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Search for direct slepton and gaugino production in final states with two leptons and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 718:3 (2013) 879-901

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G Aad, T Abajyan, B Abbott, J Abdallah, S Abdel Khalek, AA Abdelalim, O Abdinov, R Aben, B Abi, M Abolins, OS AbouZeid, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, DL Adams, TN Addy, J Adelman, S Adomeit, P Adragna, T Adye, S Aefsky, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, M Agustoni, M Aharrouche, SP Ahlen, F Ahles, A Ahmad, M Ahsan, G Aielli, T Akdogan, TPA Åkesson, G Akimoto, AV Akimov, 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, BMM Allbrooke, PP Allport, SE Allwood-Spiers, J Almond, A Aloisio, R Alon, A Alonso, F Alonso, A Altheimer, B Alvarez Gonzalez, MG Alviggi, K Amako, C Amelung, VV Ammosov, SP Amor Dos Santos, A Amorim, N Amram, C Anastopoulos, LS Ancu, N Andari, T Andeen, CF Anders, G Anders, KJ Anderson, A Andreazza, V Andrei, ML Andrieux, XS Anduaga, P Anger, A Angerami, F Anghinolfi, A Anisenkov, N Anjos, A Annovi, A Antonaki, M Antonelli, A Antonov, J Antos, F Anulli, M Aoki, S Aoun, L Aperio Bella, R Apolle, G Arabidze, I Aracena, Y Arai, ATH Arce, S Arfaoui, JF Arguin, E Arik, M Arik

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A search for the electroweak pair production of charged sleptons and weak gauginos decaying into final states with two leptons is performed using 4.7 fb-1of proton-proton collision data at √s = 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. No significant excesses are observed with respect to the prediction from Standard Model processes. In the scenario of direct slepton production, if the sleptons decay directly into the lightest neutralino, left-handed slepton masses between 85 and 195 GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level for a 20 GeV neutralino. Chargino masses between 110 and 340 GeV are excluded in the scenario of direct production of wino-like chargino pairs decaying into the lightest neutralino via an intermediate on-shell charged slepton for a 10 GeV neutralino. The results are also interpreted in the framework of the phenomenological minimal supersymmetric Standard Model.
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Search for long-lived stopped R-hadrons decaying out of time with pp collisions using the ATLAS detector

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 88:11 (2013) 112003-1-112003-30

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G Aad, T Abajyan, B Abbott, J Abdallah, S Abdel Khalek, O Abdinov, R Aben, B Abi, M Abolins, OS Abou Zeid, 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, 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, JF Arguin, S Argyropoulos

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An updated search is performed for gluino, top squark, or bottom squark R-hadrons that have come to rest within the ATLAS calorimeter, and decay at some later time to hadronic jets and a neutralino, using 5.0 and 22:9 fb-1 of pp collisions at 7 and 8 TeV, respectively. Candidate decay events are triggered in selected empty bunch crossings of the LHC in order to remove pp collision backgrounds. Selections based on jet shape and muon system activity are applied to discriminate signal events from cosmic ray and beam-halo muon backgrounds. In the absence of an excess of events, improved limits are set on gluino, stop, and sbottom masses for different decays, lifetimes, and neutralino masses. With a neutralino of mass 100 GeV, the analysis excludes gluinos with mass below 832 GeV (with an expected lower limit of 731 GeV), for a gluino lifetime between 10 μs and 1000 s in the generic R-hadron model with equal branching ratios for decays to (formula presented) and (formula presented). Under the same assumptions for the neutralino mass and squark lifetime, top squarks and bottom squarks in the Regge R-hadron model are excluded with masses below 379 and 344 GeV, respectively.
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Search for resonant diboson production in the WW/WZ → ℓvjj decay channels with the ATLAS detector at √s = 7 TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 87:11 (2013)

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G Aad, T Abajyan, B Abbott, J Abdallah, S Abdel Khalek, AA Abdelalim, O Abdinov, R Aben, B Abi, M Abolins, OS Abouzeid, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, DL Adams, TN Addy, J Adelman, S Adomeit, P Adragna, T Adye, S Aefsky, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, M Agustoni, M Aharrouche, SP Ahlen, F Ahles, A Ahmad, M Ahsan, G Aielli, T Akdogan, TPA Åkesson, G Akimoto, AV Akimov, 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, BMM Allbrooke, PP Allport, SE Allwood-Spiers, J Almond, A Aloisio, R Alon, A Alonso, F Alonso, A Altheimer, B Alvarez Gonzalez, MG Alviggi, K Amako, C Amelung, VV Ammosov, SP Amor Dos Santos, A Amorim, N Amram, C Anastopoulos, LS Ancu, N Andari, T Andeen, CF Anders, G Anders, KJ Anderson, A Andreazza, V Andrei, ML Andrieux, XS Anduaga, P Anger, A Angerami, F Anghinolfi, A Anisenkov, N Anjos, A Annovi, A Antonaki, M Antonelli, A Antonov, J Antos, F Anulli, M Aoki, S Aoun, L Aperio Bella, R Apolle, G Arabidze, I Aracena, Y Arai, ATH Arce, S Arfaoui, JF Arguin, E Arik, M Arik

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A search for resonant diboson production using a data sample corresponding to 4:7 fb–1of integrated luminosity collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV is presented. The search for a narrow resonance in the WW or WZ mass distribution is conducted in a final state with an electron or a muon, missing transverse momentum, and at least two jets. No significant excess is observed and limits are set using three benchmark models: WW resonance masses below 940 and 710 GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level for spin-2 Randall–Sundrum and bulk Randall–Sundrum gravitons, respectively; WZ resonance masses below 950 GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level for a spin-1 extended gauge model W′ boson.
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T2K neutrino flux prediction

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 87:1 (2013) 012001

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K Abe, N Abgrall, H Aihara, T Akiri, JB Albert, C Andreopoulos, S Aoki, A Ariga, T Ariga, S Assylbekov, D Autiero, M Barbi, GJ Barker, G Barr, M Bass, M Batkiewicz, F Bay, SW Bentham, V Berardi, BE Berger, S Berkman, I Bertram, D Beznosko, S Bhadra, FDM Blaszczyk, A Blondel, C Bojechko, S Boyd, A Bravar, C Bronner, DG Brook-Roberge, N Buchanan, RG Calland, J Caravaca Rodríguez, SL Cartwright, R Castillo, M-G Catanesi, A Cervera, D Cherdack, G Christodoulou, A Clifton, J Coleman, SJ Coleman, G Collazuol, K Connolly, A Curioni, A Dabrowska, I Danko, R Das, S Davis, M Day, JPAM de André, P de Perio, G De Rosa, T Dealtry, C Densham, F Di Lodovico, S Di Luise, J Dobson, T Duboyski, F Dufour, J Dumarchez, S Dytman, M Dziewiecki, M Dziomba, S Emery, A Ereditato, L Escudero, LS Esposito, AJ Finch, E Frank, M Friend, Y Fujii, Y Fukuda, V Galymov, A Gaudin, S Giffin, C Giganti, K Gilje, T Golan, JJ Gomez-Cadenas, M Gonin, N Grant, D Gudin, P Guzowski, DR Hadley, A Haesler, MD Haigh, D Hansen, T Hara, M Hartz, T Hasegawa, NC Hastings, Y Hayato, C Hearty, RL Helmer, J Hignight, A Hillairet, A Himmel, T Hiraki, J Holeczek, S Horikawa, K Huang, A Hyndman, AK Ichikawa, K Ieki, M Ieva, M Ikeda, J Imber, J Insler, T Ishida, T Ishii, SJ Ives, K Iyogi, A Izmaylov, B Jamieson, RA Johnson, JH Jo, P Jonsson, KK Joo, GV Jover-Manas, CK Jung, H Kaji, T Kajita, H Kakuno, J Kameda, Y Kanazawa, D Karlen, I Karpikov, E Kearns, M Khabibullin, F Khanam, A Khotjantsev, D Kielczewska, T Kikawa, A Kilinski, JY Kim, J Kim, SB Kim, B Kirby, J Kisiel, P Kitching, T Kobayashi, G Kogan, A Konaka, LL Kormos, A Korzenev, K Koseki, Y Koshio, K Kowalik, I Kreslo, W Kropp, H Kubo, Y Kudenko, S Kumaratunga, R Kurjata, T Kutter, J Lagoda, K Laihem, A Laing, M Laveder, M Lawe, KP Lee, C Licciardi, IT Lim, T Lindner, C Lister, RP Litchfield, A Longhin, GD Lopez, L Ludovici, M Macaire, L Magaletti, K Mahn, M Malek, S Manly, A Marchionni, AD Marino, J Marteau, JF Martin, T Maruyama, J Marzec, P Masliah, EL Mathie, C Matsumura, K Matsuoka, V Matveev, K Mavrokoridis, E Mazzucato, N McCauley, KS McFarland, C McGrew, T McLachlan, M Messina, C Metelko, M Mezzetto, P Mijakowski, CA Miller, A Minamino, O Mineev, S Mine, A Missert, M Miura, L Monfregola, S Moriyama, Th A Mueller, A Murakami, M Murdoch, S Murphy, J Myslik, T Nagasaki, T Nakadaira, M Nakahata, T Nakai, K Nakajima, K Nakamura, S Nakayama, T Nakaya, K Nakayoshi, D Naples, TC Nicholls, C Nielsen, K Nishikawa, Y Nishimura, HM O’Keeffe, Y Obayashi, R Ohta, K Okumura, W Oryszczak, SM Oser, M Otani, RA Owen, Y Oyama, MY Pac, V Palladino, V Paolone, D Payne, GF Pearce, O Perevozchikov, JD Perkin, ES Pinzon Guerra, P Plonski, E Poplawska, B Popov, M Posiadala, J-M Poutissou, R Poutissou, P Przewlocki, B Quilain, E Radicioni, PN Ratoff, M Ravonel, MA Rayner, M Reeves, E Reinherz-Aronis, F Retiere, PA Rodrigues, E Rondio, B Rossi, S Roth, A Rubbia, D Ruterbories, R Sacco, K Sakashita, F Sánchez, E Scantamburlo, K Scholberg, J Schwehr, M Scott, DI Scully, Y Seiya, T Sekiguchi, H Sekiya, M Shibata, M Shiozawa, S Short, Y Shustrov, P Sinclair, B Smith, RJ Smith, M Smy, JT Sobczyk, H Sobel, M Sorel, L Southwell, P Stamoulis, J Steinmann, B Still, R Sulej, A Suzuki, K Suzuki, SY Suzuki, Y Suzuki, T Szeglowski, M Szeptycka, R Tacik, M Tada, S Takahashi, A Takeda, Y Takeuchi, HA Tanaka, M Tanaka, MM Tanaka, IJ Taylor, D Terhorst, R Terri, LF Thompson, A Thorley, S Tobayama, W Toki, T Tomura, Y Totsuka, C Touramanis, T Tsukamoto, M Tzanov, Y Uchida, K Ueno, A Vacheret, M Vagins, G Vasseur, T Wachala, AV Waldron, CW Walter, J Wang, D Wark, MO Wascko, A Weber, R Wendell, G Wikström, RJ Wilkes, MJ Wilking, C Wilkinson, Z Williamson, JR Wilson, RJ Wilson, T Wongjirad, Y Yamada, K Yamamoto, C Yanagisawa, T Yano, S Yen, N Yershov, M Yokoyama, T Yuan, A Zalewska, L Zambelli, K Zaremba, M Ziembicki, ED Zimmerman, M Zito, J Żmuda
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The MINOS experiment: 2012 results

Proceedings of Science 2012-July (2013)

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Data taking has now finished for the low-energy phase of the MINOS experiment. The main osillation results from these data are presented. The disappearance of muon neutrinos and muon anti-neutrinos from the NuMI beam are combined with atmospheric data to produce a best fit for the atmospheric oscillation parameters. The |?m232| measurement, which is the most constraining in the world, is (2.39+-000910) × 10-3eV2. The value of sin2(2?32) is measured to be 0.957+-00035036. The latest results of the electron neutrino appearance search are presented and rule out ?13 = 0 at 2s. Results from the MINOS time of flight study are also presented and a preview of the physics available in the next phase of the experiment, MINOS+ is given.