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    Identified particle production in inelastic pp events with the ATLAS detector

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    Various strange and charmed hadrons were reconstructed with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt{s}=7 TeV. The data sample was collected in March-May of 2010 using a minimum-bias trigger. The K^0_S and Lambda^0 kinematic distributions were studied using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 190 mub^{-1}. The Xi-+ and Omega-+ baryons were reconstructed in their cascade decays in data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 250 mub^{-1}. The D*+-, D+- and D_s+- charmed mesons were reconstructed in the range of transverse momentum pT(D^(*))>3.5 GeV and pseudorapidity |eta(D^(*))|<2.1 in data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.4 nb^{-1}. The fitted mass values were found to be in agreement with their world averages while the observed invariant mass resolutions agree with Monte Carlo expectations. This study confirms the high performance of the ATLAS detector for precision tracking measurements.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of 35th International Conference of High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2010), Paris, France, July 22-28, 2010, PoS(ICHEP 2010)34

    Fragmentation fractions of c and b quarks into charmed hadrons at LEP

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    The fragmentation fractions of c and b quarks into the weakly decaying charmed hadrons D0, D+, D_s+ and Lambda_c+, and into the charmed vector meson D*+ have been derived from the LEP measurements and averaged. The c quark fragmentation fractions represent probabilities to hadronise as a given charmed hadron, while the b quark fragmentation fractions are defined as sums of probabilities to hadronise as a particular charmed hadron or its antiparticle.Comment: 4 pages, 6 tables, accepted by EPJ

    Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

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    A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements

    Measurement of the W boson polarisation in ttˉt\bar{t} events from pp collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV in the lepton + jets channel with ATLAS

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    Measurement of jet fragmentation in Pb+Pb and pppp collisions at sNN=2.76\sqrt{{s_\mathrm{NN}}} = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

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    Search for new phenomena in events containing a same-flavour opposite-sign dilepton pair, jets, and large missing transverse momentum in s=\sqrt{s}= 13 pppp collisions with the ATLAS detector

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