Search for Dark Photons in Rare $Z$ Boson Decays with the ATLAS Detector
ArXiv 2306.07413 (2023)
Observation of gauge boson joint-polarisation states in W±Z production from pp collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Physics Letters B Elsevier 843 (2023) 137895
Abstract:
In this letter we present results for next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to doubly polarised W$^+$W$^-$ production at the LHC in the fully leptonic decay channel. We model the production and the decay of two polarised W bosons in the double-pole approximation, including factorisable real and virtual electroweak corrections, and separating polarisation states at amplitude level. We obtain integrated and differential predictions for polarised signals in a realistic fiducial setup.Comment: 10 pages, 1 table, 4 figureAnomaly detection search for new resonances decaying into a Higgs boson and a generic new particle $X$ in hadronic final states using $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector
ArXiv 2306.03637 (2023)
Measurement of the polarisation of W bosons produced in top-quark decays using dilepton events at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
Physics Letters B Elsevier 843 (2023) 137829
Abstract:
A measurement of the polarisation of W bosons produced in top-quark decays is presented, using proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 13 TeV. The data were collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. The measurement is performed selecting tt¯ events decaying into final states with two charged leptons (electrons or muons) and at least two b-tagged jets. The polarisation is extracted from the differential cross-section distribution of the cos θ ∗ variable, where θ ∗ is the angle between the momentum direction of the charged lepton from the W boson decay and the reversed momentum direction of the b-quark from the top-quark decay, both calculated in the W boson rest frame. Parton-level results, corrected for the detector acceptance and resolution, are presented for the cos θ ∗ angle. The measured fractions of longitudinal, left- and right-handed polarisation states are found to be f0 = 0.684 ± 0.005 (stat.) ± 0.014 (syst.), fL = 0.318 ± 0.003 (stat.) ± 0.008 (syst.) and fR = −0.002 ± 0.002 (stat.) ± 0.014 (syst.), in agreement with the Standard Model predictionCombination and summary of ATLAS dark matter searches interpreted in a 2HDM with a pseudo-scalar mediator using 139 fb$^{-1}$ of $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV $pp$ collision data
ArXiv 2306.00641 (2023)