Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the decay channel H→ZZ(*)→4ℓ with the ATLAS detector

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 705:5 (2011) 435-451

Authors:

G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, AA Abdelalim, A Abdesselam, O Abdinov, B Abi, M Abolins, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, E Acerbi, BS Acharya, DL Adams, TN Addy, J Adelman, M Aderholz, S Adomeit, P Adragna, T Adye, S Aefsky, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, M Aharrouche, SP Ahlen, F Ahles, A Ahmad, M Ahsan, G Aielli, T Akdogan, TPA Åkesson, G Akimoto, AV Akimov, A Akiyama, MS Alam, MA Alam, J Albert, S Albrand, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, F Alessandria, C Alexa, G Alexander, G Alexandre, T Alexopoulos, M Alhroob, M Aliev, G Alimonti, J Alison, M Aliyev, PP Allport, SE Allwood-Spiers, J Almond, A Aloisio, R Alon, A Alonso, MG Alviggi, K Amako, P Amaral, C Amelung, VV Ammosov, A Amorim, G Amorós, N Amram, C Anastopoulos, LS Ancu, N Andari, T Andeen, CF Anders, G Anders, KJ Anderson, A Andreazza, V Andrei, ML Andrieux, XS Anduaga, A Angerami, F Anghinolfi, N Anjos, A Annovi, A Antonaki, M Antonelli, A Antonov, J Antos, F Anulli, S Aoun, L Aperio Bella, R Apolle, G Arabidze, I Aracena, Y Arai, ATH Arce, JP Archambault, S Arfaoui, JF Arguin, E Arik, M Arik, AJ Armbruster, O Arnaez, C Arnault, A Artamonov, G Artoni, D Arutinov

Abstract:

A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the decay channel H→ZZ(*)→ℓ+ℓ-ℓ'+ℓ'-, where ℓ=e, μ, is presented. Proton-proton collision data at s=7TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector and corresponding to an average integrated luminosity of 2.1fb-1 are compared to the Standard Model expectations. Upper limits on the production cross section of a Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass between 110 and 600GeV are derived. The observed (expected) 95% confidence level upper limit on the production cross section for a Higgs boson with a mass of 194 GeV, the region with the best expected sensitivity for this search, is 0.99 (1.01) times the Standard Model prediction. The Standard Model Higgs boson is excluded at 95% confidence level in the mass ranges 191-197, 199-200 and 214-224 GeV. © 2011 CERN.

Exclusive photon-photon production of muon pairs in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

ArXiv 1111.5536 (2011)

Measurement of the WZ production cross section and limits on anomalous triple gauge couplings in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ArXiv 1111.557 (2011)

Exclusive electroproduction of two pions at HERA

(2011)

Authors:

ZEUS collaboration, H Abramowicz, I Abt, L Adamczyk, M Adamus, R Aggarwal, S Antonelli, P Antonioli, A Antonov, M Arneodo, D Ashery, V Aushev, Y Aushev, O Bachynska, A Bamberger, AN Barakbaev, G Barbagli, G Bari, F Barreiro, N Bartosik, D Bartsch, M Basile, O Behnke, J Behr, U Behrens, L Bellagamba, A Bertolin, S Bhadra, M Bindi, C Blohm, V Bokhonov, T Bołd, K Bondarenko, EG Boos, K Borras, D Boscherini, D Bot, I Brock, E Brownson, R Brugnera, N Brümmer, A Bruni, G Bruni, B Brzozowska, PJ Bussey, B Bylsma, A Caldwell, M Capua, R Carlin, CD Catterall, S Chekanov, J Chwastowski, J Ciborowski, R Ciesielski, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, AM Cooper-Sarkar, N Coppola, M Corradi, F Corriveau, M Costa, G D'Agostini, F Dal Corso, J del Peso, RK Dementiev, S De Pasquale, M Derrick, RCE Devenish, D Dobur, BA Dolgoshein, G Dolinska, AT Doyle, V Drugakov, LS Durkin, S Dusini, Y Eisenberg, PF Ermolov, A Eskreys, S Fang, S Fazio, J Ferrando, MI Ferrero, J Figiel, M Forrest, B Foster, G Gach, A Galas, E Gallo, A Garfagnini, A Geiser, I Gialas, LK Gladilin, D Gladkov, C Glasman, O Gogota, Yu A Golubkov, P Göttlicher, I Grabowska-Bołd, J Grebenyuk, I Gregor, G Grigorescu, G Grzelak, O Gueta, E Gurvich, M Guzik, C Gwenlan, T Haas, W Hain, R Hamatsu, JC Hart, H Hartmann, G Hartner, E Hilger, D Hochman, R Hori, K Horton, A Hüttmann, ZA Ibrahim, Y Iga, R Ingbir, M Ishitsuka, H-P Jakob, F Januschek, TW Jones, M Jüngst, I Kadenko, B Kahle, S Kananov, T Kanno, U Karshon, F Karstens, II Katkov, M Kaur, P Kaur, A Keramidas, LA Khein, JY Kim, D Kisielewska, S Kitamura, R Klanner, U Klein, E Koffeman, P Kooijman, Ie Korol, IA Korzhavina, A Kotański, U Kötz, H Kowalski, O Kuprash, M Kuze, A Lee, BB Levchenko, A Levy, V Libov, S Limentani, TY Ling, M Lisovyi, E Lobodzinska, W Lohmann, B Löhr, E Lohrmann, KR Long, A Longhin, D Lontkovskyi, O Yu Lukina, J Maeda, S Magill, I Makarenko, J Malka, R Mankel, A Margotti, G Marini, JF Martin, A Mastroberardino, MCK Mattingly, I-A Melzer-Pellmann, S Mergelmeyer, S Miglioranzi, F Mohamad Idris, V Monaco, A Montanari, JD Morris, K Mujkic, B Musgrave, K Nagano, T Namsoo, R Nania, A Nigro, Y Ning, T Nobe, U Noor, D Notz, RJ Nowak, AE Nuncio-Quiroz, BY Oh, N Okazaki, K Oliver, K Olkiewicz, Yu Onishchuk, K Papageorgiu, A Parenti, E Paul, JM Pawlak, B Pawlik, PG Pelfer, A Pellegrino, W Perlański, H Perrey, K Piotrzkowski, P Pluciński, NS Pokrovskiy, A Polini, AS Proskuryakov, M Przybycień, A Raval, DD Reeder, B Reisert, Z Ren, J Repond, YD Ri, A Robertson, P Roloff, I Rubinsky, M Ruspa, R Sacchi, A Salii, U Samson, G Sartorelli, AA Savin, DH Saxon, M Schioppa, S Schlenstedt, P Schleper, WB Schmidke, U Schneekloth, V Schönberg, T Schörner-Sadenius, J Schwartz, F Sciulli, LM Shcheglova, R Shehzadi, S Shimizu, I Singh, IO Skillicorn, W Słomiński, WH Smith, V Sola, A Solano, D Son, V Sosnovtsev, A Spiridonov, H Stadie, L Stanco, A Stern, TP Stewart, A Stifutkin, P Stopa, S Suchkov, G Susinno, L Suszycki, J Sztuk-Dambietz, D Szuba, J Szuba, AD Tapper, E Tassi, J Terrón, T Theedt, H Tiecke, K Tokushuku, O Tomalak, J Tomaszewska, T Tsurugai, M Turcato, T Tymieniecka, M Vázquez, A Verbytskyi, O Viazlo, NN Vlasov, O Volynets, R Walczak, WAT Wan Abdullah, JJ Whitmore, L Wiggers, M Wing, M Wlasenko, G Wolf, H Wolfe, K Wrona, AG Yagües-Molina, S Yamada, Y Yamazaki, R Yoshida, C Youngman, AF Żarnecki, L Zawiejski, O Zenaiev, W Zeuner, BO Zhautykov, N Zhmak, C Zhou, A Zichichi, Z Zolkapli, M Zolko, DS Zotkin

Measurement of the inclusive W and Z production cross sections in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the CMS experiment

Journal of High Energy Physics 2011:10 (2011)

Authors:

S Chatrchyan, V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, T Bergauer, M Dragicevic, J Erö, C Fabjan, M Friedl, R Frühwirth, VM Ghete, J Hammer, S Hänsel, M Hoch, N Hörmann, J Hrubec, M Jeitler, W Kiesenhofer, M Krammer, D Liko, I Mikulec, M Pernicka, B Rahbaran, H Rohringer, R Schöfbeck, J Strauss, A Taurok, F Teischinger, P Wagner, W Waltenberger, G Walzel, E Widl, CE Wulz, V Mossolov, N Shumeiko, J Suarez Gonzalez, S Bansal, L Benucci, EA De Wolf, X Janssen, T Maes, L Mucibello, S Ochesanu, B Roland, R Rougny, M Selvaggi, H Van Haevermaet, P Van Mechelen, N Van Remortel, F Blekman, S Blyweert, J D'Hondt, O Devroede, R Gonzalez Suarez, A Kalogeropoulos, M Maes, W Van Doninck, P Van Mulders, GP Van Onsem, I Villella, O Charaf, B Clerbaux, G De Lentdecker, V Dero, APR Gay, GH Hammad, T Hreus, PE Marage, A Raval, L Thomas, C Vander Velde, P Vanlaer, V Adler, A Cimmino, S Costantini, M Grunewald, B Klein, J Lellouch, A Marinov, J McCartin, D Ryckbosch, F Thyssen, M Tytgat, L Vanelderen, P Verwilligen, S Walsh, N Zaganidis, S Basegmez, G Bruno, J Caudron, L Ceard, E Cortina Gil, J De Favereau De Jeneret, C Delaere, D Favart, A Giammanco, G Grégoire, J Hollar, V Lemaitre

Abstract:

A measurement of inclusive W and Z production cross sections in pp collisions at √s = 7TeV is presented. The electron and muon decay channels are analyzed in a data sample collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb-1. The measured inclusive cross sections are σ(pp → WX) × ß(W → lν) = 10.31 × 0.02 (stat.) × 0.09 (syst.) × 0.10 (th.) × 0.41 (lumi.) nb and σ(pp → ZX) x B(Z → l +l- = 0.974 × 0.007 (stat.) × 0.007 (syst.) × 0.018 (th.) × 0.039 (lumi.) nb, limited to the dilepton invariant mass range 60 to 120 GeV. The luminosity-independent cross section ratios are (σ(pp → WX) × B(W → lv))/(σ(pp → ZX) × B(Z → l+l-)) = 10.54 × 0.07 (stat.) × 0.08 (syst.) × 0.16 (th.) and (σ(pp → W+X) × B(W+ → l+ν))/(σ(pp → W-X) × B(W- → l-v̄)) = 1.421×0.006 (stat.) ×0.014 (syst.) ×0.029 (th.). The measured values agree with next-to-next-to-leading order QCD cross section calculations based on recent parton distribution functions. Copyright CERN.