Search for heavy particles decaying into a top-quark pair in the fully hadronic final state in pp collisions at s√= 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

A search for new particles decaying into a pair of top quarks is performed using proton-proton collision data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of s=13  TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1  fb-1. Events consistent with top-quark pair production and the fully hadronic decay mode of the top quarks are selected by requiring multiple high transverse momentum jets including those containing b-hadrons. Two analysis techniques, exploiting dedicated top-quark pair reconstruction in different kinematic regimes, are used to optimize the search sensitivity to new hypothetical particles over a wide mass range. The invariant mass distribution of the two reconstructed top-quark candidates is examined for resonant production of new particles with various spins and decay widths. No significant deviation from the Standard Model prediction is observed and limits are set on the production cross-section times branching fraction for new hypothetical Z′ bosons, dark-matter mediators, Kaluza-Klein gravitons and Kaluza-Klein gluons. By comparing with the predicted production cross sections, the Z′ boson in the topcolor-assisted-technicolor model is excluded for masses up to 3.1?3.6 TeV, the dark-matter mediators in a simplified framework are excluded in the mass ranges from 0.8 to 0.9 TeV and from 2.0 to 2.2 TeV, and the Kaluza-Klein gluon is excluded for masses up to 3.4 TeV, depending on the decay widths of the particles.Fil: Arduh, Francisco Anuar. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Física La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Física La Plata; Argentina. Cern - European Organization for Nuclear Research; SuizaFil: ATLAS Collaboration. No especifíca

Búsqueda de supersimetría en procesos con un fotón, electrón/muón y energía perdida en estado final con el detector ATLAS del LHC

El Modelo Estándar de la física de partículas ha demostrado ser una de las teorías más precisas en la actualidad, sin embargo, existen fenómenos en la naturaleza que no son posibles explicarlos con ella. Una de las extensiones posibles con mayor motivación teórica de física más allá del Modelo Estándar es supersimetría (SUSY), que resuelve, entre otras cosas, el problema de jerarquía. Para este trabajo se consideró SUSY en el contexto de General Gauge Mediated SUSY breaking model (GGM), en el que, SUSY está rota a una escala de energía mucho menor que la escala de Planck, resultando en el Gravitino como la partícula supersimétrica estable más liviana (LSP). La segunda partícula supersimétrica más liviana, denominada NLSP por sus siglas en inglés, define la fenomenología de estos modelos. En esta tesis se describe la búsqueda de SUSY en el marco de modelos GGM co-NLSP en colisiones protón-protón a una energía de centro de masa de 8 TeV y 13 TeV en el LHC , en procesos con un fotón, un leptón (electrón o muón) y energía faltante en el estado final. Se trata de modelos donde las masas de la NLSP, chargino y neutralino tipo-wino están prácticamente degeneradas. El análisis fue realizado utilizando todos los datos recolectados por el detector ATLAS durante el año 2012, 2015 y 2016 que corresponden a una luminosidad total integrada de 20.3 1/fb para los de 2012 y 36.1 1/fb para los colectados en 2015 y 2016.Doctor en Ciencias Exactas, área FísicaUniversidad Nacional de La PlataFacultad de Ciencias Exacta

Search for magnetic monopoles and stable particles with high electric charges in 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for highly ionizing particles produced in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV center-of-mass energy is performed by the ATLAS Collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The data set used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 7.0 fb-1. A customized trigger significantly increases the sensitivity, permitting a search for such particles with charges and energies beyond what was previously accessible. No events were found in the signal region, leading to production cross section upper limits in the mass range 200-2500 GeV for magnetic monopoles with magnetic charge in the range 0.5gD<|g|<2.0gD, where gD is the Dirac charge, and for stable particles with electric charge in the range 10<|z|<60. Model-dependent limits are presented in given pair-production scenarios, and model-independent limits are presented in fiducial regions of particle energy and pseudorapidity.La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivoInstituto de Física La Plat

Z boson production in p+Pb collisions at √s_NN = 5.02 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS Collaboration measures the inclusive production of Z bosons via their decays into electron and muon pairs in p+Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The measurements are made using data corresponding to integrated luminosities of 29.4 and 28.1 nb-1 for Z→ee and Z→μμ, respectively. The results from the two channels are consistent and combined to obtain a cross section times the Z→ℓℓ branching ratio, integrated over the rapidity region |y*Z|<3.5, of 139.8±4.8(statistical)±6.2(systematic)±3.8 (luminosity) nb. Differential cross sections are presented as functions of the Z boson rapidity and transverse momentum and compared with models based on parton distributions both with and without nuclear corrections. The centrality dependence of Z boson production in p+Pb collisions is measured and analyzed within the framework of a standard Glauber model and the model's extension for fluctuations of the underlying nucleon-nucleon scattering cross section.La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivo.Facultad de Ciencias ExactasInstituto de Física La Plat

Search for metastable heavy charged particles with large ionization energy loss in pp collisions at √s =13 TeV using the ATLAS experiment

This paper presents a search for massive charged long-lived particles produced in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV at the LHC using the ATLAS experiment. The data set used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb-1. Many extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of massive charged long-lived particles, such as R-hadrons. These massive particles are expected to be produced with a velocity significantly below the speed of light, and therefore to have a specific ionization higher than any Standard Model particle of unit charge at high momenta. The Pixel subsystem of the ATLAS detector is used to measure the ionization energy loss of reconstructed charged particles and to search for such highly ionizing particles. The search presented here has much greater sensitivity than a similar search performed using the ATLAS detector in the √s=8 TeV data set, thanks to the increase in expected signal cross section due to the higher center-of-mass energy of collisions, to an upgraded detector with a new silicon layer close to the interaction point, and to analysis improvements. No significant deviation from Standard Model background expectations is observed, and lifetime-dependent upper limits on R-hadron production cross sections and masses are set. Gluino R-hadrons with lifetimes above 0.4 ns and decaying to qq plus a 100 GeV neutralino are excluded at the 95% confidence level, with lower mass limit ranging between 740 and 1590 GeV. In the case of stable R-hadrons the lower mass limit at the 95% confidence level is 1570 GeV.La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivoInstituto de Física La Plat

Search for magnetic monopoles and stable particles with high electric charges in 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for highly ionizing particles produced in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV center-of-mass energy is performed by the ATLAS Collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The data set used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 7.0 fb-1. A customized trigger significantly increases the sensitivity, permitting a search for such particles with charges and energies beyond what was previously accessible. No events were found in the signal region, leading to production cross section upper limits in the mass range 200-2500 GeV for magnetic monopoles with magnetic charge in the range 0.5gD<|g|<2.0gD, where gD is the Dirac charge, and for stable particles with electric charge in the range 10<|z|<60. Model-dependent limits are presented in given pair-production scenarios, and model-independent limits are presented in fiducial regions of particle energy and pseudorapidity.La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivoInstituto de Física La Plat

Measurements of the top quark branching ratios into channels with leptons and quarks with the ATLAS detector

Measurements of the branching ratios of top quark decays into leptons and jets using events with tt (top antitop) pairs are reported. Events were recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The collected data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb-1. The measured top quark branching ratios agree with the Standard Model predictions within the measurement uncertainties of a few percent.La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivoInstituto de Física La Plata (CONICET- Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Search for bottom squark pair production in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The result of a search for pair production of the supersymmetric partner of the Standard Model bottom quark (˜b1) is reported. The search uses 3.2 fb−1 of pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015. Bottom squarks are searched for in events containing large missing transverse momentum and exactly two jets identified as originating from bquarks. No excess above the expected Standard Model background yield is observed. Exclusion limits at 95 % confidence level on the mass of the bottom squark are derived in phenomenological supersymmetric R-parity-conserving models in which the ˜b1 is the lightest squark and is assumed to decay exclusively via ˜b1 → b˜χ01 , where ˜χ01 is the lightest neutralino. The limits significantly extend previous results; bottom squark masses up to 800 (840) GeV are excluded for the ˜χ01 mass below 360 (100) GeV whilst differences in mass above 100 GeV between the ˜b1 and the ˜χ01are excluded up to a ˜b1 mass of 500 GeV.Facultad de Ciencias Exacta

Search for magnetic monopoles and stable particles with high electric charges in 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for highly ionizing particles produced in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV center-of-mass energy is performed by the ATLAS Collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The data set used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 7.0 fb-1. A customized trigger significantly increases the sensitivity, permitting a search for such particles with charges and energies beyond what was previously accessible. No events were found in the signal region, leading to production cross section upper limits in the mass range 200-2500 GeV for magnetic monopoles with magnetic charge in the range 0.5gD<|g|<2.0gD, where gD is the Dirac charge, and for stable particles with electric charge in the range 10<|z|<60. Model-dependent limits are presented in given pair-production scenarios, and model-independent limits are presented in fiducial regions of particle energy and pseudorapidity.La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivoInstituto de Física La Plat

Search for New Phenomena in Dijet Angular Distributions in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s =8 TeV Measured with the ATLAS Detector

A search for new phenomena in LHC proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √s=8 TeV was performed with the ATLAS detector using an integrated luminosity of 17.3 fb-1. The angular distributions are studied in events with at least two jets; the highest dijet mass observed is 5.5 TeV. All angular distributions are consistent with the predictions of the standard model. In a benchmark model of quark contact interactions, a compositeness scale below 8.1 TeV in a destructive interference scenario and 12.0 TeV in a constructive interference scenario is excluded at 95% C.L.; median expected limits are 8.9 TeV for the destructive interference scenario and 14.1 TeV for the constructive interference scenario.La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivoInstituto de Física La Plat