Fermilab Summer Students - 2009

Alicia Hinkle
College: University of Minnesota, MN
Home: South Elgin, IL
Mentor: Pusha Bhat
Report: Abstract (pdf), Monte-Carlo Study of Top Pair Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (PowerPoint)
Research: My mentor and I ran simulations of the signal and background for a specific event which will occur in the Large Hadron Collider when it becomes operational. We confirmed the cross section results of a previous study and compared kinematics between signal and background.