Publications by authors named "G Aad"

Top-quark pair production is observed in lead-lead (Pb+Pb) collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02  TeV at the Large Hadron Collider with the ATLAS detector. The data sample was recorded in 2015 and 2018, amounting to an integrated luminosity of 1.

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This Letter presents a search for highly ionizing magnetic monopoles in 262  μb^{-1} of ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collision data at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.36  TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. A new methodology that exploits the properties of clusters of hits reconstructed in the innermost silicon detector layers is introduced to study highly ionizing particles in heavy-ion data.

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Z boson events at the Large Hadron Collider can be selected with high purity and are sensitive to a diverse range of QCD phenomena. As a result, these events are often used to probe the nature of the strong force, improve Monte Carlo event generators, and search for deviations from standard model predictions. All previous measurements of Z boson production characterize the event properties using a small number of observables and present the results as differential cross sections in predetermined bins.

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High-energy nuclear collisions create a quark-gluon plasma, whose initial condition and subsequent expansion vary from event to event, impacting the distribution of the eventwise average transverse momentum [P([p_{T}])]. Disentangling the contributions from fluctuations in the nuclear overlap size (geometrical component) and other sources at a fixed size (intrinsic component) remains a challenge. This problem is addressed by measuring the mean, variance, and skewness of P([p_{T}]) in ^{208}Pb+^{208}Pb and ^{129}Xe+^{129}Xe collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.

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Synopsis of recent research by authors named "G Aad"

  • - G Aad's recent research primarily focuses on the properties and decay processes of W and Higgs bosons, utilizing data from the ATLAS detector at the LHC to explore new physics beyond the Standard Model and enhance understanding of quantum chromodynamics.
  • - Key findings include searches for exclusive W boson hadronic decays and light long-lived particles (LLPs), which could offer insights into theoretical models involving exotic decays and new particle interactions.
  • - Additionally, Aad's work emphasizes the importance of establishing the Higgs boson's coupling characteristics to other bosons, with recent studies determining the relative sign of these couplings, as well as combining results from Higgs boson pair production searches to constrain production rates.