This paper reports the first evidence of light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, confirming a quantum electrodynamics process predicted by the Standard Model.
Contribution
It provides experimental evidence for light-by-light scattering in ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions, a process previously unobserved directly.
Findings
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Observed 13 candidate events with low background.
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Measured cross section consistent with Standard Model.
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Supports quantum electrodynamics predictions in high-energy nuclear collisions.
Abstract
Light-by-light scattering (γγ→γγ) is a quantum-mechanical process that is forbidden in the classical theory of electrodynamics. This reaction is accessible at the Large Hadron Collider thanks to the large electromagnetic field strengths generated by ultra-relativistic colliding lead (Pb) ions. Using 480 μb−1 of Pb+Pb collision data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV by the ATLAS detector, the ATLAS Collaboration reports evidence for the γγ→γγ reaction. A total of 13 candidate events are observed with an expected background of 2.6±0.7 events. After background subtraction and analysis corrections, the fiducial cross section of the process Pb+Pb(γγ)→Pb(∗)+Pb(∗)γγ, for photon transverse energy…
Tables2
Table 1. Table 1: The number of events accepted by the sequential selection requirements for data, compared to the number of background and signal events expected from the simulation. The signal simulation is based on calculations from Ref. [ 28 ] . In addition, the uncertainties on the expected number of events passing all selection requirements are given.
Selection
CEP
Hadronic
Other
Total
Signal
Data
fakes
fakes
background
Preselection
4.7
9.1
4.5
8.7
GeV
4.4
8.5
Aco
0.9
7.3
Uncertainty
0.5
1.5
Table 2. Table 2: Summary of systematic uncertainties. The table shows the relative systematic uncertainty on detector correction factor C 𝐶 C broken into its individual contributions. The total is obtained by adding them in quadrature.
Source of uncertainty
Relative uncertainty
Trigger
5%
Photon reco efficiency
12%
Photon PID efficiency
16%
Photon energy scale
7%
Photon energy resolution
11%
Total
24%
Equations2
σfid=C×∫LdtNdata−Nbkg,
σfid=C×∫LdtNdata−Nbkg,
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\AtlasTitle
Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
\PreprintIdNumberCERN-EP-2016-316
\AtlasJournalNature Physics
\AtlasJournalRefNature Phys. 13 (2017) no.9, 852-858
\AtlasDOI10.1038/nphys4208
\AtlasAbstract
Light-by-light scattering (γγ→γγ) is a quantum-mechanical process that is forbidden in the classical theory of electrodynamics.
This reaction is accessible at the Large Hadron Collider thanks to the large electromagnetic field strengths generated by ultra-relativistic colliding lead ions.
Using 480 μb*-1* of lead–lead collision data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV by the ATLAS detector, here we report evidence for light-by-light scattering.
A total of thirteen candidate events were observed with an expected background of 2.6±0.7 events.
After background subtraction and analysis corrections, the fiducial cross section of the process
Pb+Pb(γγ)→Pb(∗)+Pb(∗)γγ,
for photon transverse energy ET>3\leavevmodeGeV, photon absolute pseudorapidity ∣η∣<2.4, diphoton invariant mass greater than 6\leavevmodeGeV,
diphoton transverse momentum lower than 2 GeV and diphoton acoplanarity below 0.01, is measured to be
70±24\leavevmode(stat.)±17\leavevmode(syst.) nb, which is in agreement with the Standard Model predictions.
One of the key features of Maxwell’s equations is their linearity in both the sources and the fields, from which follows the superposition principle.
This forbids effects such as light-by-light (LbyL) scattering, γγ→γγ, which is a purely quantum-mechanical process.
It was realised in the early history of quantum electrodynamics (QED) that LbyL scattering is related to the polarisation of the vacuum [1].
In the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, the virtual particles that mediate the LbyL coupling are electrically charged fermions
or W± bosons.
In QED, the γγ→γγ reaction proceeds at lowest order in the fine structure constant (αem) via virtual one-loop box diagrams involving fermions (Figure 1(a)), which is an O(αem4≈3×10−9)
process, making it challenging to test experimentally.
Indeed, the elastic LbyL scattering has remained unobserved: even the ultra-intense laser experiments are not yet powerful enough to probe this phenomenon [2].
LbyL scattering via an electron loop has been precisely, albeit indirectly, tested in measurements of the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron and muon [3, 4] where it is predicted to contribute substantially, as one of the QED corrections [5].
The γγ→γγ reaction has been measured in photon scattering in the Coulomb field of a nucleus (Delbrück scattering) at fixed photon energies below 7 GeV [6, 7, 8, 9].
The analogous process, where a photon splits into two photons by interaction with external fields (photon splitting), has been observed in the energy region of 0.1–0.5 GeV [10].
A related process involving only real photons, in which several photons fuse to form an electron–positron pair (e+e−), has been measured in Ref. [11].
Similarly, the multiphoton Compton scattering in which up to four laser photons interact with an electron, has been observed [12].
An alternative way by which LbyL interactions can be studied is by using relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
In ‘ultra-peripheral collision’ (UPC) events, with impact parameters larger than twice the radius of the nuclei [13, 14], the strong interaction does not play a role.
The electromagnetic (EM) field strengths of relativistic ions scale with the proton number (Z). For example, for a lead nucleus (Pb) with Z=82 the field can be up to 1025Vm−1 [15], much larger than the Schwinger limit [16] above which QED corrections become important.
In the 1930s it was found that highly relativistic charged particles can be described by the equivalent photon approximation (EPA) [17, 18, 19], which is schematically shown in Figure 1(b).
The EM fields produced by the colliding Pb nuclei
can be treated as a beam of quasi-real photons with a small virtuality of Q2<1/R2, where R is the radius of the charge distribution and so Q2<10−3\leavevmodeGeV2.
Then, the cross section for the reaction Pb+Pb(γγ)→Pb+Pbγγ can be calculated by convolving the respective photon flux with the elementary cross section for the process γγ→γγ.
Since the photon flux associated with each nucleus scales as Z2, the cross section is extremely enhanced as compared to proton–proton (pp) collisions.
In this article a measurement of LbyL scattering in Pb+Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is reported, following the approach recently proposed in Ref. [20].
The final-state signature of interest is the exclusive production of two photons,
Pb+Pb(γγ)→Pb(∗)+Pb(∗)γγ, where a possible EM excitation of the outgoing ions [21] is denoted by (∗).
Hence, the expected signature is two
photons
and no further activity in the central detector, since the Pb(∗) ions escape into the LHC beam pipe.
Moreover, it is predicted that the background is relatively low in
heavy-ion collisions and is dominated by exclusive dielectron (γγ→e+e−) production [20, 22]. The misidentification of electrons as photons can occur when the electron track is not reconstructed or the electron emits a hard bremsstrahlung photon.
The fiducial
cross section of the process γγ→γγ in Pb+Pb collisions is measured, using a data set recorded at a nucleon–nucleon centre-of-mass energy (sNN) of 5.02 TeV.
This data set was recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015 and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 480\pm 30\leavevmode\nobreak\ \mbox{\mub{}^{-1}}.
In addition to the measured fiducial cross section, the significance of the observed number of signal candidate events is given, assuming the background-only hypothesis.
Experimental setup
ATLAS is a cylindrical particle detector composed of several sub-detectors [23]. ATLAS uses a right-handed coordinate system with its origin at the nominal interaction point (IP)
in the centre of the detector and the z-axis along the beam pipe.
The x-axis points from the IP to the centre of the LHC ring,
and the y-axis points upwards.
Cylindrical coordinates (r,ϕ) are used in the transverse plane,
ϕ being the azimuthal angle around the z-axis.
The pseudorapidity is defined in terms of the polar angle θ as η=−lntan(θ/2). Angular distance is measured in units of ΔR≡(Δη)2+(Δϕ)2.
The photon or electron transverse energy is ET=Esin(θ), where E is its energy.
The inner tracking detector (ID) consists of a silicon pixel system, a silicon microstrip detector and a straw-tube tracker immersed in a 2 T magnetic field provided by a superconducting solenoid.
The ID track reconstruction efficiency is estimated in Ref. [24] for minimum-bias pp events that, like UPC Pb+Pb events, have a low average track multiplicity.
For charged hadrons in the transverse momentum range 100<pT<200 MeV the efficiency is about 50% and grows to 80% for pT>200 MeV.
Around the tracker there is a system of EM and hadronic calorimeters, which use liquid argon and lead, copper, or tungsten absorbers for the EM and forward (∣η∣>1.7) hadronic components of the detector, and scintillator-tile active material and steel absorbers for the central (∣η∣<1.7) hadronic component.
The muon spectrometer (MS) consists of separate trigger and
high-precision tracking chambers measuring the trajectory of muons in a magnetic field generated by superconducting air-core toroids.
The ATLAS minimum-bias trigger scintillators (MBTS) consist of scintillator slabs positioned between the ID and the endcap calorimeters with each side having an outer ring of four slabs segmented in azimuthal angle, covering 2.07<∣η∣<2.76 and
an inner ring of eight slabs, covering 2.76<∣η∣<3.86.
The ATLAS zero-degree calorimeters (ZDC), located along the beam axis at 140 m from the IP on both sides, detect neutral particles (including neutrons emitted from the nucleus).
The ATLAS trigger system [25] consists of a Level-1 trigger implemented using a combination of dedicated electronics and programmable logic, and a software-based high-level trigger (HLT).
Monte Carlo simulation and theoretical predictions
Several Monte Carlo (MC)
samples are produced to estimate background contributions and corrections to the fiducial measurement.
The detector response is modelled using a simulation based on GEANT4 [26, 27].
The data and MC simulated events are passed through the same reconstruction and analysis procedures.
Light-by-light signal events are generated taking into account box diagrams with charged leptons and quarks in the loops, as detailed in Ref. [28].
The contributions from W-boson loops are omitted in the calculations since they are mostly important for diphoton masses mγγ>2mW [29].
The calculations are then convolved with the Pb+Pb EPA spectrum from the Starlight 1.1 MC generator [30].
Next, various diphoton kinematic distributions are cross-checked with predictions from Ref. [20] and good agreement is found.
The theoretical uncertainty on the cross section is mainly due to limited knowledge of the nuclear electromagnetic form-factors
and the related initial photon fluxes. This is studied in Ref. [20] and the relevant uncertainty is conservatively estimated to be 20%.
Higher-order corrections (not included in the calculations) are also part of the theoretical uncertainty and are of the order of a few percent for diphoton invariant masses below 100 GeV [31, 32].
The sources of background considered in this analysis are:
γγ→e+e−, central exclusive production (CEP) of photon pairs, exclusive production of quark–antiquark pairs (γγ→qqˉ) and other backgrounds that could mimic the diphoton event signatures.
The γγ→e+e− background is modelled with Starlight 1.1 [30],
in which the cross section is computed by combining the Pb+Pb EPA with the leading-order formula for γγ→e+e−.
This process has been recently measured by the ALICE Collaboration, and a good agreement with Starlight is found [33].
The exclusive diphoton final state can be also produced via the strong interaction through a quark loop in the exchange of two gluons in a colour-singlet state.
This CEP process, gg→γγ, is modelled using SuperChic 2.03 [34], in which the pp cross section has been scaled by A2Rg4 as suggested in Ref. [20], where A=208 and Rg≈0.7 is a gluon shadowing correction [35].
This process has a large theoretical uncertainty, of O(100%), mostly related to incomplete knowledge of gluon densities [36].
The γγ→qqˉ contribution is estimated using Herwig++ 2.7.1 [37] where the EPA formalism in pp collisions is implemented.
The γγ→qqˉ sample is then normalised to the corresponding cross section in Pb+Pb collisions [30].
Event selection
Candidate diphoton events were recorded in the Pb+Pb run in 2015 using a dedicated trigger for events with moderate activity in the calorimeter but little additional activity in the entire detector.
At Level-1 the total ET registered in the calorimeter after noise suppression was required to be between 5 and 200\leavevmodeGeV.
Then at the HLT, events were rejected if more than one hit was found in the inner ring of the MBTS (MBTS veto) or if more than ten hits were found in the pixel detector.
The efficiency of the Level-1 trigger is estimated with γγ→e+e− events passing an independent supporting trigger.
This trigger is designed to select events with mutual dissociation of Pb nuclei and small activity in the ID.
It is based on a coincidence of signals in both ZDC sides and a requirement on the total ET in the calorimeter below 50 GeV.
Event candidates are required to have only two reconstructed tracks and two EM energy clusters.
Furthermore, to reduce possible backgrounds, each pair of clusters (cl1, cl2) is required to have a small acoplanarity (1−Δϕcl1,\leavevmode\nobreak cl2/π<0.2).
The extracted Level-1 trigger efficiency is provided as a function of the sum of cluster transverse energies (ETcl1 +ETcl2).
The efficiency grows from about 70% at (\mbox{E_{\mathrm{T}}^{\mathrm{cl1}}}+\mbox{E_{\mathrm{T}}^{\mathrm{cl2}}})=6\leavevmode\nobreak\ \text{Ge\kern-1.00006ptV} to 100% at (\mbox{E_{\mathrm{T}}^{\mathrm{cl1}}}+\mbox{E_{\mathrm{T}}^{\mathrm{cl2}}})>9\leavevmode\nobreak\ \text{Ge\kern-1.00006ptV}.
The efficiency is parameterised using an error function fit which is then used to reweight the simulation.
Due to the extremely low noise, very high hit reconstruction efficiency and low conversion probability of signal photons in the pixel detector (around 10%), the uncertainty due to the requirement for minimal activity in the ID is negligible.
The MBTS veto efficiency was studied using γγ→ℓ+ℓ− events (ℓ=e,\leavevmodeμ) passing a supporting trigger and it is estimated to be (98±2)%.
Photons are reconstructed from EM clusters in the calorimeter and tracking information provided by the ID, which allows the identification of photon conversions.
Selection requirements are applied to remove EM clusters with a large amount of energy from poorly functioning calorimeter cells, and a timing requirement is made to reject out-of-time candidates. An energy calibration specifically optimised for photons [38] is applied to the candidates to account for upstream energy loss and both lateral and longitudinal shower leakage.
A dedicated correction [39] is applied for photons in MC samples to correct for potential mismodelling of quantities which describe the properties (“shapes”) of the associated EM showers.
The photon particle-identification (PID) in this analysis is based on three shower-shape variables: the lateral width of the
shower in the middle layer of the EM calorimeter, the ratio of the energy difference associated with the largest and second
largest energy deposits to the sum of these energies in the first layer, and the fraction of energy reconstructed in the first layer relative to the total energy of the cluster.
Only photons with ET>3\leavevmodeGeV and ∣η∣<2.37, excluding the calorimeter transition region 1.37<∣η∣<1.52, are considered. The pseudorapidity requirement ensures that the photon candidates pass through regions of the EM calorimeter where the first layer is segmented into narrow strips, allowing for good separation between genuine prompt photons and photons coming from the decay of neutral hadrons.
A constant photon PID efficiency of 95% as a function of η with respect to reconstructed photon candidates is maintained.
This is optimised using multivariate analysis techniques [40], such that EM energy clusters induced by cosmic-ray muons are rejected with 95% efficiency.
Preselected events are required to have exactly two photons satisfying the above selection criteria, with a diphoton invariant mass greater than 6 GeV.
In order to reduce the dielectron background, a veto on the presence of any charged-particle tracks (with pT>100 MeV, ∣η∣<2.5 and at least one hit in the pixel detector) is imposed.
This requirement further reduces the fake-photon background from the dielectron final state by a factor of 25, according to simulation.
It has almost no impact on γγ→γγ signal events, since the probability of photon conversion in the pixel detector is relatively small and converted photons are suppressed at low ET (3–6 GeV) by the photon selection requirements.
According to MC studies, the photon selection requirements remove about 10% of low-ET photons.
To reduce other fake-photon backgrounds (for example, cosmic-ray muons), the transverse momentum of the diphoton system (pTγγ) is required to be below 2 GeV.
To reduce background from CEP gg→γγ reactions, an additional requirement on diphoton acoplanarity, Aco=1−Δϕγγ/π<0.01, is imposed.
This requirement is optimised to retain a high signal efficiency and reduce the CEP background significantly, since the transverse momentum transferred by the photon exchange is usually much smaller than that due to the colour-singlet-state gluons [41].
Performance and validation of photon reconstruction
Since the analysis requires the presence of low-energy
photons, which are not typically used in ATLAS analyses,
detailed studies of photon reconstruction and calibration are performed.
High-pTγγ→ℓ+ℓ− production with a final-state radiation (FSR) photon is used for the measurement of the photon PID
efficiency. Events with a photon and two tracks corresponding to oppositely charged particles with pT>1\leavevmodeGeV are required to pass the same trigger as in the diphoton selection or the supporting trigger.
The ΔR between a photon candidate and a track is required to be greater than 0.2 in order to avoid leakage of the electron clusters from the γγ→e+e− process to the photon cluster.
The FSR event candidates are identified using a \mbox{p_{\mathrm{T}}^{\mathrm{tt}\gamma}}<1\leavevmode\nobreak\ \text{Ge\kern-1.00006ptV} requirement, where pTttγ is the transverse momentum of the three-body system consisting of two charged-particle tracks and a photon.
The FSR photons are then used to extract the photon PID efficiency, which is defined as the probability for a reconstructed photon to satisfy the identification criteria.
Figure 2(a) shows the photon PID efficiencies in data and simulation as a function of reconstructed photon ET.
Within their statistical precision the two results agree.
The photon reconstruction efficiency is extracted from data using γγ→e+e− events where one of the electrons emits a hard-bremsstrahlung photon due to interaction with the material of the detector.
Events with exactly one identified electron, two reconstructed charged-particle tracks and exactly one photon are studied.
The electron ET is required to be above 5 GeV and the pT of the track that is unmatched with the electron (trk2) is required to be below 2 GeV.
The additional hard-bremsstrahlung photon is expected to have ETγ≈(ETe−pTtrk2).
The pTtrk2<2 GeV requirement ensures a sufficient ΔR separation between the expected photon and the second electron, extrapolated to the first layer of the EM calorimeter.
The data sample contains 247 γγ→e+e− events that are used to extract the photon reconstruction efficiency, which is presented in Figure 2(b).
Good agreement between data and γγ→e+e− MC simulation is observed and the photon reconstruction efficiency is measured with a 5–10% relative uncertainty at low ET (3–6 GeV).
In addition, a cross-check is performed on Z→μ+μ−γ events identified in pp collision data from 2015 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.6fb−1.
The results support (in a similar way to Ref. [42]) the choice to use the three shower-shape variables in this photon PID selection in an independent sample of low-ET photons.
The photon cluster energy resolution is extracted from data using γγ→e+e− events.
The electrons from the γγ→e+e− reaction are well balanced in their transverse momenta, with very small standard deviation, σpTe+−pTe−<30 MeV, much smaller than the expected EM calorimeter energy resolution.
Therefore, by measuring (\mbox{E_{\mathrm{T}}^{\mathrm{cl1}}}-\mbox{E_{\mathrm{T}}^{\mathrm{cl2}}}) distributions in γγ→e+e− events, one can extract the cluster energy resolution, σETcl.
For electrons with ET<10 GeV the σETcl/ETcl is observed to be approximately 8% both in data and simulation.
An uncertainty of δσETγ/σETγ=15% is assigned to the simulated photon energy resolution and takes into account differences between σETcl in data and σETγ in simulation.
Similarly, the EM cluster energy scale can be studied using the (\mbox{E_{\mathrm{T}}^{\mathrm{cl1}}}+\mbox{E_{\mathrm{T}}^{\mathrm{cl2}}}) distribution.
It is observed that the simulation provides a good description of this distribution, within the relative uncertainty of 5% that is assigned to the EM cluster energy-scale modelling.
Background estimation
Due to its relatively high rate, the exclusive production of electron pairs (γγ→e+e−) can be a source of fake diphoton events.
The contribution from the dielectron background is estimated using γγ→e+e− MC simulation (which gives 1.3 events) and is verified using the following data-driven technique.
Two control regions are defined that are expected to be dominated by γγ→e+e− backgrounds.
The first control region is defined by requiring events with exactly one reconstructed charged-particle track
and two identified photons that satisfy the same preselection criteria as for the signal definition.
The second control region is defined similarly to the first one, except exactly two tracks are required (\mbox{N_{\mathrm{trk}}}=2).
Good agreement is observed between data and MC simulation in both control regions, but the precision is limited by the number of events in data. A conservative uncertainty of 25% is therefore assigned to the γγ→e+e− background estimation, which reflects the statistical uncertainty of data in the \mbox{N_{\mathrm{trk}}}=1 control region.
The contribution from a related QED process, γγ→e+e−γγ, is evaluated using the MadGraph5_aMC@NLO MC generator [43] and is found to be negligible.
The Aco <0.01 requirement significantly reduces the CEP gg→γγ background.
However, the MC prediction for this process has a large theoretical uncertainty, hence an additional data-driven normalisation is performed in the region Aco >b, where b is a value greater than 0.01 which can be varied.
Three values of b (0.01, 0.02, 0.03) are used, where the central value b=0.02 is chosen to derive the nominal background prediction and the values b=0.01 and b=0.03 to define the systematic uncertainty.
The normalisation is performed using the condition:
f_{gg\rightarrow\gamma\gamma}^{\textrm{norm},b}=\bigl{(}N_{\textrm{data}}(\textrm{Aco}>b)-N_{\textrm{sig}}(\textrm{Aco}>b)-N_{\gamma\gamma\rightarrow e^{+}e^{-}}(\textrm{Aco}>b)\bigr{)}/N_{gg\rightarrow\gamma\gamma}(\textrm{Aco}>b),
for each value of b, where Ndata is the number of observed events, Nsig is the expected number of signal events,
Nγγ→e+e− is the expected background from γγ→e+e− events and Ngg→γγ is the MC estimate of the expected background from CEP gg→γγ events.
The normalisation factor is found to be fgg→γγnorm=0.5±0.3
and the background due to CEP gg→γγ is estimated to be fgg→γγnorm×Ngg→γγ(Aco<0.01)=0.9±0.5 events.
To verify the CEP gg→γγ background estimation method, energy deposits in the ZDC are studied for events before the Aco selection.
It is expected that the outgoing ions in CEP events predominantly dissociate, which results in the emission of neutrons detectable in the ZDC [20].
Good agreement between the normalised CEP gg→γγ MC expectation and the observed events with a ZDC signal corresponding to at least 1 neutron is observed in the full Aco range.
Low-pT dijet events can produce multiple π0 mesons which could potentially mimic diphoton events.
The event selection requirements are efficient in rejecting such events, and based on studies performed with a supporting trigger,
the background from hadronic processes is estimated to be 0.3±0.3 events.
MC studies show the background from γγ→qqˉ processes is negligible.
Exclusive neutral two-meson production can be a potential source of background for LbyL events, mainly due to their back-to-back topology being similar to that of the CEP gg→γγ process.
The cross section for this process is calculated to be below 10% of the CEP gg→γγ cross section [44, 45] and it is therefore considered to give a negligible contribution to the signal region.
The contribution from bottomonia production (for example, γγ→ηb→γγ or γPb→Υ→γηb→3γ) is calculated using parameters from Refs. [46, 47] and is found to be negligible.
The contribution from other fake diphoton events (for example those induced by cosmic-ray muons) is estimated using
photons that fail to satisfy the longitudinal shower-shape requirement.
The total background due to other fake photons is found to be 0.1±0.1 events.
As a further cross-check, additional activity in the MS is studied. It is observed that out of 18 events satisfying the inverted pTγγ requirement, 13 have at least one additional reconstructed muon.
In the region pTγγ<2\leavevmodeGeV, no events with muon activity are found, which is compatible with the above-mentioned estimate of 0.1±0.1.
The contribution from UPC events where both nuclei emit a bremsstrahlung photon is estimated using calculations from Ref. [13] and is found to be negligible for photons with ∣η∣<2.4 and ET>3\leavevmodeGeV.
Results
Photon kinematic distributions for events satisfying the selection criteria are shown in Figure 3.
The shape of the diphoton acoplanarity distribution for γγ→e+e− events in Figure 3(a) reflects the trajectories of the electron and positron in the detector magnetic field, before they emit hard photons in their collisions with the ID material.
In total, 13 events are observed in data whereas 7.3 signal events and 2.6 background events are expected.
In general, good agreement between data and MC simulation is observed. The effect of sequential selection requirements on the number of events selected is shown in Table 1, for each of the data, signal and background samples.
To quantify an excess of events over the background expectation, a test statistic based on the profile likelihood ratio [48] is used.
The p-value for the background-only hypothesis, defined as the probability for the background to fluctuate and give an excess of events as large or larger than that observed in the data, is found to be 5×10−6.
The p-value can be expressed in terms of Gaussian tail probabilities, which, given in units of standard deviation (σ), corresponds to a significance of 4.4σ.
The expected p-value and significance (obtained before the fit of the signal-plus-background hypothesis to the data and using SM predictions from Ref. [28]) are 8×10−5 and 3.8σ, respectively.
The cross section for the Pb+Pb(γγ)→Pb(∗)+Pb(∗)γγ process is measured in a fiducial phase space defined by the photon
transverse energy ET>3\leavevmodeGeV, photon absolute pseudorapidity ∣η∣<2.4, diphoton invariant mass greater than 6 GeV, diphoton
transverse momentum lower than 2 GeV and diphoton acoplanarity below 0.01.
Experimentally, the fiducial cross section is given by
[TABLE]
where Ndata is the number of selected events in data, Nbkg is the expected number of background events and ∫Ldt is the integrated luminosity.
The factor C is used to correct for the net effect of the trigger efficiency, the diphoton reconstruction and PID efficiencies, as well as the impact of photon energy and angular resolution.
It is defined as the ratio of the number of generated signal events satisfying the selection criteria after particle reconstruction and detector simulation to the number of generated events satisfying the fiducial criteria before reconstruction.
The value of C and its total uncertainty is determined to be 0.31±0.07.
The dominant systematic uncertainties come from the uncertainties on the photon reconstruction and identification efficiencies. Other minor sources of uncertainty are the photon energy scale and resolution uncertainties and trigger efficiency uncertainty.
In order to check for a potential model dependence, calculations from Ref. [28] are compared with predictions from Ref. [20], and a negligible impact on the C-factor uncertainty is found.
Table 2 lists the separate contributions to the systematic uncertainty.
The uncertainty on the integrated luminosity is 6%.
It is derived following a methodology similar to that detailed in Refs. [49, 50], from a calibration of the luminosity scale using x–y beam-separation scans performed in December 2015.
The measured fiducial cross section is σfid=70±24\leavevmode(stat.)±17\leavevmode(syst.) nb, which is in agreement with the predicted values of 45±9 nb [20] and 49±10 nb [28] within uncertainties.
Conclusion
In summary, this article presents evidence for the scattering of light by light in quasi-real photon interactions from 480 μb−1 of ultra-peripheral Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=5.02\leavevmodeTeV by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC.
The statistical significance against the background-only hypothesis is found to be 4.4 standard deviations.
After background subtraction and analysis corrections, the fiducial cross section for the Pb+Pb(γγ)→Pb(∗)+Pb(∗)γγ process
was measured and is compatible with SM predictions.
The analysis is mostly limited by the amount of data available and the lower limit on transverse energy for reconstructed photons (ET=3\leavevmodeGeV), below which more signal is expected. Advancements on these two points would also allow for reconstruction of low-mass mesons decaying into two photons, which in turn could be used to improve detector calibration. The heavy-ion data yield is expected to double at the end of 2018 (and again increase tenfold after LHC Run 4, scheduled to start in 2026), which would significantly reduce the statistical uncertainty. Future upgrades of ATLAS, such as extended tracking acceptance from ∣η∣<2.5 to ∣η∣<4.0, will further improve this.
Acknowledgements
We thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the
support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be
operated efficiently.
We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DRF/IRFU, France; SRNSFG, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF, I-CORE and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZŠ, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, the Canada Council, CANARIE, CRC, Compute Canada, FQRNT, and the Ontario Innovation Trust, Canada; EPLANET, ERC, ERDF, FP7, Horizon 2020 and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d’Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, Région Auvergne and Fondation Partager le Savoir, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; BSF, GIF and Minerva, Israel; BRF, Norway; CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom.
The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (UK) and BNL (USA), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in Ref. [51].
Supplementary information
Exclusive dielectron production
Exclusive dielectron pairs from the reaction Pb+Pb(γγ)→Pb(∗)+Pb(∗)e+e− are used for various aspects of the nominal analysis, in particular to validate the EM calorimeter energy scale and resolution.
To select these γγ→e+e− candidates, events are required to pass the same trigger as in the diphoton selection.
Each electron is reconstructed from EM energy cluster in the calorimeter matched
to a track in the inner detector [52].
The electrons are required to have a transverse energy ET>2.5\leavevmodeGeV and pseudorapidity ∣η∣<2.47 with the calorimeter transition region 1.37<∣η∣<1.52 excluded.
They are also required to meet “loose” identification criteria based on shower shape and track-quality variables [52].
Candidate events are selected by requiring two oppositely charged electrons and no further charged-particle tracks coming from an interaction region.
Selected events are compared with Monte Carlo (MC) simulation based on the Starlight 1.1 model [30], which combines the Pb+Pb equivalent photon approximation with the leading-order formula for γγ→e+e−.
The detector response is modelled using GEANT4 [26, 27] and the simulated events are passed through the same reconstruction and analysis chain as the data.
Figure 4 presents kinematic distributions of the dielectron system after the event selection.
They show good agreement between the data and the QED prediction.
In total, 3216 dielectron events are selected in data and 3300±600 events are expected from the simulation, where the uncertainty is due to limited knowledge of the initial photon fluxes. This modelling uncertainty is assigned as a global uncertainty and follows recommendations from Ref. [20].
Validation of CEP gg→γγ background modelling
The central exclusive production (CEP) gg→γγ is an important background process to consider in the nominal analysis, mainly due to similar two-photon final state and the “peripheral” nature of the interaction.
The CEP gg→γγ occurs via the strong interaction through a quark loop in the exchange of two gluons in a colour-singlet state, which is schematically presented in Fig. 5.
In Pb+Pb collisions this process can be modelled with SuperChic [34] MC generator, as suggested in Ref. [20].
Since the exchanged objects are short-ranged comparing to the size of the Pb nucleus, the CEP occurs at relatively small impact parameters (b): typically twice the radius of the nuclei (2R) [41].
Moreover, the exchanged objects would normally give a large momentum transfer to the nucleus [41], leading to moderate tails in the γγ acoplanarity (Aco).
These two effects would also result in a large probability of the outgoing ions to break-up (incoherent production) and in a strong suppression of the coherent CEP.
Due to small impact parameters in CEP, the coherent production is further altered by additional Coulomb excitations of the outgoing ions [53].
The probability for the additional Coulomb break-up of at least one nucleus is estimated to be 80% for b=2R [30].
When a nucleus breaks up, it produces neutrons at very small angles with respect to the Pb beams (forward neutrons).
They are measured in ATLAS using zero-degree calorimeters (ZDC), which are sensitive to neutrons and photons with ∣η∣>8.3.
Therefore, to check the modelling of the CEP gg→γγ background, an analysis of energy deposits in ZDC is performed.
The events are categorised for the signal (Aco<0.01) and the CEP-enhanced (Aco>0.01) regions.
To separate the ZDC signal from the noise of electronic modules, a calibrated ZDC energy greater than 40% of the single neutron peak is required.
In the CEP-enhanced region, 4 events with no ZDC signal and
4 events with ZDC signal corresponding to multiple neutron emission (8 events in total) are observed in data, where 3.5 CEP gg→γγ events are expected from the simulation.
A diphoton acoplanarity distribution for events with multiple forward neutron emission is presented in Fig. 6, which tends to agree with the CEP gg→γγ MC expectation.
This observation suggests that the transverse momentum transfer in incoherent heavy-ion CEP is comparable with the proton–proton case, which justifies the usage of SuperChic generator to model CEP gg→γγ background contribution.
In the signal region,
11 events with no ZDC signal and
2 events with ZDC signal corresponding to exactly one neutron emission (13 events in total) are observed in data.
The expected event yield from CEP gg→γγ MC is 0.9 events, however, events with one or more emitted neutrons are expected from the signal process, due to an excitation of the nuclear giant dipole resonance [30].
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A. Di Simone51,
R. Di Sipio161,
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C. Diaconu88,
M. Diamond161,
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M.A. Diaz34a,
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J. Dietrich17,
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A. Dimitrievska14,
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F. Djama88,
T. Djobava54b,
J.I. Djuvsland60a,
M.A.B. do Vale26c,
D. Dobos32,
M. Dobre28b,
C. Doglioni84,
J. Dolejsi131,
Z. Dolezal131,
M. Donadelli26d,
S. Donati126a,126b,
P. Dondero123a,123b,
J. Donini37,
J. Dopke133,
A. Doria106a,
M.T. Dova74,
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M. Dris10,
Y. Du36b,
J. Duarte-Campderros155,
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G. Duckeck102,
A. Ducourthial83,
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A. Dudarev32,
A.Chr. Dudder86,
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L. Duflot119,
M. Dührssen32,
M. Dumancic175,
A.E. Dumitriu28b,
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M. Dunford60a,
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M. Düren55,
A. Durglishvili54b,
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M. Dyndal45,
C. Eckardt45,
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R.C. Edgar92,
T. Eifert32,
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K. Einsweiler16,
T. Ekelof168,
M. El Kacimi137c,
R. El Kosseifi88,
V. Ellajosyula88,
M. Ellert168,
S. Elles5,
F. Ellinghaus178,
A.A. Elliot172,
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J. Elmsheuser27,
M. Elsing32,
D. Emeliyanov133,
Y. Enari157,
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J.S. Ennis173,
J. Erdmann46,
A. Ereditato18,
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M. Escalier119,
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C. Escobar127,
B. Esposito50,
A.I. Etienvre138,
E. Etzion155,
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A. Ezhilov125,
F. Fabbri22a,22b,
L. Fabbri22a,22b,
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M. Fanti94a,94b,
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A. Farilla136a,
C. Farina127,
E.M. Farina123a,123b,
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S. Farrell16,
S.M. Farrington173,
P. Farthouat32,
F. Fassi137e,
P. Fassnacht32,
D. Fassouliotis9,
M. Faucci Giannelli80,
A. Favareto53a,53b,
W.J. Fawcett122,
L. Fayard119,
O.L. Fedin125,q,
W. Fedorko171,
S. Feigl121,
L. Feligioni88,
C. Feng36b,
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H. Feng92,
A.B. Fenyuk132,
L. Feremenga8,
P. Fernandez Martinez170,
S. Fernandez Perez13,
J. Ferrando45,
A. Ferrari168,
P. Ferrari109,
R. Ferrari123a,
D.E. Ferreira de Lima60b,
A. Ferrer170,
D. Ferrere52,
C. Ferretti92,
F. Fiedler86,
A. Filipčič78,
M. Filipuzzi45,
F. Filthaut108,
M. Fincke-Keeler172,
K.D. Finelli152,
M.C.N. Fiolhais128a,128c,r,
L. Fiorini170,
A. Fischer2,
C. Fischer13,
J. Fischer178,
W.C. Fisher93,
N. Flaschel45,
I. Fleck143,
P. Fleischmann92,
R.R.M. Fletcher124,
T. Flick178,
B.M. Flierl102,
L.R. Flores Castillo62a,
M.J. Flowerdew103,
G.T. Forcolin87,
A. Formica138,
A. Forti87,
A.G. Foster19,
D. Fournier119,
H. Fox75,
S. Fracchia13,
P. Francavilla83,
M. Franchini22a,22b,
S. Franchino60a,
D. Francis32,
L. Franconi121,
M. Franklin59,
M. Frate166,
M. Fraternali123a,123b,
D. Freeborn81,
S.M. Fressard-Batraneanu32,
B. Freund97,
D. Froidevaux32,
J.A. Frost122,
C. Fukunaga158,
E. Fullana Torregrosa86,
T. Fusayasu104,
J. Fuster170,
C. Gabaldon58,
O. Gabizon154,
A. Gabrielli22a,22b,
A. Gabrielli16,
G.P. Gach41a,
S. Gadatsch32,
S. Gadomski80,
G. Gagliardi53a,53b,
L.G. Gagnon97,
P. Gagnon64,
C. Galea108,
B. Galhardo128a,128c,
E.J. Gallas122,
B.J. Gallop133,
P. Gallus130,
G. Galster39,
K.K. Gan113,
S. Ganguly37,
J. Gao36a,
Y. Gao77,
Y.S. Gao145,g,
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C. García170,
J.E. García Navarro170,
M. Garcia-Sciveres16,
R.W. Gardner33,
N. Garelli145,
V. Garonne121,
A. Gascon Bravo45,
K. Gasnikova45,
C. Gatti50,
A. Gaudiello53a,53b,
G. Gaudio123a,
I.L. Gavrilenko98,
C. Gay171,
G. Gaycken23,
E.N. Gazis10,
C.N.P. Gee133,
M. Geisen86,
M.P. Geisler60a,
K. Gellerstedt148a,148b,
C. Gemme53a,
M.H. Genest58,
C. Geng36a,s,
S. Gentile134a,134b,
C. Gentsos156,
S. George80,
D. Gerbaudo13,
A. Gershon155,
S. Ghasemi143,
M. Ghneimat23,
B. Giacobbe22a,
S. Giagu134a,134b,
P. Giannetti126a,126b,
S.M. Gibson80,
M. Gignac171,
M. Gilchriese16,
D. Gillberg31,
G. Gilles178,
D.M. Gingrich3,d,
N. Giokaris9,∗,
M.P. Giordani167a,167c,
F.M. Giorgi22a,
P.F. Giraud138,
P. Giromini59,
D. Giugni94a,
F. Giuli122,
C. Giuliani103,
M. Giulini60b,
B.K. Gjelsten121,
S. Gkaitatzis156,
I. Gkialas9,
E.L. Gkougkousis139,
L.K. Gladilin101,
C. Glasman85,
J. Glatzer13,
P.C.F. Glaysher45,
A. Glazov45,
M. Goblirsch-Kolb25,
J. Godlewski42,
S. Goldfarb91,
T. Golling52,
D. Golubkov132,
A. Gomes128a,128b,128d,
R. Gonçalo128a,
R. Goncalves Gama26a,
J. Goncalves Pinto Firmino Da Costa138,
G. Gonella51,
L. Gonella19,
A. Gongadze68,
S. González de la Hoz170,
S. Gonzalez-Sevilla52,
L. Goossens32,
P.A. Gorbounov99,
H.A. Gordon27,
I. Gorelov107,
B. Gorini32,
E. Gorini76a,76b,
A. Gorišek78,
A.T. Goshaw48,
C. Gössling46,
M.I. Gostkin68,
C.R. Goudet119,
D. Goujdami137c,
A.G. Goussiou140,
N. Govender147b,t,
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L. Graber57,
I. Grabowska-Bold41a,
P.O.J. Gradin168,
J. Gramling52,
E. Gramstad121,
S. Grancagnolo17,
V. Gratchev125,
P.M. Gravila28f,
H.M. Gray32,
Z.D. Greenwood82,u,
C. Grefe23,
K. Gregersen81,
I.M. Gregor45,
P. Grenier145,
K. Grevtsov5,
J. Griffiths8,
A.A. Grillo139,
K. Grimm75,
S. Grinstein13,v,
Ph. Gris37,
J.-F. Grivaz119,
S. Groh86,
E. Gross175,
J. Grosse-Knetter57,
G.C. Grossi82,
Z.J. Grout81,
L. Guan92,
W. Guan176,
J. Guenther65,
F. Guescini163a,
D. Guest166,
O. Gueta155,
B. Gui113,
E. Guido53a,53b,
T. Guillemin5,
S. Guindon2,
U. Gul56,
C. Gumpert32,
J. Guo36c,
W. Guo92,
Y. Guo36a,
R. Gupta43,
S. Gupta122,
G. Gustavino134a,134b,
P. Gutierrez115,
N.G. Gutierrez Ortiz81,
C. Gutschow81,
C. Guyot138,
M.P. Guzik41a,
C. Gwenlan122,
C.B. Gwilliam77,
A. Haas112,
C. Haber16,
H.K. Hadavand8,
A. Hadef88,
S. Hageböck23,
M. Hagihara164,
H. Hakobyan180,∗,
M. Haleem45,
J. Haley116,
G. Halladjian93,
G.D. Hallewell88,
K. Hamacher178,
P. Hamal117,
K. Hamano172,
A. Hamilton147a,
G.N. Hamity141,
P.G. Hamnett45,
L. Han36a,
S. Han35a,
K. Hanagaki69,w,
K. Hanawa157,
M. Hance139,
B. Haney124,
P. Hanke60a,
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J.D. Hansen39,
M.C. Hansen23,
P.H. Hansen39,
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A.S. Hard176,
T. Harenberg178,
F. Hariri119,
S. Harkusha95,
R.D. Harrington49,
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F. Hartjes109,
N.M. Hartmann102,
M. Hasegawa70,
Y. Hasegawa142,
A. Hasib49,
S. Hassani138,
S. Haug18,
R. Hauser93,
L. Hauswald47,
L.B. Havener38,
M. Havranek130,
C.M. Hawkes19,
R.J. Hawkings32,
D. Hayakawa159,
D. Hayden93,
C.P. Hays122,
J.M. Hays79,
H.S. Hayward77,
S.J. Haywood133,
S.J. Head19,
T. Heck86,
V. Hedberg84,
L. Heelan8,
K.K. Heidegger51,
S. Heim45,
T. Heim16,
B. Heinemann45,x,
J.J. Heinrich102,
L. Heinrich112,
C. Heinz55,
J. Hejbal129,
L. Helary32,
A. Held171,
S. Hellman148a,148b,
C. Helsens32,
J. Henderson122,
R.C.W. Henderson75,
Y. Heng176,
S. Henkelmann171,
A.M. Henriques Correia32,
S. Henrot-Versille119,
G.H. Herbert17,
H. Herde25,
V. Herget177,
Y. Hernández Jiménez147c,
G. Herten51,
R. Hertenberger102,
L. Hervas32,
T.C. Herwig124,
G.G. Hesketh81,
N.P. Hessey163a,
J.W. Hetherly43,
S. Higashino69,
E. Higón-Rodriguez170,
E. Hill172,
J.C. Hill30,
K.H. Hiller45,
S.J. Hillier19,
I. Hinchliffe16,
M. Hirose51,
D. Hirschbuehl178,
B. Hiti78,
O. Hladik129,
X. Hoad49,
J. Hobbs150,
N. Hod163a,
M.C. Hodgkinson141,
P. Hodgson141,
A. Hoecker32,
M.R. Hoeferkamp107,
F. Hoenig102,
D. Hohn23,
T.R. Holmes16,
M. Homann46,
S. Honda164,
T. Honda69,
T.M. Hong127,
B.H. Hooberman169,
W.H. Hopkins118,
Y. Horii105,
A.J. Horton144,
J-Y. Hostachy58,
S. Hou153,
A. Hoummada137a,
J. Howarth45,
J. Hoya74,
M. Hrabovsky117,
I. Hristova17,
J. Hrivnac119,
T. Hryn’ova5,
A. Hrynevich96,
P.J. Hsu63,
S.-C. Hsu140,
Q. Hu36a,
S. Hu36c,
Y. Huang35a,
Z. Hubacek130,
F. Hubaut88,
F. Huegging23,
T.B. Huffman122,
E.W. Hughes38,
G. Hughes75,
M. Huhtinen32,
P. Huo150,
N. Huseynov68,b,
J. Huston93,
J. Huth59,
G. Iacobucci52,
G. Iakovidis27,
I. Ibragimov143,
L. Iconomidou-Fayard119,
P. Iengo32,
O. Igonkina109,y,
T. Iizawa174,
Y. Ikegami69,
M. Ikeno69,
Y. Ilchenko11,z,
D. Iliadis156,
N. Ilic145,
G. Introzzi123a,123b,
P. Ioannou9,∗,
M. Iodice136a,
K. Iordanidou38,
V. Ippolito59,
N. Ishijima120,
M. Ishino157,
M. Ishitsuka159,
C. Issever122,
S. Istin20a,
F. Ito164,
J.M. Iturbe Ponce87,
R. Iuppa162a,162b,
H. Iwasaki69,
J.M. Izen44,
V. Izzo106a,
S. Jabbar3,
P. Jackson1,
V. Jain2,
K.B. Jakobi86,
K. Jakobs51,
S. Jakobsen32,
T. Jakoubek129,
D.O. Jamin116,
D.K. Jana82,
R. Jansky65,
J. Janssen23,
M. Janus57,
P.A. Janus41a,
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N. Javadov68,b,
T. Javůrek51,
M. Javurkova51,
F. Jeanneau138,
L. Jeanty16,
J. Jejelava54a,aa,
A. Jelinskas173,
P. Jenni51,ab,
C. Jeske173,
S. Jézéquel5,
H. Ji176,
J. Jia150,
H. Jiang67,
Y. Jiang36a,
Z. Jiang145,
S. Jiggins81,
J. Jimenez Pena170,
S. Jin35a,
A. Jinaru28b,
O. Jinnouchi159,
H. Jivan147c,
P. Johansson141,
K.A. Johns7,
C.A. Johnson64,
W.J. Johnson140,
K. Jon-And148a,148b,
R.W.L. Jones75,
S. Jones7,
T.J. Jones77,
J. Jongmanns60a,
P.M. Jorge128a,128b,
J. Jovicevic163a,
X. Ju176,
A. Juste Rozas13,v,
M.K. Köhler175,
A. Kaczmarska42,
M. Kado119,
H. Kagan113,
M. Kagan145,
S.J. Kahn88,
T. Kaji174,
E. Kajomovitz48,
C.W. Kalderon84,
A. Kaluza86,
S. Kama43,
A. Kamenshchikov132,
N. Kanaya157,
S. Kaneti30,
L. Kanjir78,
V.A. Kantserov100,
J. Kanzaki69,
B. Kaplan112,
L.S. Kaplan176,
D. Kar147c,
K. Karakostas10,
N. Karastathis10,
M.J. Kareem57,
E. Karentzos10,
S.N. Karpov68,
Z.M. Karpova68,
K. Karthik112,
V. Kartvelishvili75,
A.N. Karyukhin132,
K. Kasahara164,
L. Kashif176,
R.D. Kass113,
A. Kastanas149,
Y. Kataoka157,
C. Kato157,
A. Katre52,
J. Katzy45,
K. Kawade105,
K. Kawagoe73,
T. Kawamoto157,
G. Kawamura57,
E.F. Kay77,
V.F. Kazanin111,c,
R. Keeler172,
R. Kehoe43,
J.S. Keller45,
J.J. Kempster80,
H. Keoshkerian161,
O. Kepka129,
B.P. Kerševan78,
S. Kersten178,
R.A. Keyes90,
M. Khader169,
F. Khalil-zada12,
A. Khanov116,
A.G. Kharlamov111,c,
T. Kharlamova111,c,
A. Khodinov160,
T.J. Khoo52,
V. Khovanskiy99,∗,
E. Khramov68,
J. Khubua54b,ac,
S. Kido70,
C.R. Kilby80,
H.Y. Kim8,
S.H. Kim164,
Y.K. Kim33,
N. Kimura156,
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B.T. King77,
D. Kirchmeier47,
J. Kirk133,
A.E. Kiryunin103,
T. Kishimoto157,
D. Kisielewska41a,
K. Kiuchi164,
O. Kivernyk5,
E. Kladiva146b,
T. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus51,
M.H. Klein38,
M. Klein77,
U. Klein77,
K. Kleinknecht86,
P. Klimek110,
A. Klimentov27,
R. Klingenberg46,
T. Klingl23,
T. Klioutchnikova32,
E.-E. Kluge60a,
P. Kluit109,
S. Kluth103,
J. Knapik42,
E. Kneringer65,
E.B.F.G. Knoops88,
A. Knue103,
A. Kobayashi157,
D. Kobayashi159,
T. Kobayashi157,
M. Kobel47,
M. Kocian145,
P. Kodys131,
T. Koffas31,
E. Koffeman109,
N.M. Köhler103,
T. Koi145,
M. Kolb60b,
I. Koletsou5,
A.A. Komar98,∗,
Y. Komori157,
T. Kondo69,
N. Kondrashova36c,
K. Köneke51,
A.C. König108,
T. Kono69,ad,
R. Konoplich112,ae,
N. Konstantinidis81,
R. Kopeliansky64,
S. Koperny41a,
A.K. Kopp51,
K. Korcyl42,
K. Kordas156,
A. Korn81,
A.A. Korol111,c,
I. Korolkov13,
E.V. Korolkova141,
O. Kortner103,
S. Kortner103,
T. Kosek131,
V.V. Kostyukhin23,
A. Kotwal48,
A. Koulouris10,
A. Kourkoumeli-Charalampidi123a,123b,
C. Kourkoumelis9,
E. Kourlitis141,
V. Kouskoura27,
A.B. Kowalewska42,
R. Kowalewski172,
T.Z. Kowalski41a,
C. Kozakai157,
W. Kozanecki138,
A.S. Kozhin132,
V.A. Kramarenko101,
G. Kramberger78,
D. Krasnopevtsev100,
A. Krasznahorkay32,
D. Krauss103,
A. Kravchenko27,
J.A. Kremer41a,
M. Kretz60c,
J. Kretzschmar77,
K. Kreutzfeldt55,
P. Krieger161,
K. Krizka33,
K. Kroeninger46,
H. Kroha103,
J. Kroll124,
J. Kroseberg23,
J. Krstic14,
U. Kruchonak68,
H. Krüger23,
N. Krumnack67,
M.C. Kruse48,
M. Kruskal24,
T. Kubota91,
H. Kucuk81,
S. Kuday4b,
J.T. Kuechler178,
S. Kuehn32,
A. Kugel60c,
F. Kuger177,
T. Kuhl45,
V. Kukhtin68,
R. Kukla88,
Y. Kulchitsky95,
S. Kuleshov34b,
Y.P. Kulinich169,
M. Kuna134a,134b,
T. Kunigo71,
A. Kupco129,
O. Kuprash155,
H. Kurashige70,
L.L. Kurchaninov163a,
Y.A. Kurochkin95,
M.G. Kurth35a,
V. Kus129,
E.S. Kuwertz172,
M. Kuze159,
J. Kvita117,
T. Kwan172,
D. Kyriazopoulos141,
A. La Rosa103,
J.L. La Rosa Navarro26d,
L. La Rotonda40a,40b,
C. Lacasta170,
F. Lacava134a,134b,
J. Lacey45,
H. Lacker17,
D. Lacour83,
E. Ladygin68,
R. Lafaye5,
B. Laforge83,
T. Lagouri179,
S. Lai57,
S. Lammers64,
W. Lampl7,
E. Lançon27,
U. Landgraf51,
M.P.J. Landon79,
M.C. Lanfermann52,
V.S. Lang60a,
J.C. Lange13,
A.J. Lankford166,
F. Lanni27,
K. Lantzsch23,
A. Lanza123a,
A. Lapertosa53a,53b,
S. Laplace83,
J.F. Laporte138,
T. Lari94a,
F. Lasagni Manghi22a,22b,
M. Lassnig32,
P. Laurelli50,
W. Lavrijsen16,
A.T. Law139,
P. Laycock77,
T. Lazovich59,
M. Lazzaroni94a,94b,
B. Le91,
O. Le Dortz83,
E. Le Guirriec88,
E.P. Le Quilleuc138,
M. LeBlanc172,
T. LeCompte6,
F. Ledroit-Guillon58,
C.A. Lee27,
S.C. Lee153,
L. Lee1,
B. Lefebvre90,
G. Lefebvre83,
M. Lefebvre172,
F. Legger102,
C. Leggett16,
A. Lehan77,
G. Lehmann Miotto32,
X. Lei7,
W.A. Leight45,
M.A.L. Leite26d,
R. Leitner131,
D. Lellouch175,
B. Lemmer57,
K.J.C. Leney81,
T. Lenz23,
B. Lenzi32,
R. Leone7,
S. Leone126a,126b,
C. Leonidopoulos49,
G. Lerner151,
C. Leroy97,
A.A.J. Lesage138,
C.G. Lester30,
M. Levchenko125,
J. Levêque5,
D. Levin92,
L.J. Levinson175,
M. Levy19,
D. Lewis79,
M. Leyton44,
B. Li36a,s,
C. Li36a,
H. Li150,
L. Li48,
L. Li36c,
Q. Li35a,
S. Li48,
X. Li36c,
Y. Li143,
Z. Liang35a,
B. Liberti135a,
A. Liblong161,
K. Lie169,
J. Liebal23,
W. Liebig15,
A. Limosani152,
S.C. Lin153,af,
T.H. Lin86,
B.E. Lindquist150,
A.E. Lionti52,
E. Lipeles124,
A. Lipniacka15,
M. Lisovyi60b,
T.M. Liss169,
A. Lister171,
A.M. Litke139,
B. Liu153,ag,
H. Liu92,
H. Liu27,
J. Liu36b,
J.B. Liu36a,
K. Liu88,
L. Liu169,
M. Liu36a,
Y.L. Liu36a,
Y. Liu36a,
M. Livan123a,123b,
A. Lleres58,
J. Llorente Merino35a,
S.L. Lloyd79,
C.Y. Lo62b,
F. Lo Sterzo153,
E.M. Lobodzinska45,
P. Loch7,
F.K. Loebinger87,
K.M. Loew25,
A. Loginov179,∗,
T. Lohse17,
K. Lohwasser45,
M. Lokajicek129,
B.A. Long24,
J.D. Long169,
R.E. Long75,
L. Longo76a,76b,
K.A. Looper113,
J.A. Lopez34b,
D. Lopez Mateos59,
I. Lopez Paz13,
A. Lopez Solis83,
J. Lorenz102,
N. Lorenzo Martinez5,
M. Losada21,
P.J. Lösel102,
X. Lou35a,
A. Lounis119,
J. Love6,
P.A. Love75,
H. Lu62a,
N. Lu92,
Y.J. Lu63,
H.J. Lubatti140,
C. Luci134a,134b,
A. Lucotte58,
C. Luedtke51,
F. Luehring64,
W. Lukas65,
L. Luminari134a,
O. Lundberg148a,148b,
B. Lund-Jensen149,
P.M. Luzi83,
D. Lynn27,
R. Lysak129,
E. Lytken84,
V. Lyubushkin68,
H. Ma27,
L.L. Ma36b,
Y. Ma36b,
G. Maccarrone50,
A. Macchiolo103,
C.M. Macdonald141,
B. Maček78,
J. Machado Miguens124,128b,
D. Madaffari88,
R. Madar37,
H.J. Maddocks168,
W.F. Mader47,
A. Madsen45,
J. Maeda70,
S. Maeland15,
T. Maeno27,
A. Maevskiy101,
E. Magradze57,
J. Mahlstedt109,
C. Maiani119,
C. Maidantchik26a,
A.A. Maier103,
T. Maier102,
A. Maio128a,128b,128d,
S. Majewski118,
Y. Makida69,
N. Makovec119,
B. Malaescu83,
Pa. Malecki42,
V.P. Maleev125,
F. Malek58,
U. Mallik66,
D. Malon6,
C. Malone30,
S. Maltezos10,
S. Malyukov32,
J. Mamuzic170,
G. Mancini50,
L. Mandelli94a,
I. Mandić78,
J. Maneira128a,128b,
L. Manhaes de Andrade Filho26b,
J. Manjarres Ramos163b,
A. Mann102,
A. Manousos32,
B. Mansoulie138,
J.D. Mansour35a,
R. Mantifel90,
M. Mantoani57,
S. Manzoni94a,94b,
L. Mapelli32,
G. Marceca29,
L. March52,
G. Marchiori83,
M. Marcisovsky129,
M. Marjanovic37,
D.E. Marley92,
F. Marroquim26a,
S.P. Marsden87,
Z. Marshall16,
M.U.F Martensson168,
S. Marti-Garcia170,
C.B. Martin113,
T.A. Martin173,
V.J. Martin49,
B. Martin dit Latour15,
M. Martinez13,v,
V.I. Martinez Outschoorn169,
S. Martin-Haugh133,
V.S. Martoiu28b,
A.C. Martyniuk81,
A. Marzin115,
L. Masetti86,
T. Mashimo157,
R. Mashinistov98,
J. Masik87,
A.L. Maslennikov111,c,
L. Massa135a,135b,
P. Mastrandrea5,
A. Mastroberardino40a,40b,
T. Masubuchi157,
P. Mättig178,
J. Maurer28b,
S.J. Maxfield77,
D.A. Maximov111,c,
R. Mazini153,
I. Maznas156,
S.M. Mazza94a,94b,
N.C. Mc Fadden107,
G. Mc Goldrick161,
S.P. Mc Kee92,
A. McCarn92,
R.L. McCarthy150,
T.G. McCarthy103,
L.I. McClymont81,
E.F. McDonald91,
J.A. Mcfayden81,
G. Mchedlidze57,
S.J. McMahon133,
P.C. McNamara91,
R.A. McPherson172,o,
S. Meehan140,
T.J. Megy51,
S. Mehlhase102,
A. Mehta77,
T. Meideck58,
K. Meier60a,
C. Meineck102,
B. Meirose44,
D. Melini170,ah,
B.R. Mellado Garcia147c,
M. Melo146a,
F. Meloni18,
S.B. Menary87,
L. Meng77,
X.T. Meng92,
A. Mengarelli22a,22b,
S. Menke103,
E. Meoni165,
S. Mergelmeyer17,
P. Mermod52,
L. Merola106a,106b,
C. Meroni94a,
F.S. Merritt33,
A. Messina134a,134b,
J. Metcalfe6,
A.S. Mete166,
C. Meyer124,
J-P. Meyer138,
J. Meyer109,
H. Meyer Zu Theenhausen60a,
F. Miano151,
R.P. Middleton133,
S. Miglioranzi53a,53b,
L. Mijović49,
G. Mikenberg175,
M. Mikestikova129,
M. Mikuž78,
M. Milesi91,
A. Milic27,
D.W. Miller33,
C. Mills49,
A. Milov175,
D.A. Milstead148a,148b,
A.A. Minaenko132,
Y. Minami157,
I.A. Minashvili68,
A.I. Mincer112,
B. Mindur41a,
M. Mineev68,
Y. Minegishi157,
Y. Ming176,
L.M. Mir13,
K.P. Mistry124,
T. Mitani174,
J. Mitrevski102,
V.A. Mitsou170,
A. Miucci18,
P.S. Miyagawa141,
A. Mizukami69,
J.U. Mjörnmark84,
M. Mlynarikova131,
T. Moa148a,148b,
K. Mochizuki97,
P. Mogg51,
S. Mohapatra38,
S. Molander148a,148b,
R. Moles-Valls23,
R. Monden71,
M.C. Mondragon93,
K. Mönig45,
J. Monk39,
E. Monnier88,
A. Montalbano150,
J. Montejo Berlingen32,
F. Monticelli74,
S. Monzani94a,94b,
R.W. Moore3,
N. Morange119,
D. Moreno21,
M. Moreno Llácer57,
P. Morettini53a,
S. Morgenstern32,
D. Mori144,
T. Mori157,
M. Morii59,
M. Morinaga157,
V. Morisbak121,
A.K. Morley152,
G. Mornacchi32,
J.D. Morris79,
L. Morvaj150,
P. Moschovakos10,
M. Mosidze54b,
H.J. Moss141,
J. Moss145,ai,
K. Motohashi159,
R. Mount145,
E. Mountricha27,
E.J.W. Moyse89,
S. Muanza88,
R.D. Mudd19,
F. Mueller103,
J. Mueller127,
R.S.P. Mueller102,
D. Muenstermann75,
P. Mullen56,
G.A. Mullier18,
F.J. Munoz Sanchez87,
W.J. Murray173,133,
H. Musheghyan57,
M. Muškinja78,
A.G. Myagkov132,aj,
M. Myska130,
B.P. Nachman16,
O. Nackenhorst52,
K. Nagai122,
R. Nagai69,ad,
K. Nagano69,
Y. Nagasaka61,
K. Nagata164,
M. Nagel51,
E. Nagy88,
A.M. Nairz32,
Y. Nakahama105,
K. Nakamura69,
T. Nakamura157,
I. Nakano114,
R.F. Naranjo Garcia45,
R. Narayan11,
D.I. Narrias Villar60a,
I. Naryshkin125,
T. Naumann45,
G. Navarro21,
R. Nayyar7,
H.A. Neal92,
P.Yu. Nechaeva98,
T.J. Neep138,
A. Negri123a,123b,
M. Negrini22a,
S. Nektarijevic108,
C. Nellist119,
A. Nelson166,
M.E. Nelson122,
S. Nemecek129,
P. Nemethy112,
A.A. Nepomuceno26a,
M. Nessi32,ak,
M.S. Neubauer169,
M. Neumann178,
R.M. Neves112,
P.R. Newman19,
T.Y. Ng62c,
T. Nguyen Manh97,
R.B. Nickerson122,
R. Nicolaidou138,
J. Nielsen139,
V. Nikolaenko132,aj,
I. Nikolic-Audit83,
K. Nikolopoulos19,
J.K. Nilsen121,
P. Nilsson27,
Y. Ninomiya157,
A. Nisati134a,
N. Nishu35c,
R. Nisius103,
T. Nobe157,
Y. Noguchi71,
M. Nomachi120,
I. Nomidis31,
M.A. Nomura27,
T. Nooney79,
M. Nordberg32,
N. Norjoharuddeen122,
O. Novgorodova47,
S. Nowak103,
M. Nozaki69,
L. Nozka117,
K. Ntekas166,
E. Nurse81,
F. Nuti91,
D.C. O’Neil144,
A.A. O’Rourke45,
V. O’Shea56,
F.G. Oakham31,d,
H. Oberlack103,
T. Obermann23,
J. Ocariz83,
A. Ochi70,
I. Ochoa38,
J.P. Ochoa-Ricoux34a,
S. Oda73,
S. Odaka69,
H. Ogren64,
A. Oh87,
S.H. Oh48,
C.C. Ohm16,
H. Ohman168,
H. Oide53a,53b,
H. Okawa164,
Y. Okumura157,
T. Okuyama69,
A. Olariu28b,
L.F. Oleiro Seabra128a,
S.A. Olivares Pino49,
D. Oliveira Damazio27,
A. Olszewski42,
J. Olszowska42,
A. Onofre128a,128e,
K. Onogi105,
P.U.E. Onyisi11,z,
M.J. Oreglia33,
Y. Oren155,
D. Orestano136a,136b,
N. Orlando62b,
R.S. Orr161,
B. Osculati53a,53b,∗,
R. Ospanov87,
G. Otero y Garzon29,
H. Otono73,
M. Ouchrif137d,
F. Ould-Saada121,
A. Ouraou138,
K.P. Oussoren109,
Q. Ouyang35a,
M. Owen56,
R.E. Owen19,
V.E. Ozcan20a,
N. Ozturk8,
K. Pachal144,
A. Pacheco Pages13,
L. Pacheco Rodriguez138,
C. Padilla Aranda13,
S. Pagan Griso16,
M. Paganini179,
F. Paige27,
P. Pais89,
G. Palacino64,
S. Palazzo40a,40b,
S. Palestini32,
M. Palka41b,
D. Pallin37,
E.St. Panagiotopoulou10,
I. Panagoulias10,
C.E. Pandini83,
J.G. Panduro Vazquez80,
P. Pani32,
S. Panitkin27,
D. Pantea28b,
L. Paolozzi52,
Th.D. Papadopoulou10,
K. Papageorgiou9,
A. Paramonov6,
D. Paredes Hernandez179,
A.J. Parker75,
M.A. Parker30,
K.A. Parker45,
F. Parodi53a,53b,
J.A. Parsons38,
U. Parzefall51,
V.R. Pascuzzi161,
J.M. Pasner139,
E. Pasqualucci134a,
S. Passaggio53a,
Fr. Pastore80,
S. Pataraia178,
J.R. Pater87,
T. Pauly32,
J. Pearce172,
B. Pearson103,
L.E. Pedersen39,
S. Pedraza Lopez170,
R. Pedro128a,128b,
S.V. Peleganchuk111,c,
O. Penc129,
C. Peng35a,
H. Peng36a,
J. Penwell64,
B.S. Peralva26b,
M.M. Perego138,
D.V. Perepelitsa27,
L. Perini94a,94b,
H. Pernegger32,
S. Perrella106a,106b,
R. Peschke45,
V.D. Peshekhonov68,
K. Peters45,
R.F.Y. Peters87,
B.A. Petersen32,
T.C. Petersen39,
E. Petit58,
A. Petridis1,
C. Petridou156,
P. Petroff119,
E. Petrolo134a,
M. Petrov122,
F. Petrucci136a,136b,
N.E. Pettersson89,
A. Peyaud138,
R. Pezoa34b,
P.W. Phillips133,
G. Piacquadio150,
E. Pianori173,
A. Picazio89,
E. Piccaro79,
M.A. Pickering122,
R. Piegaia29,
J.E. Pilcher33,
A.D. Pilkington87,
A.W.J. Pin87,
M. Pinamonti167a,167c,al,
J.L. Pinfold3,
H. Pirumov45,
M. Pitt175,
L. Plazak146a,
M.-A. Pleier27,
V. Pleskot86,
E. Plotnikova68,
D. Pluth67,
P. Podberezko111,
R. Poettgen148a,148b,
L. Poggioli119,
D. Pohl23,
G. Polesello123a,
A. Poley45,
A. Policicchio40a,40b,
R. Polifka32,
A. Polini22a,
C.S. Pollard56,
V. Polychronakos27,
K. Pommès32,
D. Ponomarenko100,
L. Pontecorvo134a,
B.G. Pope93,
G.A. Popeneciu28d,
A. Poppleton32,
S. Pospisil130,
K. Potamianos16,
I.N. Potrap68,
C.J. Potter30,
C.T. Potter118,
G. Poulard32,
J. Poveda32,
M.E. Pozo Astigarraga32,
P. Pralavorio88,
A. Pranko16,
S. Prell67,
D. Price87,
L.E. Price6,
M. Primavera76a,
S. Prince90,
N. Proklova100,
K. Prokofiev62c,
F. Prokoshin34b,
S. Protopopescu27,
J. Proudfoot6,
M. Przybycien41a,
D. Puddu136a,136b,
A. Puri169,
P. Puzo119,
J. Qian92,
G. Qin56,
Y. Qin87,
A. Quadt57,
W.B. Quayle167a,167b,
M. Queitsch-Maitland45,
D. Quilty56,
S. Raddum121,
V. Radeka27,
V. Radescu122,
S.K. Radhakrishnan150,
P. Radloff118,
P. Rados91,
F. Ragusa94a,94b,
G. Rahal182,
J.A. Raine87,
S. Rajagopalan27,
C. Rangel-Smith168,
M.G. Ratti94a,94b,
D.M. Rauch45,
F. Rauscher102,
S. Rave86,
T. Ravenscroft56,
I. Ravinovich175,
J.H. Rawling87,
M. Raymond32,
A.L. Read121,
N.P. Readioff77,
M. Reale76a,76b,
D.M. Rebuzzi123a,123b,
A. Redelbach177,
G. Redlinger27,
R. Reece139,
R.G. Reed147c,
K. Reeves44,
L. Rehnisch17,
J. Reichert124,
A. Reiss86,
C. Rembser32,
H. Ren35a,
M. Rescigno134a,
S. Resconi94a,
E.D. Resseguie124,
S. Rettie171,
E. Reynolds19,
O.L. Rezanova111,c,
P. Reznicek131,
R. Rezvani97,
R. Richter103,
S. Richter81,
E. Richter-Was41b,
O. Ricken23,
M. Ridel83,
P. Rieck103,
C.J. Riegel178,
J. Rieger57,
O. Rifki115,
M. Rijssenbeek150,
A. Rimoldi123a,123b,
M. Rimoldi18,
L. Rinaldi22a,
B. Ristić52,
E. Ritsch32,
I. Riu13,
F. Rizatdinova116,
E. Rizvi79,
C. Rizzi13,
R.T. Roberts87,
S.H. Robertson90,o,
A. Robichaud-Veronneau90,
D. Robinson30,
J.E.M. Robinson45,
A. Robson56,
C. Roda126a,126b,
Y. Rodina88,am,
A. Rodriguez Perez13,
D. Rodriguez Rodriguez170,
S. Roe32,
C.S. Rogan59,
O. Røhne121,
J. Roloff59,
A. Romaniouk100,
M. Romano22a,22b,
S.M. Romano Saez37,
E. Romero Adam170,
N. Rompotis77,
M. Ronzani51,
L. Roos83,
S. Rosati134a,
K. Rosbach51,
P. Rose139,
N.-A. Rosien57,
V. Rossetti148a,148b,
E. Rossi106a,106b,
L.P. Rossi53a,
J.H.N. Rosten30,
R. Rosten140,
M. Rotaru28b,
I. Roth175,
J. Rothberg140,
D. Rousseau119,
A. Rozanov88,
Y. Rozen154,
X. Ruan147c,
F. Rubbo145,
F. Rühr51,
A. Ruiz-Martinez31,
Z. Rurikova51,
N.A. Rusakovich68,
A. Ruschke102,
H.L. Russell140,
J.P. Rutherfoord7,
N. Ruthmann32,
Y.F. Ryabov125,
M. Rybar169,
G. Rybkin119,
S. Ryu6,
A. Ryzhov132,
G.F. Rzehorz57,
A.F. Saavedra152,
G. Sabato109,
S. Sacerdoti29,
H.F-W. Sadrozinski139,
R. Sadykov68,
F. Safai Tehrani134a,
P. Saha110,
M. Sahinsoy60a,
M. Saimpert45,
M. Saito157,
T. Saito157,
H. Sakamoto157,
Y. Sakurai174,
G. Salamanna136a,136b,
J.E. Salazar Loyola34b,
D. Salek109,
P.H. Sales De Bruin168,
D. Salihagic103,
A. Salnikov145,
J. Salt170,
D. Salvatore40a,40b,
F. Salvatore151,
A. Salvucci62a,62b,62c,
A. Salzburger32,
D. Sammel51,
D. Sampsonidis156,
J. Sánchez170,
V. Sanchez Martinez170,
A. Sanchez Pineda167a,167c,
H. Sandaker121,
R.L. Sandbach79,
C.O. Sander45,
M. Sandhoff178,
C. Sandoval21,
D.P.C. Sankey133,
M. Sannino53a,53b,
A. Sansoni50,
C. Santoni37,
R. Santonico135a,135b,
H. Santos128a,
I. Santoyo Castillo151,
K. Sapp127,
A. Sapronov68,
J.G. Saraiva128a,128d,
B. Sarrazin23,
O. Sasaki69,
K. Sato164,
E. Sauvan5,
G. Savage80,
P. Savard161,d,
N. Savic103,
C. Sawyer133,
L. Sawyer82,u,
J. Saxon33,
C. Sbarra22a,
A. Sbrizzi22a,22b,
T. Scanlon81,
D.A. Scannicchio166,
M. Scarcella152,
V. Scarfone40a,40b,
J. Schaarschmidt140,
P. Schacht103,
B.M. Schachtner102,
D. Schaefer32,
L. Schaefer124,
R. Schaefer45,
J. Schaeffer86,
S. Schaepe23,
S. Schaetzel60b,
U. Schäfer86,
A.C. Schaffer119,
D. Schaile102,
R.D. Schamberger150,
V. Scharf60a,
V.A. Schegelsky125,
D. Scheirich131,
M. Schernau166,
C. Schiavi53a,53b,
S. Schier139,
L.K. Schildgen23,
C. Schillo51,
M. Schioppa40a,40b,
S. Schlenker32,
K.R. Schmidt-Sommerfeld103,
K. Schmieden32,
C. Schmitt86,
S. Schmitt45,
S. Schmitz86,
U. Schnoor51,
L. Schoeffel138,
A. Schoening60b,
B.D. Schoenrock93,
E. Schopf23,
M. Schott86,
J.F.P. Schouwenberg108,
J. Schovancova181,
S. Schramm52,
N. Schuh86,
A. Schulte86,
M.J. Schultens23,
H.-C. Schultz-Coulon60a,
H. Schulz17,
M. Schumacher51,
B.A. Schumm139,
Ph. Schune138,
A. Schwartzman145,
T.A. Schwarz92,
H. Schweiger87,
Ph. Schwemling138,
R. Schwienhorst93,
J. Schwindling138,
T. Schwindt23,
A. Sciandra23,
G. Sciolla25,
F. Scuri126a,126b,
F. Scutti91,
J. Searcy92,
P. Seema23,
S.C. Seidel107,
A. Seiden139,
J.M. Seixas26a,
G. Sekhniaidze106a,
K. Sekhon92,
S.J. Sekula43,
N. Semprini-Cesari22a,22b,
C. Serfon121,
L. Serin119,
L. Serkin167a,167b,
M. Sessa136a,136b,
R. Seuster172,
H. Severini115,
T. Sfiligoj78,
F. Sforza32,
A. Sfyrla52,
E. Shabalina57,
N.W. Shaikh148a,148b,
L.Y. Shan35a,
R. Shang169,
J.T. Shank24,
M. Shapiro16,
P.B. Shatalov99,
K. Shaw167a,167b,
S.M. Shaw87,
A. Shcherbakova148a,148b,
C.Y. Shehu151,
Y. Shen115,
P. Sherwood81,
L. Shi153,an,
S. Shimizu70,
C.O. Shimmin179,
M. Shimojima104,
S. Shirabe73,
M. Shiyakova68,ao,
J. Shlomi175,
A. Shmeleva98,
D. Shoaleh Saadi97,
M.J. Shochet33,
S. Shojaii94a,
D.R. Shope115,
S. Shrestha113,
E. Shulga100,
M.A. Shupe7,
P. Sicho129,
A.M. Sickles169,
P.E. Sidebo149,
E. Sideras Haddad147c,
O. Sidiropoulou177,
D. Sidorov116,
A. Sidoti22a,22b,
F. Siegert47,
Dj. Sijacki14,
J. Silva128a,128d,
S.B. Silverstein148a,
V. Simak130,
Lj. Simic14,
S. Simion119,
E. Simioni86,
B. Simmons81,
M. Simon86,
P. Sinervo161,
N.B. Sinev118,
M. Sioli22a,22b,
G. Siragusa177,
I. Siral92,
S.Yu. Sivoklokov101,
J. Sjölin148a,148b,
M.B. Skinner75,
P. Skubic115,
M. Slater19,
T. Slavicek130,
M. Slawinska109,
K. Sliwa165,
R. Slovak131,
V. Smakhtin175,
B.H. Smart5,
J. Smiesko146a,
N. Smirnov100,
S.Yu. Smirnov100,
Y. Smirnov100,
L.N. Smirnova101,ap,
O. Smirnova84,
J.W. Smith57,
M.N.K. Smith38,
R.W. Smith38,
M. Smizanska75,
K. Smolek130,
A.A. Snesarev98,
I.M. Snyder118,
S. Snyder27,
R. Sobie172,o,
F. Socher47,
A. Soffer155,
D.A. Soh153,
G. Sokhrannyi78,
C.A. Solans Sanchez32,
M. Solar130,
E.Yu. Soldatov100,
U. Soldevila170,
A.A. Solodkov132,
A. Soloshenko68,
O.V. Solovyanov132,
V. Solovyev125,
P. Sommer51,
H. Son165,
H.Y. Song36a,aq,
A. Sopczak130,
V. Sorin13,
D. Sosa60b,
C.L. Sotiropoulou126a,126b,
R. Soualah167a,167c,
A.M. Soukharev111,c,
D. South45,
B.C. Sowden80,
S. Spagnolo76a,76b,
M. Spalla126a,126b,
M. Spangenberg173,
F. Spanò80,
D. Sperlich17,
F. Spettel103,
T.M. Spieker60a,
R. Spighi22a,
G. Spigo32,
L.A. Spiller91,
M. Spousta131,
R.D. St. Denis56,∗,
A. Stabile94a,
R. Stamen60a,
S. Stamm17,
E. Stanecka42,
R.W. Stanek6,
C. Stanescu136a,
M.M. Stanitzki45,
S. Stapnes121,
E.A. Starchenko132,
G.H. Stark33,
J. Stark58,
S.H Stark39,
P. Staroba129,
P. Starovoitov60a,
S. Stärz32,
R. Staszewski42,
P. Steinberg27,
B. Stelzer144,
H.J. Stelzer32,
O. Stelzer-Chilton163a,
H. Stenzel55,
G.A. Stewart56,
J.A. Stillings23,
M.C. Stockton118,
M. Stoebe90,
G. Stoicea28b,
P. Stolte57,
S. Stonjek103,
A.R. Stradling8,
A. Straessner47,
M.E. Stramaglia18,
J. Strandberg149,
S. Strandberg148a,148b,
A. Strandlie121,
M. Strauss115,
P. Strizenec146b,
R. Ströhmer177,
D.M. Strom118,
R. Stroynowski43,
A. Strubig108,
S.A. Stucci27,
B. Stugu15,
N.A. Styles45,
D. Su145,
J. Su127,
S. Suchek60a,
Y. Sugaya120,
M. Suk130,
V.V. Sulin98,
S. Sultansoy4c,
T. Sumida71,
S. Sun59,
X. Sun3,
K. Suruliz151,
C.J.E. Suster152,
M.R. Sutton151,
S. Suzuki69,
M. Svatos129,
M. Swiatlowski33,
S.P. Swift2,
A. Sydorenko86,
I. Sykora146a,
T. Sykora131,
D. Ta51,
K. Tackmann45,
J. Taenzer155,
A. Taffard166,
R. Tafirout163a,
N. Taiblum155,
H. Takai27,
R. Takashima72,
T. Takeshita142,
Y. Takubo69,
M. Talby88,
A.A. Talyshev111,c,
J. Tanaka157,
M. Tanaka159,
R. Tanaka119,
S. Tanaka69,
R. Tanioka70,
B.B. Tannenwald113,
S. Tapia Araya34b,
S. Tapprogge86,
S. Tarem154,
G.F. Tartarelli94a,
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M. Tasevsky129,
T. Tashiro71,
E. Tassi40a,40b,
A. Tavares Delgado128a,128b,
Y. Tayalati137e,
A.C. Taylor107,
G.N. Taylor91,
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V.O. Tikhomirov98,ar,
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M. Tomoto105,
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E. Torrence118,
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J. Toth88,at,
F. Touchard88,
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T. Trefzger177,
A. Tricoli27,
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S. Trincaz-Duvoid83,
M.F. Tripiana13,
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B. Trocmé58,
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C. Troncon94a,
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S. Turchikhin68,
D. Turgeman175,
I. Turk Cakir4b,au,
R. Turra94a,94b,
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G. Ucchielli22a,22b,
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M. Ughetto148a,148b,
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A. Undrus27,
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G. Usai8,
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A. Vallier5,
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N. van Eldik154,
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M.C. van Woerden109,
M. Vanadia134a,134b,
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R. Vanguri124,
A. Vaniachine160,
P. Vankov109,
G. Vardanyan180,
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A. Vartapetian8,
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G.A. Vasquez34b,
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T. Vazquez Schroeder90,
J. Veatch57,
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F. Veloso128a,128c,
S. Veneziano134a,
A. Ventura76a,76b,
M. Venturi172,
N. Venturi161,
A. Venturini25,
V. Vercesi123a,
M. Verducci136a,136b,
W. Verkerke109,
J.C. Vermeulen109,
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N. Viaux Maira34b,
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O.E. Vickey Boeriu141,
G.H.A. Viehhauser122,
S. Viel16,
L. Vigani122,
M. Villa22a,22b,
M. Villaplana Perez94a,94b,
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V.B. Vinogradov68,
A. Vishwakarma45,
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V. Wallangen148a,148b,
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F. Wang176,
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H. Wang3,
J. Wang45,
J. Wang152,
Q. Wang115,
R. Wang6,
S.M. Wang153,
T. Wang38,
W. Wang153,aw,
W. Wang36a,
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C. Wanotayaroj118,
A. Warburton90,
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A. Washbrook49,
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1 Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
2 Physics Department, SUNY Albany, Albany NY, United States of America
3 Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada
4(a) Department of Physics, Ankara University, Ankara; (b) Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul; (c) Division of Physics, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey
5 LAPP, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
6 High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne IL, United States of America
7 Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, United States of America
8 Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington TX, United States of America
9 Physics Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
10 Physics Department, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Greece
11 Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX, United States of America
12 Institute of Physics, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan
13 Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
14 Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
15 Department for Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
16 Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley CA, United States of America
17 Department of Physics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
18 Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics and Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
19 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
20(a) Department of Physics, Bogazici University, Istanbul; (b) Department of Physics Engineering, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep; (d) Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istanbul,Turkey; (e) Bahcesehir University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey, Turkey
21 Centro de Investigaciones, Universidad Antonio Narino, Bogota, Colombia
22(a) INFN Sezione di Bologna; (b) Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
23 Physikalisches Institut, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
24 Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston MA, United States of America
25 Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham MA, United States of America
26(a) Universidade Federal do Rio De Janeiro COPPE/EE/IF, Rio de Janeiro; (b) Electrical Circuits Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora; (c) Federal University of Sao Joao del Rei (UFSJ), Sao Joao del Rei; (d) Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
27 Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY, United States of America
28(a) Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania; (b) Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest; (c) Department of Physics, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania; (d) National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Physics Department, Cluj Napoca; (e) University Politehnica Bucharest, Bucharest; (f) West University in Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
29 Departamento de Física, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
30 Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
31 Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa ON, Canada
32 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
33 Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, United States of America
34(a) Departamento de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago; (b) Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile
35(a) Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; (b) Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Jiangsu; (c) Physics Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
36(a) Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui; (b) School of Physics, Shandong University, Shandong; (c) Department of Physics and Astronomy, Key Laboratory for Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Ministry of Education; Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai(also at PKU-CHEP);, China
37 Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
38 Nevis Laboratory, Columbia University, Irvington NY, United States of America
39 Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Kobenhavn, Denmark
40(a) INFN Gruppo Collegato di Cosenza, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati; (b) Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy
41(a) AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Krakow; (b) Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
42 Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
43 Physics Department, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX, United States of America
44 Physics Department, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson TX, United States of America
45 DESY, Hamburg and Zeuthen, Germany
46 Lehrstuhl für Experimentelle Physik IV, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
47 Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
48 Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham NC, United States of America
49 SUPA - School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
50 INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
51 Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany
52 Departement de Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
53(a) INFN Sezione di Genova; (b) Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy
54(a) E. Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi; (b) High Energy Physics Institute, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
55 II Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany
56 SUPA - School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
57 II Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
58 Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
59 Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, United States of America
61 Faculty of Applied Information Science, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Hiroshima, Japan
62(a) Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong; (b) Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; (c) Department of Physics and Institute for Advanced Study, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
63 Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Taiwan
64 Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington IN, United States of America
65 Institut für Astro- und Teilchenphysik, Leopold-Franzens-Universität, Innsbruck, Austria
66 University of Iowa, Iowa City IA, United States of America
67 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames IA, United States of America
68 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR Dubna, Dubna, Russia
69 KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan
70 Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
71 Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
72 Kyoto University of Education, Kyoto, Japan
73 Department of Physics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
74 Instituto de Física La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, La Plata, Argentina
75 Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
76(a) INFN Sezione di Lecce; (b) Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy
77 Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
78 Department of Experimental Particle Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute and Department of Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
79 School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
80 Department of Physics, Royal Holloway University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom
81 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, United Kingdom
82 Louisiana Tech University, Ruston LA, United States of America
83 Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies, UPMC and Université Paris-Diderot and CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
84 Fysiska institutionen, Lunds universitet, Lund, Sweden
85 Departamento de Fisica Teorica C-15, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
86 Institut für Physik, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
87 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
88 CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France
89 Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, United States of America
90 Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal QC, Canada
91 School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
92 Department of Physics, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, United States of America
93 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI, United States of America
94(a) INFN Sezione di Milano; (b) Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy
95 B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Republic of Belarus
96 Research Institute for Nuclear Problems of Byelorussian State University, Minsk, Republic of Belarus
97 Group of Particle Physics, University of Montreal, Montreal QC, Canada
98 P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
99 Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia
100 National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
101 D.V. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
102 Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany
103 Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), München, Germany
104 Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
105 Graduate School of Science and Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
106(a) INFN Sezione di Napoli; (b) Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli, Napoli, Italy
107 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, United States of America
108 Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Radboud University Nijmegen/Nikhef, Nijmegen, Netherlands
109 Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
110 Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL, United States of America
111 Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
112 Department of Physics, New York University, New York NY, United States of America
113 Ohio State University, Columbus OH, United States of America
114 Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
115 Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman OK, United States of America
116 Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK, United States of America
118 Center for High Energy Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene OR, United States of America
119 LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
120 Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
121 Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
122 Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
123(a) INFN Sezione di Pavia; (b) Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
124 Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, United States of America
125 National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute" B.P.Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
126(a) INFN Sezione di Pisa; (b) Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
127 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, United States of America
128(a) Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP, Lisboa; (b) Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa; (c) Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Coimbra; (d) Centro de Física Nuclear da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa; (e) Departamento de Fisica, Universidade do Minho, Braga; (f) Departamento de Fisica Teorica y del Cosmos and CAFPE, Universidad de Granada, Granada (Spain); (g) Dep Fisica and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
129 Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Praha, Czech Republic
130 Czech Technical University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic
131 Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
132 State Research Center Institute for High Energy Physics (Protvino), NRC KI, Russia
133 Particle Physics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom
134(a) INFN Sezione di Roma; (b) Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
135(a) INFN Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata; (b) Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
136(a) INFN Sezione di Roma Tre; (b) Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università Roma Tre, Roma, Italy
137(a) Faculté des Sciences Ain Chock, Réseau Universitaire de Physique des Hautes Energies - Université Hassan II, Casablanca; (b) Centre National de l’Energie des Sciences Techniques Nucleaires, Rabat; (c) Faculté des Sciences Semlalia, Université Cadi Ayyad, LPHEA-Marrakech; (d) Faculté des Sciences, Université Mohamed Premier and LPTPM, Oujda; (e) Faculté des sciences, Université Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
138 DSM/IRFU (Institut de Recherches sur les Lois Fondamentales de l’Univers), CEA Saclay (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
139 Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz CA, United States of America
140 Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle WA, United States of America
141 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
142 Department of Physics, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan
143 Department Physik, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany
144 Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada
145 SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford CA, United States of America
146(a) Faculty of Mathematics, Physics & Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava; (b) Department of Subnuclear Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice, Slovak Republic
147(a) Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town; (b) Department of Physics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg; (c) School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
148(a) Department of Physics, Stockholm University; (b) The Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm, Sweden
149 Physics Department, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
150 Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY, United States of America
151 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
152 School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
153 Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
154 Department of Physics, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
155 Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
156 Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
157 International Center for Elementary Particle Physics and Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
158 Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
159 Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
160 Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia, Russia
161 Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto ON, Canada
162(a) INFN-TIFPA; (b) University of Trento, Trento, Italy, Italy
163(a) TRIUMF, Vancouver BC; (b) Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto ON, Canada
164 Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, and Center for Integrated Research in Fundamental Science and Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
165 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford MA, United States of America
166 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine CA, United States of America
167(a) INFN Gruppo Collegato di Udine, Sezione di Trieste, Udine; (b) ICTP, Trieste; (c) Dipartimento di Chimica, Fisica e Ambiente, Università di Udine, Udine, Italy
168 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
169 Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana IL, United States of America
170 Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) and Departamento de Fisica Atomica, Molecular y Nuclear and Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica and Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM), University of Valencia and CSIC, Valencia, Spain
171 Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada
172 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada
173 Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
174 Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
175 Department of Particle Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
176 Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI, United States of America
177 Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Germany
178 Fakultät für Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Fachgruppe Physik, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
179 Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven CT, United States of America
180 Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
181 CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
182 Centre de Calcul de l’Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3), Villeurbanne, France
a Also at Department of Physics, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
b Also at Institute of Physics, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan
c Also at Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
d Also at TRIUMF, Vancouver BC, Canada
e Also at Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States of America
f Also at Physics Department, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
g Also at Department of Physics, California State University, Fresno CA, United States of America
h Also at Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
i Also at II Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
j Also at Departament de Fisica de la Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
k Also at Departamento de Fisica e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
l Also at Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia, Russia
m Also at The Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter (CICQM), Beijing, China
n Also at Universita di Napoli Parthenope, Napoli, Italy
o Also at Institute of Particle Physics (IPP), Canada
p Also at Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
q Also at Department of Physics, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
r Also at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, New York City, United States of America
s Also at Department of Physics, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, United States of America
t Also at Centre for High Performance Computing, CSIR Campus, Rosebank, Cape Town, South Africa
u Also at Louisiana Tech University, Ruston LA, United States of America
v Also at Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats, ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
w Also at Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
x Also at Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany
y Also at Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Radboud University Nijmegen/Nikhef, Nijmegen, Netherlands
z Also at Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX, United States of America
aa Also at Institute of Theoretical Physics, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
ab Also at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
ac Also at Georgian Technical University (GTU),Tbilisi, Georgia
ad Also at Ochadai Academic Production, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan
ae Also at Manhattan College, New York NY, United States of America
af Also at Academia Sinica Grid Computing, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
ag Also at School of Physics, Shandong University, Shandong, China
ah Also at Departamento de Fisica Teorica y del Cosmos and CAFPE, Universidad de Granada, Granada (Spain), Portugal
ai Also at Department of Physics, California State University, Sacramento CA, United States of America
aj Also at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology State University, Dolgoprudny, Russia
ak Also at Departement de Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
al Also at International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy
am Also at Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
an Also at School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
ao Also at Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE) of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
ap Also at Faculty of Physics, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
aq Also at Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
ar Also at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
as Also at Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford CA, United States of America
at Also at Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
au Also at Giresun University, Faculty of Engineering, Turkey
av Also at CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France
aw Also at Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Jiangsu, China
ax Also at University of Malaya, Department of Physics, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
ay Also at LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
∗ Deceased
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