Ayana T. Arce

About

Ayana T. Arce is an Associate Professor of Physics at Duke University, where she has held this position since 2016 within the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. Her research concentrates on understanding events in hadron colliders with complex final state topologies, such as the production and decay of top quarks and heavy gauge bosons. She is particularly interested in searching for any hints of non-Standard Model interactions in these events. Her current studies utilize the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and her recent research activities support the broader experimental program of ATLAS. Professor Arce's work aims to produce evidence of phenomena beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, which is our current best description of how fundamental particles interact. The Standard Model does not explain neutrino masses and mixings, dark matter, gravity, or the universe's accelerating expansion. Her research endeavors to uncover particle interactions that the Standard Model cannot explain, contributing to the development of a more comprehensive theory of fundamental physics.

Research topics

• Nuclear physics
• Physics
• Particle physics
• Astrophysics
• Optics
• Biology
• Mathematics

Selected publications

• Performance of electron and photon triggers in ATLAS during LHC Run 2

  The European Physical Journal C · 2020 · 290 citations

  Abstract Electron and photon triggers covering transverse energies from 5 $$\text {GeV }$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mtext>GeV</mml:mtext><mml:mspace/></mml:mrow></mml:math> to several $$\text {TeV }$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mtext>TeV</mml:mtext><mml:mspace/></mml:mrow></mml:math> are essential for the ATLAS experiment to record signals for a wide variety of physics: from Standard Model processes to se…

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• Searches for electroweak production of supersymmetric particles with compressed mass spectra in <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:msqrt><mml:mrow><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msqrt><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>13</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mi>TeV</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:math> collisions with the ATLAS detector

  Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2020 · 207 citations

  This paper presents results of searches for the electroweak production of supersymmetric particles in models with compressed mass spectra. The searches use 139 fb -1 of ffiffi ffi s p 13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with missing transverse momentum and two same-flavor, oppositely charged, low-transverse-momentum leptons are selected, and are further categorized by the presence of hadronic activity from initial-state radia…

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• Search for new resonances in mass distributions of jet pairs using 139 fb−1 of pp collisions at $$ \sqrt{\mathrm{s}} $$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

  Journal of High Energy Physics · 2020 · 158 citations

  A bstract A search for new resonances decaying into a pair of jets is reported using the dataset of proton-proton collisions recorded at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msqrt> <mml:mi>s</mml:mi> </mml:msqrt> </mml:math> = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider between 2015 and 2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb − 1 . The distribution of the invariant mass of the two leading jets is examined for local excess…

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• Search for chargino-neutralino production with mass splittings near the electroweak scale in three-lepton final states in <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:msqrt><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msqrt><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>13</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mi>TeV</mml:mi></mml:math> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:math> collisions with the ATLAS detector

  Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2020 · 89 citations

  A search for supersymmetry through the pair production of electroweakinos with mass splittings near the electroweak scale and decaying via on-shell W and Z bosons is presented for a three-lepton final state. The analyzed proton-proton collision data taken at a center-of-mass energy of ffiffi ffi s p 13 TeV were collected between 2015 and 2018 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb -1 . A search, emulating the recursive jigsaw rec…

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• Inclusive and differential cross-sections for dilepton $$ t\overline{t} $$ production measured in $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

  Journal of High Energy Physics · 2023-07-17 · 37 citations

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  A bstract Differential and double-differential distributions of kinematic variables of leptons from decays of top-quark pairs ( $$ t\overline{t} $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>t</mml:mi> <mml:mover> <mml:mi>t</mml:mi> <mml:mo>¯</mml:mo> </mml:mover> </mml:math> ) are measured using the full LHC Run 2 data sample collected with the ATLAS detector. The data were collected at a pp collision energy of $$ \sqrt{s} $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Ma…

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Frequent coauthors

• T. Beau

  Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

  2087 shared

• B. Trocmé

  Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie

  2004 shared

• J. Ocariz

  Université Paris Cité

  1899 shared

• L. Roos

  Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies

  1879 shared

• S. Trincaz-Duvoid

  Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies

  1878 shared

• M. Ridel

  Université Paris Cité

  1877 shared

• S. De Cecco

  Radboud University Nijmegen

  1819 shared

• P. A. Delsart

  Université Grenoble Alpes

  1616 shared

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