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most citedBranching ratios and spectral functions of tau decays: final ALEPH measurements and physics implications

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hep-ex2025★ 20 cited

ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study

H. Abidi, J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, S. Airen +373

The ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study ran between 2021 and 2025 as a broad effort across the experimental and theoretical particle physics communities, bringing togeth…

physics.ins-det2024★ 1 cited

Measurement of the fractional radiation length of a pixel module for the CMS Phase-2 upgrade via the multiple scattering of positrons

The Tracker Group of the CMS Collaboration

High-luminosity particle collider experiments such as the ones planned at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider require ever-greater vertexing precision of the tracking detecto…

hep-ph2024

Les Houches 2023: Physics at TeV Colliders: Standard Model Working Group Report

J. Andersen, B. Assi, K. Asteriadis +81

This report presents a short summary of the activities of the "Standard Model" working group for the "Physics at TeV Colliders" workshop (Les Houches, France, 12-30 June, 2023).

physics.ins-det2024

Beam Test Performance Studies of CMS Phase-2 Outer Tracker Module Prototypes

The Tracker Group of the CMS Collaboration

A new tracking detector will be installed as part of the Phase-2 upgrade of the CMS detector for the high-luminosity LHC era. This tracking detector includes the Inner Tracker, equ…

hep-ph2024

Focus topics for the ECFA study on Higgs / Top / EW factories

Jorge de Blas, Patrick Koppenburg, Jenny List +105

In order to stimulate new engagement and trigger some concrete studies in areas where further work would be beneficial towards fully understanding the physics potential of an $e^+e…

physics.ins-det2023

Evaluation of Planar Silicon Pixel Sensors with the RD53A Readout Chip for the Phase-2 Upgrade of the CMS Inner Tracker

The Tracker Group of the CMS Collaboration

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will undergo an upgrade in order to increase its luminosity to cms. The increased luminosity during this…

hep-ph2022★ 3 cited

Report of the Topical Group on Electroweak Precision Physics and Constraining New Physics for Snowmass 2021

Alberto Belloni, Ayres Freitas, Junping Tian +65

The precise measurement of physics observables and the test of their consistency within the standard model (SM) are an invaluable approach, complemented by direct searches for new…

physics.ins-det2022

Test beam performance of a CBC3-based mini-module for the Phase-2 CMS Outer Tracker before and after neutron irradiation

The Tracker Group of the CMS Collaboration

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will undergo major upgrades to increase the instantaneous luminosity up to 5-7.5 cms. This High Luminosity upgr…

hep-ex2021★ 9 cited

The W mass and width measurement challenge at FCC-ee

Paolo Azzurri

The FCC-ee physics program will deliver two complementary top-notch precision determinations of the W boson mass, and width. The first and main measurement relies on the rapid rise…

hep-ex2021★ 14 cited

A special Higgs challenge: Measuring the mass and production cross section with ultimate precision at FCC-ee

Paolo Azzurri, Gregorio Bernardi, Sylvie Braibant +5

The FCC-ee offers powerful opportunities to determine the Higgs boson parameters, exploiting over events and almost events at c…

hep-ex2020★ 12 cited

Vector Bosons and Jets in Proton Collisions

Alessandro Tricoli, Marek Schönherr, Paolo Azzurri

Events with vector bosons produced in association with jets have been extensively studied at hadron colliders and provide high-accuracy tests of the Standard Model. A good understa…

hep-ph2020

Les Houches 2019: Physics at TeV Colliders: Standard Model Working Group Report

S. Amoroso, P. Azzurri, J. Bendavid +80

This Report summarizes the proceedings of the 2019 Les Houches workshop on Physics at TeV Colliders. Session 1 dealt with (I) new developments for high precision Standard Model cal…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 17 cited

Polarization and Centre-of-mass Energy Calibration at FCC-ee

Alain Blondel, Patrick Janot, Jörg Wenninger +25

The first stage of the FCC (Future Circular Collider) is a high-luminosity electron-positron collider (FCC-ee) with centre-of-mass energy ranging from 88 to 365 GeV, to study with…

hep-ph2019★ 38 cited

FCC-ee: Your Questions Answered

Alain Blondel, Patrick Janot, Niloufar Alipour Tehrani +29

This document answers in simple terms many FAQs about FCC-ee, including comparisons with other colliders. It complements the FCC-ee CDR and the FCC Physics CDR by addressing many q…

hep-ex2018

Data-taking strategy for the precise measurement of the boson mass with a threshold scan at circular electron positron colliders

P. X. Shen, P. Azzurri, C. X. Yu +10

Circular electron positron colliders, such as the CEPC and FCC-ee, have been proposed to measure Higgs boson properties precisely, test the Standard Model, search for physics beyon…

physics.ins-det2017★ 8 cited

Test Beam Performance Measurements for the Phase I Upgrade of the CMS Pixel Detector

M. Dragicevic, M. Friedl, J. Hrubec +481

A new pixel detector for the CMS experiment was built in order to cope with the instantaneous luminosities anticipated for the Phase~I Upgrade of the LHC. The new CMS pixel detecto…

hep-ph2017★ 8 cited

Physics Behind Precision

P. Azzi, P. Azzurri, S. Biswas +19

This document provides a writeup of contributions to the FCC-ee mini-workshop on "Physics behind precision" held at CERN, on 2-3 February 2016.

hep-ex2014

Measurements of the hadronic activity and the electroweak production in events with a Z boson and two jets in proton-proton collisions with the CMS experiment

Paolo Azzurri

The observation of the electroweak production of a Z boson with two jets in pp collisions at TeV with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC is presented, based on a dat…

hep-ex2011

First Results of Searches for New Physics at 7 TeV with the CMS detector

Paolo Azzurri

First searches for new physics phenomena using the LHC 7 TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS detector in 2010 are reviewed. Results are presented of searches for…

hep-ex2010★ 77 cited

Search for neutral Higgs bosons decaying into four taus at LEP2

ALEPH Collaboration, S. Schael, R. Barate +258

A search for the production and non-standard decay of a Higgs boson, h, into four taus through intermediate pseudoscalars, a, is conducted on 683 pb-1 of data collected by the ALEP…

hep-ex2009★ 1 cited

First observation and measurement of the resonant structure of the lambda_b->lambda_c pi-pi+pi- decay mode

P. Azzurri, P. Barria, M. A. Ciocci +2

We present the first observation of the lambda_b->lambda_c pi-pi+pi- decay using data from an integrated luminosity of approximately 2.4 fb-1 of ppbar collisions at ECM=1.96 TeV, c…

hep-ex2009★ 4 cited

Search for the Neutral Current Top Quark Decay t-->Zc Using the Ratio of Z-Boson + 4 Jets to W-Boson + 4 Jets Production

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

We have used the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF II) to search for the flavor-changing neutral-current (FCNC) top quark decay ${t\goes Zc}$ using a technique employing ratios of…

physics.ins-det2009★ 12 cited

Performance studies of the CMS Strip Tracker before installation

CMS Tracker Collaboration

In March 2007 the assembly of the Silicon Strip Tracker was completed at the Tracker Integration Facility at CERN. Nearly 15% of the detector was instrumented using cables, fiber o…

hep-ex2009

Jet Reconstruction with charged tracks only in CMS

Paolo Azzurri

The performance of jet finding using only charged tracks in CMS has been investigated. Different jet algorithms have been applied to QCD di-jet events, to hadronic tt multi-jet eve…