# ATLAS Preprints

2014-12-22
07:21
 Identification and energy calibration of hadronically decaying tau leptons with the ATLAS experiment in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=8 TeV / ATLAS Collaboration This paper describes the trigger and offline reconstruction, identification and energy calibration algorithms for hadronic decays of tau leptons employed for the data collected from $pp$ collisions in 2012 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV. [...] CERN-PH-EP-2014-227 ; arXiv:1412.7086. - 2014. - 21 p. Previous draft version - Full text - Full text

2014-12-19
18:03
 Search for charged Higgs bosons decaying via $H^{\pm} \rightarrow \tau^{\pm}\nu$ in fully hadronic final states using $pp$ collision data at $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector / ATLAS Collaboration The results of a search for charged Higgs bosons decaying to a $\tau$ lepton and a neutrino, $H^{\pm} \rightarrow \tau^{\pm} \nu$, are presented. [...] CERN-PH-EP-2014-274 ; arXiv:1412.6663. - 2014. - 27 p. Previous draft version - Full text - Full text

2014-12-18
19:11
 Observation and measurements of the production of prompt and non-prompt $J/\psi$ mesons in association with a $Z$ boson in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}= 8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector / ATLAS Collaboration The production of a $Z$ boson in association with a $J/\psi$ meson in proton--proton collisions probes the production mechanisms of quarkonium and heavy flavour in association with vector bosons, and allows studies of multiple parton scattering. [...] CERN-PH-EP-2014-276 ; arXiv:1412.6428. - 2014. - 14 p. Previous draft version - Full text - Full text

2014-12-15
16:48
 Measurement of Spin Correlation in Top-Antitop Quark Events and Search for Top Squark Pair Production in pp Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV Using the ATLAS Detector / ATLAS Collaboration A measurement of spin correlation in $t\bar{t}$ production is presented using data collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb$^{-1}$. [...] CERN-PH-EP-2014-257 ; arXiv:1412.4742. - 2014. - 7 p. Previous draft version - Full text - Full text

2014-12-11
23:13
 Centrality and rapidity dependence of inclusive jet production in $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV proton--lead collisions with the ATLAS detector / ATLAS Collaboration Measurements of the centrality and rapidity dependence of inclusive jet production in $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV proton--lead ($p$+Pb) collisions and the jet cross-section in $\sqrt{s} = 2.76$ TeV proton--proton collisions are presented. [...] CERN-PH-EP-2014-275 ; arXiv:1412.4092. - 2014. - 14 p. Previous draft version - Full text - Full text

2014-12-11
12:02
 Search for monotop events using the ATLAS detector at the LHC / Theveneaux-Pelzer, Timothee (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Universite, Universite Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France) A search for the production of single-top-quarks in association with missing energy performed in proton{proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment is presented. [...] ATL-PHYS-PROC-2014-279 ; arXiv:1412.3629. - 2014. - 4 p. Original Communication (restricted to ATLAS) - Full text - Preprint

2014-12-08
14:49
 Observation and measurement of Higgs boson decays to $WW^\ast$ with the ATLAS detector / ATLAS Collaboration We report the observation of Higgs boson decays to $WW^{\ast}$ based on an excess over background of 6.1 standard deviations in the dilepton final state, where the Standard Model expectation is 5.8 standard deviations. [...] CERN-PH-EP-2014-270 ; arXiv:1412.2641. - 2014. - 73 p. Previous draft version - Preprint - Full text

2014-12-08
09:47
 SUSY searches with the ATLAS detector / Ancu, Lucian Stefan (Geneva U.) Highlights of the search for SUSY at ATLAS are presented emphasising on the variety of searches that were performed in the LHC Run I in p-p collisions at a centre of mass of 7 TeV and 8TeV. [...] ATL-PHYS-PROC-2014-276 ; arXiv:1412.2784. - 2014. - 9 p. Original Communication (restricted to ATLAS) - Full text - Preprint

2014-12-04
15:27
 Measurement of the transverse polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons produced in proton--proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV using the ATLAS detector / ATLAS Collaboration The transverse polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\bar\Lambda$ hyperons produced in proton--proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is measured. [...] CERN-PH-EP-2014-258 ; arXiv:1412.1692. - 2014. - 10 p. Previous draft version - Preprint - Full text

2014-12-04
08:02
 Experimental systematic uncertainties (and object reconstruction) on top physics, their correlations, comparison ATLAS vs CMS (vs Tevatron) and common agreements / Costa, M J (Valencia U., IFIC) The experimental systematic uncertainties associated to the reconstruction and calibration of the objects appearing in top quark final states at the LHC and Tevatron are discussed. [...] arXiv:1412.0875. - 2014. Preprint