Top Quark and Higgs Boson Physics at Hadron Colliders

密歇根州立大学计划利用费米实验室（CDF）的对撞机探测器继续研究顶夸克物理，并利用CDF的专业知识为位于瑞士日内瓦的欧洲核子研究中心（CERN）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预测顶夸克的电荷为+2/3，但也有非SM理论认为顶夸克的电荷为-4/3。此外，该小组正在研究矩阵元素技术，该技术可用于寻找可能衰变为单个顶夸克和底夸克的非标准W型玻色子。最终计划使用这种技术在大型强子对撞机的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，特别是女性，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.