Search for dark matter in events with a hadronically decaying W or Z boson and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √s=8  TeV with the ATLAS detector.

Phys Rev Lett 112:4 (2014) 041802

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G Aad, T Abajyan, B Abbott, J Abdallah, S Abdel Khalek, O Abdinov, R Aben, B Abi, M Abolins, OS AbouZeid, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, DL Adams, TN Addy, J Adelman, S Adomeit, T Adye, S Aefsky, T Agatonovic-Jovin, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, M Agustoni, SP Ahlen, A Ahmad, F Ahmadov, M Ahsan, G Aielli, TPA Åkesson, G Akimoto, AV Akimov, MA Alam, J Albert, S Albrand, MJ Alconada Verzini, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, F Alessandria, C Alexa, G Alexander, G Alexandre, T Alexopoulos, M Alhroob, M Aliev, G Alimonti, L Alio, J Alison, BMM Allbrooke, LJ Allison, PP Allport, SE Allwood-Spiers, J Almond, A Aloisio, R Alon, A Alonso, F Alonso, A Altheimer, B Alvarez Gonzalez, MG Alviggi, K Amako, Y Amaral Coutinho, C Amelung, VV Ammosov, SP Amor Dos Santos, A Amorim, S Amoroso, N Amram, G Amundsen, C Anastopoulos, LS Ancu, N Andari, T Andeen, CF Anders, G Anders, KJ Anderson, A Andreazza, V Andrei, XS Anduaga, S Angelidakis, P Anger, A Angerami, F Anghinolfi, AV Anisenkov, N Anjos, A Annovi, A Antonaki, M Antonelli, A Antonov, J Antos, F Anulli, M Aoki, L Aperio Bella, R Apolle, G Arabidze, I Aracena, Y Arai, ATH Arce, S Arfaoui, J-F Arguin, S Argyropoulos, E Arik, M Arik, AJ Armbruster, O Arnaez, V Arnal, O Arslan, A Artamonov, G Artoni, S Asai, N Asbah, S Ask, B Åsman, L Asquith, K Assamagan, R Astalos, A Astbury, M Atkinson, NB Atlay, B Auerbach, E Auge, K Augsten, M Aurousseau, G Avolio, G Azuelos, Y Azuma, MA Baak, C Bacci, AM Bach, H Bachacou, K Bachas, M Backes, M Backhaus, J Backus Mayes, E Badescu, P Bagiacchi, P Bagnaia, Y Bai, DC Bailey, T Bain, JT Baines, OK Baker, S Baker, P Balek, F Balli, E Banas, S Banerjee, D Banfi, A Bangert, V Bansal, HS Bansil, L Barak, SP Baranov, T Barber, EL Barberio, D Barberis, M Barbero, DY Bardin, T Barillari, M Barisonzi, T Barklow, N Barlow, BM Barnett, RM Barnett, A Baroncelli, G Barone, AJ Barr, F Barreiro, J Barreiro Guimarães da Costa, R Bartoldus, AE Barton, V Bartsch, A Bassalat, A Basye, RL Bates, L Batkova, JR Batley, M Battistin, F Bauer, HS Bawa, T Beau, PH Beauchemin, R Beccherle, P Bechtle, HP Beck, K Becker, S Becker, M Beckingham, AJ Beddall, A Beddall, S Bedikian, VA Bednyakov, CP Bee, LJ Beemster, TA Beermann, M Begel, K Behr, C Belanger-Champagne, PJ Bell, WH Bell, G Bella, L Bellagamba, A Bellerive, M Bellomo, A Belloni, OL Beloborodova, K Belotskiy, O Beltramello, O Benary, D Benchekroun, K Bendtz, N Benekos, Y Benhammou, E Benhar Noccioli, JA Benitez Garcia, DP Benjamin, JR Bensinger, K Benslama, S Bentvelsen, D Berge, E Bergeaas Kuutmann, N Berger, F Berghaus, E Berglund, J Beringer, C Bernard, P Bernat, R Bernhard, C Bernius, FU Bernlochner, T Berry, P Berta, C Bertella, F Bertolucci, MI Besana, GJ Besjes, O Bessidskaia, N Besson, S Bethke, W Bhimji, RM Bianchi, L Bianchini, M Bianco, O Biebel, SP Bieniek, K Bierwagen, J Biesiada, M Biglietti, J Bilbao De Mendizabal, H Bilokon, M Bindi, S Binet, A Bingul, C Bini, B Bittner, CW Black, JE Black, KM Black, D Blackburn, 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Wulf, TR Wyatt, BM Wynne, S Xella, M Xiao, C Xu, D Xu, L Xu, B Yabsley, S Yacoob, M Yamada, H Yamaguchi, Y Yamaguchi, A Yamamoto, K Yamamoto, S Yamamoto, T Yamamura, T Yamanaka, K Yamauchi, Y Yamazaki, Z Yan, H Yang, H Yang, UK Yang, Y Yang, Z Yang, S Yanush, L Yao, Y Yasu, E Yatsenko, KH Yau Wong, J Ye, S Ye, AL Yen, E Yildirim, M Yilmaz, R Yoosoofmiya, K Yorita, R Yoshida, K Yoshihara, C Young, CJS Young, S Youssef, DR Yu, J Yu, J Yu, L Yuan, A Yurkewicz, B Zabinski, R Zaidan, AM Zaitsev, A Zaman, S Zambito, L Zanello, D Zanzi, A Zaytsev, C Zeitnitz, M Zeman, A Zemla, O Zenin, T Ženiš, D Zerwas, G Zevi della Porta, D Zhang, H Zhang, J Zhang, L Zhang, X Zhang, Z Zhang, Z Zhao, A Zhemchugov, J Zhong, B Zhou, L Zhou, N Zhou, CG Zhu, H Zhu, J Zhu, Y Zhu, X Zhuang, A Zibell, D Zieminska, NI Zimin, C Zimmermann, R Zimmermann, S Zimmermann, S Zimmermann, Z Zinonos, M Ziolkowski, R Zitoun, L Živković, G Zobernig, A Zoccoli, M zur Nedden, G Zurzolo, V Zutshi, L Zwalinski, ATLAS 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Abstract:

A search is presented for dark matter pair production in association with a W or Z boson in pp collisions representing 20.3  fb(-1) of integrated luminosity at √s=8  TeV using data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with a hadronic jet with the jet mass consistent with a W or Z boson, and with large missing transverse momentum are analyzed. The data are consistent with the standard model expectations. Limits are set on the mass scale in effective field theories that describe the interaction of dark matter and standard model particles, and on the cross section of Higgs production and decay to invisible particles. In addition, cross section limits on the anomalous production of W or Z bosons with large missing transverse momentum are set in two fiducial regions.

Measurement of the electroweak production of dijets in association with a Z-boson and distributions sensitive to vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector

ArXiv 1401.761 (2014)

Abstract:

Measurements of fiducial cross sections for the electroweak production of two jets in association with a Z-boson are presented. The measurements are performed using 20.3 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collision data collected at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s)=8 TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The electroweak component is extracted by a fit to the dijet invariant mass distribution in a fiducial region chosen to enhance the electroweak contribution over the dominant background in which the jets are produced via the strong interaction. The electroweak cross sections measured in two fiducial regions are in good agreement with the Standard Model expectations and the background-only hypothesis is rejected with significance above the 5 sigma level. The electroweak process includes the vector boson fusion production of a Z-boson and the data are used to place limits on anomalous triple gauge boson couplings. In addition, measurements of cross sections and differential distributions for inclusive Z-boson-plus-dijet production are performed in five fiducial regions, each with different sensitivity to the electroweak contribution. The results are corrected for detector effects and compared to predictions from the SHERPA and POWHEG event generators.

Measurement of the production cross section of prompt J/psi mesons in association with a W boson in pp collisions at sqrt{s}=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ArXiv 1401.2831 (2014)

Herschel Observations of Far-Infrared Cooling Lines in intermediate Redshift (Ultra)-luminous Infrared Galaxies

ArXiv 1401.23 (2014)

Authors:

D Rigopoulou, R Hopwood, GE Magdis, N Thatte, BM Swinyard, D Farrah, J-S Huang, A Alonso-Herrero, JJ Bock, D Clements, A Cooray, MJ Griffin, S Oliver, C Pearson, D Riechers, D Scott, A Smith, M Vaccari, I Valtchanov, L Wang

Abstract:

We report the first results from a spectroscopic survey of the [CII] 158um line from a sample of intermediate redshift (0.210^11.5 Lsun), using the SPIRE-Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) on board the Herschel Space Observatory. This is the first survey of [CII] emission, an important tracer of star-formation, at a redshift range where the star-formation rate density of the Universe increases rapidly. We detect strong [CII] 158um line emission from over 80% of the sample. We find that the [CII] line is luminous, in the range (0.8-4)x10^(-3) of the far-infrared continuum luminosity of our sources, and appears to arise from photodissociation regions on the surface of molecular clouds. The L[CII]/LIR ratio in our intermediate redshift (U)LIRGs is on average ~10 times larger than that of local ULIRGs. Furthermore, we find that the L[CII]/LIR and L[CII]/LCO(1-0) ratios in our sample are similar to those of local normal galaxies and high-z star-forming galaxies. ULIRGs at z~0.5 show many similarities to the properties of local normal and high-z star forming galaxies. Our findings strongly suggest that rapid evolution in the properties of the star forming regions of luminous infrared galaxies is likely to have occurred in the last 5 billion years.

The second-generation z (redshift) and early universe spectrometer. I. First-light observation of a highly lensed local-ulirg analog at high-z

Astrophysical Journal 780:2 (2014)

Authors:

C Ferkinhoff, D Brisbin, S Parshley, T Nikola, GJ Stacey, J Schoenwald, JL Higdon, SJU Higdon, A Verma, D Riechers, S Hailey-Dunsheath, KM Menten, R Güsten, A Weiß, K Irwin, HM Cho, M Niemack, M Halpern, M Amiri, M Hasselfield, DV Wiebe, PAR Ade, CE Tucker

Abstract:

We recently commissioned our new spectrometer, the second-generation z(Redshift) and Early Universe Spectrometer (ZEUS-2) on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope. ZEUS-2 is a submillimeter grating spectrometer optimized for detecting the faint and broad lines from distant galaxies that are redshifted into the telluric windows from 200 to 850 μm. It uses a focal plane array of transition-edge sensed bolometers, the first use of these arrays for astrophysical spectroscopy. ZEUS-2 promises to be an important tool for studying galaxies in the years to come because of its synergy with Atacama Large Millimeter Array and its capabilities in the short submillimeter windows that are unique in the post-Herschel era. Here, we report on our first detection of the [C II] 158 μm line with ZEUS-2. We detect the line at z ∼ 1.8 from H-ATLAS J091043.1-000322 with a line flux of (6.44 ± 0.42) × 10-18 W m-2. Combined with its far-IR luminosity and a new Herschel-PACS detection of the [O I] 63 μm line, we model the line emission as coming from a photo-dissociation region with far-ultraviolet radiation field, G ∼ 2 × 104 G 0, gas density, n ∼ 1 × 103 cm-3 and size between ∼0.4 and 1 kpc. On the basis of this model, we conclude that H-ATLAS J091043.1-000322 is a high-redshift analog of a local ultra-luminous IR galaxy; i.e., it is likely the site of a compact starburst caused by a major merger. Further identification of these merging systems is important for constraining galaxy formation and evolution models. © 2014. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.