253 research outputs found
Simulating hard photon production with WHIZARD
One of the important goals of the proposed future collider
experiments is the search for dark matter particles using different
experimental approaches. The most general search approach is based on the
mono-photon signature, which is expected when production of the invisible final
state is accompanied by a hard photon from initial state radiation. Analysis of
the energy spectrum and angular distributions of those photons can shed light
on the nature of dark matter and its interactions. Therefore, it is crucial to
be able to simulate the signal and background samples in a uniform framework,
to avoid possible systematic biases. The WHIZARD program is a flexible tool,
which is widely used by collaborations for simulation of many
different "new physics" scenarios. We propose the procedure of merging the
matrix element calculations with the lepton ISR structure function implemented
in WHIZARD. It allows us to reliably simulate the mono-photon events, including
the two main Standard Model background processes: radiative neutrino pair
production and radiative Bhabha scattering. We demonstrate that cross sections
and kinematic distributions of mono-photon in neutrino pair-production events
agree with corresponding predictions of the KKMC, a Monte Carlo generator
providing perturbative predictions for SM and QED processes, which has been
widely used in the analysis of LEP data.Comment: 17 pages, 8 figures, 6 tables, 2 example steering file
Unbinned Deep Learning Jet Substructure Measurement in High ep collisions at HERA
The radiation pattern within high energy quark- and gluon-initiated jets (jet
substructure) is used extensively as a precision probe of the strong force as
well as an environment for optimizing event generators with numerous
applications in high energy particle and nuclear physics. Looking at
electron-proton collisions is of particular interest as many of the
complications present at hadron colliders are absent. A detailed study of
modern jet substructure observables, jet angularities, in electron-proton
collisions is presented using data recorded using the H1 detector at HERA. The
measurement is unbinned and multi-dimensional, using machine learning to
correct for detector effects. All of the available reconstructed object
information of the respective jets is interpreted by a graph neural network,
achieving superior precision on a selected set of jet angularities. Training
these networks was enabled by the use of a large number of GPUs in the
Perlmutter supercomputer at Berkeley Lab. The particle jets are reconstructed
in the laboratory frame, using the jet clustering algorithm.
Results are reported at high transverse momentum transfer GeV,
and inelasticity . The analysis is also performed in sub-regions
of , thus probing scale dependencies of the substructure variables. The
data are compared with a variety of predictions and point towards possible
improvements of such models.Comment: 33 pages, 10 figures, 8 table
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Top-quark physics at the CLIC electron-positron linear collider
Abstract
The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a proposed future high-luminosity linear electron-positron collider operating at three energy stages, with nominal centre-of-mass energies
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= 380 GeV, 1.5 TeV, and 3 TeV. Its aim is to explore the energy frontier, providing sensitivity to physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) and precision measurements of Standard Model processes with an emphasis on Higgs boson and top-quark physics. The opportunities for top-quark physics at CLIC are discussed in this paper. The initial stage of operation focuses on top-quark pair production measurements, as well as the search for rare flavour-changing neutral current (FCNC) top-quark decays. It also includes a top-quark pair production threshold scan around 350 GeV which provides a precise measurement of the top-quark mass in a well-defined theoretical framework. At the higher-energy stages, studies are made of top-quark pairs produced in association with other particles. A study of tÌtH production including the extraction of the top Yukawa coupling is presented as well as a study of vector boson fusion (VBF) production, which gives direct access to high-energy electroweak interactions. Operation above 1 TeV leads to more highly collimated jet environments where dedicated methods are used to analyse the jet constituents. These techniques enable studies of the top-quark pair production, and hence the sensitivity to BSM physics, to be extended to higher energies. This paper also includes phenomenological interpretations that may be performed using the results from the extensive top-quark physics programme at CLIC.</jats:p
Top-quark physics at the CLIC electron-positron linear collider
ABSTRACT: The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a proposed future high-luminosity linear electron-positron collider operating at three energy stages, with nominal centre-of-mass energies âs = 380 GeV, 1.5 TeV, and 3 TeV. Its aim is to explore the energy frontier, providing sensitivity to physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) and precision measurements of Standard Model processes with an emphasis on Higgs boson and top-quark physics. The opportunities for top-quark physics at CLIC are discussed in this paper. The initial stage of operation focuses on top-quark pair production measurements, as well as the search for rare flavour-changing neutral current (FCNC) top-quark decays. It also includes a top-quark pair production threshold scan around 350 GeV which provides a precise measurement of the top-quark mass in a well-defined theoretical framework. At the higher-energy stages, studies are made of top-quark pairs produced in association with other particles. A study of tÌtH production including the extraction of the top Yukawa coupling is presented as well as a study of vector boson fusion (VBF) production, which gives direct access to high-energy electroweak interactions. Operation above 1 TeV leads to more highly collimated jet environments where dedicated methods are used to analyse the jet constituents. These techniques enable studies of the top-quark pair production, and hence the sensitivity to BSM physics, to be extended to higher energies. This paper also includes phenomenological interpretations that may be performed using the results from the extensive top-quark physics programme at CLIC.the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness under projects MINEICO/FEDER-UE, FPA2015-65652-C4-3-R, FPA2015-71292-C2-1-Pand FPA2015-71956-REDT; and the MECD grant FPA2016-78645-P, Spai
Measurement of the charm and beauty structure functions using the H1 vertex detector at HERA
Inclusive charm and beauty cross sections are measured in e â p and e + p neutral current collisions at HERA in the kinematic region of photon virtuality 5â€Q 2â€2000 GeV2 and Bjorken scaling variable 0.0002â€xâ€0.05. The data were collected with the H1 detector in the years 2006 and 2007 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 189 pbâ1. The numbers of charm and beauty events are determined using variables reconstructed by the H1 vertex detector including the impact parameter of tracks to the primary vertex and the position of the secondary vertex. The measurements are combined with previous data and compared to QCD predictions
Study of Charm Fragmentation into D^{*\pm} Mesons in Deep-Inelastic Scattering at HERA
The process of charm quark fragmentation is studied using meson
production in deep-inelastic scattering as measured by the H1 detector at HERA.
Two different regions of phase space are investigated defined by the presence
or absence of a jet containing the meson in the event. The
parameters of fragmentation functions are extracted for QCD models based on
leading order matrix elements and DGLAP or CCFM evolution of partons together
with string fragmentation and particle decays. Additionally, they are
determined for a next-to-leading order QCD calculation in the fixed flavour
number scheme using the independent fragmentation of charm quarks to
mesons.Comment: 33 pages, submitted to EPJ
HE-LHC: The High-Energy Large Hadron Collider â Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 4
In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (EPPSU), the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched as a world-wide international collaboration hosted by CERN. The FCC study covered an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), a highest-luminosity high-energy lepton collider (FCC-ee), the corresponding 100 km tunnel infrastructure, as well as the physics opportunities of these two colliders, and a high-energy LHC, based on FCC-hh technology. This document constitutes the third volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the hadron collider FCC-hh. It summarizes the FCC-hh physics discovery opportunities, presents the FCC-hh accelerator design, performance reach, and staged operation plan, discusses the underlying technologies, the civil engineering and technical infrastructure, and also sketches a possible implementation. Combining ingredients from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the high-luminosity LHC upgrade and adding novel technologies and approaches, the FCC-hh design aims at significantly extending the energy frontier to 100 TeV. Its unprecedented centre-of-mass collision energy will make the FCC-hh a unique instrument to explore physics beyond the Standard Model, offering great direct sensitivity to new physics and discoveries
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