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D. Hall

Other affiliations: University of Oxford
Bio: D. Hall is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Engineering & Physics. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 18 publications receiving 10930 citations. Previous affiliations of D. Hall include University of Oxford.

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Georges Aad1, T. Abajyan2, Brad Abbott3, Jalal Abdallah4  +2964 moreInstitutions (200)
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.

9,282 citations

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04 Jul 2013
TL;DR: In 2012 and the first half of 2013, the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group as mentioned in this paper presented the state of the art of Higgs physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), integrating all new results that have appeared in the last few years.
Abstract: This Report summarizes the results of the activities in 2012 and the first half of 2013 of the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group. The main goal of the working group was to present the state of the art of Higgs Physics at the LHC, integrating all new results that have appeared in the last few years. This report follows the first working group report Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 1. Inclusive Observables (CERN-2011-002) and the second working group report Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 2. Differential Distributions (CERN-2012-002). After the discovery of a Higgs boson at the LHC in mid-2012 this report focuses on refined prediction of Standard Model (SM) Higgs phenomenology around the experimentally observed value of 125-126 GeV, refined predictions for heavy SM-like Higgs bosons as well as predictions in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model and first steps to go beyond these models. The other main focus is on the extraction of the characteristics and properties of the newly discovered particle such as couplings to SM particles, spin and CP-quantum numbers etc.

778 citations

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TL;DR: In 2012 and the first half of 2013, the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group as mentioned in this paper presented the state of the art of Higgs physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), integrating all new results that have appeared in the last few years.
Abstract: This Report summarizes the results of the activities in 2012 and the first half of 2013 of the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group. The main goal of the working group was to present the state of the art of Higgs Physics at the LHC, integrating all new results that have appeared in the last few years. This report follows the first working group report Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 1. Inclusive Observables (CERN-2011-002) and the second working group report Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 2. Differential Distributions (CERN-2012-002). After the discovery of a Higgs boson at the LHC in mid-2012 this report focuses on refined prediction of Standard Model (SM) Higgs phenomenology around the experimentally observed value of 125-126 GeV, refined predictions for heavy SM-like Higgs bosons as well as predictions in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model and first steps to go beyond these models. The other main focus is on the extraction of the characteristics and properties of the newly discovered particle such as couplings to SM particles, spin and CP-quantum numbers etc.

581 citations

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Georges Aad1, T. Abajyan2, Brad Abbott3, Jalal Abdallah4  +2942 moreInstitutions (200)
TL;DR: In this article, the production properties and couplings of the recently discovered Higgs boson using the decays into boson pairs were measured using the complete pp collision data sample recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider at centre-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 25/fb.

513 citations

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Georges Aad1, T. Abajyan2, Brad Abbott3, J. Abdallah4  +2898 moreInstitutions (181)
TL;DR: In this article, a measurement of the W+W- production cross section in pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV is presented, which is compatible with the Standard Model prediction of 44.7(-1.9)(+2.1) pb.
Abstract: This paper presents a measurement of the W+W- production cross section in pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV. The leptonic decay channels are analyzed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4: 6 fb(-1) collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The W+W- production cross section sigma(pp -> W+W- + X) is measured to be 51.9 +/- 2.0(stat) +/- 3.9(syst) +/- 2.0(lumi) pb, compatible with the Standard Model prediction of 44.7(-1.9)(+2.1) pb. A measurement of the normalized fiducial cross section as a function of the leading lepton transverse momentum is also presented. The reconstructed transverse momentum distribution of the leading lepton is used to extract limits on anomalous WWZ and WW gamma couplings.

150 citations


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TL;DR: There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one, which seems an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.
Abstract: There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality. Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

33,785 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

Book
Georges Aad1, E. Abat2, Jalal Abdallah3, Jalal Abdallah4  +3029 moreInstitutions (164)
23 Feb 2020
TL;DR: The ATLAS detector as installed in its experimental cavern at point 1 at CERN is described in this paper, where a brief overview of the expected performance of the detector when the Large Hadron Collider begins operation is also presented.
Abstract: The ATLAS detector as installed in its experimental cavern at point 1 at CERN is described in this paper. A brief overview of the expected performance of the detector when the Large Hadron Collider begins operation is also presented.

3,111 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the ATLAS experiment is described as installed in i ts experimental cavern at point 1 at CERN and a brief overview of the expec ted performance of the detector is given.
Abstract: This paper describes the ATLAS experiment as installed in i ts experimental cavern at point 1 at CERN. It also presents a brief overview of the expec ted performance of the detector.

2,798 citations

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John Allison1, K. Amako2, John Apostolakis3, Pedro Arce4, Makoto Asai5, Tsukasa Aso6, Enrico Bagli, Alexander Bagulya7, Sw. Banerjee8, G. Barrand9, B. R. Beck10, Alexey Bogdanov11, D. Brandt, Jeremy M. C. Brown12, Helmut Burkhardt3, Ph Canal8, D. Cano-Ott4, Stephane Chauvie, Kyung-Suk Cho13, G.A.P. Cirrone14, Gene Cooperman15, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo16, G. Cosmo3, Giacomo Cuttone14, G.O. Depaola17, Laurent Desorgher, X. Dong15, Andrea Dotti5, Victor Daniel Elvira8, Gunter Folger3, Ziad Francis18, A. Galoyan19, L. Garnier9, M. Gayer3, K. Genser8, Vladimir Grichine3, Vladimir Grichine7, Susanna Guatelli20, Susanna Guatelli21, Paul Gueye22, P. Gumplinger23, Alexander Howard24, Ivana Hřivnáčová9, S. Hwang13, Sebastien Incerti25, Sebastien Incerti26, A. Ivanchenko3, Vladimir Ivanchenko3, F.W. Jones23, S. Y. Jun8, Pekka Kaitaniemi27, Nicolas A. Karakatsanis28, Nicolas A. Karakatsanis29, M. Karamitrosi30, M.H. Kelsey5, Akinori Kimura31, Tatsumi Koi5, Hisaya Kurashige32, A. Lechner3, S. B. Lee33, Francesco Longo34, M. Maire, Davide Mancusi, A. Mantero, E. Mendoza4, B. Morgan35, K. Murakami2, T. Nikitina3, Luciano Pandola14, P. Paprocki3, J Perl5, Ivan Petrović36, Maria Grazia Pia, W. Pokorski3, J. M. Quesada16, M. Raine, Maria A.M. Reis37, Alberto Ribon3, A. Ristic Fira36, Francesco Romano14, Giorgio Ivan Russo14, Giovanni Santin38, Takashi Sasaki2, D. Sawkey39, J. I. Shin33, Igor Strakovsky40, A. Taborda37, Satoshi Tanaka41, B. Tome, Toshiyuki Toshito, H.N. Tran42, Pete Truscott, L. Urbán, V. V. Uzhinsky19, Jerome Verbeke10, M. Verderi43, B. Wendt44, H. Wenzel8, D. H. Wright5, Douglas Wright10, T. Yamashita, J. Yarba8, H. Yoshida45 
TL;DR: Geant4 as discussed by the authors is a software toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter, which is used by a large number of experiments and projects in a variety of application domains, including high energy physics, astrophysics and space science, medical physics and radiation protection.
Abstract: Geant4 is a software toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter. It is used by a large number of experiments and projects in a variety of application domains, including high energy physics, astrophysics and space science, medical physics and radiation protection. Over the past several years, major changes have been made to the toolkit in order to accommodate the needs of these user communities, and to efficiently exploit the growth of computing power made available by advances in technology. The adaptation of Geant4 to multithreading, advances in physics, detector modeling and visualization, extensions to the toolkit, including biasing and reverse Monte Carlo, and tools for physics and release validation are discussed here.

2,260 citations