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Search for a vector-like quark T′→ tH via the diphoton decay mode of the Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Jian Wang, Matthias Finger, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Matthias Wolf, Varun Sharma, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Hua Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Xin Chen, Michele Bianco, Sebastiana Gianì, Sun Hee Kim, Davide Di Croce, Jian Zhao, Rakesh Chawla, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Anna Mascellani, Federica Legger, Matteo Galli, Gabriele Grosso

A search for the electroweak production of a vector-like quark T, decaying to a top quark and a Higgs boson is presented. The search is based on a sample of proton-proton collision events recorded at the LHC at root s = 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrat ...

Springer Nature2023

First measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in proton-proton collisions at √s=13.6 TeV

Jian Wang, Matthias Finger, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Matthias Wolf, Varun Sharma, Yi Zhang, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Hua Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Xin Chen, Michele Bianco, Sebastiana Gianì, Sun Hee Kim, Davide Di Croce, Jian Zhao, Rakesh Chawla, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Anna Mascellani, Federica Legger, Matteo Galli, Gabriele Grosso

The first measurement of the top quark pair (t (t) over bar) production cross section in proton-proton collisions at root s = 13.6TeV is presented. Data recorded with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC in Summer 2022, corresponding to an integrated luminosit ...

Springer Nature2023

Measurements of azimuthal anisotropy of nonprompt D0 mesons in PbPb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV

Measurements of the elliptic (v(2)) and triangular (v(3)) azimuthal anisotropy coefficients are presented for D-0 mesons produced in b hadron decays (nonprompt D-0 mesons) in lead-lead collisions at root s(NN) = 5.02 TeV. The results are compared with prev ...

Elsevier2024

CMS PYTHIA 8 colour reconnection tunes based on underlying-event data

Jian Wang, Matthias Finger, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Varun Sharma, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Hua Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Xin Chen, Michele Bianco, Sebastiana Gianì, Sun Hee Kim, Davide Di Croce, Guido Andreassi, Arvind Shah, Wei Sun, Jian Zhao, Rakesh Chawla, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Federica Legger, Gabriele Grosso

New sets of parameter tunes for two of the colour reconnection models, quantum chromodynamics-inspired and gluon-move, implemented in the PYTHIA 8 event generator, are obtained based on the default CMS PYTHIA 8 underlying-event tune, CP5. Measurements sens ...

Springer2023

A Novel Method for Detecting Unidentified Falling Object Loss Patterns in the LHC

Frédéric Blanc, Tatiana Pieloni, Davide Di Croce, Loïc Thomas Davies Coyle

Understanding and mitigating particle losses in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is essential for both machine safety and efficient operation. Abnormal loss distributions are tell- tale signs of abnormal beam behaviour or incorrect machine configuration. By ...

Journals of Accelerator Conferences Website (JACoW)2022

Study of azimuthal anisotropy of γ(1S) mesons in pPb collisions at √SNN=8.16 TeV

The azimuthal anisotropy of gamma(1S) mesons in high-multiplicity proton-lead collisions is studied using data collected by the CMS experiment at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 8.16 TeV. The gamma(1S) mesons are reconstructed using their dimuon ...

Elsevier2024

The DAQ and control system for the CMS Phase-1 pixel detector upgrade

Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Tian Cheng, Konstantin Androsov, Xin Chen, Davide Di Croce, Albert Perez, Alessandro Caratelli, François Bianchi, Chia-Chun Chen, Simone Scarfì

In 2017 a new pixel detector was installed in the CMS detector. This so-called Phase-1 pixel detector features four barrel layers in the central region and three disks per end in the forward regions. The upgraded pixel detector requires an upgraded data ac ...

2019

Azimuthal correlations in Z plus jets events in proton-proton collisions at √s=13TeV

The production of Z bosons associated with jets is measured in pp collisions at v s = 13 TeV with data recorded with the CMS experiment at the LHC corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.3 fb(-1). The multiplicity of jets with transverse momentum p ...

Springer2023

Measurement of the top quark mass using a profile likelihood approach with the lepton plus jets final states in proton-proton collisions at √s=13TeV

Jian Wang, Matthias Finger, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Matthias Wolf, Varun Sharma, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Hua Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Xin Chen, Michele Bianco, Sebastiana Gianì, Sun Hee Kim, Davide Di Croce, Arvind Shah, Jian Zhao, Rakesh Chawla, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Anna Mascellani, Federica Legger, Matteo Galli, Gabriele Grosso

The mass of the top quark is measured in 36.3 fb(-1) of LHC proton-proton collision data collected with the CMS detector at root s = 13 TeV. The measurement uses a sample of top quark pair candidate events containing one isolated electron or muon and at le ...

Springer2023

Measurement of differential cross sections for the production of a Z boson in association with jets in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Jian Wang, Matthias Finger, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Matthias Wolf, Varun Sharma, Yi Zhang, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Hua Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Peter Hansen, Xin Chen, Michele Bianco, Sebastiana Gianì, Davide Di Croce, Guido Andreassi, Arvind Shah, Wei Sun, Jian Zhao, Rakesh Chawla, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Federica Legger, Bandeep Singh

A measurement is presented of the production of Z bosons that decay into two electrons or muons in association with jets, in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data were cross sections are measured as a function of the trans ...

American Physical Society2023

Search for high-mass exclusive γγ → WW and γγ → ZZ production in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Jian Wang, Matthias Finger, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Matthias Wolf, Varun Sharma, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Hua Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Xin Chen, Michele Bianco, Sebastiana Gianì, Sun Hee Kim, Davide Di Croce, Arvind Shah, Jian Zhao, Rakesh Chawla, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Anna Mascellani, Federica Legger, Matteo Galli, Gabriele Grosso

A search is performed for exclusive high-mass gamma gamma -> WW and gamma gamma -> ZZ production in proton-proton collisions using intact forward protons reconstructed in near-beam detectors, with both weak bosons decaying into boosted and merged jets. The ...

Springer Nature2023

Beam test performance of a prototype module with Short Strip ASICs for the CMS HL-LHC tracker upgrade

Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Tian Cheng, Konstantin Androsov, Jessica Prisciandaro, Xin Chen, Davide Di Croce, Rakesh Chawla, Albert Perez, Alessandro Caratelli, François Bianchi, Simone Scarfì, Chun Xia

The Short Strip ASIC (SSA) is one of the four front-end chips designed for the upgrade of the CMS Outer Tracker for the High Luminosity LHC. Together with the Macro-Pixel ASIC (MPA) it will instrument modules containing a strip and a macro-pixel sensor sta ...

2022

All grown-up; 18 years of LHC@home

Davide Di Croce

LHC@home was launched as a BOINC project in 2004 as an outreach project for CERN's 50 years anniversary. Initially focused on the accelerator physics simulation code SixTrack, the project was expanded in 2011 to run other physics simulation codes on Linux ...

EDP Sciences2024

Beam test performance of prototype silicon detectors for the Outer Tracker for the Phase-2 Upgrade of CMS

Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Tian Cheng, Konstantin Androsov, Xin Chen, Davide Di Croce, Albert Perez, Alessandro Caratelli, François Bianchi, Simone Scarfì

A new CMS tracker detector will be installed for operation at the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). This detector comprises modules with two closely spaced parallel sensor plates and front-end ASICs capable of transmitting tracking information to the CMS Level ...

2020

Measurements of jet multiplicity and jet transverse momentum in multijet events in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Multijet events at large transverse momentum (p(T)) are measured at root s = 13 TeV using data recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.3 fb(-1). The multiplicity of jets with p(T) > 50 GeV that are produce ...

Springer2023

A search for new physics in central exclusive production using the missing mass technique with the CMS detector and the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer

Jian Wang, Matthias Finger, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Matthias Wolf, Varun Sharma, Yi Zhang, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Hua Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Xin Chen, Michele Bianco, Sebastiana Gianì, Sun Hee Kim, Davide Di Croce, Arvind Shah, Jian Zhao, Rakesh Chawla, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Anna Mascellani, Federica Legger, Matteo Galli, Gabriele Grosso

A generic search is presented for the associated production of a Z boson or a photon with an additional unspecified massive particle X, pp -> pp + Z/gamma + X, in proton-tagged events from proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV, recorded in 2017 with ...

Springer2023

Assessing the Performance of Deep Learning Predictions for Dynamic Aperture of a Hadron Circular Particle Accelerator

Tatiana Pieloni, Davide Di Croce

Understanding the concept of dynamic aperture provides essential insights into nonlinear beam dynamics, beam losses, and the beam lifetime in circular particle accelerators. This comprehension is crucial for the functioning of modern hadron synchrotrons li ...

2024

Proton reconstruction with the CMS-TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer

Jian Wang, Matthias Finger, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Matthias Wolf, Varun Sharma, Yi Zhang, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Hua Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Xin Chen, Michele Bianco, Sebastiana Gianì, Sun Hee Kim, Davide Di Croce, Arvind Shah, Jian Zhao, Rakesh Chawla, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Anna Mascellani, Federica Legger, Matteo Galli, Gabriele Grosso

The Precision Proton Spectrometer (PPS) of the CMS and TOTEM experiments collected 107.7 fb 1 in proton-proton (pp) collisions at the LHC at 13 TeV(Run 2). This paper describes the key features of the PPS alignment and optics calibrations, the proton recon ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2023

The CMS Phase-1 pixel detector upgrade

Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Tian Cheng, Konstantin Androsov, Jessica Prisciandaro, Xin Chen, Davide Di Croce, Rakesh Chawla, Albert Perez, Alessandro Caratelli, François Bianchi, Simone Scarfì

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 system (CMS Phase-1 pixel detector) in the extended year-end technical stop of the LHC ...

2021