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Measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross section at = 13 TeV
A measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross section at a
centre-of-mass energy of = 13 TeV is presented. The analysis is
performed using the CMS detector, in particular with information from forward
calorimetry at pseudorapidities of 3.0 < {\eta} < 5.2 and -6.6 < {\eta} < -3.0.
A visible cross section is measured in two different detector acceptances and
finally extrapolated to the full inelastic phase space domain. The results are
compared with those of other experiments, and with models used to describe
high-energy hadronic interactions.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of the XXIV International Workshop on
Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, 11-15 April 2016, DESY
Hamburg, German
Treating jet correlations in high pile-up at hadron colliders
Experiments in the high-luminosity runs at the Large Hadron Collider face the
challenges of very large pile-up. Primary techniques to deal with this are
based on precise vertex and track reconstruction. Outside tracker acceptances,
however, lie regions of interest for many aspects of the LHC physics program.
We explore complementary approaches to pile-up treatment and propose a
data-driven jet-mixing method which can be used outside tracker acceptances
without depending on Monte Carlo generators. The method can be applied to treat
correlation observables and take into account, besides the jet transverse
momentum pedestal, effects of hard jets from pile-up.Comment: Latex. 8 pages, 5 figure
Measurements of the forward energy flow and forward jet production with CMS
We present measurements of the forward (3 < |eta| < 5) energy flow in minimum
bias events and in events with either hard jets or W and Z bosons produced at
central rapidities together with first measurements of the inclusive forward
jet cross section and central forward jet correlations. Results are compared to
MC models with different parameter tunes for the description of the underlying
event.Comment: 8 pages, DPF 2011 conference proceeding
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Measurement of double-differential cross sections for top quark pair production in pp collisions at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text] and impact on parton distribution functions.
Normalized double-differential cross sections for top quark pair ([Formula: see text]) production are measured in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8[Formula: see text] with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analyzed data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7[Formula: see text]. The measurement is performed in the dilepton [Formula: see text] final state. The [Formula: see text] cross section is determined as a function of various pairs of observables characterizing the kinematics of the top quark and [Formula: see text] system. The data are compared to calculations using perturbative quantum chromodynamics at next-to-leading and approximate next-to-next-to-leading orders. They are also compared to predictions of Monte Carlo event generators that complement fixed-order computations with parton showers, hadronization, and multiple-parton interactions. Overall agreement is observed with the predictions, which is improved when the latest global sets of proton parton distribution functions are used. The inclusion of the measured [Formula: see text] cross sections in a fit of parametrized parton distribution functions is shown to have significant impact on the gluon distribution
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A search for new phenomena in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] in final states with missing transverse momentum and at least one jet using the [Formula: see text] variable.
A search for new phenomena is performed in final states containing one or more jets and an imbalance in transverse momentum in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13[Formula: see text]. The analysed data sample, recorded with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC, corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.3[Formula: see text]. Several kinematic variables are employed to suppress the dominant background, multijet production, as well as to discriminate between other standard model and new physics processes. The search provides sensitivity to a broad range of new-physics models that yield a stable weakly interacting massive particle. The number of observed candidate events is found to agree with the expected contributions from standard model processes, and the result is interpreted in the mass parameter space of fourteen simplified supersymmetric models that assume the pair production of gluinos or squarks and a range of decay modes. For models that assume gluino pair production, masses up to 1575 and 975[Formula: see text] are excluded for gluinos and neutralinos, respectively. For models involving the pair production of top squarks and compressed mass spectra, top squark masses up to 400[Formula: see text] are excluded
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