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    Search for new phenomena in events with a photon and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
    (Springer Verlag [email protected], 2016) The Atlas Collaboration; Aaboud, M.; Aad, Georges; Abbott, Brad K.; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad; Abdinov, O. B.; Abeloos, Baptiste; Aben, R.; AbouZeid, O. S.; Abraham, Nicola L.; The Atlas Collaboration, null, Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire, Geneva, Switzerland; Aaboud, M., Université Mohammed Premier Oujda, Oujda, Morocco; Aad, Georges, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, Marseille, France; Abbott, Brad K., Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States; Abdinov, O. B., Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan; Abeloos, Baptiste, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay, France; Aben, R., Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; AbouZeid, O. S., Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States; Abraham, Nicola L., Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
    Results of a search for new phenomena in events with an energetic photon and large missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider are reported. The data were collected in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb−1. The observed data are in agreement with the Standard Model expectations. Exclusion limits are presented in models of new phenomena including pair production of dark matter candidates or large extra spatial dimensions. In a simplified model of dark matter and an axial-vector mediator, the search excludes mediator masses below 710 GeV for dark matter candidate masses below 150 GeV. In an effective theory of dark matter production, values of the suppression scale M∗ up to 570 GeV are excluded and the effect of truncation for various coupling values is reported. For the ADD large extra spatial dimension model the search places more stringent limits than earlier searches in the same event topology, excluding MD up to about 2.3 (2.8) TeV for two (six) additional spatial dimensions, the limits are reduced by 20-40% depending on the number of additional spatial dimensions when applying a truncation procedure. © 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Measurement of the relative width difference of the B0‐ B¯ 0 system with the ATLAS detector
    (Springer Verlag [email protected], 2016) The Atlas Collaboration; Aaboud, M.; Aad, Georges; Abbott, Brad K.; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad; Abdinov, O. B.; Abeloos, Baptiste; Aben, R.; AbouZeid, O. S.; Abraham, Nicola L.; The Atlas Collaboration, null, Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov, Brasov, Romania, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, Dep Fisica and CEFITEC, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal, Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire, Geneva, Switzerland; Aaboud, M., Université Mohammed Premier Oujda, Oujda, Morocco; Aad, Georges, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France; Abbott, Brad K., Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States; Abdinov, O. B., Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan; Abeloos, Baptiste, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay, France; Aben, R., Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; AbouZeid, O. S., Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States; Abraham, Nicola L., Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
    Abstract: This paper presents the measurement of the relative width difference ΔΓd/Γd of the B0‐ B¯ 0 system using the data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in pp collisions at s=7 TeV and s=8 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 25.2 fb−1. The value of ΔΓd/Γd is obtained by comparing the decay-time distributions of B0 → J/ψKS and B0 → J/ψK*0(892) decays. The result is ΔΓd/Γd = (−0.1±1.1 (stat.)± 0.9 (syst.)) × 10−2. Currently, this is the most precise single measurement of ΔΓd/Γd. It agrees with the Standard Model prediction and the measurements by other experiments.[Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Search for resonances in diphoton events at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
    (Springer Verlag [email protected], 2016) The Atlas Collaboration; Aaboud, M.; Aad, Georges; Abbott, Brad K.; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad; Abdinov, O. B.; Abeloos, Baptiste; Aben, R.; AbouZeid, O. S.; Abraham, Nicola L.; The Atlas Collaboration, null, Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov, Brasov, Romania, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, Dep Fisica and CEFITEC, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal, Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire, Geneva, Switzerland; Aaboud, M., Université Mohammed Premier Oujda, Oujda, Morocco; Aad, Georges, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, Marseille, France; Abbott, Brad K., Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States; Abdinov, O. B., Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan; Abeloos, Baptiste, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay, France; Aben, R., Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; AbouZeid, O. S., Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States; Abraham, Nicola L., Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
    Searches for new resonances decaying into two photons in the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider are described. The analysis is based on proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb−1 at s=13 TeV recorded in 2015. Two searches are performed, one targeted at a spin-2 particle of mass larger than 500 GeV, using Randall-Sundrum graviton states as a benchmark model, and one optimized for a spin-0 particle of mass larger than 200 GeV. Varying both the mass and the decay width, the most significant deviation from the background-only hypothesis is observed at a diphoton invariant mass around 750 GeV with local significances of 3.8 and 3.9 standard deviations in the searches optimized for a spin-2 and spin-0 particle, respectively. The global significances are estimated to be 2.1 standard deviations for both analyses. The consistency between the data collected at 13 TeV and 8 TeV is also evaluated. Limits on the production cross section times branching ratio to two photons for the two resonance types are reported.[Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Measurement of jet activity in top quark events using the eμ final state with two b-tagged jets in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
    (Springer Verlag [email protected], 2016) The Atlas Collaboration; Aaboud, M.; Aad, Georges; Abbott, Brad K.; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad; Abdinov, O. B.; Abeloos, Baptiste; Aben, R.; AbouZeid, O. S.; Abraham, Nicola L.; The Atlas Collaboration, null, Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov, Brasov, Romania, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, Dep Fisica and CEFITEC, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal, Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire, Geneva, Switzerland,; Aaboud, M., Université Mohammed Premier Oujda, Oujda, Morocco; Aad, Georges, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, Marseille, France; Abbott, Brad K., Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States; Abdinov, O. B., Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan; Abeloos, Baptiste, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay, France; Aben, R., Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; AbouZeid, O. S., Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States; Abraham, Nicola L., Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
    Measurements of the jet activity in tt¯ events produced in proton-proton collisions at s=8 TeV are presented, using 20.3 fb−1 of data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The events were selected in the dilepton eμ decay channel with two identified b-jets. The numbers of additional jets for various jet transverse momentum (pT) thresholds, and the normalised differential cross-sections as a function of pT for the five highest-pT additional jets, were measured in the jet pseudo-rapidity range |η| < 4.5. The gap fraction, the fraction of events which do not contain an additional jet in a central rapidity region, was measured for several rapidity intervals as a function of the minimum pT of a single jet or the scalar sum of pT of all additional jets. These fractions were also measured in different intervals of the invariant mass of the eμbb¯ system. All measurements were corrected for detector effects, and found to be mostly well-described by predictions from next-to-leading-order and leading-order tt¯ event generators with appropriate parameter choices. The results can be used to further optimise the parameters used in such generators.[Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Searches for heavy diboson resonances in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
    (Springer Verlag [email protected], 2016) The Atlas Collaboration; Aaboud, M.; Aad, Georges; Abbott, Brad K.; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad; Abdinov, O. B.; Abeloos, Baptiste; Aben, R.; AbouZeid, O. S.; Abraham, Nicola L.; The Atlas Collaboration, null, Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov, Brasov, Romania, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, Peking University, Beijing, China, Dep Fisica and CEFITEC, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal, Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire, Geneva, Switzerland,; Aaboud, M., Université Mohammed Premier Oujda, Oujda, Morocco; Aad, Georges, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France; Abbott, Brad K., Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States; Abdinov, O. B., Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan; Abeloos, Baptiste, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay, France; Aben, R., Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; AbouZeid, O. S., Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States; Abraham, Nicola L., Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
    Searches for new heavy resonances decaying to WW, WZ, and ZZ bosons are presented, using a data sample corresponding to 3.2 fb−1 of pp collisions at s=13 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Analyses selecting ννqq, ℓνqq, ℓℓqq and qqqq final states are combined, searching for an arrow-width resonance with mass between 500 and 3000 GeV. The discriminating variable is either an invariant mass or a transverse mass. No significant deviations from the Standard Model predictions are observed. Three benchmark models are tested: a model predicting the existence of a new heavy scalar singlet, a simplified model predicting a heavy vector-boson triplet, and a bulk Randall-Sundrum model with a heavy spin-2 graviton. Cross-section limits are set at the 95% confidence level and are compared to theoretical cross-section predictions for a variety of models. The data exclude a scalar singlet with mass below 2650 GeV, a heavy vector-boson triplet with mass below 2600 GeV, and a graviton with mass below 1100 GeV. These results significantly extend the previous limits set using pp collisions at s=8 TeV.[Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Dark matter interpretations of ATLAS searches for the electroweak production of supersymmetric particles in √s=8 TeV proton-proton collisions
    (Springer Verlag [email protected], 2016) The Atlas Collaboration; Aaboud, M.; Aad, Georges; Abbott, Brad K.; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad; Abdinov, O. B.; Abeloos, Baptiste; Aben, R.; AbouZeid, O. S.; Abraham, Nicola L.; The Atlas Collaboration, null, Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov, Brasov, Romania, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, Dep Fisica and CEFITEC, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal, National Energy Center of Nuclear Science and Technology, Rabat, Morocco, Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire, Geneva, Switzerland,; Aaboud, M., Université Mohammed Premier Oujda, Oujda, Morocco; Aad, Georges, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, Marseille, France; Abbott, Brad K., Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad, Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States; Abdinov, O. B., Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan; Abeloos, Baptiste, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay, France; Aben, R., Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; AbouZeid, O. S., Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States; Abraham, Nicola L., Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
    A selection of searches by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC for the electroweak production of SUSY particles are used to study their impact on the constraints on dark matter candidates. The searches use 20 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data at s=8 TeV. A likelihood-driven scan of a five-dimensional effective model focusing on the gaugino-higgsino and Higgs sector of the phenomenological minimal supersymmetric Standard Model is performed. This scan uses data from direct dark matter detection experiments, the relic dark matter density and precision flavour physics results. Further constraints from the ATLAS Higgs mass measurement and SUSY searches at LEP are also applied. A subset of models selected from this scan are used to assess the impact of the selected ATLAS searches in this five-dimensional parameter space. These ATLAS searches substantially impact those models for which the mass m(χ10) of the lightest neutralino is less than 65 GeV, excluding 86% of such models. The searches have limited impact on models with larger m(χ10) due to either heavy electroweakinos or compressed mass spectra where the mass splittings between the produced particles and the lightest supersymmetric particle is small.[Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
  • PublicationOpen Access
    Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced by vector-boson fusion and decaying to bottom quarks in √s=8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
    (Springer Verlag [email protected], 2016) Aaboud, M.; Aad, Georges; Abbott, Brad K.; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad; Abdinov, O. B.; Abeloos, Baptiste; Aben, R.; AbouZeid, O. S.; Abraham, Nicola L.; Abramowicz, Halina; Aaboud, M., Université Mohammed Premier Oujda, Oujda, Morocco; Aad, Georges, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, Marseille, France; Abbott, Brad K., Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States; Abdinov, O. B., Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan; Abeloos, Baptiste, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay, France; Aben, R., Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; AbouZeid, O. S., Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States; Abraham, Nicola L., Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom; Abramowicz, Halina, Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
    A search with the ATLAS detector is presented for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced by vector-boson fusion and decaying to a pair of bottom quarks, using 20.2 fb−1 of LHC proton-proton collision data at s=8 TeV. The signal is searched for as a resonance in the invariant mass distribution of a pair of jets containing b-hadrons in vector-boson-fusion candidate events. The yield is measured to be −0.8 ± 2.3 times the Standard Model cross-section for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV. The upper limit on the cross-section times the branching ratio is found to be 4.4 times the Standard Model cross-section at the 95% confidence level, consistent with the expected limit value of 5.4 (5.7) in the background-only (Standard Model production) hypothesis.[Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Study of hard double-parton scattering in four-jet events in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
    (Springer Verlag [email protected], 2016) Aaboud, M.; Aad, Georges; Abbott, Brad K.; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad; Abdinov, O. B.; Abeloos, Baptiste; Aben, R.; AbouZeid, O. S.; Abraham, Nicola L.; Abramowicz, Halina; Aaboud, M., Université Mohammed Premier Oujda, Oujda, Morocco; Aad, Georges, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, Marseille, France; Abbott, Brad K., Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad, Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States; Abdinov, O. B., Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan; Abeloos, Baptiste, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay, France; Aben, R., Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; AbouZeid, O. S., Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States; Abraham, Nicola L., Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom; Abramowicz, Halina, Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
    Inclusive four-jet events produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s=7 TeV are analysed for the presence of hard double-parton scattering using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 37.3 pb−1, collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The contribution of hard double-parton scattering to the production of four-jet events is extracted using an artificial neural network, assuming that hard double-parton scattering can be approximated by an uncorrelated overlaying of dijet events. For events containing at least four jets with transverse momentum pT ≥ 20 GeV and pseudorapidity |η| ≤ 4.4, and at least one having pT ≥ 42.5 GeV, the contribution of hard double-parton scattering is estimated to be fDPS = 0.092− 0.011 + 0.005(stat.)− 0.037 + 0.033(syst.). After combining this measurement with those of the inclusive dijet and four-jet cross-sections in the appropriate phase space regions, the effective cross-section, σeff , was determined to be σeff = 14. 9− 1.0 + 1.2(stat.)− 3.8 + 5.1(syst.) mb. This result is consistent within the quoted uncertainties with previous measurements of σeff , performed at centre-of-mass energies between 63 GeV and 8 TeV using various final states, and it corresponds to 21− 6 + 7 % of the total inelastic cross-section measured at s=7 TeV. The distributions of the observables sensitive to the contribution of hard double-parton scattering, corrected for detector effects, are also provided.[Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV using the ZZ → ℓ−ℓ+ℓ′−ℓ′+ and ZZ→ ℓ−ℓ+νν¯ decay channels with the ATLAS detector
    (Springer Verlag [email protected], 2017) Aaboud, M.; Aad, Georges; Abbott, Brad K.; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad; Abdinov, O. B.; Abeloos, Baptiste; Aben, R.; AbouZeid, O. S.; Abraham, Nicola L.; Abramowicz, Halina; Aaboud, M., Université Mohammed Premier Oujda, Oujda, Morocco; Aad, Georges, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France; Abbott, Brad K., Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad, Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States; Abdinov, O. B., Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan; Abeloos, Baptiste, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay, France; Aben, R., Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; AbouZeid, O. S., Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States; Abraham, Nicola L., Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom; Abramowicz, Halina, Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
    A measurement of the ZZ production cross section in the ℓ−ℓ+ℓ′ −ℓ′ + and ℓ−ℓ+νν¯ channels (ℓ = e, μ) in proton-proton collisions at s=8TeV at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2012 is presented. The fiducial cross sections for ZZ → ℓ−ℓ+ℓ′ −ℓ′ + and ZZ→ ℓ−ℓ+νν¯ are measured in selected phase-space regions. The total cross section for ZZ events produced with both Z bosons in the mass range 66 to 116 GeV is measured from the combination of the two channels to be 7.3 ± 0.4(stat) ± 0.3(syst)− 0.1 − 0.2(lumi) pb, which is consistent with the Standard Model prediction of 6. 6− 0.6 + 0.7 pb. The differential cross sections in bins of various kinematic variables are presented. The differential event yield as a function of the transverse momentum of the leading Z boson is used to set limits on anomalous neutral triple gauge boson couplings in ZZ production.[Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Measurements of ψ(2S) and X(3872) → J/ψπ + π − production in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
    (Springer Verlag [email protected], 2017) Aaboud, M.; Aad, Georges; Abbott, Brad K.; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad; Abdinov, O. B.; Abeloos, Baptiste; Aben, R.; AbouZeid, O. S.; Abraham, Nicola L.; Abramowicz, Halina; Aaboud, M., Université Mohammed Premier Oujda, Oujda, Morocco; Aad, Georges, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France; Abbott, Brad K., Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States; Abdallah, Jalal Mohamad, Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States; Abdinov, O. B., Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan; Abeloos, Baptiste, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay, France; Aben, R., Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; AbouZeid, O. S., Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, United States; Abraham, Nicola L., School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; Abramowicz, Halina, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
    Differential cross sections are presented for the prompt and non-prompt production of the hidden-charm states X(3872) and ψ(2S), in the decay mode J/ψπ+π−, measured using 11.4 fb−1 of pp collisions at s=8 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The ratio of cross-sections X(3872)/ψ(2S) is also given, separately for prompt and non-prompt components, as well as the non-prompt fractions of X(3872) and ψ(2S). Assuming independent single effective lifetimes for non-prompt X(3872) and ψ(2S) production gives RB=ℬ(B→X(3872)+any)ℬ(X(3872)→J/ψπ+π−)/ℬ(B→ψ(2S)+any)ℬ(ψ(2S)→J/ψπ+π−)=(3.95±0.32(stat)±0.08(sys))×10−2 separating short- and long-lived contributions, assuming that the short-lived component is due to Bc decays, gives RB = (3.57 ± 0.33(stat) ± 0.11(sys)) × 10−2, with the fraction of non-prompt X(3872) produced via Bc decays for pT(X(3872)) > 10 GeV being (25 ± 13(stat) ± 2(sys) ± 5(spin))%. The distributions of the dipion invariant mass in the X(3872) and ψ(2S) decays are also measured and compared to theoretical predictions.[Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.