Synchronization between remote sites for the MINOS experiment

44th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Systems and Applications Meeting 2012 (2012) 99-117

Authors:

S Römisch, SR Jefferts, V Zhang, TE Parker, N Ashby, P Adamson, G Barr, A Habig, J Meier, C James, R Nicol, R Plunkett, C Rosenfeld, R Bumgarner, M Christensen, J Hirschauer, B Fonville, S Mitchell, A McKinley, E Powers, J Wright, D Matsakis

Abstract:

In the context of time-of-flight measurements, the timing at the departure and arrival locations is obviously critical to the outcome of the experiment. In the case of neutrino time-of-flight experiments, the locations are many hundreds of kilometers apart with synchronization requirements of nanoseconds for several months at a time. In addition to the already stringent set of requirements outlined above, the locations of the origin of the particle beam and the detector need to be precisely determined. NIST and USNO have provided the MINOS (Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search) collaboration with both hardware and expertise to synchronize the two sites of the experiment, the accelerator at Fermilab in Batavia, IL and the Soudan Mine in northern Minnesota. Two GPS receivers are installed at each location where the local clocks are commercial Cesium clocks. Two more GPS receivers are constantly traveling between locations (including NIST in Boulder, CO) to provide multiple differential calibrations of the fixed receivers. The availability of the TWTFST equipment from USNO allowed for one comparison between the GPS and TWSTFT for the link between the locations, providing an independent means of determining the accuracy of the synchronization. Several months of continuous GPS data are now available, including the two-way calibration instance and several differential GPS calibrations. The results of data processing yielded synchronization stability below one nanosecond with accuracy at the nanosecond level over several months. © (2012) by the Institute of Navigation. All rights reserved.

Search for light scalar top-quark pair production in final states with two leptons with the ATLAS detector in √s =7 TeV proton–proton collisions

European Physical Journal C 72:11 (2012)

Authors:

G Aad, T Abajyan, B Abbott, J Abdallah, SA Khalek, AA Abdelalim, O Abdinov, R Aben, B Abi, M Abolins, OS Abouzeid, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, E Acerbi, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, DL Adams, TN Addy, J Adelman, S Adomeit, P Adragna, T Adye, S Aefsky, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, M Agustoni, M Aharrouche, SP Ahlen, F Ahles, A Ahmad, M Ahsan, G Aielli, T Akdogan, TPA Åkesson, G Akimoto, AV Akimov, MS Alam, MA Alam, J Albert, S Albrand, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, F Alessandria, C Alexa, G Alexander, G Alexandre, T Alexopoulos, M Alhroob, M Aliev, G Alimonti, J Alison, BMM Allbrooke, PP Allport, SE Allwood-Spiers, J Almond, A Aloisio, R Alon, A Alonso, F Alonso, BA Gonzalez, MG Alviggi, K Amako, C Amelung, VV Ammosov, A Amorim, N Amram, C Anastopoulos, LS Ancu, N Andari, T Andeen, CF Anders, G Anders, KJ Anderson, A Andreazza, V Andrei, ML Andrieux, XS Anduaga, P Anger, A Angerami, F Anghinolfi, A Anisenkov, N Anjos, A Annovi, A Antonaki, M Antonelli, A Antonov, J Antos, F Anulli, M Aoki, S Aoun, LA Bella, R Apolle, G Arabidze, I Aracena, Y Arai, ATH Arce, S Arfaoui, JF Arguin, E Arik, M Arik, AJ Armbruster

Abstract:

A search is presented for the pair production of light scalar top quarks in √s = 7 TeV proton–proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. This analysis uses the full data sample collected during 2011 running that corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb−1. Light scalar top quarks are searched for in events with two opposite-sign leptons (e, μ), large missing transverse momentum and at least one jet in the final state. No excess over Standard Model expectations is found, and the results are interpreted under the assumption that the light scalar top decays to a b-quark in addition to an on-shell chargino whose decay occurs through a virtual W boson. If the chargino mass is 106 GeV, light scalar top-quark masses up to 130 GeV are excluded for neutralino masses below 70 GeV.

Measurement of the b-hadron production cross section using decays to D *+μ -X final states in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Nuclear Physics B 864:3 (2012) 341-381

Authors:

G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, S Abdel Khalek, AA Abdelalim, O Abdinov, B Abi, M Abolins, OS AbouZeid, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, E Acerbi, E Acerbi, BS Acharya, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, DL Adams, TN Addy, J Adelman, S Adomeit, P Adragna, T Adye, S Aefsky, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, M Agustoni, M Aharrouche, SP Ahlen, F Ahles, A Ahmad, M Ahsan, G Aielli, G Aielli, T Akdogan, TPA Åkesson, G Akimoto, AV Akimov, MS Alam, MA Alam, J Albert, S Albrand, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, F Alessandria, C Alexa, G Alexander, G Alexandre, T Alexopoulos, M Alhroob, M Alhroob, M Aliev, G Alimonti, J Alison, BMM Allbrooke, PP Allport, SE Allwood-Spiers, J Almond, A Aloisio, A Aloisio, R Alon, A Alonso, B Alvarez Gonzalez, MG Alviggi, MG Alviggi, K Amako, C Amelung, VV Ammosov, A Amorim, N Amram, C Anastopoulos, LS Ancu, N Andari, T Andeen, CF Anders, G Anders, KJ Anderson, A Andreazza, A Andreazza, V Andrei, XS Anduaga, P Anger, A Angerami, F Anghinolfi, A Anisenkov, N Anjos, A Annovi, A Antonaki, M Antonelli, A Antonov, J Antos, F Anulli, S Aoun, L Aperio Bella, R Apolle, G Arabidze, I Aracena, Y Arai, ATH Arce, S Arfaoui, JF Arguin, E Arik

Abstract:

The b-hadron production cross section is measured with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s=7TeV, using 3.3pb -1 of integrated luminosity, collected during the 2010 LHC run. The b-hadrons are selected by partially reconstructing D z.ast;+μ -X final states. Differential cross sections are measured as functions of the transverse momentum and pseudorapidity. The measured production cross section for a b-hadron with p T>9GeV and |n|<2.5 is 32.7±0.8(stat.)-6.8+4.5(syst.)μb, higher than the next-to-leading-order QCD predictions but consistent within the experimental and theoretical uncertainties. © 2012.

Measurement of the b-hadron production cross section using decays to D*+μ-X final states in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Nuclear Physics B 864:3 (2012) 341-381

Authors:

G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, S Abdel Khalek, AA Abdelalim, O Abdinov, B Abi, M Abolins, OS AbouZeid, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, E Acerbi, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, DL Adams, TN Addy, J Adelman, S Adomeit, P Adragna, T Adye, S Aefsky, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, M Agustoni, M Aharrouche, SP Ahlen, F Ahles, A Ahmad, M Ahsan, G Aielli, T Akdogan, TPA Åkesson, G Akimoto, AV Akimov, MS Alam, MA Alam, J Albert, S Albrand, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, F Alessandria, C Alexa, G Alexander, G Alexandre, T Alexopoulos, M Alhroob, M Aliev, G Alimonti, J Alison, BMM Allbrooke, PP Allport, SE Allwood-Spiers, J Almond, A Aloisio, R Alon, A Alonso, B Alvarez Gonzalez, MG Alviggi, K Amako, C Amelung, VV Ammosov, A Amorim, N Amram, C Anastopoulos, LS Ancu, N Andari, T Andeen, CF Anders, G Anders, KJ Anderson, A Andreazza, V Andrei, XS Anduaga, P Anger, A Angerami, F Anghinolfi, A Anisenkov, N Anjos, A Annovi, A Antonaki, M Antonelli, A Antonov, J Antos, F Anulli, S Aoun, L Aperio Bella, R Apolle, G Arabidze, I Aracena, Y Arai, ATH Arce, S Arfaoui, JF Arguin, E Arik, M Arik, AJ Armbruster, O Arnaez, V Arnal, C Arnault, A Artamonov, G Artoni

Abstract:

The b-hadron production cross section is measured with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s=7TeV, using 3.3pb-1of integrated luminosity, collected during the 2010 LHC run. The b-hadrons are selected by partially reconstructing Dz.ast;+μ-X final states. Differential cross sections are measured as functions of the transverse momentum and pseudorapidity. The measured production cross section for a b-hadron with pT>9GeV and |n|<2.5 is 32.7±0.8(stat.)-6.8+4.5(syst.)μb, higher than the next-to-leading-order QCD predictions but consistent within the experimental and theoretical uncertainties. © 2012.

Search for a supersymmetric partner to the top quark in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum at sqrt[s] = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector.

Phys Rev Lett 109:21 (2012) 211802

Authors:

G Aad, T Abajyan, B Abbott, J Abdallah, S Abdel Khalek, AA Abdelalim, O Abdinov, R Aben, B Abi, M Abolins, OS Abouzeid, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, DL Adams, TN Addy, J Adelman, S Adomeit, P Adragna, T Adye, S Aefsky, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, M Agustoni, M Aharrouche, SP Ahlen, F Ahles, A Ahmad, M Ahsan, G Aielli, T Akdogan, TPA Akesson, G Akimoto, AV Akimov, MS Alam, MA Alam, J Albert, S Albrand, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, F Alessandria, C Alexa, G Alexander, G Alexandre, T Alexopoulos, M Alhroob, M Aliev, G Alimonti, J Alison, BMM Allbrooke, PP Allport, SE Allwood-Spiers, J Almond, A Aloisio, R Alon, A Alonso, F Alonso, A Altheimer, B Alvarez Gonzalez, MG Alviggi, K Amako, C Amelung, VV Ammosov, SP Amor Dos Santos, A Amorim, N Amram, C Anastopoulos, LS Ancu, N Andari, T Andeen, CF Anders, G Anders, KJ Anderson, A Andreazza, V Andrei, XS Anduaga, P Anger, A Angerami, F Anghinolfi, A Anisenkov, N Anjos, A Annovi, A Antonaki, M Antonelli, A Antonov, J Antos, F Anulli, M Aoki, S Aoun, L Aperio Bella, R Apolle, G Arabidze, I Aracena, Y Arai, ATH Arce, S Arfaoui, J-F Arguin, E Arik, M Arik, AJ Armbruster, O Arnaez, V Arnal, C Arnault, A Artamonov, G Artoni, D Arutinov, S Asai, R Asfandiyarov, S Ask, B Asman, L Asquith, K Assamagan, A Astbury, M Atkinson, B Aubert, E Auge, K Augsten, M Aurousseau, G Avolio, R Avramidou, D Axen, G Azuelos, Y Azuma, MA Baak, G Baccaglioni, C Bacci, AM Bach, H Bachacou, K Bachas, M Backes, M Backhaus, E Badescu, P Bagnaia, S Bahinipati, Y Bai, DC Bailey, T Bain, JT Baines, OK Baker, MD Baker, S Baker, E Banas, P Banerjee, Sw Banerjee, D Banfi, A Bangert, V Bansal, HS Bansil, L Barak, SP Baranov, A Barbaro Galtieri, T Barber, EL Barberio, D Barberis, M Barbero, DY Bardin, T Barillari, M Barisonzi, T Barklow, N Barlow, BM Barnett, RM Barnett, A Baroncelli, G Barone, AJ Barr, F Barreiro, J Barreiro Guimarães da Costa, P Barrillon, R Bartoldus, AE Barton, V Bartsch, A Basye, RL Bates, L Batkova, JR Batley, A Battaglia, M 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Abstract:

A search for direct pair production of supersymmetric top squarks (t(1)) is presented, assuming the t(1) decays into a top quark and the lightest supersymmetric particle, χ(1)(0), and that both top quarks decay to purely hadronic final states. A total of 16 (4) events are observed compared to a predicted standard model background of 13.5(-3.6)(+3.7)(4.4(-1.3)(+1.7)) events in two signal regions based on ∫Ldt = 4.7 fb(-1) of pp collision data taken at sqrt[s] = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. An exclusion region in the t(1) versus χ(1)(0) mass plane is evaluated: 370