ATLAS Collaboration(Aad, G. et al), Aikot, A., Amos, K. R., Aparisi Pozo, J. A., Bailey, A. J., Bouchhar, N., et al. (2024). Search for heavy resonances in final states with four leptons and missing transverse momentum or jets in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. J. High Energy Phys., 10(10), 130–50pp.
Abstract: A search for a new heavy boson produced via gluon-fusion in the four-lepton channel with missing transverse momentum or jets is performed. The search uses proton-proton collision data equivalent to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1) at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector between 2015 and 2018 at the Large Hadron Collider. This study explores the decays of heavy bosons: R -> SH and A -> ZH, where R is a CP-even boson, A is a CP-odd boson, H is a CP-even boson, and S is considered to decay into invisible particles that are candidates for dark matter. In these processes, S -> invisible and H -> ZZ. The Z boson associated with the heavy scalar boson H decays into all decay channels of the Z boson. The mass range under consideration is 390-1300 (320-1300) GeV for the R (A) boson and 220-1000 GeV for the H boson. No significant deviation from the Standard Model backgrounds is observed. The results are interpreted as upper limits at a 95% confidence level on the cross-section times the branching ratio of the heavy resonances.
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LHCb Collaboration(Aaij, R. et al), Jaimes Elles, S. J., Jashal, B. K., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Rebollo De Miguel, M., et al. (2024). Amplitude analysis of the Λb0 → pK- γ decay. J. High Energy Phys., 06(6), 098–37pp.
Abstract: The resonant structure of the radiative decay Lambda(0)(b) -> pK(-) gamma in the region of proton-kaon invariant-mass up to 2.5 GeV/c(2) is studied using proton-proton collision data recorded at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13TeV collected with the LHCb detector, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 9 fb(-1). Results are given in terms of fit and interference fractions between the different components contributing to this final state. Only. resonances decaying to pK(-) are found to be relevant, where the largest contributions stem from the Lambda(1520), Lambda(1600), Lambda(1800), and Lambda(1890) states.
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LHCb Collaboration(Aaij, R. et al), Jaimes Elles, S. J., Jashal, B. K., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Rebollo De Miguel, M., et al. (2024). Multiplicity dependence of σψ(2S)/σJ/ψ in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV. J. High Energy Phys., 05(5), 243–34pp.
Abstract: The ratio of production cross-sections of psi(2S) over J/psi mesons as a function of charged-particle multiplicity in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy root s = 13 TeV is measured with a data sample collected by the LHCb detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 658 pb(-1). The ratio is measured for both prompt and non-prompt psi(2S) and J/psi mesons. When there is an overlap between the rapidity ranges over which multiplicity and charmonia production are measured, a multiplicity-dependent modification of the ratio is observed for prompt mesons. No significant multiplicity dependence is found when the ranges do not overlap. For non-prompt production, the psi(2S)-to- J/psi production ratio is roughly independent of multiplicity, irrespective of the rapidity range over which the multiplicity is measured. The results are compared to predictions of the co-mover model and agree well except in the low multiplicity region. The ratio of production cross-sections of psi(2S) over J/psi mesons are cross-checked with other measurements in di-lepton channels and found to be compatible.
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ATLAS Collaboration(Aad, G. et al), Aikot, A., Amos, K. R., Bouchhar, N., Cabrera Urban, S., Cantero, J., et al. (2025). Search for boosted low-mass resonances decaying into hadrons produced in association with a photon in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. J. High Energy Phys., 01(1), 099–40pp.
Abstract: Many extensions of the Standard Model, including those with dark matter particles, propose new mediator particles that decay into hadrons. This paper presents a search for such low mass narrow resonances decaying into hadrons using 140 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data recorded with the ATLAS detector at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The resonances are searched for in the invariant mass spectrum of large-radius jets with two-pronged substructure that are recoiling against an energetic photon from initial state radiation, which is used as a trigger to circumvent limitations on the maximum data recording rate. This technique enables the search for boosted hadronically decaying resonances in the mass range 20-100 GeV hitherto unprobed by the ATLAS Collaboration. The observed data are found to agree with Standard Model predictions and 95% confidence level upper limits are set on the coupling of a hypothetical new spin-1 Z ' resonance with Standard Model quarks as a function of the assumed Z '-boson mass in the range between 20 and 200 GeV.
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LHCb Collaboration(Aaij, R. et al), Fernandez Casani, A., Jaimes Elles, S. J., Jashal, B. K., Libralon, S., Martinez-Vidal, F., et al. (2025). Measurement of φ(1020) meson production in fixed-target pNe collisions at √sNN=68.5 GeV. J. High Energy Phys., 03(3), 151–21pp.
Abstract: The first measurement of phi(1020) meson production in fixed-target pNe collisions at root s(NN) = 68.5 GeV is presented. The phi(1020) mesons are reconstructed in their K+K- decay in a data sample consisting of proton collisions on neon nuclei at rest, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 21.7 +/- 1.4 nb(-1), collected by the LHCb detector at CERN. The phi(1020) production cross-section in the centre-of-mass rapidity range of -1.8 < y* < 0 and transverse momentum range of 800 < p(T) < 6500MeV/ c is found to be sigma = 182.7 +/- 2.7 (stat.) +/- 14.1 (syst) μb/nucleon. A double-differential measurement of the cross-section is also provided in four regions of rapidity and six regions of transverse momentum of the phi(1020) meson and compared with the predictions from Pythia and EPOS4, which are found to underestimate the experimental values.
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