New Publication
New ATLAS group paper
January 12, 2023
Collider Physics GroupThe paper “Search for a new scalar resonance in flavour-changing neutral-current top-quark decays 𝒕 → 𝒒𝑿 (𝒒 = 𝒖, 𝒄), with 𝑿 → 𝒃𝒃bar, in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector” has been submitted to JHEP.
The paper provides stringent limits of O(10e-4) on the production and decay of a scalar particle from 20 to 160 GeV in flavour-changing neutral current top quark decays. It is the first time this analysis is done in a collider experiment.
The main authors are from IFAE and are Adrian Salvador, Martine Bosman, Aurelio Juste, Lluïsa Mir, Nicola Orlando and Imma Riu.
Instrumentation
First Pre-production Modules for the ATLAS upgrades for the LH-LHC Assembled at IFAE
February 21, 2024
The first pre-production triplet module for the ATLAS upgrades for the LH-LHC has been assembled this week at IFAE. The IFAE ATLAS Pixels group is building modules for the innermost pixel layer of the tracking detector (ITk) and the new high granularity timing detector (HGTD).