Measurement of the W ±Z production cross section and limits on anomalous triple gauge couplings in proton-proton collisions at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 709:4-5 (2012) 341-357

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, B Alvarez Gonzalez, 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, A Anisenkov, 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, A Artamonov, G Artoni

Abstract:

This Letter presents a measurement of W ±Z production in 1.02 fb -1 of pp collision data at s=7 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2011. Doubly leptonic decay events are selected with electrons, muons and missing transverse momentum in the final state. In total 71 candidates are observed, with a background expectation of 12.1±1.4(stat.)-2.0+4.1(syst.) events. The total cross section for W ±Z production for Z/γ * masses within the range 66 GeV to 116 GeV is determined to be σWZtot=20.5-2.8+3.1(stat.)-1.3+1.4(syst.)-0.8+0.9(lumi.) pb, which is consistent with the Standard Model expectation of 17.30.8+1.3 pb. Limits on anomalous triple gauge boson couplings are extracted. © 2012 CERN.

Search for strong gravity signatures in same-sign dimuon final states using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 709:4-5 (2012) 322-340

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, B Alvarez Gonzalez, 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, A Artamonov, G Artoni, D Arutinov

Abstract:

A search for microscopic black holes has been performed in a same-sign dimuon final state using 1.3 fb -1 of proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at a centre of mass energy of 7 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The data are found to be consistent with the expectation from the Standard Model and the results are used to derive exclusion contours in the context of a low scale gravity model. © 2012 CERN.

Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 85:5 (2012)

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Aoki, A Askew, B Åsman, S Atkins, O Atramentov, K Augsten, C Avila, J Backusmayes, F Badaud, L Bagby, B Baldin, DV Bandurin, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, V Bazterra, A Bean, M Begalli, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, G Blazey, S Blessing, K Bloom, A Boehnlein, D Boline, EE Boos, G Borissov, T Bose, A Brandt, O Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, J Brown, XB Bu, M Buehler, V Buescher, V Bunichev, S Burdin, TH Burnett, CP Buszello, B Calpas, E Camacho-Pérez, MA Carrasco-Lizarraga, BCK Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, E Chapon, G Chen, S Chevalier-Théry, DK Cho, SW Cho, S Choi, B Choudhary, S Cihangir, D Claes, J Clutter, M Cooke, WE Cooper, M Corcoran, F Couderc, MC Cousinou, A Croc, D Cutts, A Das, G Davies, K De, SJ De Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, F Déliot, R Demina, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai

Abstract:

We present a measurement of the inclusive jet cross section using the Run II cone algorithm and data collected by the D0 experiment in pp̄ collisions at a center-of-mass energy √s=1.96TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.70fb -1. The jet energy calibration and the method used to extract the inclusive jet cross section are described. We discuss the main uncertainties, which are dominated by the jet energy scale uncertainty. The results cover jet transverse momenta from 50GeV to 600GeV with jet rapidities in the range -2.4 to 2.4 and are compared to predictions using recent proton parton distribution functions. Studies of correlations between systematic uncertainties in transverse momentum and rapidity are presented. © 2012 American Physical Society.

Search for the standard model Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel with 4.9fb-1 of pp collision data at √s=7TeV with atlas

Physical Review Letters 108:11 (2012)

Authors:

G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, S Abdel Khalek, AA Abdelalim, A Abdesselam, O Abdinov, B Abi, M Abolins, OS Abouzeid, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, E Acerbi, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, 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, BMM Allbrooke, PP Allport, SE Allwood-Spiers, J Almond, A Aloisio, R Alon, A Alonso, B Alvarez Gonzalez, 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, A Anisenkov, 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, S Arfaoui, JF Arguin, E Arik, M Arik, AJ Armbruster

Abstract:

A search for the standard model Higgs boson is performed in the diphoton decay channel. The data used correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.9fb-1 collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √s=7TeV. In the diphoton mass range 110-150GeV, the largest excess with respect to the background-only hypothesis is observed at 126.5GeV, with a local significance of 2.8 standard deviations. Taking the look-elsewhere effect into account in the range 110-150GeV, this significance becomes 1.5 standard deviations. The standard model Higgs boson is excluded at 95% confidence level in the mass ranges of 113-115GeV and 134.5-136GeV. © 2012 CERN.

Measurement of ZZ production in leptonic final states at √s of 1.96 TeV at CDF

Physical Review Letters 108:10 (2012)

Authors:

T Aaltonen, B Álvarez Gonzlez, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, T Bae, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, F Bedeschi, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, D Bisello, I Bizjak, KR Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, WH Chung, YS Chung, MA Ciocci, A Clark, C Clarke, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, N D'Ascenzo, M Datta, P De Barbaro, M Dell'Orso, L Demortier, M Deninno, F Devoto, M D'Errico

Abstract:

In this Letter, we present a precise measurement of the total ZZ production cross section in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96TeV, using data collected with the CDF II detector corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 6fb-1. The result is obtained by combining separate measurements in the four-charged (′′) and two-charged-lepton and two-neutral-lepton (νν) decay modes of the Z boson pair. The combined measured cross section for pp̄→ZZ is 1.64-0.38+0.44pb. This is the most precise measurement of the ZZ production cross section in 1.96 TeV pp̄ collisions to date. © 2012 American Physical Society.