Latest Physics Results from ALEPH

Paolo Azzurri

CERN - July 15, 2003

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What’s new ?

• QCD Studies

• Four fermions & Gauge Couplings

• Jet reconstruction & radiative Z peak

• SUSY searches

• Conclusions & Prospects

QCD studies

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αS @ 91-209 GeV

NLO + NLL TheoryTheory syst error evaluated with the lepwg method

(uncertainty band method)

Consistent analysis at all energies using six event shape variables

in hadronic events

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)pert.th.(0045.0

(exp)0011.0

)stat(0009.0

1214.0

LEP2LEP1

ZS m

FINAL !

CMES

CME

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Two-dimensional BE correlations

Selection of two-jet events with large thrust

q

q

2

1

String = Pion source

Q= p= p1 - p2

QL : longitudinal component of pQT : transverse component of p

Data/MC double ratio of the distribution of like-sign tracks to reference samples

Reference of mixed pionsfrom different events

Reference of unlike-sign pionsfrom the same event

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Two-dimensional BE correlations

Lund Model

predicts RT<RL

Fit double ratio to:

source size source size andand strengthstrengthdepend on the depend on the

reference sample !reference sample !

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Rapidity gaps in gluon jets

From OPAL proposal

to test CR at Z peak

rapidity gap withno charged particles

rapidity gap

q

q

gluon – jet(softest)

High purity quark jets :data/mc agreement

Jets with 1.5 rapidity gap

MC with CR (GAL)

MC without CR

The charge of the third softest jet (most likely gluon)

is sensitive to CR models

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Rapidity gaps in gluon jets

New ALEPH measurement

as a function of the rapidity gap

Tested CR models not in agreement

with data at all rapidity gaps

(overestimate of CR effects)

Models with no CR agree with data only at zero rapidity gap :

data shows an effect !

(data-MC)/MC

Four fermions & Gauge Couplings

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Zee production

New analysis of the hadronic decay channeleeqq: 4f signal defined by lepwg convention

Selection efficiency=24%, purity =82%

10%at SMwith agreement

pb )syst(01.0(stat)05.053.0qqeeZee

section cross Average

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W-pair production

Consistent event selections at all energies 183-207 GeV

More stringent evaluationsof systematic uncertainties

Latest data reprocessingand event reconstructions

FINAL !

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W decay couplings

019.0014.1(syst)07.0(stat)32.020.11WB

020.0018.1(syst)07.0(stat)25.089.10WB

018.0004.1(syst)07.0(stat)27.080.10eWB

gg

gg

gg

e

e

Lepton non-universality

(syst)007.0(stat)017.0958.0V

009.0992.0(syst)13.0(stat)38.014.67qqWB

cs

ggq

Lepton universality

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BE correlations in W pairs

W pairs Double ratio: four jet decays compared to two mixed hadronic

parts of semileptonic decays

BEIMC,,

q22,

q4

data,q22

,q4(Q)D'

NN

NN

MC BEI = BE Inside W decayMC BEB = BE Between W decays

4q

2q2q

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BE correlations in W pairs

006.00.077 : BEB JETSET

(syst)014.0(stat)015.0001.0

level) BEB MCat (fixed GeV 61.2

disfavoured at the 3.7 sigma level

Fit double ratio to:

unlike –sign pairs

like –sign pairs

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BE correlations in W pairs

055.00.720' :BEB JETSET

(syst)200.0(stat)148.0124.0'

Integral of the BE enhancement

disfavoured at the 3.3 sigma level

Double differenceComplementary measurement:

BEIMC,,q22

,q4

data,q22

,q4Q'

NNNN

like –sign pairs

unlike –sign pairs

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Triple Gauge Couplings

Z1g

New multi-parameter fits with correct O(α) treatment in W-pair analysis

W pairs, single W and single photonscombined

1-D, 2-D & 3-D95% CL contour limits

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Generic Triple Gauge Couplings

NEW ! updated

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Generic Triple Gauge Couplings

Form Factor for Vector Resonance Enhancement of L Le e W W

2

2T

M i M

M s i MF

,M mass & width of technirho

T.L.Barklow et al. hep-ph/9704217

( )M GeV

M

excludedat 95% CL

For at 95% C.L. 1M 625M GeV

NEW !

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Quartic Gauge Couplings

Wc

W aa ,0

Zc

Z aa ,0

Analysis of acoplanar photon pairs with high transverse momentum

(ννγγ final state)

Limits @ 95% CL:

2ΛaZ

c

2ΛaW

c

2

0 ΛaW

2

0 ΛaZ

Jet reconstruction improvements& radiative Z peak

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Rescaled di-Jet mass

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2

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Jet 1

Jet 2

Radiative Z event:

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Jet angles and jet velocities are the fundamental ingredients ofradiative Z and W mass measurements with kinematic fits

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Jet velocity & mass

Last jet reconstruction(with ECAL cleaning)

Z peak jets boost

(T>0.8)

jetjet Mlog

)log(

P

MeV 20180M

%2.05.1)(: DATA/MC

jet MeV 205M %2.00.0)(: DATA/MC jet

Jet boost (and mass) now well calibrated !

Removing low energy neutrals(<1.5 GeV , and <2 GeV if mixed)

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Simulation of forward charged tracks

Loss of forward tracks in data(nuclear interactions in Vdet material)

Year 2000 Z peak hadronic eventsAffects regions with at low polar angle(4% max deficit in forward directions)

Deficit parametrized as a functionof the track cosθ and PT

Monte Carlo tracks corrected

cos

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Radiative Z peak

MeV 54Total

MeV 24anglePolar

MeV 16 tracksForward

MeV 12stat MC

MeV 16background

MeV 7ISR

MeV 20methodFit

MeV 30rsCalorimete

MeV 19ionFragmentat

effect mSource 12

MeV (syst) 58 (stat) 3243E

MeV (syst) 54 (stat) 3040m

b

Z

Systematic uncertainties

Unbinned likelihood fit to a pdf built with a fit to the MC reference

2GeV/cZm

SUSY searches final results

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Constraints on the MSSM

Improvement of the selectron searchin the gaugino region

New scan of low tanβ with stau mixing(without Higgs constraints)

2

20

2

TeV/c4 4545

TeV/c 1

TeV/c 1

50tan1

A

m

limits on the LSP mass

Combination of searches for charginos, neutralinos, sleptons, higgs

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Limits on the LSP mass with stau mixing

LSP limit at 95% CLwith any stau mixing

GeV 42.6 GeV 36.8mixingstau

GeV 5.43GeV 39.6many

GeV 49.5 GeV 39.6sfermionsheavy

sconstraint higgs tanallC.L. @95%limit )m(

0

01

NEW ! improved

Summary of LSP limits

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Conclusions & Prospects

ALEPH is coming to an end …

☼ Searches for new physics completed with the LSP limits Many Standard Model analyses completed

or close to being published

Archiving of ALEPH data and Monte Carlo (~3Tb)

for long term analysis completed (June 2003)

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Two-dimensional BE correlations

Comparison with other LEP experiments

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BE correlations in W-pairs

Fit results without fixing the source radius

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Triple Gauge Couplings

W-pairs, single W and single photonscombined

@95% C.L.

O(α) correction sytematic now evaluated as the difference

between schemes

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Quartic Gauge Couplings

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Jet velocity & mass

Z peak jets boost

(T>0.8)

jetjet Mlog

)log(

P

MeV 20180M

%2.05.1)(: DATA/MC

jet

MeV 2030M %2.03.0)(: DATA/MC jet

Jet boost (and mass) calibrated !

ECAL cleaningwith full egs simulation:

Last jet reconstructionwith ECAL cleaning

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Radiative Z peak

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wrt observation large data/MC shift :

•Strict cut on beam background •ECAL cleanning in jets

•Removal of low energy neutrals•Correction of forward tracks