Publications by Matthias Weber

Reconstruction of decays to merged photons using end-to-end deep learning with domain continuation in the CMS detector

Matthias Finger, Konstantin Androsov, Qian Wang, Jan Steggemann, Yiming Li, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Arvind Shah, Rakesh Chawla, Jian Wang

A novel technique based on machine learning is introduced to reconstruct the decays of highly Lorentz boosted particles. Using an end-to-end deep learning strategy, the technique bypasses existing rule-based particle reconstruction methods typically used i ...

American Physical Society2023

Search for Higgs boson pairs decaying to WWWW, WW*ττ, and ττττ in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Matthias Finger, Konstantin Androsov, Jan Steggemann, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, Anna Mascellani, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Arvind Shah, Rakesh Chawla

The results of a search for Higgs boson pair (HH) production in the (WWWW*)-W-, WWtau tau, and tau tau tau tau decay modes are presented. The search uses 138 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC at a center-of- ...

Springer Nature2023

Measurements of Higgs boson production in the decay channel with a pair of τ leptons in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Matthias Finger, Konstantin Androsov, Qian Wang, Jan Steggemann, Yiming Li, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Arvind Shah, Rakesh Chawla, Jian Wang

Measurements of Higgs boson production, where the Higgs boson decays into a pair of tau leptons, are presented, using a sample of proton-proton collisions collected with the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrate ...

Springer2023

Search for CP violating top quark couplings in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV

Matthias Finger, Konstantin Androsov, Jan Steggemann, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Arvind Shah, Rakesh Chawla, Jian Wang

Results are presented from a search for CP violation in top quark pair production, using proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV. The data used for this analysis consist of final states with two charged leptons collected by the CMS exp ...

Springer Nature2023

Azimuthal Correlations within Exclusive Dijets with Large Momentum Transfer in Photon-Lead Collisions

Matthias Finger, Konstantin Androsov, Jan Steggemann, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Arvind Shah, Rakesh Chawla, Jian Wang

The structure of nucleons is multidimensional and depends on the transverse momenta, spatial geometry, and polarization of the constituent partons. Such a structure can be studied using high-energy photons produced in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions. ...

Amer Physical Soc2023

Constraints on anomalous Higgs boson couplings to vector bosons and fermions from the production of Higgs bosons using the tt final state

Matthias Finger, Konstantin Androsov, Jan Steggemann, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, Anna Mascellani, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Arvind Shah, Rakesh Chawla

A study of anomalous couplings of the Higgs boson to vector bosons and fermions is presented. The data were recorded by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of pp collisions at the LHC of 13 TeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb ...

American Physical Society2023

Two-particle azimuthal correlations in γp interactions using pPb collisions at √sNN=8.16 TeV

Matthias Finger, Konstantin Androsov, Jan Steggemann, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Arvind Shah, Rakesh Chawla, Jian Wang

The first measurements of the Fourier coefficients (V-n Delta) of the azimuthal distributions of charged hadrons emitted from photon-proton (gamma p) interactions are presented. The data are extracted from 68.8nb(-1) of ultra-peripheral proton-lead (pPb) c ...

Elsevier2023

Search for the exotic decay of the Higgs boson into two light pseudoscalars with four photons in the final state in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Matthias Finger, Konstantin Androsov, Jan Steggemann, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, Anna Mascellani, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Arvind Shah, Rakesh Chawla

A search for the exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalars, each of which subsequently decays into a pair of photons, is presented. The search uses data from proton-proton collisions at root s = 13TeV recorded with the CMS detector a ...

Springer Nature2023

Search for narrow resonances in the b-tagged dijet mass spectrum in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Matthias Finger, Konstantin Androsov, Jan Steggemann, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, Anna Mascellani, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Arvind Shah, Rakesh Chawla

A search is performed for narrow resonances decaying to final states of two jets, with at least one jet ffiffioriginating from a b quark, in proton-proton collisions at p s = 13 TeV. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb-1 collecte ...

American Physical Society2023

Search for light Higgs bosons from supersymmetric cascade decays in pp collisions at √s=13TeV

Matthias Finger, Konstantin Androsov, Qian Wang, Jan Steggemann, Yiming Li, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Arvind Shah, Rakesh Chawla, Jian Wang

A search is reported for pairs of light Higgs bosons (H-1) produced in supersymmetric cascade decays in final states with small missing transverse momentum. A data set of LHC pp collisions collected with the CMS detector at root s = 13 TeV and correspondin ...

Springer2023