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most citedA facility to Search for Hidden Particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case

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hep-ex2026

High Multiplicity Trigger for Long-Lived Particles in CMS detector

M. Abbott, D. Acosta, D. Aebi +100

Searches for long-lived particles (LLPs) at the CMS experiment often involve unconventional event topologies that are difficult to efficiently select using standard trigger strateg…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 3 cited

An Optically Targeted Search for Gravitational Waves emitted by Core-Collapse Supernovae during the Third Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

Marek J. Szczepańczyk, Yanyan Zheng, Javier M. Antelis +35

We present the results from a search for gravitational-wave transients associated with core-collapse supernovae observed optically within 30 Mpc during the third observing run of A…

gr-qc2021★ 13 cited

Detection of LIGO-Virgo binary black holes in the pair-instability mass gap

Brendan O'Brien, Marek Szczepanczyk, V. Gayathri +5

By probing the population of binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected by LIGO-Virgo, we can infer properties about the underlying black hole formation channels. A mechanism known a…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 31 cited

Observing an intermediate mass black hole GW190521 with minimal assumptions

Marek Szczepanczyk, Sergey Klimenko, Brendan O'Brien +10

On May 21, 2019 Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors observed a gravitational-wave transient GW190521, the heaviest binary black-hole merger detected to date with the remnant…

gr-qc2020★ 101 cited

Coherent WaveBurst, a pipeline for unmodeled gravitational-wave data analysis

M. Drago, V. Gayathri, S. Klimenko +12

coherent WaveBurst (cWB) is a highly configurable pipeline designed to detect a broad range of gravitational-wave (GW) transients in the data of the worldwide network of GW detecto…

hep-ph2018★ 7 cited

Adding Pseudo-Observables to the Four-Lepton Experimentalist's Toolbox

James S. Gainer, Martín González-Alonso, Admir Greljo +12

The "golden" channel, in which the newly-discovered Higgs boson decays to four leptons by means of intermediate vector bosons, is important for determining the properties of the Hi…

physics.ins-det2015

A novel application of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors in MPGD

D. Abbaneo, M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia +153

We present a novel application of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors in the construction and characterisation of Micro Pattern Gaseous Detector (MPGD), with particular attention to…

physics.ins-det2015★ 2 cited

Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors as flatness and mechanical stretching sensors

D. Abbaneo, M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia +153

A novel approach which uses Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors has been utilised to assess and monitor the flatness of Gaseous Electron Multipliers (GEM) foils. The setup layout and…

gr-qc2015★ 62 cited

A Proposed Search for the Detection of Gravitational Waves from Eccentric Binary Black Holes

Vaibhav Tiwari, Sergey Klimenko, Nelson Christensen +14

Most of compact binary systems are expected to circularize before the frequency of emitted gravitational waves (GWs) enters the sensitivity band of the ground based interferometric…

gr-qc2015★ 465 cited

Method for detection and reconstruction of gravitational wave transients with networks of advanced detectors

S. Klimenko, G. Vedovato, M. Drago +8

We present a method for detection and reconstruction of the gravitational-wave (GW) transients with the networks of advanced detectors. Originally designed to search for transients…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 23 cited

Reconstruction of Chirp Mass in the Search of Compact Binaries

Vaibhav Tiwari, Sergei Klimenko, Valentin Necula +1

Excess energy method is used in searches of gravitational waves (GWs) produced from sources with poorly modeled characteristics. It identifies GW events by searching for a coincide…

hep-ph2015★ 782 cited

A facility to Search for Hidden Particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case

Sergey Alekhin, Wolfgang Altmannshofer, Takehiko Asaka +82

This paper describes the physics case for a new fixed target facility at CERN SPS. The SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) experiment is intended to hunt for new physics in the larg…

gr-qc2015★ 51 cited

Regression of Environmental Noise in LIGO Data

Vaibhav Tiwari, Marco Drago, Valery Frolov +8

We address the problem of noise regression in the output of gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers, using data from the physical environmental monitors (PEM). The objective of the…

hep-ph2013★ 38 cited

The role of interference in unraveling the ZZ-couplings of the newly discovered boson at the LHC

Mingshui Chen, Tongguang Cheng, James S. Gainer +7

We present a general procedure for measuring the tensor structure of the coupling of the scalar Higgs-like boson recently discovered at the LHC to two Z bosons, including the effec…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 114 cited

Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Six Magnetars

J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott +765

Soft gamma repeaters (SGRs) and anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) are thought to be magnetars: neutron stars powered by extreme magnetic fields. These rare objects are characterized b…

hep-ex2010★ 27 cited

Diffractive W and Z Production at the Fermilab Tevatron

T. Aaltonen

We report on a measurement of the fraction of events with a W or Z boson which are produced diffractively in antiproton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV, us…

hep-ex2010★ 32 cited

Search for WW and WZ resonances decaying to electron, missing ET, and two jets in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

Using data from 2.9/fb of integrated luminosity collected with the CDF II detector at the Tevatron, we search for resonances decaying into a pair of on-shell gauge bosons, WW or WZ…

hep-ex2010★ 82 cited

Studying the Underlying Event in Drell-Yan and High Transverse Momentum Jet Production at the Tevatron

The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman +576

We study the underlying event in proton-antiproton collisions by examining the behavior of charged particles (transverse momentum pT > 0.5 GeV/c, pseudorapidity |η| < 1) produced i…

hep-ex2010★ 49 cited

Inclusive Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson Production in the WW Decay Channel using the CDF II Detector

The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

We present a search for standard model (SM) Higgs boson production using ppbar collision data at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV, collected with the CDF II detector and corresponding to an inte…

hep-ex2010★ 30 cited

Measurement of the Top Quark Mass and ppbar -> ttbar Cross Section in the All-Hadronic Mode with the CDFII Detector

The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

We present a measurement of the top quark mass and of the top-antitop pair production cross section using p-pbar data collected with the CDFII detector at the Tevatron Collider at…

hep-ex2009★ 109 cited

Precision Measurement of the X(3872) Mass in J/psi pi+ pi- Decays

The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

We present an analysis of the mass of the X(3872) reconstructed via its decay to J/psi pi+ pi- using 2.4 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity from ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV,…

gr-qc2009★ 14 cited

A burst search for gravitational waves from binary black holes

C. Pankow, S. Klimenko, G. Mitselmakher +5

Compact binary coalescence (CBC) is one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves. These sources are usually searched for with matched filters which require accurate cal…

hep-ex2008★ 18 cited

First Direct Bound on the Total Width of the Top Quark in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

We present the first direct experimental bound on the total decay width of the top quark using 955pb^-1 of the Tevatron's ppbar collisions recorded by the Collider Detector at Ferm…

hep-ex2008★ 93 cited

Search for large extra dimensions in final states containing one photon or jet and large missing transverse energy produced in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

We present the results of searches for large extra dimensions in samples of events with large missing transverse energy and either a photon or a jet produced in p-pbar collisions a…