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MoEDAL Collaboration (Acharya, B. et al); Bernabeu, J.; Mamuzic, J.; Mitsou, V.A.; Papavassiliou, J.; Ruiz de Austri, R.; Santra, A.; Vento, V.; Vives, O. |
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Magnetic Monopole Search with the Full MoEDAL Trapping Detector in 13 TeV pp Collisions Interpreted in Photon-Fusion and Drell-Yan Production |
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2019 |
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Physical Review Letters |
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Phys. Rev. Lett. |
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123 |
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2 |
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021802 - 7pp |
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MoEDAL is designed to identify new physics in the form of stable or pseudostable highly ionizing particles produced in high-energy Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collisions. Here we update our previous search for magnetic monopoles in Run 2 using the full trapping detector with almost four times more material and almost twice more integrated luminosity. For the first time at the LHC, the data were interpreted in terms of photon-fusion monopole direct production in addition to the Drell-Yan-like mechanism. The MoEDAL trapping detector, consisting of 794 kg of aluminum samples installed in the forward and lateral regions, was exposed to 4.0 fb(-1) of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHCb interaction point and analyzed by searching for induced persistent currents after passage through a superconducting magnetometer. Magnetic charges equal to or above the Dirac charge are excluded in all samples. Monopole spins 0, 1/2, and 1 are considered and both velocity-independent and-dependent couplings are assumed. This search provides the best current laboratory constraints for monopoles with magnetic charges ranging from two to five times the Dirac charge. |
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[Acharya, B.; Alexandre, J.; Baines, S.; Ellis, J. R.; Fairbairn, M.; Mavromatos, N. E.; Sakellariadou, M.; Sarkar, S.] Kings Coll London, Dept Phys, Theoret Particle Phys & Cosmol Grp, London, England, Email: vasiliki.mitsou@ific.uv.es |
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MoEDAL Collaboration (Acharya, B. et al); Bernabeu, J.; Garcia, C.; Mamuzic, J.; Mitsou, V.A.; Ruiz de Austri, R.; Santra, A.; Vento, V.; Vives, O. |
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Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL forward trapping detector in 2.11 fb(-1) of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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782 |
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510-516 |
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We update our previous search for trapped magnetic monopoles in LHC Run 2 using nearly six times more integrated luminosity and including additional models for the interpretation of the data. The MoEDAL forward trapping detector, comprising 222 kg of aluminium samples, was exposed to 2.11 fb(-1) of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions near the LHCb interaction point and analysed by searching for induced persistent currents after passage through a superconducting magnetometer. Magnetic charges equal to the Dirac charge or above are excluded in all samples. The results are interpreted in Drell-Yan production models for monopoles with spins 0, 1/2 and 1: in addition to standard point-like couplings, we also consider couplings with momentum-dependent form factors. The search provides the best current laboratory constraints for monopoles with magnetic charges ranging from two to five times the Dirac charge. |
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[Acharya, B.; Alexandre, J.; Baines, S.; Ellis, J. R.; Fairbairn, M.; Mavromatos, N. E.; Sakellariadou, M.; Sarkar, S.] Kings Coll London, Dept Phys, Theoret Particle & Phys Cosmol Grp, London, England, Email: philippe.mermod@cern.ch |
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ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al); Aparisi Pozo, J.A.; Bailey, A.J.; Cabrera Urban, S.; Cardillo, F.; Castillo, F.L.; Castillo Gimenez, V.; Costa, M.J.; Escobar, C.; Estrada Pastor, O.; Ferrer, A.; Fiorini, L.; Fullana Torregrosa, E.; Fuster, J.; Garcia, C.; Garcia Navarro, J.E.; Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.; Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G.R.; Guerrero Rojas, J.G.R.; Higon-Rodriguez, E.; Lacasta, C.; Lozano Bahilo, J.J.; Madaffari, D.; Mamuzic, J.; Marti-Garcia, S.; Martinez Agullo, P.; Mitsou, V.A.; Moreno Llacer, M.; Poveda, J.; Prades Ibañez, A.; Rodriguez Bosca, S.; Ruiz-Martinez, A.; Sabatini, P.; Salt, J.; Santra, A.; Sayago Galvan, I.; Soldevila, U.; Sanchez, J.; Torro Pastor, E.; Valero, A.; Valls Ferrer, J.A.; Vos, M. |
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Measurement of light-by-light scattering and search for axion-like particles with 2.2 nb(-1) of Pb+Pb data with the ATLAS detector |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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03 |
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3 |
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243 - 45pp |
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Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) |
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This paper describes a measurement of light-by-light scattering based on Pb+Pb collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment during Run 2 of the LHC. The study uses 2.2 nb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected in 2015 and 2018 at root sNN = 5.02TeV. Light-by-light scattering candidates are selected in events with two photons produced exclusively, each with transverse energy E-T(gamma) > 2.5 GeV, pseudorapidity vertical bar eta(gamma)vertical bar < 2.37, diphoton invariant mass m(gamma gamma) > 5 GeV, and with small diphoton transverse momentum and diphoton acoplanarity. The integrated and differential fiducial cross sections are measured and compared with theoretical predictions. The diphoton invariant mass distribution is used to set limits on the production of axion-like particles. This result provides the most stringent limits to date on axion-like particle production for masses in the range 6-100 GeV. Cross sections above 2 to 70 nb are excluded at the 95% CL in that mass interval. |
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[Abud, A. Abed; Ahmad, A.; Alderweireldt, S.; Aleksa, M.; Allaire, C.; Aranzabal, N.; Armbruster, A. J.; Avolio, G.; Barisits, M-S; Bielski, R.; Bisanz, T.; Boyd, J.; Brenner, L.; Butti, P.; Buttinger, W.; Calace, N.; Camarda, S.; Camincher, C.; Campana, S.; Garrido, M. D. M. Capeans; Carli, T.; Catinaccio, A.; Cattai, A.; Coimbra, A. E. C.; Czodrowski, P.; Dachs, F.; Dao, V; Dell'Acqua, A.; Deviveiros, P. O.; Di Girolamo, A.; Dittus, F.; Ducu, O. A.; Dudarev, A.; Duhrssen, M.; Dyndal, M.; Ellis, N.; Elsing, M.; Falke, S.; Farthouat, P.; Fassnacht, P.; Francis, D.; Froidevaux, D.; Gabrielli, A.; Goossens, L.; Gorini, B.; Guindon, S.; Hawkings, R. J.; Heinrich, L.; Helsens, C.; Correia, A. M. Henriques; Hervas, L.; Hoecker, A.; Huhtinen, M.; Iengo, P.; Jenni, P.; Jovicevic, J.; Kiehn, M.; Klimek, P.; Klioutchnikova, T.; Kohler, N. M.; Krasznahorkay, A.; Kuehn, S.; Kuwertz, E. S.; Lassnig, M.; Miotto, G. Lehmann; Longo, L.; Marzin, A.; Meehan, S.; Meng, L.; Berlingen, J. Montejo; Morley, A. K.; Mornacchi, G.; Moschovakos, P.; Nairz, A. M.; Nessi, M.; Nordberg, M.; Palestini, S.; Pauly, T.; Pernegger, H.; Perrella, S.; Petersen, B. A.; Pontecorvo, L.; Astigarraga, M. E. Pozo; Queitsch-Maitland, M.; Raymond, M.; Rembser, C.; Rizzi, C.; Roe, S.; Rummler, A.; Saimpert, M.; Salzburger, A.; Samarati, J.; Pineda, A. Sanchez; Schlenker, S.; Schovancova, J.; Sharma, A.; Sidiropoulou, O.; Oliveira, M. V. Silva; Sanchez, C. A. Solans; Spigo, G.; Stewart, G. A.; Stockton, M. C.; Ten Kate, H.; Unal, G.; Vafeiadis, T.; Vallier, A.; Vandelli, W.; Schroeder, T. Vazquez; Vuillermet, R.; Wells, P. S.; Wengler, T.; Wenig, S.; Wilkens, H. G.; Young, C. J. S.; Zambito, S.; Zanzi, D.; Zwalinski, L.; ATLAS Collaboration] CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland |
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ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al); Aparisi Pozo, J.A.; Bailey, A.J.; Cabrera Urban, S.; Cardillo, F.; Castillo, F.L.; Castillo Gimenez, V.; Costa, M.J.; Escobar, C.; Estrada Pastor, O.; Ferrer, A.; Fiorini, L.; Fullana Torregrosa, E.; Fuster, J.; Garcia, C.; Garcia Navarro, J.E.; Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.; Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G.R.; Guerrero Rojas, J.G.R.; Higon-Rodriguez, E.; Lacasta, C.; Lozano Bahilo, J.J.; Mamuzic, J.; Marti-Garcia, S.; Martinez Agullo, P.; Mitsou, V.A.; Moreno Llacer, M.; Poveda, J.; Prades Ibañez, A.; Rodriguez Bosca, S.; Ruiz-Martinez, A.; Sabatini, P.; Salt, J.; Santra, A.; Sayago Galvan, I.; Soldevila, U.; Sanchez, J.; Torro Pastor, E.; Valero, A.; Valls Ferrer, J.A.; Villaplana Perez, M.; Vos, M. |
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Search for charged-lepton-flavour violation in Z-boson decays with the ATLAS detector |
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2021 |
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Nature Physics |
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Nat. Phys. |
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Leptons with essentially the same properties apart from their mass are grouped into three families (or flavours). The number of leptons of each flavour is conserved in interactions, but this is not imposed by fundamental principles. Since the formulation of the standard model of particle physics, the observation of flavour oscillations among neutrinos has shown that lepton flavour is not conserved in neutrino weak interactions. So far, there has been no experimental evidence that this also occurs in interactions between charged leptons. Such an observation would be a sign of undiscovered particles or a yet unknown type of interaction. Here the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN reports a constraint on lepton-flavour-violating effects in weak interactions, searching for Z-boson decays into a tau lepton and another lepton of different flavour with opposite electric charge. The branching fractions for these decays are measured to be less than 8.1 x 10(-6) (e tau) and 9.5 x 10(-6) (mu tau) at the 95% confidence level using 139 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 13 TeV and 20.3 fb(-1) at root s = 8 TeV. These results supersede the limits from the Large Electron-Positron Collider experiments conducted more than two decades ago. |
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[Aad, G.; Barbero, M.; Bartolini, G.; Calvet, T. P.; Coadou, Y.; Diaconu, C.; Djama, F.; Duperrin, A.; Feligioni, L.; Fortin, E.; Guo, Z.; Hallewell, G. D.; Hubaut, F.; Knoops, E. B. F. G.; Le Guirriec, E.; Monnier, E.; Muanza, S.; Nagy, E.; Nguyen, H. D. N.; Petit, E.; Pralavorio, P.; Rozanov, A.; Strebler, T.; Talby, M.; Tisserant, S.; Toth, J.; Vu, N. K.] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France, Email: atlas.publications@cern.ch |
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ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al); Aparisi Pozo, J.A.; Bailey, A.J.; Cabrera Urban, S.; Cardillo, F.; Castillo, F.L.; Castillo Gimenez, V.; Costa, M.J.; Escobar, C.; Estrada Pastor, O.; Ferrer, A.; Fiorini, L.; Fullana Torregrosa, E.; Fuster, J.; Garcia, C.; Garcia Navarro, J.E.; Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.; Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G.R.; Guerrero Rojas, J.G.R.; Higon-Rodriguez, E.; Lacasta, C.; Lozano Bahilo, J.J.; Madaffari, D.; Mamuzic, J.; Marti-Garcia, S.; Martinez Agullo, P.; Mitsou, V.A.; Moreno Llacer, M.; Poveda, J.; Prades Ibañez, A.; Rodriguez Bosca, S.; Ruiz-Martinez, A.; Sabatini, P.; Salt, J.; Santra, A.; Sayago Galvan, I.; Soldevila, U.; Sanchez, J.; Torro Pastor, E.; Valero, A.; Valls Ferrer, J.A.; Vos, M. |
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Test of the universality of τ and μ lepton couplings in W-boson decays with the ATLAS detector |
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2021 |
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Nature Physics |
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Nat. Phys. |
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17 |
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813-818 |
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The standard model of particle physics encapsulates our best current understanding of physics at the smallest scales. A fundamental axiom of this theory is the universality of the couplings of the different generations of leptons to the electroweak gauge bosons. The measurement of the ratio of the decay rate of W bosons to t leptons and muons, R(tau/mu), constitutes an important test of this axiom. Using 139 fb(-1) of proton-proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, we report a measurement of this quantity from di-leptonic tt events where the top quarks decay into a W boson and a bottom quark. We can distinguish muons originating from W bosons and those originating from an intermediate t lepton through the muon transverse impact parameter and differences in the muon transverse momentum spectra. The measured value of R(tau/mu) is 0.992 +/- 0.013 [+/- 0.007(stat) +/- 0.011(syst)] and is in agreement with the hypothesis of universal lepton couplings as postulated in the standard model. This is the only such measurement from the Large Hadron Collider, so far, and obtains twice the precision of previous measurements. |
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[Aad, G.; Barbero, M.; Bartolini, G.; Calvet, T. P.; Coadou, Y.; Diaconu, C.; Djama, F.; Duperrin, A.; Feligioni, L.; Fortin, E.; Guo, Z.; Hallewell, G. D.; Hubaut, F.; Knoops, E. B. F. G.; Le Guirriec, E.; Monnier, E.; Muanza, S.; Nagy, E.; Nguyen, H. D. N.; Petit, E.; Pralavorio, P.; Rozanov, A.; Strebler, T.; Talby, M.; Tisserant, S.; Toth, J.; Vu, N. K.] Aix Marseille Univ, CPPM, CNRS IN2P3, Marseille, France |
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