Calibration of a soft secondary vertex tagger using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
ArXiv 2405.03253 (2024)
Improving topological cluster reconstruction using calorimeter cell timing in ATLAS
European Physical Journal C Springer Nature 84:5 (2024) 455
A search for R-parity-violating supersymmetry in final states containing many jets in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Journal of High Energy Physics Springer 2024:5 (2024) 3
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A search for R-parity-violating supersymmetry in final states with high jet multiplicity is presented. The search uses 140 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data at s = 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider. The results are interpreted in the context of R-parity-violating supersymmetry models that feature prompt gluino-pair production decaying directly to three jets each or decaying to two jets and a neutralino which subsequently decays promptly to three jets. No significant excess over the Standard Model expectation is observed and exclusion limits at the 95% confidence level are extracted. Gluinos with masses up to 1800 GeV are excluded when decaying directly to three jets. In the cascade scenario, gluinos with masses up to 2340 GeV are excluded for a neutralino with mass up to 1250 GeV.Compatibility and combination of world W -boson mass measurements
The European Physical Journal C SpringerOpen 84:5 (2024) 451
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The compatibility of W-boson mass measurements performed by the ATLAS, LHCb, CDF, and D0 experiments is studied using a coherent framework with theory uncertainty correlations. The measurements are combined using a number of recent sets of parton distribution functions (PDF), and are further combined with the average value of measurements from the Large Electron–Positron collider. The considered PDF sets generally have a low compatibility with a suite of global rapidity-sensitive Drell–Yan measurements. The most compatible set is CT18 due to its larger uncertainties. A combination of all mW measurements yields a value of mW=80, 394.6±11.5 MeV with the CT18 set, but has a probability of compatibility of 0.5% and is therefore disfavoured. Combinations are performed removing each measurement individually, and a 91% probability of compatibility is obtained when the CDF measurement is removed. The corresponding value of the W boson mass is 80, 369.2±13.3 MeV, which differs by 3.6σ from the CDF value determined using the same PDF set.Quad-module characterization with the MALTA monolithic pixel chip
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Elsevier 1064 (2024) 169306
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The MALTA silicon pixel detector combines a depleted monolithic active pixel sensor (DMAPS) with a fully asynchronous front-end and readout. It features a high granularity pixel matrix with a 36.4 μm symmetric pixel pitch, low power consumption of <1 μW∕pixel and low material budget with detector thicknesses as little as 50 μm. It achieves a radiation hardness to 100MRad TID and more than 1 × 10E15 1 MeV 𝑛eq∕cm2 with a time resolution of <2 ns (Pernegger et al., 2023).In order to cover large sensitive areas efficiently with a minimum of power and data connections the development of modules, comprising of up to 4 MALTA detectors, is studied.
This contribution presents the beam test performance of parallel and serial powered MALTA 4-chip modules in an effort to characterize the sensor’s chip-to-chip data and power transmission and prepare the production of a first prototype of an ultra-light weight 4-chip module on a flexible circuit with next generation MALTA2 sensors.