Karlsruhe School of Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics: Science and Technology (KSETA)

Frank Roscher

Information

Institute: EKP (CS)
Room: 9-10
Phone: 0721 608 43559
Email: frank.roscher#kit.edu

PhD Thesis

Title: Charge Asymmetry Measurements in Top Quark Pair Production at √s = 8 TeV with the CMS Experiment
Date of defence: November 13th, 2015

Publications

Publications in refereed journals

  • Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production
    CMS Collaboration, 2011.
    CMS Physics Analysis Summary TOP-11-014, published in Physics Letters B 709.
  • Differential Measurements of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production
    CMS Collaboration, 2012.
    CMS Physics Analysis Summary TOP-11-030, published in Physics Letters B 717.
  • Inclusive and differential measurements of the tt charge asymmetry in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV
    CMS Collaboration, 2015.
    Submitted to Physics Letters B.
    An earlier version of this analysis has been published in 2012 as CMS Physics Analysis Summary TOP-12-033, as listed below.
  • Measurement of top quark polarisation in t-channel single top quark production
    CMS Collaboration, 2015.
    CMS Physics Analysis Summary TOP-13-001, submitted to JHEP.
    Own contribution: Unfolding method.

Other publications

  • Differentielle Messung der Ladungsasymmetrie in Top-Quark-Paarereignissen mit dem CMS-Experiment
    F. Roscher, 2012.
    Diploma thesis, KIT, IEKP-KA/2012-6.
  • Top Charge asymmetry measurement in dileptons at 7 TeV
    CMS Collaboration, 2012.
    CMS Physics Analysis Summary TOP-12-010. Own contribution: Unfolding method.
  • Measurement of the tt charge asymmetry with lepton+jets events at 8 TeV
    CMS Collaboration, 2013.
    CMS Physics Analysis Summary TOP-12-033.
    A significantly improved version of this analysis has been finished in 2015 and submitted to Physics Letters B, as listed above.
  • Combination of ATLAS and CMS tt charge asymmetry measurements using LHC proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV
    ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, 2014.
    ATLAS-CONF-2014-012, ATLAS-COM-CONF-2014-014, CMS-PAS-TOP-14-006
  • Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production at CMS
    F. Roscher (for the CMS Collaboration), 2014.
    TOP2013 proceedings, DESY-PROC-2014-2/62.
  • Measurements of the top quark properties in tt production using the CMS detector at the LHC
    F. Roscher (for the CMS Collaboration), 2015.
    EPS-HEP 2015 proceedings, PoS(EPS-HEP2015)301.

Conferences and talks

Presentations at international conferences

  • Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production at CMS
    Poster. TOP2013, Durbach, Germany. 14.09. - 19.09.2013.
  • Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production at CMS
    Poster, without my own presence. CMS Week 2013, Taipeh, Taiwan. 09.09. - 13.09.2013.
  • Measurements of the top quark properties in tt production at the LHC (includes charge asymmetry, top quark polarization, spin correlations and tt+V)
    Talk. EPS-HEP 2015, Vienna, Austria. 22.07. - 29.07.2015.

Talks at other conferences

  • Messung der differentiellen Ladungsasymmetrie in tt-Ereignissen am CMS-Experiment
    DPG Frühjahrstagung 2012, Göttingen. 27.02. - 02.03.2012.
  • Charge asymmetry in tt production
    FSP-CMS Meeting 2012, DESY Zeuthen. 30.09. - 02.10.2012.
  • Messung der Ladungsasymmetrie in tt-Ereignissen am CMS-Experiment
    DPG Frühjahrstagung 2013, Dresden. 04.03. - 08.03.2013.
  • Messung der Ladungsasymmetrie in tt-Ereignissen am CMS-Experiment
    DPG Frühjahrstagung 2014, Mainz. 24.03. - 28.03.2014.