Studies of jet quenching using isolated-photon+jet correlations in PbPb and pp collisions at sNN=2.76TeV
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 718:3 (2013) 773-794
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Results from the first study of isolated-photon+jet correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions are reported. The analysis uses data from PbPb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 2.76TeV per nucleon pair corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 150μb-1 recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. For events containing an isolated photon with transverse momentum pTγ>60GeV/c and an associated jet with pTJet>30GeV/c, the photon+jet pT imbalance is studied as a function of collision centrality and compared to pp data and pythia calculations at the same collision energy. Using the pTγ of the isolated photon as an estimate of the momentum of the associated parton at production, this measurement allows an unbiased characterisation of the in-medium parton energy loss. For more central PbPb collisions, a significant decrease in the ratio pTJet/pTγ relative to that in the pythia reference is observed. Furthermore, significantly more pTγ>60GeV/c photons in PbPb are observed not to have an associated pTJet>30GeV/c jet, compared to the reference. However, no significant broadening of the photon+jet azimuthal correlation is observed. © 2012 CERN.Measurement of the elliptic anisotropy of charged particles produced in PbPb collisions at √sNN =2.76 TeV
Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics 87:1 (2013)
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The anisotropy of the azimuthal distributions of charged particles produced in √sNN=2.76 TeV PbPb collisions is studied with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The elliptic anisotropy parameter, v2, defined as the second coefficient in a Fourier expansion of the particle invariant yields, is extracted using the event-plane method, two- and four-particle cumulants, and Lee-Yang zeros. The anisotropy is presented as a function of transverse momentum (pT), pseudorapidity (η) over a broad kinematic range, 0.3Search for supersymmetry in events with opposite-sign dileptons and missing transverse energy using an artificial neural network
ArXiv 1301.0916 (2013)
Measurement of the Bc-meson lifetime in the decay Bc-→J/ψπ
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 87:1 (2013)
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The lifetime of the Bc- meson is measured using 272 exclusive Bc-→J/ψ(→μ+μ-)π- decays reconstructed in data from proton-antiproton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.7 fb-1 recorded by the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The lifetime of the Bc- meson is measured to be τ(Bc-)=0.452±0.048(stat)±0.027(syst) ps. This is the first measurement of the Bc- meson lifetime in a fully reconstructed hadronic channel, and it agrees with previous results and has comparable precision. © 2013 American Physical Society.3D-FBK pixel sensors with CMS readout: First test results
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 718 (2013) 342-344