• Name: Ricardo Goncalo
• Office: W263
• Phone: 43460
• Position: Research Associate
• Currently based at CERN: +41 22 7676077

My Links

• Small analysis-related page

• W/Z Standard Model sharepoint forum and discussion on common selection

HSG5 Results

ATLAS H->bb Results

*NEW version* (12/4/2012):

• H->bb paper draft under ATLAS circulation documenting llbb,lvbb and vvbb inclusive analyses: ATLAS-HIGG-2012-08-002

Version 1 of the paper (21/2/2012):

• H->bb paper draft under ATLAS circulation documenting llbb,lvbb and vvbb inclusive analyses (became Moriond CONF note): ATLAS-HIGG-2012-08-001

The following documents were produced so far in this group:

Moriond EW 2012:

• CONF note:
  • ATLAS-CONF-2012-015 and public results page containing all plots in the note
  • SVN directory with source files for CONF note
  • ZH->llbb/WH->lvbb support note: Wiki CDS SVN
  • ZH->vvbb support note: Wiki CDS, SVN

Summer 2011:

• CONF note:
  • ATLAS-CONF-2011-103 and public results page containing all plots in the note
  • SVN directory with source files of the COM, INT and CONF notes
  • SVN directory containing H->bb workspaces used for EPS 2011 combination
  • Support material: Searches for a Higgs boson decaying to a b-quark pair with the ATLAS detector at the LHC: ATL-COM-PHYS-2010-929
• EPS HEP 2011:
  • H->bb talk: ATL-PHYS-SLIDE-2011-464
  • H->bb poster: ATL-PHYS-SLIDE-2011-491 This poster won the best poster award at EPS2011!
  • Joint proceedings paper for talk and poster: ATL-PHYS-PROC-2011-221 (to be published in Proceedings of Science)
• SUSY 2011:
  • H->bb talk: ATL-PHYS-SLIDE-2011-530

Wiki pages for intermediate results and information:

• Ongoing work for early 2012 paper:
  • Open presentation of H->bb paper
  • inclusive WH->lnubb/ZH->llbb analyses - llbb/lvbb support note in CDS, llbb/lvbb support note in SVN
  • ZH->nunubb - vvbb support note in CDS, vvbb support note in SVN
  • boosted Higgs analyses - Note draft in SVN
  • CONF Note for Moriond EW 2012 - ATLAS-CONF-2012-015 ATLAS-COM-CONF-2012-048 SVN

• Searches for a Higgs boson decaying to a b-quark pair with the ATLAS detector at the LHC - approved as CONF note in July 2011 - CDS SVN

• Intended note on the data-driven determination of the Z+Jets background to ZH->llbb - abandoned February 2011

• Old H->bb page: HSG5Higgs2bbFinalState

Physics Documents & Sources

• Video lectures at CERN

• The MCplots cern website

• Physics Results from CMS

• Physics Results from ATLAS

• Implications of LHC results for TeV-scale physics at CERN, Monday 29 August 2011 to Friday 02 September 2011

Monte Carlo Generators

• HepForge home and list of projects

• LHA PDF library

• VBFNLO

• POWHEG BOX page and recipes to run it

• FASTJET library with fast codes for jet finding (kT, anti-kT, Cambridge-Aachen)

• MC@NLO page

• AlpGen page in Brazil

Top Physics

Bibliography

PP.Public.ATLAS Papers & Notes

• Observation of top quark pair production in PP.Public.ATLAS at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, Public.ATLAS-TOP-2010-01-001, Draft (Nov.2010)

Higgs Physics

• RHUL Higgs Analysis page

• LHC Higgs Combination group

• LHC Higgs Cross Section group

• Karl Jakobs' lectures on Higgs Searches at Hadron Colliders at CERN

Bibliography

Analysis Techniques

• Discriminating variables for multivariate techniques:

• • Multivariate discrimination and the Higgs + W/Z search, Kevin Black, Jason Gallicchio, John Huth, Michael Kagan, Matthew D. Schwartz, Brock Tweedie, JHEP 1104:069 (2011), arXiv:1010.3698v2

• N-subjetiness:

• • Identifying Boosted Objects with N-subjettiness, Jesse Thaler and Ken Van Tilburg, JHEP 1103:015 (2011), arXiv:1011.2268

• • Maximizing Boosted Top Identification by Minimizing N-subjettiness, Jesse Thaler and Ken Van Tilburg, JHEP 1202:093 (2012), arXiv:1108.2701

Higgs Cross Section Calculations

• Higgs inclusive cross section: arXiv: 1101.0593; same as the yellow report by the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group: "Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 1. Inclusive Observables"

• Higgs Production Cross Sections and Decay Branching Ratios, ATL-COM-PHYS-2010-046, CERN, 2010, 126 p.

• Production Cross Section of the Higgs Boson and Other Standard Model Processes in pp Collisions at Different Center-of-Mass Energies, ATL-COM-PHYS-2009-051 , CERN, 2009, 18 p.

Statistics

Workshops

• 2010 Banff Workshop on statistical issues relevant to significance of discovery claims.

• Phystat 2011 and TMVA Workshops

Software

• RooStats Tutorial and RooStats Wiki, Screencast tutorials and User's Guide

• TMVA Toolkit for Multivariate Data Analysis with ROOT homepage, workshop, and tutorial exercises

Bibliography & Links

• Statistics and Discovery lectures by Glen Cowan at CERN

-- RicardoGoncalo - 05 Dec 2013