We will report on our study focusing on developing a logical circuit for the Leven-0 (L0) Endcap Muon Trigger in the HL-LHC ATLAS experiment. We aim to achieve systematic and efficient firmware validation through a comprehensive study across hardware, software, and databases. Specific approaches include conducting systematic tests using benchmarking artificial track data, high-statistics...
SAND, System for on-Axis Neutrino Detection, will be one of the three components of the DUNE Near Detector complex and it will be placed permanently on the axis of the neutrino beam. It consists of a solenoidal magnet, an electromagnetic calorimeter, an inner Straw Tube Tracker, and finally GRAIN (GRanular Argon for Interaction of Neutrinos) a 1-ton liquid argon target, placed in the upstream...
We propose here a set of new methods to directly detect light mass DM through its scattering with abundant atmospheric muons or accelerator beams. Firstly, we plan to use the free cosmic muons interacting with dark matter in a volume surrounded by tracking detectors, to trace possible interaction between dark matter and muons. Secondly, we will interface our device with domestic or...
We present an innovative charge detector designed with high resolution and a wide dynamic range to fulfill ion beam monitoring requirements. The detector prototype, constructed using HERD Si photodiodes and Calo PD readout electronics, underwent rigorous testing during HERD and AMS beam tests at CERN SPS facilities. Initial testing showcased the detector's exceptional performance, emphasizing...
Monolithic Water Cherenkov Neutrino detectors are crucial for understanding neutrino astrophysics and oscillations. Traditional calibration involves analyzing calibration data sequentially, which may overlook parameter correlations and necessitates frequent retuning of reconstruction algorithms. This leads to duplicated efforts and increased detector-related uncertainties in next-generation...
The ALICE data-taking concept for the LHC Run 3 and Run 4 allows the collection of minimum bias collisions in a continuous readout mode, their subsequent asynchronous reconstruction, and the final offline selection of events for permanent storage. This design enables the implementation of dedicated event selection schemes, tailored for a given observable, and avoids the need for dedicated...
The Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) is the hadronic calorimeter covering the central region of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. This sampling device is made of plastic scintillating tiles alternated with iron plates and its response is calibrated to electromagnetic scale by means of several dedicated systems. The accurate time calibration is important for the energy reconstruction, non-collision...
Neutrinoless double beta decay experiments are pushing their sensitivities to reach half-lives on the order of $10^{28}$ years. A promising approach involves detecting the daughter ion generated in the decay. The NEXT collaboration is testing chemical sensors to identify the Ba$^{2+}$ ion produced in the double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe, coinciding with the emission of two electrons. This...
The Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment has measured the positive muon magnetic anomaly to an unprecedented precision of 0.2 ppm, based on the data taken in the first three years. The magnetic anomaly is derived from the ratio between the muon anomalous spin precession frequency in a magnetic storage ring and the magnetic field experienced by the muon ensemble. In addition, systematic effects on the...
The demands of HL-LHC data processing and the challenges of future colliders are pushing to re-think High Energy Physics (HEP) computing models.
This talk aims at providing transparent resources for users and experiments, with suitable tools and environment, coupled with flexible and cloud-independent deployment in the framework of the ICSC project (Italian National Centre on HPC, Big Data...
The DANSS detector is placed under the reactor core of Kalinin NPP and collects up to 5000 ν events per day. Experiment is aimed to scrutinize the sterile ν hypothesis, and obtained limits exclude practically all sterile neutrino parameters preferred by BEST experiment. The main goal of the energy calibration is the determination of the energy scale coefficient $K_Е$, however, the Birks and...
A new front-end ASIC named "PIST" (pico-second timing) has been successfully developed using 55 nm CMOS technology for the silicon photomulplier (SiPM) readout with a single channel with a major aim of fast timing. We performed extensive tests to evaluate the timing performance of a dedicated test stand. The results show that the system timing resolution can reach sub 10 ps, while the PIST...
The ATLAS Inner Detector will be completely replaced with an all-silicon tracking detector (ITk) to cope with the new challenging conditions arising with the HL-LHC. The pixel detector will be located in the innermost part of the ITk and consists of five layers of detectors, with different thickness and sensor technology. n-in-p planar hybrid modules 150 μm thick and 100 μm thick will...
In the context of the CMS improved Resistive Plate Chambers (iRPC) upgrade, a strategy has developed that leverages cosmic muon triggers along with web-based automation for Quality Control (QC) steps. A key aspect of this approach was finding a way to bridge slow and fast control parameters, a crucial step towards achieving full automation. This integration not only enhances the efficiency and...
This poster presents the efforts to boost the performance and the reliability of the Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) of the muon system of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. The focus is on both, maintenance of the existing RPC chambers and the installation of the improved RPC detectors (iRPC) for the Phase-2 upgrade. The RPC system consolidation is based on the cooling system upgrade...
Improving the identification of jets initiated from gluon or quark will impact the precision of several analysis in the ATLAS collaboration physics program. Using jet constituents as inputs for developing quark/gluon taggers gives the models access to a superset of information with respect to the use of high-level variables. Transformer architecture is used to learn long-range dependencies...
Darkside-20k is an underground direct dark matter search experiment designed to reach a total exposure of 200 tonne-years nearly free from instrumental backgrounds. The detector's core is a dual-phase Time Projection Chamber filled with 50 tonnes of low-radioactivity liquid argon. The TPC wall is surrounded by PMMA acting as a neutron veto, immersed in an argon bath.
The key technological...
To study the feasibility of a shallow-depth neutrino detector, a Cosmic Muon Veto Detector (CMVD) is being built around the mini-ICAL detector at the IICHEP in Madurai, India. CMVD will use extruded plastic scintillators for muon detection and wavelength-shifting fibres coupled with silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) for signal readout. A power supply source is needed for biasing the SIPMs,...
Core-collapse supernova bursts are among the most energetic phenomena known in the universe. PandaX-4T, a dark matter and neutrino experiment that employs a dual-phase xenon TPC as the detector, has the ability to detect neutrinos from supernova bursts via the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering process. In this study, the total number of supernova neutrino events in PandaX-4T is...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a neutrino detector currently under construction in China. It will use 20 ktons of liquid scintillator as the target medium, which will be surrounded by 45,000 photomultiplier tubes to collect the scintillation light produced by the interacting particles. The JUNO physics program encompasses a comprehensive range of measurements,...
We study detection possibilities of the Odderon interaction in the elastic meson-nucleon scattering, by measuring K0s regeneration at CERN, using the planned HIKE (Phase II) and existing LHCf infrastructures. Basic geometrical requirements and kinematic constraints of such experimental efforts at CERN are considered and the published predictions of the Odderon signatures in K0s regeneration...
We present an updated set of SKMHS diffractive parton distribution functions (PDFs). In addition to the diffractive deep-inelastic scattering (diffractive DIS) datasets, the recent diffractive dijet cross-section measurement by the H1 experiment from the HERA collider are added to the data sample. The new set of diffractive PDFs, entitled SKMHS23 and SKMHS23-dijet, are presented at NLO and...
Supersymmetry (SUSY) is one of the most interesting theories for Physics beyond the Standard Model and LHC experiments have searched for its evidence during Run1 and Run2. The search for direct production of top squark pairs in which each stop decays in two, three or four bodies depending on the hypotheses on its mass was performed, on data collected during Run2, in final states with two...
Domain walls are a type of topological defects that can arise in the
early universe after the spontaneous breaking of a discrete symmetry. This occurs in several beyond Standard Model theories with an
extended Higgs sector such as the Next-to-Two-Higgs-Doublet model
(N2HDM). In this talk I will discuss the domain wall solution related
to the singlet scalar of the N2HDM as well as...
Tau leptons serve as an important tool for analyzing the production of Higgs and electroweak bosons in the context of the Standard Model as well as for physics phenomena beyond the Standard model. Therefore, an accurate reconstruction and identification of the hadronically decaying tau leptons is a crucial for contemporary and future high energy physics experiments. Building on the results of...
The ATLAS hadronic Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) is one of the sub-systems of the ATLAS detector installed at the LHC. The calorimeter is composed of alternating iron plates and plastic scintillating tiles. Our study aims to determine the azimuthal uniformity of the energy response and intercalibration of the TileCal longitudinal layers using isolated muons. The muons from the decay of the W...
The ATLAS Collaboration has developed a variety of Education and Outreach activities designed to engage young minds at home and in the classroom. This material ranges from an original particle physics baby book to colouring books, onlne printable information sheets and a challenging Masterclass program using real data from LHC proton collisions. Here we present our most recent developments...
The ATLAS Collaboration hosts several popular programmes bringing visitors to our detector at CERN or via video conference from remote locations. ATLAS physicists take advantage of technical stops and shutdowns to show off the world’s largest collider detector to local audiences via guided visits and to remote audiences via virtual visits. Throughout the year, local visitors join guided tours...
The ESSnuSB project aims to measure the leptonic CP violation at the second neutrino oscillation maximum using an intense neutrino beam.
ESSnuSB+ is a continuation of this study which focuses on neutrino interaction cross-section measurement at the low neutrino energy region as well as the study of the sensitivity of the experimental set-up to additional physics scenarios. Among them, it...
Event-by-event fluctuations of mean transverse momentum, $\langle p_{\rm{T}}\rangle$, help to characterize the properties of the system created in heavy-ion collisions and are linked to the phase transition dynamics from quark-gluon plasma (QGP) to a hadron gas. In this contribution, $\langle p_{\rm{T}}\rangle$ fluctuations of charged particles produced in pp at $\sqrt{s}= 5.02$ TeV, Xe-Xe and...
The INO-ICAL collaboration has built a prototype detector called miniICAL at IICHEP, Madurai, India. A Cosmic Muon Veto detector (CMVD) based on an extruded plastic scintillator (EPS) is being built on top of the miniICAL detector to investigate the feasibility of constructing a large-scale neutrino experiment at shallow depths. All the individual components of the veto walls, e.g, SiPM $\&$...
Within the framework of the Standard Model, the Higgs sector is minimally composed of one doublet of complex scalar fields, essential for achieving spontaneous electroweak symmetry breaking. Nevertheless, a myriad of advanced theories transcending the Standard Model envision more intricate Higgs sectors, leading to the prediction of charged Higgs bosons. Notably, the Georgi- Machacek(GM) model...
Resonances play a crucial role in probing the characteristic of the hadronic phase, created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Rescattering and regeneration processes influence the measurable resonance yields and $p_{\rm T}$ spectra shapes. Measurements of resonance productions in high-multiplicity pp collisions could provide insight into the possible presence of a hadronic phase in...
Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations play a key role in high energy physics, for example at the ATLAS experiment. MC generators evolve continuously, so a periodic validation is indispensable for obtaining reliable and reproducible physics simulations. For that purpose, an automated and central validation system was developed: PMG Architecture for Validating Evgen with Rivet (PAVER). It provides an MC...
We studied the CP violating phases in the neutral kaon oscillations and decays in the effective field theory of kaons, without going into the quark level, and connected the CP violating parameters to the Bargmann invariants and hence to the geometrical phases. We extended this approach to demonstrate how the CP violating parameters appearing in the processes of baryogenesis and leptogenesis...
The study of nucleon pairs momentum correlations can provide input for describing the formation of light nuclei, such as deuterons, through the coalescence of protons and neutrons into bound states. The femtoscopy technique is applied to measure the correlation in momentum among protons emitted after the hadronization phase of a hadronic collision. The spatial properties of the proton-emitting...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a next-generation large liquid-scintillator neutrino detector, which is designed to determine the neutrino mass ordering. Moreover, high-energy atmospheric neutrino measurements could also improve its sensitivity to mass ordering via matter effects on oscillations, which depend on the capability to identify the flavors of neutrinos....
The DeepTau tau identification algorithm, based on Deep Neural Network techniques, has been developed to reduce the fraction of jets, muons and electrons misidentified as hadronically decaying tau leptons by the Hadron-plus-strip algorithm. Its recently deployed version 2.5 for Run3 has brought several improvements to the existing algorithm, e.g. the addition of domain adaptation to reduce...
A fundamental aspect of CMS researches concerns the identification and characterisation of jets originating from quarks and gluons produced in high-energy pp collisions. Electroweak scale resonances (Z/W bosons), Higgs bosons and top quarks are often produced with high Lorentz-boosts, where their products become highly collimated large and massive jets, usually reconstructed as AK8 jets....
The T2K long-baseline neutrino experiment in Japan harnesses its sensitivity to search for CP violation in neutrino sector by observing the appearance of electron (anti-)neutrinos from a beam of muon (anti-)neutrinos at its far detector, Super-Kamiokande (SK). For the next iteration of T2K's oscillation analysis, a new $\nu_e$ appearance sample was developed, targeting charged-current single...
Mu2e will search for the neutrinoless coherent μ^-→e^- conversion in the field of an Al nucleus and improve the current limit by 4 orders of magnitude. Mu2e consists of a straw-tube tracker and crystal calorimeter in a 1T B field complemented by a plastic scintillation counter veto to suppress cosmic ray backgrounds. Tracker geometry makes track reconstruction a quite unique problem. The first...
The poster collects measures adopted by the ERC over the years in order to facilitate the participation of diverse groups, and it presents some of the main results of these, with a focus on gender and physical sciences.
We integrated the detector and the readout electronics for a new inner-station TGC system at the ATLAS experiment and evaluated the performance. The TGC detectors installed in the endcap inner stations of the ATLAS detector will be upgraded from the doublet to triplet chambers for an improved selectivity of the first-level muon trigger at the HL-LHC. The challenging structure of fitting a...
The flagship activity of the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) is the International Masterclasses (IMC) in particle physics. This very successful programme brings cutting-edge science to high-school students. Invited to a university or laboratory, the students spend a day of immersion in particle physics, learning about the standard model and beyond, about experimental...
In this talk, we report recent progress on the development of a local renormalisation formalism based on Causal Loop-Tree Duality. By performing an expansion around the UV-propagator in an Euclidean space, we manage to build counter-terms to cancel the non-integrable terms in the UV limit. This procedure is then combined with the so-called causal representation, and the UV expansion is...
We investigate the effects of parameters in the Bestest Little Higgs Model (BLHM) on rare flavor-changing decays of the top quark. In this study, we incorporate new flavor mixing terms between the light quarks of the Standard Model (SM) and the fermions and bosons of the BLHM. We compute the one-loop contributions from the heavy quark $(B)$ and the heavy bosons $(W^{\prime\pm}, \phi^{\pm},...
The ATLAS physics program at HL-LHC calls for a precision in the luminosity measurement of 1%. To fulfill such requirement in an environment characterized by up to140 simultaneous interactions per crossing (200 in the ultimate scenario), ATLAS will feature several luminosity detectors. LUCID-3, the upgrade of the present ATLAS luminometer (LUCID-2), will fulfill such a condition. In this...
Precise luminosity determination is of paramount importance for the ATLAS physics program. A set of complementary luminometers is crucial to ensure high stability and precision of the luminosity measurement. In 2018, two Timepix3 detector setups were installed to study their capabilities of measuring luminosity. The detectors benefit from a fine segmentation and a narrow per-pixel time...
Searches for beyond the SM physics can involve heavy resonances identified by multi-prong jets. Calibration techniques rely on SM candles, which makes it challenging to calibrate jets with more than three prongs. This talk will highlight a new method for calibrating the tagging of multi-prong jets using the Lund Jet Plane to correct the substructure of simulated jets. The technique is based on...
Tau leptons are very important objects for testing the predictions of the standard model, such as the characterization of the Higgs boson. Tau leptons are also vital in the search for beyond the standard model physics, as many models predict new particles which decay into final states with tau leptons. An efficient tau lepton trigger is therefore essential to maximize the physics reach of the...
The second MoEDAL Apparatus for Penetrating Particles (MAPP-2) is proposed for deployment at the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) a large instrumented tunnel decay volume adjacent to IP8 with a volume of 1200m3. The detector utilizes large area scintillator panels with x-y WLS fibres readout by SiPMs arranged in a “Russian Doll configuration to measure the vertices of very Long-Lived Particles...
Analysis of the high-multiplicity triggered pp data at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV, obtained by the ALICE detector, is carried out to study the event-by-event fluctuations of mean transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) using two particle correlator, $\sqrt{C_m}/M(p_{\rm T})_m$. The driving force behind these studies is the search for dynamical fluctuations that may be associated with the formation of QGP...
The ATLAS measurement of differential cross-sections for the production of four charged leptons and two jets with the full Run 2 pp collision data will be presented. The cross-sections were measured in two distinctive signal regions characterised by an enhanced contribution from events arising out of strong and electroweak interactions, respectively. An iterative unfolding procedure was used...
KATRIN aims to measure the electron neutrino mass
$𝑚_𝜈$ with <0.3 eV/$𝑐^2$ (90 % C.L.) sensitivity, by measuring the $^3$H β spectrum near its endpoint $𝐸_0$. In the fit yielding the searched for quantity $𝑚^2_𝜈$ also the parameter $𝐸_0$ is fitted. Since both parameters are highly correlated in the fit any systematic effect influencing the parameter $𝑚^2_𝜈$ will also manifest in $𝐸_0$. After...
The associated production of the Higgs boson with the top quark allows to directly probe the Top Yukawa coupling, which is a key parameter for the Standard Model. The presented ttH(bb) analysis exploits the distinctive signature of the large H-> bb branching ratio and the leptonic decays of the top quarks and, uses the full Run 2 dataset collected with the ATLAS detector at the centre-of-mass...
The first inclusive cross section measurements for the diboson production of a W and a Z bosons (WZ) in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13.6 TeV are presented. The data used were recorded with the CMS detector of the LHC during 2022. Events containing three electrically charged leptons in the final state, which can be electrons or muons, are analysed. The selection is...
The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) is a 100-ton scale Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector positioned in the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab, as part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program. The detector is currently being commissioned and is expected to take neutrino data this year. Located only 110 m from the neutrino production target, it will be...
Top quarks, the heaviest elementary particles carrying colour charges, are considered to be attractive candidates for probing the quark-gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In proton-lead collisions, top-quark production is expected to be sensitive to nuclear modifications of parton distribution functions at high Bjoerken-x values, which are difficult to access...
Upgrades to the CMS Muon system for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) include the new GEM detectors GE1/1, GE2/1 and ME0. The development of the GEM-Online Monitoring System (OMS) is crucial for their successful operation. The GEM-OMS provides real-time monitoring of key parameters, enabling the detection of anomalies by filtering data directly through different controllers. With a focus on...
This contribution addresses the need for reliable and efficient data storage in the high-energy physics experiment called AMBER. The experiment generates sustained data rates of up to 10 GB/s, requiring optimization of data storage. The study investigates single-disk performance, including random and sequential disk operations, highlighting the impact of parallel access and disk geometry. A...
The LEP precision physics requirements on the theoretical precision tag for the respective luminosity were 0.054 % (0.061%) at $M_Z$, where the former (latter) LEP result has (does not have) the pairs correction. For the contemplated FCC-ee, ILC, and CEPC Higgs/EW factories, one needs improvement at $M_Z$ to at least 0.01% for the theoretical precision tag. We discuss the paths one may take...
PMT is widely used in high energy physics experiments to detect single photons. The PMT single photoelectron (PE) response (SER) is a template function describing the pulse shape of single PE. In PMT waveform simulation and analysis, the shape of SER are usually fixed among different pulses from the same PMT. This work proposes a linear model using multiple Gaussian parameters and multiple...
The Super Tau-Charm Facility (STCF) is a new generation $e^+ e^-$ collider designed for various physics topics in the $\tau$-charm energy region. The particle identification (PID), as one of the most fundemental tools in physics analysis, is crutial for achieving excellent physics performance. In this work, we present a powerful PID software based on ML techniques, including a global PID...
The SuperNEMO experiment aims to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. Whilst the standard approach relies on detecting the sum of the kinetic energy of two emitted electrons, SuperNEMO has an additional tracking detector, enabling investigation of kinematic parameters of the decay and further background suppression through post-processing. Comprising 2034 drift cells operating in Geiger...
The current ATLAS Inner Detector is to be replaced with the all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk) to cope with high pile-up and harsh radiation environment expected at the HL-LHC. During prototyping and early production phases of the ITk project, the performance of all types of ITk strip modules has been extensively evaluated using high-energy electron or hadron beams available at the DESY II and...
KKMChh is a precision Monte Carlo program for photonic and electroweak radiative corrections to hadron scattering, implementing the amplitude level exponentiation originally developed for electron-positron scattering at the quark level, modeling initial and final state QED radiation as well as initial-final interference to all orders in a soft-photon approximation, adding hard photon...
Scenario with a lepton-flavor-violating (LFV) interaction, either due to LFV coupling of a scalar or a vector boson, is an intriguing BSM phenomenon. This LFV coupling in the presence of muons leads to a rich phenomenology including an extra contribution to muon anomalous magnetic moment. With the low-energy effective coupling ${\cal L}_{\phi e\mu}=\phi\bar...
Long-range angular correlations between particles could potentially reveal physics beyond the Standard Model, such as Hidden Valley (HV) scenarios. Our emphasis is on a hidden QCD-like sector, where the emergence of HV matter alongside QCD partonic cascades could amplify and extend azimuthal correlations among final-state particles.
Our study at the detector level focuses on the...
We investigate the effect of photon-axionlike particle (ALP) oscillations in the gamma-ray spectra of fourth most distant blazar QSO B1420+326 measured by Fermi-LAT and MAGIC around the flaring activity in January 2020. We set 95% CL upper limit on the photon-ALP coupling constant $g_{a\gamma} < 2 \times 10^{-11}$ GeV$^{-1}$ for ALP masses $m_{a} \sim 10^{-10} - 10^{-9}$ eV. Assuming the...
Science students encounter multiple challenges with employment or upper level courses thus teaching them solid lab skills and analysis provide needed solid foundation. The lab for intro-level Physics I and II must provide students with practical experience and laboratory skills that would be further developed by upper-level courses.
A new approach was instituted to provide meaningful lab...
The MIP Timing Detector (MTD) is a new sub-detector planned for the Phase 2 upgrade of the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, designed to measure the time-of-arrival of charged particles with a resolution of 30-60 ps. The barrel region of MTD (Barrel Timing Layer, BTL) is made of arrays of Cerium-doped Lutetium-Yttrium Oxyorthosilicate (LYSO:Ce) scintillating bars, readout by silicon...
We simulate deuteron production in Pb+Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV and focus particularly on the elliptic flow. In coalescence, the deuteron yield depends on the size of the region producing the coalescing nucleons. The elliptic flow also depends on how the size of the effective emitting region varies with the azimuthal angle. Thus the elliptic flow of deuterons from coalescence is expected to be...
We investigate the potentially observable consequences at the LHC of resonant production of a vectorlike quark pair through an ultraheavy diquark scalar. For this study, we performed comprehensive Monte-Carlo simulations for a diquark mass of 7 TeV or 8.5 TeV, and a vectorlike quark mass of 2 TeV. We assume that each vectorlike quark decays into a W boson and a b quark, and given the very...
The MUonE experiment proposes a novel approach to determine the hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment, by measuring the running of the QED coupling through the analysis of $\mu e$ elastic scattering events. The experiment will be carried out at CERN North Area, by scattering the high intensity 160 GeV muon beam available on a low-Z target. The detector would have 40...
The ATLAS Online Luminosity Calculator (OLC) is a standalone component of luminosity-related software responsible for the calibration of online luminosity measurements from the various ATLAS luminometers, as well as for providing an interface between ATLAS and the LHC. It also provides the infrastructure for synchronizing the LHC beam movements with the ATLAS DAQ during beam separation scans....
Though the Standard Model has been a very successful theory, there are still many questions left unanswered like incorporation of gravity into SM, neutrino masses, matter-antimatter asymmetry,... One of the possible solutions to address these challenges is the extension of the present SM by incorporating an additional Higgs doublet. This search aims at exploring the presence of a scalar or...
An integrated luminosity of 138 fb-1 collected by CMS during Run 2, allows to perform search for new particles with unprecedented sensitivity. The search for a scalar particle with higher mass than the Higgs Mass boson is performed investigating resonances that decays into two W bosons. Results are interpreted in a model independent way as well as in various extensions of the standard models,...
The $U(1)_{B-L}$ model contains three heavy Right-Handed (RH) neutrinos, essential for anomaly cancellation and preserving gauge invariance. The model is attractive due to its relatively simple theoretical structure, and the crucial test of the model is the detection of the new heavy neutral $Z'$ gauge boson, the heavy-neutrinos $\nu_R$, and the new Higgs boson $H$. With these motivations, we...
A search for HH or $X\to SH$ production in final states with one or two light leptons and a pair of $\tau$-leptons is presented. The search uses a $pp$ collision data sample with an integrated luminosity of 140 fb$^{-1}$, recorded at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV, with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The search selects events with two hadronically decaying...
This poster presents results from a search for exotic decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson (H) to a pair of light pseudoscalars a, where one pseudoscalar decays to two b quarks and the other to a pair of muons or tau leptons (H ->aa->2b2mu/2b2tau). The analysis is performed on the full CMS Run-2 dataset of proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass-energy 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated...
Supersymmetry (SUSY) models with nearly mass-degenerate higgsinos could solve the hierarchy problem as well as offer a suitable dark matter candidate consistent with the observed thermal-relic dark matter density. However, the detection of SUSY higgsinos at the LHC remains challenging especially if their mass-splitting is O(1 GeV) or lower. A novel search using 140 fb^{-1} of proton-proton...
We present searches for Lepton Flavor Violation (LFV) in the top quark sector using 138 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The analysis focuses on events containing a single muon and an additional lepton, either a tau or an electron. Modern deep learning techniques are employed to distinguish between signal and...
The discovery of neutrino oscillations has provided experimental evidence that neutrinos have nonzero masses. Cosmological constraints as well as direct measurements indicate that the neutrino masses are orders of magnitude smaller than the masses of other SM fermions. The introduction of new heavy states, N, with right-handed chirality, known as heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), is a possible...
The "4321" renormalizable model proposes a mechanism that accommodates the experimental anomalies found in B-meson decays while remaining consistent with all other indirect flavor and electroweak precision measurements. Among the fundamental particles provided by the 4321 model are three families of Vector-Like Leptons (VLLs), with a mass predicted to be around 1 TeV. Using the full dataset...
This contribution presents a search for rare decays of the Z and Higgs bosons to a photon and a charmed meson J/$\Psi$ or $\Psi'$, which subsequentially decays to a pair of muons. The employed data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 123 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at center of mass energy $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV, collected with the CMS detector during LHC Run-2. The analysis...
After the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, we undoubtedly live in a phase characterized by a lack of discoveries of Beyond Standard Model physics in particles accelerators. Anomaly Detection is a novel machine learning approach that could be used to resolve this stalemate, as it allows to be very general with the searched signatures without losing...
Many new physics models, such as the Sequential Standard Model, Grand Unified Theories, models of extra dimensions, or models with eg. leptoquarks or vector-like leptons, predict heavy mediators at the TeV energy scale. We present recent results of such searches in leptonic final states obtained using data recorded by the CMS experiment during Run-II of the LHC.
Measurements of two-neutrino double beta decay ($2\nu\beta\beta$) have played a key role in advancing the understanding of neutrino properties. Further exploration of $2\nu\beta\beta$ and its possible exotic decay modes (decay with right-handed or sterile neutrinos) may provide further knowledge. The recently published improved description of the shape of $2\nu\beta\beta$ spectrum provides a...
The high-luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC) will lead to a factor of five increase in instantaneous luminosity, making it possible for experiments as CMS and ATLAS to collect ten times more data. This proton-proton collision rate will result in higher data complexity, making more sophisticated trigger algorithms unavoidable during the HL-LHC phase. The availability of information on the...
The Inert Triplet Model (ITM) is a well-studied scenario that contains a neutral scalar Dark Matter (DM), along with an inert charged scalar in a compressed mass spectrum. The DM constraints corner the ITM to a narrow TeV-scale mass range, the production of which is inefficient at the present and future iterations of the LHC. However, Vector Boson Fusion (VBF) at a future Muon Collider...
The axion provides a solution for the strong CP problem and is one of the promising candidates for dark matter. The leading approach is probing gamma-ray emission from the nuclear transitions associated with the axion-nucleon coupling. Monochromatic 14.4 keV axions would be produced by de-excitation of the thermally excited isotope of iron-57 in the Sun and could be detected as a 14.4 keV...
The Neutrino Experiment with a Xe TPC (NEXT) is searching for neutrinoless double beta decays (0nubb) of Xe-136 using high pressure xenon gas time projection chambers (HPXeTPC). The power of electroluminescent HPXeTPCs for 0nubb derives from their excellent energy resolution (FWHM <1%), and their topological classification of signal events. The NEXT-100 detector was successfully constructed...
The future e+e- colliders offer excellent facilities for SUSY searches. The stau, superpartner of the tau-lepton, is one of the most interesting particles for these searches, being likely the lightest of the sfermions, first one that could be observed, and it can be regarded as the worst and thus most general scenario for the searches.
The prospects for discovering stau-pair production at...
Recent measurements in small collision systems at the LHC show striking similarities between high multiplicity pp, p–Pb collisions and Pb–Pb collisions. In particular, study of hadronic resonances provide valuable information about the final state hadronic interaction. Due to the short lifetime, resonances decay inside the hadronic medium after the chemical freezeout and their decay daughters...
A 20-kiloton liquid scintillator detector is designed in the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) for multiple physics purposes, including the determination of the neutrino mass ordering through reactor neutrinos, as well as measuring supernova neutrinos, solar neutrinos, and atmosphere neutrinos to explore different physics topics. Efficient reconstruction algorithms are needed to...
The current ATLAS Inner Detector will be replaced with the new Inner Tracker (ITk) to cope with the increased track density and corresponding radiation levels at the HL-LHC. The ITk is designed to be an all-silicon tracking detector with a strip detector surrounding the inner pixel detector. The strip tracker will consist of a central barrel detector with four layers and two end-caps. The...
The CMS experiment will undergo different upgrades in view of the HL-LHC phase of LHC. A key feature is the complete replacement of the Inner Tracker (IT), which will be equipped with detectors with improved radiation hardness, enhanced granularity, and the ability to manage higher data rates. A pioneering serial powering strategy will be deployed for biasing the pixel modules, accompanied by...
The determination of the detector efficiency is a critical ingredient in any physics measurement. It can be in general estimated using simulations, but simulations need to be calibrated with data. The tag-and-probe method provides a useful and elegant mechanism for extracting efficiencies directly from data. In this work, we present the tracking performance measured in data where the...
The minimum ionizing particles (MIPs) Timing Detector (MTD) will be installed during the Phase II Upgrade of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the CERN LHC. The MTD will provide time information for tracks with a time resolution of about 30-60 ps, helping manage the increased pileup level to preserve the CMS detector's reconstruction performance. The MTD's barrel part (BTL) is...
For the upgrade of the LHC to the High-Luminosity LHC, the ATLAS inner detector will be replaced with an all-silicon detector, the Inner Tracker (ITk). The innermost part of the ITk will consist of a pixel detector with five layers that will consist of modules combined into serially powered chains and loaded on ring and stave shaped low mass carbon-fiber local supports (LLS).
During 2024, the...
The Time-of-Flight (ToF) detectors in the ATLAS Forward Proton (AFP) system are used to measure the primary vertex z-position of the pp -> pXp processes using the arrival times of the two intact final state protons. Detection efficiencies and timing resolutions using low, and moderate pile-up data collected are presented. While efficiencies of a few percent are observed in the Run 2, the...
The new ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk), consisting of pixel and microstrip detectors, will replace the current tracking system of the ATLAS detector to cope with the challenging conditions of the high luminosity LHC. System tests of the strip sub-detector are being developed which serve as a testbed for testing and evaluating the performance of several close-to-final detector components before...
To face the hightened requirements of real-time and precision bunch-by-bunch luminosity determination and beam-induced background monitoring at the High-Luminosity LHC, the CMS BRIL project constructs a stand-alone luminometer, the Fast Beam Condition Monitor (FBCM). It will be fully independent from the CMS central timing, trigger and data acquisition services and able to operate at all times...
Since 1983 the Italian groups collaborating with Fermilab have been running a 2-month summer training program for students in physics and engineering. Many students have extended their collaboration with Fermilab for their Master Thesis and PhD.
The program has involved more than 600 students from more than 20 universities. Each intern is supervised by a Fermilab Mentor. Training programs...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment under construction in China with the main goal of measuring the neutrino mass ordering from reactor antineutrinos. The Top Tracker constitutes part of the veto system of JUNO. Its main task is to track the muons crossing the Central Detector and evaluate the cosmogenic background contribution to the...
The MIP Timing Detector (MTD) of the CMS experiment, currently under construction for the High Luminosity phase of LHC, emerges as a key player in the pursuit of unrivaled temporal precision in particle physics.
The precise measurement of the time-of-arrival of charged particles provided by the MTD enables the implementation of a 4D vertex reconstruction and helps to discriminate...
The Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes (FAST) project proposes a simplified Schmidt telescope designed for detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. It maintains its optical excellence while featuring cost-effective components. The FAST prototype utilizes a segmented 1.6 m diameter mirror and four 200 mm photomultipliers at its focal plane. Currently, the first generation...
The NEXT collaboration uses a high-pressure gaseous time projection chamber with an electroluminescent amplification to search the neutrinoless double beta decay in Xe-136. The experimental program is built on solid and successful R&D, showing an excellent energy resolution (<1%) and remarkable topological discrimination. This prompts the tonne scale proposals for the technology in a phased...
We report on a novel application of computer vision techniques to extract beyond the Standard Model (BSM) parameters directly from high energy physics (HEP) flavor data. We develop a method of transforming angular and kinematic distributions into "quasi-images" that can be used to train a convolutional neural network to perform regression tasks, similar to fitting. This contrasts with the...
We report progress in using transformer models to generate particle theory Lagrangians. By treating Lagrangians as complex, rule-based constructs similar to linguistic expressions, we employ transformer architectures -proven in language processing tasks- to model and predict Lagrangians. A dedicated dataset, which includes the Standard Model and a variety of its extensions featuring various...
The High-Luminosity LHC will open an unprecedented window on the weak-scale nature of the universe, providing high-precision measurements of the Standard Model as well as searches for new physics beyond the standard model. The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment is planning to replace entirely its trigger and data acquisition system to achieve this ambitious physics program. Efficiently...
In view of the HL-LHC, the Phase-2 CMS upgrade will replace the entire trigger and data acquisition system. The readout electronics will be upgraded to allow a maximum L1 accept rate of 750 kHz, and a latency of 12.5 µs. The muon trigger is a multi-layer system designed to reconstruct and measure the momenta of the muons by correlating information across muon chambers on the so-called muon...
The precision measurement of daily helium fluxes with AMS during twelve years of operation in the rigidity interval from 1.71 to 100 GV is presented. The helium flux and the helium to proton flux ratio exhibit variations on multiple timescales. In nearly all the time intervals from 2014 to 2018, we observed recurrent helium flux variations with a period of 27 days. Shorter periods of 9 days...
Cosmic Nitrogen, Sodium, and Aluminum nuclei are a combination of primaries, produced at cosmic-ray sources, and secondaries resulting from collisions of heavier primary cosmic rays with the interstellar medium. We present high statistics measurements of the N, Na and Al rigidity spectra. We discuss the properties and composition of their spectra and present a model-independent determination...
To cope with the large amount of data and high event rate expected from the planned High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) upgrade, the ATLAS monitored drift tube (MDT) readout electronics will be replaced. In addition, the MDT detector will be used at the first-level trigger to improve the muon transverse momentum resolution and reduce the trigger rate. About 100 small-radius MDT chambers have been...
The use of generative deep learning models has been of interest in the high-energy physics community intending to develop a faster alternative to the compute-intensive Monte Carlo simulations. This work focuses on evaluating an ensemble of GANs on the task of electromagnetic calorimeter simulations. We demonstrate that the diversity of samples produced by a GAN model can be significantly...
The CMS upgrade for the High Luminosity phase of the LHC involves the installation of three GEM stations: GE1/1, GE2/1, and ME0. While GE1/1 has been operational since Run-3's onset, only two GE2/1 chambers are in place as of early 2024. ME0's installation is slated for LHC Long Shutdown 3, with GE2/1 chamber installation resuming post ME0 completion.
These GEM stations, coupled with...
The ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter readout electronics will be upgraded for the HL-LHC. This includes the development of custom preamplifiers and shapers with low noise and excellent linearity, a new ADC chip with two gains and new calibration boards with excellent non-linearity and non-uniformity between all calorimeter channels. New ATCA compliant signal processing boards equipped with FPGAs...
The China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) is an excellent location for studying solar, geo- and supernova neutrinos. As an early stage of the Jinping Neutrino Experiment (JNE), we have been studying the performance of a 1-ton liquid prototype neutrino detector at CJPL-I. We aim to improve its electronics system and photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) to explore its potential capabilities...
The Mu2e experiment will search for the CLFV process of neutrinoless coherent conversion of muon to electron in the field of an Al nucleus. The experimental signature is a monochromatic conversion electron with energy $E_{CE} = 104.97$ MeV/c. One of the possible background processes is $\bar{p}$s produced by the proton beam at the Production Target, annihilating in the ST. The background...
Understanding the formation of (anti)nuclei in high-energy collisions has attracted large interest over the last few years. According to the coalescence model, nucleons form independently and then bind together if they are close in phase-space. A recent advancement of the model is the Wigner function formalism, which allows the calculation of the coalescence probability based on the distance...
The exploration of the Higgs boson's properties and its interactions with top quarks constitutes a pivotal aspect of the post-Higgs discovery era. Among these, the measurement of the associated production of a Higgs boson with a pair of top quarks (ttH) offers a unique window into the Yukawa coupling between the Higgs and the top quark, the heaviest known fundamental particle. This poster...
Inspections and interventions in radioactive environments are often reliant on human personnel because of the complexity of the infrastructures that have not been designed for robotic or remote access. This is the case also for particle and nuclear physics experimental facilities which can become highly activated over time.
To alleviate problems with the decommissioning of the ATLAS inner...
The upcoming wave of neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) experiments is geared towards probing the inverted mass ordering and transitioning into the normal ordering domains. We undertake a quantitative assessment of the projected experimental sensitivities, with a specific emphasis on the discovery potentials anticipated prior to the execution of experiments. We assess the sensitivity of the...
Visualization is integral to high-energy physics (HEP) experiments, spanning from detector design to data analysis. Presently, depicting detectors within HEP is an intricate challenge. Professional visualization platforms like Unity offer advanced capabilities, and also provide promising avenues for detector visualization. This work aims to develop an automated interface facilitating the...
The ATLAS experiment will undergo major upgrades for the high luminosity LHC. The high pile-up interaction environment (up to 200 interactions per 40MHz bunch crossing) requires a new radiation-hard, fast readout tracking detector.
The Inner Tracker (ITk) upgrade design includes ~28,000 modules. It is vital to follow the complex global production flow. The ITk production database (PDB)...
An ATLAS search for axion like particles (ALPs) that decay into diphoton is presented. ALPs are hypothetical light particles that may be a component of a hidden (dark) dark sector. ALPs arising from Higgs decays are studied, where the Higgs is produced in association with a Z boson that is reconstructed leptonically. For prompt ALP decays, a dedicated search looking for two leptons and two...
High Energy Physics as a field is necessarily situated within the
broader societal context that surrounds it. As a result, societal biases
also shape physics research. Be it through retention of physicists who
are LGBTQ+, recruitment of young LGBTQ+ physicists, or fighting
discrimination in the lives and careers of our LGBTQ+ friends, family,
and colleagues, much can be done to fight the...
The S-matrix for a QFT in 4D Minkowski space is an inherently holographic object, i.e. defined at the (conformal) boundary of spacetime. A section of this boundary is the celestial 2-sphere and Lorentz group acts on it by conformal transformations. I will briefly review scattering, when translated from the basis of plane waves (translation eigenstates) to the conformal basis (dilatation...
We investigate the elastic production of top quark pairs ($t\bar{t}$) in $pp$ collisions at low and high luminosities. We extend the study of the sum of two semi-exclusive $t\bar{t}$ production modes, namely in photon--Pomeron ($\gamma-\!IP$) and Pomeron--Pomeron ($\!IP-\!IP$) interactions. We consider semi-leptonic $t\bar{t}$ decay, tagging of both forward protons, and low pile-up. We find...
The INO-ICAL collaboration has built a prototype detector called mini-ICAL at IICHEP, Madurai, India$\:$(9$^\circ$ 56' N, 78$^\circ$ 00' E). The mini-ICAL is being used to measure charge-dependent cosmic muon flux at the earth’s surface. Mini-ICAL is a magnetised detector, composed of 11 layers of iron plates interspaced with resistive plate chambers to track cosmic ray muons. The iron is...
Particle identification (PID) is crucial for future particle physics experiments like CEPC and FCC-ee. A promising breakthrough in PID involves cluster counting, which quantifies primary ionizations along a particle’s trajectory in a drift chamber (DC), bypassing the need for dE/dx measurements. However, a major challenge lies in developing an efficient reconstruction algorithm to recover...
We improve the YFS IR resummation theory so that it includes all of the attendant collinear contributions which exponentiate. The attendant new resummed contributions are shown to agree with known results from the collinear factorization approach. We argue that they improve the corresponding precision tag for a given level of exactness in the respective YFS hard radiation residuals as the...
Non-identical femtoscopy is sensitive to the two-particle pair source size ($R$) and the pair-emission asymmetry ($\mu$). Here, we studied the dependence of $R$ and $\mu$ on the centrality and pair transverse velocity ($\beta_{\rm T}$). For this purpose, we modelled the femtoscopic correlations between all charged pion-kaon pairs in Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=$ 5.02 TeV using a)...
Majoron-like particle J in the mass range between 1 MeV to 10 GeV, which dominantly decays into the standard model (SM) neutrinos, can be constrained from the big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). For majoron lifetime ($\tau_J$) smaller than 1sec, the injected neutrinos from the majoron decay heat up the background plasma and it results in the deficit of Helium-4 abundance and enhancement of...
Sub-GeV dark matter particles evade standard direct detection limits since their typical energies in the galactic halo don’t allow for detectable recoil of the heavy nuclei in the detectors. It was, however, pointed out recently that if the dark matter particles have sizable couplings to nucleons, they can be boosted by interactions with galactic cosmic rays and also sub-GeV dark matter can be...
The initial density of both the Dark Matter(DM) and the Standard Model (SM) particles may be produced via perturbative decay of inflaton with different decay rates, creating an initial temperature ratio, $\xi_i$=T$_{DM,i}$/T$_{SM,i}$. This scenario implies inflaton mediated scatterings between the DM and the SM, that can modify the temperature ratio even for high inflaton mass. The effect of...
The contribution provides an overview of the Data Quality Control System (QC) of the ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS2).
QC is a software developed during the ITS commissioning before the beginning of the LHC Run 3. It is used to validate
the detector performance and guarantee efficient data taking.
QC is capable of synchronous data flow monitoring at different levels: data integrity, data...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is located in southern China, in an underground laboratory with a 650 m rock overburden. The primary scientific goal of JUNO is to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy.
Data Quality Monitoring (DQM) system is crucial to ensure the correct and smooth operation of the experimental apparatus during data taking of an experiment. The DQM...
This poster will present the Drell-Yan differential cross-section measurement in the wide dilepton mass range of 40-3000 GeV. The measurement was done using 2016-2018 CMS experiment data. A special emphasis will be placed on the background estimation procedures in dielectron and dimuon measurements.
The precision measurements of the Drell-Yan process are important inputs to parton...
The influence of exploiting Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for signal-over-background classification in High Energy Physics (HEP) analysis is often underrated. In this research, we investigated the effect of a DNN classifier on the Vector Boson Fusion (VBF) production mode of the Higgs boson that decays into b-quark pairs. The DNN improves the identification of the signal events overwhelmed by...
Large neutrino liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) experiments can broaden their physics reach by incorporating isolated MeV-scale features present in their data. We use data from MicroBooNE, an 85 tonne LArTPC exposed to Fermilab neutrino beams from 2015 until 2021, to demonstrate new calorimetric and particle discrimination capabilities for isolated ~O(1 MeV) energy depositions...
Hardware random number generators (HRNG) are widely used in the computer world for security purposes as well as in the science world as a source of the high-quality randomness for the models and simulations. Currently existing HRNG are either costly or very slow and of questionable quality. This work proposes a simple design of the HRNG based on the low-number photon absorption by a detector...
In offline software of JUNO experiment, detector identifier (ID) and geometry management are indispensable parts. Detector identifier provides a unique ID number for every detector unit with readout, which is used by different applications in offline software. An ID mapping service is under development to provide associations between different sets of ID systems, including offline software,...
Outreach & Education is an essential part of HEP experiments where visualisation is one of the key factors. 3D visualisation and advanced VR, AR, and MR extensions make it possible to visualise detectors’ facilities, explain their purpose, and functionalities, and visualise different physical events. The visualisation applications should be extensive, easily accessible, compatible with most...
The Upstream Tracker (UT) is a crucial component in the LHCb tracking system installed in the Upgrade I. The UT is a silicon microstrip detector that speeds up track reconstruction, reduces the rate of ghost tracks, and improves reconstruction of long-lived particles. LHCb is planning Upgrade II during Long-Shutdown 4 aiming at increasing the peak luminosity by a factor of 7.5. The event...
Generation of the relativistic electron beams using Laser Wakafield Acceleration technology (LWFA) has recently achieved Technology Readiness Level (RTL) sufficient to deliver MeV level electron beams for user experiment. Recently built LWFA accelerators can be operated at 1 kHz pulse repetition rate. The LWFA technology enables the production of electron beams with the ultra-shot time...
The water Cherenkov detector stands as a cornerstone in numerous physics programs such as precise neutrino measurements. In a conventional physics analysis pipeline, the understanding of detector responses often relies on empirically derived assumptions, leading to separate calibrations targeting various effects. The time-consuming nature of this approach can limit the timely analysis...
We present a comprehensive differential study of $\Lambda$ hyperon polarization in (ultra-)central Au+Au collisions at low and intermediate energies, employing the microscopic transport model UrQMD in conjunction with the statistical hadron-resonance gas model. This study entails a complex analysis of the fireball dynamics and thermal vorticity field evolution. The resulting thermal vorticity...
A cosmic muon veto detector (CMVD), using extruded plastic scintillator (EPS) strips, is being built around the mini-ICAL detector which is operational at IICHEP, Madurai. CMVD will study the feasibility of building a shallow depth neutrino detector. Muon interactions in the EPS are detected by SiPMs mounted at both ends of two wavelength shifting fibres that are inserted in the EPS strips....
DUNE is a long-baseline neutrino experiment that will precisely measure neutrino oscillation parameters, observe astrophysical neutrinos, and search for processes beyond the standard model. DUNE will build four LAr-TPCs far detectors with a total mass of ~70 kT LAr located at SURF (Sanford Underground Research Facility), 1.5 km below the earth’s surface. A near-site complex, hosting different...
We are interested in thermal corrections to dark matter (DM) annihilation cross sections in a MSSM-inspired BSM theory, having bino-like Majorana DM ($\chi$), annihilating to SM fermions through Yukawa interactions via a charged scalar channel in freeze-out scenario. We apply real-time formalism of thermal field theory (TFT) to investigate corrections due to thermal fluctuations of DM...
Within the ATLAS Experiment the Prompt Lepton Isolation Tagger (PLIT) served as an essential tool to distinguish between prompt muons originating from the decays of W and Z bosons and non-prompt muons generated in the semi-leptonic decays of b- and c-hadrons. Its central role was to effectively mitigate the presence of fake and non-prompt leptons in various multi-lepton final state analyses...
In the realm of high-energy physics experiments, the ability of software to visualize data plays a pivotal role. It supports the design of detectors, aids in data processing, and enhances the potential to refine physics analysis. The integration of complex detector geometry and structures, using formats such as GDML or ROOT, into systems like Unity for 3D modeling is a key aspect of this...
Jefferson lab is considering an energy increase from current 12 GeV to 22 GeV for its CEBAF accelerator. This will be accomplished by recirculating 5-6 additional turns through two parallel CEBAF LINACs using an FFA arc at each end of the racetrack. The total recirculation turns would be 10 times, the first four turns use present conventional arcs to make the 180-degree bends from one LINAC to...
We disclose a serious deficiency of the Baym-Kadanoff construction of thermodynamically consistent
conserving approximations. There are two vertices in this scheme: dynamical and conserving. The divergence of each indicates a phase instability. We show that each leads to incomplete and qualitatively different behavior at different critical points. The diagrammatically controlled...
The pixelated semiconductor tracking detectors became standard tool in experiments of high energy physics. An increasing demand for high resolution data requires highly granular detectors. Small pixels size and low noise electronics allows more data to be recorded for each event (cluster of pixels). Every pixel of modern detectors (e.g. Timepix3/4) can record deposited energy and time of...
At the LHC, Electrons and Photons play a crucial role for precision measurements of the Higgs Bosons properties as well as of Standard Model parameters such as the weak mixing angle, the W boson mass and related cross-sections which have proven to be competitive to prior determinations at the LEP or Tevatron colliders. In addition, they are crucial for searches using electron and photon final...
At the LHC, the vast amount of data from the experiments demands both sophisticated algorithms and substantial computational power for efficient processing. Hardware acceleration is an essential advancement for HEP data processing, focusing specifically on the application of High-Level Synthesis (HLS) to bridge the gap between complex software algorithms and their hardware implementation. We...
We present SKMHS22, a new set of diffractive PDFs and their uncertainties at NLO and NNLO accuracy in pQCD within the xFitter
framework. We describe all diffractive DIS datasets from HERA and the most recent H1/ZEUS combined measurements Three scenarios are considered: standard twist-2, twist-4 (including longitudinal virtual photons), and Reggeon exchange. For the contribution of heavy...
A new hadronic calorimeter (HCAL) with scintillating glass tiles has been designed for future lepton collider experiments (e.g. the Circular Electron Positron Collider). Using a sampling structure (similar to the CALICE AHCAL technology), the new HCAL design aims for better handron and jet performance, with a higher sampling fraction by using glass instead of plastic scintillator.
Full...
The KOTO experiment at J-PARC is dedicated to searching for the rare decay $K_L \rightarrow \pi^0 \nu \bar{\nu}$. This decay violates CP symmetry and is sensitive to new physics beyond the Standard Model(SM) because its branching ratio is predicted to be $3 \times 10^{-11}$ with a small theoretical uncertainty in SM. One of main backgrounds is caused by a small contamination of charged kaons...
The ALICE Collaboration has proposed a next-generation heavy-ion experiment to be installed at the LHC Interaction Point 2 during the LHC Long Shutdown 4, in preparation for Run 5 (2035) and 6. ALICE 3 will be equipped with a Time-Of-Flight (TOF) detector for the identification of charged particles and which should reach a time resolution of about 20 ps, with novel silicon sensors. In this...
In view of the High-Luminosity LHC era the ATLAS experiment is carrying out an upgrade campaign which foresees the installation of a new all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk) and the modernization of the reconstruction software. Track reconstruction will be pushed to its limits by the increased number of proton-proton collisions per bunch-crossing and the granularity of the ITk detector. In order to...
The experimental & theoretical research on physics of massive neutrinos is based on standard paradigm of three-neutrino mixing, which describes the oscillations of neutrino flavors measured in solar, atmospheric a& long-baseline experiments. However, several anomalies , corresponding to an L/E of 1m/MeV could be interpreted by involving sterile neutrino as RAA & Galium anomaly.
STEREO was...
Successful reconstruction of hadronic events is critical for the physics measurements at high energy frontier, where the precise measurement of Higgs boson properties is essential, as it provides excellent opportunities to discover New Physics.
We propose a new methodology called jet origin identification, which could identify the jet seemed from 11 different colored SM particles (udsbc,...
The HL-LHC phase will be a challenge for the CMS-RPC system since the expected operating conditions are much higher with respect to those for which the detectors have been designed, and could introduce non-recoverable aging effects which can alter the detector properties. A longevity test is therefore needed to estimate the impact of HL-LHC conditions on RPC detector performance. This will...
We update the lepton universality tests and the Vus determination using measurements of tau decays. The tau lepton branching fraction global fit has been improved taking into account uncertainties on external nuisance parameters in its constraints. It will be included in the Heavy Flavour Averaging Group (HFLAV) as-of-2023 report and in the updated Tau Branching Fractions review in the PDG...
In view of the HL-LHC, the Phase-2 CMS upgrade will replace the entire trigger and data acquisition system. The detector readout electronics will be upgraded to allow a maximum L1A rate of 750 kHz, and a latency of 12.5 µs. The upgraded system will be entirely running on commercial FPGA processors and should greatly extend the capabilities of the current system, being able to maintain trigger...
The performance of the Level-1 Trigger (L1T) is pivotal for the data-taking endeavor of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The custom hardware-based L1T system reduces the event rate from the collision frequency of 40 MHz to around 115 kHz as input to the High Level Trigger (HLT). The effective operation and monitoring of the L1T are critical for...
Hyper-K is a next-generation long baseline neutrino experiment. One of its primary physics goals is to measure neutrino oscillation parameters precisely, including CP-asymmetry. As conventional νµ beam from J-PARC neutrino baseline contains only 1.5% of νe interaction of total, it is challenging to measure νe/νe(anti) scattering cross-section on nuclei. To reduce systematic uncertainty, IWCD...
Heterogeneous computing solutions for real-time event reconstruction are an emerging trend for future designs of trigger and data-acquisition systems, especially in view of the upcoming high-luminosity program of the LHC. FPGA devices offer significant improvements on latency when highly-parallelised algorithms, also based on machine-learning solutions, are coded and deployed on such devices....
Future e$^+$e$^-$ colliders provide a unique opportunity for long-lived particle (LLP) searches. This study focusses on LLP searches using the International Large Detector (ILD), a detector concept for a future Higgs factory. The signature considered is a displaced vertex inside the ILD's Time Projection Chamber. We study challenging scenarios involving small mass splittings between heavy LLP...
The European Strategy for Particle Physics identifies an e+e- Higgs factory as its top priority and the first step towards an ultra-high energy future hadron collider. The Future Circular Collider (FCC) is being proposed at CERN to address these goals. The FCC includes an electron-positron collider (FCC-ee), which will be followed by an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh).
New long...
This poster will illustrate the key aspects covered in the upcoming LHC EFT WG Note: SMEFT predictions, event reweighting, and simulation.
Emphasising the challenges associated with the generation of SMEFT predictions using the event reweighting technique, we illustrate the subtleties behind operators that introduce helicity configuration not allowed in the SM. Furthermore, we introduce a...
Hyper-Kamiokande (HK) is a next-generation international neutrino experiment currently under construction in Japan. HK will explore proton decay and have the capability to detect Earth-crossing, atmospheric, solar, cosmic, and accelerator neutrinos. Expected to start data collection in 2027, HK will require periodic calibration for optimal performance.
The calibration at lower energies will...
The measurement of low-mass e+e− pairs is a powerful tool to study the properties of the quark-gluon plasma created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Since such pairs do not interact strongly and are emitted during all stages of the collisions, they allow us to investigate the full space-time evolution and dynamics of the medium created. Thermal radiation emitted by the colliding...
The transformer models are dominating the generative modeling, namely in the natural language processing domain. The attention mechanism in those models does not suffer from implicit bias and it enables the processing of large amounts of data thanks to the parallelization of computations during the training. This study presents experiments with the transformer blocks in an image completion...
We present results using an optimized jet clustering with variable R, where the jet distance parameter R depends on the mass and transverse momentum of the jet. The jet size decreases with increasing $p_{T}$, and increases with increasing mass. This choice is motivated by the kinematics of hadronic decays of highly Lorentz boosted top quarks, W, Z, and H bosons. The jet clustering features an...
China JinPing Underground Laboratory (CJPL) is an underground laboratory with 2800 meters rock overburden and is ideal to carry out experiment for rare-event searches. Cosmic muons and muon-induced neutrons present an irreducible background to neutrino experiment and dark matter experiment at CJPL. A precise measurement of the cosmic-ray background of CJPL would play an important role in the...
ProtoDUNE Single-Phase was DUNE's first full-scale engineering prototype and operated from 2018-2020. It took test beam data of charged hadrons in 2018, including data of positively charged kaons at high GeV-scale momenta. A total inelastic cross section was measured using these test beam kaons with the thin-slice method, which artificially divides the detector into slices where the particle...
Muon reconstruction performance plays a crucial role in the precision and sensitivity of the LHC data analysis of the ATLAS experiment. Di-muon J/Psi and Z resonances are used to calibrate to per-mil accuracy the detector response for muons. This poster aims to provide an overview and the current status of the Muon Momentum Calibration within the ATLAS detector, thus the study of the procedure...
We present an interpretable implementation of the autoencoding algorithm, used as an anomaly detector, built with a forest of deep decision trees on FPGA, field programmable gate arrays. Scenarios at the Large Hadron Collider are considered for which the autoencoder is trained using the Standard Model. The design is then deployed for anomaly detection of unknown processes. The inference is...
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed certain societal weaknesses, including the lack of scientists in the media and the readiness of the public to believe in fake news. "Neutralina" is a character conceived on Instagram (@neutralina.lu) in response to the observed need for scientific outreach done by women in Peruvian and Latin American society. The objectives of this project include normalizing...
The precise knowledge of neutrino flux and related uncertainties at the near and far detectors of the T2K experiment is crucial for extracting various neutrino oscillation parameters and neutrino cross-section measurements. The current Monte Carlo beam simulation framework, JNUBEAM, relies on the GEANT3 toolkits, which are no longer maintained. Additionally, it utilizes the FLUKA software to...
The poster will show the aspect of neutron skin and links of this topic with different areas of physics. After a theoretical introduction and examples of where neutron skin research can be used, I would like to show calculations made in recent months. Pb+Pb, proton+Pb, antiproton+Pb collisions at a high momentum were studied, and simulations were done with the UrQMD program. Among the...
Antiproton annihilation at-rest can provide a unique probe into the intra-nuclear structure of nuclei. This process was first observed in the 1950’s using photographic emulsion and has since been observed and studied on a variety of nuclei. We present here the first observation and reconstruction of antiproton annihilation at-rest interactions on argon nuclei using data from the LArIAT...
We present the observation of entanglement in top quark pairs using data collected with the CMS detector in the 2016 Run II of the LHC. Event signatures are selected only when two high pT leptons are present consistent with the dileptonic decay channel. An entanglement proxy D is used to determine whether the top quark pairs are entangled in the production threshold with D < -⅓ signaling...
ATLAS Open Data for Education delivers proton-proton collision data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN to the public along with open-access resources for education and outreach. To date ATLAS has released a substantial amount of data from 8 TeV and 13 TeV collisions in an easily-accessible format and supported by dedicated documentation, software, and tutorials to ensure that everyone can...
We present a novel readout circuit tailored primarily for PbWO4 scintillation detectors in high-energy experiments. The design integrates a 4x4 SiPM array directly coupled to a preamplification stage, housed within a compact electronics module. The readout circuit is design to work with independent number of the SiPMs without affecting the timing output. This module incorporates bias control...
The CMS Level-1 Trigger Data Scouting (L1DS) defines a new approach within the CMS Level-1 Trigger (L1T), enabling the acquisition and processing of L1T primitives at the 40 MHz bunch-crossing (BX) rate. The L1DS will reach its full potential with the CMS Phase-2 Upgrade at the HL-LHC, harnessing the improved Phase-2 L1T design, featuring tracker and high-granularity calorimeter data for the...
The RPC detectors in the CMS experiment operate with a gas mixture made of 95.2% C2H2F4, known to be a greenhouse gas. Several eco-friendly alternatives to C2H2F4, such as HFO, have been studied in the last few years in order to find an alternative mixture with low Global-Warming Potential (GWP), while maintaining the performance of the RPC chambers. Another way to improve the RPC standard gas...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) far detectors require readout of several hundred thousand charge-sensing channels immersed in the largest liquid argon time projection chambers ever built, calling for cryogenic front-end electronics in order to be able to adequately instrument the full detectors. The ProtoDUNE-II program at the CERN neutrino platform consists of 2 liquid argon...
The high luminosity operation of the LHC will deliver collisions with a luminosity about 10 times the original design value. This poses a big challenge for trigger and data acquisition in real-time due to nearly 200 overlapping collisions, called pile up, within a bunch crossing. The CMS experiment will revamp its trigger structure as part of the required upgrade, to have tracker and more...
ProtoDUNE-SP is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber, which was in operation at CERN from 2018 to 2020. It is a prototype detector for the DUNE far detector, which is designed to contain about 70 kiloton liquid argon for neutrino detections. In addition to the R&D studies, it also implements charged particle beam to study their behaviors in the liquid argon. These particles,...
The Higgs boson discovery at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) completed the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and it confirmed the Higgs mechanism as a suitable description of the Electroweak-Symmetry-Breaking (EWSB). Nevertheless, the dynamics of the EWSB is still one of the most consequential questions in particle physics and a fascinating topic due to its connection to other open questions...
Developed within the European Project STRONG2020, PrecisionSM is an annotated database that compiles the available data on low-energy hadronic cross sections in electron-positron collisions. It is important to collect and organize these experimental measurements since they are used to perform precise tests of the Standard Model, such as in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. In...
During the upcoming High Luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), the integrated luminosity of the accelerator will increase to 3000 fb-1. The expected experimental conditions in that period, in terms of background rates, event pileup and the probable aging of the current detectors, present a challenge for all existing experiments at the LHC, including the Compact Muon Solenoid...
The Baur, Spira, and Zerwas model of composite quarks and leptons predicts the excited neutrinos to be produced in proton-proton collisions via contact interactions. Subsequently, the excited neutrinos decay via gauge interaction or contact interaction. The final states always include missing transverse energy; there can also be zero to three charged leptons and/or jets. The present study...
The quest for proton decay is a pivotal endeavor in particle physics, offering potential validation of Grand Unification Theories. In this pursuit, DUNE employs LArTPC technology and ML to boost detection sensitivity and minimize background events. This poster presents a new multimodal ML framework to distinguish proton decay into charged kaons and muons from DUNE's atmospheric neutrino...
Neutrino flavor oscillation, a crucial phenomenon in particle physics, explores the interplay between flavor and mass eigenstates, revealing insights beyond the standard model. Probabilistic measures traditionally study these transitions, while the quantum features of neutrinos, such as entanglement, open avenues for quantum information tasks. Quantum complexity, an evolving field, finds...
The aim of the SABRE (Sodium-iodide with Active Background REjection) experiment based in Australia is to detect an annual rate modulation from dark matter interactions in ultra-high purity NaI(Tl) crystals in order to provide a model independent test of the signal observed by DAMA/LIBRA.
Radionuclides from intrinsic and cosmogenic processes including $^{40}$K, $^{210}$Pb, $^{232}$Th and...
This work utilizes text analysis techniques to uncover connections and trends in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) research over time. Through embedding-based analysis, we are able to draw conceptual connections between disparate works across QCD subfields. Examining topic clustering and trajectories over time provides insights into new phenomena gaining momentum and experimental approaches coming...
The aim of the LHCb Upgrade II is to operate at a luminosity of up to 1.5 x 10$^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$. The required substantial modifications of the current LHCb ECAL due to high radiation doses in the central region and increased particle densities are referred to as PicoCal. An enhancement already during LS3 will reduce the occupancy and mitigate substantial ageing effects in the central...
A search for scalar resonances decaying to four leptons is presented, with the data collected by the CMS detector from 2016 to 2018 at center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb-1. A model-independent approach is introduced and applied. Large mass region is covered from 130 GeV to 3 TeV, and different production mechanisms and width assumptions are tested.
A search for low mass narrow vector resonances decaying into quark-antiquark pairs at high transverse momentum is presented. The analysis is based on data collected in Run 2 with the CMS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{13}~\mathrm{TeV}$. Signal candidates are reconstructed as large-radius jets and identified using the ParticleNet algorithm. This analysis presents the...
While experimental data has not ruled out the possibility of additional Higgs bosons or gauge sectors, several alternative models have been proposed to go beyond the standard model and tackle the question of hierarchy. These models predict the existence of heavy vector-like partner quarks that exhibit vector-axial (V-A) coupling, typically on the TeV scale. In this work, We focus on the...
This poster is dedicated to searches for additional Higgs bosons from an extended Higgs sector in fermionic final states. These scalar states are predicted by several Beyond Standard Model theories, like Two Higgs doublet Models (2HDM) and the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM). The results are interpreted in various benchmark scenarios.
Many extensions of the Standard Model with Dark Matter candidates predict new long-lived particles (LLP). The LHC provides an unprecedented possibility to search for such LLP produced at the electroweak scale and above. The ANUBIS concept foresees instrumenting the ceiling and service shafts above the ATLAS experiment with tracking stations in order to search for LLPs with decay lengths of...
In this study we investigate the feasibility of detecting heavy neutral leptons ($N_d$) through exotic Higgs decays at the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC), specifically in the channel of $e^+ e^-\to qq~H$ with $H\to\nu N_d\to\nu~lW\to\nu l~qq$. Analyses based on full detector simulations of the ILD are performed at the center-of-mass energy of 250 GeV for two different beam...
The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment probes the absolute neutrino mass scale by precision spectroscopy of the tritium $\beta$-decay spectrum. By 2025, a final sensitivity better than 0.3$\,$eV/c$^2$ (90% C.L.) is anticipated with a total of 1000 days of measurement.
Going beyond this goal, for instance towards the regime of inverted mass ordering, requires novel technological...
We present a detailed analysis of the transverse momentum distribution of charged particles from three different schemes. The first two arise from considering the color string picture described by the Schwinger mechanism convoluted with Gaussian and q-Gaussian string tension fluctuations, obtaining the $p_T$-exponential and the Tricomi’ function, respectively. Both are compared with the...
The ALLEGRO detector concept is a proposal for the detector to be operating at the Future Circular Collider FCC-ee. The calorimetry system consists of a high granular noble liquid electromagnetic calorimeter and a hadronic calorimeter with scintillating tiles using wavelength shifting fibers. The individual components of the calorimetry system in the barrel and extended barrel regions will be...
In several models of beyond Standard Model physics discrete symmetries play an important role. For instance, in order to avoid flavor changing neutral currents, a discrete Z2 symmetry is imposed on Two-Higgs-Doublet-Models (2HDM). This can lead to the formation of domain walls as the Z2 symmetry gets spontaneously broken during electroweak symmetry breaking in the early universe.
Due to...
ALICE is the LHC experiment designed for the study of nucleus-nucleus collisions. Its primary goal is to characterize the quark--gluon plasma (QGP), a deconfined state of matter created at extreme temperatures and energy densities. Heavy quarks (charm and beauty) are excellent QGP probes, as they are mostly produced at the earliest collision stages and survive the entire medium evolution, thus...
The coupling of the Higgs boson to fermions is a crucial part of the standard model with still much room to explore. Since we’ve measured the interaction with the heavy third generation, our focus naturally shifts to the lighter generations. As the Higgs boson coupling scales with mass, this endeavor is much more difficult. The next natural candidate, the charm quark, in particular poses a...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a long-baseline neutrino-oscillation experiment aiming to measure CP-violation and the neutrino mass ordering. The far detector consists of four 17-kt modules based on Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology. The technologies chosen for the first and second DUNE modules are tested with large scale prototypes at the CERN...
The Higgs boson was discovered in 2012 and most of its properties agree with the standard model (SM). However, several rare Higgs boson decay channels haven't been observed, including the $H→Zγ$ channel with the branching ratio of $(1.5±0.1)×10^{−3}$. The rare Higgs decays provide probes for physics beyond the SM (BSM). Therefore, the search for $H→Zγ$ decay is performed, where $Z→l^+l^-$ with...
In the Color String Percolation Model, the QGP formation is associated with the emergence of the percolation cluster of color strings. Then, the estimation in the thermodynamic limit of phenomenological observables is suitable for heavy ion collisions, where a large number of particles are produced. In order to extrapolate these estimations to small systems, such as pp collision, finite size...
Using the most recent experimental data and lattice calculations of scattering lengths of pipi scattering and employing dispersive representation of the amplitude based on Roy equations, we compute the subthreshold parameters of this process. We use Monte Carlo sampling to numerically model the probability distribution of the results based on all uncertainties in the inputs. In the second part...
We present latest developments in Analysis Description Language (ADL), a declarative domain-specific language describing the physics algorithm of a HEP data analysis decoupled from software frameworks. Analyses written in ADL can be integrated into any framework for various tasks. ADL is a multipurpose construct with uses ranging from analysis design to preservation, reinterpretation, queries,...
In my poster, I will present four sub-topics related to radiation protection for the CPEC:
1. Conceptual design for the collider dump system: This includes the parameters of two dilution kickers and the sizes of a graphite core and iron shell. The maximum temperature rises in the collider dump for four operations are calculated and they are below the graphite melting point.
2. Radiation...
The T2K experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan. A muon (anti-)neutrino beam produced at J-PARC is detected at the near detector ND280 and the far detector Super-Kamiokande (SK). The ND280 detects neutrino interaction candidates before oscillation to predict the neutrino flux in SK and constrain neutrino-nucleus interaction models.
To reduce systematic...
The Penetrating particle Analyzer (PAN) is an instrument designed to operate in space to measure and monitor the flux, composition, and direction of highly penetrating particles in energy range from 100 MeV/n to 20 GeV/n. The demonstrator, called Mini.PAN, employs 2 sectors of permanent magnets arranged in Halbach geometry. These are interleaved with silicon strip detectors with 25 µm pitch in...
The Hyper-Kamiokande experiment will study long-baseline neutrino oscillations with the primary focus of a search for the leptonic CP violation, following the successful T2K experiment. Thanks to an 1.3MW beam produced at J-PARC and an 184 kilotonne fiducial mass of the far detector, the event rates will be 20 times higher than those of T2K, and the search will be systematically limited mainly...
The LHCb experiment will undergo its high luminosity detector upgrade in 2033-2034 to operate at a maximal instantaneous luminosity of 1.5 × 1034cm-2s-1. This increase in instantaneous luminosity poses a challenge to the tracking system to achieve proper track reconstruction with a tenfold higher occupancy. Here we focus on foreseen solutions for the new tracking stations after the magnet,...
KM3NeT is a research infrastructure with neutrino telescopes at two sites in the Mediterranean Sea for the detection of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. The two underwater telescopes, ARCA and ORCA, are Cherenkov detectors, using similar technology but with different geometrical layouts. In this way, it is possible to cover a large range of neutrino energy and address various science topics...
ALICE 3 is a new detector proposed to operate during the LHC Run 5 and 6. The Muon IDentifier (MID) detector is one of the ALICE 3 subsystems optimized to detect muons down to momenta below 1.5 GeV/c for rapidities |y|<1.3 for the reconstruction of J/ψ vector mesons down to zero transverse momentum at midrapidity. The ALICE 3 tracker large-acceptance will offer access to rare charmonium and...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) comprises a suite of Near Detectors and Far Detectors based on the Liquid Argon TPC technology, enhanced by a powerful Photon Detection System (PDS) that records the scintillation light emitted in Argon. Besides providing the timing information for an event, photon detectors can be used for calorimetric energy estimation.
The two observables...
The KOTO experiment at J-PARC searches for the rare decay, $K_L \rightarrow \pi^0\nu\overline{\nu}$. This search requires a high intensity $K_L$ beam which sets KOTO in a unique position to probe sub-GeV quark coupling to dark matter. One avenue to study this is the mode $K_L \rightarrow \pi^0\pi^0X$, where $X\rightarrow\gamma\gamma$. This mode was studied in the E391a experiment at KEK in the...
Unitarity and $CPT$ symmetry constrain the $CP$ asymmetries entering the Boltzmann equation for net particle number generation. These constraints often manifest as cancelations of the leading-order asymmetries in decays and scatterings. In this poster, we consider the asymmetries of seesaw type-I leptogenesis with top-Yukawa corrections. Even when starting with Maxwell-Boltzmann phase-space...
The Aether-Scalar-Tensor (AeST) theory is an extension of General
Relativity (GR) which allows for Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) in
its static weak-field limit and a LCDM-like cosmological limit.
MOND successfully describes the behaviour of galaxies without the need
for dark matter. This is best summarised by the Radial Acceleration
Relation (RAR), which directly relates the...
This presentation concerns the application of non-extensive statistics, more specifically that proposed by C. Tsallis, in the study of transverse momentum distributions of mesons composed of charm quarks produced in collisions between heavy ions at relativistic energies. Non-extensive statistics has been successful in the description of transverse momentum spectra of particles produced in...
DUNE will be a long baseline neutrino experiment with a broad physics program, including neutrino oscillation, proton decay, and supernova studies. The detector, located 1,500 m (4,850 ft) underground at SURF, South Dakota, will be 1,300 km (810 mi) away from the ultimate 2.4 MW proton beam source at Fermilab. Four far detector modules, of 17 kt total mass of liquid argon each, will produce...
Trilinear Higgs Couplings are crucial quantities for determining precisely the electroweak breaking mechanism. In the talk both Type 2 and Type 4 THDMS are analyzed and compared with respect to embedding the different current excesses at the LHC. In the talk also vacuum stability is discussed in the THDMS compared with the NTHDM. Precision requirements for measuring the trilinear couplings...
Pileup, or the presence of multiple independent proton-proton collisions within the same bunch-crossing, has been critical to the success of the LHC, allowing for the production of enormous proton-proton collision datasets. However, the typical LHC physics analysis only considers a single proton-proton collision in each bunch crossing; the remaining pileup collisions are viewed as an...
Mixed Layer (ML) in Oceans is defined as the less dense upper region of the water column where turbulent mixing occurs. Mixed Layer Depth (MLD) is the depth of this region and shows diurnal, seasonal fluctuations, and spatial variations. MLD is an indicator for climate change. When atmospheric muons enter the sea, a decreased muon count at the bottom of water is observed. Muon count is...
The precision measurement of daily proton fluxes with AMS during twelve years of operation in the rigidity interval from 1 to 100 GV is presented. The proton fluxes exhibit variations on multiple time scales. From 2014 to 2018, we observed recurrent flux variations with a period of 27 days. Shorter periods of 9 days and 13.5 days are observed in 2016. The strength of all three periodicities...
In high energy physics experiments, visualization not only plays important roles in detector design, data quality monitoring, simulation and reconstruction, but also aids physics analysis to improve the performance.
Besides the traditional physics data analysis based on statistical methods, the visualization method is intuitive and can provide unique advantages, especially in searching for...
If a high school student asks ten physicists what a particle is, he/she might get ten different answers, including a) particle is what we see in the detector, b) a point-like object with mass and various charges, c) a collapsed wave function, d) an excitation of a quantum field or even e) an irreducible representation of the Poincare group. I will briefly discuss strong and weak points of the...
