Search for new phenomena in events with three charged leptons at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 87:5 (2013)
Abstract:
A generic search for anomalous production of events with at least three charged leptons is presented. The search uses a pp-collision data sample at a center-of-mass energy of √s=7 TeV corresponding to 4.6 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected in 2011 by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Events are required to contain at least two electrons or muons, while the third lepton may either be an additional electron or muon, or a hadronically decaying tau lepton. Events are categorized by the presence or absence of a reconstructed tau-lepton or Z-boson candidate decaying to leptons. No significant excess above backgrounds expected from Standard Model processes is observed. Results are presented as upper limits on event yields from non-Standard-Model processes producing at least three prompt, isolated leptons, given as functions of lower bounds on several kinematic variables. Fiducial efficiencies for model testing are also provided. The use of the results is illustrated by setting upper limits on the production of doubly charged Higgs bosons decaying to same-sign lepton pairs.Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair in pp collisions at the LHC
ArXiv 1303.0763 (2013)
Search for third generation scalar leptoquarks in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
ArXiv 1303.0526 (2013)
Jet energy resolution in proton-proton collisions at √ s = 7 TeV recorded in 2010 with the ATLAS detector
European Physical Journal C 73:3 (2013)
Abstract:
The measurement of the jet energy resolution is presented using data recorded with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at √ s = 7 TeV. The sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb−1. Jets are reconstructed from energy deposits measured by the calorimeters and calibrated using different jet calibration schemes. The jet energy resolution is measured with two different in situ methods which are found to be in agreement within uncertainties. The total uncertainties on these measurements range from 20 % to 10 % for jets within |y| < 2.8 and with transverse momenta increasing from 30 GeV to 500 GeV. Overall, the Monte Carlo simulation of the jet energy resolution agrees with the data within 10 %.Measurement of the tt production cross section in the tau + jets channel using the ATLAS detector
European Physical Journal C 73:3 (2013)