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Armen Tumasyan

Bio: Armen Tumasyan is an academic researcher from Yerevan Physics Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Large Hadron Collider & Lepton. The author has an hindex of 128, co-authored 1189 publications receiving 79408 citations. Previous affiliations of Armen Tumasyan include CERN & Austrian Academy of Sciences.


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TL;DR: In this article, the results of very forward very forward jet production in proton-lead collisions as a function of jet energy are presented, and the results are discussed in terms of the saturation of gluon densities at low fractional parton momenta.
Abstract: Measurements of differential cross sections for inclusive very forward jet production in proton-lead collisions as a function of jet energy are presented. The data were collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC in the laboratory pseudorapidity range −6.6 < η < −5.2. Asymmetric beam energies of 4 TeV for protons and 1.58 TeV per nucleon for Pb nuclei were used, corresponding to a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of $ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} $ = 5.02 TeV. Collisions with either the proton (p+Pb) or the ion (Pb+p) traveling towards the negative η hemisphere are studied. The jet cross sections are unfolded to stable-particle level cross sections with p$_{T}$ ≳ 3 GeV, and compared to predictions from various Monte Carlo event generators. In addition, the cross section ratio of p+Pb and Pb+p data is presented. The results are discussed in terms of the saturation of gluon densities at low fractional parton momenta. None of the models under consideration describes all the data over the full jet-energy range and for all beam configurations. Discrepancies between the differential cross sections in data and model predictions of more than two orders of magnitude are observed.

14 citations

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Albert M. Sirunyan1, Armen Tumasyan1, Wolfgang Adam, Federico Ambrogi  +2295 moreInstitutions (170)
TL;DR: In this paper, the polarizations of the produced chi(c1) and chi (c2) mesons are studied using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, in proton-proton collisions at root s = 8 TeV.
Abstract: The polarizations of promptly produced chi(c1) and chi(c2) mesons are studied using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, in proton-proton collisions at root s = 8 TeV. The chi(c) states are reconstructed via their radiative decays chi(c) -> J/psi gamma, with the photons being measured through conversions to e(+)e(-), which allows the two states to be well resolved. The polarizations are measured in the helicity frame, through the analysis of the chi(c2) to chi(c1) yield ratio as a function of the polar or azimuthal angle of the positive muon emitted in the J/psi -> mu(+)mu(-) decay, in three bins of J/psi transverse momentum. While no differences are seen between the two states in terms of azimuthal decay angle distributions, they are observed to have significantly different polar anisotropies. The measurement favors a scenario where at least one of the two states is strongly polarized along the hclicity quantization axis, in agreement with nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics predictions. This is the first measurement of significantly polarized quarkonia produced at high transverse momentum.

13 citations

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Albert M. Sirunyan1, Armen Tumasyan1, Wolfgang Adam1, Federico Ambrogi  +2374 moreInstitutions (4)
TL;DR: In this article, a measurement of differential top quark pair (tt¯) production cross sections, where top quarks are produced at large transverse momenta, is reported, where the results are compared to various theoretical models.
Abstract: 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 of 359 fb-1 The measurement uses events where at least one top quark decays as t→Wb→qq¯′b and is reconstructed as a large-radius jet with transverse momentum in excess of 400 GeV The second top quark is required to decay either in a similar way or leptonically, as inferred from a reconstructed electron or muon, a bottom quark jet, and missing transverse momentum due to the undetected neutrino The cross section is extracted as a function of kinematic variables of individual top quarks or of the tt¯ system The results are presented at the particle level, within a region of phase space close to that of the experimental acceptance, and at the parton level and are compared to various theoretical models In both decay channels, the observed absolute cross sections are significantly lower than the predictions from theory, while the normalized differential measurements are well described

13 citations

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Albert M. Sirunyan1, Armen Tumasyan1, Wolfgang Adam, Federico Ambrogi  +2259 moreInstitutions (155)
TL;DR: In this article, a search was performed for a heavy spin-1 resonance decaying to a top quark and a vector-like quark partner in the lepton + jets final state.
Abstract: A search is presented for a heavy spin-1 resonance $\mathrm {Z}'$ decaying to a top quark and a vector-like top quark partner $\text {T} $ in the lepton + jets final state. The search is performed using a data set of $\mathrm {p}$ $\mathrm {p}$ collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 $\,\text {TeV}$ corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $35.9{\,\text {fb}^{-1}} $ as recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in the year 2016. The analysis is optimised for final states arising from the $\text {T} $ decay modes to a top quark and a Higgs or $\mathrm {Z}$ boson ( $\text {T} \rightarrow \mathrm {H} \mathrm {t}, \mathrm {Z} \mathrm {t}$ ). The event selection makes use of resolved and merged top quark decay products, as well as decays of boosted Higgs bosons and $\mathrm {Z}$ and $\mathrm {W}$ bosons using jet substructure techniques. No significant deviation from the standard model background expectation is observed. Exclusion limits on the product of the cross section and branching fraction for $\mathrm {Z}'\rightarrow \mathrm {t}\text {T}, \text {T} \rightarrow \mathrm {H} \mathrm {t}, \mathrm {Z} \mathrm {t}, \mathrm {W}\mathrm {b}$ are presented for various combinations of the $\mathrm {Z}'$ resonance mass and the vector-like $\text {T} $ quark mass. These results represent the most stringent limits to date for the decay mode $\mathrm {Z}'\rightarrow \mathrm {t}\text {T} \rightarrow \mathrm {t}\mathrm {H} \mathrm {t}$ . In a benchmark model with extra dimensions, invoking a heavy spin-1 resonance $\mathrm {G}^* $ , masses of the $\mathrm {G}^* $ between 1.5 and 2.3 $\,\text {TeV}$ and between 2.0 and 2.4 $\,\text {TeV}$ are excluded for $\text {T} $ masses of 1.2 and 1.5 $\,\text {TeV}$ , respectively.

13 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the cross section for the production of at least four jets, of which at least two originate from b quarks, in proton-proton collisions.
Abstract: Measurements are presented of the cross section for the production of at least four jets, of which at least two originate from b quarks, in proton-proton collisions. Data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 pb^(−1). The cross section is measured as a function of the jet transverse momentum for p_T > 20 GeV, and of the jet pseudorapidity for |η| < 2.4 (b jets), 4.7 (untagged jets). The correlations in azimuthal angle and pT between the jets are also studied. The inclusive cross section is measured to be σ(pp → 2b + 2j + X) = 69 ± 3(stat) ± 24(syst) nb. The η and p_T distributions of the four jets and the correlations between them are well reproduced by event generators that combine perturbative QCD calculations at next-to-leading-order accuracy with contributions from parton showers and multiparton interactions.

13 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented, which has a significance of 5.9 standard deviations, corresponding to a background fluctuation probability of 1.7×10−9.

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TL;DR: In this paper, results from searches for the standard model Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV in the CMS experiment at the LHC, using data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 5.8 standard deviations.

8,857 citations

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TL;DR: MadGraph5 aMC@NLO as discussed by the authors is a computer program capable of handling all these computations, including parton-level fixed order, shower-matched, merged, in a unified framework whose defining features are flexibility, high level of parallelisation and human intervention limited to input physics quantities.
Abstract: We discuss the theoretical bases that underpin the automation of the computations of tree-level and next-to-leading order cross sections, of their matching to parton shower simulations, and of the merging of matched samples that differ by light-parton multiplicities. We present a computer program, MadGraph5 aMC@NLO, capable of handling all these computations — parton-level fixed order, shower-matched, merged — in a unified framework whose defining features are flexibility, high level of parallelisation, and human intervention limited to input physics quantities. We demonstrate the potential of the program by presenting selected phenomenological applications relevant to the LHC and to a 1-TeV e + e − collider. While next-to-leading order results are restricted to QCD corrections to SM processes in the first public version, we show that from the user viewpoint no changes have to be expected in the case of corrections due to any given renormalisable Lagrangian, and that the implementation of these are well under way.

6,509 citations