Conveners
SM I
- Kirtimaan Ajaykant Mohan
Precision measurements of the production cross-sections of W/Z boson at LHC provide important tests of perturbative QCD, information about the parton distribution functions for quarks within the proton and fundamental parameters of the Standard Model. Extremely precise double-differential measurement of Z transverse momentum and rapidity at centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV will be presented....
Measurements of heavy quark hadronization fractions, or the probabilities $f_q$ that a bottom quark forms one of the weakly decaying B hadrons, are essential for precision measurements of B branching fractions made at hadron colliders and potentially limit searches for new physics in $B_s$ decays. Although once thought to be universal, recent measurements have suggested an environmental and...
The high center-of-mass energy of proton-proton collisions and the large available datasets at the CERN Large Hadron Collider allow to study rare processes of the Standard Model (SM) with unprecedented precision and search for new physics that might enhance extremely rare processes in the SM. Measurements of rare SM processes provide new tests of the SM predictions with the potential to unveil...
We describe a new jet clustering algorithm named SIFT (Scale-Invariant Filtered Tree) that maintains the resolution of substructure for collimated decay products at large boosts. The scale-invariant measure combines properties of kT and anti-kT by preferring early association of soft radiation with a resilient hard axis, while avoiding the specification of a fixed cone size. Integrated...
