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A Comparison of Predictions for SM Higgs Boson Production at the LHC
This paper describes a comparison of most of the available predictions for
the cross section and transverse momentum distribution for a 125 GeV mass Higgs
at the LHC, including those from the PYTHIA and HERWIG parton shower Monte
Carlos and from four resummation calculations.Comment: 7 pages, submitted to proceedings of the Workshop on Physics at TeV
Colliders, Les Houches 200
Resummation and Shower Studies
The transverse momentum spectra of the Z and Higgs bosons are studied, as
probes of the consequences of multiple parton emissions in hadronic events.
Emphasis is put on constraints, present in showers, that go beyond conventional
leading log. It is shown that, if such constraints are relaxed, better
agreement can be obtained with experimental data and with resummation
descriptions.Comment: 6 pages, LaTeX, 3 eps figures, submitted to the proceedings of the
Workshop on Physics at TeV Colliders, Les Houches, France, 26 May -- 6 June
200
Report of the QCD Tools Working Group
We report on the activities of the ``QCD Tools for heavy flavors and new
physics searches'' working group of the Run II Workshop on QCD and Weak Bosons.
The contributions cover the topics of improved parton showering and comparisons
of Monte Carlo programs and resummation calculations, recent developments in
Pythia, the methodology of measuring backgrounds to new physics searches,
variable flavor number schemes for heavy quark electro-production, the
underlying event in hard scattering processes, and the Monte Carlo MCFM for NLO
processes.Comment: LaTeX, 47 pages, 41 figures, 10 tables, uses run2col.sty, to appear
in the Proceedings of the Workshop on "QCD and Weak Boson Physics in Run II",
Fermilab, March - November 199
The QCD/SM Working Group: Summary Report
This Report documents the results obtained by the Working Group on Quantum
ChromoDynamics and the Standard Model for the Workshop ``Physics at TeV
Colliders'', Les Houches, France, 21 May - 1 June 2001. The account of
uncertainties in Parton Distribution Functions is reviewed. Progresses in the
description of multiparton final states at Next-to-Leading Order and the
extension of calculations for precision QCD observables beyond this order are
summarized. Various issues concerning the relevance of resummation for
observables at TeV colliders is examined. Improvements to algorithms of jet
reconstruction are discussed and predictions for diphoton and photon pi-zero
production at the LHC are made for kinematic variables of interest regarding
searches for a Higgs boson decaying into two photons. Finally, several
improvements implemented in Monte-Carlo event generators are documented
QCD
We discuss issues of QCD at the LHC including parton distributions, Monte
Carlo event generators, the available next-to-leading order calculations,
resummation, photon production, small x physics, double parton scattering, and
backgrounds to Higgs production.Comment: 115 pages, Latex, 47 figures, to appear in the Report of the ``1999
CERN Workshop on SM Physics (and more) at the LHC'', S. Catani, M. Dittmar,
D. Soper, W.J. Stirling, S. Tapprogge (convenors
Standard Model Higgs-Boson Branching Ratios with Uncertainties
We present an update of the branching ratios for Higgs-boson decays in the
Standard Model. We list results for all relevant branching ratios together with
corresponding uncertainties resulting from input parameters and missing
higher-order corrections. As sources of parametric uncertainties we include the
masses of the charm, bottom, and top quarks as well as the QCD coupling
constant. We compare our results with other predictions in the literature.Comment: 32 pages, 4 figures, contribution to LHC Higgs Cross Section Working
Group https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LHCPhysics/CrossSections,
theoretical uncertainties for H->\mu\mu{} added, version to appear in
European Physical Journal
MAGIC Upper Limits for two Milagro-detected, Bright Fermi Sources in the Region of SNR G65.1+0.6
We report on the observation of the region around supernova remnant G65.1+0.6
with the stand-alone MAGIC-I telescope. This region hosts the two bright GeV
gamma-ray sources 1FGL J1954.3+2836 and 1FGL J1958.6+2845. They are identified
as GeV pulsars and both have a possible counterpart detected at about 35 TeV by
the Milagro observatory. MAGIC collected 25.5 hours of good quality data, and
found no significant emission in the range around 1 TeV. We therefore report
differential flux upper limits, assuming the emission to be point-like (<0.1
deg) or within a radius of 0.3 deg. In the point-like scenario, the flux limits
around 1 TeV are at the level of 3 % and 2 % of the Crab Nebula flux, for the
two sources respectively. This implies that the Milagro emission is either
extended over a much larger area than our point spread function, or it must be
peaked at energies beyond 1 TeV, resulting in a photon index harder than 2.2 in
the TeV band.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, 1 tabl
Detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the gravitationally-lensed blazar QSO B0218+357 with the MAGIC telescopes
Context. QSO B0218+357 is a gravitationally lensed blazar located at a
redshift of 0.944. The gravitational lensing splits the emitted radiation into
two components, spatially indistinguishable by gamma-ray instruments, but
separated by a 10-12 day delay. In July 2014, QSO B0218+357 experienced a
violent flare observed by the Fermi-LAT and followed by the MAGIC telescopes.
Aims. The spectral energy distribution of QSO B0218+357 can give information on
the energetics of z ~ 1 very high energy gamma- ray sources. Moreover the
gamma-ray emission can also be used as a probe of the extragalactic background
light at z ~ 1. Methods. MAGIC performed observations of QSO B0218+357 during
the expected arrival time of the delayed component of the emission. The MAGIC
and Fermi-LAT observations were accompanied by quasi-simultaneous optical data
from the KVA telescope and X-ray observations by Swift-XRT. We construct a
multiwavelength spectral energy distribution of QSO B0218+357 and use it to
model the source. The GeV and sub-TeV data, obtained by Fermi-LAT and MAGIC,
are used to set constraints on the extragalactic background light. Results.
Very high energy gamma-ray emission was detected from the direction of QSO
B0218+357 by the MAGIC telescopes during the expected time of arrival of the
trailing component of the flare, making it the farthest very high energy
gamma-ray sources detected to date. The observed emission spans the energy
range from 65 to 175 GeV. The combined MAGIC and Fermi-LAT spectral energy
distribution of QSO B0218+357 is consistent with current extragalactic
background light models. The broad band emission can be modeled in the
framework of a two zone external Compton scenario, where the GeV emission comes
from an emission region in the jet, located outside the broad line region.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in A&
Radiation hardness qualification of PbWO4 scintillation crystals for the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter
This is the Pre-print version of the Article. The official published version can be accessed from the link below - Copyright @ 2010 IOPEnsuring the radiation hardness of PbWO4 crystals was one of the main priorities during the construction of the electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS experiment at CERN. The production on an industrial scale of radiation hard crystals and their certification over a period of several years represented a difficult challenge both for CMS and for the crystal suppliers. The present article reviews the related scientific and technological problems encountered
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