CMS Pixel Detector Upgrade and Top Quark Pole Mass Determination

Introduction to Particle Physics at Hadron Colliders.- The CMS Experiment at the LHC.- Basic Concepts of Semiconductor Tracking Detectors.- The CMS Pixel Detector for Phase I.- Simulation of CMS Pixel Detector Modules.- The pixar Data Acquisition and Calibration Framework.- Test Beams at the DESY-II Synchrotron.- Qualification of the Phase I Readout Chip.- Improving the Position Resolution Using the Cluster Skewness.- Introduction to Top Quark Physics and the Measurement.- Simulation of Collision Events.- Object Reconstruction and Event Selection.- Systematic Uncertainties.- Measurement of the Top Quark Mass from the S Distribution of tt+jet Events.- Measurement of the Top Quark Mass from Di erential tt+jet Cross Sections.- Summary and Prospects.