Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Nature physics, 2017 - nature.com
Light-by-light scattering (γγ→ γγ) is a quantum-mechanical process that is forbidden in the
classical theory of electrodynamics. This reaction is accessible at the Large Hadron Collider …

Precision measurement and interpretation of inclusive , and production cross sections with the ATLAS detector

M Aaboud, G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah… - The European Physical …, 2017 - Springer
High-precision measurements by the ATLAS Collaboration are presented of inclusive W^+
→ ℓ^+ ν W+→ ℓ+ ν, W^-→ ℓ^-̄ ν W-→ ℓ-ν¯ and Z/γ^* → ℓ ℓ Z/γ∗→ ℓ ℓ (ℓ= e, μ ℓ= e, μ) Drell …

Measurement of the boson transverse momentum distribution in collisions at = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Atlas Collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.3660, 2014 - arxiv.org
This paper describes a measurement of the $ Z/\gamma^* $ boson transverse momentum
spectrum using ATLAS proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt {s} …

Measurement of the photon identification efficiencies with the ATLAS detector using LHC Run-1 data

M Aaboud, G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
The algorithms used by the ATLAS Collaboration to reconstruct and identify prompt photons
are described. Measurements of the photon identification efficiencies are reported, using 4.9 …

Measurement of the muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector using 2011 and 2012 LHC proton–proton collision data

ATLAS Collaboration atlas. publications@ cern … - The European Physical …, 2014 - Springer
This paper presents the performance of the ATLAS muon reconstruction during the LHC run
with pp pp collisions at s= 7 s= 7–8 TeV in 2011–2012, focusing mainly on data collected in …

Performance of algorithms that reconstruct missing transverse momentum in = 8 TeV proton–proton collisions in the ATLAS detector

G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, O Abdinov… - The European Physical …, 2017 - Springer
The reconstruction and calibration algorithms used to calculate missing transverse
momentum (E_ T^ miss ET miss) with the ATLAS detector exploit energy deposits in the …

Measurement of Higgs boson production in the diphoton decay channel in collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, S Abdel Khalek… - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
A measurement of the production processes of the recently discovered Higgs boson is
performed in the two-photon final state using 4.5 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions data at s= 7 …

Observation and measurement of Higgs boson decays to with the ATLAS detector

G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, S Abdel Khalek… - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
We report the observation of Higgs boson decays to WW* based on an excess over
background of 6.1 standard deviations in the dilepton final state, where the Standard Model …

Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at  TeV

Atlas Collaboration atlas. publications@ cern. ch… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
This paper reports a detailed study of techniques for identifying boosted, hadronically
decaying W bosons using 20.3 fb^-1-1 of proton–proton collision data collected by the …

[HTML][HTML] Performance of the ATLAS trigger system in 2015

M Aaboud, G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah… - The European Physical …, 2017 - Springer
During 2015 the ATLAS experiment recorded\(3.8\,{\mathrm {fb}}^{-1}\) of proton–proton
collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of\(13\,{\mathrm {TeV}}\). The ATLAS trigger system …