%RESPONSIBLE%
TrishaFarooque

%CERTIFY%

VlqCluster

Introduction

This twiki summarises the activitites in the cluster of ATLAS VLQ analyses in preparation for full Run-2 results

Contacts

Single production: Janet Dietrich janet.dietrich@SPAMNOTcernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch

mailing list: atlas-phys-exotics-singlevlq-fullrun2@SPAMNOTcernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch

Pair production: Trisha Farooque trisha.farooque@SPAMNOTcernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch

mailing list: atlas-phys-exotics-vlqpair-fullrun2@SPAMNOTcernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch

Meetings

Thursdays 16:00

Schedule of topical meetings

Organisational meeting: 12th July, 2018

Combination issues: 19th July, 2018

List of full Run 2 analyses

The tables below list the analyses expected to contribute to the VLQ search programme with full Run 2 data.

Institutes listed are those who expressed interest in these channels at the HQT kick-off meeting on 14th May 2018

Please add your analysis/team to the table if it is missing and let Trisha and Janet know

Pair production

Analysis	Previous results	Institutes	Code repository
HqZq		Bogazici
OS-ML		Dortmund + LIP
TT -> Ht/Zt + X		MSU + IFAE
SS + b
BB -> Wt + X
TT -> Wb + X		Oklahoma S.
All-had		Oklahoma S.
Z(vv)t + X		Wuppertal

Single production

Analysis	Previous results	Institutes	Code repository
B -> bH(yy)		Dortmund + N. Illinois
B -> bH(bb)		UCL
B -> Wt (1lep)		Ankara, UBC+TRIUMF
T -> Ht/Zt		MSU + IFAE
All-had		Toronto
T/Y -> Wb (1lep,0lep)		Berlin, Bonn
OS-ML (Z-tagged)		UT Austin
T -> Z(vv)t

Common tools

Common-use software tools should be added to the two git repositories below:

Pair-production git repository: https://gitlab.cern.ch/groups/atlas-phys/exot/hqt/VLQ_Pair_Run2

Single-production git repository: https://gitlab.cern.ch/groups/atlas-phys/exot/hqt/VLQ_Single_Run2

These can include:

• Signal coupling reweighting macros for single VLQ
• Branching ratio reweighting macros
• Code snippets to calculate event selection variables
• Statistical tools and macros related to combination

Common tasks

Task list

The task list will be added as issues on the git repositories above. Progress of tasks can be tracked in discussion threads on those issues.

Cutflow challenge

Survey on current object definitions and event preselections: Spreadsheet

Data/MC live-page

Please add any R21 data/MC plots you have to the live-page below:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/743304/

Indicate the following information on the slides:

• Analysis framework (AnalysisTop / SUSYTools / other)
• Object definitions and selection criteria
• Event selection criteria

---

%RESPONSIBLE% Main.TrishaFarooque
%REVIEW% Never reviewed

-- TrishaFarooque - 2018-07-10