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Impact of hadronic and nuclear corrections on global analysis of spin-dependent parton distributions
We present the first results of a new global next-to-leading order analysis of spin-dependent parton distribution functions from the most recent world data on inclusive polarized deep-inelastic scattering, focusing in particular on the large-x and low-Q^2 regions. By directly fitting polarization asymmetries we eliminate biases introduced by using polarized structure function data extracted under nonuniform assumptions for the unpolarized structure functions. For analysis of the large-x data we implement nuclear smearing corrections for deuterium and 3He nuclei, and systematically include target mass and higher twist corrections to the g_1 and g_2 structure functions at low Q^2. We also explore the effects of Q^2 and W^2 cuts in the data sets, and the potential impact of future data on the behavior of the spin-dependent parton distributions at large x.
Three-gluon contribution to the single spin asymmetry for light hadron production in pp collision
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Triphoton production at hadron colliders
We present next-to-leading order predictions for the production of triphoton final states at the LHC and the Tevatron. Our results include the effect of photon fragmentation for the first time and we are able to quantify the impact of different isolation prescriptions. We find that calculations accounting for fragmentation effects at leading order, and those employing a smooth cone isolation where no fragmentation contribution is required, are in reasonable agreement with one another. However, larger differences in the predicted rates arise when higher order corrections to the fragmentation functions are included. In addition we present full analytic results for the $\gamma\gamma\gamma$ and $\gamma\gamma+$jet one-loop amplitudes. These amplitudes, which are particularly compact, may be useful to future higher-order calculations. Our results are available in the Monte Carlo code MCFM.
Measurement of transverse-single-spin asymmetries for midrapidity and forward-rapidity production of hadrons in polarized p plus p collisions at root s=200 and 62.4 GeV
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New strategy for the lattice evaluation of the leading order hadronic contribution to ( g − 2 ) μ
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Measurement of the top-quark mass in the all-hadronic channel using the full CDF data set
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Standard Model anatomy of WIMP dark matter direct detection. II. QCD analysis and hadronic matrix elements
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Photon cascade decay of the warped graviton at LHC14 and a 100 TeV hadron collider
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Dark matter signals in dilepton production at hadron colliders
We show that new physics can show up in dileptonic events through its radiative contributions to the dilepton invariant mass, leading to unique “monocline” features in m ℓℓ , as well as the angular distribution of the leptons. We focus in particular on the case of dark matter with scalar messengers coupling it to the quarks and leptons. Consistent thermal models require the dark matter to have masses of 100s of GeV and have ≳1 couplings to the Standard Model (SM), implying that radiative corrections to the SM Drell-Yan rate can be sizable. We consider the case of Majorana, Dirac, and pseudo-Dirac dark matter and show that there are regions of parameter space where the nonexistence of a monocline, which starts at roughly twice the dark matter mass, mℓℓ~2mχ, places the strongest constraint on the model. We make predictions for the sensitivities at the high luminosity 14 TeV LHC as well as a future 100 TeV proton-proton collider. We find that our dilepton signal is most sensitive when the mediator and the dark matter are nearly degenerate and conventional missing-transverse-momentum-based searches are least sensitive.
Search for long-lived, weakly interacting particles that decay to displaced hadronic jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
A search for the decay of neutral, weakly interacting, long-lived particles using data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. This analysis uses the full data set recorded in 2012: 20.3 fb -1 of proton-proton collision data at √s = 8 TeV. The search employs techniques for reconstructing decay vertices of long-lived particles decaying to jets in the inner tracking detector and muon spectrometer. Signal events require at least two reconstructed vertices. No significant excess of events over the expected background is found, and limits as a function of proper lifetime are reported for the decay of the Higgs boson and other scalar bosons to long-lived particles and for Hidden Valley Z' and Stealth SUSY benchmark models. The first search results for displaced decays in Z' and Stealth SUSY models are presented. The upper bounds of the excluded proper lifetimes are the most stringent to date.