Browsing by Author "Spearman, William"
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Constraints on non-Standard Model Higgs boson interactions in an effective Lagrangian using differential cross sections measured in the H→γγ decay channel at s√=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Clark, Brian Lee; Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Ippolito, Valerio; Lazovich, Tomo; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Skottowe, Hugh Philip; Spearman, William; Sun, Siyuan; Tolley, Emma; Tuna, Alexander; Yen, Andy; Zambito, Stefano (Elsevier BV, 2016)The strength and tensor structure of the Higgs boson's interactions are investigated within an effective field theory framework, which allows new CP-even and CP-odd interactions that can lead to changes in the kinematic ... -
Dark Matter Interpretations of ATLAS Searches for the Electroweak Production of Supersymmetric Particles in S =8 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Morii, Masahiro; Spearman, William (Springer Nature, 2016)A selection of searches by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC for the electroweak production of SUSY particles are used to study their impact on the constraints on dark matter candidates. The searches use 20 fb−1 of proton–proton ... -
Determination of Spin and Parity of the Higgs Boson in the WW ∗ →eνμν Decay Channel With the ATLAS Detector
Clark, Brian Lee; Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Ippolito, Valerio; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Spearman, William; Sun, Siyuan; Tolley, Emma; Yen, Andy (Springer Nature, 2015)Studies of the spin and parity quantum numbers of the Higgs boson in the WW ∗ →eνμν final state are presented, based on proton–proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding ... -
Determination of the ratio of b-quark fragmentation fractions fs/fd in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Clark, Brian Lee; Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Ippolito, Valerio; Lazovich, Tomo; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Spearman, William; Sun, Siyuan; Tolley, Emma; Yen, Andy; Zambito, Stefano (American Physical Society (APS), 2015)With an integrated luminosity of 2.47 fb−1 recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, the exclusive decays B0s→J/ψϕ and B0d→J/ψK∗0 of B mesons produced in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV are used to determine the ratio of ... -
Determination of the Top-Quark Pole Mass Using T T + 1-Jet Events Collected With the ATLAS Experiment in 7 TeV Pp Collisions
Morii, Masahiro; Franklin, Melissa; Clark, B; Huth, John; Spearman, William; Lopez Mateos, D; Ippolito, Victoria; Barreiro Guimarães da Costa, J; Skottowe, H (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015-10)The normalized differential cross section for top-quark pair production in association with at least one jet is studied as a function of the inverse of the invariant mass of the ����⎯⎯+ 1-jet system. This distribution can ... -
Dijet production in s√=7 TeV pp collisions with large rapidity gaps at the ATLAS experiment
Clark, Brian Lee; Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Ippolito, Valerio; Lazovich, Tomo; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Spearman, William; Sun, Siyuan; Tolley, Emma; Tuna, Alexander; Yen, Andy; Zambito, Stefano (Elsevier BV, 2016)A 6.8 nb−1 sample of pp collision data collected under low-luminosity conditions at s√=7 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider is used to study diffractive dijet production. Events containing at least two ... -
Erratum To: Search for New Phenomena in Final States With an Energetic Jet and Large Missing Transverse Momentum in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV With the ATLAS Detector
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Ippolito, Valerio; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Spearman, William (Springer Nature, 2015) -
Erratum To: Search for Production of WW / WZ Resonances Decaying to a Lepton, Neutrino and Jets in Pp Collisions at √s=8 TeV With the ATLAS Detector
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Ippolito, Valerio; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Spearman, William; Sun, Siyuan; Tolley, Emma; Yen, Andy (Springer Nature, 2015)A search is presented for narrow diboson resonances decaying to WW or WZ in the final state where one W boson decays leptonically (to an electron or a muon plus a neutrino) and the other W/Z boson decays hadronically. The ... -
Evidence for Light-by-Light Scattering in Heavy-Ion Collisions With the ATLAS Detector at the LHC
Morii, Masahiro; Huth, John; Franklin, Melissa; Spearman, William (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2017-08-14)Light-by-light scattering (γγ→γγ) is a quantum-mechanical process that is forbidden in the classical theory of electrodynamics. This reaction is accessible at the Large Hadron Collider thanks to the large electromagnetic ... -
Evidence for single top-quark production in the s-channel in proton-proton collisions at s√=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector using the Matrix Element Method
Clark, Brian Lee; Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Ippolito, Valerio; Lazovich, Tomo; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Spearman, William; Sun, Siyuan; Tolley, Emma; Tuna, Alexander; Yen, Andy; Zambito, Stefano (Elsevier BV, 2016)This Letter presents evidence for single top-quark production in the s-channel using proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The analysis is ... -
Identification and Energy Calibration of Hadronically Decaying Tau Leptons With the ATLAS Experiment in pp Collisions at √s=8 TeV
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Ippolito, Valerio; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Spearman, William; Sun, Siyuan; Tolley, Emma; Yen, Andy; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2015)This paper describes the trigger and offline reconstruction, identification and energy calibration algorithms for hadronic decays of tau leptons employed for the data collected from pp collisions in 2012 with the ATLAS ... -
Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at s√=8 TeV
Clark, Brian Lee; Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Ippolito, Valerio; Lazovich, Tomo; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Spearman, William; Sun, Siyuan; Tolley, Emma; Tuna, Alexander; Yen, Andy; Zambito, Stefano (Springer Nature, 2016)This paper reports a detailed study of techniques for identifying boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons using 20fb−1 of proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy ... -
Jet energy measurement and its systematic uncertainty in proton–proton collisions at √s=7TeV with the ATLAS detector
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Jeanty, L; Lopez Mateos, D; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Spearman, William; Yen, Andy; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2015)The jet energy scale (JES) and its systematic uncertainty are determined for jets measured with the ATLAS detector using proton–proton collision data with a centre-of-mass energy of s√=7 TeV corresponding to an integrated ... -
Light-Quark and Gluon Jet Discrimination in pp Collisions at √S = 7 TeV With the ATLAS Detector
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Ippolito, Valerio; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Spearman, William; Yen, Andy; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2014)A likelihood-based discriminant for the identification of quark- and gluon-initiated jets is built and validated using 4.7 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data at √s = 7 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. ... -
Measurement of Differential Cross Sections of Isolated-Photon Plus Heavy-Flavour Jet Production in Pp Collisions Ats=8 TeVusing the ATLAS Detector
Morii, Masahiro; Huth, John; Franklin, Melissa; Spearman, William (Elsevier BV, 2018-01)This Letter presents the measurement of differential cross sections of isolated prompt photons produced in association with a b-jet or a c-jet. These final states provide sensitivity to the heavy-flavour content of the ... -
Measurement of Distributions Sensitive to the Underlying Event in Inclusive Z-Boson Production in pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV With the ATLAS Detector
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Ippolito, Valerio; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Spearman, William; Sun, Siyuan; Tolley, Emma; Yen, Andy; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2014)A measurement of charged-particle distributions sensitive to the properties of the underlying event is presented for an inclusive sample of events containing a Z -boson, decaying to an electron or muon pair. The measurement ... -
Measurement of D∗±, D± and D±s meson production cross sections in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Clark, Brian Lee; Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Ippolito, Valerio; Lazovich, Tomo; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Spearman, William; Sun, Siyuan; Tolley, Emma; Yen, Andy; Zambito, Stefano (Elsevier BV, 2016)The production of D∗±, D± and D±s charmed mesons has been measured with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV at the LHC, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 280nb−1. The charmed mesons have ... -
Measurement of Flow Harmonics With Multi-Particle Cumulants in Pb+Pb Collisions at √sNN =2.76 TeV With the ATLAS Detector
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Ippolito, Valerio; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Spearman, William; Sun, Siyuan; Yen, Andy; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2014)[en] ATLAS measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy in lead.lead collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV are shown using a dataset of approximately 7 μb-1 collected at the LHC in 2010. The measurements are performed for charged ... -
Measurement of Forward-Backward Multiplicity Correlations in Lead-Lead, Proton-Lead, and Proton-Proton Collisions With the ATLAS Detector
Morii, Masahiro; Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Spearman, William; Skottowe, H; Mercurio, K (American Physical Society (APS), 2017-06-28)Two-particle pseudorapidity correlations are measured in √sNN = 2.76 TeV Pb + Pb, √sNN = 5.02 TeV p+Pb, and √s = 13 TeV pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), with total integrated luminosities of approximately ... -
Measurement of four-jet differential cross sections in s√=8 TeV proton-proton collisions using the ATLAS detector
Clark, Brian Lee; Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Ippolito, Valerio; Lazovich, Tomo; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Spearman, William; Sun, Siyuan; Tolley, Emma; Tuna, Alexander; Yen, Andy; Zambito, Stefano (Springer Nature, 2015)Differential cross sections for the production of at least four jets have been measured in proton-proton collisions at s√=8 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider using the ATLAS detector. Events are selected if the four anti-kt ...