scholarly journals The Large Hadron–Electron Collider at the HL-LHC

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 110501
Author(s):  
P Agostini ◽  
H Aksakal ◽  
S Alekhin ◽  
P P Allport ◽  
N Andari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Top Quark ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Ion Beam ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Parton Density ◽  
Parton Density Function ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Discovery Potential

Abstract The Large Hadron–Electron Collider (LHeC) is designed to move the field of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) to the energy and intensity frontier of particle physics. Exploiting energy-recovery technology, it collides a novel, intense electron beam with a proton or ion beam from the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). The accelerator and interaction region are designed for concurrent electron–proton and proton–proton operations. This report represents an update to the LHeC’s conceptual design report (CDR), published in 2012. It comprises new results on the parton structure of the proton and heavier nuclei, QCD dynamics, and electroweak and top-quark physics. It is shown how the LHeC will open a new chapter of nuclear particle physics by extending the accessible kinematic range of lepton–nucleus scattering by several orders of magnitude. Due to its enhanced luminosity and large energy and the cleanliness of the final hadronic states, the LHeC has a strong Higgs physics programme and its own discovery potential for new physics. Building on the 2012 CDR, this report contains a detailed updated design for the energy-recovery electron linac (ERL), including a new lattice, magnet and superconducting radio-frequency technology, and further components. Challenges of energy recovery are described, and the lower-energy, high-current, three-turn ERL facility, PERLE at Orsay, is presented, which uses the LHeC characteristics serving as a development facility for the design and operation of the LHeC. An updated detector design is presented corresponding to the acceptance, resolution, and calibration goals that arise from the Higgs and parton-density-function physics programmes. This paper also presents novel results for the Future Circular Collider in electron–hadron (FCC-eh) mode, which utilises the same ERL technology to further extend the reach of DIS to even higher centre-of-mass energies.

scholarly journals Future Circular Colliders

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 389-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Benedikt ◽  
A. Blondel ◽  
P. Janot ◽  
M. Klein ◽  
M. Mangano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Particle Physics ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Proton Collisions ◽  
Center Of Mass Energy ◽  
Physics Program ◽  
Electron Positron

After 10 years of physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the particle physics landscape has greatly evolved. Today, a staged Future Circular Collider (FCC), consisting of a luminosity-frontier highest-energy electron–positron collider (FCC-ee) followed by an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), promises the most far-reaching physics program for the post-LHC era. FCC-ee will be a precision instrument used to study the Z, W, Higgs, and top particles, and will offer unprecedented sensitivity to signs of new physics. Most of the FCC-ee infrastructure could be reused for FCC-hh, which will provide proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 100 TeV and could directly produce new particles with masses of up to several tens of TeV. This collider will also measure the Higgs self-coupling and explore the dynamics of electroweak symmetry breaking. Thermal dark matter candidates will be either discovered or conclusively ruled out by FCC-hh. Heavy-ion and electron–proton collisions (FCC-eh) will further contribute to the breadth of the overall FCC program. The integrated FCC infrastructure will serve the particle physics community through the end of the twenty-first century. This review combines key contents from the first three volumes of the FCC Conceptual Design Report.

scholarly journals Probing Anomalous Quartic Interactions at the LHC with proton tagging

2018 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 06002
Author(s):  
Cristian Baldenegro
Keyword(s):  
Large Hadron Collider ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Gauge Coupling ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Interaction Point ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Discovery Potential

One of the main goals of the Large Hadron Collider is to find signatures of physics Beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. One way to do this is by studying with high precision the interactions of the Standard Model. In this talk, we address the discovery potential of New Physics in the exclusive channel pp → p X p which relies on the general purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider and their respective forward proton detector stations, located at about ~ 210 m w.r.t. the interaction point. These reactions are highly sensitive to quartic electroweak gauge interactions. As a proof of concept, we discuss the exclusive diphoton production at high diphoton invariant mass. We quote sensitivities on the anomalous γγγγ coupling for an integrated luminosity of 300 fb1 at the center-of-mass energy of 14 TeV.We also discuss the discovery potential of 3γZ anomalous quartic gauge coupling by measuring the pp → p(γγ → Zγ)p reaction.

scholarly journals Adversarially Learned Anomaly Detection on CMS open data: re-discovering the top quark

2021 ◽  
Vol 136 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Knapp ◽  
O. Cerri ◽  
G. Dissertori ◽  
T. Q. Nguyen ◽  
M. Pierini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
Top Quark ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Open Data ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Substantial Improvement ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
8 Tev ◽  
Proton Proton Collisions

AbstractWe apply an Adversarially Learned Anomaly Detection (ALAD) algorithm to the problem of detecting new physics processes in proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Anomaly detection based on ALAD matches performances reached by Variational Autoencoders, with a substantial improvement in some cases. Training the ALAD algorithm on 4.4 fb$$^{-1}$$ - 1 of 8 TeV CMS Open Data, we show how a data-driven anomaly detection and characterization would work in real life, re-discovering the top quark by identifying the main features of the $$t \bar{t}$$ t t ¯ experimental signature at the LHC.

scholarly journals Highly boosted Higgs bosons and unitarity in vector-boson fusion at future hadron colliders

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Kilian ◽  
Sichun Sun ◽  
Qi-Shu Yan ◽  
Xiaoran Zhao ◽  
Zhijie Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Pair Production ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Higgs Bosons ◽  
Vector Boson Fusion ◽  
Final State ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Effective Lagrangian ◽  
Discovery Potential ◽  
New Interactions

Abstract We study the observability of new interactions which modify Higgs-pair production via vector-boson fusion processes at the LHC and at future proton-proton colliders. In an effective-Lagrangian approach, we explore in particular the effect of the operator $$ {h}^2{W}_{\mu \nu}^a{W}^{a,\mu \nu} $$ h 2 W μν a W a , μν , which describes the interaction of the Higgs boson with transverse vector-boson polarization modes. By tagging highly boosted Higgs bosons in the final state, we determine projected bounds for the coefficient of this operator at the LHC and at a future 27 TeV or 100 TeV collider. Taking into account unitarity constraints, we estimate the new-physics discovery potential of Higgs pair production in this channel.

scholarly journals Infrared renormalons in collider processes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Ferrario Ravasio
Keyword(s):  
Top Quark ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Theoretical Calculations ◽  
Accurate Determination ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Operator Product ◽  
Power Correction ◽  
Collider Phenomenology ◽  
Power Corrections ◽  
Decay Products

AbstractPrecise theoretical predictions are a key ingredient for an accurate determination of the structure of the Lagrangian of particle physics, including its free parameters, which summarizes our understanding of the fundamental interactions among particles. Furthermore, due to the absence of clear new-physics signals, precise theoretical calculations are required to pin down possible subtle deviations from the Standard Model predictions. The error associated with such calculations must be scrutinized, as non-perturbative power corrections, dubbed infrared renormalons, can limit the ultimate precision of truncated perturbative expansions in quantum chromodynamics. In this review, we focus on linear power corrections that can arise in certain kinematic distributions relevant for collider phenomenology where an operator product expansion is missing, e.g. those obtained from the top-quark decay products, shape observables and the transverse momentum of massive gauge bosons. Only the last one is found to be free from such corrections, while the mass of the system comprising the top decay products has a larger power correction if the perturbative expansion is expressed in terms of a short-distance mass instead of the pole mass. A proper modelization of non-perturbative corrections is crucial in the context of shape observables to obtain reliable strong coupling constant extractions.

scholarly journals TOP AND HIGGS PHYSICS AT THE HADRON COLLIDERS

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (26) ◽  
pp. 1330038 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHABNAM JABEEN
Keyword(s):  
Top Quark ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Charge Asymmetry ◽  
Mass Energy ◽  
Top Quark Mass ◽  
Proton Antiproton ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Center Of Mass Energy ◽  
Single Top

This review summarizes the recent results for top quark and Higgs boson measurements from experiments at Tevatron, a proton–antiproton collider at a center-of-mass energy of [Formula: see text], and the Large Hadron Collider, a proton–proton collider at a center-of-mass energy of [Formula: see text]. These results include the discovery of a Higgs-like boson and measurement of its various properties, and measurements in the top quark sector, e.g. top quark mass, spin, charge asymmetry and production of single top quark.

scholarly journals CP VIOLATIONS (AND MORE) AFTER THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF LHCB

2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (A) ◽  
pp. 528-533
Author(s):  
Giulio Auriemma
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Energy ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Higgs Sector ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Baryon Asymmetry ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Cp Violations ◽  
The Standard Model

The most interesting cosmological open problems, baryon asymmetry, dark matter, inflation and dark energy, are not explained by the standard model of particle physics (SM). The final<br />goal of the Large Hadron Collider an experimental verification of the SM in the Higgs sector, and also a search for evidence of new physics beyond it. In this paper we will report some of the results obtained in 2010 and 2011, from the LHCb experiment dedicated to the study of CP violations and rare decays of heavy quarks.

Scientists and Students from Hong Kong Join a Top Particle Physics Experiment

2014 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 23-24
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Higgs Boson ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Particle Accelerator ◽  
Atlas Collaboration ◽  
Particle Detectors ◽  
The World ◽  
Physics Experiment

A team of physicists from Hong Kong has now formally joined one of the most prestigious physics experiments in the world. Following a unanimous vote of approval today by its Collaboration Board, ATLAS has admitted the Hong Kong team as a member. The ATLAS Collaboration operates one of the largest particle detectors in the world, located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's highest energy particle accelerator at CERN, Switzerland. In 2012, the ATLAS team — along with the CMS Collaboration — co-discovered the Higgs boson, or so-called 'God Particle'. The gigantic but sensitive and precise ATLAS detector, together with the unprecedentedly high collision energy and luminosity of the LHC, make it possible to search for fundamentally new physics, such as dark matter, hidden extra dimensions, and supersymmetry — a proposed symmetry among elementary particles. The LHC is currently undergoing an upgrade, targeting a substantial increase in beam energy and intensity in a year's time. It is widely expected that the discovery of the Higgs boson is only the beginning of an era of new breakthroughs in fundamental physics. All these exciting opportunities are now opened up to scientists and students from Hong Kong.

scholarly journals Search for supersymmetry in final states with two same-sign or three leptons and jets using 36 fb−1 of $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV pp collision data with the ATLAS detector

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Aaboud ◽  
◽  
G. Aad ◽  
B. Abbott ◽  
O. Abdinov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Top Quark ◽  
Confidence Level ◽  
Standard Model Prediction ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Atlas Detector ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Missing Transverse Momentum ◽  
Parity Conservation ◽  
Signal Region ◽  
Quark Models

Abstract A search for strongly produced supersymmetric particles using signatures involving multiple energetic jets and either two isolated same-sign leptons (e or μ), or at least three isolated leptons, is presented. The analysis relies on the identification of b-jets and high missing transverse momentum to achieve good sensitivity. A data sample of proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ s = 13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 and 2016, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1, is used for the search. No significant excess over the Standard Model prediction is observed. The results are interpreted in several simplified supersymmetric models featuring R-parity conservation or R-parity violation, extending the exclusion limits from previous searches. In models considering gluino pair production, gluino masses are excluded up to 1.87 TeV at 95% confidence level. When bottom squarks are pair-produced and decay to a chargino and a top quark, models with bottom squark masses below 700 GeV and light neutralinos are excluded at 95% confidence level. In addition, model-independent limits are set on a possible contribution of new phenomena to the signal region yields.

THE "TOP PRIORITY" AT THE LHC

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (25) ◽  
pp. 4107-4124 ◽  
Author(s):  
TAO HAN
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Particle ◽  
Top Quark ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Top Quarks ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Great Accuracy ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
High Luminosity ◽  
The Standard Model

The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) will be a top-quark factory. With 80 million pairs of top quarks and an additional 34 million single tops produced annually at the designed high luminosity, the properties of this particle will be studied to a great accuracy. The fact that the top quark is the heaviest elementary particle in the Standard Model with a mass right at the electroweak scale makes it tempting to contemplate its role in electroweak symmetry breaking, as well as its potential as a window to unknown new physics at the TeV scale. We summarize the expectations for top-quark physics at the LHC, and outline new physics scenarios in which the top quark is crucially involved.

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