Search results

Altres ajuts: We thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of ARTEMIS and ERC, European Union and MICINN, PIC, Spain. ; The top quark mass has been measured using the template method in the channel based on data recorded in 2011 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The data were taken at a proton-proton centre-of-mass energy of and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 1.04 fb −1. The analyses in the e +jets and μ +jets decay channels yield consistent results. The top quark mass is measured to be m =174.5±0.6±2.3 GeV.

Altres ajuts: We thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of EPLANET and ERC, European Union and MICINN, PIC, Spain. ; In this paper, a measurement of τ polarization in W → τν decays is presented. It is measured from the energies of the decay products in hadronic τ decays with a single final state charged particle. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 24 pb −1, were collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in 2010. The measured value of the τ polarization is , in agreement with the Standard Model prediction, and is consistent with a physically allowed 95 % CL interval [−1,−0.91]. Measurements of τ polarization have not previously been made at hadron colliders.

Altres ajuts: We thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of EPLANET and ERC, European Union and MICINN, PIC, Spain. ; A measurement of the jet activity in events produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented, using 2.05 fb −1 of integrated luminosity collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The events are selected in the dilepton decay channel with two identified b -jets from the top quark decays. Events are vetoed if they contain an additional jet with transverse momentum above a threshold in a central rapidity interval. The fraction of events surviving the jet veto is presented as a function of this threshold for four different central rapidity interval definitions. An alternate measurement is also performed, in which events are vetoed if the scalar transverse momentum sum of the additional jets in each rapidity interval is above a threshold. In both measurements, the data are corrected for detector effects and compared to the theoretical models implemented in , , and . The experimental uncertainties are often smaller than the spread of theoretical predictions, allowing deviations between data and theory to be observed in some regions of phase space.

Altres ajuts: We thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of EPLANET and ERC, European Union and MICINN, Spain. ; This letter reports on a search for hypothetical heavy neutrinos, N, and right-handed gauge bosons, W , in events with high transverse momentum objects which include two reconstructed leptons and at least one hadronic jet. The results were obtained from data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.1 fb −1 collected in proton-proton collisions at with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. No excess above the Standard Model background expectation is observed. Excluded mass regions for Majorana and Dirac neutrinos are presented using two approaches for interactions that violate lepton and lepton-flavor numbers. One approach uses an effective operator framework, the other approach is guided by the Left-Right Symmetric Model. The results described in this letter represent the most stringent limits to date on the masses of heavy neutrinos and W bosons obtained in direct searches.