Renner, J. et al, Romo-Luque, C., Carrion, J. V., Diaz, J., Martinez, A., Querol, M., et al. (2022). Monte Carlo characterization of PETALO, a full-body liquid xenon-based PET detector. J. Instrum., 17(5), P05044–17pp.
Abstract: New detector approaches in Positron Emission Tomography imaging will play an important role in reducing costs, lowering administered radiation doses, and improving overall performance. PETALO employs liquid xenon as the active scintillating medium and UV-sensitive silicon photomultipliers for scintillation readout. The scintillation time in liquid xenon is fast enough to register time-of-flight information for each detected coincidence, and sufficient scintillation is produced with low enough fluctuations to obtain good energy resolution. The present simulation study examines a full-body-sized PETALO detector and evaluates its potential performance in PET image reconstruction.
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LHCb Collaboration(Aaij, R. et al), Jashal, B. K., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Remon Alepuz, C., & Ruiz Vidal, J. (2022). Centrality determination in heavy-ion collisions with the LHCb detector. J. Instrum., 17(5), P05009–31pp.
Abstract: The centrality of heavy-ion collisions is directly related to the created medium in these interactions. A procedure to determine the centrality of collisions with the LHCb detector is implemented for lead-lead collisions root s(NN) = 5 TeV and lead-neon fixed-target collisions at root s(NN) = 69 GeV. The energy deposits in the electromagnetic calorimeter are used to determine and define the centrality classes. The correspondence between the number of participants and the centrality for the lead-lead collisions is in good agreement with the correspondence found in other experiments, and the centrality measurements for the lead-neon collisions presented here are performed for the first time in fixed-target collisions at the LHC.
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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). Study of CP violation in B0 → DK*(892)0 decays with D → Kπ(ππ), ππ(ππ), and KK final states. J. High Energy Phys., 05(5), 025–30pp.
Abstract: A measurement of CP-violating observables associated with the interference of B-0 -> (DK)-K-0*(892)(0) and B-0 -> (D) over bar K-0*(892)(0) decay amplitudes is performed in the D-0 -> K-+/- pi(+/-)(pi(+)pi(-)), D-0 -> pi(+) pi(-)(pi(+)pi(-)), and D-0 -> K+ K- final states using data collected by the LHCb experiment corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb(-1). CP-violating observables related to the interference of B-s(0) -> D-0 (K) over bar*(892)(0) and B-s(0) -> (D) over bar (0) (K) over bar*(892)(0) are also measured, but no evidence for interference is found. The B-0 observables are used to constrain the parameter space of the CKM angle. and the hadronic parameters gamma(DK*) (0)(B) and delta(DK*) (0)(B) with inputs from other measurements. In a combined analysis, these measurements allow for four solutions in the parameter space, only one of which is consistent with the world average.
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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). Measurement of off-shell Higgs boson production in the H*→ZZ→4l decay channel using a neural simulation-based inference technique in 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. Rep. Prog. Phys., 88(5), 057803–38pp.
Abstract: A measurement of off-shell Higgs boson production in the H*-> ZZ -> 4l decay channel is presented. The measurement uses 140 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider and supersedes the previous result in this decay channel using the same dataset. The data analysis is performed using a neural simulation-based inference method, which builds per-event likelihood ratios using neural networks. The observed (expected) off-shell Higgs boson production signal strength in the ZZ -> 4l decay channel at 68% CL is 0.87-0.54+0.75 ( 1.00-0.95+1.04). The evidence for off-shell Higgs boson production using the ZZ -> 4l decay channel has an observed (expected) significance of 2.5 sigma (1.3 sigma). The expected result represents a significant improvement relative to that of the previous analysis of the same dataset, which obtained an expected significance of 0.5 sigma. When combined with the most recent ATLAS measurement in the ZZ -> 2l2 nu decay channel, the evidence for off-shell Higgs boson production has an observed (expected) significance of 3.7 sigma (2.4 sigma). The off-shell measurements are combined with the measurement of on-shell Higgs boson production to obtain constraints on the Higgs boson total width. The observed (expected) value of the Higgs boson width at 68% CL is 4.3-1.9+2.7 ( 4.1-3.4+3.5) MeV.
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ATLAS Collaboration(Aad, G. et al), Amoros, G., Cabrera Urban, S., Castillo Gimenez, V., Costa, M. J., Escobar, C., et al. (2012). Search for strong gravity signatures in same-sign dimuon final states using the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Phys. Lett. B, 709(4-5), 322–340.
Abstract: A search for microscopic black holes has been performed in a same-sign dimuon final state using 1.3 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at a centre of mass energy of 7 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The data are found to be consistent with the expectation from the Standard Model and the results are used to derive exclusion contours in the context of a low scale gravity model.
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