Physics Analysis Topics
- Full hadronic ttbar production
- Search for scalar top pair production with 1 lepton + jet + MET
- RPV SUSY Displaced Vertex Analysis
- Stopped Gluinos
- New physics search with b-jet and Missing Et
- Lepton Jets
- Quirks
- SUSY Higgs Search with Associated b Production
- SM Higgs W/Z+H(bb)
- SM Higgs Z+gamma
- RPV Mutiljet SUSY Search
Physics Performance Studies and Trigger
- Jet+MET+bTag Analysis Group
- Pixel clustering
- L2 b-jet trigger
Physics Analysis Information Summary
Current Physics Analyses
Topic | Physics WG | SLAC contact | SLAC people | Collaborating groups | Note/pubs | Public link | Internal link | Status | Last update |
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MSSM Higgs decaying to b-quarks, produced in association with a b-quark | Higgs | C. Malone | Su Dong, C. Malone, G. Piacquadio, | SLAC |
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| Supporting document (draft): | work in progress | March 2014 |
| SM Higgs to bb search | Higgs (HSG5) | G. Piacquadio | G. Piacquadio | Many | PAPER in preparation ATLAS-CONF-2013-079 (2013)
| https://cds.cern.ch/record/1563235 (conf note) | 2014 (for paper): 2013 (for conf note): | work in progress | March 2014 |
| Neural network based pixel clustering | Tracking/Pixel | G. Piacquadio | G. Piacquadio | SLAC, CERN | PAPER in preparation | Supporting documentation: https://cds.cern.ch/record/1501928 | EB review | March 2014 | |
| Continuous b-tagging | B-tagging | G. Piacquadio | G. Piacquadio | SLAC, CERN,Genova, Nijmegen, Barcellona, AS | ATLAS-CONF-2014-XXX | CONF NOTE in preparation Supports the simultaneous calibration of multiple working points, including correct propagation of correlated uncertainties. | Supporting documentation: | EB review (will go in b-tag paper) | March 2014 |
| Calibration of b-tagging efficiency in data | B-tagging | G. Piacquadio | G. Piacquadio | SLAC (+ CERN, Nijmegen, Berlin, Stockholm for CONF note) | ATLAS-CONF-2014-004 | First ATLAS calibration with uncertainties as low as ~2%, based on novel likelihood method applied on di-lepton ttbar events. | Supporting documentation:
| CONF Note APPROVED (will go in b-tag paper) | February 2014 |
| RPV Multijet SUSY | SUSY | M. Swiatlowski | Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC, UChicago, Yale | none yet | https://cds.cern.ch/record/1646768 (int note) | [https://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=4&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=269115 | work in progress | August 2013 |
Pileup Jet Corrections | Jet/ETMiss | P. Nef | Pascal Nef, Ariel Schwartzman, Max Swiatlowski | Oxford, Lund, DESY | ATLAS-CONF-2012-064 for 2011 results, ATLAS-CONF-2013-084 for 2012 results | https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/CONFNOTES/ATLAS-CONF-2013-083/ , [https://cds.cern.ch/record/1459529 |
| More work in progress | July 2013 |
JES Determination and Uncertainties | Jet/ETMiss | M. Swiatlowski | Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman | many | ATLAS-CONF-2012-171 | [https://cds.cern.ch/record/1475233# |
| Paper draft in progress |
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Boosted Top Reconstruction | Jet/ETMiss | M. Swiatlowski | Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC, Columbia, Yale, UHeidelberg |
| [https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/CONFNOTES/ATLAS-CONF-2013-084/ |
| Paper forthcoming | August 2013 |
Jet Substructure Performance | Jet/ETMiss | M. Swiatlowski | Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC, UChicago, Columbia, Argonne, UCL, UHeidelberg | arXiv 1306.4945 | [http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4945 |
| Published | June 2013 |
b-tagging in boosted topologies | B-tagging and Jet/ETmiss | M. Kagan | M. Kagan, A. Schwartzman | SLAC, Buenos Aires, NIKEF, Columbia | none yet | none yet | work in progress | August 2013 | |
Double B-Hadron Tagging | B-tagging | M. Swiatlowski | Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman | University of Buenos Ares | ATLAS-CONF-2012-100 | [https://cds.cern.ch/record/1462603 |
| 2011 CONF Approved | June 2012 |
Quark-Gluon Tagging | Jet/ETMiss | M. Swiatlowski | Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC, LBNL, Harvard, Yale | ATLAS-CONF-2012-138 | [https://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1480629 | [https://cds.cern.ch/record/1554107/ | CONF Approved for BOOST 2012, paper incoming | August 2013 |
Q-Jets | Jet/ETMiss | M. Swiatlowski | Max Swiatlowski, Ben Nachman, Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC, University of Washington | ATLAS-CONF-2013-087 | [https://cds.cern.ch/record/1572981 | [https://cds.cern.ch/record/1572981 | CONF Note Approved for BOOST 2013 | August 2013 |
Jet Charge | Standard Model | B. Nachman | Ben Nachman, Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC, Duke | ATLAS-CONF-2013-086 | [https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/CONFNOTES/ATLAS-CONF-2013-086/ | https://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1554095, https://cds.cern.ch/record/1566473 | CONF Note approved for BOOST 2013 (August 2013) | August 2013 |
Jet image processing analysis | Jet/ETmiss | M. Kagan, E. Strauss, J. Cagan | M. Kagan, E. Strauss, J. Cagan, A. Schwarztman | SLAC | none yet, journal paper in preparation | none yet | work in progress | August 2013 | |
Stopped Gluino Search | SUSY | J. Cogan | Andy Haas, Paul Jackson, Josh Cogan | SLAC | ATL-COM-PHYS-2011-166, | https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/Atlas/Stopped+Gluinos | https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasProtected/StoppedGluinos | submitted to EPJ (Jan/2012) | 5/2/2012 |
Lepton-jets Search | Exotics | E. Strauss | Emanuel Strauss | SLAC, NYU, U. Alberta, U. Michigan | https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/Atlas/Lepton+Jets | https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasProtected/Leptonjets | 2011 analysis in EB review | 8/1/2012 | |
Boosted objects signatures using jet substructure | Exotics and Standard Model | A. Schwartzman | David. W. Miller, Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC, ANL, UCL, DESY, McGill, Toronto, Oxford, IFIC, UAN, Weizmann, |
| CONF Note approved on 5/17/11 | 5/17/11 | ||
QCD Event Shapes at High Q^2 | Standard Model | A. Schwartzman | David. W. Miller, Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC |
| PRD draft in collab review | 5/2/2012 | ||
SUSY searches with b + MET | SUSY | A. Schwartzman | Bart Butler, Per Hansson, Ariel Schwartzman, Dan Silverstein | SLAC, U Oklahoma, Tokyo, Sheffield, Liverpool, Freiburg, UT Arlington, CERN, Beunos Aires | ATL-COM-PHYS-2011-185 |
| submitted to PRD (Mar/2012) | 5/2/2012 | |
SUSY direct Stop search in 1 lepton + MET final state, full 2012 data | SUSY | T. Eifert | Till Eifert, Philippe Grenier, Ben Nachman | SLAC, Yale, Wuppertal, Geneva, NIKHEF |
| https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/AtlasProtected/DirectStop1Lepton | Target: publication (conference note is public) | 4/4/2013 | |
Higgs decaying to Z gamma | Higgs | T. Barklow | J. Cogan, B. Fulsom, T. Barklow | SLAC et al. (+22 groups) |
| In progress | 2013/09/05 | ||
Decay of X(3872) to J/psi gamma | BPhys | B. Fulsom | B. Fulsom | SLAC, Lancaster, Birmingham, Manchester |
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| In development | 2013/09/05 |
Finished Papers, Conference notes, Theses
Title | Physics WG | SLAC authors | Pubs/Notes/Thesis | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search of out-of-time decays of stopped particles in the ATLAS detector | Ph.D thesis | Josh Cogan | Mar/2014 | |
| Calibration of b-tagging using dileptonic top pair events in a combinatorial likelihood approach with the ATLAS experiment | B-tagging | Giacinto Piacquadio | ATLAS-CONF-2014-004 | Feb/2014 |
| Machine learning in the search for Dark Matter with the ATLAS detector | Ph.D thesis | Dan Silverstein | Nov/2013 | |
| Search for long-lived stopped R-hadrons decaying out-of-time with pp collisions using the ATLAS detector | SUSY | Josh Cogan, Andy Haas, Paul Jackson | PhysRevD.88.112003, arXiv:1310.6584 | Oct/2013 |
Jet Charge Studies with the ATLAS Detector Using sqrt(s) = 8 TeV Proton-Proton Collision Data} | JetETmiss | Ben Nachman, Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman | ATLAS-CONF-2013-086 | Aug/2013 |
| Search for the bb decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson in associated W/ZH production with the ATLAS detector | Higgs | Giacinto Piacquadio | ATLAS-CONF-2013-079 | Jul/2013 |
Search for direct top squark pair production in final states with one isolated lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum in sqrt(s) = 8 TeV pp collisions using 21.0 fb-1 of ATLAS data | SUSY | Till Eifert, Philippe Grenier, Ben Nachman | Mar/2013 | |
A search for prompt lepton-jets in pp collisions at s? = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector | Exotic | Emanuel Strauss | Feb/2013 | |
Search for direct top squark pair production in final states with one isolated lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum in sqrt(s) = 8 TeV pp collisions using 13.0 fb-1 of ATLAS data | SUSY | Till Eifert, Philippe Grenier, Ben Nachman, Qi Zeng | Dec/2012 | |
| Search for natural supersymmetry in hadronic final states of heavy flavors at ATLAS | Ph.D thesis | Bart Butler | CERN-THESIS-2012-203 | Dec/2012 |
Search for direct top squark pair production in final states with one isolated lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum in sqrt(s) = 7 TeV pp collisions using 4.7 fb-1 of ATLAS data | SUSY | Till Eifert, Philippe Grenier | Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 211803 (2012), http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2590 | Aug/2012 |
Search for decays of stopped, long-lived particles from 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector | SUSY | Josh Cogan, Andy Haas, Paul Jackson | EPJC 4, Vol 72 (2012), 1965 | May/2012 |
Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in final states with missing transverse momentum and b-jets with the ATLAS detector | SUSY | Bart Butler, Per Hansson, Ariel Schwartzman, Dan Silverstein | submitted to PRD | Mar/2012 |
Measurement of tt? production in the all-hadronic channel in 4.7 fb^-1^ of pp collisions at ?s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector | Top | Ignacio Aracena | Mar/2012 | |
Inclusive search for same-sign dilepton signatures in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector | Exotic | Michael Wilson | Oct/2011 | |
| SUSY | Claus Horn | Sep/2011 | |
Measurement of Hadronic Event Shapes and Jet Substructure in Proton-Proton Collisions at 7.0 TeV Center-of-Mass Energy with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider | Ph.D thesis | David Miller | CERN-THESIS-2011-144 ; SLAC-R-974 | Jun/2011 |
A Search for Lepton-Jets with Muons at ATLAS | Exotic | Emanuel Strauss, Andy Haas | May/2011 |
Detailed records of Finished Physics Analyses (incomplete collection)
Topic | Physics WG | SLAC contact | SLAC people | Collaborating groups | Note/pubs | Public link | Internal link | Status | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Inclusive Same-Sign Dilepton Analysis | Exotics | M. Wilson | M. Wilson | AS Taipei, Duke Univ., Heidelberg Univ., HU Berlin, Lund Univ., NIKHEF, SLAC, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, Univ. of Manchester., Univ. of Pittsburgh | ATL-COM-PHYS-2010-1056 |
| Published in JHEP Oct/2011 | 5/2/2012 |
Physics Publication Editorial Board Services
Name | Pub/Note Title | Note number and doc link | Review Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| G. Piacquadio | SM Z+b analysis | ATL-COM-PHYS-2014-037 ATL-COM-PHYS-2012-1504 | 2014 (on-going) |
| G. Piacquadio | Bs to mumu analysis | Phys. Lett. B713 (2012) 180-196 (previous 7 TeV publication) | since 2012 |
E. Strauss | SM H -> mu mu | 2012 (on-going) | |
E. Strauss | Long-lived Neutral Particle Triggers | May 2013 | |
T. Eifert | SUSY photon+L/b+MET |
| 2012 (on-going) |
T. Eifert | NMSSM neutral Higgs |
| 2012 (on-going) |
| T. Eifert | SUSY photon+lep/b+MET | 2013 (on-going) | |
| T. Eifert | Exotics: Vector Like Quarks: Ht+X, Wb+X, Wt+X | 2013 (on-going) | |
C. Young | Higgs -> lnu jj |
| 2012 |
B. Fulsom | psi(2S) vs. J/psi production cross section |
| 2012 (on-going) |
B. Fulsom | Search for new states decaying to Y(1S)pipi |
| 2013 (on-going) |