Publications by Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk

Search for Heavy Neutral Resonances Decaying to Tau Lepton Pairs in Proton-proton Collisions at √s=13 Tev

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

A search for heavy neutral gauge bosons (Z ') decaying into a pair of tau leptons is performed in proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV at the CERN LHC. The data were collected with the CMS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 138 f ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2025

Proton reconstruction with the TOTEM Roman pot detectors for high-β∗ LHC data

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

The TOTEM Roman pot detectors are used to reconstruct the transverse momentum of scattered protons and to estimate the transverse location of the primary interaction. This paper presents new methods of track reconstruction, measurements of strip-level dete ...

2025

Measurements of Inclusive and Differential Cross Sections for Top Quark Production in Association with a Z Boson in Proton-proton Collisions at √s=13 Tev

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

Measurements are presented of inclusive and differential cross sections for Z boson associated production of top quark pairs (t (t) over barZ) and single top quarks (tZq or tWZ). The data were recorded in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy ...

SPRINGER2025

Search for excited tau leptons in the ττγ final state in proton-proton collisions at = 13 TeV

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

Results are presented for a test of the compositeness of the heaviest charged lepton, τ, using data collected by the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the CERN LHC. The data were collected in 2016–2018 and c ...

2025

Search for medium effects using jet axis decorrelation in inclusive jets from PbPb collisions at = 5.02 TeV

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

The jet axis decorrelation in inclusive jets is studied using lead-lead (PbPb) collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV. The jet axis decorrelation is defined as the angular difference between two definitions of the jet axis. It i ...

2025

Energy-scaling behavior of intrinsic transverse-momentum parameters in Drell-Yan simulation

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

An analysis is presented based on models of the intrinsic transverse momentum (intrinsic (Formula presented)) of partons in nucleons by studying the dilepton transverse momentum in Drell-Yan events. Using parameter tuning in event generators and existing d ...

2025

Search for Nuclear Modifications of (Formula presented) Meson Production in (Formula presented)-Pb Collisions at (Formula presented)

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

Nuclear medium effects on (Formula presented) meson production are studied using the binary-collision scaled cross section ratio between events of different charged-particle multiplicities from proton-lead collisions. Data, collected by the CMS experiment ...

2025

Search for Pair Production of Heavy Particles Decaying to a Top Quark and a Gluon in the Lepton Plus Jets Final State in Proton-proton Collisions at √s=13 Tev

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann

A search is presented for the pair production of new heavy resonances, each decaying into a top quark (t) or antiquark and a gluon (g). The analysis uses data recorded with the CMS detector from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV ...

SPRINGER2025

Search for heavy long-lived charged particles with large ionization energy loss in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

A search for heavy, long-lived, charged particles with large ionization energy loss within the silicon tracker of the CMS experiment is presented. A data set of proton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy at s = 13 TeV, collected in 2017 and 2018 a ...

2025

Search for light long-lived particles decaying to displaced jets in proton-proton collisions at √s=13.6TeV

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

A search for light long-lived particles (LLPs) decaying to displaced jets is presented, using a data sample of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13.6 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 34.7 fb(-1), collected with the CMS ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Search for Resonant Pair Production of Higgs Bosons in the B(b)over-barb(b)over-bar Final State Using Large-area Jets in Proton-proton Collisions at √s=13 Tev

Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

A search is presented for the resonant production of a pair of standard model-like Higgs bosons using data from proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2016-2018, corresponding to an ...

SPRINGER2025

Search for Fractionally Charged Particles in Proton-Proton Collisions at (Formula presented)

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

A search is presented for fractionally charged particles with charges below (Formula presented), using their small energy loss in the tracking detector as a key variable to observe a signal. The analyzed dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of ( ...

2025

Differential Cross Section Measurements for the Production of Top Quark Pairs and of Additional Jets Using Dilepton Events From Pp Collisions at √s=13 Tev

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

Differential cross sections for top quark pair (t (t) over bar) production are measured in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV using a sample of events containing two oppositely charged leptons. The data were recorded with the CMS ...

SPRINGER2025

Measurement of the inclusive cross sections for W and Z boson production in proton-proton collisions at s = 5.02 and 13 TeV

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

Measurements of fiducial and total inclusive cross sections for W and Z boson production are presented in proton-proton collisions at s = 5.02 and 13 TeV. Electron and muon decay modes (ℓ = e or μ) are studied in the data collected with the CMS detector in ...

2025

Model-agnostic Search for Dijet Resonances with Anomalous Jet Substructure in Proton-proton Collisions at S=13 Tev

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

This paper presents a model-agnostic search for narrow resonances in the dijet final state in the mass range 1.8-6 TeV. The signal is assumed to produce jets with substructure atypical of jets initiated by light quarks or gluons, with minimal additional as ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Search for Charged-lepton Flavor Violation in the Production and Decay of Top Quarks Using Trilepton Final States in Proton-proton Collisions at √s=13 Tev

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

A search is performed for charged-lepton flavor violating processes in top quark (t) production and decay. The data were collected by the CMS experiment from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and correspond to an integrated lumi ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2025

Search for dark matter produced in association with a pair of bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

A search for dark matter (DM) particles produced in association with bottom quarks is presented. The analysis uses proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of s = 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. The search is p ...

2025

Measurement of multidifferential cross sections for dijet production in proton–proton collisions at s=13TeV

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

A measurement of the dijet production cross section is reported based on proton–proton collision data collected in 2016 at s=13TeV by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of up to 36.3fb-1. Jets are reconstructed wi ...

2025

Reweighting simulated events using machine-learning techniques in the CMS experiment

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

Data analyses in particle physics rely on an accurate simulation of particle collisions and a detailed simulation of detector effects to extract physics knowledge from the recorded data. Event generators together with a geant-based simulation of the detect ...

2025

Search for New Resonances Decaying to Pairs of Merged Diphotons in Proton-Proton Collisions at (Formula presented)

Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov

A search is presented for an extended Higgs sector with two new particles, (Formula presented) and (Formula presented), in the process (Formula presented). Novel neural networks classify events with diphotons that are merged and determine the diphoton mass ...

2025