Advancements in particle tagging accelerate the search for new particles

The ATLAS Collaboration has released three major searches for new-physics phenomena, all utilising new advancements in particle tagging.

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Decoding top quarks: Precision in heavy-flavour partner production

Two new studies from the ATLAS Collaboration explore how top-quark pairs are produced alongside heavy-flavour quarks, like bottom and charm.

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LHC experiments at CERN observe quantum entanglement at the highest energy yet

In an article published today in Nature, the ATLAS collaboration reports how it succeeded in observing quantum entanglement at the LHC for the first time.

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Unveiling Higgs-boson production properties using tau-lepton pairs

New measurements by the ATLAS Collaboration show that studying Higgs-boson decays into tau-lepton pairs can reveal not only its interactions with fermions, but also give insights into Higgs-boson production at the LHC. ATLAS researchers performed two kinds of cross-section measurements in their new analysis of Higgs-boson decays to tau leptons.

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Transforming bottom-jets: machine learning for improved bottom-jets measurements

At the BOOST 2024 conference, the ATLAS Collaboration presented a new technique that employs artificial intelligence (AI) to refine jet calibration, specifically focusing on jets originating from bottom quarks (b-jets).

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Breaking through (jet) barriers

As the most abundantly produced object in the ATLAS experiment, jets are critical to understanding a number of physics processes. In new results presented at the BOOST 24 conference in Genova (Italy), ATLAS scientists detailed two innovative approaches for more accurately quantifying jet properties.

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Summary of new ATLAS results from BOOST 2024

The 16th International Workshop on Boosted Object Phenomenology, Reconstruction, Measurements, and Searches at Colliders (BOOST 2024) kicks off today in Genova (Italy). This year’s edition continues the tradition of bringing together leading experts from both theoretical and experimental backgrounds to discuss latest developments in the study of particle “jets”.

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Breaking “R-parity” in new searches for supersymmetry

At the recent ICHEP 2024 conference held in Prague (Czech Republic), ATLAS physicists presented two innovative searches for R-parity-violating SUSY using data collected during the Run 2 of the LHC (2015 to 2018).

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ATLAS releases precise new measurement of Higgs boson production in association with top quarks

At the recent International Conference on High-Energy Physics (ICHEP) 2024, the ATLAS Collaboration presented a new measurement of the ttH(bb) process using the same Run-2 dataset, achieving a factor of two better expected ttH signal significance compared to the previous result.

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The beauty and the charm of the Higgs boson

The ATLAS Collaboration has just released the world’s most precise study of the Higgs boson’s interaction with bottom quarks and charm quarks. This new result is a re-analysis of data collected during Run 2 of the LHC (2015-2018). ATLAS researchers examined Higgs-boson decays to bottom and charm quarks (H→bb and H→cc) implementing significantly improved analysis techniques.

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ATLAS probes uncharted territory with improved trigger

The ATLAS Collaboration has released its first search for new physics phenomena at the highest-ever collision energy of 13.6 TeV, targeting exotic events with two “displaced” leptons.

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Hunting for magnetic monopoles with the Universe's strongest magnetic fields

In a new result from the ATLAS Collaboration, physicists analysed the first Run-3 heavy-ion collision data collected in the autumn of 2023. Specifically researchers looked at “ultraperipheral” collisions, where ions pass at a distance precluding hadronic interactions yet close enough to interact through electromagnetic fields.

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Summary of new ATLAS results from ICHEP 2024

The 2024 International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) kicks off this week in Prague, Czech Republic. For over 70 years, ICHEP has gathered physicists from around the world to share the latest advancements in particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, and accelerator science, and to discuss plans for major future facilities.

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ATLAS releases 65 TB of open data for research

The ATLAS Experiment at CERN has made two years’ worth of scientific data available to the public for research purposes. The data include recordings of proton–proton collisions from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at a collision energy of 13 TeV. This is the first time that ATLAS has released data on this scale, and it marks a significant milestone in terms of public access and utilisation of LHC data.

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ATLAS and CMS celebrate a decade of innovation by the RD53 Collaboration

On 24 June 2024, during an awards ceremony in CERN’s Main Auditorium, the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations paid special recognition to the RD53 Collaboration.

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Celebrating excellence at the 7th ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Awards

The ATLAS Collaboration held the 7th Outstanding Achievement Awards Ceremony on 20 June 2024. These biennial awards recognize the invaluable technical work performed across the Collaboration in various fields.

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Jetting into a new era of Higgs studies

The ATLAS Collaboration has made a significant advancement in the understanding of the Higgs boson by investigating its production in association with W or Z bosons (known as “VH production”), where the Higgs boson decays to bottom quarks. For the first time, LHC researchers have studied VH production in a fully hadronic final state.

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ATLAS searches for the building blocks of dark matter

Researchers at the ATLAS Experiment release the first-ever direct search for new composite dark particles called dark mesons, presented this week at the Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP) Conference in Boston.

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ATLAS dives deeper into di-Higgs: a combined search

In a new analysis from the ATLAS Collaboration, physicists merged five di-Higgs studies of LHC Run 2 data. By combining the power of all these decay channels, researchers achieved the most sensitive probe of di-Higgs production and the Higgs self-coupling.

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Learning by machines, for machines: Artificial Intelligence in the world's largest particle detector

Julia Gonski explains the long-established use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in high-energy physics research and explores the exciting potential these technologies hold for the field.

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ATLAS chases long-lived particles with the Higgs boson

In a new study submitted to Physical Review Letters, ATLAS scientists used a new algorithm to search for long-lived particles (LLP) produced in the decay of Higgs bosons. These LLPs may leave a distinct signature of one or more hadronic “jets” of particles originating at a significantly displaced position from the proton–proton collision point.

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Summary of new ATLAS results from LHCP 2024

The twelfth annual conference on Large Hadron Collider physics (LHCP 2024) kicks off today in Boston, USA. This week-long event will feature a detailed review of the latest experimental and theoretical results in collider physics, including several final studies of the LHC Run-2 dataset (collected in 2015-2018) and discussions on future research directions for the high-energy particle-physics community.

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Looking for the extended family of the Higgs boson

The ATLAS Collaboration has just published a search for two new Higgs bosons, X and S, that would interact with the Standard-Model Higgs boson.

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Menu of the day: Di-Higgs soup!

If spotting one Higgs boson is interesting, what happens when you spot two? ATLAS researchers are looking for the production of two Higgs bosons using a new technique.

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ATLAS explores Z boson production with heavy-flavour quarks

Using the full LHC Run-2 dataset, the ATLAS Collaboration measured Z boson production in association with both bottom (b) and charm (c) quarks, the latter for the first time in ATLAS.

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