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  1. Abstract

    A multi-TeV muon collider offers a spectacular opportunity in the direct exploration of the energy frontier. Offering a combination of unprecedented energy collisions in a comparatively clean leptonic environment, a high energy muon collider has the unique potential to provide both precision measurements and the highest energy reach in one machine that cannot be paralleled by any currently available technology. The topic generated a lot of excitement in Snowmass meetings and continues to attract a large number of supporters, including many from the early career community. In light of this very strong interest within the US particle physics community, Snowmass Energy, Theory and Accelerator Frontiers created a cross-frontier Muon Collider Forum in November of 2020. The Forum has been meeting on a monthly basis and organized several topical workshops dedicated to physics, accelerator technology, and detector R&D. Findings of the Forum are summarized in this report.

     
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    The operation and performance of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) are presented, based on data collected in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV at the CERN LHC, in the years from 2015 to 2018 (LHC Run 2), corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 151 fb-1. The CMS ECAL is a scintillating lead-tungstate crystal calorimeter, with a silicon strip preshower detector in the forward region that provides precise measurements of the energy and the time-of-arrival of electrons and photons. The successful operation of the ECAL is crucial for a broad range of physics goals, ranging from observing the Higgs boson and measuring its properties, to other standard model measurements and searches for new phenomena. Precise calibration, alignment, and monitoring of the ECAL response are important ingredients to achieve these goals. To face the challenges posed by the higher luminosity, which characterized the operation of the LHC in Run 2, the procedures established during the 2011–2012 run of the LHC have been revisited and new methods have been developed for the energy measurement and for the ECAL calibration. The energy resolution of the calorimeter, for electrons from Z boson decays reaching the ECAL without significant loss of energy by bremsstrahlung, was better than 1.8%, 3.0%, and 4.5% in the |η| intervals [0.0,0.8], [0.8,1.5], [1.5, 2.5], respectively. This resulting performance is similar to that achieved during Run 1 in 2011–2012, in spite of the more severe running conditions.

     
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  5. A<sc>bstract</sc>

    Measurements of the charge-dependent two-particle angular correlation function in proton-lead (pPb) collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of$$ \sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} $$sNN= 8.16 TeV and lead-lead (PbPb) collisions at$$ \sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} $$sNN= 5.02 TeV are reported. The pPb and PbPb data sets correspond to integrated luminosities of 186 nb1and 0.607 nb1, respectively, and were collected using the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The charge-dependent correlations are characterized by balance functions of same- and opposite-sign particle pairs. The balance functions, which contain information about the creation time of charged particle pairs and the development of collectivity, are studied as functions of relative pseudorapidity (∆η) and relative azimuthal angle (∆ϕ), for various multiplicity and transverse momentum (pT) intervals. A multiplicity dependence of the balance function is observed in ∆ηand ∆ϕfor both systems. The width of the balance functions decreases towards high-multiplicity collisions in the momentum region<2 GeV, for pPb and PbPb results. Integrals of the balance functions are presented in both systems, and a mild dependence of the charge-balancing fractions on multiplicity is observed. No multiplicity dependence is observed at higher transverse momentum. The data are compared withhydjet,hijing, andamptgenerator predictions, none of which capture completely the multiplicity dependence seen in the data. The comparison of results with different center-of-mass energies suggests that the balance functions become narrower at higher energies, which is consistent with the idea of delayed hadronization and the effect of radial flow.

     
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  6. A search for beyond the standard model spin-0 bosons,ϕ, that decay into pairs of electrons, muons, or tau leptons is presented. The search targets the associated production of such bosons with aWorZgauge boson, or a top quark-antiquark pair, and uses events with three or four charged leptons, including hadronically decaying tau leptons. The proton-proton collision data set used in the analysis was collected at the LHC from 2016 to 2018 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of138fb1. The observations are consistent with the predictions from standard model processes. Upper limits are placed on the product of cross sections and branching fractions of such new particles over the mass range of 15 to 350 GeV with scalar, pseudoscalar, or Higgs-boson-like couplings, as well as on the product of coupling parameters and branching fractions. Several model-dependent exclusion limits are also presented. For a Higgs-boson-likeϕmodel, limits are set on the mixing angle of the Higgs boson with theϕboson. For the associated production of aϕboson with a top quark-antiquark pair, limits are set on the coupling to top quarks. Finally, limits are set for the first time on a fermiophilic dilaton-like model with scalar couplings and a fermiophilic axion-like model with pseudoscalar couplings.

    <supplementary-material><permissions><copyright-statement>© 2024 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder>CERN</copyright-holder></permissions></supplementary-material></sec> </div> <a href='#' class='show open-abstract' style='margin-left:10px;'>more »</a> <a href='#' class='hide close-abstract' style='margin-left:10px;'>« less</a> <div class="actions" style="padding-left:10px;"> <span class="reader-count"> Free, publicly-accessible full text available July 1, 2025</span> </div> </div><div class="clearfix"></div> </div> </li> <li> <div class="article item document" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/TechArticle"> <div class="item-info"> <div class="title"> <a href="https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10549908-observation-meson-suppression-states-pb-pb-collisions-snn" itemprop="url"> <span class='span-link' itemprop="name">Observation of the ϒ(3S) Meson and Suppression of ϒ States in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN=5.02  TeV</span> </a> </div> <div> <strong> <a class="misc external-link" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.022302" target="_blank" title="Link to document DOI">https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.022302  <span class="fas fa-external-link-alt"></span></a> </strong> </div> <div class="metadata"> <span class="authors"> <span class="author" itemprop="author">Tumasyan, A</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Adam, W</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Andrejkovic, J W</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Bergauer, T</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Chatterjee, S</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Damanakis, K</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Dragicevic, M</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Escalante_Del_Valle, A</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Hussain, P S</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Jeitler, M</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author">et al</span></span> <span class="year">( <time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2024-07-01">July 2024</time> , Physical Review Letters) </span> </div> <div style="cursor: pointer;-webkit-line-clamp: 5;" class="abstract" itemprop="description"> <p>The production of<math display='inline'><mrow><mi mathvariant='normal'>ϒ</mi><mrow><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mn>2</mn><mi>S</mi><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math>and<math display='inline'><mi mathvariant='normal'>ϒ</mi><mrow><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mn>3</mn><mi>S</mi><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo></mrow></math>mesons in lead-lead (Pb-Pb) and proton-proton (<math display='inline'><mi>p</mi><mi>p</mi></math>) collisions is studied in their dimuon decay channel using the CMS detector at the LHC. The<math display='inline'><mi mathvariant='normal'>ϒ</mi><mrow><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mn>3</mn><mi>S</mi><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo></mrow></math>meson is observed for the first time in Pb-Pb collisions, with a significance above 5 standard deviations. The ratios of yields measured in Pb-Pb and<math display='inline'><mi>p</mi><mi>p</mi></math>collisions are reported for both the<math display='inline'><mi mathvariant='normal'>ϒ</mi><mrow><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mn>2</mn><mi>S</mi><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo></mrow></math>and<math display='inline'><mi mathvariant='normal'>ϒ</mi><mrow><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mn>3</mn><mi>S</mi><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo></mrow></math>mesons, as functions of transverse momentum and Pb-Pb collision centrality. These ratios, when appropriately scaled, are significantly less than unity, indicating a suppression of<math display='inline'><mi mathvariant='normal'>ϒ</mi></math>yields in Pb-Pb collisions. This suppression increases from peripheral to central Pb-Pb collisions. Furthermore, the suppression is stronger for<math display='inline'><mi mathvariant='normal'>ϒ</mi><mrow><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mn>3</mn><mi>S</mi><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo></mrow></math>mesons compared to<math display='inline'><mi mathvariant='normal'>ϒ</mi><mrow><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mn>2</mn><mi>S</mi><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo></mrow></math>mesons, extending the pattern of sequential suppression of quarkonium states in nuclear collisions previously seen for the<math display='inline'><mi>J</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>ψ</mi></math>,<math display='inline'><mrow><mi>ψ</mi><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mn>2</mn><mi>S</mi><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo></mrow></math>,<math display='inline'><mi mathvariant='normal'>ϒ</mi><mrow><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mn>1</mn><mi>S</mi><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo></mrow></math>, and<math display='inline'><mi mathvariant='normal'>ϒ</mi><mrow><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mn>2</mn><mi>S</mi><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo></mrow></math>mesons.</p> <sec><title/><supplementary-material><permissions><copyright-statement>© 2024 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder>CERN</copyright-holder></permissions></supplementary-material></sec> </div> <a href='#' class='show open-abstract' style='margin-left:10px;'>more »</a> <a href='#' class='hide close-abstract' style='margin-left:10px;'>« less</a> <div class="actions" style="padding-left:10px;"> <span class="reader-count"> Free, publicly-accessible full text available July 1, 2025</span> </div> </div><div class="clearfix"></div> </div> </li> <li> <div class="article item document" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/TechArticle"> <div class="item-info"> <div class="title"> <a href="https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10537315-search-higgs-boson-pair-production-textrm-overline-textrm-textrm-textrm-decay-mode-proton-proton-collisions-sqrt-tev" itemprop="url"> <span class='span-link' itemprop="name">Search for Higgs boson pair production in the $$ \textrm{b}\overline{\textrm{b}}{\textrm{W}}^{+}{\textrm{W}}^{-} $$ decay mode in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV</span> </a> </div> <div> <strong> <a class="misc external-link" href="https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2024)293" target="_blank" title="Link to document DOI">https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2024)293  <span class="fas fa-external-link-alt"></span></a> </strong> </div> <div class="metadata"> <span class="authors"> <span class="author" itemprop="author">Hayrapetyan, A</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Tumasyan, A</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Adam, W</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Andrejkovic, J W</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Bergauer, T</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Chatterjee, S</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Damanakis, K</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Dragicevic, M</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Escalante_Del_Valle, A</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author" itemprop="author">Hussain, P S</span> <span class="sep">; </span><span class="author">et al</span></span> <span class="year">( <time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2024-07-01">July 2024</time> , Journal of High Energy Physics) </span> </div> <div style="cursor: pointer;-webkit-line-clamp: 5;" class="abstract" itemprop="description"> <title>A<sc>bstract</sc>

    A search for Higgs boson pair (HH) production with one Higgs boson decaying to two bottom quarks and the other to two W bosons are presented. The search is done using proton-proton collisions data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb1recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC from 2016 to 2018. The final states considered include at least one leptonically decaying W boson. No evidence for the presence of a signal is observed and corresponding upper limits on the HH production cross section are derived. The limit on the inclusive cross section of the nonresonant HH production, assuming that the distributions of kinematic observables are as expected in the standard model (SM), is observed (expected) to be 14 (18) times the value predicted by the SM, at 95% confidence level. The limits on the cross section are also presented as functions of various Higgs boson coupling modifiers, and anomalous Higgs boson coupling scenarios. In addition, limits are set on the resonant HH production via spin-0 and spin-2 resonances within the mass range 250–900 GeV.

     
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  7. A search is presented for high-mass exclusive diphoton production via photon-photon fusion in proton-proton collisions ats=13TeVin events where both protons survive the interaction. The analysis utilizes data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of103fb1collected in 2016–2018 with the central CMS detector and the CMS and TOTEM precision proton spectrometer (PPS). Events that have two photons with high transverse momenta (pTγ>100GeV), back-to-back in azimuth, and with a large diphoton invariant mass (mγγ>350GeV) are selected. To remove the dominant inclusive diphoton backgrounds, the kinematic properties of the protons detected in PPS are required to match those of the central diphoton system. Only events having opposite-side forward protons detected with a fractional momentum loss between 0.035 and 0.15 (0.18) for the detectors on the negative (positive) side of CMS are considered. One exclusive diphoton candidate is observed for an expected background of 1.1 events. Limits at 95% confidence level are derived for the four-photon anomalous coupling parameters|ζ1|<0.073TeV4and|ζ2|<0.15TeV4, using an effective field theory. Additionally, upper limits are placed on the production of axionlike particles with coupling strength to photonsf1that varies from0.03TeV1to1TeV1over the mass range from 500 to 2000 GeV.

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