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Journal articleSirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, et al., 2023,
Measurement of prompt and nonprompt charmonium suppression in PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV (vol 78, 509, 2018)
, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, Vol: 83, ISSN: 1434-6044 -
Conference paperQue Z, Loo M, Fan H, et al., 2023,
Optimizing graph Neural Networks for jet tagging in particle physics on FPGAs
, International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 327-333This work proposes a novel reconfigurable architecture for reducing the latency of JEDI-net, a Graph NeuralNetwork (GNN) based algorithm for jet tagging in particlephysics, which achieves state-of-the-art accuracy. AcceleratingJEDI-net is challenging since it requires low latency to deploythe network for event selection at the CERN Large HadronCollider. This paper proposes an outer-product based matrixmultiplication approach customized for GNN-based JEDI-net,which increases data spatial locality and reduces design latency.It is further enhanced by code transformation with strengthreduction which exploits sparsity patterns and binary adjacencymatrices to increase hardware efficiency while reducing latency.In addition, a customizable template for this architecture hasbeen designed and open-sourced, which enables the generationof low-latency FPGA designs with efficient resource utilizationusing high-level synthesis tools. Evaluation results show that ourFPGA implementation is up to 9.5 times faster and consumes upto 6.5 times less power than a GPU implementation. Moreover,the throughput of our FPGA design is sufficiently high to enabledeployment of JEDI-net in a sub-microsecond, real-time collidertrigger system, enabling it to benefit from improved accuracy.
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Journal articleAcero MA, Adamson P, Aliaga L, et al., 2023,
Measurement of the ν_{e}-Nucleus Charged-Current Double-Differential Cross Section at ⟨E_{ν}⟩=2.4 GeV Using NOvA.
, Phys Rev Lett, Vol: 130The inclusive electron neutrino charged-current cross section is measured in the NOvA near detector using 8.02×10^{20} protons-on-target in the NuMI beam. The sample of GeV electron neutrino interactions is the largest analyzed to date and is limited by ≃17% systematic rather than the ≃7.4% statistical uncertainties. The double-differential cross section in final-state electron energy and angle is presented for the first time, together with the single-differential dependence on Q^{2} (squared four-momentum transfer) and energy, in the range 1 GeV≤E_{ν}<6 GeV. Detailed comparisons are made to the predictions of the GENIE, GiBUU, NEUT, and NuWro neutrino event generators. The data do not strongly favor a model over the others consistently across all three cross sections measured, though some models have especially good or poor agreement in the single differential cross section vs Q^{2}.
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Journal articleBertone G, Buchmueller OLL, Cole PSS, 2023,
Perspectives on fundamental cosmology from Low Earth Orbit and the Moon
, NPJ MICROGRAVITY, Vol: 9 -
Journal articleBarbone M, Howard A, Tapper A, et al., 2023,
Demonstration of FPGA acceleration of Monte Carlo simulation
, Journal of Physics : Conference Series, Vol: 2438, Pages: 1-7, ISSN: 1742-6588We present results from a stand-alone simulation of electron single Coulomb scattering as implemented completely on an Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) architecture and compared with an identical simulation on a standard CPU. FPGA architectures offer unprecedented speed-up capability for Monte Carlo simulations, however with the caveats of lengthy development cycles and resource limitation, particularly in terms of on-chip memory and DSP blocks. As a proof of principle of acceleration on an FPGA, we chose a single scattering process of electrons in water at an energy of 6 MeV. The initial code-base was implemented in C++ and optimised for CPU processing. To measure the potential performance gains of FPGAs compared to modern multi-core CPUs we computed 100M histories of a 6 MeV electron interacting in water. Without performing any hardware-specific optimisation, the results show that the FPGA implementation is over 110 times faster than an optimised parallel implementation running on 12 CPU-cores, and over 270 times faster than a sequential single-core CPU implementation. The results on both architectures were statistically equivalent. The successful implementation and acceleration results are very encouraging for the future exploitation of more sophisticated Monte Carlo simulation on FPGAs for High Energy Physics applications.
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Journal articleWass PJ, Sumner TJ, Araujo HM, et al., 2023,
Simulating the charging of isolated free-falling masses from TeV to eV energies: Detailed comparison with LISA Pathfinder results
, PHYSICAL REVIEW D, Vol: 107, ISSN: 2470-0010 -
Journal articleTumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, et al., 2023,
Observation of triple J/ψ meson production in proton-proton collisions
, NATURE PHYSICS, ISSN: 1745-2473 -
Journal articleAbe K, Hayato Y, Hiraide K, et al., 2023,
Search for Cosmic-Ray Boosted Sub-GeV Dark Matter Using Recoil Protons at Super-Kamiokande
, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Vol: 130, ISSN: 0031-9007- Author Web Link
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Journal articleTumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, et al., 2023,
Publisher Correction: Observation of triple J/ψ meson production in proton-proton collisions (Nature Physics, (2023), 19, 3, (338-350), 10.1038/s41567-022-01838-y)
, Nature Physics, ISSN: 1745-2473Correction to: Nature Physics, published online 19 January 2023. In the version of the article initially published, the second affiliation of T. Elkafrawy was incorrect and is now shown as Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
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Journal articleBuchmueller O, Ellis J, Schneider U, 2023,
Large-scale atom interferometry for fundamental physics
, Contemporary Physics, Vol: 64, Pages: 93-110, ISSN: 0010-7514Atom interferometers measure quantum interference patterns in the wave functions of cold atoms that follow superpositions of different space-time trajectories. These can be sensitive to phase shifts induced by fundamental physics processes such as interactions with ultralight dark matter or the passage of gravitational waves. The capabilities of large-scale atom interferometers are illustrated by their estimated sensitivities to the possible interactions of ultralight dark matter with electrons and photons, and to gravitational waves in the frequency range around 1 Hz, intermediate between the peak sensitivities of the LIGO and LISA experiments. Atom interferometers can probe ultralight scalar couplings with much greater sensitivity than is currently available from probes of the Equivalence Principle. Their sensitivity to mid-frequency gravitational waves may open a window on mergers of masses intermediate between those discovered by the LIGO and Virgo experiments and the supermassive black holes present in the cores of galaxies, as well as fundamental physics processes in the early Universe such as first-order phase transitions and the evolution of networks of cosmic strings.
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Conference paperFedi G, Fiorendi S, Holmberg M, et al., 2023,
Lessons learnt from the first vertical slice of the CMS Outer Tracker
, Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP), Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd, ISSN: 1748-0221 -
Journal articleAalbers J, AbdusSalam SS, Abe K, et al., 2023,
A next-generation liquid xenon observatory for dark matter and neutrino physics
, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol: 50, ISSN: 0954-3899The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the leading technology to cover the available parameter space for weakly interacting massive particles, while featuring extensive sensitivity to many alternative dark matter candidates. These detectors can also study neutrinos through neutrinoless double-beta decay and through a variety of astrophysical sources. A next-generation xenon-based detector will therefore be a true multi-purpose observatory to significantly advance particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, solar physics, and cosmology. This review article presents the science cases for such a detector.
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Conference paperBrown C, Bundock A, Komm M, et al., 2023,
Neural Network-Based Primary Vertex Reconstruction with FPGAs for the Upgrade of the CMS Level-1 Trigger System
, 20th International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research (ACAT), Publisher: IOP PUBLISHING LTD, ISSN: 1742-6588 -
Journal articleTumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, et al., 2023,
A search for decays of the Higgs boson to invisible particles in events with a top-antitop quark pair or a vector boson in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV.
, Eur Phys J C Part Fields, Vol: 83, ISSN: 1434-6044A search for decays to invisible particles of Higgs bosons produced in association with a top-antitop quark pair or a vector boson, which both decay to a fully hadronic final state, has been performed using proton-proton collision data collected at s=13TeV by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138fb-1. The 95% confidence level upper limit set on the branching fraction of the 125GeV Higgs boson to invisible particles, B(H→inv), is 0.54 (0.39 expected), assuming standard model production cross sections. The results of this analysis are combined with previous B(H→inv) searches carried out at s=7, 8, and 13TeV in complementary production modes. The combined upper limit at 95% confidence level on B(H→inv) is 0.15 (0.08 expected).
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Journal articleTumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, et al., 2023,
Azimuthal correlations in Z +jets events in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV.
, Eur Phys J C Part Fields, Vol: 83, ISSN: 1434-6044The production of Z bosons associated with jets is measured in pp collisions at s=13TeV with data recorded with the CMS experiment at the LHC corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.3fb-1. The multiplicity of jets with transverse momentum pT>30GeV is measured for different regions of the Z boson's pT(Z), from lower than 10GeV to higher than 100GeV. The azimuthal correlation Δϕ between the Z boson and the leading jet, as well as the correlations between the two leading jets are measured in three regions of pT(Z). The measurements are compared with several predictions at leading and next-to-leading orders, interfaced with parton showers. Predictions based on transverse-momentum dependent parton distributions and corresponding parton showers give a good description of the measurement in the regions where multiple parton interactions and higher jet multiplicities are not important. The effects of multiple parton interactions are shown to be important to correctly describe the measured spectra in the low pT(Z) regions.
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Journal articleTumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, et al., 2023,
CMS pythia 8 colour reconnection tunes based on underlying-event data.
, Eur Phys J C Part Fields, Vol: 83, ISSN: 1434-6044New sets of parameter tunes for two of the colour reconnection models, quantum chromodynamics-inspired and gluon-move, implemented in the pythia 8 event generator, are obtained based on the default CMS pythia 8 underlying-event tune, CP5. Measurements sensitive to the underlying event performed by the CMS experiment at centre-of-mass energies s=7 and 13TeV, and by the CDF experiment at 1.96TeV are used to constrain the parameters of colour reconnection models and multiple-parton interactions simultaneously. The new colour reconnection tunes are compared with various measurements at 1.96, 7, 8, and 13TeV including measurements of the underlying-event, strange-particle multiplicities, jet substructure observables, jet shapes, and colour flow in top quark pair (tt¯) events. The new tunes are also used to estimate the uncertainty related to colour reconnection modelling in the top quark mass measurement using the decay products of tt¯ events in the semileptonic channel at 13TeV.
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Journal articleTumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, et al., 2023,
Measurement of the differential tt¯ production cross section as a function of the jet mass and extraction of the top quark mass in hadronic decays of boosted top quarks.
, Eur Phys J C Part Fields, Vol: 83, ISSN: 1434-6044A measurement of the jet mass distribution in hadronic decays of Lorentz-boosted top quarks is presented. The measurement is performed in the lepton + jets channel of top quark pair production (tt¯) events, where the lepton is an electron or muon. The products of the hadronic top quark decay are reconstructed using a single large-radius jet with transverse momentum greater than 400GeV. The data were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collisions and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 138fb-1. The differential tt¯ production cross section as a function of the jet mass is unfolded to the particle level and is used to extract the top quark mass. The jet mass scale is calibrated using the hadronic W boson decay within the large-radius jet. The uncertainties in the modelling of the final state radiation are reduced by studying angular correlations in the jet substructure. These developments lead to a significant increase in precision, and a top quark mass of 173.06±0.84GeV.
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Journal articleTumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, et al., 2023,
Search for light Higgs bosons from supersymmetric cascade decays in pp collisions at s=13TeV.
, Eur Phys J C Part Fields, Vol: 83, ISSN: 1434-6044A search is reported for pairs of light Higgs bosons (H1) produced in supersymmetric cascade decays in final states with small missing transverse momentum. A data set of LHC pp collisions collected with the CMS detector at s=13TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138fb-1 is used. The search targets events where both H1 bosons decay into pairs that are reconstructed as large-radius jets using substructure techniques. No evidence is found for an excess of events beyond the background expectations of the standard model (SM). Results from the search are interpreted in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric extension of the SM, where a "singlino" of small mass leads to squark and gluino cascade decays that can predominantly end in a highly Lorentz-boosted singlet-like H1 and a singlino-like neutralino of small transverse momentum. Upper limits are set on the product of the squark or gluino pair production cross section and the square of the branching fraction of the H1 in a benchmark model containing almost mass-degenerate gluinos and light-flavour squarks. Under the assumption of an SM-like branching fraction, H1 bosons with masses in the range 40-120GeV arising from the decays of squarks or gluinos with a mass of 1200-2500GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level.
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Journal articleTumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, et al., 2023,
Measurements of jet multiplicity and jet transverse momentum in multijet events in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV.
, Eur Phys J C Part Fields, Vol: 83, ISSN: 1434-6044Multijet events at large transverse momentum (pT) are measured at s=13TeV using data recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.3fb-1. The multiplicity of jets with pT>50GeV that are produced in association with a high-pT dijet system is measured in various ranges of the pT of the jet with the highest transverse momentum and as a function of the azimuthal angle difference Δϕ1,2 between the two highest pT jets in the dijet system. The differential production cross sections are measured as a function of the transverse momenta of the four highest pT jets. The measurements are compared with leading and next-to-leading order matrix element calculations supplemented with simulations of parton shower, hadronization, and multiparton interactions. In addition, the measurements are compared with next-to-leading order matrix element calculations combined with transverse-momentum dependent parton densities and transverse-momentum dependent parton shower.
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Journal articleTumasyan A, Adam W, Ambrogi F, et al., 2022,
Nuclear modification of Y states in pPb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV
, Physics Letters B, Vol: 835, ISSN: 0370-2693Production cross sections of Υ(1S), Υ(2S), and Υ(3S) states decaying into μ+μ− in proton-lead (pPb) collisions are reported using data collected by the CMS experiment at √sNN = 5.02 TeV. A comparison is made with corresponding cross sections obtained with pp data measured at the same collision energy and scaled by the Pb nucleus mass number. The nuclear modification factor for Υ(1S) is found to be RpPb(Υ(1S)) = 0.806±0.024 (stat)±0.059 (syst). Similar results for the excited states indicate a sequentialsuppression pattern, such that RpPb(Υ(1S)) > RpPb(Υ(2S)) > RpPb(Υ(3S)). The suppression of all states is much less pronounced in pPb than in PbPb collisions, and independent of transverse momentum pΥT and center-of-mass rapidity yΥCM of the individual Υ state in the studied range pΥT < 30 GeV/c and |yΥCM| <1.93. Models that incorporate final-state effects of bottomonia in pPb collisions are in better agreement with the data than those which only assume initial-state modifications.
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Journal articleTumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, et al., 2022,
Search for new particles in an extended Higgs sector with four b quarks in the final state at √s=13 TeV
, PHYSICS LETTERS B, Vol: 835, ISSN: 0370-2693 -
Journal articleTumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, et al., 2022,
Addendum: Measurement and QCD analysis of double-differential inclusive jet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV
, JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, ISSN: 1029-8479 -
Journal articleTumasyan A, Adam W, Bergauer T, et al., 2022,
Measurements of the associated production of a W boson and a charm quark in proton-proton collisions at √<i>s</i>=8TeV
, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, Vol: 82, ISSN: 1434-6044- Author Web Link
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Journal articleAlonso I, Alpigiani C, Altschul B, et al., 2022,
Cold atoms in space: community workshop summary and proposed road-map
, EPJ QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY, Vol: 9, ISSN: 2662-4400- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 10
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Journal articleTumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, et al., 2022,
Search for new particles in an extended Higgs sector with four b quarks in the final state at <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" altimg="si1.svg"><mml:msqrt><mml:mrow><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msqrt><mml:mo linebreak="goodbreak" linebreakstyle="after">=</mml:mo><mml:mn>13</mml:mn><mml:mrow><mml:mspace width="0.20em" /><mml:mtext>TeV</mml:mtext></mml:mrow></mml:math>
, Physics Letters B, Vol: 835, Pages: 137566-137566, ISSN: 0370-2693 -
Journal articleApple SM, Kenyon SP, Barke S, et al., 2022,
Measurement of stray electric fields in a capacitive inertial sensor using contactless test-mass charge modulation
, PHYSICAL REVIEW D, Vol: 106, ISSN: 2470-0010- Author Web Link
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Journal articleChatrchyan S, Khachatryan V, Sirunyan AM, et al., 2022,
Searches for long-lived charged particles in pp collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV (vol 07, 122, 2013)
, JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, ISSN: 1029-8479 -
Journal articleBogomilov M, Tsenov R, Vankova-Kirilova G, et al., 2022,
Multiple Coulomb scattering of muons in lithium hydride
, Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol: 106, ISSN: 1550-2368Multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS) is a well-known phenomenon occurring when charged particlestraverse materials. Measurements of muons traversing low Z materials made in the MuScat experimentshowed that theoretical models and simulation codes, such as GEANT4 (v7.0), over-estimated the scattering.The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) measured the cooling of a muon beam traversing aliquid hydrogen or lithium hydride (LiH) energy absorber as part of a programme to develop muonaccelerator facilities, such as a neutrino factory or a muon collider. The energy loss and MCS that occur inthe absorber material are competing effects that alter the performance of the cooling channel. Thereforemeasurements of MCS are required in order to validate the simulations used to predict the coolingperformance in future accelerator facilities. We report measurements made in the MICE apparatus of MCSusing a LiH absorber and muons within the momentum range 160 to 245 MeV=c. The measured RMSscattering width is about 9% smaller than that predicted by the approximate formula proposed by theParticle Data Group, but within the latter’s stated uncertainty. Data at 172, 200 and 240 MeV=c arecompared to the GEANT4 (v9.6) default scattering model. These measurements show agreement with thismore recent GEANT4 (v9.6) version over the range of incident muon momenta.
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Journal articleTumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, et al., 2022,
Evidence for WW/WZ vector boson scattering in the decay channelνqq produced in association with two jets in proton-proton collisionsat √s = 13 TeV
, Physics Letters B, Vol: 834, Pages: 1-28, ISSN: 0370-2693Evidence is reported for electroweak (EW) vector boson scattering in the decay channel νqq of twoweak vector bosons WV (V = W or Z), produced in association with two parton jets. The search usesa data set of proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV collected with the CMS detector during 2016–2018with an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. Events are selected requiring one lepton (electron or muon),moderate missing transverse momentum, two jets with a large pseudorapidity separation and a large dijetinvariant mass, and a signature consistent with the hadronic decay of a W/Z boson. The cross section iscomputed in a fiducial phase space defined at parton level requiring all parton transverse momentapT > 10 GeV and at least one pair of outgoing partons with invariant mass mqq > 100 GeV. The measuredand expected EW WV production cross sections are 1.90+0.53−0.46 pb and 2.23+0.08−0.11(scale) ± 0.05(PDF) pb,respectively, where PDF is the parton distribution function. The observed EW signal strength is μEW =0.85 ± 0.12 (stat)+0.19−0.17 (syst), corresponding to a signal significance of 4.4 standard deviations with 5.1expected, and it is measured keeping the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) associated diboson productionfixed to the standard model prediction. This is the first evidence of vector boson scattering in the νqqdecay channel at LHC. The simultaneous measurement of the EW and QCD associated diboson productionagrees with the standard model prediction.
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Journal articleAkerib DS, Alsum S, Araujo HM, et al., 2022,
Fast and flexible analysis of direct dark matter search data with machine learning
, PHYSICAL REVIEW D, Vol: 106, ISSN: 2470-0010- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 1
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