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Top quark physics at CDF
We present the recent results of top-quark physics using up to 6 fb of
collisions analyzed by the CDF collaboration. The large number of
top quark events analyzed, of the order of several thousands, allows stringent
checks of the standard model predictions. Also, the top quark is widely
believed to be a window to new physics. We present the latest measurements of
top quark intrinsic properties as well as direct searches for new physics in
the top sector.Comment: PoS(EPS-HEP2011)35
The upgraded Pixel detector and the commissioning of the Inner Detector tracking of the ATLAS experiment for Run-2 at the Large Hadron Collider
Run-2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will provide new challenges to track
and vertex reconstruction with higher energies, denser jets and higher rates.
Therefore the ATLAS experiment has constructed the first 4-layer Pixel Detector
in HEP, installing a new pixel layer, also called Insertable B-Layer (IBL). The
IBL is a fourth layer of pixel detectors, and has been installed in May 2014 at
a radius of 3.3 cm between the existing Pixel Detector and a new smaller radius
beam-pipe. The new detector, built to cope with the high radiation and expected
occupancy, is the first large scale application of 3D sensors and CMOS 130~nm
readout electronics. In addition, the Pixel Detector was improved with a new
service quarter panel to recover about 3\% of defective modules lost during
Run-1 and a new optical readout system to readout the data at higher speed
while reducing the occupancy when running with increased luminosity.
Complementing detector improvements, many improvements to Inner Detector
track and vertex reconstruction were developed during the two-year shutdown of
the LHC. These include novel techniques developed to improve the performance in
the dense cores of jets, optimisation for the expected conditions, and a
software campaign which lead to a factor of three decrease in the CPU time
needed to process each recorded event.Comment: 15 pages, EPS-HEP 2015 Proceeding
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in final states with quarks at the Tevatron
We present the result of searches for a low mass Standard Model Higgs boson
produced in association with a or a boson at a center-of-mass energy of
1.96 TeV with the CDF and D0 detectors at the Fermilab Tevatron
collider. The search is performed in events containing one or two tagged
jets in association with either two leptons, or one lepton and an imbalance in
transverse energy, or simply a large imbalance in transverse energy. Datasets
corresponding to up to 8.5 fb of integrated luminosity are considered in
the analyses. These are the most powerful channels in the search for a low mass
Higgs boson at the Tevatron. Recent sensitivity improvements are discussed. For
a Higgs mass of 115 \gevcc, the expected sensitivity for the most sensitive
individual analyses reaches 2.3 times the SM prediction at 95% confidence level
(C.L.), with all limits below 5 times the SM. Additionally, a
cross-section measurement is performed to validate the analysis techniques
deployed for searching for the Higgs
Combination of Standard Model Higgs searches at CDF
We present the latest combination of searches for a standard model (SM) Higgs
boson in ppbar collisions at \sqrts= 1.96 TeV recorded by the CDF~II detector
at the Fermilab Tevatron. Using data corresponding to 2.3-5.9 fb-1 of
integrated luminosity, we perform searches in a number of different production
and decay modes and then combine them to improve sensitivity. No excess in data
above that expected from backgrounds is observed; therefore, we set upper
limits on the production cross section times branching fraction as a function
of the SM Higgs boson mass (mH). The combined observed (expected) limit is 1.9
(1.8) times the SM prediction at mH = 115 Gev/c^2 and 1.0 (1.1) times the SM
prediction at mH = 165 GeV/c^2.Comment: ICHEP 2010 Conference proceeding, 4 page
Structural Attention Neural Networks for improved sentiment analysis
We introduce a tree-structured attention neural network for sentences and
small phrases and apply it to the problem of sentiment classification. Our
model expands the current recursive models by incorporating structural
information around a node of a syntactic tree using both bottom-up and top-down
information propagation. Also, the model utilizes structural attention to
identify the most salient representations during the construction of the
syntactic tree. To our knowledge, the proposed models achieve state of the art
performance on the Stanford Sentiment Treebank dataset.Comment: Submitted to EACL2017 for revie
SEQ^3: Differentiable Sequence-to-Sequence-to-Sequence Autoencoder for Unsupervised Abstractive Sentence Compression
Neural sequence-to-sequence models are currently the dominant approach in
several natural language processing tasks, but require large parallel corpora.
We present a sequence-to-sequence-to-sequence autoencoder (SEQ^3), consisting
of two chained encoder-decoder pairs, with words used as a sequence of discrete
latent variables. We apply the proposed model to unsupervised abstractive
sentence compression, where the first and last sequences are the input and
reconstructed sentences, respectively, while the middle sequence is the
compressed sentence. Constraining the length of the latent word sequences
forces the model to distill important information from the input. A pretrained
language model, acting as a prior over the latent sequences, encourages the
compressed sentences to be human-readable. Continuous relaxations enable us to
sample from categorical distributions, allowing gradient-based optimization,
unlike alternatives that rely on reinforcement learning. The proposed model
does not require parallel text-summary pairs, achieving promising results in
unsupervised sentence compression on benchmark datasets.Comment: Accepted to NAACL 201
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