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hep-ph2026

Open LHC Monte Carlo Event Generation

Enrico Bothmann, Jon Butterworth, Shu Chen +16

The LHC physics programme involves a vast amount of Monte Carlo event simulation. This paper reviews current efforts towards sharing the generated events as Open Data. Open Event G…

hep-ph2025

Global fits and the search for new physics: past, present and future

Peter Athron, Csaba Balázs, Jon Butterworth +15

In this work, we review the history and current role of global fits in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model~(BSM), including precision tests of the Standard Model (SM).…

hep-ph2025★ 6 cited

t-channel dark matter at the LHC -- a whitepaper

Chiara Arina, Benjamin Fuks, Luca Panizzi +67

This report, summarising work achieved in the context of the LHC Dark Matter Working Group, investigates the phenomenology of -channel dark matter models, spanning minimal setup…

hep-ph2025

Reinterpretation and preservation of data and analyses in HEP

Jon Butterworth, Sabine Kraml, Harrison Prosper +145

Data from particle physics experiments are unique and are often the result of a very large investment of resources. Given the potential scientific impact of these data, which goes…

hep-ph2025

Probing the sensitivity of semi-visible jets to current LHC measurements using the CONTUR toolkit

Andy Buckley, Jon Butterworth, Louie Corpe +5

Semi-visible jets arise from a hypothetical, strongly interacting ``dark sector'' -- a dark counterpart of quantum chromodynamics whose partial decays back to Standard Model partic…

hep-ex2024★ 4 cited

Precision calibration of calorimeter signals in the ATLAS experiment using an uncertainty-aware neural network

ATLAS Collaboration

The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider explores the use of modern neural networks for a multi-dimensional calibration of its calorimeter signal defined by clusters of to…

hep-ex2024★ 1 cited

Search for supersymmetry in final states with missing transverse momentum and charm-tagged jets using 139 fb of proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

The paper presents a search for supersymmetric particles produced in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV and decaying into final states with missing transverse momentum…

hep-ex2024

Search for a light CP-odd Higgs boson decaying into a pair of -leptons in proton-proton collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

This paper reports a search for a light CP-odd scalar resonance with a mass of 20 GeV to 90 GeV in 13 TeV proton-proton collision data with an integrated luminosity of 140 fb$^{-1}…

hep-ex2024★ 3 cited

Search for the associated production of charm quarks and a Higgs boson decaying into a photon pair with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A search for the production of a Higgs boson and one or more charm quarks, in which the Higgs boson decays into a photon pair, is presented. This search uses proton-proton collisio…

hep-ex2024★ 3 cited

Combination of searches for Higgs boson decays into a photon and a massless dark photon using collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A combination of searches for Higgs boson decaying into a visible photon and a massless dark photon () is presented using 139 fb of proton--proton collisi…

hep-ex2024★ 6 cited

Measurements of electroweak boson pair production in association with two jets in collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Measurements of integrated and differential cross-sections for electroweak production in association with two jets () in protonproton collisions are prese…

hep-ph2023

MITP Colours in Darkness workshop summary report

Jonathan Butterworth, Cesare Cazzaniga, Aran Garcia-Bellido +6

This report summarises the talks and discussions that took place over the course of the MITP Youngst@rs Colours in Darkness workshop 2023. All talks can be found at https://indico.…

hep-ex2023★ 9 cited

Search for lepton-flavour violation in high-mass dilepton final states using 139 of collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A search is performed for a heavy particle decaying into different-flavour, dilepton final states, using 139 of proton-proton collision data at TeV…

hep-ex2023★ 10 cited

Measurements of multijet event isotropies using optimal transport with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A measurement of novel event shapes quantifying the isotropy of collider events is performed in 140 fb of proton-proton collisions with TeV centre-of-mass energ…

hep-ph2023

Collider constraints on electroweakinos in the presence of a light gravitino

The GAMBIT Collaboration, Viktor Ananyev, Csaba Balázs +19

Using the GAMBIT global fitting framework, we constrain the MSSM with an eV-scale gravitino as the lightest supersymmetric particle, and the six electroweakinos (neutralinos and ch…

hep-ex2023★ 11 cited

Model-independent search for the presence of new physics in events including with = 13 TeV pp data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC

ATLAS Collaboration

A model-independent search for new physics leading to final states containing decays is performed with 139 fb of = 13 TeV pp collision data recor…

hep-ph2022★ 1 cited

Exploring Contur beyond its default mode: a case study

M. M. Altakach, J. M. Butterworth, T. Ježo +2

We discuss Contur's different modes by studying a leptophobic Top-Colour (TC) model. We use, for the first time, higher order calculations for both the signal (NLO) and the backgro…

hep-ph2022★ 193 cited

The PDF4LHC21 combination of global PDF fits for the LHC Run III

Richard D. Ball, Jon Butterworth, Amanda M. Cooper-Sarkar +19

A precise knowledge of the quark and gluon structure of the proton, encoded by the parton distribution functions (PDFs), is of paramount importance for the interpretation of high-e…

hep-ph2022★ 1 cited

Data and Analysis Preservation, Recasting, and Reinterpretation

Stephen Bailey, Christian Bierlich, Andy Buckley +15

We make the case for the systematic, reliable preservation of event-wise data, derived data products, and executable analysis code. This preservation enables the analyses' long-ter…

hep-ph2022★ 1 cited

A standard convention for particle-level Monte Carlo event-variation weights

Enrico Bothmann, Andy Buckley, Christian Gütschow +21

Streams of event weights in particle-level Monte Carlo event generators are a convenient and immensely CPU-efficient approach to express systematic uncertainties in phenomenology c…

hep-ph2022★ 7 cited

Picking the low-hanging fruit: testing new physics at scale with active learning

Juan Rocamonde, Louie Corpe, Gustavs Zilgalvis +2

Since the discovery of the Higgs boson, testing the many possible extensions to the Standard Model has become a key challenge in particle physics. This paper discusses a new method…

hep-ph2021

Rivet, RivetHZTool and HERA -- A validation effort for coding HERA measurements for Rivet

M. I. Abdulhamid, A. Achilleos, A. Bermudez Martinez +33

During the DESY summer student program 2021, young scientists from more than 13 different countries worked together, connecting from remote, to provide computer codes within the Ri…

hep-ph2021★ 16 cited

Large Hadron Collider Constraints on Some Simple Models for Anomalies

B. C. Allanach, J. M. Butterworth, Tyler Corbett

We examine current Large Hadron Collider constraints on some simple models that significantly improve on Standard Model fits to transition data. The models that…

hep-ph2021

Probing a leptophobic top-colour model with cross section measurements and precise signal and background predictions: a case study

M. M. Altakach, J. M. Butterworth, T. Ježo +2

The sensitivity of particle-level fiducial cross section measurements from ATLAS, CMS and LHCb to a leptophobic top-colour model is studied. The model has previously been the subje…