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1. Prompt and nonprompt J/ψ production and nuclear modification in pPb collisions at s N N = 8.16 TeV

Author: Collaboration, LHCb, Aaij, R, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Ajaltouni, Z, Akar, S, Albrecht, J, Alessio, F, Alexander, M, Albero, A Alfonso, Ali, S, Alkhazov, G, Cartelle, P Alvarez, Alves, AA, Amato, S, Amerio, S, Amhis, Y, An, L, Anderlini, L, Andreassi, G, Andreotti, M, Andrews, JE, Appleby, RB, Archilli, F, d'Argent, P, Romeu, J Arnau, Artamonov, A, Artuso, M, Aslanides, E, Auriemma, G, Baalouch, M, Babuschkin, I, Bachmann, S, Back, JJ, Badalov, A, Baesso, C, Baker, S, Balagura, V, Baldini, W, Baranov, A, Barlow, RJ, Barschel, C, Barsuk, S, Barter, W, Baryshnikov, F, Baszczyk, M, Batozskaya, V, Battista, V, Bay, A, Beaucourt, L, Beddow, J, Bedeschi, F, Bediaga, I, Beiter, A, Bel, LJ, Beliy, N, Bellee, V, Belloli, N, Belous, K, Belyaev, I, Ben-Haim, E, Bencivenni, G, Benson, S, Beranek, S, Berezhnoy, A, Bernet, R, Berninghoff, D, Bertholet, E, Bertolin, A, Betancourt, C, Betti, F, Bettler, M-O, van Beuzekom, M, Bezshyiko, Ia, Bifani, S, Billoir, P, Birnkraut, A, Bitadze, A, Bizzeti, A, Bjoern, MB, Blake, T, Blanc, F, Blouw, J, Blusk, S, Bocci, V, Boettcher, T, Bondar, A, Bondar, N, Bonivento, W, Bordyuzhin, I, Borgheresi, A, Borghi, S, Borisyak, M, Borsato, M, Borysova, M, Bossu, F, Boubdir, M, Bowcock, TJV, Bowen, E, and Bozzi, C
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, hep-ex, nucl-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: The production of J/ψ mesons is studied in proton-lead collisions at the centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair sNN=8.16 TeV with the LHCb detector at the LHC. The double differential cross-sections of prompt and nonprompt J/ψ production are measured as a function of the J/ψ transverse momentum and rapidity in the nucleon–nucleon centre-of-mass frame. Forward-to-backward ratios and nuclear modification factors are determined. The results are compared with theoretical calculations based on collinear factorisation using nuclear parton distribution functions, on the colour glass condensate or on coherent energy loss models.
Published: 2017

2. Charged-particle distributions in s=13 TeV pp interactions measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Aben, R, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abreu, R, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Agatonovic-Jovin, T, Agricola, J, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahlen, SP, Ahmadov, F, Aielli, G, Akerstedt, H, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Alkire, SP, Allbrooke, BMM, Allen, BW, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Piqueras, D Álvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amadio, BT, Amako, K, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Amelung, C, Amidei, D, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amoroso, S, Amram, N, Amundsen, G, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anders, JK, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Angelidakis, S, Angelozzi, I, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, AV, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Bella, L Aperio, Arabidze, G, Arai, Y, Araque, JP, Arce, ATH, Arduh, FA, Arguin, J-F, Argyropoulos, S, Arik, M, Armbruster, AJ, Armitage, LJ, Arnaez, O, and Arnold, H
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: Charged-particle distributions are measured in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, using a data sample of nearly 9 million events, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 170 μb−1, recorded by the ATLAS detector during a special Large Hadron Collider fill. The charged-particle multiplicity, its dependence on transverse momentum and pseudorapidity and the dependence of the mean transverse momentum on the charged-particle multiplicity are presented. The measurements are performed with charged particles with transverse momentum greater than 500 MeV and absolute pseudorapidity less than 2.5, in events with at least one charged particle satisfying these kinematic requirements. Additional measurements in a reduced phase space with absolute pseudorapidity less than 0.8 are also presented, in order to compare with other experiments. The results are corrected for detector effects, presented as particle-level distributions and are compared to the predictions of various Monte Carlo event generators.
Published: 2016

3. Evidence for single top-quark production in the s-channel in proton–proton collisions at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector using the Matrix Element Method

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abreu, R, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Agatonovic-Jovin, T, Agricola, J, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahlen, SP, Ahmadov, F, Aielli, G, Akerstedt, H, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Alimonti, G, Alio, L, Alison, J, Alkire, SP, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Piqueras, D Álvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amadio, BT, Amako, K, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Amelung, C, Amidei, D, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amoroso, S, Amram, N, Amundsen, G, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anders, JK, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Angelidakis, S, Angelozzi, I, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, AV, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Bella, L Aperio, Arabidze, G, Arai, Y, Araque, JP, Arce, ATH, Arduh, FA, Arguin, J-F, Argyropoulos, S, Arik, M, Armbruster, AJ, Arnaez, O, Arnold, H, Arratia, M, Arslan, O, and Artamonov, A
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: This Letter presents evidence for single top-quark production in the s-channel using proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The analysis is performed on events containing one isolated electron or muon, large missing transverse momentum and exactly two b-tagged jets in the final state. The analysed data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1. The signal is extracted using a maximum-likelihood fit of a discriminant which is based on the matrix element method and optimized in order to separate single-top-quark s-channel events from the main background contributions, which are top-quark pair production and W boson production in association with heavy-flavour jets. The measurement leads to an observed signal significance of 3.2 standard deviations and a measured cross-section of σs=4.8±0.8(stat.)−1.3+1.6(syst.) pb, which is consistent with the Standard Model expectation. The expected significance for the analysis is 3.9 standard deviations.
Published: 2016

4. Measurement of the charge asymmetry in highly boosted top-quark pair production in s=8 TeV pp collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Aben, R, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abreu, R, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Agatonovic-Jovin, T, Agricola, J, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahlen, SP, Ahmadov, F, Aielli, G, Akerstedt, H, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Alkire, SP, Allbrooke, BMM, Allen, BW, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Piqueras, D Álvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amadio, BT, Amako, K, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Amelung, C, Amidei, D, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amoroso, S, Amram, N, Amundsen, G, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anders, JK, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Angelidakis, S, Angelozzi, I, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, AV, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Bella, L Aperio, Arabidze, G, Arai, Y, Araque, JP, Arce, ATH, Arduh, FA, Arguin, J-F, Argyropoulos, S, Arik, M, Armbruster, AJ, Armitage, LJ, Arnaez, O, Arnold, H, Arratia, M, and Arslan, O
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Prevention, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: In the pp→tt¯ process the angular distributions of top and anti-top quarks are expected to present a subtle difference, which could be enhanced by processes not included in the Standard Model. This Letter presents a measurement of the charge asymmetry in events where the top-quark pair is produced with a large invariant mass. The analysis is performed on 20.3 fb−1 of pp collision data at s=8TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, using reconstruction techniques specifically designed for the decay topology of highly boosted top quarks. The charge asymmetry in a fiducial region with large invariant mass of the top-quark pair (mtt¯>0.75 TeV) and an absolute rapidity difference of the top and anti-top quark candidates within −2
Published: 2016

5. Measurement of the dependence of transverse energy production at large pseudorapidity on the hard-scattering kinematics of proton–proton collisions at s=2.76 TeV with ATLAS

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abreu, R, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Agatonovic-Jovin, T, Agricola, J, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahlen, SP, Ahmadov, F, Aielli, G, Akerstedt, H, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Alimonti, G, Alio, L, Alison, J, Alkire, SP, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Piqueras, D Álvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amadio, BT, Amako, K, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Amelung, C, Amidei, D, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amoroso, S, Amram, N, Amundsen, G, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anders, JK, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Angelidakis, S, Angelozzi, I, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, AV, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Bella, L Aperio, Arabidze, G, Arai, Y, Araque, JP, Arce, ATH, Arduh, FA, Arguin, J-F, Argyropoulos, S, Arik, M, Armbruster, AJ, Arnaez, O, Arnal, V, Arnold, H, Arratia, M, and Arslan, O
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, hep-ex, nucl-ex, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: The relationship between jet production in the central region and the underlying-event activity in a pseudorapidity-separated region is studied in 4.0 pb−1 of s=2.76 TeV pp collision data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The underlying event is characterised through measurements of the average value of the sum of the transverse energy at large pseudorapidity downstream of one of the protons, which are reported here as a function of hard-scattering kinematic variables. The hard scattering is characterised by the average transverse momentum and pseudorapidity of the two highest transverse momentum jets in the event. The dijet kinematics are used to estimate, on an event-by-event basis, the scaled longitudinal momenta of the hard-scattered partons in the target and projectile beam-protons moving toward and away from the region measuring transverse energy, respectively. Transverse energy production at large pseudorapidity is observed to decrease with a linear dependence on the longitudinal momentum fraction in the target proton and to depend only weakly on that in the projectile proton. The results are compared to the predictions of various Monte Carlo event generators, which qualitatively reproduce the trends observed in data but generally underpredict the overall level of transverse energy at forward pseudorapidity.
Published: 2016

6. Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decay to μ+μ− with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abreu, R, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adye, T, Agatonovic-Jovin, T, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahmadov, F, Aielli, G, Akerstedt, H, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Alimonti, G, Alio, L, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allison, LJ, Allport, PP, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Amelung, C, Amidei, D, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amoroso, S, Amram, N, Amundsen, G, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Angelidakis, S, Angelozzi, I, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, AV, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Araque, JP, Arce, ATH, Arguin, J-F, Argyropoulos, S, Arik, M, Armbruster, AJ, and Arnaez, O
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: A search is reported for Higgs boson decay to μ+μ− using data with an integrated luminosity of 24.8 fb−1collected with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s=7and8 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The observed dimuon invariant mass distribution is consistent with the Standard Model background-only hypothesis in the 120–150 GeV search range. For a Higgs boson with a mass of 125.5 GeV, the observed (expected) upper limit at the 95% confidence level is 7.0 (7.2) times the Standard Model expectation. This corresponds to an upper limit on the branching ratio BR(H→μ+μ−) of 1.5×10−3.
Published: 2014

7. Measurement of the Ξb− and Ωb− baryon lifetimes

Author: Collaboration, LHCb, Aaij, R, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Affolder, A, Ajaltouni, Z, Albrecht, J, Alessio, F, Alexander, M, Ali, S, Alkhazov, G, Cartelle, P Alvarez, Alves, AA, Amato, S, Amerio, S, Amhis, Y, An, L, Anderlini, L, Anderson, J, Andreassen, R, Andreotti, M, Andrews, JE, Appleby, RB, Gutierrez, O Aquines, Archilli, F, Artamonov, A, Artuso, M, Aslanides, E, Auriemma, G, Baalouch, M, Bachmann, S, Back, JJ, Badalov, A, Balagura, V, Baldini, W, Barlow, RJ, Barschel, C, Barsuk, S, Barter, W, Batozskaya, V, Bauer, Th, Bay, A, Beddow, J, Bedeschi, F, Bediaga, I, Belogurov, S, Belous, K, Belyaev, I, Ben-Haim, E, Bencivenni, G, Benson, S, Benton, J, Berezhnoy, A, Bernet, R, Bettler, M-O, van Beuzekom, M, Bien, A, Bifani, S, Bird, T, Bizzeti, A, Bjørnstad, PM, Blake, T, Blanc, F, Blouw, J, Blusk, S, Bocci, V, Bondar, A, Bondar, N, Bonivento, W, Borghi, S, Borgia, A, Borsato, M, Bowcock, TJV, Bowen, E, Bozzi, C, Brambach, T, van den Brand, J, Bressieux, J, Brett, D, Britsch, M, Britton, T, Brook, NH, Brown, H, Bursche, A, Busetto, G, Buytaert, J, Cadeddu, S, Calabrese, R, Calvi, M, Gomez, M Calvo, Camboni, A, Campana, P, Perez, D Campora, Carbone, A, Carboni, G, Cardinale, R, Cardini, A, Carranza-Mejia, H, Carson, L, and Akiba, K Carvalho
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: Using a data sample of pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb-1, the Ξb- and Ωb- baryons are reconstructed in the Ξb-→J/ψΞ- and Ωb-→J/ψΩ- decay modes and their lifetimes measured to beτ(Ξb-)=1.55-0.09+0.10(stat)±0.03(syst)ps,τ(Ωb-)=1.54-0.21+0.26(stat)±0.05(syst)ps. These are the most precise determinations to date. Both measurements are in good agreement with previous experimental results and with theoretical predictions. © 2014 The Authors.
Published: 2014

8. Search for new phenomena in photon+jet events collected in proton–proton collisions at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Agatonovic-Jovin, T, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alio, L, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allison, LJ, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amoroso, S, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Angelidakis, S, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, AV, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, and Argyropoulos, S
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: This Letter describes a model-independent search for the production of new resonances in photon + jet (γ + jet) events using 20 fb-1 of proton-proton LHC data recorded with the ATLAS detector at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 8 TeV. The γ + jet mass distribution is compared to a background model fit from data; no significant deviation from the background-only hypothesis is found. Limits are set at 95% credibility level on generic Gaussian-shaped signals and two benchmark phenomena beyond the Standard Model: non-thermal quantum black holes and excited quarks. Non-thermal quantum black holes are excluded below masses of 4.6 TeV and excited quarks are excluded below masses of 3.5 TeV. © 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Published: 2014

9. Measurement of the mass difference between top and anti-top quarks in pp collisions at s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Agatonovic-Jovin, T, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alio, L, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allison, LJ, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amoroso, S, Amram, N, Amundsen, G, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Angelidakis, S, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, AV, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, and Arfaoui, S
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: A measurement of the mass difference between top and anti-top quarks is presented. In a 4.7 fb−1 data sample of proton–proton collisions at s=7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, events consistent with tt¯ production and decay into a single charged lepton final state are reconstructed. For each event, the mass difference between the top and anti-top quark candidate is calculated. A two b-tag requirement is used in order to reduce the background contribution. A maximum likelihood fit to these per-event mass differences yields Δm≡mt−mt¯=0.67±0.61(stat)±0.41(syst) GeV, consistent with CPT invariance.
Published: 2014

10. Measurements of Higgs boson production and couplings in diboson final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Agatonovic-Jovin, T, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alio, L, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allison, LJ, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amoroso, S, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Angelidakis, S, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, AV, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, and Argyropoulos, S
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: Measurements are presented of production properties and couplings of the recently discovered Higgs boson using the decays into boson pairs, H→γγ, H→ZZ*→4ℓ and H→WW*→ℓνℓν. The results are based on the complete pp collision data sample recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider at centre-of-mass energies of s=7 TeV and s=8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 25 fb-1. Evidence for Higgs boson production through vector-boson fusion is reported. Results of combined fits probing Higgs boson couplings to fermions and bosons, as well as anomalous contributions to loop-induced production and decay modes, are presented. All measurements are consistent with expectations for the Standard Model Higgs boson. © 2013 CERN.
Published: 2013

11. Measurement of the high-mass Drell–Yan differential cross-section in pp collisions at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allison, LJ, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amoroso, S, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Angelidakis, S, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, and Argyropoulos, S
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, hep-ex, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: This Letter reports a measurement of the high-mass Drell–Yan differential cross-section in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV at the LHC. Based on an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb−1, the differential cross-section in the Z/γ⁎→e+e− channel is measured with the ATLAS detector as a function of the invariant mass, mee, in the range 116 25 GeV and pseudorapidity |η|
Published: 2013

12. Evidence for the spin-0 nature of the Higgs boson using ATLAS data

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alio, L, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allison, LJ, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amoroso, S, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Angelidakis, S, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, AV, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Argyropoulos, S, and Arik, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Higgs boson, Spin, Parity, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: Studies of the spin and parity quantum numbers of the Higgs boson are presented, based on proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The Standard Model spin-parity JP=0+ hypothesis is compared with alternative hypotheses using the Higgs boson decays H→γγ, H→ZZ*→4ℓ and H→WW*→ℓνℓν, as well as the combination of these channels. The analysed dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.7 fb-1 collected at a centre-of-mass energy of s=8TeV. For the H→ZZ*→4ℓ decay mode the dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb-1 collected at s=7TeV is included. The data are compatible with the Standard Model JP=0+ quantum numbers for the Higgs boson, whereas all alternative hypotheses studied in this Letter, namely some specific JP=0-, 1+, 1-, 2+ models, are excluded at confidence levels above 97.8%. This exclusion holds independently of the assumptions on the coupling strengths to the Standard Model particles and in the case of the JP=2+ model, of the relative fractions of gluon-fusion and quark-antiquark production of the spin-2 particle. The data thus provide evidence for the spin-0 nature of the Higgs boson, with positive parity being strongly preferred. © 2013 CERN.
Published: 2013

13. Measurement with the ATLAS detector of multi-particle azimuthal correlations in p+Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allison, LJ, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amoroso, S, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Angelidakis, S, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Argyropoulos, S, and Arik, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, hep-ex, nucl-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: In order to study further the long-range correlations ("ridge") observed recently in p + Pb collisions at √sNN= 5.02 TeV, the second-order azimuthal anisotropy parameter of charged particles, v2, has been measured with the cumulant method using the ATLAS detector at the LHC. In a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 1 μb-1, the parameter v2has been obtained using two- and four-particle cumulants over the pseudorapidity range |η|
Published: 2013

14. Search for a heavy narrow resonance decaying to eμ, eτ, or μτ with the ATLAS detector in s=7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allison, LJ, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amoroso, S, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angelidakis, S, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, and Argyropoulos, S
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: This Letter presents the results of a search for a heavy particle decaying into an e±μ∓, e±τ∓, or μ±τ∓ final state in pp collisions at s=7 TeV. The data were recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC during 2011 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb−1. No significant excess above the Standard Model expectation is observed, and exclusions at 95% confidence level are placed on the cross section times branching ratio for the production of an R-parity-violating supersymmetric tau sneutrino. For a sneutrino mass of 500 (2000) GeV, the observed limits on the production cross section times branching ratio are 3.2 (1.4) fb, 42 (17) fb, and 40 (18) fb for the eμ eτ and μτ modes, respectively. These results considerably extend constraints from Tevatron experiments.
Published: 2013

15. Search for displaced muonic lepton jets from light Higgs boson decay in proton–proton collisions at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, and Arik, E
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A search is performed for collimated muon pairs displaced from the primary vertex produced in the decay of long-lived neutral particles in proton–proton collisions at s=7 TeV centre-of-mass energy, with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. In a 1.9 fb−1event sample collected during 2011, the observed data are consistent with the Standard Model background expectations. Limits on the product of the production cross section and the branching ratio of a Higgs boson decaying to hidden-sector neutral long-lived particles are derived as a function of the particlesʼ mean lifetime.
Published: 2013

16. Search for single b⁎-quark production with the ATLAS detector at s=7 TeV

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Ochoa, MI, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allison, LJ, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amoroso, S, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angelidakis, S, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, and Arguin, J-F
Subjects: ATLAS, b*, Single top-quark, Excited quark, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: The results of a search for an excited bottom-quark b⁎ in pp collisions at s=7 TeV, using 4.7 fb−1 of data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. In the model studied, a single b⁎-quark is produced through a chromomagnetic interaction and subsequently decays to a W boson and a top quark. The search is performed in the dilepton and lepton + jets final states, which are combined to set limits on b⁎-quark couplings for a range of b⁎-quark masses. For a benchmark with unit size chromomagnetic and Standard Model-like electroweak b⁎ couplings, b⁎ quarks with masses less than 870 GeV are excluded at the 95% credibility level.
Published: 2013

17. Measurement of angular correlations in Drell–Yan lepton pairs to probe Z/γ⁎ boson transverse momentum at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allison, LJ, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amoroso, S, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angelidakis, S, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, and Argyropoulos, S
Subjects: Z boson, Differential cross section, Perturbative QCD, Event generators, Monte Carlo models, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A measurement of angular correlations in Drell–Yan lepton pairs via the ϕη⁎ observable is presented. This variable probes the same physics as the Z/γ⁎ boson transverse momentum with a better experimental resolution. The Z/γ⁎→e+e− and Z/γ⁎→μ+μ− decays produced in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrts=7 TeV are used. The data were collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb−1. Normalised differential cross sections as a function of ϕη⁎ are measured separately for electron and muon decay channels. These channels are then combined for improved accuracy. The cross section is also measured double differentially as a function of ϕη⁎ for three independent bins of the Z boson rapidity. The results are compared to QCD calculations and to predictions from different Monte Carlo event generators. The data are reasonably well described, in all measured Z boson rapidity regions, by resummed QCD predictions combined with fixed-order perturbative QCD calculations or by some Monte Carlo event generators. The measurement precision is typically better by one order of magnitude than present theoretical uncertainties.
Published: 2013

18. Search for light top squark pair production in final states with leptons and b-jets with the ATLAS detector in s=7 TeV proton–proton collisions

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, and Arik, E
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: The results of a search for pair production of light top squarks are presented, using 4.7 fb−1 of s=7 TeV proton–proton collisions collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. This search targets top squarks with masses similar to, or lighter than, the top quark mass. Final states containing exclusively one or two leptons (e,μ), large missing transverse momentum, light-flavour jets and b-jets are used to reconstruct the top squark pair system. Event-based mass scale variables are used to separate the signal from a large tt¯ background. No excess over the Standard Model expectations is found. The results are interpreted in the framework of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, assuming the top squark decays exclusively to a chargino and a b-quark, while requiring different mass relationships between the Supersymmetric particles in the decay chain. Light top squarks with masses between 123–167 GeV are excluded for neutralino masses around 55 GeV.
Published: 2013

19. Searches for heavy long-lived sleptons and R-hadrons with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s=7 TeV

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, and Arik, E
Subjects: Long-lived, GMSB, Slepton, R-hadron, ATLAS, LHC, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A search for long-lived particles is performed using a data sample of 4.7 fb−1 from proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy s=7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. No excess is observed above the estimated background and lower limits, at 95% confidence level, are set on the mass of the long-lived particles in different scenarios, based on their possible interactions in the inner detector, the calorimeters and the muon spectrometer. Long-lived staus in gauge-mediated SUSY-breaking models are excluded up to a mass of 300 GeV for tanβ=5–20. Directly produced long-lived sleptons are excluded up to a mass of 278 GeV. R-hadrons, composites of gluino (stop, sbottom) and light quarks, are excluded up to a mass of 985 GeV (683 GeV, 612 GeV) when using a generic interaction model. Additionally two sets of limits on R-hadrons are obtained that are less sensitive to the interaction model for R-hadrons. One set of limits is obtained using only the inner detector and calorimeter observables, and a second set of limits is obtained based on the inner detector alone.
Published: 2013

20. A search for high-mass resonances decaying to τ+τ− in pp collisions at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angelidakis, S, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, and Argyropoulos, S
Subjects: Exotics, Z ', Ditau, Resonance, Search, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: This Letter presents a search for high-mass resonances decaying into τ+τ− final states using proton-proton collisions at s=7 TeV produced by the Large Hadron Collider. The data were recorded with the ATLAS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb−1. No statistically significant excess above the Standard Model expectation is observed; 95% credibility upper limits are set on the cross section times branching fraction of Z′ resonances decaying into τ+τ− pairs as a function of the resonance mass. As a result, Z′ bosons of the Sequential Standard Model with masses less than 1.40 TeV are excluded at 95% credibility.
Published: 2013

21. Search for long-lived, heavy particles in final states with a muon and multi-track displaced vertex in proton–proton collisions at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angelidakis, S, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, and Arguin, J-F
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: Many extensions of the Standard Model posit the existence of heavy particles with long lifetimes. In this Letter, results are presented of a search for events containing one or more such particles, which decay at a significant distance from their production point, using a final state containing charged hadrons and an associated muon. This analysis uses a data sample of proton-proton collisions at s=7TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.4 fb−1 collected in 2011 by the ATLAS detector operating at the Large Hadron Collider. Results are interpreted in the context of R-parity violating supersymmetric scenarios. No events in the signal region are observed and limits are set on the production cross section for pair production of supersymmetric particles, multiplied by the square of the branching fraction for a neutralino to decay to charged hadrons and a muon, based on the scenario where both of the produced supersymmetric particles give rise to neutralinos that decay in this way. However, since the search strategy is based on triggering on and reconstructing the decay products of individual long-lived particles, irrespective of the rest of the event, these limits can easily be reinterpreted in scenarios with different numbers of long-lived particles per event. The limits are presented as a function of neutralino lifetime, and for a range of squark and neutralino masses.
Published: 2013

22. Search for supersymmetry in events with photons, bottom quarks, and missing transverse momentum in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angelidakis, S, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Argyropoulos, S, and Arik, E
Subjects: Supersymmetry, Gauge mediation, Higgs boson, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A search has been performed for the experimental signature of an isolated photon with high transverse momentum, at least one jet identified as originating from a bottom quark, and high missing transverse momentum. Such a final state may originate from supersymmetric models with gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking in events in which one of a pair of higgsino-like neutralinos decays into a photon and a gravitino while the other decays into a Higgs boson and a gravitino. The search is performed using the full dataset of 7 TeV proton–proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2011, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb−1. A total of 7 candidate events are observed while 7.5±2.2 events are expected from the Standard Model background. The results of the search are interpreted in the context of general gauge mediation to exclude certain regions of a benchmark plane for higgsino-like neutralino production.
Published: 2013

23. Measurement of the jet radius and transverse momentum dependence of inclusive jet suppression in lead–lead collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, Arik, M, Armbruster, AJ, Arnaez, O, Arnal, V, Arnault, C, and Artamonov, A
Subjects: LHC, ATLAS, Heavy ion, Jets, hep-ex, nucl-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: Measurements of inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions at the LHC provide direct sensitivity to the physics of jet quenching. In a sample of lead–lead collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 7 μb−1, ATLAS has measured jets with a calorimeter system over the pseudorapidity interval |η|
Published: 2013

24. Search for direct production of charginos and neutralinos in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in s=7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, and Arik, M
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A search for the direct production of charginos and neutralinos in final states with three electrons or muons and missing transverse momentum is presented. The analysis is based on 4.7 fb−1 of s=7 TeV proton–proton collision data delivered by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded with the ATLAS detector. Observations are consistent with Standard Model expectations in three signal regions that are either depleted or enriched in Z-boson decays. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set in R-parity conserving phenomenological minimal supersymmetric models and in simplified models, significantly extending previous results.
Published: 2013

25. Search for direct slepton and gaugino production in final states with two leptons and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s=7 TeV

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, and Arik, E
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A search for the electroweak pair production of charged sleptons and weak gauginos decaying into final states with two leptons is performed using 4.7 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data at s=7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. No significant excesses are observed with respect to the prediction from Standard Model processes. In the scenario of direct slepton production, if the sleptons decay directly into the lightest neutralino, left-handed slepton masses between 85 and 195 GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level for a 20 GeV neutralino. Chargino masses between 110 and 340 GeV are excluded in the scenario of direct production of wino-like chargino pairs decaying into the lightest neutralino via an intermediate on-shell charged slepton for a 10 GeV neutralino. The results are also interpreted in the framework of the phenomenological minimal supersymmetric Standard Model. © 2012 CERN.
Published: 2013

26. Search for pair production of heavy top-like quarks decaying to a high-pT W boson and a b quark in the lepton plus jets final state at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angelidakis, S, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, and Argyropoulos, S
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A search is presented for production of a heavy up-type quark (t′) together with its antiparticle, assuming a significant branching ratio for subsequent decay into a W boson and a b quark. The search is based on 4.7 fb−1 of pp collisions at s=7 TeV recorded in 2011 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Data are analyzed in the lepton + jets final state, characterized by a high-transverse-momentum isolated electron or muon, large missing transverse momentum and at least three jets. The analysis strategy relies on the substantial boost of the W bosons in the t′t¯′ signal when mt′≳400 GeV. No significant excess of events above the Standard Model expectation is observed and the result of the search is interpreted in the context of fourth-generation and vector-like quark models. Under the assumption of a branching ratio BR(t′→Wb)=1, a fourth-generation t′ quark with mass lower than 656 GeV is excluded at 95% confidence level. In addition, in light of the recent discovery of a new boson of mass ∼126 GeV at the LHC, upper limits are derived in the two-dimensional plane of BR(t′→Wb) versus BR(t′→Ht), where H is the Standard Model Higgs boson, for vector-like quarks of various masses.
Published: 2013

27. Search for new phenomena in the WW→lνl′ν′ final state in pp collisions at s=7TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, Arik, M, and Armbruster, AJ
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: This Letter reports a search for a heavy particle that decays to WW using events produced in pp collisions at s=7TeV. The data were recorded in 2011 by the ATLAS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb-1. WW→ℓνℓ'ν' (ℓ, ℓ'=e or μ) final states are considered and the distribution of the transverse mass of the WW candidates is found to be consistent with Standard Model expectations. Upper limits on the production cross section times branching ratio into W boson pairs are set for Randall-Sundrum and bulk Randall-Sundrum gravitons, which result in observed 95% CL lower limits on the masses of the two particles of 1.23 TeV and 0.84 TeV, respectively. © 2012 CERN.
Published: 2013

28. Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying to a b-quark pair with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, Arik, M, Armbruster, AJ, Arnaez, O, Arnal, V, and Arnault, C
Subjects: Standard Model Higgs boson, ATLAS, LHC, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: This Letter presents the results of a direct search with the ATLAS detector at the LHC for a Standard Model Higgs boson of mass 110⩽mH⩽130 GeV produced in association with a W or Z boson and decaying to bb¯. Three decay channels are considered: ZH→ℓ+ℓ−bb¯ WH→ℓνbb¯ and ZH→νν¯bb¯ where ℓ corresponds to an electron or a muon. No evidence for Higgs boson production is observed in a dataset of 7 TeV pp collisions corresponding to 4.7 fb−1 of integrated luminosity collected by ATLAS in 2011. Exclusion limits on Higgs boson production, at the 95% confidence level, of 2.5 to 5.5 times the Standard Model cross section are obtained in the mass range 110–130 GeV. The expected exclusion limits range between 2.5 and 4.9 for the same mass interval.
Published: 2012

29. Search for the Higgs boson in the H→WW→ℓνjj decay channel at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, Arik, M, and Armbruster, AJ
Subjects: ATLAS, LHC, Higgs, WW, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson has been performed in the H→WW→ℓνjj channel using 4.7 fb−1 of pp collision data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Higgs boson candidates produced in association with zero, one or two jets are included in the analysis to maximize the acceptance for both gluon fusion and weak boson fusion Higgs boson production processes. No significant excess of events is observed over the expected background and limits on the Higgs boson production cross section are derived for a Higgs boson mass in the range 300 GeV
Published: 2012

30. Search for diphoton events with large missing transverse momentum in 7 TeV proton–proton collision data with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, and Arik, E
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A search for diphoton events with large missing transverse momentum has been performed using proton-proton collision data at s=7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb-1. No excess of events was observed above the Standard Model prediction and model-dependent 95% confidence level exclusion limits are set. In the context of a generalised model of gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking with a bino-like lightest neutralino of mass above 50 GeV, gluinos (squarks) below 1.07 TeV (0.87 TeV) are excluded, while a breaking scale Λ below 196 TeV is excluded for a minimal model of gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking. For a specific model with one universal extra dimension, compactification scales 1/R
Published: 2012

31. Measurement of the t-channel single top-quark production cross section in pp collisions at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdesselam, A, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Aderholz, M, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Akiyama, A, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Aliyev, M, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amaral, P, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amorós, G, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, and Arik, M
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: We report a measurement of the cross section of single top-quark production in the t-channel using 1.04 fb−1 of pp collision data at s=7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Selected events feature one electron or muon, missing transverse momentum, and two or three jets, exactly one of them identified as originating from a b quark. The cross section is measured by fitting the distribution of a multivariate discriminant constructed with a neural network, yielding σt=83±4(stat.)−19+20(syst.) pb, which is in good agreement with the prediction of the Standard Model. Using the ratio of the measured to the theoretically predicted cross section and assuming that the top-quark-related CKM matrix elements obey the relation |Vtb|≫|Vts|,|Vtd|, the coupling strength at the W-t-b vertex is determined to be |Vtb|=1.13−0.13+0.14. If it is assumed that |Vtb|⩽1 a lower limit of |Vtb|>0.75 is obtained at the 95% confidence level.
Published: 2012

32. Search for a standard model Higgs boson in the H→ZZ→ℓ+ℓ−νν¯ decay channel using 4.7 fb−1 of s=7 TeV data with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Akiyama, A, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, Arik, M, Armbruster, AJ, Arnaez, O, Arnal, V, Arnault, C, Artamonov, A, and Artoni, G
Subjects: Standard Model Higgs Boson, ATLAS, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A search for a Standard Model Higgs boson decaying via H→ZZ→ℓ+ℓ−νν¯ where ℓ represents electrons or muons, is presented. It is based on proton-proton collision data at s=7 TeV, collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC during 2011 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb−1. The data agree with the expected Standard Model backgrounds. Upper limits on the Higgs boson production cross section are derived for Higgs boson masses between 200 GeV and 600 GeV and the production of a Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass in the range 319–558 GeV is excluded at the 95% confidence level.
Published: 2012

33. Search for a Standard Model Higgs boson in the mass range 200–600 GeV in the H→ZZ→ℓ+ℓ−qq¯ decay channel with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, Arik, M, Armbruster, AJ, Arnaez, O, Arnal, V, Arnault, C, and Artamonov, A
Subjects: Standard Model Higgs boson, ATLAS, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A search for a heavy Standard Model Higgs boson decaying via H→ZZ→ℓ+ℓ−qq¯, where ℓ=e or μ, is presented. The search uses a data set of pp collisions at s=7 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb−1 collected in 2011 by the ATLAS detector at the CERN LHC. No significant excess of events above the estimated background is found. Upper limits at 95% confidence level on the production cross section of a Higgs boson with a mass in the range between 200 and 600 GeV are derived. A Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass in the range 300 GeV⩽mH⩽322 GeV or 353 GeV⩽mH⩽410 GeV is excluded at 95% CL. The corresponding expected exclusion range is 351 GeV⩽mH⩽404 GeV at 95% CL.
Published: 2012

34. Measurement of Wγ and Zγ production cross sections in pp collisions at s=7 TeV and limits on anomalous triple gauge couplings with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Akiyama, A, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, Arik, M, Armbruster, AJ, Arnaez, O, Arnal, V, Arnault, C, Artamonov, A, and Artoni, G
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: This Letter presents measurements of l±νγ and l+l−γ (l=e,μ) production in 1.02 fb−1 of pp collision data recorded at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in the first half of 2011. Events dominated by Wγ and Zγ production with leptonic decays of the W and Z bosons are selected, and their production cross sections and kinematic properties are measured in several ranges of the photon transverse energy. The results are compared to Standard Model predictions and are used to determine limits on anomalous WWγ and ZZγ/Zγγ couplings.
Published: 2012

35. Measurement of the top quark pair cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at s=7 TeV using final states with an electron or a muon and a hadronically decaying τ lepton

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Akiyama, A, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amorós, G, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, Arik, M, Armbruster, AJ, Arnaez, O, Arnal, V, and Arnault, C
Subjects: Top quark physics, Cross section, Lepton plus tau, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A measurement of the cross section of top quark pair production in proton–proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is reported. The data sample used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.05 fb−1. Events with an isolated electron or muon and a τ lepton decaying hadronically are used. In addition, a large missing transverse momentum and two or more energetic jets are required. At least one of the jets must be identified as originating from a b quark. The measured cross section, σtt¯=186±13(stat)±20(syst.)±7(lumi.) pb, is in good agreement with the Standard Model prediction.
Published: 2012

36. Search for TeV-scale gravity signatures in final states with leptons and jets with the ATLAS detector at s=7 TeV

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdelalim, AA, Abdesselam, A, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Aderholz, M, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Akiyama, A, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Aliyev, M, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amaral, P, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amorós, G, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, Arik, M, and Armbruster, AJ
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: The production of events with multiple high transverse momentum particles including charged leptons and jets is measured, using 1.04 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector during the first half of 2011 at √s=7 TeV. No excess beyond Standard Model expectations is observed, and upper limits on the fiducial cross sections for non-Standard Model production of these final states are set. Using models for string ball and black hole production and decay, exclusion contours are determined as a function of mass threshold and the fundamental gravity scale. © 2012 CERN.
Published: 2012

37. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Altheimer, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angelidakis, S, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, and Arguin, J-F
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. The datasets used correspond to integrated luminosities of approximately 4.8 fb -1 collected at s=7 TeV in 2011 and 5.8 fb -1 at s=8 TeV in 2012. Individual searches in the channels H→ZZ (*) →4ℓ, H→γγ and H→WW (*) →eνμν in the 8 TeV data are combined with previously published results of searches for H→ZZ (*) , WW (*) , bb- and τ + τ - in the 7 TeV data and results from improved analyses of the H→ZZ (*) →4ℓ and H→γγ channels in the 7 TeV data. Clear evidence for the production of a neutral boson with a measured mass of 126.0±0.4(stat)±0.4(sys)GeV is presented. This observation, which has a significance of 5.9 standard deviations, corresponding to a background fluctuation probability of 1.7×10 -9 , is compatible with the production and decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson. © 2012 CERN.
Published: 2012

38. Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the H→WW(⋆)→ℓνℓν decay mode with 4.7 fb−1 of ATLAS data at s=7 TeV

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Agustoni, M, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Anger, P, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, Arik, M, Armbruster, AJ, Arnaez, O, Arnal, V, Arnault, C, and Artamonov, A
Subjects: ATLAS, LHC, Higgs, WW, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the H→WW(⋆)→ℓνℓν (ℓ=e,μ) decay mode is presented. The search is performed using proton–proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb−1 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV collected during 2011 with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. No significant excess of events over the expected background is observed. An upper bound is placed on the Higgs boson production cross section as a function of its mass. A Standard Model Higgs boson with mass in the range between 133 GeV and 261 GeV is excluded at 95% confidence level, while the expected exclusion range is from 127 GeV to 233 GeV.
Published: 2012

39. Evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark in ATLAS at s=7TeV

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Akiyama, A, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, Arik, M, Armbruster, AJ, Arnaez, O, Arnal, V, Arnault, C, Artamonov, A, and Artoni, G
Subjects: ATLAS, Top quark, W plus t, Single top-quark, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: This Letter presents evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark using 2.05 fb−1 of pp collision data at s=7TeV accumulated with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The analysis is based on the selection of the dileptonic final states with events featuring two isolated leptons, electron or muon, with significant transverse missing momentum and at least one jet. An approach based on boosted decision trees has been developed to improve the discrimination of single top-quark Wt events from background. A template fit to the final classifier distributions is performed to determine the cross-section. The result is incompatible with the background-only hypothesis at the 3.3σ level, the expected sensitivity assuming the Standard Model production rate being 3.4σ. The corresponding cross-section is determined and found to be σWt=16.8±2.9 (stat)±4.9 (syst) pb, in good agreement with the Standard Model expectation. From this result the CKM matrix element |Vtb|=1.03−0.19+0.16 is derived assuming that the Wt production through |Vts| and |Vtd| is small.
Published: 2012

40. Search for supersymmetry with jets, missing transverse momentum and at least one hadronically decaying τ lepton in proton–proton collisions at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdesselam, A, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Aderholz, M, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Akiyama, A, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Aliyev, M, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amaral, P, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amorós, G, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, and Arik, M
Subjects: Supersymmetry, GMSB, Tau lepton, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A search for production of supersymmetric particles in final states containing jets, missing transverse momentum, and at least one hadronically decaying τ lepton is presented. The data were recorded by the ATLAS experiment in s=7TeV proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. No excess above the Standard Model background expectation was observed in 2.05fb-1 of data. The results are interpreted in the context of gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking models with Mmess=250TeV, N5=3, μ>0, and Cgrav=1. The production of supersymmetric particles is excluded at 95% C.L. up to a supersymmetry breaking scale Λ=30TeV, independent of tanβ, and up to Λ=43TeV for large tanβ. © 2012.
Published: 2012

41. Search for scalar top quark pair production in natural gauge mediated supersymmetry models with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s=7 TeV

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Akiyama, A, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amorós, G, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, Arik, M, Armbruster, AJ, Arnaez, O, Arnal, V, Arnault, C, and Artamonov, A
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: The results of a search for pair production of the lighter scalar partners of top quarks (t~1) in 2.05 fb -1 of pp collisions at s=7 TeV using the ATLAS experiment at the LHC are reported. Scalar top quarks are searched for in events with two same flavour opposite-sign leptons (e, μ) with invariant mass consistent with the Z boson mass, large missing transverse momentum and jets in the final state. At least one of the jets is identified as originating from a b-quark. No excess over Standard Model expectations is found. The results are interpreted in the framework of R-parity conserving, gauge mediated Supersymmetry breaking 'natural' scenarios, where the neutralino (χ~10) is the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle. Scalar top quark masses up to 310 GeV are excluded for 115GeVmZ. © 2012 CERN.
Published: 2012

42. Search for events with large missing transverse momentum, jets, and at least two tau leptons in 7 TeV proton–proton collision data with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdesselam, A, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Aderholz, M, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Akiyama, A, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Aliyev, M, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amaral, P, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amorós, G, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, and Arik, M
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A search for events with large missing transverse momentum, jets, and at least two tau leptons has been performed using 2 fb -1 of proton-proton collision data at s=7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. No excess above the Standard Model background expectation is observed and a 95% CL upper limit on the visible cross section for new phenomena is set, where the visible cross section is defined by the product of cross section, branching fraction, detector acceptance and event selection efficiency. A 95% CL lower limit of 32 TeV is set on the gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking (GMSB) scale Λ independent of tanβ. These limits provide the most stringent tests to date in a large part of the considered parameter space. © 2012.
Published: 2012

43. Measurement of the Bs0→J/ψKS0 branching fraction

Author: Collaboration, LHCb, Aaij, R, Beteta, C Abellan, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Adrover, C, Affolder, A, Ajaltouni, Z, Albrecht, J, Alessio, F, Alexander, M, Ali, S, Alkhazov, G, Cartelle, P Alvarez, Alves, AA, Amato, S, Amhis, Y, Anderson, J, Appleby, RB, Gutierrez, O Aquines, Archilli, F, Arrabito, L, Artamonov, A, Artuso, M, Aslanides, E, Auriemma, G, Bachmann, S, Back, JJ, Balagura, V, Baldini, W, Barlow, RJ, Barschel, C, Barsuk, S, Barter, W, Bates, A, Bauer, C, Bauer, Th, Bay, A, Bediaga, I, Belogurov, S, Belous, K, Belyaev, I, Ben-Haim, E, Benayoun, M, Bencivenni, G, Benson, S, Benton, J, Bernet, R, Bettler, M-O, van Beuzekom, M, Bien, A, Bifani, S, Bird, T, Bizzeti, A, Bjørnstad, PM, Blake, T, Blanc, F, Blanks, C, Blouw, J, Blusk, S, Bobrov, A, Bocci, V, Bondar, A, Bondar, N, Bonivento, W, Borghi, S, Borgia, A, Bowcock, TJV, Bozzi, C, Brambach, T, van den Brand, J, Bressieux, J, Brett, D, Britsch, M, Britton, T, Brook, NH, Brown, H, Büchler-Germann, A, Burducea, I, Bursche, A, Buytaert, J, Cadeddu, S, Callot, O, Calvi, M, Gomez, M Calvo, Camboni, A, Campana, P, Carbone, A, Carboni, G, Cardinale, R, Cardini, A, Carson, L, Akiba, K Carvalho, Casse, G, Cattaneo, M, Cauet, Ch, Charles, M, Charpentier, Ph, Chiapolini, N, and Ciba, K
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: The B s0→J/ψK S0 branching fraction is measured in a data sample corresponding to 0.41fb -1 of integrated luminosity collected with the LHCb detector at the LHC. This channel is sensitive to the penguin contributions affecting the sin2β measurement from B 0→J/ψK S0. The time-integrated branching fraction is measured to be B(B S0→J/ψK S0)=(1.83±0.28)×10 -5. This is the most precise measurement to date. © 2012 CERN.
Published: 2012

44. Search for the decay Bs0→μ+μ− with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Akiyama, A, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anduaga, XS, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, Arik, M, Armbruster, AJ, Arnaez, O, Arnal, V, Arnault, C, Artamonov, A, and Artoni, G
Subjects: B meson, Rare decays, FCNC, ATLAS, LHC, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A blind analysis searching for the decay Bs 0→μ+μ- has been performed using proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. With an integrated luminosity of 2.4 fb-1 no excess of events over the background expectation is found and an upper limit is set on the branching fraction BR(Bs 0→μ+μ-)
Published: 2012

45. Measurement of the WW cross section in s=7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector and limits on anomalous gauge couplings

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdesselam, A, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Aderholz, M, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Akiyama, A, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Aliyev, M, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amaral, P, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amorós, G, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, and Arik, M
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: This Letter reports a measurement of the WW production cross section in √s=7 TeV pp collisions using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.02 fb -1 collected with the ATLAS detector. Using leptonic decays of oppositely charged W bosons, the total measured cross section is σ(pp→WW)=54.4±4.0(stat.)±3.9(syst.)±2.0(lumi.) pb, consistent with the Standard Model prediction of σ(pp→WW)=44.4±2.8 pb. Limits on anomalous electroweak triple-gauge couplings are extracted from a fit to the transverse-momentum distribution of the leading charged lepton in the event. © 2012 CERN.
Published: 2012

46. Search for FCNC single top-quark production at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdelalim, AA, Abdesselam, A, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Aderholz, M, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Akiyama, A, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Aliyev, M, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amaral, P, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amorós, G, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, Arik, M, and Armbruster, AJ
Subjects: Top physics, Heavy-quark production, FCNC, Single top quark, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A search for the production of single top-quarks via flavour-changing neutral-currents is presented. Data collected with the ATLAS detector at a centre-of-mass energy of s=7 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.05 fb−1, are used. Candidate events with a semileptonic top-quark decay signature are classified as signal- or background-like events by using several kinematic variables as input to a neural network. No signal is observed in the neural network output distribution and a Bayesian upper limit is placed on the production cross-section. The observed upper limit at 95% confidence level on the cross-section multiplied by the t→Wb branching fraction is measured to be σqg→t×B(t→Wb)
Published: 2012

47. Search for new particles decaying to ZZ using final states with leptons and jets with the ATLAS detector in s=7 TeV proton–proton collisions

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdelalim, AA, Abdesselam, A, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Aderholz, M, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Akiyama, A, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Aliyev, M, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amaral, P, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amorós, G, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, Arik, M, and Armbruster, AJ
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A search is presented for a narrow resonance decaying to a pair of Z bosons using data corresponding to 1.02fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected by the ATLAS experiment from pp collisions at √s=7TeV. Events containing either four charged leptons (ℓℓℓℓ) or two charged leptons and two jets (ℓℓjj) are analyzed and found to be consistent with the Standard Model background expectation. Lower limits on a resonance mass are set using the Randall-Sundrum (RS1) graviton model as a benchmark. Using both ℓℓℓℓ and ℓℓjj events, an RS1 graviton with k/m-pl=0.1 and mass between 325 and 845 GeV is excluded at 95% confidence level. In addition, the ℓℓℓℓ events are used to set a model-independent fiducial cross section limit of σfid(pp→X→ZZ)
Published: 2012

48. Erratum to: “Search for first generation scalar leptoquarks in pp collisions at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector” [Phys. Lett. B 709 (2012) 158]

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdesselam, A, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Aderholz, M, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Akiyama, A, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Aliyev, M, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amaral, P, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amorós, G, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Archambault, JP, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, and Arik, E
Subjects: Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Published: 2012

49. Search for heavy vector-like quarks coupling to light quarks in proton–proton collisions at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, S Abdel, Abdelalim, AA, Abdesselam, A, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Aderholz, M, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Akiyama, A, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Aliyev, M, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amaral, P, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amorós, G, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anisenkov, A, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Archambault, JP, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, and Arik, E
Subjects: hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: This Letter presents a search for singly produced vector-like quarks, Q, coupling to light quarks, q. The search is sensitive to both charged current (CC) and neutral current (NC) processes, pp?Qq?Wqq ' and pp?Qq?Zqq ' with a leptonic decay of the vector gauge boson. In 1.04fb -1 of data taken in 2011 by the ATLAS experiment at a center-of-mass energy vs=7 TeV, no evidence of such heavy vector-like quarks is observed above the expected Standard Model background. Limits on the heavy vector-like quark production cross section times branching ratio as a function of mass m Q are obtained. For a coupling ?qQ=v/mQ, where v is the Higgs vacuum expectation value, 95% C.L. lower limits on the mass of a vector-like quark are set at 900 GeV and 760 GeV from CC and NC processes, respectively. © 2012 CERN.
Published: 2012

50. Measurement of the top quark pair production cross-section with ATLAS in the single lepton channel

Author: Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdelalim, AA, Abdesselam, A, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, BS, Adams, DL, Addy, TN, Adelman, J, Aderholz, M, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, SP, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A, Ahsan, M, Aielli, G, Akdogan, T, Åkesson, TPA, Akimoto, G, Akimov, AV, Akiyama, A, Alam, MS, Alam, MA, Albert, J, Albrand, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alessandria, F, Alexa, C, Alexander, G, Alexandre, G, Alexopoulos, T, Alhroob, M, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Aliyev, M, Allport, PP, Allwood-Spiers, SE, Almond, J, Aloisio, A, Alon, R, Alonso, A, Gonzalez, B Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Amako, K, Amaral, P, Amelung, C, Ammosov, VV, Amorim, A, Amorós, G, Amram, N, Anastopoulos, C, Ancu, LS, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, G, Anderson, KJ, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Andrieux, M-L, Anduaga, XS, Angerami, A, Anghinolfi, F, Anjos, N, Annovi, A, Antonaki, A, Antonelli, M, Antonov, A, Antos, J, Anulli, F, Aoun, S, Bella, L Aperio, Apolle, R, Arabidze, G, Aracena, I, Arai, Y, Arce, ATH, Archambault, JP, Arfaoui, S, Arguin, J-F, Arik, E, Arik, M, Armbruster, AJ, Arnaez, O, Arnault, C, and Artamonov, A
Subjects: High-energy collider experiment, Cross-section, Top physics, hep-ex, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: A measurement of the production cross-section for top quark pairs (tt-) in pp collisions at s=7TeV is presented using data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events are selected in the single lepton topology by requiring an electron or muon, large missing transverse momentum and at least three jets. With a data sample of 35 pb -1 , two different multivariate methods, one of which uses b-quark jet identification while the other does not, use kinematic variables to obtain cross-section measurements of σtt-=187±11(stat.)-17+18(syst.)±6(lumi.)pb and σtt-=173±17(stat.)-16+18(syst.)±6(lumi.)pb respectively. The two measurements are in agreement with each other and with QCD calculations. The first measurement has a better a priori sensitivity and constitutes the main result of this Letter. © 2012 CERN.
Published: 2012

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