Searches for higgs bosons beyond the standard model at the tevatron

Proceedings of Science (2010)

Abstract:

There are many reasons to expect new non-standard-model processes at the electroweak scale, and additional Higgs bosons are a common feature of new-physics models. Recent Tevatron searches have expanded the sensitivity to Higgs bosons predicted by numerous models, including the minimal and next-to-minimal supersymmetric models. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence.

The ATLAS Inner Detector commissioning and calibration

European Physical Journal C 70:3 (2010) 787-821

Authors:

G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, AA Abdelalim, A Abdesselam, O Abdinov, B Abi, M Abolins, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, BS Acharya, DL Adams, TN Addy, J Adelman, C Adorisio, P Adragna, T Adye, S Aefsky, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, M Aharrouche, SP Ahlen, F Ahles, A Ahmad, M Ahsan, G Aielli, T Akdogan, TPA Åkesson, G Akimoto, AV Akimov, A Aktas, MS Alam, MA Alam, S Albrand, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, C Alexa, G Alexander, G Alexandre, T Alexopoulos, M Alhroob, M Aliev, G Alimonti, J Alison, M Aliyev, PP Allport, SE Allwood-Spiers, J Almond, A Aloisio, R Alon, A Alonso, MG Alviggi, K Amako, C Amelung, A Amorim, G Amorós, N Amram, C Anastopoulos, T Andeen, CF Anders, KJ Anderson, A Andreazza, V Andrei, XS Anduaga, A Angerami, F Anghinolfi, N Anjos, A Annovi, A Antonaki, M Antonelli, S Antonelli, J Antos, B Antunovic, F Anulli, S Aoun, G Arabidze, I Aracena, Y Arai, ATH Arce, JP Archambault, S Arfaoui, JF Arguin, T Argyropoulos, M Arik, AJ Armbruster, O Arnaez, C Arnault, A Artamonov, D Arutinov, M Asai, S Asai, R Asfandiyarov, S Ask, B Åsman, D Asner, L Asquith, K Assamagan, A Astvatsatourov, G Atoian, B Auerbach, K Augsten

Abstract:

The ATLAS Inner Detector is a composite tracking system consisting of silicon pixels, silicon strips and straw tubes in a 2 T magnetic field. Its installation was completed in August 2008 and the detector took part in data-taking with single LHC beams and cosmic rays. The initial detector operation, hardware commissioning and in-situ calibrations are described. Tracking performance has been measured with 7. 6 million cosmic-ray events, collected using a tracking trigger and reconstructed with modular pattern-recognition and fitting software. The intrinsic hit efficiency and tracking trigger efficiencies are close to 100%. Lorentz angle measurements for both electrons and holes, specific energy-loss calibration and transition radiation turn-on measurements have been performed. Different alignment techniques have been used to reconstruct the detector geometry. After the initial alignment, a transverse impact parameter resolution of 22. 1±0. 9 μm and a relative momentum resolution σp/p=(4. 83±0. 16)×10-4 GeV-1×pT have been measured for high momentum tracks. © 2010 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration.

Studies of the performance of the ATLAS detector using cosmic-ray muons

ArXiv 1011.6665 (2010)

Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead Collisions at sqrt(S(NN))= 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

ArXiv 1011.6182 (2010)

Search for dijet resonances in 7 TeV pp collisions at CMS

Physical Review Letters 105:21 (2010)

Authors:

V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, T Bergauer, M Dragicevic, J Erö, C Fabjan, M Friedl, R Frühwirth, VM Ghete, J Hammer, S Hänsel, C Hartl, M Hoch, N Hörmann, J Hrubec, M Jeitler, G Kasieczka, W Kiesenhofer, M Krammer, D Liko, I Mikulec, M Pernicka, H Rohringer, R Schöfbeck, J Strauss, A Taurok, F Teischinger, W Waltenberger, G Walzel, E Widl, CE Wulz, V Mossolov, N Shumeiko, J Suarez Gonzalez, L Benucci, L Ceard, EA De Wolf, X Janssen, T Maes, L Mucibello, S Ochesanu, B Roland, R Rougny, M Selvaggi, H Van Haevermaet, P Van Mechelen, N Van Remortel, V Adler, S Beauceron, S Blyweert, J D'Hondt, O Devroede, A Kalogeropoulos, J Maes, M Maes, S Tavernier, W Van Doninck, P Van Mulders, I Villella, EC Chabert, O Charaf, B Clerbaux, G De Lentdecker, V Dero, APR Gay, GH Hammad, T Hreus, PE Marage, L Thomas, C Vander Velde, P Vanlaer, J Wickens, S Costantini, M Grunewald, B Klein, A Marinov, D Ryckbosch, F Thyssen, M Tytgat, L Vanelderen, P Verwilligen, S Walsh, N Zaganidis, S Basegmez, G Bruno, J Caudron, J De Favereau De Jeneret, C Delaere, P Demin, D Favart, A Giammanco, G Grégoire, J Hollar, V Lemaitre, O Militaru, S Ovyn, D Pagano, A Pin

Abstract:

A search for narrow resonances in the dijet mass spectrum is performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.9pb⊃-1 collected by the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level are presented on the product of the resonance cross section, branching fraction into dijets, and acceptance, separately for decays into quark-quark, quark-gluon, or gluon-gluon pairs. The data exclude new particles predicted in the following models at the 95% confidence level: string resonances, with mass less than 2.50 TeV, excited quarks, with mass less than 1.58 TeV, and axigluons, colorons, and E6 diquarks, in specific mass intervals. This extends previously published limits on these models. Copyright © 2010 American Physical Society.