Professor Daniela Bortoletto

Abstract:

The need for ultra-fast timing is a result of the expected pile-up at the High-Luminosity LHC General-Purpose Detectors. Track timing resolution of the order of tens of picoseconds is required to sufficiently resolve individual vertices. In collaboration with Teledyne e2v, 22 six-inch wafers with Low Gain Avalanche Detectors, featuring a 50 μm thick high-resistivity epitaxial layer and different gain layer implants, have been completed successfully. Using transient current technique, the charge gain of a 1 × 1 mm 2 LGAD device from one of the wafers was found to be higher than 10, with jitter reaching 10 ps when biased at 240 V. Tests with other wafers are under way.

Abstract:

This paper presents an analysis at next-to-next-to-leading order in the theory of quantum chromodynamics for the determination of a new set of proton parton distribution functions using diverse measurements in pp collisions at √s =7, 8 and 13 TeV, performed by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, together with deep inelastic scattering data from ep collisions at the HERA collider. The ATLAS data sets considered are differential cross-section measurements of inclusive W± and Z/ γ∗ boson production, W± and Z boson production in association with jets, tt¯ production, inclusive jet production and direct photon production. In the analysis, particular attention is paid to the correlation of systematic uncertainties within and between the various ATLAS data sets and to the impact of model, theoretical and parameterisation uncertainties. The resulting set of parton distribution functions is called ATLASpdf21.

Abstract:

This paper reports constraints on Higgs boson production with transverse momentum above 1 TeV. The analyzed data from proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV were recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider from 2015 to 2018 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 136     fb − 1 . Higgs bosons decaying into b ¯ b are reconstructed as single large-radius jets recoiling against a hadronic system and are identified by the experimental signature of two b -hadron decays. The experimental techniques are validated in the same kinematic regime using the Z → b ¯ b process. The 95% confidence-level upper limit on the cross section for Higgs boson production with transverse momentum above 450 GeV is 115 fb, and above 1 TeV it is 9.6 fb. The Standard Model cross section predictions for a Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV in the same kinematic regions are 18.4 fb and 0.13 fb, respectively.