Search for new phenomena in high-mass diphoton final states using 37 fb−1 of proton–proton collisions collected at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Physics Letters B Elsevier 775 (2017) 105-125

Authors:

The ATLAS Collaboration, M Aaboud, G Aad, B Abbott, O Abdinov, B Abeloos, SH Abidi, OS AbouZeid, NL Abraham, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, R Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, S Adachi, L Adamczyk, J Adelman, M Adersberger, T Adye, AA Affolder, Y Afik, T Agatonovic-Jovin, C Agheorghiesei, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, SP Ahlen, F Ahmadov, G Aielli, S Akatsuka, H Akerstedt, TPA Åkesson, E Akilli, AV Akimov, GL Alberghi, J Albert, P Albicocco, MJ Alconada Verzini, SC Alderweireldt, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, C Alexa, G Alexander, T Alexopoulos, M Alhroob, B Ali, M Aliev, G Alimonti, J Alison, SP Alkire, BMM Allbrooke, BW Allen, PP Allport, A Aloisio, A Alonso, F Alonso, C Alpigiani, AA Alshehri, MI Alstaty, B Alvarez Gonzalez, D Álvarez Piqueras, MG Alviggi, BT Amadio, Y Amaral Coutinho, C Amelung, D Amidei, SP Amor Dos Santos, S Amoroso, G Amundsen, C Anastopoulos, LS Ancu, N Andari, T Andeen, CF Anders, JK Anders, KJ Anderson, A Andreazza, V Andrei, S Angelidakis, I Angelozzi, A Angerami, AV Anisenkov, N Anjos, A Annovi, C Antel, M Antonelli, A Antonov, DJ Antrim, F Anulli, M Aoki, L Aperio Bella, G Arabidze, Y Arai, JP Araque, V Araujo Ferraz, ATH Arce, RE Ardell, FA Arduh, J-F Arguin, S Argyropoulos, M Arik, AJ Armbruster, LJ Armitage, O Arnaez, H Arnold, M Arratia, O Arslan, A Artamonov, G Artoni, S Artz, S Asai, N Asbah, A Ashkenazi, L Asquith, K Assamagan, R Astalos, M Atkinson, NB Atlay, K Augsten, G Avolio, B Axen, MK Ayoub, G Azuelos, AE Baas, MJ Baca, H Bachacou, K Bachas, M Backes, P Bagnaia, M Bahmani, H Bahrasemani, JT Baines, M Bajic, OK Baker, PJ Bakker, EM Baldin, P Balek, F Balli, WK Balunas, E Banas, A Bandyopadhyay, Sw Banerjee, AAE Bannoura, L Barak, EL Barberio, D Barberis, M Barbero, T Barillari, M-S Barisits, JT Barkeloo, T Barklow, N Barlow, SL Barnes, BM Barnett, RM Barnett, Z Barnovska-Blenessy, A Baroncelli, G Barone, AJ Barr, L Barranco Navarro, F Barreiro, J Barreiro Guimarães da Costa, R Bartoldus, AE Barton, P Bartos, A Basalaev, A Bassalat, RL Bates, SJ Batista, JR Batley, M Battaglia, M Bauce, F Bauer, HS Bawa, JB Beacham, MD Beattie, T Beau, PH Beauchemin, P Bechtle, HP Beck, HC Beck, K Becker, M Becker, C Becot, AJ Beddall, A Beddall, VA Bednyakov, M Bedognetti, CP Bee, TA Beermann, M Begalli, M Begel, JK Behr, AS Bell, G Bella, L Bellagamba, A Bellerive, M Bellomo, K Belotskiy, O Beltramello, NL Belyaev, O Benary, D Benchekroun, M Bender, N Benekos, Y Benhammou, E Benhar Noccioli, J Benitez, DP Benjamin, M Benoit, JR Bensinger, S Bentvelsen, L Beresford, M Beretta, D Berge, E Bergeaas Kuutmann, N Berger, J Beringer, S Berlendis, NR Bernard, G Bernardi, C Bernius, FU Bernlochner, T Berry, P Berta, C Bertella, G Bertoli, IA Bertram, C Bertsche, D Bertsche, GJ Besjes, O Bessidskaia Bylund, M Bessner, N Besson, A Bethani, S Bethke, A Betti, AJ Bevan, J Beyer, RM Bianchi, O Biebel, D Biedermann, R Bielski, K Bierwagen, NV Biesuz, M Biglietti, TRV Billoud, H Bilokon, M Bindi, A Bingul, C Bini, S Biondi, T Bisanz, C Bittrich, DM 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Search for an excess of events in the super-kamiokande detector in the directions of the astrophysical neutrinos reported by the IceCube Collaboration

Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 850:2 (2017) 166

Authors:

K Abe, C Bronner, G Pronost, Y Hayato, M Ikeda, K Iyogi, J Kameda, Y Kato, Y Kishimoto, L Marti, M Miura, S Moriyama, M Nakahata, Y Nakano, S Nakayama, Y Okajima, A Orii, H Sekiya, M Shiozawa, Y Sonoda, A Takeda, A Takenaka, H Tanaka, S Tasaka, T Tomura, R Akutsu, T Kajita, K Kaneyuki, Y Nishimura, K Okumura, KM Tsui, L Labarga, P Fernandez, FDM Blaszczyk, J Gustafson, C Kachulis, E Kearns, JL Raaf, JL Stone, LR Sulak, S Berkman, S Tobayama, M Goldhaber, M Elnimr, WR Kropp, S Mine, S Locke, P Weatherly, MB Smy, HW Sobel

Abstract:

We present the results of a search in the Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector for excesses of neutrinos with energies above a few GeV that are in the direction of the track events reported in IceCube. Data from all SK phases (SK-I through SK-IV) were used, spanning a period from 1996 April to 2016 April and corresponding to an exposure of 225 kiloton-years. We considered the 14 IceCube track events from a data set with 1347 livetime days taken from 2010 to 2014. We use Poisson counting to determine if there is an excess of neutrinos detected in SK in a 10° search cone (5° for the highest energy data set) around the reconstructed direction of the IceCube event. No significant excess was found in any of the search directions we examined. We also looked for coincidences with a recently reported IceCube multiplet event. No events were detected within a ±500 s time window around the first detected event, and no significant excess was seen from that direction over the lifetime of SK.

A Measurement of the Tau Neutrino Cross Section in Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with Super-Kamiokande

(2017)

Authors:

Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, :, Z Li, K Abe, C Bronner, Y Hayato, M Ikeda, K Iyogi, J Kameda, Y Kato, Y Kishimoto, Ll Marti, M Miura, S Moriyama, M Nakahata, Y Nakajima, Y Nakano, S Nakayama, A Orii, G Pronost, H Sekiya, M Shiozawa, Y Sonoda, A Takeda, A Takenaka, H Tanaka, S Tasaka, T Tomura, R Akutsu, T Kajita, Y Nishimura, K Okumura, KM Tsui, P Fernandez, L Labarga, FDM Blaszczyk, J Gustafson, C Kachulis, E Kearns, JL Raaf, JL Stone, LR Sulak, S Berkman, S Tobayama, M Elnimr, WR Kropp, S Locke, S Mine, P Weatherly, MB Smy, HW Sobel, V Takhistov, KS Ganezer, J Hill, JY Kim, IT Lim, RG Park, A Himmel, E O'Sullivan, K Scholberg, CW Walter, T Ishizuka, T Nakamura, JS Jang, K Choi, JG Learned, S Matsuno, SN Smith, J Amey, RP Litchfield, WY Ma, Y Uchida, MO Wascko, S Cao, M Friend, T Hasegawa, T Ishida, T Ishii, T Kobayashi, T Nakadaira, K Nakamura, Y Oyama, K Sakashita, T Sekiguchi, T Tsukamoto, KE Abe, M Hasegawa, AT Suzuki, Y Takeuchi, T Yano, T Hayashino, T Hiraki, S Hirota, K Huang, M Jiang, M Mori, KE Nakamura, T Nakaya, ND Patel, RA Wendell, LHV Anthony, N McCauley, A Pritchard, Y Fukuda, Y Itow, M Murase, F Muto, P Mijakowski, K Frankiewicz, CK Jung, X Li, JL Palomino, G Santucci, C Vilela, MJ Wilking, C Yanagisawa, G Yang, S Ito, D Fukuda, H Ishino, A Kibayashi, Y Koshio, H Nagata, M Sakuda, C Xu, Y Kuno, D Wark, F Di Lodovico, B Richards, SM Sedgwick, R Tacik, SB Kim, A Cole, L Thompson, H Okazawa, Y Choi, K Ito, K Nishijima, M Koshiba, Y Suda, M Yokoyama, RG Calland, M Hartz, K Martens, M Murdoch, B Quilain, C Simpson, Y Suzuki, MR Vagins, D Hamabe, M Kuze, Y Okajima, T Yoshida, M Ishitsuka, JF Martin, CM Nantais, HA Tanaka, T Towstego, A Konaka, S Chen, L Wan, Y Zhang, A Minamino, RJ Wilkes

Search for an invisibly decaying Higgs boson or dark matter candidates produced in association with a Z boson in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Physics Letters B Elsevier 776 (2017) 318-337

Authors:

B Abbott, O Abdinov, B Abeloos, SH Abidi, OS Abouzeid, NL Abraham, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, R Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, S Adachi, L Adamczyk, J Adelman, M Adersberger, T Adye, AA Affolder, Y Afik, T Agatonovic-Jovin, C Agheorghiesei, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, SP Ahlen, F Ahmadov, G Aielli, S Akatsuka

Abstract:

A search for an invisibly decaying Higgs boson or dark matter candidates produced in association with a leptonically decaying Z boson in proton–proton collisions at s=13 TeV is presented. This search uses 36.1 fb−1 of data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. No significant deviation from the expectation of the Standard Model backgrounds is observed. Assuming the Standard Model ZH production cross-section, an observed (expected) upper limit of 67% (39%) at the 95% confidence level is set on the branching ratio of invisible decays of the Higgs boson with mass mH=125 GeV. The corresponding limits on the production cross-section of the ZH process with the invisible Higgs boson decays are also presented. Furthermore, exclusion limits on the dark matter candidate and mediator masses are reported in the framework of simplified dark matter models.

An Oracle-based event index for ATLAS

Journal of Physics: Conference Series 898:4 (2017)

Authors:

EJ Gallas, G Dimitrov, P Vasileva, Z Baranowski, L Canali, A Dumitru, A Formica

Abstract:

© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. The ATLAS Eventlndex System has amassed a set of key quantities for a large number of ATLAS events into a Hadoop based infrastructure for the purpose of providing the experiment with a number of event-wise services. Collecting this data in one place provides the opportunity to investigate various storage formats and technologies and assess which best serve the various use cases as well as consider what other benefits alternative storage systems provide. In this presentation we describe how the data are imported into an Oracle RDBMS (relational database management system), the services we have built based on this architecture, and our experience with it. We've indexed about 26 billion real data events thus far and have designed the system to accommodate future data which has expected rates of 5 and 20 billion events per year. We have found this system offers outstanding performance for some fundamental use cases. In addition, profiting from the co-location of this data with other complementary metadata in ATLAS, the system has been easily extended to perform essential assessments of data integrity and completeness and to identify event duplication, including at what step in processing the duplication occurred.