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Speaker: Prof. Jorgen D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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Title: "Towards Top quark physics and beyond in CMS"
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Abstract:

Top Quark topologies are the first signatures of complex processes in the proton collisions foreseen at the 
LHC later this year. The CMS collaboration is preparing methods and techniques to filter an event samples 
enhanced in top quark processes out of the full data set which we will cumulate. In order to make physics 
interpretations we also propose techniques to estimate the fraction of background processes in this selected 
sample. The prior goal with this sample is to learn more about the properties of the top quark and the processes 
it appears in. After consolidating these measurements, we will confront the Standard Model with the data and 
zoom into regions of phase-space where new physics phenomena could appear. The presentation will overview the 
achievement of the CMS collaboration in this direction and will be injected with personal ideas on these topics.
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