Jet measurements in heavy ion physics

M Connors, C Nattrass, R Reed, S Salur - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
A hot, dense medium called a quark gluon plasma (QGP) is created in ultrarelativistic heavy
ion collisions. Early in the collision, hard parton scatterings generate high momentum …

Experimental overview on small collision systems at the LHC

C Loizides - Nuclear Physics A, 2016 - Elsevier
Experimental overview on small collision systems at the LHC Page 1 Experimental overview on
small collision systems at the LHC Constantin Loizides Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory …

Parton distribution functions, , and heavy-quark masses for LHC Run II

S Alekhin, J Blümlein, S Moch, R Plačakytė - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
We determine a new set of parton distribution functions (ABMP16), the strong coupling
constant α s and the quark masses mc, mb and mt in a global fit to next-to-next-to-leading …

CaloGAN: Simulating 3D high energy particle showers in multilayer electromagnetic calorimeters with generative adversarial networks

M Paganini, L de Oliveira, B Nachman - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
The precise modeling of subatomic particle interactions and propagation through matter is
paramount for the advancement of nuclear and particle physics searches and precision …

High-precision differential predictions for top-quark pairs at the LHC

M Czakon, D Heymes, A Mitov - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
We present the first complete next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD predictions for
differential distributions in the top-quark pair production process at the LHC. Our results are …

Addressing the LHC flavor anomalies with horizontal gauge symmetries

A Crivellin, G D'Ambrosio, J Heeck - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
We study the impact of an additional U (1)′ gauge symmetry with flavor-dependent charges
for quarks and leptons on the LHC flavor anomalies observed in B→ K* μ+ μ-, R (K)= B→ K …

Measurements of production cross sections in collisions at with the ATLAS detector and limits on anomalous gauge boson self-couplings

G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, O Abdinov, B Abeloos… - Physical review D, 2016 - APS
This paper presents measurements of W±Z production in pp collisions at a center-of-mass
energy of 8 TeV. The gauge bosons are reconstructed using their leptonic decay modes into …

Proposed inclusive dark photon search at LHCb

P Ilten, Y Soreq, J Thaler, M Williams, W Xue - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
We propose an inclusive search for dark photons A′ at the LHCb experiment based on
both prompt and displaced dimuon resonances. Because the couplings of the dark photon …

Future physics opportunities for high-density QCD at the LHC with heavy-ion and proton beams

Z Citron, A Dainese, JF Grosse-Oetringhaus… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
The future opportunities for high-density QCD studies with ion and proton beams at the LHC
are presented. Four major scientific goals are identified: the characterisation of the …

Hydrodynamic predictions for 5.44 TeV Xe+ Xe collisions

G Giacalone, J Noronha-Hostler, M Luzum, JY Ollitrault - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
We argue that relativistic hydrodynamics is able to make robust predictions for soft particle
production in Xe+ Xe collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The change of …