# Publications

## Measurement of Azimuthal Anisotropy of Muons from Charm and Bottom Hadrons in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13  TeV with the ATLAS Detector.

Physical review letters 124 (2020) 082301-

The elliptic flow of muons from the decay of charm and bottom hadrons is measured in pp collisions at sqrt[s]=13  TeV using a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 150  pb^{-1} recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The muons from heavy-flavor decay are separated from light-hadron decay muons using momentum imbalance between the tracking and muon spectrometers. The heavy-flavor decay muons are further separated into those from charm decay and those from bottom decay using the distance-of-closest-approach to the collision vertex. The measurement is performed for muons in the transverse momentum range 4-7 GeV and pseudorapidity range |η|<2.4. A significant nonzero elliptic anisotropy coefficient v_{2} is observed for muons from charm decays, while the v_{2} value for muons from bottom decays is consistent with zero within uncertainties.

## Ice, Fire, or Fizzle: The Climate Footprint of Earth's Supercontinental Cycles

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (2020)

R PIERREHUMBERT, A Lenardic, M Jellinek

## S2COSMOS: Evolution of Gas Mass with Redshift Using Dust Emission

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) (2020)

HS Hwang, M Michałowski, A Babul, L Ho, Y Ao, JS Millard, SA Eales, M Smith, J Simpson, H Gomez, K Małek, Y Peng, A Bunker, M Sawicki, R Beeston, Y Toba, N Scoville, H Shim

&lt;jats:title&gt;Abstract&lt;/jats:title&gt; &lt;jats:p&gt;We investigate the evolution of the gas mass fraction for galaxies in the COSMOS field using submillimetre emission from dust at 850μm. We use stacking methodologies on the 850 μm S2COSMOS map to derive the gas mass fraction of galaxies out to high redshifts, 0 ≤ z ≤ 5, for galaxies with stellar masses of $10^{9.5} &amp;amp;lt; M_* ~(\rm M_{\odot }) &amp;amp;lt; 10^{11.75}$. In comparison to previous literature studies we extend to higher redshifts, include more normal star-forming galaxies (on the main sequence), and also investigate the evolution of the gas mass fraction split by star-forming and passive galaxy populations. We find our stacking results broadly agree with scaling relations in the literature. We find tentative evidence for a peak in the gas mass fraction of galaxies at around z ∼ 2.5 − 3, just before the peak of the star formation history of the Universe. We find that passive galaxies are particularly devoid of gas, compared to the star-forming population. We find that even at high redshifts, high stellar mass galaxies still contain significant amounts of gas.&lt;/jats:p&gt;

## A Search for MeV to TeV Neutrinos from Fast Radio Bursts with IceCube

The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics American Astronomical Society (2020)

GW Sullivan, T Stürwald, K Tollefson, T Stuttard, L Tomankova, A Terliuk, F Tenholt, I Taboada, S Tilav, M Tselengidou, S Toscano, CF Turley, A Turcati, R Turcotte, C Tönnis, A Trettin, CF Tung, D Tosi, J Vandenbroucke, MAU Elorrieta, NV Eijndhoven, WV Driessche, S Vanheule, E Unger, M Usner

We present two searches for IceCube neutrino events coincident with 28 fast radio bursts (FRBs) and one repeating FRB. The first improves upon a previous IceCube analysis -- searching for spatial and temporal correlation of events with FRBs at energies greater than roughly 50 GeV -- by increasing the effective area by an order of magnitude. The second is a search for temporal correlation of MeV neutrino events with FRBs. No significant correlation is found in either search, therefore, we set upper limits on the time-integrated neutrino flux emitted by FRBs for a range of emission timescales less than one day. These are the first limits on FRB neutrino emission at the MeV scale, and the limits set at higher energies are an order-of-magnitude improvement over those set by any neutrino telescope.

## Measurement of the relative response of small-electrode CMOS sensors at Diamond Light Source

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT 956 (2020) ARTN 163381

M Mironova, K Metodiev, P Allport, I Berdalovic, D Bortoletto, C Buttar, R Cardella, V Dao, M Dyndal, P Freeman, LFS de Acedo, L Gonella, T Kugathasan, H Pernegger, F Piro, R Plackett, P Riedler, A Sharma, EJ Schioppa, I Shipsey, CS Sanchez, W Snoeys, H Wennlof, D Weatherill, D Wood, S Worm

## Search for direct stau production in events with two hadronic tau-leptons in root s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

PHYSICAL REVIEW D 101 (2020) ARTN 032009

## Evidence for electroweak production of two jets in association with a Zγ pair in pp collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 803 (2020)

© 2020 The Author(s) Evidence for electroweak production of two jets in association with a Zγ pair in s=13 TeV proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider is presented. The analysis uses data collected by the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016 that corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 36.1fb−1. Events that contain a Z boson candidate decaying leptonically into either e+e− or μ+μ−, a photon, and two jets are selected. The electroweak component is measured with observed and expected significances of 4.1 standard deviations. The fiducial cross-section for electroweak production is measured to be σZγjj−EW=7.8±2.0fb, in good agreement with the Standard Model prediction.

## Time-integrated Neutrino Source Searches with 10 years of IceCube Data

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (2020)

S Robertson, M Rongen, C Rott, T Ruhe, D Ryckbosch, D Rysewyk, I Safa, SES Herrera, A Sandrock, J Sandroos, M Santander, SUBIR Sarkar, S SARKAR, K Satalecka, M Schaufel, H Schieler, P Schlunder, T Schmidt, A Schneider, J Schneider, FG Schröder, L Schumacher, S Sclafani, D Seckel, S Seunarine

This paper presents the results from point-like neutrino source searches using ten years of IceCube data collected between Apr.~6, 2008 and Jul.~10, 2018. We evaluate the significance of an astrophysical signal from a point-like source looking for an excess of clustered neutrino events with energies typically above $\sim1\,$TeV among the background of atmospheric muons and neutrinos. We perform a full-sky scan, a search within a selected source catalog, a catalog population study, and three stacked Galactic catalog searches. The most significant point in the Northern hemisphere from scanning the sky is coincident with the Seyfert II galaxy NGC 1068, which was included in the source catalog search. The excess at the coordinates of NGC 1068 is inconsistent with background expectations at the level of $2.9\,\sigma$ after accounting for statistical trials. The combination of this result along with excesses observed at the coordinates of three other sources, including TXS 0506+056, suggests that, collectively, correlations with sources in the Northern catalog are inconsistent with background at 3.3$\,\sigma$ significance. These results, all based on searches for a cumulative neutrino signal integrated over the ten years of available data, motivate further study of these and similar sources, including time-dependent analyses, multimessenger correlations, and the possibility of stronger evidence with coming upgrades to the detector.

## Deceptively cold dust in the massive starburst galaxy GN20 at z~4

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences (2020)

D Rigopoulou, F Valentino, E Daddi, D Liu, D Riechers, M Sargent, D Cormier, JA Hodge, M Béthermin, V Kokorev, TR Greve, F Walter, D Elbaz, S Toft, GE Magdis, I Cortzen

## Design and Performance of the first IceAct Demonstrator at the South Pole

Journal of Instrumentation IOP Publishing (2020)

GW Sullivan, I Taboada, A Taketa, S Ter-Antonyan, HKM Tanaka, F Tenholt, A Terliuk, S Tilav, K Tollefson, L Tomankova, C Tönnis, S Toscano, D Tosi, M Tselengidou, A Turcati, A Trettin, CF Tung, R Turcotte, CF Turley, MAU Elorrieta, B Ty, E Unger, J Vandenbroucke, M Usner, WV Driessche

In this paper we describe the first results of a compact imaging air-Cherenkov telescope, IceAct, operating in coincidence with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory (IceCube) at the geographic South Pole. An array of IceAct telescopes (referred to as the IceAct project) is under consideration as part of the IceCube-Gen2 extension to IceCube. Surface detectors in general will be a powerful tool in IceCube-Gen2 for distinguishing astrophysical neutrinos from the dominant backgrounds of cosmic-ray induced atmospheric muons and neutrinos: the IceTop array is already in place as part of IceCube, but has a high energy threshold. Although the duty cycle will be lower for the IceAct telescopes than the present IceTop tanks, the IceAct telescopes may prove to be more effective at lowering the detection threshold for air showers. Additionally, small imaging air-Cherenkov telescopes in combination with IceTop, the deep IceCube detector or other future detector systems might improve measurements of the composition of the cosmic ray energy spectrum. In this paper we present measurements of a first 7-pixel imaging air Cherenkov telescope demonstrator, proving the capability of this technology to measure air showers at the South Pole in coincidence with IceTop and the deep IceCube detector.

## Measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy of charged-particle production in Xe plus Xe collisions at root S-NN=5.44 TeV with the ATLAS detector

PHYSICAL REVIEW C 101 (2020) ARTN 024906

## Measurement of differential cross sections for single diffractive dissociation in root s=8 TeV pp collisions using the ATLAS ALFA spectrometer

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (2020) ARTN 42

## Z boson production in Pb+Pb collisions at s<inf>NN</inf>=5.02 TeV measured by the ATLAS experiment

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 802 (2020)

© 2020 The Author(s) The production yield of Z bosons is measured in the electron and muon decay channels in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Data from the 2015 LHC run corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.49 nb−1 are used for the analysis. The Z boson yield, normalised by the total number of minimum-bias events and the mean nuclear thickness function, is measured as a function of dilepton rapidity and event centrality. The measurements in Pb+Pb collisions are compared with similar measurements made in proton–proton collisions at the same centre-of-mass energy. The nuclear modification factor is found to be consistent with unity for all centrality intervals. The results are compared with theoretical predictions obtained at next-to-leading order using nucleon and nuclear parton distribution functions. The normalised Z boson yields in Pb+Pb collisions lie 1–3σ above the predictions. The nuclear modification factor measured as a function of rapidity agrees with unity and is consistent with a next-to-leading-order QCD calculation including the isospin effect.

## Search for PeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Southern Hemisphere with 5 Years of Data from the IceCube Observatory

The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics American Astronomical Society (2020)

H Bagherpour, C Argüelles, J Auffenberg, T Anderson, I Ansseau, P Backes, G Anton, S Axani, X Bai, E Bernardini, DZ Besson, E Blaufuss, D Bindig, S BenZvi, D Berley, JB Tjus, G Binder, S Blot, J Brostean-Kaiser, RS Busse, D Chirkin, A Burgman, J Buscher, T Carver, E Cheung

The measurement of diffuse PeV gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane would provide information about the energy spectrum and propagation of Galactic cosmic rays, and the detection of a point-like source of PeV gamma rays would be strong evidence for a Galactic source capable of accelerating cosmic rays up to at least a few PeV. This paper presents several un-binned maximum likelihood searches for PeV gamma rays in the Southern Hemisphere using 5 years of data from the IceTop air shower surface detector and the in-ice array of the IceCube Observatory. The combination of both detectors takes advantage of the low muon content and deep shower maximum of gamma-ray air showers, and provides excellent sensitivity to gamma rays between $\sim$0.6 PeV and 100 PeV. Our measurements of point-like and diffuse Galactic emission of PeV gamma rays are consistent with background, so we constrain the angle-integrated diffuse gamma-ray flux from the Galactic Plane at 2 PeV to $2.61 \times 10^{-19}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ TeV$^{-1}$ at 90% confidence, assuming an E$^{-3}$ spectrum, and we estimate 90% upper limits on point-like emission at 2 PeV between 10$^{-21}$ - 10$^{-20}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ TeV$^{-1}$ for an E$^{-2}$ spectrum, depending on declination. Furthermore, we exclude unbroken power-law emission up to 2 PeV for several TeV gamma-ray sources observed by H.E.S.S., and calculate upper limits on the energy cutoffs of these sources at 90% confidence. We also find no PeV gamma rays correlated with neutrinos from IceCube's high-energy starting event sample. These are currently the strongest constraints on PeV gamma-ray emission.

## Updated Design of the CMB Polarization Experiment Satellite LiteBIRD

JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS (2020)

H Sugai, PAR Ade, Y Akiba, D Alonso, K Arnold, J Aumont, J Austermann, C Baccigalupi, AJ Banday, R Banerji, RB Barreiro, S Basak, J Beall, S Beckman, M Bersanelli, J Borrill, F Boulanger, ML Brown, M Bucher, A Buzzelli, E Calabrese, FJ Casas, A Challinor, V Chan, Y Chinone, J-F Cliche, F Columbro, A Cukierman, D Curtis, P Danto, P de Bernardis, T de Haan, M De Petris, C Dickinson, M Dobbs, T Dotani, L Duband, A Ducout, S Duff, A Duivenvoorden, J-M Duval, K Ebisawa, T Elleflot, H Enokida, HK Eriksen, J Errard, T Essinger-Hileman, F Finelli, R Flauger, C Franceschet, U Fuskeland, K Ganga, J-R Gao, R Genova-Santos, T Ghigna, A Gomez, ML Gradziel, J Grain, F Grupp, A Gruppuso, JE Gudmundsson, NW Halverson, P Hargrave, T Hasebe, M Hasegawa, M Hattori, M Hazumi, S Henrot-Versille, D Herranz, C Hill, G Hilton, Y Hirota, E Hivon, R Hlozek, D-T Hoang, J Hubmayr, K Ichiki, T Iida, H Imada, K Ishimura, H Ishino, GC Jaehnig, M Jones, T Kaga, S Kashima, Y Kataoka, N Katayama, T Kawasaki, R Keskitalo, A Kibayashi, T Kikuchi, K Kimura, T Kisner, Y Kobayashi, N Kogiso, A Kogut, K Kohri, E Komatsu, K Komatsu, K Konishi, N Krachmalnicoff, CL Kuo, N Kurinsky, A Kushino, M Kuwata-Gonokami, L Lamagna, M Lattanzi, AT Lee, E Linder, B Maffei, D Maino, M Maki, A Mangilli, E Martinez-Gonzalez, S Masi, R Mathon, T Matsumura, A Mennella, M Migliaccio, Y Minami, K Mistuda, D Molinari, L Montier, G Morgante, B Mot, Y Murata, JA Murphy, M Nagai, R Nagata, S Nakamura, T Namikawa, P Natoli, S Nerval, T Nishibori, H Nishino, Y Nomura, F Noviello, C O'Sullivan, H Ochi, H Ogawa, H Ogawa, H Ohsaki, I Ohta, N Okada, N Okada, L Pagano, A Paiella, D Paoletti, G Patanchon, F Piacentini, G Pisano, G Polenta, D Poletti, T Prouve, G Puglisi, D Rambaud, C Raum, S Realini, M Remazeilles, G Roudil, JA Rubino-Martin, M Russell, H Sakurai, Y Sakurai, M Sandri, G Savini, D Scott, Y Sekimoto, BD Sherwin, K Shinozaki, M Shiraishi, P Shirron, G Signorelli, G Smecher, P Spizzi, SL Stever, R Stompor, S Sugiyama, A Suzuki, J Suzuki, E Switzer, R Takaku, H Takakura, S Takakura, Y Takeda, A Taylor, E Taylor, Y Terao, KL Thompson, B Thorne, M Tomasi, H Tomida, N Trappe, M Tristram, M Tsuji, M Tsujimoto, C Tucker, J Ullom, S Uozumi, S Utsunomiya, J Van Lanen, G Vermeulen, P Vielva, F Villa, M Vissers, N Vittorio, F Voisin, I Walker, N Watanabe, I Wehus, J Weller, B Westbrook, B Winter, E Wollack, R Yamamoto, NY Yamasaki, M Yanagisawa, T Yoshida, J Yumoto, M Zannoni, A Zonca

## Search for displaced vertices of oppositely charged leptons from decays of long-lived particles in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

PHYSICS LETTERS B 801 (2020) ARTN 135114

## Search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the bbl nu l nu final state with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV

PHYSICS LETTERS B 801 (2020) ARTN 135145

## Search for the Higgs boson decays H -> ee and H -> e mu in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

PHYSICS LETTERS B 801 (2020) ARTN 135148

## The Karl G. Jansky very large array sky survey (VLASS). Science case and survey design

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 132 (2020)

M Lacy, SA Baum, CJ Chandler, S Chatterjee, TE Clarke, S Deustua, J English, J Farnes, BM Gaensler, N Gugliucci, G Hallinan, BR Kent, A Kimball, CJ Law, TJW Lazio, J Marvil, SA Mao, D Medlin, K Mooley, EJ Murphy, S Myers, R Osten, GT Richards, E Rosolowsky, L Rudnick, F Schinzel, GR Sivakoff, LO Sjouwerman, R Taylor, RL White, J Wrobel, H Andernach, AJ Beasley, E Berger, S Bhatnager, M Birkinshaw, GC Bower, WN Brandt, S Brown, S Burke-Spolaor, BJ Butler, J Comerford, PB Demorest, H Fu, S Giacintucci, K Golap, T Güth, CA Hales, R Hiriart, J Hodge, A Horesh, Ivezić, MJ Jarvis, A Kamble, N Kassim, X Liu, L Loinard, DK Lyons, J Masters, M Mezcua, GA Moellenbrock, T Mroczkowski, K Nyland, CP O’dea, SP O’sullivan, WM Peters, K Radford, U Rao, J Robnett, J Salcido, Y Shen, A Sobotka, S Witz, M Vaccari, RJ van Weeren, A Vargas, PKG Williams, I Yoon

© 2020. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) is a synoptic, all-sky radio sky survey with a unique combination of high angular resolution (≈2.″5), sensitivity (a 1σ goal of 70 μJy/beam in the coadded data), full linear Stokes polarimetry, time domain coverage, and wide bandwidth (2–4 GHz). The first observations began in 2017 September, and observing for the survey will finish in 2024. VLASS will use approximately 5500 hr of time on the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to cover the whole sky visible to the VLA (decl. > −40°), a total of 33 885 deg2. The data will be taken in three epochs to allow the discovery of variable and transient radio sources. The survey is designed to engage radio astronomy experts, multi-wavelength astronomers, and citizen scientists alike. By utilizing an “on the fly” interferometry mode, the observing overheads are much reduced compared to a conventional pointed survey. In this paper, we present the science case and observational strategy for the survey, and also results from early survey observations.

## Permittivity and permeability of epoxy-magnetite powder composites at microwave frequencies

Journal of Applied Physics 127 (2020)

M Zannoni, T Ghigna, M Jones, A Simonetto

© 2020 Author(s). Radio, millimeter, and sub-millimeter astronomy experiments as well as remote sensing applications often require castable absorbers with well known electromagnetic properties to design and realize calibration targets. In this context, we fabricated and characterized two samples using different ratios of two easily commercially available materials: epoxy (Stycast 2850FT) and magnetite (F e 3 O 4) powder. We performed transmission and reflection measurements from 7 GHz up to 170 GHz with a vector network analyzer equipped with a series of standard horn antennas. Using an empirical model, we analyzed the data to extract complex permittivity and permeability from transmission data; then, we used reflection data to validate the results. In this paper, we present the sample fabrication procedure, analysis method, parameter extraction pipeline, and results for two samples with different epoxy-powder mass ratios.