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Physics Analysis Information Summary (Run II)

Current Physics Analyses

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Topic

Physics WG

SLAC contact

SLAC people

Collaborating groups

Note/pubs

Public link

Internal link

Status

Last update

Search for
di-Higgs production in the 4b final state from pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Exotics /

BSM Higgs

M. Kagan

M. Kagan

Q. Zeng

A. Schwartzman

SLAC, UCL, Amherst, Columbia, Chicago, Nikhef, Harvard  Analysis Twikipreparing for first dataJune 2015
Search for Direct Stop production at 13 TeVSUSYB. NachmanB. NachmanSLAC, CERN, Geneva, Wuppertal, Stockholm, Penn  

Analysis Twiki

Early Run II supporting document: ATL-COM-PHYS-2015-326

preparing for first dataJune 2015
Boosted Higgs–>bb taggingB-tagging and Jet/ETmissM. Kagan

M. Kagan

Q. Zeng

A. Schwartzman

Z. Jiang

L. Tompkins

SLAC, Stanford, Chicago, Columbia, Amherst, Bonn, Harvard, CNRS, Yale, MSU, Edinburgh

BOOST 2015 note in preparation

 

ATL-PHYS-PUB-2014-013 

 TwikiNote in preparation for BOOST 2015June 2015
Jet substructure at 13 TeV with the early dataJet/ETmissB. NachmanB. NachmanSLAC, University of Geneva  Supporting Documentation: ATL-COM-PHYS-2015-514Forming ed boardJune 2015
Expected b-tagging performance in Run-II vs Run-IB-taggingG. PiacquadioG. PiacquadioCPPM,Freiburg,Iowa,SLAC,UCLSection contributing to IBL paper https://svnweb.cern.ch/cern/wsvn/IBL/ibl_note.pdfFirst draft readyJune 2015

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I)

Current Physics Analyses

SLAC, Harvard048 

Topic

Physics WG

SLAC contact

SLAC people

Collaborating groups

Note/pubs

Public link

Internal link

Status

Last update

ATLAS+CMS combination of final Run-I Higgs resultsHiggsG. PiacquadioG. PiacquadioMany, from ATLAS and CMSIn preparation  Work ongoing in LHG groupJune 2015

B-tagging in dense environment note

B-taggingG. PiacquadioG. PiacquadioSLAC,Wuppertal,UCLIn ATLAS final approval https://cds.cern.ch/record/1981534?ln=enEnd of ATLAS circulationJune 2015
Performance and Calibration of the JetFitterCharm Algorithm for c-Jet IdentificationB-taggingG. PiacquadioG. Piacquadio SLAC,Yale,UCL

ATL-PHYS-PUB-2015-001

 

https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PUBNOTES/ATL-PHYS-PUB-2015-001/

 

PublicJanuary 2015
B-tagging at large etaB-taggingG. PiacquadioG. PiacquadioSLAC,Oklahoma,New York,UCLATLAS Large eta task force report (ATL-UPGRADE-INT-2015-001)(not meant to become public)https://cds.cern.ch/record/2020591DoneJune 2015
High-pt b-jet calibration using di-jet eventsb-taggingM. KaganM. KaganSLAC, Tokyo, Stockholm, Barcelonain preparation Twikinote in preparation 
B-tagging validation in gluon–>bb eventsb-tagging

Z. Jiang

M. Kagan

 

Z. Jiang

M. Kagan

B. Nachman

Q. Zeng

A. Schwartzman

L. Tompkins

SLAC, Stanfordin preparation  note in preparation 
Track Jet Based b-tagging in Boosted and Resolved TopologiesB-taggingM. Kagan

M. Kagan

Q. Zeng

A. Schwartzman

Z. Jiang

L. Tompkins

SLAC, Stanford, Columbia, Amherst, Nikhef, Tokyo, Stockholm, Barcelona, Bonn, Harvard, CNRS, YaleATL-PHYS-PUB-2014-013 TwikiCalibration focused note in preparationJune 2015

MSSM Higgs decaying to b-quarks, produced in association with a b-quark

Higgs
(HSG5) 

C. Malone

Su Dong, C. Malone, G. Piacquadio,
T. Barklow 

SLAC

 

 

Supporting document (draft):
https://cds.cern.ch/record/1647407

work in progress

March 2014

Distinguishing Hadronic W and Z bosonsJet/ETmissB. NachmanB. Nachman, A. SchwartzmanSLAC  

Supporting documentation: ATL-COM-PHYS-2014-309

Paper draft: ATL-COM-PHYS-2015-035

Collaboration ReviewJune 2015
Jet Charge measurementStandard ModelB. NachmanB. Nachman, A. Schwartzman, M. SwiatlowskiSLAC, Harvard  

Supporting Documentation: ATL-COM-PHYS-2014-274

Paper Draft: ATL-COM-PHYS-2015-413

EB reviewJune 2015Jet Pull PerformanceJet/ETmissB. NachmanB. Nachman, A. Schwartzman, M. Swiatlowski
Continuous b-taggingB-taggingG. PiacquadioG. PiacquadioSLAC, CERN,Genova, Nijmegen,
Barcellona, AS
ATLAS-CONF-2014- Supporting Documentation: ATL-COM-PHYS-2014-047PublicJuly 2014XXXCONF NOTE in preparation
Supports the simultaneous calibration of multiple working points, including correct propagation of correlated uncertainties. 
SM Higgs to bb searchHiggs
(HSG5) 
G. PiacquadioG. Piacquadio Many

Final paper: JHEP01(2015)069

ATLAS-CONF-2013-079 (2013)

 

Paper on arXiv

Supporting documentation:

https://cds.cern.ch/record/1563235 (old conf note)

2014 (for paper):
ATL-COM-PHYS-2014-051 (general analysis note)

2013 (for conf note):
ATL-COM-PHYS-2013-697 (b-tagging for VH)
ATL-COM-PHYS-2013-465 (general analysis note)

PublicDecember 2014
Neural network based pixel clusteringTracking/PixelG. PiacquadioT. Nelson, G. PiacquadioSLAC, CERNJINST 9 (2014) P09009

A neural network clustering algorithm for the ATLAS silicon pixel detector, JINST 9 (2014) P09009 (http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7690)

Describes improvement in cluster resolution and ability to split shared clusters by using Neural Network pixel clustering (used in ATLAS reconstruction since beginning of 2012)

Supporting documentation:
https://cds.cern.ch/record/1501928
PublicMid 2014
Continuous b-taggingB-taggingG. PiacquadioG. PiacquadioSLAC, CERN,Genova, Nijmegen,
Barcellona, AS
ATLAS-CONF-2014-XXXCONF NOTE in preparation
Supports the simultaneous calibration of multiple working points, including correct propagation of correlated uncertainties. 

Supporting documentation:
https://cds.cern.ch/record/1644430

EB review
(will go in b-tag paper) 
March 2014
Calibration of b-tagging efficiency in dataB-taggingG. PiacquadioG. PiacquadioSLAC
(+ CERN, Nijmegen, Berlin, Stockholm for CONF note) 
ATLAS-CONF-2014-004First ATLAS calibration with uncertainties as low as ~2%, based on novel likelihood method applied on di-lepton ttbar events.

Supporting documentation:
https://cds.cern.ch/record/1538335 (methodology, 2012 EM jets)
https://cds.cern.ch/record/1567111 (calibration on 2011 data) 
https://cds.cern.ch/record/1644568 (calibration on 2012 LC jets) 

 

CONF Note APPROVED
(will go in b-tag paper) 
February 2014

1644430

EB review
(will go in b-tag paper) 
March 2014
Calibration of b-tagging efficiency in dataB-taggingG. PiacquadioG. PiacquadioSLAC
(+ CERN, Nijmegen, Berlin, Stockholm for CONF note) 
ATLAS-CONF-2014-004First ATLAS calibration with uncertainties as low as ~2%, based on novel likelihood method applied on di-lepton ttbar events.

Supporting documentation:
https://cds.cern.ch/record/1538335 (methodology, 2012 EM jets)
https://cds.cern.ch/record/1567111 (calibration on 2011 data) 
https://cds.cern.ch/record/1644568 (calibration on 2012 LC jets) 

 

CONF Note APPROVED
(will go in b-tag paper) 
February 2014
RPV Multijet SUSY

SUSY

M. Swiatlowski

Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman

SLAC, UChicago, Adelaide

Phys Rev D 91.112016

First limits on gluino-neutralino cascades in RPV models!

ATL-COM-PHYS-2014-073

Finished

Feb 2015

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

ATLAS-CONF-2013-083ATLAS-CONF-2012-064

 

More work in progress

July 2013

Pileup Jet SuppressionJet/ETmissP. NefPascal Nef, Ariel SchwartzmanSLAC

ATLAS-CONF-2014-018

ATL-PHYS-PUB-2014-001 (superseded)

ATLAS-CONF-2014-018

ATL-PHYS-PUB-2014-001 (superseded)

 2014 CONF note approved May 2014

JES Determination and Uncertainties

Jet/ETMiss

RPV Multijet SUSY

SUSY

M. Swiatlowski

Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman

SLAC, UChicago, Adelaide

Phys Rev D 91.112016

First limits on gluino-neutralino cascades in RPV models!

ATL-COM-PHYS-2014-073

Finished

Feb 2015

many

ATLAS-CONF-2012-171

ATLAS-CONF-2012-171

 

 

Paper draft in progress

2015

Boosted Top ReconstructionPileup Jet Corrections

Jet/ETMiss

PM. NefSwiatlowski

Pascal NefMax Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman, Max Swiatlowski

Oxford, Lund, DESY

SLAC, Columbia, Yale, UHeidelberg

 

ATLAS-CONF-2012-064 for 2011 results, ATLAS-CONF-2013-084 for 2012 resultsATLAS-CONF-2013-083,

 ATLAS-CONF-2012-064

 

More work in progress

July 2013

Paper forthcoming

August 2013

Jet Substructure Performance

Pileup Jet Suppression

Jet/

ETmiss

ETMiss

P

M.

Nef

Swiatlowski

Pascal Nef

Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman

SLAC

ATLAS-CONF-2014-018

ATL-PHYS-PUB-2014-001 (superseded)

ATLAS-CONF-2014-018

ATL-PHYS-PUB-2014-001 (superseded)

 2014 CONF note approved May 2014

JES Determination and Uncertainties

Jet/ETMiss

M. Swiatlowski

Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman

many

ATLAS-CONF-2012-171

ATLAS-CONF-2012-171

 

 

Paper draft in progress

2015

, UChicago, Columbia, Argonne, UCL, UHeidelberg

JHEP 09(2013)076

General paper on substructure performance and optimization using 7 TeV Run 1 data

 

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

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=270837

work in progress

August 2013

Double B-Hadron Tagging

B-tagging

Boosted Top Reconstruction

Jet/ETMiss

M. Swiatlowski

Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman

SLAC, Columbia, Yale, UHeidelberg

 

University of Buenos Ares

ATLAS-CONF-2012-100

 ATLAS-CONF-20132012-084100

 

Paper forthcoming

August 2013

Jet Substructure Performance

2011 CONF Approved

June 2012

Quark-Gluon Tagging

JetJet/ETMiss

M. Swiatlowski

Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman

SLAC, UChicagoLBNL, Columbia, Argonne, UCL, UHeidelberg

JHEP 09(2013)076

General paper on substructure performance and optimization using 7 TeV Run 1 data

 

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

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=270837

work in progress

August 2013

Harvard, Yale

EPJC August 2014 74:3023

Double B-Hadron Tagging

B-tagging

M. Swiatlowski

Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman

University of Buenos Ares

http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.6583,

ATLAS-CONF-2012-100

 ATLAS-CONF-2012-100

 

2011 CONF Approved

June 2012

138

First published paper

Quark-Gluon Tagging

Jet/ETMiss

M. Swiatlowski

Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman

SLAC, LBNL, Harvard, Yale

EPJC August 2014 74:3023

http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.6583, ATLAS-CONF-2012-138

First published paper on q/g tagging at a hadron collider!

ATLAS-COM-PHYS-2013-734

Finished (8 TeV + 13 TeV work ongoing)

May 2014

Q-Jets

Jet/ETMiss

M. Swiatlowski

Max Swiatlowski, Ben Nachman, Ariel Schwartzman

SLAC, University of Washington

ATLAS-CONF-2013-087

ATLAS-CONF-2013-087

 

CONF Note Approved for BOOST 2013

August 2013

Jet Charge (performance)

Jet/ETMiss

B. Nachman

Ben Nachman, Max Swiatlowski, Ariel Schwartzman

SLAC, Duke

ATLAS-CONF-2013-086

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

ArXiV 1407.5675

http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.5675

http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=28&sessionId=6&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=215704

Published on ArXiV

January 2015

Stopped Gluino Search

SUSY

J. Cogan

Andy Haas, Paul Jackson, Josh Cogan

SLAC

ATL-COM-PHYS-2011-166,
ATL-COM-PHYS-2011-168,
arXiv:1201.5595,10.

PhysRevD.88.112003 arXiv:1310.6584

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

ATL-COM-PHYS-2012-799
CERN-PH-EP-2012-319

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,

ATLAS-COM-CONF-2011-084

 

JetSubstructure TWiki

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

ATLAS-STDM-2011-33-002

 

EventShapesAtHighQSquared TWiki

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

ATL-COM-PHYS-2011-1617
arxiv:1203.6193
ATL-COM-PHYS-2012-116

 

SUSYEtmissBjet Twiki

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 

ATLAS-CONF-2013-037 
ATL-COM-PHYS-2013-060 (support note)

 

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)

ATL-COM-PHYS-2012-1795

 http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3051

 

In progress

2013/09/05

Decay of X(3872) to J/psi gamma

BPhys

B. Fulsom

B. Fulsom

SLAC, Lancaster, Birmingham, Manchester

 

 

 

In development

2013/09/05

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Topic

Physics WG

SLAC contact

SLAC people

Collaborating groups

Note/pubs

Public link

Internal link

Status

Last update

Colorflow in the SM using top eventsTopB. Nachman,M. SwiatlowskiB. Nachman, A. Schwartzman, M. SwiatlowskiSLAC, Manchester, HarvardarXiv:1506.05629CONF on pull reconstruction and performance published; Paper now published!

Supporting Documentation: ATL-COM-PHYS-2014-767

Paper Draft: ATL-COM-PHYS-2015-136

  

Search for
di-Higgs production in the 4b final state from pp collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

 

Exotics /

BSM Higgs

M. KaganM. KaganSLAC, UCL, Amherst, Columbia, Chicago, Nikhef 

 

paper on arXiv

Analysis Twiki

public

Submitted to EPJC

s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

 

Exotics /

BSM Higgs

M. KaganM. KaganSLAC, UCL, Amherst, Columbia, Chicago, Nikhef 

 

paper on arXiv

Analysis Twiki

public

Submitted to EPJC

May 2015
Jet Pull PerformanceJet/ETmissB. NachmanB. Nachman, A. Schwartzman, M. SwiatlowskiSLAC, HarvardATLAS-CONF-2014-048  Supporting Documentation: ATL-COM-PHYS-2014-047PublicJuly 2014
SM Higgs to bb searchHiggs
(HSG5) 
G. PiacquadioG. Piacquadio Many

Final paper: JHEP01(2015)069

ATLAS-CONF-2013-079 (2013)

 

Paper on arXiv

https://cds.cern.ch/record/1563235 (old conf note)

2014 (for paper):
ATL-COM-PHYS-2014-051 (general analysis note)

2013 (for conf note):
ATL-COM-PHYS-2013-697 (b-tagging for VH)
ATL-COM-PHYS-2013-465 (general analysis note)

PublicDecember 2014
Neural network based pixel clusteringTracking/PixelG. PiacquadioT. Nelson, G. PiacquadioSLAC, CERNJINST 9 (2014) P09009

A neural network clustering algorithm for the ATLAS silicon pixel detector, JINST 9 (2014) P09009 (http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7690)

Describes improvement in cluster resolution and ability to split shared clusters by using Neural Network pixel clustering (used in ATLAS reconstruction since beginning of 2012)

Supporting documentation:
https://cds.cern.ch/record/1501928
PublicMid 2014May 2015

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
ATL-COM-PHYS-2011-107
arxiv:1108.0366
JHEP 10 (2011) 107

 

InclusiveSameChargeDilepton TWiki

Published in JHEP Oct/2011

5/2/2012

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