Contribution to a book

Nowadays, high-power and multi-spectral lasers are used in many scientific experiments and industrial processes. Those laser sources can rapidly cause permanent damage to human eyes. [...]

We present mixed reality (MR) tunneling, a novel method to balance the trade-off between limited render performance and high visual quality of video see-through head-mounted displays (VST-HMDs) through fusing images of two types of camera sensors with different resolutions and frame rates. By merging a color video stream from an external stereoscopic camera with the grayscale VST commonly integrated into today’s standalone virtual reality (VR) headsets, we create a perceptually high-resolution and wide field of view VSTHMD prototype. [...]

A glimpse into the most recent searches for Dark Matter at the LHC performed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations is presented. The results covered in this document are all based on Run-2 proton-proton collision data recorded at $\sqrt{s}=13\text{ TeV}$ and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of just under 140 $\text{fb}^{-1}$

Detector studies for future experiments rely on advanced software tools to estimate performance and optimize their design and technology choices. The Key4hep project provides a turnkey solution for the full experiment life-cycle based on established community tools such as ROOT, Geant4, DD4hep, Gaudi, PODIO and Spack. [...]

We present preliminary results for a scale setting procedure based on a mixed action strategy consisting of Wilson twisted mass valence fermions at maximal twist on CLS ensembles with $N_f=2+1$ flavours of O($a$)-improved Wilson sea quarks. Once the matching of valence and sea quark masses is performed, universality tests are carried out by comparing the continuum-limit results of the mixed action setup to those of the regularisation based solely on O($a$)-improved Wilson fermions. [...]

We present preliminary results for the determination of the leading strange and charm quark-connected contributions to the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon's $g-2$. Measurements are performed on the RC$^{\star}$ collaboration’s QCD ensembles, with $3+1$ flavors of $O(a)$ improved Wilson fermions and C$^{\star}$ boundary conditions. [...]

With the full Run-2 (2015-2018) proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, precise measurements of Higgs boson properties in an array of production and decay modes are now possible. To maximise the scientific value of the recorded data, novel experimental techniques were developed. [...]

While the particle physics community is eagerly waiting for a positive sign for the construction of the next energy frontier collider, developments continue to advance the detector capabilities. New methods and algorithms are being implemented in order to exploit the precious collisions at a Future Higgs Factory (FHF) as well as possible, informing at the same time, which detector aspects are of particular importance or in fact currently limiting. [...]

We discuss a new determination of the strong coupling at the $\tau$-mass scale, $\alpha_s(m_\tau^2)$, based on a new vector isovector spectral function, which combines ALEPH and OPAL spectra for the dominant $2\pi$ and $4\pi$ decay channels with estimates for several sub-leading contributions obtained using CVC from recently measured electroproduction cross-sections, as well as results for $\tau\to K^- K^0\nu_\tau$ obtained by BaBar. This fully inclusive vector isovector spectral function is entirely based on experimental data, and no longer relies on Monte Carlo input for any of the sub-leading modes. [...]

We compute the pion and kaon matrix elements that yield the transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions. We use an $N_f=2+1+1$ twisted mass fermion ensemble of lattice size $24^3 x 48$, lattice spacing $a=0.093$ fm, and a pion mass of $350$ MeV. [...]