Searching for long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider

J Alimena, J Beacham, M Borsato… - Journal of Physics G …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Particles beyond the Standard Model (SM) can generically have lifetimes that are
long compared to SM particles at the weak scale. When produced at experiments such as …

Evidence for light-by-light scattering and searches for axion-like particles in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions at sNN= 5.02 TeV

AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, F Ambrogi… - Physics Letters B, 2019 - Elsevier
Evidence for the light-by-light scattering process, γ γ→ γ γ, in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions
at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV is reported. The analysis is …

Search for long-lived particles using displaced jets in proton-proton collisions at

AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, F Ambrogi… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
An inclusive search is presented for long-lived particles using displaced jets. The search
uses a data sample collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC in 2017 and 2018 …

The CMS Phase-1 pixel detector upgrade

W Adam, T Bergauer, D Blöch… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The CMS experiment [1] at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) includes a silicon pixel
detector as the innermost part of the tracking system. The pixel detector provides 3 …

High quality QCD axion and the LHC

A Hook, S Kumar, Z Liu, R Sundrum - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
The QCD axion provides an elegant solution to the strong CP problem. While the minimal
realization is vulnerable to the so-called “axion quality problem,” we will consider a more …

Flavor identification of reconstructed hadronic jets

R Gauld, A Huss, G Stagnitto - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Identifying the flavor of reconstructed hadronic jets is critical for precision phenomenology
and the search for new physics at collider experiments, as it allows one to pinpoint specific …

The CMS Phase-1 pixel detector upgrade

Tracker Group of the CMS Collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
The CMS detector at the CERN LHC features a silicon pixel detector as its innermost
subdetector. The original CMS pixel detector has been replaced with an upgraded pixel …

Neural networks for full phase-space reweighting and parameter tuning

A Andreassen, B Nachman - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Precise scientific analysis in collider-based particle physics is possible because of complex
simulations that connect fundamental theories to observable quantities. The significant …

Search for long-lived particles decaying to leptons with large impact parameter in proton-proton collisions at = 13 TeV

CMS collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.04809, 2021 - arxiv.org
A search for new long-lived particles decaying to leptons using proton-proton collision data
produced by the CERN LHC at $\sqrt {s} $= 13 TeV is presented. Events are selected with …

Strategies and performance of the CMS silicon tracker alignment during LHC Run 2

CMS collaboration - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics …, 2022 - Elsevier
The strategies for and the performance of the CMS silicon tracking system alignment during
the 2015–2018 data-taking period of the LHC are described. The alignment procedures …