Measuring top-quarks with the highest precision and at record energies using the ATLAS detector at the LHC, and "hedgehog" events at the LHC revisited.

Dr. Leonid Serkin, ICN-UNAM


The LHC produces a vast sample of top quarks - the heaviest known elementary particles. I will review two recent measurements of the inclusive top quark pair production cross-section, sigma(ttbar), in which I had a leading role within the ATLAS Collaboration. The first measurement, chosen as the ATLAS highlight at CERN's Courier in September 2022, is the most precise measurement of sigma(ttbar) at sqrt(s) = 5.02 TeV. In addition, I will present the hot off the press measurement of sigma(ttbar) at the record centre-of-mass energy of 13.6 TeV using the data collected in August 2022. In the last part of my talk, I will focus on the work done in collaboration with Dr. Guy Paic concerning the intriguing "hedgehog" events at the LHC, and pave the way for their study using collision data.

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