的这一专业知识为位于瑞士日内瓦欧洲核子研究中心的大型强子对撞机（LHC）的ATLAS实验做出贡献。该小组目前正致力于测量顶夸克的电荷，SM预测其为+2/3，但有非SM理论允许电荷为-4/3的奇异顶夸克。 此外，该小组正在研究矩阵元技术，该技术可以应用于寻找非标准模型W玻色子，该玻色子可能会衰变为单个顶夸克和底夸克。 最终计划使用这种技术在LHC的WH通道中寻找希格斯玻色子。 在接下来的三年里，该小组将逐步过渡到ATLAS实验。 作为研究工作的一个基本特征，该小组致力于鼓励少数民族，特别是妇女，对科学感兴趣并从事物理学事业。

The Michigan State Group plans to continue its research on top quark physics using the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) and use this expertise from CDF to contribute to the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The group is currently working on measuring the charge of the top quark, which the SM predicts to be +2/3 but there are non-SM theories that allow for an exotic top quark with charge -4/3. Additionally the group is working with matrix element techniques that can be applied to the search for a non-Standard Model W boson which might decay into a single top quark plus a bottom quark. Ultimately it is planned to use this technique to search for Higgs Bosons in the WH Channel at the LHC. Over the next three years the group will gradually transition to the ATLAS experiment. As a fundamental feature of the research effort, the group is dedicated to encouraging minorities, especially women, to become interested in science and pursue careers in physics.