Optimisation of large-radius jet reconstruction for the ATLAS detector in 13 TeV proton–proton collisions

The European Physical Journal C SpringerOpen 81:4 (2021) 334

Authors:

G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott, A Abed Abud, K Abeling, DK Abhayasinghe, SH Abidi, OS AbouZeid, NL Abraham, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, B Achkar, L Adam, C Adam Bourdarios, L Adamczyk, L Adamek, J Adelman, M Adersberger, A Adiguzel, S Adorni, T Adye, AA Affolder, Y Afik

Abstract:

Abstract Jet substructure has provided new opportunities for searches and measurements at the LHC, and has seen continuous development since the optimization of the large-radius jet definition used by ATLAS was performed during Run 1. A range of new inputs to jet reconstruction, pile-up mitigation techniques and jet grooming algorithms motivate an optimisation of large-radius jet reconstruction for ATLAS. In this paper, this optimisation procedure is presented, and the performance of a wide range of large-radius jet definitions is compared. The relative performance of these jet definitions is assessed using metrics such as their pileup stability, ability to identify hadronically decaying W bosons and top quarks with large transverse momenta. A new type of jet input object, called a ‘unified flow object’ is introduced which combines calorimeter- and inner-detector-based signals in order to achieve optimal performance across a wide kinematic range. Large-radius jet definitions are identified which significantly improve on the current ATLAS baseline definition, and their modelling is studied using pp collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at $$\sqrt{s}=13~\text {TeV}$$ s = 13 TeV during 2017.

Search for heavy resonances decaying into a pair of Z bosons in the $$\ell ^+\ell ^-\ell '^+\ell '^-$$ and $$\ell ^+\ell ^-\nu {{\bar{\nu }}}$$ final states using 139 $$\mathrm {fb}^{-1}$$ of proton–proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 13\,$$TeV with the ATLAS detector

The European Physical Journal C SpringerOpen 81:4 (2021) 332

Authors:

G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott, A Abed Abud, K Abeling, DK Abhayasinghe, SH Abidi, OS AbouZeid, NL Abraham, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, B Achkar, L Adam, C Adam Bourdarios, L Adamczyk, L Adamek, J Adelman, A Adiguzel, S Adorni, T Adye, AA Affolder, Y Afik, C Agapopoulou

Abstract:

It has been proposed that, beside the known resonance with mass $m_h=$ 125 GeV, the Higgs field might exhibit a second resonance with a larger mass $(M_H)^{\rm Theor} = 690 \pm 10 ~({\rm stat}) \pm 20 ~({\rm sys})$ GeV which, however, would couple to longitudinal W's with the same typical strength as the low-mass state at $125$ GeV and thus represent a relatively narrow resonance. Looking for evidences in the LHC data, from two analyses published in 2021 by ATLAS (searching for heavy resonances decaying into final states with 4 charged leptons or with photon pairs) we have found combined indications for a new resonance of mass $(M_H)^{\rm Exp} \sim $ 680 (15) GeV and total width $(\Gamma_H)^{\rm Exp} \sim$ 45 (15) GeV. More recent results by CMS (searching for heavy resonances decaying into a pair of h(125) Higgs bosons or looking for high-mass photon pairs produced in pp-diffractive scattering) also show definite excesses pointing toward a new resonance of mass $(M_H)^{\rm Exp} \sim$ 660(30) GeV. However, beside the agreement with the predicted mass range, a clean indication derives from the ATLAS 4-lepton data which reproduce to high accuracy the expected correlation between resonating peak cross section $\sigma_R(pp\to H \to 4l)$ and the ratio $\gamma_H=\Gamma_H/M_H$. This correlation is mainly determined by the lower mass $m_h=$ 125 GeV and supports the view that the known $m_h$ and the new heavy resonance are two different excitations of the same Higgs field by effectively eliminating the spin-zero vs. spin-2 ambiguity in the interpretation of the heavy state. The overall statistical evidence might now be above the traditional 5-sigma discovery threshold because, when comparing with a definite theoretical prediction as in our case, local excesses should maintain intact their statistical significance and not be downgraded by the so called "look-elsewhere" effect.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, 4 table

Search for new phenomena with top quark pairs in final states with one lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer Nature 2021:4 (2021) 174

Authors:

G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott, A Abed Abud, K Abeling, DK Abhayasinghe, SH Abidi, OS AbouZeid, NL Abraham, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, B Achkar, L Adam, C Adam Bourdarios, L Adamczyk, L Adamek, J Adelman, M Adersberger, A Adiguzel, S Adorni, T Adye, AA Affolder, Y Afik, C Agapopoulou, MN Agaras, A Aggarwal, C Agheorghiesei, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, A Ahmad, F Ahmadov, WS Ahmed, X Ai, G Aielli, S Akatsuka, TPA Åkesson, E Akilli, AV Akimov, K Al Khoury, GL Alberghi, J Albert, MJ Alconada Verzini, S Alderweireldt, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, C Alexa, T Alexopoulos, A Alfonsi, F Alfonsi, M Alhroob, B Ali, S Ali, M Aliev, G Alimonti, C Allaire, BMM Allbrooke, BW Allen, PP Allport, A Aloisio, F Alonso, C Alpigiani, E Alunno Camelia, M Alvarez Estevez, MG Alviggi, Y Amaral Coutinho, A Ambler, L Ambroz, C Amelung, D Amidei, SP Amor Dos Santos, S Amoroso, CS Amrouche, F An, C Anastopoulos, N Andari, T Andeen, JK Anders, SY Andrean, A Andreazza, V Andrei, CR Anelli, S Angelidakis, A Angerami, AV Anisenkov, A Annovi, C Antel, MT Anthony, E Antipov, M Antonelli, DJA Antrim, F Anulli, M Aoki, JA Aparisi Pozo, MA Aparo, L Aperio Bella, N Aranzabal, V Araujo Ferraz, R Araujo Pereira, C Arcangeletti, ATH Arce, FA Arduh, J-F Arguin, S Argyropoulos, J-H Arling, AJ Armbruster, A Armstrong, O Arnaez, H Arnold, ZP Arrubarrena Tame, G Artoni, K Asai, S Asai, T Asawatavonvanich, N Asbah, EM Asimakopoulou, L Asquith, J Assahsah, K Assamagan, R Astalos, RJ Atkin, M Atkinson, NB Atlay, H Atmani, K Augsten, VA Austrup, G Avolio, MK Ayoub, G Azuelos, H Bachacou, K Bachas, M Backes, F Backman, P Bagnaia, M Bahmani, H Bahrasemani, AJ Bailey, VR Bailey, JT Baines, C Bakalis, OK Baker, PJ Bakker, E Bakos, D Bakshi Gupta, S Balaji, EM Baldin, P Balek, F Balli, WK Balunas, J Balz, E Banas, M Bandieramonte, A Bandyopadhyay, Sw Banerjee, L Barak, WM Barbe, EL Barberio, D Barberis, M Barbero, G Barbour, T Barillari, M-S Barisits, J Barkeloo, T Barklow, R Barnea, BM Barnett, RM Barnett, Z 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Search for new phenomena in events with two opposite-charge leptons, jets and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at $$ \sqrt{\mathrm{s}} $$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer 2021:4 (2021) 165

Authors:

G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott, A Abed Abud, K Abeling, DK Abhayasinghe, SH Abidi, OS AbouZeid, NL Abraham, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, B Achkar, L Adam, C Adam Bourdarios, L Adamczyk, L Adamek, J Adelman, A Adiguzel, S Adorni, T Adye, AA Affolder, Y Afik, C Agapopoulou

Abstract:

Neutron stars and quark stars are ideal laboratories to study fundamental physics at supra nuclear densities and strong gravitational fields. Astrophysical observables, however, depend strongly on the star's internal structure, which is currently unknown due to uncertainties in the equation of state. Universal relations, however, exist among certain stellar observables that do not depend sensitively on the star's internal structure. One such set of relations is between the star's moment of inertia ($I$), its tidal Love number (Love) and its quadrupole moment ($Q$), the so-called I-Love-Q relations. Similar relations hold among the star's multipole moments, which resemble the well-known black hole no-hair theorems. Universal relations break degeneracies among astrophysical observables, leading to a variety of applications: (i) X-ray measurements of the nuclear matter equation of state, (ii) gravitational wave measurements of the intrinsic spin of inspiraling compact objects, and (iii) gravitational and astrophysical tests of General Relativity that are independent of the equation of state. We here review how the universal relations come about and all the applications that have been devised to date.Comment: 89 pages, 38 figures; review article submitted to Physics Report

Preparing narrow velocity distributions for quantum memories in room-temperature alkali-metal vapors

Physical Review A: American Physical Society 103 (2021) 043105

Authors:

Dougal Main, Thomas Hird, Patrick Ledingham, Dylan Saunders, Ian Walmsley, Shaobo Gao

Abstract:

Quantum memories are a crucial technology for enabling large-scale quantum networks through synchronization of probabilistic operations. Such networks impose strict requirements on quantum memory, such as storage time, retrieval efficiency, bandwidth, and scalability. On- and off-resonant ladder protocols on warm atomic vapor platforms are promising candidates, combining efficient high-bandwidth operation with low-noise on-demand retrieval. However, their storage time is severely limited by motion-induced dephasing caused by the broad velocity distribution of atoms composing the vapor. In this paper, we demonstrate velocity selective optical pumping to overcome this decoherence mechanism. This will increase the achievable memory storage time of vapor memories. This technique can also be used for preparing arbitrarily shaped absorption profiles, for instance, preparing an atomic frequency comb absorption feature.