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Harvard ATLAS Group @ CERN LHC The ATLAS Detector A general purpose detector designed to study proton-proton collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. These collisions occur at previously inaccessible energies: 7 TeV (2010-11) 8 TeV (2012) Layers of varying detector technology are used to measure the properties (charge, mass, momentum, type) of particles. The Harvard ATLAS Group has participated in the construction, commissioning, calibration and operation of ATLAS, particularly for the muon spectrometer. This information is used to analyze collision events, reconstructing intermediate particle states like Higgs bosons, top quarks or new particles associated with beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics. https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasPublic/HiggsPublicResults The Higgs Boson Phys. Lett. B 726 (2013) Harvard ATLAS has been active in the analyses establishing the discovery of the Higgs boson, focusing on decays to electroweak gauge bosons. https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasPublic/SupersymmetryPublicResults Searches for Supersymmetry Harvard ATLAS is also working on searches for BSM physics, including a variety of analyses looking for evidence of superpartners of the SM gauge bosons (charginos and neutralinos). ATLAS-CONF-2013-049 ATLAS-CONF-2013-030 The most sensitive searches look for W and Z bosons decaying to leptons, identifying Higgs boson decays through kinematic variables sensitive to the Higgs mass Di-lepton transverse mass distribution in electron+muon final state for Final states with two opposite sign leptons are queried for the presence of events with chargino pair-production, with each chargino decaying to a W boson and weakly interacting neutralino. The neutralino would escape detection, resulting in a signature of imbalanced momentum. Four-lepton invariant mass for Further Higgs Searches Additional Higgs searches are ongoing, now looking for alternative Higgs production mechanisms and rarer Higgs decays. ATLAS-CONF-2013-093 Higgs bosons can also be used as a probe of new physics. A search for chargino and neutralino associated production looks for Higgs coming from sparticle decays, followed by a decay to b-quarks. Event Reconstruction Techniques Many interesting processes contain one or more weakly interacting particles in the final state which escape detection. Without the ability to directly measure their momenta, these events are under-constrained and their kinematics (masses, decay angles) cannot be fully measured. Recursive Rest-frame Reconstruction is a new technique for systematically determining a basis of kinematic variables in these events. (M / MR+1 ) i 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 - pp ® tt ® (bl+n) (bl n) 50 100 150 200 250 300 0.0016 0.0014 0.0012 0.001 0.0008 0.0006 0.0004 0.0002 Vector-boson fusion: look for with two jets with a rapidity gap (right). 0.1 0 0 i MR+1 [GeV] Associated W/Z Higgs production: look for with additional leptons (up). R+2 MadGraph GEN s=8 TeV ATLAS-CONF-2013-079 a.u. ATLAS-CONF-2013-030 Higgs Spin/CP The spin and quantum numbers of the Higgs are being measured in several final states. For lepton decay angles are used to test possibilities using likelihood ratios (q) Faculty Harvard ATLAS Group Melissa Franklin, Joao Guimaraes da Costa, John Huth, Masahiro Morii Postdocs Pierluigi Catastini, Geraldine Conti, David Lopez Mateos, Christopher Rogan, Hugh Skottowe Graduate Students Phys. Rev. D 82 (2010) Phys. Lett. B 726 (2013) Stephen Chan, Brian Clark, Tomo Lazovich, Kevin Mercurio, William Spearman, Siyuan Sun, Emma Tolley, Tony Tong, Andy Yen Christopher S. Rogan, on behalf of the Harvard ATLAS Group