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1,2-Bis(trihalogenosilyl)benzenes are versatile synthetic building blocks and represent a unique class of ditopic Lewis acids. Building on the recently reported compound 1,2-(Cl3Si)2C6H2Me2 (1Cl; Me groups in 4,5-positions), the practical synthetic access to its sixfold fluorinated (1F), brominated (1Br), and iodinated (1I) congeners is disclosed. [...]

Powder aerosol deposition (PAD or ADM) is a coating technique to produce ceramic films at room temperature. Although the deposition mechanism has been clarified in some respects, unanswered questions remain. [...]

A search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a charm quark-antiquark pair, H→cc¯, produced in association with a top quark-antiquark pair (tt¯H) is presented. The search is performed with data from proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb-1. [...]

A general search is presented for supersymmetric particles (sparticles) in scenarios featuring compressed mass spectra using proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC. The analyzed data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb-1. [...]

A search is presented for a new scalar resonance, X, decaying to a standard model Higgs boson and another new scalar particle, Y, in the final state where the Higgs boson decays to a $\text{b}\overline{\text{b} }$ pair, while the Y particle decays to a pair of photons. The search is performed in the mass range 240–1000 GeV for the resonance X, and in the mass range 70–800 GeV for the particle Y, using proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 132 fb$^{−1}$ [...]

A search for long-lived particles originating from the decay of b hadrons produced in proton-proton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the LHC is presented. The analysis is performed on a dataset recorded in 2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 41.6 fb-1. [...]

Using proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at s=13 TeV in 2016–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb-1, the first full reconstruction of the three vector B meson states, B*+, B*0, and Bs*0, is performed. The mass differences between the excited mesons and their corresponding ground states are measured to be m(B*+)-m(B+)=45.277±0.039±0.027 MeV, m(B*0)-m(B0)=45.471±0.056±0.028 MeV, and m(Bs*0)-m(Bs0)=49.407±0.132±0.041 MeV, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. [...]