Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-30T23:21:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-04-24; The polarizations of promptly produced χc1 and χc2 mesons are studied using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, in proton-proton collisions at s=8 TeV. The χc states are reconstructed via their radiative decays χc→J/ψγ, with the photons being measured through conversions to e+e-, which allo...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T00:03:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-09-04; The first study of charm quark diffusion with respect to the jet axis in heavy ion collisions is presented. The measurement is performed using jets with pTjet>60 GeV/c and D0 mesons with pTD>4 GeV/c in lead-lead (Pb-Pb) and proton-proton (pp) collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of sNN=...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T00:16:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-06-01; The transverse momentum (pT) distributions of Λ, Ξ-, and ω- baryons, their antiparticles, and KS0 mesons are measured in proton-proton (pp) and proton-lead (pPb) collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV over a broad rapidity range. The data, corresponding to integrated luminosit...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T00:29:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-10-05; The first observation is reported of the combined production of three massive gauge bosons (VVV with V=W, Z) in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The analysis is based on a data sample recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC corresponding to an integrated luminosity o...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T00:43:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-10-07; Using a data sample of proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb-1 collected by the CMS experiment in 2016-2018, the Bs0→X(3872)φ decay is observed. Decays into J/ψ+π- and K+K- are used to reconstruct, respectively, the X(3872) and φ. The ratio of the prod...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T01:25:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-01-01; A measurement of the W+W- boson pair production cross section in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV is presented. The data used in this study are collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1. The W+W- candidate events are selected by requiring...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T02:22:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-11-24; Ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions recreate in the laboratory the thermodynamical conditions prevailing in the early universe up to 10-6 sec, thereby allowing the study of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) matter with deconfined partons. The top quark, the heavies...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T03:16:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-12-07; A search is described for the production of a pair of bottom-type vectorlike quarks (VLQs), each decaying into a b or b¯ quark and either a Higgs or a Z boson, with a mass greater than 1000 GeV. The analysis is based on data from proton-proton collisions at a 13 TeV center-of-mass energy recorded at the...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T03:42:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-03-19; A measurement is reported of differential top quark pair (tt¯) production cross sections, where top quarks are produced at large transverse momenta. The data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC are from pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity o...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T05:29:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-06-25; A fiducial cross section for Wγ production in proton-proton collisions is measured at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 137 fb-1 of data collected using the CMS detector at the LHC. The W→eν and μν decay modes are used in a maximum-likelihood fit to the lepton-photon invariant mass distribution to ex...