Search for Massive Colored Scalars in Four-Jet Final States in sqrt{s}=7 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS Detector

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Search for Massive Colored Scalars in Four-Jet Final States in

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s =7 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS Detector

The ATLAS Collaboration

Abstract. A search for pair-produced scalar particles decaying to a four-jet final state is presented. The analysis is performed using an integrated luminosity of 34 pb−1 recorded by the ATLAS detector in 2010. No deviation from the Standard Model is observed. For a scalar mass of 100 GeV (190 GeV) the limit on the scalar gluon pair production cross section at 95% confidence level is 1 nb (0.28 nb). When these results are interpreted as mass limits, scalar-gluons (hyperpions) with masses of 100 to 185 GeV (100 to 155 GeV) are excluded at 95% confidence level with the exception of a mass window of width about 5 GeV (15 GeV) around 140 GeV.

At hadron colliders, the search for new phenomena in fully hadronic final states without missing transverse en-ergy or leptons is experimentally challenging because of the large multijet background. Recent studies used the di-jet mass spectrum and the didi-jet angular distribution ob-served at the LHC [1, 2, 3] to search for physics beyond the Standard Model. Some extensions of the Standard Model predict new phenomena in events with higher jet mul-tiplicity. In the six-jet final state CDF [4] and CMS [5] have excluded R–parity violating gluinos, the supersym-metric partners of the gluons, with masses from 200 GeV to 280 GeV using a model-independent search. This letter describes a search for pair-produced scalar particles de-caying to two jets, leading to a four-jet final state with two jet-jet resonances and no missing transverse energy.

Two scenarios serve as a guideline and motivation for the analysis: the extension of the Standard Model with a new gauge group called “hypercolor” as described in [6, 7, 8], and extended supersymmetric models [9, 10, 11].

In the hypercolor model, new colored fermions are charged under an additional gauge group (SU(3) hyper-color). In analogy with QCD, new colored fermions are bound into mesons of hypercolor: a color octet vector par-ticle, the coloron, and a color octet pseudoscalar, the hy-perpion which decays to two gluons.

In supersymmetric models with Dirac gluinos, a scalar gluon (sgluon) extends the QCD sector, which is made up of the gluon/gluino super-multiplet and an additional gluino/sgluon super-multiplet. As the sgluon has positive R-parity [12], light sgluons, i.e. sgluons with masses of the order of 100 GeV, are expected to decay to two glu-ons with a branching ratio close to 1. Single production of sgluons, loop-induced via supersymmetric particles, is also possible, but these cross sections are several orders of magnitude smaller than those of the studies in Ref. [3]; therefore the previously obtained limit of 1.92 TeV on the color-octet mass does not apply to the models studied in this letter. The pair production cross section does not

de-pend, at leading order, on supersymmetric parameters ex-cept the sgluon mass.

In the following, the sgluon pair production will be used as the benchmark process for the production of two heavy objects of equal mass, each decaying into two jets. ATLAS [13] is a multipurpose detector with nearly 4π coverage in solid angle. The inner detector, consisting of silicon pixel and microstrip detectors as well as a tran-sition radiation tracker, is immersed in a 2 T solenoidal magnetic field. The finely-segmented, hermetic calorime-ter covers |η| < 4.91_{and provides three-dimensional}

recon-struction of particle showers. The electromagnetic calo-rimeter is a lead liquid-argon sampling calocalo-rimeter. In the central region it is surrounded by a hadronic calorimeter made of iron and scintillating tiles. For the region |η| > 1.7 the sampling calorimeter consists of copper or tungsten and liquid argon. The calorimeters are surrounded by the muon spectrometer which consists of three large supercon-ducting toroids, a system of precision tracking chambers, and detectors for triggering.

ATLAS uses a three-level trigger system. The first level trigger is implemented in hardware, the other two trigger levels are implemented in software. In the analysis par-ticular emphasis was placed on being sensitive to the low mass region in order to exploit the low trigger thresholds of the data recorded in 2010. Therefore, a first level trigger requiring at least four jets with a transverse momentum pT of at least 5 GeV was used. The trigger efficiency

in-creases as a function of the jet pTto at least 99% [14] for

1

ATLAS uses a right-handed coordinate system with its ori-gin at the nominal interaction point (IP) in the centre of the detector and the z-axis along the beam pipe. The x-axis points from the IP to the centre of the LHC ring, and the y axis points upward. Cylindrical coordinates (r, φ) are used in the transverse plane, φ being the azimuthal angle around the beam pipe. The pseudorapidity is defined in terms of the polar angle θ as η = − ln tan(θ/2).

calibrated jets of pT > 55 GeV. An integrated luminosity

of 34 pb−1has been recorded with this trigger, taking into account the prescaling of the trigger at the end of 2010.

The Standard Model (SM) multijet production of four jets with pT > 60 GeV and |η| < 2.8 has a cross section

of approximately 5 nb [15]. Compared to multijet produc-tion, even without considering the branching ratios to ob-tain a final state with four hard jets, other Standard Model backgrounds have much smaller cross sections: W W with a cross section of 41 pb [16], t¯t with a cross section of 171 pb [17] and W production associated with two jets (pT>20 GeV, η <2.8) with a cross section of 200 pb [18].

Monte Carlo (MC) samples were used to model the SM multijet background. ALPGEN [19] SM multijet sam-ples were generated with the MLM matching scheme [20], interfaced to HERWIG [21] for parton shower and frag-mentation and to JIMMY [22] for the simulation of the underlying event. As a cross check, PYTHIA [23] SM di-jet samples were generated with the MRST LO∗ Parton Density Function (PDF) [24] and the ALPGEN sample with CTEQ6L1 PDF [25]. For both, the underlying event tune was the ATLAS MC09 tune [26]. The sgluon pair production differential cross section of Ref. [9] was imple-mented as an external process to PYTHIA. Signal samples of 10k events each for Msgluon=100 to 200 GeV in steps of

10 GeV and a point at 225 GeV were generated. The cross section for the pair production of sgluons, computed with the MRST LO∗PDF, is 7.5 nb at 100 GeV. It decreases to 100 pb at 225 GeV. All signal and SM background samples were passed through a GEANT4 [27] based simulation of the ATLAS detector.

Collision candidates are selected by requiring at least one reconstructed proton-proton interaction vertex with more than four good quality tracks. Jets are reconstructed using the anti-kt jet clustering algorithm [28] with a

ra-dius parameter of 0.6. The inputs to the jet algorithm are three-dimensional clusters formed from energy deposits in the calorimeter. The jets are calibrated using pT- and

η-dependent correction factors based on MC simulation and validated by test beam and collision data studies [29]. All jets considered in the analysis must have pT> 20 GeV and

|η| < 2.8. Quality selections are applied to the recon-structed jets to eliminate various detector effects and sup-press beam and other non-collision backgrounds. Overall, these requirements reduce the sample size by less than 0.1%.

At least four jets are required with a pTgreater than

55% of the sgluon mass to improve the background rejec-tion. The analysis thus probes sgluon masses greater than 100 GeV due to the trigger. After this requirement, as the system has a non-negligible boost leading to a jet-jet sepa-ration of ∆Rjj ≈ 1 (where ∆Rjj =p(∆φjj)2+ (∆ηjj)2),

the four highest pTjets in the event are paired by

minimiz-ing |∆Rpair1− 1| + |∆Rpair2− 1|. Events are rejected if, for

the chosen combination, a jet-jet-pairing has ∆Rjj > 1.6.

The corresponding reconstructed masses are denoted M1

and M2 in the following and the reconstructed average

mass is defined as ((M1+ M2)/2). Finally, to improve

further the rejection of the SM multijet background, the

relative difference between the two reconstructed masses (|M1− M2|/(M1+ M2)) is required to be less than 7.5%.

The scattering angle (| cos(θ∗)|) of the reconstructed sglu-ons in the rest frame of the four leading jets is required to be less than 0.5. The SM multijet background is peaked in the forward region, reflecting t-channel gluon exchange, while the signal is produced centrally due to the scalar na-ture of the sgluon. The selection efficiency of the signal is 0.62% for a sgluon mass of 100 GeV and 0.32% for a mass of 225 GeV.

The variables used in the analysis are compared to the ALPGEN MC sample (solid line) at different stages of the analysis in Fig. 1, as well as to the simulated sig-nal sample for a sgluon of mass 100 GeV (dashed line). The data to MC ratios are shown below each figure. The solid band corresponds to one standard deviation in the jet energy scale (JES) [29]. Figure 1 (a) shows the pT of

the 4th _{leading jet ordered by p}

T for events with 4 jets

with pT > 50 GeV. The ALPGEN MC sample is

nor-malized to the data after this requirement (normalization factor 1.26). The same normalization is used for all the following figures. This factor is similar to the one ob-tained in [15] for a different event selection. Figure 1 (b) shows the ∆Rjjdistribution between the two jets from the

sgluon reconstructed with the highest pTjet in the event.

The 4th_{leading jet was required to have a p}

Tgreater than

55 GeV. The relative mass difference is shown in Fig. 1 (c) after the application of the selection criteria on the pTand

the ∆Rjj. The scattering angle is shown in Fig. 1 (d) after

all other criteria are applied.

The shape of the data is well described by the ALP-GEN MC simulations. As the jet energy scale error can be considered to be, at first order, an error on the nor-malization, it is important to note that the description is good even when considering only the statistical errors in Fig. 1. The cut flow is shown in Table 1 for the data, the ALPGEN MC sample and a sgluon mass of 100 GeV.

While the description of the data by the MC is satisfac-tory, but limited by the MC statistics, the background is derived from data alone by dividing the data sample into one signal region (A) and three background-dominated re-gions (B, C, D). The variables used to define the different regions are the sgluon scattering angle and the relative mass difference. The regions, defined in Table 2, are cho-sen as a compromise between low contamination from the signal and the statistical error in the regions B, C and D which feeds into the error on the background prediction.

For the average mass distribution, the shape of the background in the signal region is modeled by that in the control region B, parameterized by a fit to f (x) = (x − p1)p2 · e−x·p3−x

2_·p

4 _{where p}

1, p2, p3, p4 are the free

parameters and x is the reconstructed average mass. The parameters p1and p2describe the rising edge of the

distri-bution; whereas, the p3 and p4 parameters model its tail.

In region B the selection criteria on the scattering angle is inverted with respect to the signal region, but not the one on the relative mass difference, leading to the best description of the background shape in the signal region.

Events / 4.0 GeV 2 10 3 10 4 10 5 10 6 10 data 2010 (s = 7 TeV) 1.26 (CTEQ6L1) × Alpgen σ 1 ± JES : sgluon M=100 GeV -1 L dt = 34 pb

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ATLAS jj R ∆ 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 Data / MC 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 (a) (b) Events / 0.033 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 = 7 TeV) s data 2010 ( 1.26 (CTEQ6L1) × Alpgen σ 1 ± JES : sgluon M=100 GeV -1 L dt = 34 pb

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ATLAS ) 2 +M 1 |/(M 2 -M 1 |M 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45 0.5 Data / MC 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 Events / 0.10 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500 = 7 TeV) s data 2010 ( 1.26 (CTEQ6L1) × Alpgen σ 1 ± JES : sgluon M=100 GeV -1 L dt = 34 pb

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ATLAS *)| θ |cos( 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 Data / MC 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 (c) (d)

Fig. 1. Kinematic variables at different stages of the analysis. Data (dots) are compared to the ALPGEN MC sample (solid line). The solid band corresponds to one standard deviation in the jet energy scale. The ratio data/MC is also shown with its statistical uncertainty, which is dominated by the MC statistics. The dashed line corresponds to a sgluon signal of 100 GeV. (a) The transverse momentum of the 4th_{jet is shown. (b) The ∆R}

jj distribution for the reconstructed sgluon candidate with the

highest transverse momentum jet is shown after requiring the transverse momentum to be greater than 55 GeV and pairing the four leading jets into two sgluon candidates. (c) The relative mass difference is shown after the criterias on the pT and ∆Rjj

have been applied. (d) The scattering angle in the 4-jet center-of-mass frame is shown after all other selection criteria have been applied.

Table 1. Cut flow for data, ALPGEN MC sample and sgluon MC (Msgluon= 100 GeV). The ALPGEN MC sample is normalized

to the data after the first requirement.

Cut data ALPGEN MC sgluon MC sgluon/ALPGEN

4 jets pT > 50 GeV 568421 568000 ± 8000 27900 ± 800 4.9%

4 jets pT > 55 GeV 340429 336000 ± 6000 19000 ± 700 5.6%

∆Rjj < 1.6 56131 55400 ± 1900 4900 ± 350 8.8%

|M1− M2|/(M1+ M2) < 0.075 16958 16800 ± 1100 1910 ± 220 11.4%

| cos(θ∗)| < 0.5 6937 7700 ± 800 1450 ± 190 18.9%

The normalization of the background in the signal re-gion is derived from the number of events in the control regions: N_Aextrapolation= NB·NC/ND. This is referred to as

the ABCD method. The effect of the correlation between the two variables used to define the different regions is ne-glected since the correlation is less than 0.2%. Performing a closure test on the ALPGEN and PYTHIA MC samples, the number of events in the signal region agreed with the

prediction derived from the three other regions within the statistical error.

In Fig. 2 the result obtained with the data is shown in the signal region (region A) for sgluon masses of 100, 140, 160 and 190 GeV. The data in region A is compared to the data in the control region B, and to the fit in re-gion B, where the data and the fit are each normalized using the ABCD method. The expected signals in regions

)/2 [GeV] 2 +M 1 (M 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 Events / 4.0 GeV 0 100 200 300 400 500 )/2 [GeV] 2 +M 1 (M 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 Events / 4.0 GeV 0 100 200 300 400 500 -1 L dt = 34 pb

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T> 55 GeV 4 jets p

ATLAS data; Region A

ABCD results ABCD results Fit

sgluon; Region A m=100 GeV sgluon; Region B m=100 GeV )/2 [GeV] 2 +M 1 (M 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280 Events / 5.6 GeV 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 )/2 [GeV] 2 +M 1 (M 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280 Events / 5.6 GeV 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 -1 L dt = 34 pb

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T> 77 GeV 4 jets p

ATLAS data; Region A

ABCD results ABCD results Fit

sgluon; Region A m=140 GeV sgluon; Region B m=140 GeV (a) (b) )/2 [GeV] 2 +M 1 (M 100 150 200 250 300 Events / 6.4 GeV 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 )/2 [GeV] 2 +M 1 (M 100 150 200 250 300 Events / 6.4 GeV 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 -1 L dt = 34 pb

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T> 88 GeV 4 jets p

ATLAS data; Region A

ABCD results ABCD results Fit

sgluon; Region A m=160 GeV sgluon; Region B m=160 GeV )/2 [GeV] 2 +M 1 (M 100 150 200 250 300 350 Events / 7.6 GeV 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 )/2 [GeV] 2 +M 1 (M 100 150 200 250 300 350 Events / 7.6 GeV 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 -1 L dt = 34 pb

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T> 104 GeV 4 jets p

ATLAS data; Region A

ABCD results ABCD results Fit

sgluon; Region A m=190 GeV sgluon; Region B m=190 GeV

(c) (d)

Fig. 2. The comparison of the prediction of the background with the data in the signal region is shown. The points are the data in the signal region (region A). The solid (dashed) histogram is the estimated signal in region A (B) for the nominal cross section. The predictions of background in region A based upon the data in region B (rectangles) and upon the result of the fit in region B (line), each normalized using the ABCD method, are shown for: (a) Msgluon= 100 GeV, (b) Msgluon= 140 GeV, (c)

Msgluon= 160 GeV and (d) Msgluon= 190 GeV. For each, the bin size of the histogram is equal to 0.04 × Msgluon.

Table 2. Definition of the four regions for the background determination. Region A is the signal region.

Region Selection A | cos(θ∗ )| < 0.5 and |M1− M2|/(M1+ M2) <7.5% B | cos(θ∗ )| > 0.7 and |M1− M2|/(M1+ M2) <7.5% C | cos(θ∗ )| < 0.5 and |M1− M2|/(M1+ M2) >7.5% D | cos(θ∗ )| > 0.7 and |M1− M2|/(M1+ M2) >7.5%

A and B, normalized to the nominal sgluon cross section, are also shown. Table 3 shows the number of events in the signal region, the prediction of the background from the ABCD prediction, the χ2 _{per degree of freedom (N DF )}

between the shapes of the distributions in region A and B (χ2/N DF (A, B)), as well as the χ2/N DF (B) in the background region for the fit of the background function. No significant deviation is observed between the data-driven background prediction and the data. Therefore lim-its are set on the excluded cross section using a profile likelihood ratio with the CLs approach [30]. The shapes

of the average mass distribution for signal and background in region A are parametrised and used in the likelihood. The signal shape is modeled with a Gaussian distribution and the background shape with the parametrisation of the ABCD method. The signal contamination in the control regions is taken into account in the likelihood. A Gaussian distribution is used to simulate the signal contamination in region B; whereas, in region C and D no assumption is made on the signal shape since only the number of events is used in these two regions.

The different sources of systematic uncertainty and their effect are summarized in Table 4. The uncertainty on the integrated luminosity is 3.4% [31]. The trigger ef-ficiency is estimated in minimum bias data to be 99±1%. The signal acceptance and contamination are taken from the full simulation Monte Carlo samples with a statistical uncertainty of 5% (in region A) by fitting the efficiencies as a function of the sgluon mass. The jet energy scale uncertainty is propagated to the signal [29], affecting the selection efficiency by 15%. A second effect of the JES un-certainty on the signal is a ±2% shift of the signal mass

Table 3. Comparison of data in signal region with background prediction. The first column shows the pTrequirement applied

on the 4th _{leading jet in p}

T, the second column the observed number of events in the signal region. The third column shows

the prediction of the ABCD method. Only the statistical uncertainty is indicated. The fourth column is the χ2_{/N DF (A, B)}

between the shapes of the reconstructed average mass distribution in regions A and B. The last column shows χ2_{/N DF (B) for}

the fit to the background region. pmin

T (4

th_{jet) [GeV] data ABCD prediction χ}2_{/N DF (A, B) χ}2_{/N DF (B)}

49 11732 11410 ± 150 1.31 0.77 55 6937 6740 ± 120 1.02 1.05 60 4098 3980 ± 90 0.85 1.09 66 2532 2460 ± 70 1.04 0.87 71 1590 1580 ± 60 1.18 0.98 77 1069 1030 ± 50 1.39 0.61 82 701 720 ± 40 1.59 1.04 88 480 517 ± 34 1.32 1.00 93 322 364 ± 29 0.94 1.22 99 218 266 ± 25 1.08 1.22 104 162 187 ± 21 1.05 1.13 110 116 151 ± 19 1.42 1.44

Table 4. The systematic uncertainties due to the jet energy scale (JES), jet energy resolution (JER), the ABCD method (ABCD), the choice of the PDF (PDF), the integrated luminosity (L), the Monte Carlo statistics (MC stat.) and the trigger efficiency (Trigger).

Source Effect

JES Signal peak center ±2%

Signal efficiency ±15%

JER Signal peak width ±10%

ABCD Background prediction ±1% to ±10%

PDF Signal efficiency ±2%

L Signal normalization ±3.4%

MC stat. Signal normalization in A(B,C,D) ±5(16, 5, 16)% Trigger Signal normalization (eff = 99%) ±1%

peak position. The impact of the jet energy resolution un-certainty on the signal mass peak width is 10%. The im-pact of the choice of the PDF for the signal generation was estimated to be less than 2%. Finally a systematic error, reflecting the statistics available to check the prediction of the ABCD method in the absence of new physics, is assigned to the background prediction. Gaussian nuisance parameters are implemented in the likelihood correspond-ing to the errors takcorrespond-ing into account the correlations, e.g. the error on the luminosity is common to the ABCD re-gions. The contamination of the regions B, C and D by the signal is also taken into account in the likelihood.

For each tested mass, the observed and expected me-dian CLsare determined as a function of the signal cross

section. The analysis is performed for masses from 100 to 200 GeV in steps of 10 GeV. The resulting excluded cross section, shown in Fig. 3, is 1 nb at 100 GeV and 280 pb at 190 GeV. Converting this result into a mass limit for a branching ratio of 1 to gluon pairs, using a leading order cross section [9] with CTEQ6L1 [25], sglu-ons with masses from 100 GeV to 185 GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level with the exception of a mass window of about 5 GeV around 140 GeV. The sgluon cross section used was checked at √s = 14 TeV with Ref. [9] and was

found to agree at the percent level. The centrality of the hyperpions compared to the sgluons increases due to the additional contribution of the s-channel coloron exchange. This property should increase the selection efficiency due to the presence of the requirement on the scattering an-gle. However, the hyperpion cross section was scaled down from the sgluon cross section according to Ref. [7], which makes the limits less stringent. Hyperpions with masses of 100 GeV to 155 GeV are excluded with the exception of a mass window of 15 GeV around 140 GeV.

To conclude, four-jet events have been analyzed by the ATLAS experiment, searching for the pair production of a new scalar particle decaying to two jets. The data in the signal region is in good agreement with the data-driven background estimation. No evidence for new phenomena was found. Cross section limits as a function of the mass of the scalar particle have been determined. Interpreting the cross section limit, sgluons (hyperpions) with masses from 100 GeV to 185 GeV (155 GeV) are excluded at 95% CL. A mass window of about 5 GeV (15 GeV) around 140 GeV remains unexcluded for the sgluons (hyperpions).

We would like to thank the authors of Refs. [6, 9], in particular S. Schumann and P.M. Zerwas, for useful dis-cussions. We are grateful to E. Popenda for having

pro-Mass [GeV] 100 120 140 160 180 200 BR [pb] × σ 2 10 3 10 4 10 Mass [GeV] 100 120 140 160 180 200 BR [pb] × σ 2 10 3 10 4 10 Observed Expected σ 1 ± σ 2 ± Scalar-gluon Hyperpion ATLAS -1 L dt = 34 pb

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Fig. 3. Expected and observed 95% CL upper bounds on the product of the scalar pair production cross sections and of the branching ratio to gluons as a function of the scalar mass. The predictions of the sgluon and hyperpion pair production cross section are also shown.

vided us with the code for the differential cross section of sgluon pair production.

We thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently.

We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colom-bia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Repub-lic; DNRF, DNSRC and Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark; ARTEMIS, European Union; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; GNAS, Georgia; BMBF, DFG, HGF, MPG and AvH Foundation, Germany; GSRT, Greece; ISF, MINERVA, GIF, DIP and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW, Poland; GRICES and FCT, Portugal; MERYS (MECTS), Romania; MES of Russia and ROSATOM, Russian Fed-eration; JINR; MSTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MVZT, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MICINN, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SER, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; NSC, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America.

The crucial computing support from all WLCG part-ners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN and the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (UK) and BNL (USA) and in the Tier-2 facilities worldwide.

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G. Aad48, B. Abbott111, J. Abdallah11, A.A. Abdelalim49, A. Abdesselam118, O. Abdinov10, B. Abi112,

M. Abolins88_{, H. Abramowicz}153_{, H. Abreu}115_{, E. Acerbi}89a,89b_{, B.S. Acharya}164a,164b_{, D.L. Adams}24_{, T.N. Addy}56_,

J. Adelman175_{, M. Aderholz}99_{, S. Adomeit}98_{, P. Adragna}75_{, T. Adye}129_{, S. Aefsky}22_{, J.A. Aguilar-Saavedra}124b,a_,

M. Aharrouche81_{, S.P. Ahlen}21_{, F. Ahles}48_{, A. Ahmad}148_{, M. Ahsan}40_{, G. Aielli}133a,133b_{, T. Akdogan}18a_,

T.P.A. ˚Akesson79, G. Akimoto155, A.V. Akimov 94, A. Akiyama67, M.S. Alam1, M.A. Alam76, J. Albert169, S. Albrand55, M. Aleksa29, I.N. Aleksandrov65, F. Alessandria89a, C. Alexa25a, G. Alexander153, G. Alexandre49, T. Alexopoulos9_{, M. Alhroob}20_{, M. Aliev}15_{, G. Alimonti}89a_{, J. Alison}120_{, M. Aliyev}10_{, P.P. Allport}73_,

S.E. Allwood-Spiers53_{, J. Almond}82_{, A. Aloisio}102a,102b_{, R. Alon}171_{, A. Alonso}79_{, M.G. Alviggi}102a,102b_{, K. Amako}66_,

P. Amaral29_{, C. Amelung}22_{, V.V. Ammosov}128_{, A. Amorim}124a,b_{, G. Amor´os}167_{, N. Amram}153_{, C. Anastopoulos}29_,

L.S. Ancu16, N. Andari115, T. Andeen34, C.F. Anders20, G. Anders58a, K.J. Anderson30, A. Andreazza89a,89b, V. Andrei58a, M-L. Andrieux55, X.S. Anduaga70, A. Angerami34, F. Anghinolfi29, N. Anjos124a, A. Annovi47, A. Antonaki8_{, M. Antonelli}47_{, A. Antonov}96_{, J. Antos}144b_{, F. Anulli}132a_{, S. Aoun}83_{, L. Aperio Bella}4_{, R. Apolle}118,c_,

G. Arabidze88_{, I. Aracena}143_{, Y. Arai}66_{, A.T.H. Arce}44_{, J.P. Archambault}28_{, S. Arfaoui}29,d_{, J-F. Arguin}14_,

E. Arik18a,∗_{, M. Arik}18a_{, A.J. Armbruster}87_{, O. Arnaez}81_{, C. Arnault}115_{, A. Artamonov}95_{, G. Artoni}132a,132b_,

D. Arutinov20, S. Asai155, R. Asfandiyarov172, S. Ask27, B. ˚Asman146a,146b, L. Asquith5, K. Assamagan24, A. Astbury169_{, A. Astvatsatourov}52_{, G. Atoian}175_{, B. Aubert}4_{, E. Auge}115_{, K. Augsten}127_{, M. Aurousseau}145a_,

N. Austin73_{, G. Avolio}163_{, R. Avramidou}9_{, D. Axen}168_{, C. Ay}54_{, G. Azuelos}93,e_{, Y. Azuma}155_{, M.A. Baak}29_,

G. Baccaglioni89a_{, C. Bacci}134a,134b_{, A.M. Bach}14_{, H. Bachacou}136_{, K. Bachas}29_{, G. Bachy}29_{, M. Backes}49_,

M. Backhaus20_{, E. Badescu}25a_{, P. Bagnaia}132a,132b_{, S. Bahinipati}2_{, Y. Bai}32a_{, D.C. Bailey}158_{, T. Bain}158_,

J.T. Baines129, O.K. Baker175, M.D. Baker24, S. Baker77, E. Banas38, P. Banerjee93, Sw. Banerjee172, D. Banfi29, A. Bangert137_{, V. Bansal}169_{, H.S. Bansil}17_{, L. Barak}171_{, S.P. Baranov}94_{, A. Barashkou}65_{, A. Barbaro Galtieri}14_,

T. Barber27_{, E.L. Barberio}86_{, D. Barberis}50a,50b_{, M. Barbero}20_{, D.Y. Bardin}65_{, T. Barillari}99_{, M. Barisonzi}174_,

T. Barklow143_{, N. Barlow}27_{, B.M. Barnett}129_{, R.M. Barnett}14_{, A. Baroncelli}134a_{, G. Barone}49_{, A.J. Barr}118_,

F. Barreiro80, J. Barreiro Guimar˜aes da Costa57, P. Barrillon115, R. Bartoldus143, A.E. Barton71, D. Bartsch20, V. Bartsch149, R.L. Bates53, L. Batkova144a, J.R. Batley27, A. Battaglia16, M. Battistin29, G. Battistoni89a, F. Bauer136_{, H.S. Bawa}143,f_{, B. Beare}158_{, T. Beau}78_{, P.H. Beauchemin}118_{, R. Beccherle}50a_{, P. Bechtle}41_,

H.P. Beck16_{, M. Beckingham}138_{, K.H. Becks}174_{, A.J. Beddall}18c_{, A. Beddall}18c_{, S. Bedikian}175_{, V.A. Bednyakov}65_,

C.P. Bee83_{, M. Begel}24_{, S. Behar Harpaz}152_{, P.K. Behera}63_{, M. Beimforde}99_{, C. Belanger-Champagne}85_{, P.J. Bell}49_,

W.H. Bell49, G. Bella153, L. Bellagamba19a, F. Bellina29, M. Bellomo29, A. Belloni57, O. Beloborodova107,

K. Belotskiy96, O. Beltramello29, S. Ben Ami152, O. Benary153, D. Benchekroun135a, C. Benchouk83, M. Bendel81, N. Benekos165_{, Y. Benhammou}153_{, D.P. Benjamin}44_{, M. Benoit}115_{, J.R. Bensinger}22_{, K. Benslama}130_,

S. Bentvelsen105_{, D. Berge}29_{, E. Bergeaas Kuutmann}41_{, N. Berger}4_{, F. Berghaus}169_{, E. Berglund}49_{, J. Beringer}14_,

K. Bernardet83_{, P. Bernat}77_{, R. Bernhard}48_{, C. Bernius}24_{, T. Berry}76_{, A. Bertin}19a,19b_{, F. Bertinelli}29_,

F. Bertolucci122a,122b, M.I. Besana89a,89b, N. Besson136, S. Bethke99, W. Bhimji45, R.M. Bianchi29, M. Bianco72a,72b, O. Biebel98_{, S.P. Bieniek}77_{, K. Bierwagen}54_{, J. Biesiada}14_{, M. Biglietti}134a,134b_{, H. Bilokon}47_{, M. Bindi}19a,19b_,

S. Binet115_{, A. Bingul}18c_{, C. Bini}132a,132b_{, C. Biscarat}177_{, U. Bitenc}48_{, K.M. Black}21_{, R.E. Blair}5_{, J.-B. Blanchard}115_,

G. Blanchot29_{, T. Blazek}144a_{, C. Blocker}22_{, J. Blocki}38_{, A. Blondel}49_{, W. Blum}81_{, U. Blumenschein}54_,

G.J. Bobbink105_{, V.B. Bobrovnikov}107_{, S.S. Bocchetta}79_{, A. Bocci}44_{, C.R. Boddy}118_{, M. Boehler}41_{, J. Boek}174_,

N. Boelaert35, S. B¨oser77, J.A. Bogaerts29, A. Bogdanchikov107, A. Bogouch90,∗, C. Bohm146a, V. Boisvert76, T. Bold37_{, V. Boldea}25a_{, N.M. Bolnet}136_{, M. Bona}75_{, V.G. Bondarenko}96_{, M. Bondioli}163_{, M. Boonekamp}136_,

G. Boorman76_{, C.N. Booth}139_{, S. Bordoni}78_{, C. Borer}16_{, A. Borisov}128_{, G. Borissov}71_{, I. Borjanovic}12a_{, S. Borroni}87_,

K. Bos105_{, D. Boscherini}19a_{, M. Bosman}11_{, H. Boterenbrood}105_{, D. Botterill}129_{, J. Bouchami}93_{, J. Boudreau}123_,

E.V. Bouhova-Thacker71, C. Bourdarios115, N. Bousson83, A. Boveia30, J. Boyd29, I.R. Boyko65, N.I. Bozhko128, I. Bozovic-Jelisavcic12b, J. Bracinik17, A. Braem29, P. Branchini134a, G.W. Brandenburg57, A. Brandt7, G. Brandt15, O. Brandt54_{, U. Bratzler}156_{, B. Brau}84_{, J.E. Brau}114_{, H.M. Braun}174_{, B. Brelier}158_{, J. Bremer}29_{, R. Brenner}166_,

S. Bressler152_{, D. Breton}115_{, D. Britton}53_{, F.M. Brochu}27_{, I. Brock}20_{, R. Brock}88_{, T.J. Brodbeck}71_{, E. Brodet}153_,

F. Broggi89a_{, C. Bromberg}88_{, G. Brooijmans}34_{, W.K. Brooks}31b_{, G. Brown}82_{, H. Brown}7_,

P.A. Bruckman de Renstrom38, D. Bruncko144b, R. Bruneliere48, S. Brunet61, A. Bruni19a, G. Bruni19a,

M. Bruschi19a, T. Buanes13, F. Bucci49, J. Buchanan118, N.J. Buchanan2, P. Buchholz141, R.M. Buckingham118, A.G. Buckley45_{, S.I. Buda}25a_{, I.A. Budagov}65_{, B. Budick}108_{, V. B¨uscher}81_{, L. Bugge}117_{, D. Buira-Clark}118_,

O. Bulekov96_{, M. Bunse}42_{, T. Buran}117_{, H. Burckhart}29_{, S. Burdin}73_{, T. Burgess}13_{, S. Burke}129_{, E. Busato}33_,

P. Bussey53_{, C.P. Buszello}166_{, F. Butin}29_{, B. Butler}143_{, J.M. Butler}21_{, C.M. Buttar}53_{, J.M. Butterworth}77_,

W. Buttinger27, S. Cabrera Urb´an167, D. Caforio19a,19b, O. Cakir3a, P. Calafiura14, G. Calderini78, P. Calfayan98, R. Calkins106_{, L.P. Caloba}23a_{, R. Caloi}132a,132b_{, D. Calvet}33_{, S. Calvet}33_{, R. Camacho Toro}33_{, P. Camarri}133a,133b_,

M. Cambiaghi119a,119b_{, D. Cameron}117_{, S. Campana}29_{, M. Campanelli}77_{, V. Canale}102a,102b_{, F. Canelli}30,g_,

A. Canepa159a_{, J. Cantero}80_{, L. Capasso}102a,102b_{, M.D.M. Capeans Garrido}29_{, I. Caprini}25a_{, M. Caprini}25a_,

D. Capriotti99_{, M. Capua}36a,36b_{, R. Caputo}148_{, R. Cardarelli}133a_{, T. Carli}29_{, G. Carlino}102a_{, L. Carminati}89a,89b_,

M.P. Casado11_{, M. Cascella}122a,122b_{, C. Caso}50a,50b,∗_{, A.M. Castaneda Hernandez}172_{, E. Castaneda-Miranda}172_,

V. Castillo Gimenez167_{, N.F. Castro}124a_{, G. Cataldi}72a_{, F. Cataneo}29_{, A. Catinaccio}29_{, J.R. Catmore}71_{, A. Cattai}29_,

G. Cattani133a,133b_{, S. Caughron}88_{, D. Cauz}164a,164c_{, P. Cavalleri}78_{, D. Cavalli}89a_{, M. Cavalli-Sforza}11_,

V. Cavasinni122a,122b, F. Ceradini134a,134b, A.S. Cerqueira23a, A. Cerri29, L. Cerrito75, F. Cerutti47, S.A. Cetin18b, F. Cevenini102a,102b_{, A. Chafaq}135a_{, D. Chakraborty}106_{, K. Chan}2_{, B. Chapleau}85_{, J.D. Chapman}27_,

J.W. Chapman87_{, E. Chareyre}78_{, D.G. Charlton}17_{, V. Chavda}82_{, C.A. Chavez Barajas}29_{, S. Cheatham}85_,

S. Chekanov5_{, S.V. Chekulaev}159a_{, G.A. Chelkov}65_{, M.A. Chelstowska}104_{, C. Chen}64_{, H. Chen}24_{, S. Chen}32c_,

T. Chen32c_{, X. Chen}172_{, S. Cheng}32a_{, A. Cheplakov}65_{, V.F. Chepurnov}65_{, R. Cherkaoui El Moursli}135e_,

V. Chernyatin24, E. Cheu6, S.L. Cheung158, L. Chevalier136, G. Chiefari102a,102b, L. Chikovani51a, J.T. Childers58a, A. Chilingarov71_{, G. Chiodini}72a_{, M.V. Chizhov}65_{, G. Choudalakis}30_{, S. Chouridou}137_{, I.A. Christidi}77_,

A. Christov48_{, D. Chromek-Burckhart}29_{, M.L. Chu}151_{, J. Chudoba}125_{, G. Ciapetti}132a,132b_{, K. Ciba}37_{, A.K. Ciftci}3a_,

R. Ciftci3a_{, D. Cinca}33_{, V. Cindro}74_{, M.D. Ciobotaru}163_{, C. Ciocca}19a,19b_{, A. Ciocio}14_{, M. Cirilli}87_,

M. Ciubancan25a, A. Clark49, P.J. Clark45, W. Cleland123, J.C. Clemens83, B. Clement55, C. Clement146a,146b, R.W. Clifft129, Y. Coadou83, M. Cobal164a,164c, A. Coccaro50a,50b, J. Cochran64, P. Coe118, J.G. Cogan143, J. Coggeshall165_{, E. Cogneras}177_{, C.D. Cojocaru}28_{, J. Colas}4_{, A.P. Colijn}105_{, C. Collard}115_{, N.J. Collins}17_,

C. Collins-Tooth53_{, J. Collot}55_{, G. Colon}84_{, P. Conde Mui˜no}124a_{, E. Coniavitis}118_{, M.C. Conidi}11_{, M. Consonni}104_,

V. Consorti48_{, S. Constantinescu}25a_{, C. Conta}119a,119b_{, F. Conventi}102a,i_{, J. Cook}29_{, M. Cooke}14_{, B.D. Cooper}77_,

A.M. Cooper-Sarkar118, N.J. Cooper-Smith76, K. Copic34, T. Cornelissen50a,50b, M. Corradi19a, F. Corriveau85,j, A. Cortes-Gonzalez165, G. Cortiana99, G. Costa89a, M.J. Costa167, D. Costanzo139, T. Costin30, D. Cˆot´e29, L. Courneyea169_{, G. Cowan}76_{, C. Cowden}27_{, B.E. Cox}82_{, K. Cranmer}108_{, F. Crescioli}122a,122b_{, M. Cristinziani}20_,

G. Crosetti36a,36b_{, R. Crupi}72a,72b_{, S. Cr´ep´e-Renaudin}55_{, C.-M. Cuciuc}25a_{, C. Cuenca Almenar}175_,

T. Cuhadar Donszelmann139_{, M. Curatolo}47_{, C.J. Curtis}17_{, P. Cwetanski}61_{, H. Czirr}141_{, Z. Czyczula}175_,

S. D’Auria53, M. D’Onofrio73, A. D’Orazio132a,132b, P.V.M. Da Silva23a, C. Da Via82, W. Dabrowski37, T. Dai87, C. Dallapiccola84_{, M. Dam}35_{, M. Dameri}50a,50b_{, D.S. Damiani}137_{, H.O. Danielsson}29_{, D. Dannheim}99_{, V. Dao}49_,

G. Darbo50a_{, G.L. Darlea}25b_{, C. Daum}105_{, W. Davey}86_{, T. Davidek}126_{, N. Davidson}86_{, R. Davidson}71_{, E. Davies}118,c_,

M. Davies93_{, A.R. Davison}77_{, Y. Davygora}58a_{, E. Dawe}142_{, I. Dawson}139_{, J.W. Dawson}5,∗_{, R.K. Daya}39_{, K. De}7_,

R. de Asmundis102a_{, S. De Castro}19a,19b_{, P.E. De Castro Faria Salgado}24_{, S. De Cecco}78_{, J. de Graat}98_,

N. De Groot104, P. de Jong105, C. De La Taille115, H. De la Torre80, B. De Lotto164a,164c, L. De Mora71,

L. De Nooij105_{, D. De Pedis}132a_{, A. De Salvo}132a_{, U. De Sanctis}164a,164c_{, A. De Santo}149_{, J.B. De Vivie De Regie}115_,

S. Dean77_{, R. Debbe}24_{, D.V. Dedovich}65_{, J. Degenhardt}120_{, M. Dehchar}118_{, C. Del Papa}164a,164c_{, J. Del Peso}80_,

T. Del Prete122a,122b_{, M. Deliyergiyev}74_{, A. Dell’Acqua}29_{, L. Dell’Asta}89a,89b_{, M. Della Pietra}102a,i_,

D. della Volpe102a,102b, M. Delmastro29, N. Delruelle29, P.A. Delsart55, C. Deluca148, S. Demers175, M. Demichev65, B. Demirkoz11,k, J. Deng163, S.P. Denisov128, D. Derendarz38, J.E. Derkaoui135d, F. Derue78, P. Dervan73,

K. Desch20_{, E. Devetak}148_{, P.O. Deviveiros}158_{, A. Dewhurst}129_{, B. DeWilde}148_{, S. Dhaliwal}158_{, R. Dhullipudi}24,l_,

A. Di Ciaccio133a,133b_{, L. Di Ciaccio}4_{, A. Di Girolamo}29_{, B. Di Girolamo}29_{, S. Di Luise}134a,134b_{, B. Di Micco}29_,

R. Di Nardo133a,133b_{, A. Di Simone}133a,133b_{, R. Di Sipio}19a,19b_{, M.A. Diaz}31a_{, F. Diblen}18c_{, E.B. Diehl}87_,

J. Dietrich41, T.A. Dietzsch58a, S. Diglio115, K. Dindar Yagci39, J. Dingfelder20, C. Dionisi132a,132b, P. Dita25a, S. Dita25a, F. Dittus29, F. Djama83, T. Djobava51b, M.A.B. do Vale23a, A. Do Valle Wemans124a, T.K.O. Doan4, M. Dobbs85_{, R. Dobinson}29,∗_{, D. Dobos}29_{, E. Dobson}29_{, M. Dobson}163_{, J. Dodd}34_{, C. Doglioni}118_{, T. Doherty}53_,

Y. Doi66,∗_{, J. Dolejsi}126_{, I. Dolenc}74_{, Z. Dolezal}126_{, B.A. Dolgoshein}96,∗_{, T. Dohmae}155_{, M. Donadelli}23d_,

M. Donega120_{, J. Donini}55_{, J. Dopke}29_{, A. Doria}102a_{, A. Dos Anjos}172_{, M. Dosil}11_{, A. Dotti}122a,122b_{, M.T. Dova}70_,

J.D. Dowell17, A.D. Doxiadis105, A.T. Doyle53, Z. Drasal126, J. Drees174, N. Dressnandt120, H. Drevermann29, C. Driouichi35_{, M. Dris}9_{, J. Dubbert}99_{, S. Dube}14_{, E. Duchovni}171_{, G. Duckeck}98_{, A. Dudarev}29_{, F. Dudziak}64_,

M. D¨uhrssen 29_{, I.P. Duerdoth}82_{, L. Duflot}115_{, M-A. Dufour}85_{, M. Dunford}29_{, H. Duran Yildiz}3b_{, R. Duxfield}139_,

M. Dwuznik37_{, F. Dydak}29_{, M. D¨uren}52_{, W.L. Ebenstein}44_{, J. Ebke}98_{, S. Eckert}48_{, S. Eckweiler}81_{, K. Edmonds}81_,

C.A. Edwards76_{, N.C. Edwards}53_{, W. Ehrenfeld}41_{, T. Ehrich}99_{, T. Eifert}29_{, G. Eigen}13_{, K. Einsweiler}14_,

E. Eisenhandler75, T. Ekelof166, M. El Kacimi135c, M. Ellert166, S. Elles4, F. Ellinghaus81, K. Ellis75, N. Ellis29, J. Elmsheuser98_{, M. Elsing}29_{, D. Emeliyanov}129_{, R. Engelmann}148_{, A. Engl}98_{, B. Epp}62_{, A. Eppig}87_{, J. Erdmann}54_,

A. Ereditato16_{, D. Eriksson}146a_{, J. Ernst}1_{, M. Ernst}24_{, J. Ernwein}136_{, D. Errede}165_{, S. Errede}165_{, E. Ertel}81_,

M. Escalier115_{, C. Escobar}123_{, X. Espinal Curull}11_{, B. Esposito}47_{, F. Etienne}83_{, A.I. Etienvre}136_{, E. Etzion}153_,

D. Evangelakou54, H. Evans61, L. Fabbri19a,19b, C. Fabre29, R.M. Fakhrutdinov128, S. Falciano132a, Y. Fang172, M. Fanti89a,89b, A. Farbin7, A. Farilla134a, J. Farley148, T. Farooque158, S.M. Farrington118, P. Farthouat29, P. Fassnacht29_{, D. Fassouliotis}8_{, B. Fatholahzadeh}158_{, A. Favareto}89a,89b_{, L. Fayard}115_{, S. Fazio}36a,36b_,

R. Febbraro33_{, P. Federic}144a_{, O.L. Fedin}121_{, W. Fedorko}88_{, M. Fehling-Kaschek}48_{, L. Feligioni}83_{, C. Feng}32d_,

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A. Ferrari166, P. Ferrari105, R. Ferrari119a, A. Ferrer167, M.L. Ferrer47, D. Ferrere49, C. Ferretti87, A. Ferretto Parodi50a,50b, M. Fiascaris30, F. Fiedler81, A. Filipˇciˇc74, A. Filippas9, F. Filthaut104,

M. Fincke-Keeler169_{, M.C.N. Fiolhais}124a,h_{, L. Fiorini}167_{, A. Firan}39_{, G. Fischer}41_{, P. Fischer}20_{, M.J. Fisher}109_,

M.J. Flowerdew99_{, M. Fokitis}9_{, T. Fonseca Martin}16_{, D.A. Forbush}138_{, A. Formica}136_{, A. Forti}82_{, D. Fortin}159a_,

J.M. Foster82_{, D. Fournier}115_{, A. Foussat}29_{, A.J. Fowler}44_{, K. Fowler}137_{, H. Fox}71_{, P. Francavilla}122a,122b_,

S. Franchino119a,119b_{, D. Francis}29_{, T. Frank}171_{, M. Franklin}57_{, S. Franz}29_{, M. Fraternali}119a,119b_{, S. Fratina}120_,

S.T. French27, F. Friedrich43, R. Froeschl29, D. Froidevaux29, J.A. Frost27, C. Fukunaga156, E. Fullana Torregrosa29, J. Fuster167_{, C. Gabaldon}29_{, O. Gabizon}171_{, T. Gadfort}24_{, S. Gadomski}49_{, G. Gagliardi}50a,50b_{, P. Gagnon}61_,

C. Galea98_{, E.J. Gallas}118_{, V. Gallo}16_{, B.J. Gallop}129_{, P. Gallus}125_{, E. Galyaev}40_{, K.K. Gan}109_{, Y.S. Gao}143,f_,

V.A. Gapienko128_{, A. Gaponenko}14_{, F. Garberson}175_{, M. Garcia-Sciveres}14_{, C. Garc´ıa}167_{, J.E. Garc´ıa Navarro}49_,

R.W. Gardner30_{, N. Garelli}29_{, H. Garitaonandia}105_{, V. Garonne}29_{, J. Garvey}17_{, C. Gatti}47_{, G. Gaudio}119a_,

O. Gaumer49, B. Gaur141, L. Gauthier136, I.L. Gavrilenko94, C. Gay168, G. Gaycken20, J-C. Gayde29, E.N. Gazis9, P. Ge32d_{, C.N.P. Gee}129_{, D.A.A. Geerts}105_{, Ch. Geich-Gimbel}20_{, K. Gellerstedt}146a,146b_{, C. Gemme}50a_,

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C. Geweniger58a_{, H. Ghazlane}135b_{, P. Ghez}4_{, N. Ghodbane}33_{, B. Giacobbe}19a_{, S. Giagu}132a,132b_,

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