Project description
Simultaneous top quarks production: leaving assumptions behind
The search for ‘new physics’, which goes beyond what is described by the Standard Model (SM), is a vibrant area of research within the particle physics community. The shortcomings of the SM are significant, and many questions relate to the high-energy realm difficult to access experimentally. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the 4TopAndMore project will leverage the world-record energy at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to investigate the simultaneous production of four top-quarks (tttt), the most energetic process achievable using the LHC. In a pioneering ab initio approach to tttt events, scientists will have the opportunity to reveal new physics that are too energetic to be in reach of the LHC.
Objective
At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), protons are collided at the highest possible energy to generate subatomic elementary particles. We use the results of these collisions to understand our universe at the most fundamental level. Many theorists believe that new physics exists at a very high energy. The top quark is the heaviest elementary particle known to date with unique properties. It is therefore naturally suspected to have hidden connections with new physics.
The simultaneous production of four top-quarks (tttt) is the most energetic process accessible with the LHC, making it a unique place to search for heavy new physics, which are less likely to appear elsewhere. The first evidence of these extremely rare events was only revealed last year, and we know very little about them. With the world-record energy at LHC Run3 (13.6 TeV), we expect 20% higher tttt events production rate. This offers a timely opportunity to further study this process.
With an aim to find new physics, we will study tttt events in unprecedented detail with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. We will measure the inclusive production rate and the kinematic properties of these events. We will use the measured results to probe new physics, with unique approaches that do not rely on new physics predictions made upon specific assumptions (which could be wrong). The results have the potential to reveal new physics that are too energetic and beyond the reach of the LHC. This will be the first time this is done for tttt events. The measured tttt event kinematics will be corrected to remove effects from the detector resolution and acceptance. This allows theorists to directly test their new physics predictions against the experimental results, continuously generating impact in the relevant scientific community. We will combine the results of tttt events with those of other types of events containing top quarks to build a global picture of the top quark in terms of its subtle connections to new physics.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
Spain
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