Accelerator Neutrinos

Abstract:

A combination of measurements sensitive to anomalous quartic electroweak gauge boson couplings is presented using proton–proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at s = 13 TeV at the LHC. Contributing analyses include measurements of vector-boson scattering in numerous final states as well as a tri-boson measurement. The combined measurement is used to constrain anomalous electroweak boson quartic self-couplings that result from dimension-8 operators in the Éboli model using an effective field theory. Results are presented as 68% and 95% confidence level intervals parameterised by one or two Wilson coefficients, both with and without unitarity constraints applied. Theoretical bounds from unitarity and positivity are overlaid where relevant. Confidence intervals obtained from simultaneous profiled fits to all Wilson coefficients are also presented.

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We present the measurement of ${\pi }^{+}$ -argon inelastic cross sections using the ProtoDUNE single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber in the incident ${\pi }^{+}$ kinetic energy range of 500–800 MeV in multiple exclusive channels (absorption, charge exchange, and the remaining inelastic interactions). The results of this analysis are important inputs to simulations of liquid argon neutrino experiments such as the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and the Short Baseline Neutrino program at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. They will be employed to improve the modeling of final state interactions within neutrino event generators used by these experiments, as well as the modeling of ${\pi }^{+}$ -argon secondary interactions within the liquid argon. This is the first measurement of ${\pi }^{+}$ -argon absorption at this kinetic energy range as well as the first ever measurement of ${\pi }^{+}$ -argon charge exchange.

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A search for resonant structures in the $J/\psi +\psi (2\mathrm{S})$ mass spectrum is performed using proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}=13\mathrm{TeV}$ , corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $140{\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$ , recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The decay channels of $J/\psi +\psi (2\mathrm{S})\to 4\mu$ and $J/\psi +\psi (2\mathrm{S})\to 4\mu +2\pi$ are analyzed. An excess near 6.9 GeV is observed in both channels with a combined significance of $8.9\sigma$ . No significant signal is observed near 7.2 GeV, and an upper limit on its yield relative to $X(6900)$ is provided. A simultaneous fit with the di- $J/\psi$ channel is carried out under assumptions regarding the resonance interferences, yielding a ratio of the partial decay widths between the $J/\psi +\psi (2\mathrm{S})$ and di- $J/\psi$ channels of $1.08\pm 0.20_{-0.17}^{+0.40}$ for the resonance near 6.9 GeV.

Abstract:

The production of single top quarks and top antiquarks via the t-channel exchange of a virtual W boson is measured in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The full Run 2 data sample recorded with the ATLAS detector in the years 2015–2018 is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1. The absolute and normalised production cross-sections are measured differentially as a function of the transverse momentum and absolute rapidity of the top quark and top antiquark. In addition, the ratio of top quark to top antiquark production cross-sections is measured. The measured distributions are compared with next-to-leading-order quantum chromodynamics predictions obtained with different combinations of matrix-element generators, parton-shower programs and proton parton distribution functions, as well as to next-to-next-to-leading-order calculations. Overall, good agreement is observed between the measurements and the theoretical predictions. For most measured distributions, the sensitivity to differences between the predictions is limited by the systematic uncertainties in the measurement. The measured differential distributions are also interpreted in an effective field theory approach to constrain the Wilson-Coefficient CQq3, 1 associated with a four-quark operator. The interpretation accounts for the effect of the selection efficiency, which is altered significantly by non-zero contributions from CQq3, 1.

Abstract:

A measurement of the associated production of a top-quark pair with the Higgs boson (tt¯H) in multilepton final states is presented. The analysis is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1. Six final states defined by the number and flavour of reconstructed charged leptons are combined in a simultaneous likelihood fit to extract the tt¯H signal and constrain the most relevant backgrounds. The measured tt¯H cross-section normalised to Standard Model (SM) prediction is σtt¯H/σSM=0.63−0.19+0.20. This result corresponds to an observed (expected) significance of 3.3σ (5.3σ). Additionally, two other fits are used to measure the tt¯H cross-section differentially in bins of the Higgs boson transverse momentum in the simplified template cross-section framework, and to extract the associated production cross-section of a single top-quark with the Higgs boson (tH) together with the tt¯H one. The CP structure of the top quark-Higgs boson Yukawa coupling is probed through an analysis of tt¯H and tH events. The results are compatible with the SM hypothesis, and values of the mixing angle between CP-even and CP-odd top-Higgs Yukawa couplings of |α| > 62° are excluded at 68% confidence level.