| Seminar Date: | Thursday, June 12, 2014 |
| Time: | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |
| Location: | KAVLI 3rd Floor Conference Room |
| Abstract: | Millions of top quarks have been produced in the first LHC run. While most top quarks are produced via strong interactions, the large statistics enabled the study of single top production via electroweak interactions. In this seminar the results of these studies will be reported using the data collected by the CMS detector at 7 and 8TeV. The single top production cross sections for all the electroweak production modes are presented with particular emphasis on the first observation of the W associated single top production. |
| Speaker: | Gabriele Benelli - The University of Kansas
 Gabriele Benelli is a senior postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kansas working on the CMS experiment. He is currently the strip calibration, simulation, local reco and DB group convener and is actively involved in the CMS single top analysis subgroup. He is one of the main author of the CMS W-associated single top production analysis (7 and 8TeV). He is a tracker calibration expert and has worked as a CERN fellow in CMS simulation and software performance, contributing to the first CMS top pair cross-section measurement in the lepton+jets final state. He worked on BaBar as an OSU postdoc on a unitarity triangle gamma analysis and successfully commissioned the LST detector (built the OSU LST HV system, wrote firmware and the slow control code). He graduated as a PhD from UC Riverside working on a search for heavy stable charged particles at the OPAL experiment at LEP, he completed his undergraduate studies at University of Bologna, Italy.
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