Dominique Trischuk (University of British Columbia) “Displaced Vertex Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons with the ATLAS Detector”

Abstract: 

This seminar will present recent results of a search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) in proton-protoncollisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is an extremely successful theory and its major predictions have been precisely confirmed. However, the existence of neutrinos, with small nonzero masses, provides evidence that the SM is incomplete. Introducing HNLs into the SM is a natural wayto generate the light neutrino masses through a seesaw mechanism. This search uses 139 fb -1 of ATLAS experimental data collected between 2015 and 2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. A non-standard techniqueis used to search for a displaced vertex from particle trajectories produced in the HNL decay to leptons. The dominant background from uncorrelated leptons crossing in the ATLAS detector is estimated using an objectshuffling method. The reconstructed HNL mass is used to discriminate between signal and background. No excessof events is observed and constraints on the strength of the interactions between HNLs and neutrinos are imposed in various scenarios.

This seminar will conclude with a presentation of methods used to study the detector performance and readout system of the ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk). The LHC is currently undergoing upgrades that will enable it to produce more than ten times the data that has already been collected. To meet the requirements of this challenging new environment, an all-silicon particle tracking system will be installed in ATLAS.

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