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Charge Trap Analysis in a SENSEI Skipper-CCD: Understanding Low-Energy Backgrounds in Rare-Event Searches
Agustin Brusco, Bruno Sivilotti, Ana M. Botti +14
Skipper Charge-Coupled Devices (Skipper-CCDs) are ultra-low-threshold detectors capable of detecting energy deposits in silicon at the eV scale. Increasingly used in rare-event sea…
SENSEI: A Search for Diurnal Modulation in sub-GeV Dark Matter Scattering
Itay M. Bloch, Ana M. Botti, Mariano Cababie +28
Dark matter particles with sufficiently large interactions with ordinary matter can scatter in the Earth's atmosphere and crust before reaching an underground detector. This Earth-…
Trees versus Neural Networks for enhancing tau lepton real-time selection in proton-proton collisions
Maayan Yaary, Uriel Barron, Luis Pascual Domínguez +4
This paper introduces supervised learning techniques for real-time selection (triggering) of hadronically decaying tau leptons in proton-proton colliders. By implementing classic m…
SENSEI: Search for Millicharged Particles produced in the NuMI Beam
Liron Barak, Itay M. Bloch, Ana M. Botti +28
Millicharged particles appear in several extensions of the Standard Model, but have not yet been detected. These hypothetical particles could be produced by an intense proton beam…
Searching for millicharged particles with 1 kg of Skipper-CCDs using the NuMI beam at Fermilab
Santiago Perez, Dario Rodrigues, Juan Estrada +57
Oscura is a planned light-dark matter search experiment using Skipper-CCDs with a total active mass of 10 kg. As part of the detector development, the collaboration plans to build…
Recent Progress and Next Steps for the MATHUSLA LLP Detector
Cristiano Alpigiani, Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez, Austin Ball +93
We report on recent progress and next steps in the design of the proposed MATHUSLA Long Lived Particle (LLP) detector for the HL-LHC as part of the Snowmass 2021 process. Our under…
SENSEI: Direct-Detection Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark Matter from a Shallow Underground Run Using a Prototype Skipper-CCD
Orr Abramoff, Liron Barak, Itay M. Bloch +14
We present new direct-detection constraints on eV-to-GeV dark matter interacting with electrons using a prototype detector of the Sub-Electron-Noise Skipper-CCD Experimental Instru…
MATHUSLA: A Detector Proposal to Explore the Lifetime Frontier at the HL-LHC
Henry Lubatti, Cristiano Alpigiani, Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez +60
The observation of long-lived particles at the LHC would reveal physics beyond the Standard Model, could account for the many open issues in our understanding of our universe, and…
Planning the Future of U.S. Particle Physics (Snowmass 2013): Chapter 8: Instrumentation Frontier
M. Demarteau, R. Lipton, H. Nicholson +211
These reports present the results of the 2013 Community Summer Study of the APS Division of Particles and Fields ("Snowmass 2013") on the future program of particle physics in the…
Determination of αS using OPAL hadronic event shapes at sqrt(s) = 91 - 209 GeV and resummed NNLO calculations
The OPAL Collaboration
Hadronic event shape distributions from e+e- annihilation measured by the OPAL experiment at centre-of-mass energies between 91 GeV and 209 GeV are used to determine the strong cou…
Introduction to the MCnet Moses project and Heavy gauge bosons search at the LHC
Gideon Bella, Erez Etzion, Noam Hod +1
This is a technical document that provides supporting information and details of the publicly available code used for the preparation of the analysis for preprint "{\it A search fo…
A search for heavy Kaluza-Klein electroweak gauge bosons at the LHC
Gideon Bella, Erez Etzion, Noam Hod +3
The feasibility for the observation of a certain leptonic Kaluza-Klein (KK) hard process in {\em pp} interactions at the LHC is presented. Within the TeV extra dim…
B Physics and Quarkonia studies with early ATLAS data
Erez Etzion
Quarkonia and B-Physics are among the first areas to be investigated with the first data collected by ATLAS. The ATLAS detector at CERN's LHC is preparing to take data from proton-…
Sigma-antihyperon correlations in Z0 decay and investigation of the baryon production mechanism
The OPAL Collaboration
Data collected around sqrt{s}=91 GeV by the OPAL experiment at the LEP e+e- collider are used to study the mechanism of baryon formation. As the signature, the fraction of Sigma-hy…
ATLAS reach for Quarkonium cross section and polarization measurement
Erez Etzion, Jony Ginzburg
The ATLAS detector at CERN's LHC is preparing to take data from the first proton-proton collisions expected in the next few months. We report on the analysis of simulated data samp…
Inclusive Jet Production in Photon-Photon Collisions at sqrt(s_ee) from 189 to 209 GeV
The OPAL collaboration
Inclusive jet production (e+e- -> e+e- +jet+X) is studied in collisions of quasi-real photons radiated by the LEP beams at e+e- centre-of-mass energies sqrt see from 189 to 209 GeV…
QCD coherence and correlations of particles with restricted momenta in hadronic Z decays
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
QCD coherence effects are studied based on measurements of correlations of particles with either restricted transverse momenta, pT<pTcut, where pT is defined with respect to the th…
Measurement of event shape distributions and moments in e+e- -> hadrons at 91-209 GeV and a determination of alpha_s
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi
We have studied hadronic events from e+e- annihilation data at centre-of-mass energies from 91 to 209 GeV. We present distributions of event shape observables and their moments at…
Search for Stable and Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s) = 183-209 GeV
The OPAL collaboration
A search for stable and long-lived massive particles of electric charge |Q/e|=1 or fractional charges of 2/3, 4/3, and 5/3 is reported using data collected by the OPAL detector at…
Test of non-commutative QED in the process e+e- -> gamma gamma at LEP
The OPAL collaboration
Non-commutative QED would lead to deviations from the Standard Model depending on a new energy scale Lambda_NC and a unique direction in space defined by two angles eta and xi. Her…
Measurement of Neutral-Current Four-Fermion Production at LEP2
The OPAL collaboration
Four-fermion final states qqbar e+e- and qqbar mu+mu- from neutral-current interactions in e+e- collisions are studied in the OPAL detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies from 1…
Measurement of the Cross-Section for the Process GammaGamma -> Ppbar at sqrt(s)_ee=183-189 GeV at LEP
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
The exclusive production of proton-antiproton pairs in the collisions of two quasi-real photons had been studied using data taken at sqrt(s)_ee=183 GeV and 189 GeV with the OPAL de…
Search for Scalar Top and Scalar Bottom Quarks at LEP
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
Searches for a scalar top quark and a scalar bottom quark have been performed using a data sample of 438 pb-1 at centre-of-mass energies of sqrt(s) = 192 - 209 GeV collected with t…
Search for Associated Production of Massive States Decaying into Two Photonsin e+e- Annihilations at sqrt(s) = 88-209 GeV
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
A search is performed for production of short-lived particles in e+e- -> XY, with X -> gamma gamma and Y -> ffbar, for scalar X and scalar or vector Y. Model-independent limits in…