PhotonPortal
Shedding light on physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC Run 2 using photons
PhotonPortal is an All-Knowledge Challenge project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) for the 2016-2020 period, and a collaboration of the ATLAS Experiment groups of LAPP Annecy-le-Vieux, LPNHE Paris and LAL Orsay.
Project
The Project
The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC Run 1 represents a milestone of particle physics. On the other hand, no clear sign of new phenomena beyond the Standard Model was found in the proton-proton (pp) collisions collected at 7 and 8 TeV at the LHC. The LHC Run 2 started in 2015, and by the end of 2016 ATLAS already collected 40 fb-1 of pp collisions at 13 TeV. The increased center of mass energy with respect to Run 1 has allowed ATLAS to search for new physics directly by looking for new particles, and will permit, in the years to come, to reveal New Physics through precision studies in the Higgs boson sector.
Final states involving photons play an crucial role!
Di-photon events will be used to search additional Higgs-boson-like particles, while topologies with non-resonant photon pairs or single photons in presence of missing transverse energy will probe more exotic scenarios. In parallel, the study of the production of the Higgs boson associated with other objects represents an excellent opportunity to discover new physics: by exploiting the di-photon decay channel it will be possible to cleanly isolate the Higgs boson signal in events with additional objects, and to explore the possibility of its resonant or non-resonant production in association with new particles. With the full Run 2 dataset, about 100 fb-1 of pp collisions at 13 TeV, the PhotonPortal project plans to complete a rich and diverse program of searches and precision measurement exploiting photons in the final state as unifying element.
Team
The team behind the PhotonPortal project
We are a group of experimental physicists working on the ATLAS experiment in three French CNRS/INP23 laboratories. We played a fundamental role in the discovery of the Higgs boson and in the measurement of its properties and rare decays. We have a leading position in the ATLAS H→γγ and photon-related physics activities, and maintain a strong involvement in the ATLAS LAr electromagnetic calorimeter.
LAPP Annecy
- Marco Delmastro (Project Coordinator and LAPP Local Responsible)
- Nicolas Berger
- Ana Cueto (Post-doc, funded by PhotonPortal)
- Saskia Falke (PhD Student)
- Luca Franco (PhD Student)
- Thibault Guillemin
- Oleh Kivernyk (Post-doc)
- Remi Lafaye
- Isabelle Wingerter-Seez
LPNHE
- Giovanni Marchiori (LPNHE Local Responsible)
- Bertrand Laforge
- Irena Nikolic
- Ioannis Nomidis (Post-doc, funded by PhotonPortal)
- Josè Ocariz
- Lydia Roos
- Ahmed Tarek (PhD Student)
LAL Orsay
- Louis Fayard (LAL Local Responsible)
- David Delgove (Post-doc, funded by PhotonPortal)
- Jean-Baptiste De Vivie
- Marc Escalier
- Daniel Fournier
- Antinea Guerguichon (PhD Student)
- Marumi Kado
Results
Results
ATLAS Conference Notes
ATLAS Collaboration, Search for resonances in the 65 to 110 GeV diphoton invariant mass range using 80 fb^-1 of pp collisions collected at sqrt(s)=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/CONFNOTES/ATLAS-CONF-2018-025/.
ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel using 80 fb-1 of pp collision data at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/CONFNOTES/ATLAS-CONF-2018-028/.
ATLAS Collaboration, Measurements of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel with 36.1 fb-1 pp collision data at the center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/CONFNOTES/ATLAS-CONF-2017-045/.
ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of the Higgs boson mass in the H->ZZ*->4 and H->γγ channels with sqrt(s)=13TeV pp collisions using the ATLAS detector, https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/CONFNOTES/ATLAS-CONF-2017-046/.
ATLAS Collaboration, Search for new phenomena in events with missing transverse momentum and a Higgs boson decaying into two photons at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/CONFNOTES/ATLAS-CONF-2017-024/.
Publications on refereed journals
ATLAS Collaboration, M. Aaboud et al., Measurement of the photon identification efficiencies with the ATLAS detector using LHC Run 2 data collected in 2015 and 2016, Eur. Phys. J. C79 (2019) 205, arXiv:1810.05087 [hep-ex]. %%CITATION = ARXIV:1810.05087;%%.
ATLAS Collaboration, ATLAS Collaboration, Electron and photon energy calibration with the ATLAS detector using 2015–2016 LHC proton-proton collision data, JINST 14 (2019) P03017, arXiv:1812.03848 [hep-ex]. %%CITATION = ARXIV:1812.03848;%%.
ATLAS Collaboration, ATLAS Collaboration, Search for Higgs boson pair production in the γγbb final state with 13 TeV pp collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment, JHEP 11 (2018) 040, arXiv:1807.04873 [hep-ex].
ATLAS Collaboration, ATLAS Collaboration, Observation of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair at the LHC with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Lett. B784 (2018) 173--191, arXiv:1806.00425 [hep-ex].
ATLAS Collaboration, ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of the Higgs boson mass in the H->ZZ* ->4 and H -> γγ channels with sqrt(s)=13 TeV pp collisions using the ATLAS detector, Phys. Lett. B784 (2018) 345--366, arXiv:1806.00242 [hep-ex].
ATLAS Collaboration, M. Aaboud et al., Measurements of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel with 36 fb-1 of pp collision data at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. D98 (2018) 052005, arXiv:1802.04146 [hep-ex].
ATLAS Collaboration, Search for dark matter in association with a Higgs boson decaying to two photons at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. D 96 (2017) 112004, arXiv:1706.03948 [hep-ex].
ATLAS Collaboration, Searches for the Zγ decay mode of the Higgs boson and for new high-mass resonances in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, JHEP 1710 (2017) 112, arXiv:1708.00212 [hep-ex].
ATLAS Collaboration, Search for new phenomena in high-mass diphoton final states using 37 fb-1 of proton--proton collisions collected at sqrt(s)=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Lett. B775 (2017) 105--125, arXiv:1707.04147 [hep-ex].
ATLAS Collaboration, Search for top quark decays t->qH, with H->γγ, in sqrt(s)=13 TeV pp collisions using the ATLAS detector, JHEP 10 (2017) 129, arXiv:1707.01404 [hep-ex].
ATLAS Collaboration, Search for photonic signatures of gauge-mediated supersymmetry in 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. D97 (2018) 092006, arXiv:1802.03158 [hep-ex].
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