Search for new resonances in mass distributions of jet pairs using 139 fb −1 of pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Journal of High Energy Physics 2020:3 (2020)

Authors:

G Aad, B Abbott, Dc Abbott, A Abed Abud, K Abeling, Dk Abhayasinghe, Sh Abidi, Os AbouZeid, Nl Abraham, H Abramowicz, T Adye, Aa Affolder, Y Afik, C Agheorghiesei, Ja Aguilar-Saavedra, F Ahmadov, S Akatsuka, Tpa Åkesson, E Akilli, J Albert, Mj Alconada Verzini, S Alderweireldt, T Alexopoulos, A Alfonsi, F Alfonsi

Abstract:

© 2020, The Author(s). A search for new resonances decaying into a pair of jets is reported using the dataset of proton-proton collisions recorded at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider between 2015 and 2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. The distribution of the invariant mass of the two leading jets is examined for local excesses above a data-derived estimate of the Standard Model background. In addition to an inclusive dijet search, events with jets identified as containing b-hadrons are examined specifically. No significant excess of events above the smoothly falling background spectra is observed. The results are used to set cross-section upper limits at 95% confidence level on a range of new physics scenarios. Model-independent limits on Gaussian-shaped signals are also reported. The analysis looking at jets containing b-hadrons benefits from improvements in the jet flavour identification at high transverse momentum, which increases its sensitivity relative to the previous analysis beyond that expected from the higher integrated luminosity. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Searches for electroweak production of supersymmetric particles with compressed mass spectra in √s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology American Physical Society 101:5 (2020) 052005

Authors:

Luca Ambroz, Giacomo Artoni, Moritz Backes, William Balunas, Alan Barr, Lydia Beresford, Daniela Bortoletto, Amanda Cooper-Sarkar, Foti, Joanna Frost, Gabriel Emmanuel Gallardo, Elizabeth Gallas, Claire Gwenlan, Hays, Brian Huffman, Kla Karava, Luigi Marchese, Claudia Merlassino, Koichi Nagai, Richard Nickerson, O'Neill, SR Paredes Saenz, Petrov, Elisabeth Schopf, Sharma, Shipsey, Beojan Stanislaus, Migle Stankaityte, Cecilia Tosciri, Tseng, Georg Viehhauser, Anthony Weidberg, Wölker, Gabija Zemaityte, Zgubič

Abstract:

This paper presents results of searches for the electroweak production of supersymmetric particles in models with compressed mass spectra. The searches use 139 fb⁻¹ of √s = 13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with missing transverse momentum and two same-flavor, oppositely charged, low-transverse-momentum leptons are selected, and are further categorized by the presence of hadronic activity from initial-state radiation or a topology compatible with vector-boson fusion processes. The data are found to be consistent with predictions from the Standard Model. The results are interpreted using simplified models of R-parity-conserving supersymmetry in which the lightest supersymmetric partner is a neutralino with a mass similar to the lightest chargino, the second-to-lightest neutralino, or the slepton. Lower limits on the masses of charginos in different simplified models range from 193 to 240 GeV for moderate mass splittings, and extend down to mass splittings of 1.5 to 2.4 GeV at the LEP chargino bounds (92.4 GeV). Similar lower limits on degenerate light-flavor sleptons extend up to masses of 251 GeV and down to mass splittings of 550 MeV. Constraints on vector-boson fusion production of electroweak SUSY states are also presented.

Search for long-lived neutral particles produced in pp collisions at s=13 TeV decaying into displaced hadronic jets in the ATLAS inner detector and muon spectrometer

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 101:5 (2020) 052013

Authors:

G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott, A Abed Abud, K Abeling, DK Abhayasinghe, SH Abidi, OS AbouZeid, NL Abraham, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, B Achkar, S Adachi, L Adam, C Adam Bourdarios, L Adamczyk, L Adamek, J Adelman, M Adersberger, A Adiguzel, S Adorni, T Adye, AA Affolder, Y Afik, C Agapopoulou, MN Agaras, A Aggarwal, C Agheorghiesei, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, F Ahmadov, WS Ahmed, X Ai, G Aielli, S Akatsuka, TPA Åkesson, E Akilli, AV Akimov, K Al Khoury, GL Alberghi, J Albert, MJ Alconada Verzini, S Alderweireldt, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, C Alexa, T Alexopoulos, A Alfonsi, F Alfonsi, M Alhroob, B Ali, M Aliev, G Alimonti, SP Alkire, C Allaire, BMM Allbrooke, BW Allen, PP Allport, A Aloisio, F Alonso, C Alpigiani, AA Alshehri, M Alvarez Estevez, MG Alviggi, Y Amaral Coutinho, A Ambler, L Ambroz, C Amelung, D Amidei, SP Amor Dos Santos, S Amoroso, CS Amrouche, F An, C Anastopoulos, N Andari, T Andeen, CF Anders, JK Anders, A Andreazza, V Andrei, CR Anelli, S Angelidakis, A Angerami, AV Anisenkov, A Annovi, C Antel, MT Anthony, E Antipov, M Antonelli, DJA Antrim, F Anulli, M Aoki, JA Aparisi Pozo, L Aperio Bella, JP Araque, V Araujo Ferraz, R Araujo Pereira, C Arcangeletti, ATH Arce, FA Arduh, J-F Arguin, S Argyropoulos, J-H Arling, AJ Armbruster, A Armstrong, O Arnaez, H Arnold, ZP Arrubarrena Tame, G Artoni, S Artz, S Asai, T Asawatavonvanich, N Asbah, EM Asimakopoulou, L Asquith, J Assahsah, K Assamagan, R Astalos, RJ Atkin, M Atkinson, NB Atlay, H Atmani, K Augsten, G Avolio, R Avramidou, MK Ayoub, AM Azoulay, G Azuelos, H Bachacou, K Bachas, M Backes, F Backman, P Bagnaia, M Bahmani, H Bahrasemani, AJ Bailey, VR Bailey, JT Baines, C Bakalis, OK Baker, PJ Bakker, D Bakshi Gupta, S Balaji, EM Baldin, P Balek, F Balli, WK Balunas, J Balz, E Banas, A Bandyopadhyay, Sw Banerjee, AAE Bannoura, L Barak, WM Barbe, EL Barberio, D Barberis, M Barbero, G Barbour, T Barillari, M-S Barisits, J Barkeloo, T Barklow, R Barnea, SL Barnes, BM Barnett, RM Barnett, Z Barnovska-Blenessy, A Baroncelli, G Barone, AJ Barr, L Barranco Navarro, F Barreiro, J Barreiro Guimarães da Costa, S Barsov, R Bartoldus, G Bartolini, AE Barton, P Bartos, A Basalaev, A Basan, A Bassalat, MJ Basso, RL Bates, S Batlamous, JR Batley, B Batool, M Battaglia, M Bauce, F Bauer, KT Bauer, HS Bawa, JB Beacham, T Beau, PH Beauchemin, F Becherer, P Bechtle, HC Beck, HP Beck, K Becker, C Becot, A Beddall, AJ Beddall, VA Bednyakov, M Bedognetti, CP Bee, TA Beermann, M Begalli, M Begel, A Behera, JK Behr, F Beisiegel, AS Bell, G Bella, L Bellagamba, A Bellerive, P Bellos, K Beloborodov, K Belotskiy, NL Belyaev, D Benchekroun, N Benekos, Y Benhammou, DP Benjamin, M Benoit, JR Bensinger, S Bentvelsen, L Beresford, M Beretta, D Berge, E Bergeaas Kuutmann, N Berger, B Bergmann, LJ Bergsten, J Beringer, S Berlendis, G Bernardi, C Bernius, FU Bernlochner, T Berry, P Berta, C Bertella, IA Bertram, O Bessidskaia Bylund, N Besson, A Bethani, S Bethke, A Betti, AJ Bevan, J Beyer, DS 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Search for PeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Southern Hemisphere with 5 Years of Data from the IceCube Observatory

The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics American Astronomical Society (2020)

Authors:

H Bagherpour, C Argüelles, J Auffenberg, T Anderson, I Ansseau, P Backes, G Anton, S Axani, X Bai, E Bernardini, DZ Besson, E Blaufuss, D Bindig, S BenZvi, D Berley, JB Tjus, G Binder, S Blot, J Brostean-Kaiser, RS Busse, D Chirkin, A Burgman, J Buscher, T Carver, E Cheung

Abstract:

The measurement of diffuse PeV gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane would provide information about the energy spectrum and propagation of Galactic cosmic rays, and the detection of a point-like source of PeV gamma rays would be strong evidence for a Galactic source capable of accelerating cosmic rays up to at least a few PeV. This paper presents several un-binned maximum likelihood searches for PeV gamma rays in the Southern Hemisphere using 5 years of data from the IceTop air shower surface detector and the in-ice array of the IceCube Observatory. The combination of both detectors takes advantage of the low muon content and deep shower maximum of gamma-ray air showers, and provides excellent sensitivity to gamma rays between $\sim$0.6 PeV and 100 PeV. Our measurements of point-like and diffuse Galactic emission of PeV gamma rays are consistent with background, so we constrain the angle-integrated diffuse gamma-ray flux from the Galactic Plane at 2 PeV to $2.61 \times 10^{-19}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ TeV$^{-1}$ at 90% confidence, assuming an E$^{-3}$ spectrum, and we estimate 90% upper limits on point-like emission at 2 PeV between 10$^{-21}$ - 10$^{-20}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ TeV$^{-1}$ for an E$^{-2}$ spectrum, depending on declination. Furthermore, we exclude unbroken power-law emission up to 2 PeV for several TeV gamma-ray sources observed by H.E.S.S., and calculate upper limits on the energy cutoffs of these sources at 90% confidence. We also find no PeV gamma rays correlated with neutrinos from IceCube's high-energy starting event sample. These are currently the strongest constraints on PeV gamma-ray emission.

A Search for MeV to TeV Neutrinos from Fast Radio Bursts with IceCube

The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics American Astronomical Society (2020)

Authors:

GW Sullivan, T Stürwald, K Tollefson, T Stuttard, L Tomankova, A Terliuk, F Tenholt, I Taboada, S Tilav, M Tselengidou, S Toscano, CF Turley, A Turcati, R Turcotte, C Tönnis, A Trettin, CF Tung, D Tosi, J Vandenbroucke, MAU Elorrieta, NV Eijndhoven, WV Driessche, S Vanheule, E Unger, M Usner

Abstract:

We present two searches for IceCube neutrino events coincident with 28 fast radio bursts (FRBs) and one repeating FRB. The first improves upon a previous IceCube analysis -- searching for spatial and temporal correlation of events with FRBs at energies greater than roughly 50 GeV -- by increasing the effective area by an order of magnitude. The second is a search for temporal correlation of MeV neutrino events with FRBs. No significant correlation is found in either search, therefore, we set upper limits on the time-integrated neutrino flux emitted by FRBs for a range of emission timescales less than one day. These are the first limits on FRB neutrino emission at the MeV scale, and the limits set at higher energies are an order-of-magnitude improvement over those set by any neutrino telescope.