Publications by authors named "N D Giokaris"

Article Synopsis
  • The Higgs boson, crucial for the standard model of particle physics, helps mediate the weak force between elementary particles, and its mass is closely regulated by the model's symmetries.
  • Researchers measured the mass of the boson using data from proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron collider, accumulating about 4 million candidates to achieve a very precise measurement.
  • This new mass measurement shows a significant discrepancy with what is expected from the standard model, suggesting potential gaps in our current understanding of particle physics.
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A search for the exotic meson X(5568) decaying into the B_{s}^{0}π^{±} final state is performed using data corresponding to 9.6  fb^{-1} from pp[over ¯] collisions at sqrt[s]=1960  GeV recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. No evidence for this state is found and an upper limit of 6.

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The CDF and D0 experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron have measured the asymmetry between yields of forward- and backward-produced top and antitop quarks based on their rapidity difference and the asymmetry between their decay leptons. These measurements use the full data sets collected in proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt[s]=1.96  TeV.

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A measurement of the mass of the boson is presented based on proton-proton collision data recorded in 2011 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, and corresponding to of integrated luminosity. The selected data sample consists of candidates in the channel and candidates in the channel. The -boson mass is obtained from template fits to the reconstructed distributions of the charged lepton transverse momentum and of the boson transverse mass in the electron and muon decay channels, yielding where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second corresponds to the experimental systematic uncertainty, and the third to the physics-modelling systematic uncertainty.

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