[PDF] Top 20 Review of recent forward physics results from the CMS experiment

... hadron forward (HF) calorimeters cover the region ...22cm from the front of the de- ...determined from the sum of signal in the corresponding long and short ... See full document

... departures from SM predictions, the range of possible signals of new physics hiding in the huge datasets so far collected is quite broad, and surprises are still ...many results produced by those ... See full document

... Diffractive interactions account for about a quarter of the total inelastic proton-proton cross section at high energies. These interactions are characterized by at least one large rapidity gap (LRG) that is not ... See full document

... too high, prescale factors were applied to reduce the output rate. The transverse momentum threshold for single muon triggers is 18 GeV. The J /ψ triggers are di-muon triggers which in addition require that the muons ... See full document

... of CMS,and an HF-AND sample with a requirement of at least one HF tower above 4 GeV at both sides of the CMS ...The results are corrected for pile-up and detector ...derived from Monte Carlo. ... See full document

... LHCb experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has been designed to search for potential effects of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) in CP violation and rare decays using charm and beauty ... See full document

... the CMS experiment therefore are precision measurements in the Higgs sector, where deviations from the SM might help uncover the origin of electroweak symmetry ...the CMS experiment has ... See full document

... the physics objects (electrons, muons, taus, photons, energetic jets, missing transverse energy) recognized by the trigger system and fulfilling the criteria for data acquisition is usually accompanied by several ... See full document

... the CMS MB ...the forward region by requiring the presence of at least one tower with energy above 5 GeV in the acceptance region 3 < |η| < 5, and in some cases with a veto condition for towers less ... See full document

... ATLAS, CMS, ...the CMS along with its scientific targets can be given as; a good muon identification and momentum resolution, a good charged particle momentum resolution and reconstruction e ffi ciency in the ... See full document

... Abstract. Forward physics measurements with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) ex- periment, one of the two large multi-purpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, cover a wide range ... See full document

... tained from the CMS data collected in 2011 and 2012 at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 ...the results are compared with precise theory ...The results are compared with predictions ... See full document

... available from Run 1 of the Large Hadron ...investigations, CMS has undertook a wide range of studies of standard model physics, extending our knowledge of frontier particle physics with ... See full document

... Candidates are reconstructed from two identified muons and two additional charged tracks as- sumed to be pions. The kinematic region of the candidate investigated by this search is for p T > 13 . 5 GeV and |y| ... See full document

... Evidence [7] is presented for the associated production of a single top quark and W boson in pp collisions at √ s = 7 TeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analyzed data corresponds to an integrated ... See full document

... A study at generator level, aiming for an investigation of the small-x gluon behaviour, has shown an interesting feature. Even though demonstrated only at a qualitative level, an increase of the gluon density at small-x ... See full document

... ducting magnet has been built, covering the full angular acceptance around the beam axis to increase the statis- tics and remove possible azimuthal asymmetry (see fig- ure 9). The target was 20 cm long and was filled ... See full document

... The results of the electron and muon channels are combined, and we measure the total production cross section and the differential cross section dσ/dp γ T , where p γ T is the momentum of the photon in the plane ... See full document

... antineutrinos), whilst δ is fixed to -1.55 radians from the previously described joint fit analysis. The hierarchy is assumed to be normal due to the low statistics preventing any sensitivity to this parameter. This ... See full document

... A binned maximum likelihood fit is performed to fit the M ∗ miss distribution. ISR events produce an M miss ∗ distribution similar to that for q q ¯ events; these two components are modeled by a single threshold ... See full document