Identification of high transverse momentum top quarks in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Journal of High Energy Physics Springer 2016:6 (2016)
Abstract:
This paper presents studies of the performance of several jet-substructure techniques, which are used to identify hadronically decaying top quarks with high transverse momentum contained in large-radius jets. The efficiency of identifying top quarks is measured using a sample of top-quark pairs and the rate of wrongly identifying jets from other quarks or gluons as top quarks is measured using multijet events collected with the ATLAS experiment in 20.3 fb^−1 of 8 TeV proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Predictions from Monte Carlo simulations are found to provide an accurate description of the performance. The techniques are compared in terms of signal efficiency and background rejection using simulations, covering a larger range in jet transverse momenta than accessible in the dataset. Additionally, a novel technique is developed that is optimized to reconstruct top quarks in events with many jets.Implementations of Custom Sonar Instruments for Binary Gas Mixture and Flow Analysis in the ATLAS Experiment at the CERN LHC
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 63:3 (2016) 1659-1667
LUMINEU: a search for neutrinoless double beta decay based on ZnMoO 4 scintillating bolometers
Journal of Physics: Conference Series Institute of Physics 718:6 (2016) 062008
Abstract:
The LUMINEU is designed to investigate the possibility to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in 100Mo by means of a large array of scintillating bolometers based on ZnMoO4 crystals enriched in 100Mo. High energy resolution and relatively fast detectors, which are able to measure both the light and the heat generated upon the interaction of a particle in a crystal, are very promising for the recognition and rejection of background events. We present the LUMINEU concepts and the experimental results achieved aboveground and underground with large-mass natural and enriched crystals. The measured energy resolution, the α/β discrimination power and the radioactive internal contamination are all within the specifications for the projected final LUMINEU sensitivity. Simulations and preliminary results confirm that the LUMINEU technology can reach zero background in the region of interest (around 3 MeV) with exposures of the order of hundreds kgXyears, setting the bases for a next generation 0v2β decay experiment capable to explore the inverted hierarchy region of the neutrino mass pattern.Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in low-mass bottom-quark pairs produced in proton-antiproton collisions
Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 93:11 (2016) 112003
Measurement of the forward–backward asymmetry of top-quark and antiquark pairs using the full CDF Run II data set
Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 93:11 (2016) 112005