Search for proton decay via $p\to e^+\pi^0$ and $p\to \mu^+\pi^0$ with an enlarged fiducial volume in Super-Kamiokande I-IV

(2020)

Authors:

Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, :, A Takenaka, K Abe, C Bronner, Y Hayato, M Ikeda, S Imaizumi, H Ito, J Kameda, Y Kataoka, Y Kato, Y Kishimoto, Ll Marti, M Miura, S Moriyama, T Mochizuki, Y Nagao, M Nakahata, Y Nakajima, S Nakayama, T Okada, K Okamoto, A Orii, G Pronost, H Sekiya, M Shiozawa, Y Sonoda, Y Suzuki, A Takeda, Y Takemoto, H Tanaka, T Yano, R Akutsu, S Han, T Kajita, K Okumura, T Tashiro, R Wang, J Xia, D Bravo-Berguno, L Labarga, P Fernandez, B Zaldivar, FDM Blaszczyk, E Kearns, JL Raaf, JL Stone, L Wan, T Wester, BW Pointon, J Bian, NJ Griskevich, WR Kropp, S Locke, S Mine, MB Smy, HW Sobel, V Takhistov, P Weatherly, KS Ganezer, J Hill, JY Kim, IT Lim, RG Park, B Bodur, K Scholberg, CW Walter, A Coffani, O Drapier, S El Hedri, A Giampaolo, M Gonin, Th A Mueller, P Paganini, B Quilain, T Ishizuka, T Nakamura, JS Jang, JG Learned, S Matsuno, LHV Anthony, RP Litchfield, AA Sztuc, Y Uchida, V Berardi, MG Catanesi, E Radicioni, NF Calabria, LN Machado, G De Rosa, G Collazuol, F Iacob, M Lamoureux, N Ospina, L Ludovici, Y Nishimura, S Cao, M Friend, T Hasegawa, T Ishida, M Jakkapu, T Kobayashi, T Matsubara, T Nakadaira, K Nakamura, Y Oyama, K Sakashita, T Sekiguchi, T Tsukamoto, M Hasegawa, Y Isobe, H Miyabe, Y Nakano, T Shiozawa, T Sugimoto, AT Suzuki, Y Takeuchi, S Yamamoto, A Ali, Y Ashida, J Feng, S Hirota, AK Ichikawa, M Jiang, T Kikawa, M Mori, KE Nakamura, T Nakaya, RA Wendell, K Yasutome, N McCauley, P Mehta, A Pritchard, KM Tsui, Y Fukuda, Y Itow, H Menjo, T Niwa, K Sato, M Taani, M Tsukada, P Mijakowski, K Frankiewicz, CK Jung, G Santucci, C Vilela, MJ Wilking, C Yanagisawa, D Fukuda, M Harada, K Hagiwara, T Horai, H Ishino, S Ito, Y Koshio, W Ma, N Piplani, S Sakai, M Sakuda, Y Takahira, C Xu, Y Kuno, G Barr, D Barrow, L Cook, C Simpson, D Wark, F Nova, T Boschi, F Di Lodovico, S Molina Sedgwick, S Zsoldos, JY Yang, SJ Jenkins, JM McElwee, MD Thiesse, LF Thompson, H Okazawa, Y Choi, SB Kim, I Yu, K Nishijima, M Koshiba, K Iwamoto, N Ogawa, M Yokoyama, A Goldsack, K Martens, MR Vagins, M Kuze, M Tanaka, T Yoshida, M Inomoto, M Ishitsuka, R Matsumoto, K Ohta, M Shinoki, JF Martin, CM Nantais, HA Tanaka, T Towstego, M Hartz, A Konaka, P de Perio, NW Prouse, S Chen, BD Xu, M Posiadala-Zezula, B Richards, B Jamieson, J Walker, A Minamino, K Okamoto, G Pintaudi, R Sasaki

Probing nuclear effects with neutrino-induced charged-current neutral pion production

Physical Review D American Physical Society 102 (2020) 072007

Authors:

David Coplowe, O Altinok, Z Ahmad Dar, Giles Barr, Xianguo Lu, David Wark, Alfons Weber

Abstract:

We study neutrino-induced charged-current (CC) π 0 production on carbon nuclei using events with fully imaged final-state proton-π 0 systems. Novel use of final-state correlations based on transverse kinematic imbalance enable the first measurements of the struck nucleon’s Fermi motion, of the intranuclear momentum transfer (IMT) dynamics, and of the final-state hadronic momentum configuration in neutrino pion production. Event distributions are presented for i) the momenta of neutrino-struck neutrons below the Fermi surface, ii) the direction of missing transverse momentum characterizing the strength of IMT, and iii) proton-pion momentum imbalance with respect to the lepton scattering plane. The observed Fermi motion and IMT strength are compared to the previous MINERνA measurement of neutrino CC quasielastic-like production. The measured shapes and absolute rates of these distributions, as well as the cross-section asymmetries show tensions with predictions from current neutrino generator models.

A Convolutional Neural Network for Multiple Particle Identification in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

(2020)

Authors:

MicroBooNE collaboration, P Abratenko, M Alrashed, R An, J Anthony, J Asaadi, A Ashkenazi, S Balasubramanian, B Baller, C Barnes, G Barr, V Basque, L Bathe-Peters, O Benevides Rodrigues, S Berkman, A Bhanderi, A Bhat, M Bishai, A Blake, T Bolton, L Camilleri, D Caratelli, I Caro Terrazas, R Castillo Fernandez, F Cavanna, G Cerati, Y Chen, E Church, D Cianci, JM Conrad, M Convery, L Cooper-Troendle, JI Crespo-Anadon, M Del Tutto, S Dennis, D Devitt, R Diurba, L Domine, R Dorrill, K Duffy, S Dytman, B Eberly, A Ereditato, L Escudero Sanchez, JJ Evans, GA Fiorentini Aguirre, RS Fitzpatrick, BT Fleming, N Foppiani, D Franco, AP Furmanski, D Garcia-Gamez, S Gardiner, G Ge, S Gollapinni, O Goodwin, E Gramellini, P Green, H Greenlee, W Gu, R Guenette, P Guzowski, L Hagaman, E Hall, P Hamilton, O Hen, GA Horton-Smith, A Hourlier, R Itay, C James, J Jan de Vries, X Ji, L Jiang, JH Jo, RA Johnson, YJ Jwa, N Kamp, N Kaneshige, G Karagiorgi, W Ketchum, B Kirby, M Kirby, T Kobilarcik, I Kreslo, R LaZur, I Lepetic, K Li, Y Li, BR Littlejohn, D Lorca, WC Louis, X Luo, A Marchionni, C Mariani, D Marsden, J Marshall, J Martin-Albo, DA Martinez Caicedo, K Mason, A Mastbaum, N McConkey, V Meddage, T Mettler, K Miller, J Mills, K Mistry, T Mohayai, A Mogan, J Moon, M Mooney, AF Moor, CD Moore, L Mora Lepin, J Mousseau, M Murphy, D Naples, A Navrer-Agasson, RK Neely, P Nienaber, J Nowak, O Palamara, V Paolone, A Papadopoulou, V Papavassiliou, SF Pate, A Paudel, Z Pavlovic, E Piasetzky, I Ponce-Pinto, D Porzio, S Prince, X Qian, JL Raaf, V Radeka, A Rafique, M Reggiani-Guzzo, L Ren, L Rochester, J Rodriguez Rondon, HE Rogers, M Rosenberg, M Ross-Lonergan, B Russell, G Scanavini, DW Schmitz, A Schukraft, W Seligman, MH Shaevitz, R Sharankova, J Sinclair, A Smith, EL Snider, M Soderberg, S Soldner-Rembold, SR Soleti, P Spentzouris, J Spitz, M Stancari, J St John, T Strauss, K Sutton, S Sword-Fehlberg, AM Szelc, N Tagg, W Tang, K Terao, C Thorpe, M Toups, Y-T Tsai, MA Uchida, T Usher, W Van De Pontseele, B Viren, M Weber, H Wei, Z Williams, S Wolbers, T Wongjirad, M Wospakrik, W Wu, E Yandel, T Yang, G Yarbrough, LE Yates, GP Zeller, J Zennamo, C Zhang

Search for new phenomena in final states with large jet multiplicities and missing transverse momentum using (√s)=13 TeV proton−proton collisions recorded by ATLAS in Run 2 of the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer 2020 (2020) 62

Abstract:

Results of a search for new particles decaying into eight or more jets and moderate missing transverse momentum are presented. The analysis uses 139 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data at 𝑠√ = 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider between 2015 and 2018. The selection rejects events containing isolated electrons or muons, and makes requirements according to the number of b-tagged jets and the scalar sum of masses of large-radius jets. The search extends previous analyses both in using a larger dataset and by employing improved jet and missing transverse momentum reconstruction methods which more cleanly separate signal from background processes. No evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model is found. The results are interpreted in the context of supersymmetry-inspired simplified models, significantly extending the limits on the gluino mass in those models. In particular, limits on the gluino mass are set at 2 TeV when the lightest neutralino is nearly massless in a model assuming a two-step cascade decay via the lightest chargino and second-lightest neutralino.

Measurement of Differential Cross Sections for $\nu_\mu$-Ar Charged-Current Interactions with Protons and no Pions in the Final State with the MicroBooNE Detector

(2020)

Authors:

MicroBooNE collaboration, P Abratenko, M Alrashed, R An, J Anthony, J Asaadi, A Ashkenazi, S Balasubramanian, B Baller, C Barnes, G Barr, V Basque, L Bathe-Peters, O Benevides Rodrigues, S Berkman, A Bhanderi, A Bhat, M Bishai, A Blake, T Bolton, L Camilleri, D Caratelli, I Caro Terrazas, R Castillo Fernandez, F Cavanna, G Cerati, Y Chen, E Church, D Cianci, JM Conrad, M Convery, L Cooper-Troendle, JI Crespo-Anadon, M Del Tutto, D Devitt, R Diurba, L Domine, R Dorrill, K Duffy, S Dytman, B Eberly, A Ereditato, L Escudero Sanchez, JJ Evans, GA Fiorentini Aguirre, RS Fitzpatrick, BT Fleming, N Foppiani, D Franco, AP Furmanski, D Garcia-Gamez, S Gardiner, G Ge, S Gollapinni, O Goodwin, E Gramellini, P Green, H Greenlee, W Gu, R Guenette, P Guzowski, E Hall, P Hamilton, O Hen, GA Horton-Smith, A Hourlier, EC Huang, R Itay, C James, J Jan de Vries, X Ji, L Jiang, JH Jo, RA Johnson, YJ Jwa, N Kamp, G Karagiorgi, W Ketchum, B Kirby, M Kirby, T Kobilarcik, I Kreslo, R LaZur, I Lepetic, K Li, Y Li, A Lister, BR Littlejohn, D Lorca, WC Louis, X Luo, A Marchionni, S Marcocci, C Mariani, D Marsden, J Marshall, J Martin-Albo, DA Martinez Caicedo, K Mason, A Mastbaum, N McConkey, V Meddage, T Mettler, K Miller, J Mills, K Mistry, T Mohayai, A Mogan, J Moon, M Mooney, AF Moor, CD Moore, J Mousseau, M Murphy, D Naples, A Navrer-Agasson, RK Neely, P Nienaber, J Nowak, O Palamara, V Paolone, A Papadopoulou, V Papavassiliou, SF Pate, A Paudel, Z Pavlovic, E Piasetzky, I Ponce-Pinto, D Porzio, S Prince, X Qian, JL Raaf, V Radeka, A Rafique, M Reggiani-Guzzo, L Ren, L Rochester, J Rodriguez Rondon, HE Rogers, M Rosenberg, M Ross-Lonergan, B Russell, G Scanavini, DW Schmitz, A Schukraft, MH Shaevitz, R Sharankova, J Sinclair, A Smith, EL Snider, M Soderberg, S Soldner-Rembold, SR Soleti, P Spentzouris, J Spitz, M Stancari, J St John, T Strauss, K Sutton, S Sword-Fehlberg, AM Szelc, N Tagg, W Tang, K Terao, C Thorpe, M Toups, Y-T Tsai, S Tufanli, MA Uchida, T Usher, W Van De Pontseele, B Viren, M Weber, H Wei, Z Williams, S Wolbers, T Wongjirad, M Wospakrik, W Wu, T Yang, G Yarbrough, LE Yates, GP Zeller, J Zennamo, C Zhang