4 research outputs found
Jet Physics in Heavy Ion Collisions with Compact Muon Solenoid detector at the LHC
The status of CMS jet simulations and physics analysis in heavy ion
collisions is presented. Jet reconstruction and high transverse momentum
particle tracking in the high multiplicity environment of heavy ion collisions
at the LHC using the CMS calorimetry and tracking system are described. The
Monte Carlo tools used to simulate jet quenching are discussed.Comment: Talk given at 5th International Conference on Physics and
Astrophysics of Quark Gluon Plasma, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, India, February
8-12, 2005; 4 pages including 4 figures as EPS-files; prepared using LaTeX
package for Journal of Physics
Separation of a single photon and products of the meson neutral decay channels in the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter using neural network
The artificial neural network approach is used for separation of signals from
a single photon and products of the meson neutral
decay channels on the basis of the data from the CMS electromagnetic
calorimeter alone. Rejection values for the three types of mesons as a function
of single photon selection efficiencies are obtained for two Barrel and one
Endcap pseudorapidity regions and initial \Et of 20, 40, 60 and 100 GeV.Comment: 16 pages, uses cernrep.cls style fil
Prospects for heavy supersymmetric charged Higgs boson searches at hadron colliders
We investigate the production of a heavy charged Higgs boson at hadron
colliders within the context of the MSSM. A detailed study is performed for all
important production modes and basic background processes for the
t\bar{t}b\bar{b} signature. In our analysis we include effects of initial and
final state showering, hadronization, and principal detector effects. For the
signal production rate we include the leading SUSY quantum effects at high
\tan\beta>~ mt/mb. Based on the obtained efficiencies for the signal and
background we estimate the discovery and exclusion mass limits of the charged
Higgs boson at high values of \tan\beta. At the upgraded Tevatron the discovery
of a heavy charged Higgs boson (MH^+ >~ 200 GeV) is impossible for the
tree-level cross-section values. However, if QCD and SUSY effects happen to
reinforce mutually, there are indeed regions of the MSSM parameter space which
could provide 3\sigma evidence and, at best, 5\sigma charged Higgs boson
discovery at the Tevatron for masses M_H^+<~ 300 GeV and M_H^+<~ 250 GeV,
respectively, even assuming squark and gluino masses in the (500-1000) GeV
range. On the other hand, at the LHC one can discover a H^+ as heavy as 1 TeV
at the canonical confidence level of 5\sigma; or else exclude its existence at
95% C.L. up to masses ~ 1.5 TeV. Again the presence of SUSY quantum effects can
be very important here as they may shift the LHC limits by a few hundred GeV.Comment: Latex2e, 44 pages, 15 figures, 6 tables, uses JHEP3.sty, axodraw.sty.
Comments added. Discussion on QCD factors clarified. Added discussion on
uncertainties. Change of presentation of Tables 4 and 5 and Fig.6. Results
and conclusions unchanged. Version accepted in JHE