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DIS2015 Heavy Flavours Working Group Summary
Studies presented in the heavy flavours working group are summarized. Very
recent results of measurements at the HERA, LHC, Tevatron, STAR, PHENIX, and
BaBar experiments are reviewed and new developments in theory and phenomenology
are discussed. In particular, aspects of the impact of heavy flavours on global
QCD analyses to determine the structure of the proton, and analyses in physics
beyond the Standard Model are considered.Comment: 16 pages, 16 figures, Conference proceeding summary, DIS2015 "The
XXIII International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related
Subjects", April 27 - May 1, 2015, Southern Methodist University, Dallas,
Texas, US
Distinction of atmospheric neutrino-mu - neutrino-tau and neutrino-mu - neutrino-sterile oscillations using short or intermediate baseline experiments
The current case for atmospheric oscillations into active or
sterile neutrinos is reviewed. It is argued that neither the study of neutral
current events at Super-Kamiokande, nor the information obtained from future
long baseline experiments might be sufficient to unambigously decide between
these two scenarios. However, a combination of these results with the results
from future short or intermediate baseline appearance experiments would
clearly resolve most of the remaining ambiguities. This conclusion does not
strongly depend on whether the results from LSND will be confirmed or not. In
the case that LSND would be confirmed, a negative result in such a short or
intermediate baseline experiment would also unambigously exclude the
interpretation of LSND as indirect oscillations.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Eur. Phys. J.
A novel phenomenological approach to total charm cross section measurements at the LHC
Measuring the total charm cross section is important for the comparison to
theoretical predictions of the highest precision available for charm today,
which are completely known up to NNLO QCD for the total inclusive cross
sections. These are also independent of charm fragmentation, while practical
measurements of charm hadrons in a fiducial phase space are not. Recently the
LHC experiments have reported non-universality of charm fragmentation, which
shows that e.g. charm baryon-to-meson ratios are not universal in different
collision systems, and that the related production fractions also depend on
transverse momentum. This breaks the charm fragmentation universality that was
assumed until recently for the extrapolation of experimental measurements to
the full total charm cross section phase space. A proposal is made how to
address this non-universality in a data driven way without the need to
implement any particular non-universal fragmentation model. As a practical
example, this method is applied to the extrapolation of published LHC
measurements of production at TeV to the corresponding total
charm cross section, which fully accounts for charm fragmentation
non-universality for the first time. The result, mb, differs substantially from the one assuming
charm fragmentation universality, but still compares well to theoretical QCD
predictions up to NNLO.Comment: to appear in Proceedings of the European Physical Society Conference
on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2023
A determination of mc(mc) from HERA data using a matched heavy-flavor scheme
The charm quark mass is one of the fundamental parameters of the Standard
Model Lagrangian. In this work we present a determination of the MSbar charm
mass from a fit to the inclusive and charm HERA deep-inelastic structure
function data. The analysis is performed within the xFitter framework, with
structure functions computed in the FONLL general-mass scheme as implemented in
APFEL. In the case of the FONLL-C scheme, we obtain mc(mc) = 1.335 +-
0.043(exp) +0.019 -0.000(param) +0.011 -0.008(mod) +0.033 -0.008(th) GeV. We
also perform an analogous determination in the fixed-flavor-number scheme at
next-to-leading order, finding mc(mc) = 1.318 +- 0.054(exp) +0.011
-0.010(param) +0.015 -0.019(mod) +0.045 -0.004(th) GeV, compatible with the
FONLL-C value. Our results are consistent with previous determinations from DIS
data as well as with the PDG world average.Comment: 37 pages, 12 figures, 3 table
Impact of heavy-flavour production cross sections measured by the LHCb experiment on parton distribution functions at low x
The impact of recent measurements of heavy-flavour production in deep
inelastic scattering and in collisions on parton distribution
functions is studied in a QCD analysis in the fixed-flavour number scheme at
next-to-leading order. Differential cross sections of charm- and beauty-hadron
production measured by LHCb are used together with inclusive and heavy-flavour
production cross sections in deep inelastic scattering at HERA. The
heavy-flavour data of the LHCb experiment impose additional constraints on the
gluon and the sea-quark distributions at low partonic fractions of the
proton momentum, down to . This kinematic range is
currently not covered by other experimental data in perturbative QCD fits
Status Report of the DPHEP Study Group: Towards a Global Effort for Sustainable Data Preservation in High Energy Physics
Data from high-energy physics (HEP) experiments are collected with
significant financial and human effort and are mostly unique. An
inter-experimental study group on HEP data preservation and long-term analysis
was convened as a panel of the International Committee for Future Accelerators
(ICFA). The group was formed by large collider-based experiments and
investigated the technical and organisational aspects of HEP data preservation.
An intermediate report was released in November 2009 addressing the general
issues of data preservation in HEP. This paper includes and extends the
intermediate report. It provides an analysis of the research case for data
preservation and a detailed description of the various projects at experiment,
laboratory and international levels. In addition, the paper provides a concrete
proposal for an international organisation in charge of the data management and
policies in high-energy physics
Search for supersymmetry in events with b-quark jets and missing transverse energy in pp collisions at 7 TeV
Results are presented from a search for physics beyond the standard model
based on events with large missing transverse energy, at least three jets, and
at least one, two, or three b-quark jets. The study is performed using a sample
of proton-proton collision data collected at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the CMS
detector at the LHC in 2011. The integrated luminosity of the sample is 4.98
inverse femtobarns. The observed number of events is found to be consistent
with the standard model expectation, which is evaluated using control samples
in the data. The results are used to constrain cross sections for the
production of supersymmetric particles decaying to b-quark-enriched final
states in the context of simplified model spectra.Comment: Submitted to Physical Review
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