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DOE OSTI2025

Search for single-production of vector-like quarks decaying into Wb in the fully hadronic final state in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

A search for T and Y vector-like quarks produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and decaying into Wb in the fully hadronic final state is presented. The search uses 139 fb −1 of data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC from 2015 to 2018. The final state is characterised by a hadronically decaying W boson with large Lorentz boost and a b-tagged jet, which are used to reconstruct the invariant mass of the vector-like quark candidate. The main background is QCD multijet production, which is estimated using a data-driven method. Upon finding no significant excess in data, mass limits at 95% confidence level are obtained as a function of the global coupling parameter, κ. The observed lower limits on the masses of Y quarks with κ = 0.5 and κ = 0.7 are 2.0 TeV and 2.4 TeV, respectively. For T quarks, the observed mass limits are 1.4 TeV for κ = 0.5 and 1.9 TeV for κ = 0.7.

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DOE OSTI2026

Vector boson scattering and anomalous quartic couplings in final states with ℓνqq or ℓℓqq plus jets using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV

A measurement is presented of the electroweak vector boson scattering production of ZV (V = W, Z) boson pairs associated with two jets in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb −1 , were collected at the CERN LHC with the CMS detector during the 2016–2018 data-taking period. The analysis targets final states with a pair of isolated electrons or muons from Z boson decays and three or four jets, depending on the momentum of the vector boson that decays into quarks. Signal strength is measured for events characterized by a large invariant mass of two forward jets with a wide pseudorapidity gap between them. The electroweak production of ZV in association with two jets is measured with an observed (expected) significance of 1.3 (1.8) standard deviations. A combination of the analyses of ZV channel and the previously published WV channel in the lepton plus jets final state places constraints on effective field theory parameters that describe anomalous electroweak production of WW, WZ, and ZZ boson pairs in association with two jets. Several world best limits are set on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in terms of dimension-8 standard model effective field theory operators.

Hadron-Hadron Scattering↗
DOE OSTI2023

Search for single production of vector-like T quarks decaying into Ht or Zt in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

This paper describes a search for the single production of an up-type vector-like quark (T) decaying as T → Ht or T → Zt. The search utilises a dataset of pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector during the 2015–2018 data-taking period of the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb ₋1 . Data are analysed in final states containing a single lepton with multiple jets and b-jets. The presence of boosted heavy resonances in the event is exploited to discriminate the signal from the Standard Model background. No significant excess above the Standard Model expectation is observed, and 95% CL upper limits are set on the production cross section of T quarks in different decay channels. The results are interpreted in several benchmark scenarios to set limits on the mass and universal coupling strength (κ) of the vector-like quark. For singlet T quarks, κ values above 0.53 are excluded for all masses below 2.3 TeV. At a mass of 1.6 TeV, κ values as low as 0.35 are excluded. For T quarks in the doublet scenario, where the production cross section is much lower, κ values above 0.72 are excluded for all masses below 1.7 TeV, and this exclusion is extended to κ above 0.55 for low masses around 1.0 TeV.

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DOE OSTI2024

Search for Higgs boson pair production with one associated vector boson in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV

A search for Higgs boson pair (HH) production in association with a vector boson V (W or Z boson) is presented. The search is based on proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{−1}$. Both hadronic and leptonic decays of V bosons are used. The leptons considered are electrons, muons, and neutrinos. The HH production is searched for in the $ \textrm{b}\overline{\textrm{b}}\textrm{b}\overline{\textrm{b}} $ decay channel. An observed (expected) upper limit at 95% confidence level of VHH production cross section is set at 294 (124) times the standard model prediction. Constraints are also set on the modifiers of the Higgs boson trilinear self-coupling, k$_{λ}$, assuming k$_{2V}$ = 1, and vice versa on the coupling of two Higgs bosons with two vector bosons, k$_{2V}$. The observed (expected) 95% confidence intervals of these coupling modifiers are −37.7 < k$_{λ}$ < 37.2 (−30.1 < k$_{λ}$ < 28.9) and −12.2 < k$_{2V}$ < 13.5 (−7.2 < k$_{2V}$ < 8.9), respectively.[graphic not available: see fulltext]

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DOE OSTI2017

Search for pair production of vector-like T and B quarks in single-lepton final states using boosted jet substructure in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV

A search for pair production of massive vector-like T and B quarks in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=13 $ TeV is presented. The data set was collected in 2015 by the CMS experiment at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of up to 2.6 fb$^{−1}$. The T and B quarks are assumed to decay through three possible channels into a heavy boson (either a W, Z or Higgs boson) and a third generation quark. This search is performed in final states with one charged lepton and several jets, exploiting techniques to identify W or Higgs bosons decaying hadronically with large transverse momenta. No excess over the predicted standard model background is observed. Upper limits at 95% confidence level on the T quark pair production cross section are set that exclude T quark masses below 860 GeV in the singlet, and below 830 GeV in the doublet branching fraction scenario. For other branching fraction combinations with ℬ(T → tH) + ℬ(T → bW) ≥ 0.4, lower limits on the T quark range from 790 to 940 GeV. Limits are also set on pair production of singlet vector-like B quarks, which can be excluded up to a mass of 730 GeV. The techniques showcased here for understanding highly-boosted final states are important as the sensitivity to new particles is extended to higher masses.

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DOE OSTI2023

Search for single vector-like $B$ quark production and decay via $B$ → $bH$($b\overline{b}$) in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

A search is presented for single production of a vector-like B quark decaying into a Standard Model b-quark and a Standard Model Higgs boson, which decays into a $b\overline{b}$ pair. The search is carried out in 139 fb -1 of $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC between 2015 and 2018. No significant deviation from the Standard Model background prediction is observed, and mass-dependent exclusion limits at the 95% confidence level are set on the resonance production cross-section in several theoretical scenarios determined by the couplings c W , c Z and c H between the B quark and the Standard Model W, Z and Higgs bosons, respectively. For a vector-like B occurring as an isospin singlet, the search excludes values of c W greater than 0.45 for a B resonance mass (m B ) between 1.0 and 1.2 TeV. For 1.2 TeV < m B < 2.0 TeV, c W values larger than 0.50–0.65 are excluded. If the B occurs as part of a (B, Y) doublet, the smallest excluded c Z coupling values range between 0.3 and 0.5 across the investigated resonance mass range 1.0 TeV < m B < 2.0 TeV.

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DOE OSTI2019

Solution of Periodic Boundary-Value Problems of the Spatial Theory of Elasticity in the Vector Form

We discuss boundary-value problems for the system of equations of the spatial theory of elasticity in the class of double-periodic functions and obtain a general solution of the system. We distinguish six types of elementary Floquet waves and examine their energy characteristics. We consider fundamental boundary-value problems in the half-space in the vector form. The diffraction problem for an elastic wave on a periodic system of defects in the vector form is reduced to the paired summator functional equation.

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DOE OSTI2019

The Ground-State Vector of the XY Heisenberg Chain and the Gauss Decomposition

We consider the XY Heisenberg spin (1/2) chain in the fermion representation. The construction of the ground-state vector is based on the group-theoretical approach. An exact expression for the ground-state vector will allow one to study the combinatorics of the correlation functions of the model.

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING↗
DOE OSTI2018

Painlevé–Kuratowski convergences of the solution sets for generalized vector quasi-equilibrium problems

In this paper, we consider vector quasi-equilibrium problems under perturbation in terms of suitable asymptotically solving sequences, not embedding given problems into a parameterized family. By employing some types of convergences for mapping and set sequences, we obtain the Painlevé–Kuratowski upper convergence of solution sets for the reference problems. Then, using nonlinear scalarization functions, we propose gap functions for such problems, and later employing these functions, we study necessary and sufficient conditions for Painlevé–Kuratowski lower convergence and Painlevé–Kuratowski convergence. As an application, we discuss the special case of vector quasi-variational inequality.

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING↗
DOE OSTI2018

Global dynamics of a vector-borne disease model with infection ages and general incidence rates

A vector-borne disease model with general incidence rates is proposed and investigated in this paper, where both vector and host are stratied by infection ages in the form of a hyperbolic system of partial differential equations coupled with ordinary differential equations.The existence, uniqueness, nonnegativeness, and boundedness of solution of the model are studied for biologically reasonable purpose. Furthermore, a global threshold dynamics of the system is established by constructing suitable Lyapunov functionals, which is determined by the basic reproduction number R{sub 0}: the infection-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable when R{sub 0} < 1 while the endemic equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable when R{sub 0} > 1.

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING↗
DOE OSTI2014

Scattering and bound states of fermions in a mixed vector–scalar smooth step potential

The scattering of a fermion in the background of a smooth step potential is considered with a general mixing of vector and scalar Lorentz structures with the scalar coupling stronger than or equal to the vector coupling. Charge-conjugation and chiral-conjugation transformations are discussed and it is shown that a finite set of intrinsically relativistic bound-state solutions appears as poles of the transmission amplitude. It is also shown that those bound solutions disappear asymptotically as one approaches the conditions for the realization of the so-called spin and pseudospin symmetries in a four-dimensional space–time. - Highlights: • Scattering and bound states of fermions in a kink-like potential. • No pair production despite the high localization. • No bounded solution under exact spin and pseudospin symmetries.

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DOE OSTI2018

Exploring the capabilities of support vector machines in detecting silent data corruptions

As the exascale era approaches, the increasing capacity of high-performance computing (HPC) systems with targeted power and energy budget goals introduces significant challenges in reliability. Silent data corruptions (SDCs), or silent errors, are one of the major sources that corrupt the execution results of HPC applications without being detected. Here in this paper, we explore a set of novel SDC detectors – by leveraging epsilon-insensitive support vector machine regression – to detect SDCs that occur in HPC applications. The key contributions are threefold. (1) Our exploration takes temporal, spatial, and spatiotemporal features into account and analyzes different detectors based on different features. (2) We provide an in-depth study on the detection ability and performance with different parameters, and we optimize the detection range carefully. (3) Experiments with eight real-world HPC applications show that support-vector-machine-based detectors can achieve detection sensitivity (i.e., recall) up to 99% yet suffer a less than 1% false positive rate for most cases. Our detectors incur low performance overhead, 5% on average, for all benchmarks studied in this work.

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DOE OSTI2013

Scalar mesons in a linear sigma model with (axial-)vector mesons

The structure of the scalar mesons has been a subject of debate for many decades. In this work we look for qq states among the physical resonances using an extended Linear Sigma Model that contains scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, and axial-vector mesons both in the non-strange and strange sectors. We perform global fits of meson masses, decay widths and amplitudes in order to ascertain whether the scalar qq states are below or above 1 GeV. We find the scalar states above 1 GeV to be preferred as qq states.

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DOE OSTI2013

APEX: An electron fixed-target experiment to search for a new vector boson A′ Decaying to e{sup +}e{sup −}

The A' EXperiment (APEX) is designed to search for new vector bosons that have small couplings to charged particles. Such vectors can arise naturally from a small kinetic mixing of a new 'dark photon' (A') with the photon - one of the very few ways in which new forces can couple to the Standard Model - and have received considerable attention as an explanation of various dark matter related anomalies. A' bosons are produced by radiation off an electron beam, and could appear as narrow resonances with small production cross-section in the QED e{sup +}e{sup −} spectrum. We plan to search for an A' using the CEBAF electron beam at energies of 1-4 GeV incident on 0.5-10% radiation length multi-foil tungsten targets, and measure the resulting e{sup +}e{sup −} pairs using the High Resolution Spectrometers and a septum magnet in Hall A at Jefferson Lab. With a 33-day run, APEX will explore the region 50 MeV < m{sub A′} < 550 MeV with couplings alpha'/alpha down to 10{sup −7}. This proceeding summarizes the experiment, test run results, and comments on future plans.

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DOE OSTI2013

Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector in quantum mechanics in noncommutative space

The main point of this paper is to examine a “hidden” dynamical symmetry connected with the conservation of Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector (LRL) in the hydrogen atom problem solved by means of non-commutative quantum mechanics (NCQM). The basic features of NCQM will be introduced to the reader, the key one being the fact that the notion of a point, or a zero distance in the considered configuration space, is abandoned and replaced with a “fuzzy” structure in such a way that the rotational invariance is preserved. The main facts about the conservation of LRL vector in both classical and quantum theory will be reviewed. Finally, we will search for an analogy in the NCQM, provide our results and their comparison with the QM predictions. The key notions we are going to deal with are non-commutative space, Coulomb-Kepler problem, and symmetry.

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DOE OSTI2014

Boundary filters for vector particles passing parity breaking domains

The electrodynamics supplemented with a Lorenz and CPT invariance violating Chern-Simons (CS) action (Carrol-Field-Jackiw electrodynamics) is studied when the parity-odd medium is bounded by a hyperplane separating it from the vacuum. The solutions in both half-spaces are carefully discussed and for space-like boundary stitched on the boundary with help of the Bogolubov transformations. The presence of two different Fock vacua is shown. The passage of photons and massive vector mesons through a boundary between the CS medium and the vacuum of conventional Maxwell electrodynamics is investigated. Effects of reflection from a boundary (up to the total one) are revealed when vector particles escape to vacuum and income from vacuum passing the boundary.

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DOE OSTI2014

Killing vector fields and harmonic superfield theories

The harmonic action functional allows a natural generalisation to semi-Riemannian supergeometry, also referred to as harmonic, which resembles the supersymmetric sigma models studied in high energy physics. We show that Killing vector fields are infinitesimal supersymmetries of this harmonic action and prove three different Noether theorems in this context. En passant, we provide a homogeneous treatment of five characterisations of Killing vector fields on semi-Riemannian supermanifolds, thus filling a gap in the literature.

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