Conveners
Session 2
- Carrie McGivern (University of Pittsburgh)
Dr
Nitish Dhingra
(Panjab University, Chandigarh (India))
10/06/2013, 15:00
A search for heavy resonances decaying into $\tau^{+}\tau^{-}$ is performed using 4.94 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at 7 TeV recorded by the CMS detector during LHC Run2011. The estimation of major backgrounds is performed using data-driven methods wherever possible. A cut and count approach is followed to look for excess of observed events over the Standard Model background...
Jia Fu Low
(University of Florida)
10/06/2013, 15:18
One of the most important decay channels of the standard model Higgs is its decay into a pair of bottom quarks. For the highest signal significance, the associated production of the Higgs with a W or Z boson is investigated. Six different channels are used: $W(\mu\nu)H, W(e\nu)H, W(\tau\nu)H, Z(\mu\mu)H, Z(ee)H$ and Z(\nu\nu)H$. A data sample, recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC,...
Mr
Patrick True
(Michigan State University)
10/06/2013, 15:36
We present the search for W' -> tb using the LHC pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at a center-of- mass energy of 8 TeV. The primary backgrounds to this search are ttbar, W+jets, and multijets processes. To reduce the contributions of these backgrounds we require a leptonic final state and use Boosted Decision Trees to discriminate against background-like events. This...
Mr
Joseph Zennamo
(SUNY at Buffalo, D0)
10/06/2013, 15:54
Associated production of a Z boson with a charm or bottom quark
can serve as an important test of perturbative quantum chromodynamic
calculations. The ratios of cross sections,
\sigma(Z+c-jet)/\sigma(Z+jet) and \sigma(Z+c-jet)/\sigma(Z+b-jet)
are measured for associated production of a Z boson with jets
as a function of the jet and Z boson transverse momentum.
Measurements use data...
Ms
Sonam Mahajan
(Panjab University, Chandigarh, India)
10/06/2013, 16:19
The Main Injector Particle Production (MIPP) experiment at Fermilab is a fixed target hadron production experiment. It measures particle production in interactions of 120 GeV/c primary protons from the Main Injector and secondary beams of $\pi^{\pm}, \rm{K}^{\pm}$, p and $\bar{\rm{p}}$ from 5 to 90 GeV/c on nuclear targets which include H, Be, C, Bi and U, and a dedicated run with the NuMI...
Mr
Amandeep Singh
(Punjab University, Chandigarh)
10/06/2013, 16:37
The Main Injector Particle Production (MIPP) experiment at Fermilab is a full acceptance spectrometer to measure hadronic particle production using beams of $\pi^{\pm}$, $\rm{K^{\pm}}$, p and $\rm{\bar{p}}$ ranging in momentum from 5 to 120 GeV/c incident on Liquid-Hydrogen, Beryllium, Carbon, Bismuth, Uranium and NuMI targets. The experiment has excellent charged particle identification...