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New Micromegas (Micro-mesh gaseous detectors) are being developed in view of the future physics projects planned by the COMPASS collaboration at CERN. Several major upgrades compared to present detectors are being studied: detectors…
Recent results from the ATLAS and CMS experiments in searches for prompt signatures of feebly interacting particles are presented. All presented results are based on the 2015-2018 data set of $13\,\mathrm{TeV}$ proton-proton collisions,…
These proceedings present the first observation of single top-quark production associated with a photon using the full Run2 proton-proton dataset collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC.
The latest ATLAS measurements of the cross section for the inclusive production of isolated prompt photons in $pp$ collisions at a centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV at the LHC are presented, as well as the measurement of the…
ATLAS is one of the two general purpose detectors at the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC will be colliding proton beams at a center of mass energy {\surd}s= 14 TeV and is currently operating at…
Two cylindrical forward TPC detectors are described which were constructed to extend the phase space coverage of the STAR experiment to the region 2.5 < |\eta| < 4.0. For optimal use of the available space and in order to cope with the high…
This document presents a measurement of WZ production in 1.02 fb-1 of pp collision data at CME of 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at LHC in 2011. The production cross-section is measured to be consistent with the Standard Model (SM)…
The ATLAS and CMS experiments are now in their final installation phase and will be soon ready to study the physics of proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC, by producing 2 $t\bar{t}$ events per second, will provide…
The ATLAS detector is currently being upgraded with a new layer of pixel based charged particle tracking and a new arrangement of the services for the pixel detector. These upgrades require the replacement of the opto-boards previously used…
Measurements of integrated and differential cross-sections for $W^{\pm}Z$ production in proton-proton collisions are presented. The data collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider from 2015 to 2018 at a centre-of-mass…
Latest results on inclusive top-quark pair production cross-sections are presented using collision data collected by ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC. Inclusive and differential measurements of top-quark pair production cross-sections…
Measurements of differential cross sections of top quark pair production in association with jets by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC are presented. The measurements are performed as functions of the top quark transverse momentum, the…
The LHC detectors are well into their construction phase. The LHC schedule shows first beam to ATLAS and CMS in 2007. Because the LHC accelerator has begun to plan for a ten fold increase in LHC design luminosity (the SLHC or super LHC) it…
The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has a broad physics programme ranging from precision measurements to direct searches for new particles and new interactions, requiring ever larger and ever more accurate datasets of…
The jet reconstruction and jet energy calibration strategies adopted by the CMS and ATLAS experiments are presented. Jet measurements that can be done with early data to confront QCD at the highest transverse momentum scale and search for…
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have performed several targeted searches for weakly interacting supersymmetric particles, using data collected in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=8 TeV at the LHC. No significant deviations from standard…
Highlights are presented of current searches for supersymmetry produced in proton-proton collisions at the LHC, operating at sqrt(s)=7TeV. Searches with missing transverse energy are summarized from both the ATLAS and CMS experiments. A…
The Level-1 trigger of the CMS experiment at CERN has been designed to select proton-proton interactions whose final state includes signatures of new physics in the form of high transverse energy electrons, photons, jets, or high missing…
The challenges for a discovery of new physics with 1 fb^-1 of LHC data for ATLAS and CMS are discussed. Four specific examples are chosen: a deviation of QCD jet distributions at high E_T, high-mass dilepton pairs, Higgs search in the WW…
During the Run 2 period of the LHC, the ATLAS and CMS experiments have accumulated proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of around 3 fb$^{-1}$ in 2015 and 36 fb$^{-1}$ in 2016 at a center of mass energy of…