Conveners
M1-2 Exploring the energy frontier (PPD) | Explorer la frontière d'énergie (PPD)
- David Morrissey (TRIUMF)
With the successful completion of Run-2 at the Large Hadron Collider, the ATLAS experiment recorded more than 140 fb-1 of integrated luminosity of pp collision data at 13 TeV centre-of-mass energy. This talk will review the latest results based on this wealth of new data in the area of the Brout-Englert-Higgs sector, important Standard Model processes and searches for physics phenomena beyond...
The performance of missing transverse momentum (MET) determination using a new algorithm is presented. The peak luminosity of the LHC in 2017 data-taking reached a new record of $1.90 \cdot 10^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ and it is aiming to achieve higher luminosity after up-coming upgrades of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and produce a larger number of interactions per bunch crossing $<\mu>$....
Scale factors (SF) are powerful tools for any particle physics analysis. They provide a clean way of estimating particle identification uncertainty. A SF is defined as the ratio of particle identification efficiency in data to Monte Carlo (MC) simulation. From the SF definition, correlations between systematic uncertainties in data to MC may be cancelled, thereby reducing the systematic...
After running for over three years at a world-record collision energy of 13 TeV, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) completed its Run-2 dataset last December. This new dataset offers an unprecedented opportunity to test a wide range of theories which, if true, would address questions that remain unanswered in the otherwise well-established Standard Model of particle physics. However, such gains...
The concept of a magnetic charge, analogous to electric charge, has been around for many centuries. Paul Dirac formally introduced the concept into electromagnetism and quantum mechanics concluding that, If observed, Magnetic Monopoles would potentially explain the quantization of the electric charge and complete the symmetry between electricity and magnetism in Maxwells’ equations. Since then...
