Evidence for the H → to bb‾ decay with the ATLAS detector
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 9 - Physics
- Output identifier
- 43118552
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1007/JHEP12(2017)024
- Title of journal
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Article number
- 24
- First page
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- Volume
- 12
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 1126-6708
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2,999
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- Citation count
- 38
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
- The ATLAS pixel detector was upgraded in 2013-14 with a new innermost layer to improve secondary vertex measurements which are crucial for all physics involving beauty quarks. Gonella spent several years working on this 'Insertable B-layer', developing its powering scheme and devising an improved module concept that substantially reduced the material budget, eliminating much of the multiple scattering and thus significantly improving the b-quark identification efficiency. This is one of several ATLAS papers where Gonella's work on the IBL had a significant impact. The sensitivity to the Higgs decay to beauty quarks would have been substantially weaker without it.
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