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• #### Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector in Run 2 ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-24)
The performance of the ATLAS Inner Detector alignment has been studied using pp collision data at s√=13TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment during Run 2 (2015–2018) of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The goal of the ...
• #### The ATLAS Fast TracKer system ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The ATLAS Fast TracKer (FTK) was designed to provide full tracking for the ATLAS high-level trigger by using pattern recognition based on Associative Memory (AM) chips and fitting in high-speed field programmable gate ...
• #### Combination of the W boson polarization measurements in top quark decays using ATLAS and CMS data at √s = 8 TeV ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08)
The combination of measurements of the W boson polarization in top quark decays performed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations is presented. The measurements are based on proton-proton collision data produced at the LHC at ...
• #### Configuration and performance of the ATLAS b-jet triggers in Run 2 ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Several improvements to the ATLAS triggers used to identify jets containing b-hadrons (b-jets) were implemented for data-taking during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider from 2016 to 2018. These changes include reconfiguring ...
• #### CP Properties of Higgs Boson Interactions with Top Quarks in the tt¯ H and tH Processes Using H→γγ with the ATLAS Detector ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-05)
A study of the charge conjugation and parity (CP) properties of the interaction between the Higgs boson and top quarks is presented. Higgs bosons are identified via the diphoton decay channel (H→γγ), and their production ...
• #### Determination of jet calibration and energy resolution in proton–proton collisions at √s=8TeV using the ATLAS detector ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The jet energy scale, jet energy resolution, and their systematic uncertainties are measured for jets reconstructed with the ATLAS detector in 2012 using proton–proton data produced at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with ...
• #### Determination of the parton distribution functions of the proton from ATLAS measurements of differential W± and Z boson production in association with jets ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This article presents a new set of proton parton distribution functions, ATLASepWZVjet20, produced in an analysis at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. The new data sets considered are the measurements of W+ and W− boson ...
• #### Differential cross-section measurements for the electroweak production of dijets in association with a Z boson in proton–proton collisions at ATLAS ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Differential cross-section measurements are presented for the electroweak production of two jets in association with a Z boson. These measurements are sensitive to the vector-boson fusion production mechanism and provide ...
• #### Dijet resonance search with weak supervision using √s = 13 TeV pp collisions in the ATLAS detector ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-21)
This Letter describes a search for narrowly resonant new physics using a machine-learning anomaly detection procedure that does not rely on signal simulations for developing the analysis selection. Weakly supervised learning ...
• #### Evidence for Higgs boson decays to a low-mass dilepton system and a photon in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
A search for the Higgs boson decaying into a photon and a pair of electrons or muons with an invariant mass mℓℓ<30 GeV is presented. The analysis is performed using 139 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data, produced by the ...
• #### Evidence for tt¯ tt¯ production in the multilepton final state in proton–proton collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-24)
A search is presented for four-top-quark production using an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are ...
• #### Exclusive dimuon production in ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV with ATLAS ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Exclusive dimuon production in ultraperipheral collisions (UPC), resulting from photon-photon interactions in the strong electromagnetic fields of colliding high-energy lead nuclei, PbPb(γ γ ) → μ+μ−(Pb() Pb() ), is studied ...
• #### Higgs boson production cross-section measurements and their EFT interpretation in the 4 ℓ decay channel at √s= 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-10)
Higgs boson properties are studied in the four-lepton decay channel (where lepton = e, μ) using 139 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded at s√=13 TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The ...
• #### Jet energy scale and resolution measured in proton–proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Jet energy scale and resolution measurements with their associated uncertainties are reported for jets using 36–81 fb$^{-1}$ of proton–proton collision data with a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13$ \({\text ...
• #### Longitudinal Flow Decorrelations in Xe+Xe Collisions at √sNN =5.44 TeV with the ATLAS Detector ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The first measurement of longitudinal decorrelations of harmonic flow amplitudes vn for n=2–4 in Xe+Xe collisions at √sNN=5.44 TeV is obtained using 3 μb−1 of data with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The decorrelation ...
• #### Measurement of b-quark fragmentation properties in jets using the decay B± → J/ψK± in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The fragmentation properties of jets containing b-hadrons are studied using charged B mesons in 139 fb−1 of pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV, recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC during the period from 2015 to 2018. The ...
• #### Measurement of hadronic event shapes in high-pT multijet final states at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
A measurement of event-shape variables in proton-proton collisions at large momentum transfer is presented using data collected at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Six event-shape variables ...
• #### Measurement of light-by-light scattering and search for axion-like particles with 2.2 nb^−1 of Pb+Pb data with the ATLAS detector ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This paper describes a measurement of light-by-light scattering based on Pb+Pb collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment during Run 2 of the LHC. The study uses 2.2 nb−1 of integrated luminosity collected in 2015 and ...
• #### Measurement of single top-quark production in association with a W boson in the single-lepton channel at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The production cross-section of a top quark in association with a W boson is measured using proton–proton collisions at √s=8TeV. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.2fb^−1, and was collected in 2012 ...
• #### Measurement of the associated production of a Higgs boson decaying into b-quarks with a vector boson at high transverse momentum in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector ﻿

(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The associated production of a Higgs boson with a W or Z boson decaying into leptons and where the Higgs boson decays to a b¯ b pair is measured in the high vector-boson transverse momentum regime, above 250 GeV, with the ...