Future Colliders

Research group

Research theme

Sub department

About

Drift Time Measurement in the ATLAS Liquid Argon Electromagnetic Calorimeter using Cosmic Muons

European Physical Journal C 70:3 (2010) 755-785

Authors:

The ATLAS Collaboration, 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, H Ahmed, M Ahsan, G Aielli, T Akdogan, TPA Åkesson, G Akimoto, AV Akimov, A Aktas, MS Alam, MA Alam, J Albert, S Albrand, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, F Alessandria, 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, VV Ammosov, 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 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, E Arik, 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

Abstract:

The ionization signals in the liquid argon of the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter are studied in detail using cosmic muons. In particular, the drift time of the ionization electrons is measured and used to assess the intrinsic uniformity of the calorimeter gaps and estimate its impact on the constant term of the energy resolution. The drift times of electrons in the cells of the second layer of the calorimeter are uniform at the level of 1.3% in the barrel and 2.8% in the endcaps. This leads to an estimated contribution to the constant term of (0.290.040.05)% in the barrel and (0.540.040.06)% in the endcaps. The same data are used to measure the drift velocity of ionization electrons in liquid argon, which is found to be 4.61±0.07 mm/μs at 88.5 K and 1 kV/mm. © 2010 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration.
More details from the publisher
More details

Events with an isolated lepton and missing transverse momentum and measurement of W production at HERA

Journal of High Energy Physics 2010:3 (2010)

Authors:

FD Aaron, H Abramowicz, I Abt, L Adamczyk, M Adamus, M Aldaya Martin, C Alexa, V Andreev, S Antonelli, P Antonioli, A Antonov, B Antunovic, M Arneodo, V Aushev, O Bachynska, S Backovic, A Baghdasaryan, A Bamberger, AN Barakbaev, G Barbagli, G Bari, F Barreiro, E Barrelet, W Bartel, D Bartsch, M Basile, K Begzsuren, O Behnke, J Behr, U Behrens, L Bellagamba, A Belousov, A Bertolin, S Bhadra, M Bindi, JC Bizot, C Blohm, T Bołd, EG Boos, M Borodin, K Borras, D Boscherini, D Bot, V Boudry, SK Boutle, I Bozovic-Jelisavcic, J Bracinik, G Brandt, M Brinkmann, V Brisson, I Brock, E Brownson, R Brugnera, N Brümmer, D Bruncko, A Bruni, G Bruni, B Brzozowska, A Bunyatyan, G Buschhorn, PJ Bussey, JM Butterworth, B Bylsma, L Bystritskaya, A Caldwell, AJ Campbell, KB Cantun Avila, M Capua, R Carlin, CD Catterall, K Cerny, V Cerny, S Chekanov, V Chekelian, A Cholewa, J Chwastowski, J Ciborowski, R Ciesielski, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, JG Contreras, AM Cooper-Sarkar, N Coppola, M Corradi, F Corriveau, M Costa, JA Coughlan, G Cozzika, J Cvach, G D’Agostini, JB Dainton, F Dal Corso, K Daum, M Deák, J de Favereau, B Delcourt, M Del Degan, J del Peso, J Delvax

Abstract:

A search for events containing an isolated electron or muon and missing transverse momentum produced in e±p collisions is performed with the H1 and ZEUS detectors at HERA. The data were taken in the period 1994-2007 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 0.98 fb-1. The observed event yields are in good overall agreement with the Standard Model prediction, which is dominated by single W production. In the e+p data, at large hadronic transverse momentum PTX < 25GeV, a total of 23 events are observed compared to a prediction of 14.0 ±1.9. The total single W boson production cross section is measured as 1.06 ± 0.16 (stat.) ± 0.07 (sys.) pb, in agreement with an Standard Model (SM) expectation of 1.26 ± 0.19 pb.
More details from the publisher
Details from ORA

Fine synchronization of the CMS muon drift-tube local trigger using cosmic rays

Journal of Instrumentation 5:3 (2010)

Authors:

S Chatrchyan, V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, W Adam, B Arnold, H Bergauer, T Bergauer, M Dragicevic, M Eichberger, J Erö, M Friedl, R Frühwirth, VM Ghete, J Hammer, S Hansel, M Hoch, N Hörmann, J Hrubec, M Jeitler, G Kasieczka, K Kastner, M Krammer, D Liko, I De Magrans Abril, I Mikulec, F Mittermayr, B Neuherz, M Oberegger, M Padrta, M Pernicka, H Rohringer, S Schmid, R Schöfbeck, T Schreiner, R Stark, H Steininger, J Strauss, A Taurok, F Teischinger, T Themel, D Uhl, P Wagner, W Waltenberger, G Walzel, E Widl, CE Wulz, V Chekhovsky, O Dvornikov, I Emeliantchik, A Litomin, V Makarenko, I Marfin, V Mossolov, N Shumeiko, A Solin, R Stefanovitch, J Suarez Gonzalez, A Tikhonov, A Fedorov, A Karneyeu, M Korzhik, V Panov, R Zuyeuski, P Kuchinsky, W Beaumont, L Benucci, M Cardaci, EA De Wolf, E Delmeire, D Druzhkin, M Hashemi, X Janssen, T Maes, L Mucibello, S Ochesanu, R Rougny, M Selvaggi, H Van Haevermaet, P Van Mechelen, N Van Remortel, V Adler, S Beauceron, S Blyweert, J D'Hondt, S De Weirdt, O Devroede, J Heyninck, A Kalogeropoulos, J Maes, M Maes, MU Mozer, S Tavernier, W Van Doninck, P Van Mulders, I Villella, O Bouhali, EC Chabert, O Charaf, B Clerbaux, G De Lentdecker

Abstract:

The CMS experiment uses self-triggering arrays of drift tubes in the barrel muon trigger to perform the identification of the correct bunch crossing. The identification is unique only if the trigger chain is correctly synchronized. In this paper, the synchronization performed during an extended cosmic ray run is described and the results are reported. The random arrival time of cosmic ray muons allowed several synchronization aspects to be studied and a simple method for the fine synchronization of the Drift Tube Local Trigger at LHC to be developed. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA.
More details from the publisher

First measurement of the underlying event activity at the LHC with √ = 0.9 TeV

European Physical Journal C 70:3 (2010) 555-572

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, 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, M Hashemi, 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, PE Marage, 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, K Piotrzkowski, L Quertenmont

Abstract:

A measurement of the underlying activity in scattering processes with pT scale in the GeV region is performed in proton-proton collisions at √ = 0.9 TeV, using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. Charged particle production is studied with reference to the direction of a leading object, either a charged particle or a set of charged particles forming a jet. Predictions of several QCD-inspired models as implemented in PYTHIA are compared, after full detector simulation, to the data. The models generally predict too little production of charged particles with pseudorapidity {pipe}η{pipe} < 2, pT > 0.5 GeV/c, and azimuthal direction transverse to that of the leading object. © 2010 CERN for benefit of the CMS collaboration.
More details from the publisher
More details
Details from ArXiV

From the LHC to future colliders

European Physical Journal C 66:3 (2010) 525-583

Authors:

A de Roeck, J Ellis, C Grojean, S Heinemeyer, K Jakobs, G Weiglein, J Wells, G Azuelos, S Dawson, B Gripaios, T Han, J Hewett, M Lancaster, C Mariotti, F Moortgat, G Moortgat-Pick, G Polesello, S Riemann, M Schumacher, K Assamagan, P Bechtle, M Carena, G Chachamis, KF Chen, S De Curtis, K Desch, M Dittmar, H Dreiner, M Dührssen, B Foster, MT Frandsen, A Giammanco, R Godbole, S Gopalakrishna, P Govoni, J Gunion, W Hollik, WS Hou, G Isidori, A Juste, J Kalinowski, A Korytov, E Kou, S Kraml, M Krawczyk, A Martin, D Milstead, V Morton-Thurtle, K Moenig, B Mele, E Ozcan, M Pieri, T Plehn, L Reina, E Richter-Was, T Rizzo, K Rolbiecki, F Sannino, M Schram, J Smillie, S Sultansoy, J Tattersall, P Uwer, B Webber, P Wienemann

Abstract:

Discoveries at the LHC will soon set the physics agenda for future colliders. This report of a CERN Theory Institute includes the summaries of Working Groups that reviewed the physics goals and prospects of LHC running with 10 to 300 fb-1 of integrated luminosity, of the proposed sLHC luminosity upgrade, of the ILC, of CLIC, of the LHeC and of a muon collider. The four Working Groups considered possible scenarios for the first 10 fb-1 of data at the LHC in which (i) a state with properties that are compatible with a Higgs boson is discovered, (ii) no such state is discovered either because the Higgs properties are such that it is difficult to detect or because no Higgs boson exists, (iii) a missing-energy signal beyond the Standard Model is discovered as in some supersymmetric models, and (iv) some other exotic signature of new physics is discovered. In the contexts of these scenarios, the Working Groups reviewed the capabilities of the future colliders to study in more detail whatever new physics may be discovered by the LHC. Their reports provide the particle physics community with some tools for reviewing the scientific priorities for future colliders after the LHC produces its first harvest of new physics from multi-TeV collisions. © Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica 2010.
More details from the publisher