Kinematic variables and feature engineering for particle phenomenology

R Franceschini, D Kim, K Kong, KT Matchev… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
Kinematic variables play an important role in collider phenomenology, as they expedite
discoveries of new particles by separating signal events from unwanted background events …

Performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV using the CMS detector

CMS collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.06078, 2019 - arxiv.org
The performance of missing transverse momentum (${\vec p} _ {\mathrm {T}}^\mathrm {miss}
$) reconstruction algorithms for the CMS experiment is presented, using proton-proton …

Measurement of the Higgs boson width and evidence of its off-shell contributions to ZZ production

Nature physics, 2022 - nature.com
Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, detailed studies of its properties have been
ongoing. Besides its mass, its width—related to its lifetime—is an important parameter. One …

Experimental tests of particle flow calorimetry

F Sefkow, A White, K Kawagoe, R Pöschl… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
Precision physics at future colliders requires highly granular calorimeters to support the
particle flow approach for event reconstruction. This article presents a review of about 10–15 …

[HTML][HTML] Measurement of the differential cross section for top quark pair production in pp collisions at

V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan… - The European Physical …, 2015 - Springer
The normalized differential cross section for top quark pair (\({\mathrm {t}}\overline {{\mathrm
{t}}}\)) production is measured in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8\(\,\text {TeV}\) …

Performance of CMS muon reconstruction in pp collision events at√ s= 7 TeV

CMS collaboration - Journal of Instrumentation, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The performance of muon reconstruction, identification, and triggering in CMS has been
studied using 40 pb− 1 of data collected in pp collisions at√ s= 7 TeV at the LHC in 2010. A …

Searches for physics beyond the standard model with the M_ T2 MT 2 variable in hadronic final states with and without disappearing tracks in proton–proton collisions …

AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, F Ambrogi… - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
Two related searches for phenomena beyond the standard model (BSM) are performed
using events with hadronic jets and significant transverse momentum imbalance. The results …

[HTML][HTML] Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

S Chatrchyan, V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan… - Physics Letters B, 2012 - Elsevier
Results are presented from searches for the standard model Higgs boson in proton–proton
collisions at s= 7 and 8 TeV in the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the LHC, using …

Performance of the CMS missing transverse momentum reconstruction in pp data at√ s= 8 TeV

CMS collaboration - Journal of Instrumentation, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The performance of missing transverse energy reconstruction algorithms is presented
using√ s= 8 TeV proton-proton (pp) data collected with the CMS detector. Events with …

Evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of τ leptons

S Chatrchyan, V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan… - Journal of High Energy …, 2014 - Springer
A bstract A search for a standard model Higgs boson decaying into a pair of τ leptons is
performed using events recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2011 and 2012. The …