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Two-pion femtoscopy in p-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV
2015
We report the results of the femtoscopic analysis of pairs of identical pions measured in p-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV. Femtoscopic radii are determined as a function of event multiplicity and pair momentum in three spatial dimensions. As in the pp collision system, the analysis is complicated by the presence of sizable background correlation structures in addition to the femtoscopic signal. The radii increase with event multiplicity and decrease with pair transverse momentum. When taken at comparable multiplicity, the radii measured in p-Pb collisions, at high multiplicity and low pair transverse momentum, are 10%–20% higher than those observed in pp collisions but below those observ…
Performance of the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC
2014
ALICE is the heavy-ion experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The experiment continuously took data during the first physics campaign of the machine from fall 2009 until early 2013, using proton and lead-ion beams. In this paper we describe the running environment and the data handling procedures, and discuss the performance of the ALICE detectors and analysis methods for various physics observables.
Influence of aryl hydrocarbon- (Ah) receptor and genotoxins on DNA repair gene expression and cell survival of mouse hepatoma cells
2009
The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) mediates toxicity of a variety of environmental pollutants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and dioxins. However, the underlying mechanisms and genetic programmes regulated by AhR to cause adverse effects but also to counteract poisoning are still poorly understood. Here we analysed the effects of two AhR ligands, benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P), a DNA damaging tumour initiator and promotor and 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), a pure tumour promoter, on cell survival and on nucleotide excision repair (NER) gene expression. NER deals with so called "bulky" DNA adducts including those generated by enzymatically activated B[a]P. Therefore, t…
Event-shape and multiplicity dependence of freeze-out radii in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
2019
Two-particle correlations in high-energy collision experiments enable the extraction of particle source radii by using the Bose-Einstein enhancement of pion production at low relative momentum q ∝ 1/R. It was previously observed that in pp collisions at s√ = 7TeV the average pair transverse momentum kT range of such analyses is limited due to large background correlations which were attributed to mini-jet phenomena. To investigate this further, an event-shape dependent analysis of Bose-Einstein correlations for pion pairs is performed in this work. By categorizing the events by their transverse sphericity ST into spherical (ST > 0:7) and jet-like (ST < 0:3) events a method was developed tha…
The PANDA Endcap Disc DIRC
2018
Journal of Instrumentation 13(02), C02002 - C02002 (2018). doi:10.1088/1748-0221/13/02/C02002
Predictions of exclusive $\Upsilon$ photoproduction at the LHC and future colliders
2022
The cross section for exclusive $\Upsilon$ ultraperipheral photoproduction at present and future colliders is determined using the low $x$ gluon PDF extracted from an analysis of exclusive $J/\psi$ measurements performed at HERA and the LHC. Predictions are given at next-to-leading order in collinear factorisation over a wide $\gamma p$ centre-of-mass energy range, calculated assuming the non-relativistic approximation for the $\Upsilon$ wave function, and with skewing corrections incorporated.
Open-source QCD analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions at NLO and NNLO
2019
We present new sets of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) at next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). Our analyses are based on deeply inelastic scattering data with charged-lepton and neutrino beams on nuclear targets. In addition, a set of proton baseline PDFs is fitted within the same framework with the same theoretical assumptions. The results of this global QCD analysis are compared to existing nPDF sets and to the fitted cross sections. Also, the uncertainties resulting from the limited constraining power of the included experimental data are presented. The published work is based on an open-source tool, xFitter, which has been modified to be ap…
High-Precision Q-Value Measurement Confirms the Potential of 135Cs for Absolute Antineutrino Mass Scale Determination
2020
The ground-state-to-ground-state β-decay Q value of Cs135(7/2+)→Ba135(3/2+) has been directly measured for the first time. The measurement was done utilizing both the phase-imaging ion-cyclotron resonance technique and the time-of-flight ion-cyclotron resonance technique at the JYFLTRAP Penning-trap setup and yielded a mass difference of 268.66(30) keV between Cs135(7/2+) and Ba135(3/2+). With this very small uncertainty, this measurement is a factor of 3 more precise than the currently adopted Q value in the Atomic Mass Evaluation 2016. The measurement confirms that the first-forbidden unique β--decay transition Cs135(7/2+)→Ba135(11/2-) is a candidate for antineutrino mass measurements wit…
Supersymmetry searches in ATLAS at the LHC
2017
La Física de Partículas es la rama de la ciencia que estudia los componentes elementales del Universo y sus interacciones fundamentales. La teoría de las partículas fundamentales y sus interacciones es conocida como el Modelo Estándar (SM). Éste proporciona la descripción más precisa, hasta la fecha, de la fenomenología de la Física de Partículas Elementales. Su validez ha sido demostrada hasta escalas de energía del orden de TeV. No obstante, el SM no se considera la teoría fundamental definitiva ya que existe evidencia de Nueva Física imposible de describir con el SM como la existencia de Materia Oscura, la asimetría entre materia y antimateria del Universo, las masas de los neutrinos o e…
Precision measurements in boosted top quarks in the ATLAS detector
2022
La presente tesis doctoral recoge principalmente una serie de estudios relacionados con la física del quark top, la partícula fundamental más pesada predicha teóricamente en el marco del Modelo Estándar y observada experimentalmente por los experimentos CDF y D0 en el acelerador de partículas Tevatron, en 1995. Debido a su gran masa, el quark top es de especial interés en la comunidad científica; entre otros, determina la estabilidad del vacío electrodébil junto con la masa del bosón de Higgs, introduce correcciones cuánticas grandes que modifican los cálculos del Modelo Estándar y podría ser especialmente sensible a efectos de física más allá del Modelo Estándar. Con todo ello, se han dedi…