The version 3.0 of the Delphes fast-simulation is presented. The goal of Delphes is to allow the simulation of a multipurpose detector for phenomenological studies. The simulation includes a track propagation system embedded in a magnetic field, electromagnetic and hadron calorimeters, and a muon identification system. Physics objects that can be used for data analysis are then reconstructed from the simulated detector response. These include tracks and calorimeter deposits and high level objects such as isolated electrons, jets, taus, and missing energy. The new modular approach allows for greater flexibility in the design of the simulation and reconstruction sequence. New features such as the particle-flow reconstruction approach, crucial in the first years of the LHC, and pile-up simulation and mitigation, which is needed for the simulation of the LHC detectors in the near future, have also been implemented. The Delphes framework is not meant to be used for advanced detector studies, for which more accurate tools are needed. Although some aspects of Delphes are hadron collider specific, it is flexible enough to be adapted to the needs of electron-positron collider experiments.
A combination is presented of the inclusive deep inelastic cross sections measured by the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations in neutral and charged current unpolarised e ± p scattering at HERA during the period 1994-2000. The data span six orders of magnitude in negative four-momentum-transfer squared, Q 2 , and in Bjorken x. The combination method used takes the correlations of systematic uncertainties into account, resulting in an improved accuracy. The combined data are the sole input in a NLO QCD analysis which determines a new set of parton distributions, HERAPDF1.0, with small experimental uncertainties. This set includes an estimate of the model and parametrisation uncertainties of the fit result.
We present the FP420 R&D project, which has been studying
the key aspects of the development and installation of a silicon
tracker and fast-timing detectors in the LHC tunnel at 420 m from
the interaction points of the ATLAS and CMS experiments. These
detectors would measure precisely very forward protons in
conjunction with the corresponding central detectors as a means to
study Standard Model (SM) physics, and to search for and
characterise new physics signals. This report includes a detailed
description of the physics case for the detector and, in particular,
for the measurement of Central Exclusive Production, pp→p+ϕ+p, in which the outgoing protons remain intact and the
central system ϕ may be a single particle such as a SM or MSSM
Higgs boson. Other physics topics discussed are γγ and
γp interactions, and diffractive processes. The report
includes a detailed study of the trigger strategy, acceptance,
reconstruction efficiencies, and expected yields for a particular
pp→pHp measurement with Higgs boson decay in the
bb̄ mode. The document also describes the detector
acceptance as given by the LHC beam optics between the interaction
points and the FP420 location, the machine backgrounds, the new
proposed connection cryostat and the moving (``Hamburg'') beam-pipe
at 420 m, and the radio-frequency impact of the design on the
LHC. The last part of the document is devoted to a description of
the 3D silicon sensors and associated tracking performances, the
design of two fast-timing detectors capable of accurate vertex
reconstruction for background rejection at high-luminosities, and
the detector alignment and calibration strategy.
Beauty production in deep inelastic scattering with events in which a muon and a jet are observed in the final state has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 114 pb −1 . The fraction of events with beauty quarks in the data was determined using the distribution of the transverse momentum of the muon relative to the jet. The cross section for beauty production was measured in the kinematic range of photon virtuality, Q 2 > 2 GeV 2 , and inelasticity, 0.05 < y < 0.7, with the requirement of a muon and a jet. Total and differential cross sections are presented and compared to QCD predictions. The beauty contribution to the structure function F 2 was extracted and is compared to theoretical predictions.
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