Search for WH production with a light Higgs boson decaying to prompt electron-jets in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ArXiv 1302.4403 (2013)

Search for a light charged Higgs boson in the decay channel H+->csbar in ttbar events using pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ArXiv 1302.3694 (2013)

Finding extraterrestrial life using ground-based high-resolution spectroscopy

(2013)

Authors:

Ignas Snellen, Remco de Kok, Rudolf Le Poole, Matteo Brogi, Jayne Birkby

Measurement of the cross-section for W boson production in association with b-jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ArXiv 1302.2929 (2013)

Measurement of the flavour composition of dijet events in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

European Physical Journal C Springer 73:2 (2013) 2301

Authors:

Alan J Barr, Amanda M Cooper-Sarkar, Elizabeth J Gallas, Claire Gwenlan, Christopher P Hays, B Todd Huffman, Cigdem Issever, Richard B Nickerson, Nicholas C Ryder, Jeffrey C-L Tseng, Georg HA Viehhauser, Anthony R Weidberg, Jiahang Zhong

Abstract:

This paper describes a measurement of the flavour composition of dijet events produced in pp collisions at s√=7~TeVs=7~TeV using the ATLAS detector. The measurement uses the full 2010 data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 39 pb−1. Six possible combinations of light, charm and bottom jets are identified in the dijet events, where the jet flavour is defined by the presence of bottom, charm or solely light flavour hadrons in the jet. Kinematic variables, based on the properties of displaced decay vertices and optimised for jet flavour identification, are used in a multidimensional template fit to measure the fractions of these dijet flavour states as functions of the leading jet transverse momentum in the range 40 GeV to 500 GeV and jet rapidity |y|<2.1. The fit results agree with the predictions of leading- and next-to-leading-order calculations, with the exception of the dijet fraction composed of bottom and light flavour jets, which is underestimated by all models at large transverse jet momenta. The ability to identify jets containing two b-hadrons, originating from e.g. gluon splitting, is demonstrated. The difference between bottom jet production rates in leading and subleading jets is consistent with the next-to-leading-order predictions.