Browsing by Author "Kagan, M"
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Improved Luminosity Determination in pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV Using the ATLAS Detector at the LHC
Huth, John; Jeanty, L; Kagan, M; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Skottowe, Hugh Philip; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2013)The luminosity calibration for the ATLAS detector at the LHC during pp collisions at √s=7 TeV in 2010 and 2011 is presented. Evaluation of the luminosity scale is performed using several luminosity-sensitive detectors, and ... -
Jet Energy Resolution in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s= 7 TeV Recorded in 2010 With the ATLAS Detector
Huth, John; Jeanty, L; Kagan, M; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2013)The measurement of the jet energy resolution is presented using data recorded with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV . The sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb−1. Jets are ... -
Measurement of K T Splitting Scales in W→ℓν Events at √s=7 TeV With the ATLAS Detector
Barreiro Guimarães da Costa, Joao; Catastini, Pierluigi; Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Jeanty, L; Kagan, M; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Skottowe, Hugh Philip; Yen, Andy; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2013)A measurement of splitting scales, as defined by the k T clustering algorithm, is presented for final states containing a W boson produced in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The measurement ... -
Measurement of the \(W^{\pm}Z\) Production Cross Section and Limits on Anomalous Triple Gauge Couplings at \(\sqrt s = 7 TeV\) using the ATLAS detector
Kagan, Michael Aaron (2013-02-25)This dissertation presents a measurement of the \(W^{\pm}Z\) production cross section and limits on anomalous triple gauge couplings in proton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy of 7 TeV using data produced by ... -
Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section in pp Collisions at √s=2.76 TeV and Comparison to the Inclusive Jet Cross Section at √s=7 TeV Using the ATLAS Detector
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Jeanty, L; Kagan, M; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2013)Abstract : The inclusive jet cross-section has been measured in proton-proton collisions at √s=2.76 TeV in a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.20pb-1 collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large ... -
Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross-Section in pp Collisions at √s=2.76 TeV and Comparison to the Inclusive Jet Cross-Section at √s=7 TeV Using the ATLAS Detector
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Jeanty, L; Kagan, M; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2013)The inclusive jet cross-section has been measured in proton–proton collisions at s√=2.76 TeV in a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.20 pb−1 collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider ... -
Measurement of the tt¯ Production Cross Section in the Tau+jets Channel Using the ATLAS Detector
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Jeanty, L; Kagan, M; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Yen, Andy; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2013)A measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in the final state with a hadronically decaying tau lepton and jets is presented. The analysis is based on proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS ... -
Measurement of tt Production With a Veto on Additional Central Jet Activity in Pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV Using the ATLAS Detector
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Jeanty, L; Kagan, M; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Skottowe, Hugh Philip; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2012)A measurement of the jet activity in tt events produced in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented, using 2.05 fb^(−1) of integrated luminosity collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large ... -
Measurement of τ Polarization in W→τν Decays With the ATLAS Detector in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Jeanty, L; Kagan, M; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Skottowe, Hugh Philip; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2012)In this paper, a measurement of τ polarization in W→τν decays is presented. It is measured from the energies of the decay products in hadronic τ decays with a single final state charged particle. The data, corresponding ... -
Multi-Channel Search for Squarks and Gluinos in √s=7 TeV pp Collisions With the ATLAS Detector
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Jeanty, L; Kagan, M; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Yen, Andy; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2013)A search for supersymmetric particles in final states with zero, one, and two leptons, with and without jets identified as originating from b-quarks, in 4.7 fb-1 of √s=7 TeV pp collisions produced by the Large Hadron ... -
Multivariate Discrimination and the Higgs + W/Z search
Black, Kevin; Gallicchio, Jason; Huth, John; Kagan, Michael Aaron; Schwartz, Matthew D; Tweedie, Brock (Springer Verlag, 2011)A systematic method for optimizing multivariate discriminants is developed and applied to the important example of a light Higgs boson search at the Tevatron and the LHC. The Significance Improvement Characteristic (SIC), ... -
Search for a Light Charged Higgs Boson in the Decay Channel H+->csbar in Ttbar Events Using pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV With the ATLAS Detector
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Kagan, M; Jeanty, L; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Yen, Andy; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2013)A search for a charged Higgs boson (H+) in ttbar decays is presented, where one of the top quarks decays via t->H+b, followed by H+->two jets (csbar). The other top quark decays to Wb, where the W boson then decays into a ... -
Search for Heavy Neutrinos and Right-Handed W Bosons in Events With Two Leptons and Jets in pp Collisions at √s =7 TeV With the ATLAS Detector
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Jeanty, L; Kagan, M; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2012)This letter reports on a search for hypothetical heavy neutrinos, N, and right-handed gauge bosons, WR, in events with high transverse momentum objects which include two reconstructed leptons and at least one hadronic jet. ... -
Search for Lepton Flavour Violation in the eμ Continuum With the ATLAS Detector in √s=7 TeV Pp Collisions at the LHC
Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Jeanty, L; Kagan, M; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2012)This paper presents a search for the t-channel exchange of an R-parity violating scalar top quark ( t~ ) in the e ± μ ∓ continuum using 2.1 fb−1 of data collected by the ATLAS detector in s√=7 TeV pp collisions at the Large ... -
A Search for tt¯ Resonances With the ATLAS Detector in 2.05 Fb−1 of Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=7 TeV
Huth, John; Jeanty, L; Kagan, M; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2012)A search for top quark pair resonances in final states containing at least one electron or muon has been performed with the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The search uses a data sample corresponding ...