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On the linearity of the MINOS light-injection calibration system

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 521:2-3 (2004) 361-366

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P Adamson, L Barrett, A Belias, A Blake, A Cabrera, E Falk, PG Harris, J Hartnell, C Howcroft, M Kordosky, K Lang, R Lee, J Liu, D Michael, R Morse, JK Nelson, R Nichol, G Pearce, K Ruddick, PN Smith, PA Symes, J Thomas, PL Vahle, R Webb, A Weber, RF White

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The MINOS light-injection calibration system has been fully documented in a previous article (Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 492 (2002) 353). Upon commissioning in the MINOS detectors, the system was found to give a non-linear response to variations in the intensity of injected light. The source of this non-linearity has been traced to a small change in the spectrum of the injected light as a function of the current applied to the original blue LEDs, in combination with a rapidly varying spectral response function of the wavelength-shifting fibre used in the detector. Both aspects of the problem have been addressed successfully by use of LEDs with different spectral characteristics, and the system now has a linear response. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Search for Kaluza-Klein graviton emission in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV using the missing energy signature

Physical Review Letters 92:12 (2004) 1-121802

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D Acosta, T Affolder, H Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, A Artikov, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, S Bailey, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, J Berryhill, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, A Bolshov, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, N Bruner, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, L Cerrito, AW Chan, PS Chang, PT Chang, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, JY Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, M Coca, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart

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The results of a search for the direct production of Kaluza-Klein (KK) graviton modes using the rate of events with one or two energetic jets and large ET at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CFD) were reported. The search was based on 84±4 pb-1 of integrated luminosity recorded with the CDF detector. The final state of large missing transverse energy and one or two high energy jets was also investigated. The calculation of graviton emission was based on the effective low-energy theory that was valid below the scale MD.
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Search for 3- and 4-body decays of the scalar top quark in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.8 TeV

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics 581:3-4 (2004) 147-155

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VM Abazov, B Abbott, A Abdesselam, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, SN Ahmed, GD Alexeev, A Alton, GA Alves, EW Anderson, Y Arnoud, C Avila, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, A Baden, S Baffioni, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, F Beaudette, M Begel, A Belyaev, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, A Besson, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, TA Bolton, F Borcherding, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, R Breedon, G Briskin, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, F Canelli, W Carvalho, D Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, SV Chekulaev, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, D Claes, AR Clark, L Coney, B Connolly, WE Cooper, D Coppage, S Crépé-Renaudin, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, H da Motta, GA Davis, K De, SJ de Jong, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, S Doulas, LV Dudko, S Duensing, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Duperrin, A Dyshkant

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We have searched for the signature of 3- and 4-body decays of pair-produced scalar top quarks (stop) in the inclusive final state containing an electron, a muon, and significant missing transverse energy using a sample of pp̄ events corresponding to 108.3 pb-1 of data collected with the DØ detector at Fermilab. The search is done in the framework of the minimal supersymmetric standard model assuming that the neutralino (χ̃10) is the lightest supersymmetric particle and is stable. No evidence for a signal is found and we derive cross-section upper limits as a function of stop (t̃) and neutralino masses in different decay scenarios leading to the bℓνχ̃10 final state. © 2004 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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Search for Pair Production of Scalar Top Quarks in R-Parity Violating Decay Modes in pp̄ Collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

Physical Review Letters 92:5 (2004) 518031-518037

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D Acosta, T Affolder, H Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, A Artikov, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, S Bailey, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, J Berryhill, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, A Bolshov, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, N Bruner, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, L Cerrito, AW Chan, PS Chang, PT Chang, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, JY Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, M Coca, AP Colijn, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Culbertson

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The search for pair production of scalar top quarks in an R-parity violating supersymmetry scenario in 106 pb-f of pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab was discussed. It was found that in this mode each t1̃ decayed into a τ lepton and a b quark. The events with two τ's, one decaying leptonically and one decaying hadronically and two jets were searched. It was observed that a 95% confidence level lower limit was set on the t 1̄ mass at 122 GeV/c2 for Br(t1̃ → τb).
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First observation of the KS → π0γ γ decay

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics 578:3-4 (2004) 276-284

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A Lai, D Marras, JR Batley, RS Dosanjh, TJ Gershon, GE Kalmus, C Lazzeroni, DJ Munday, E Olaiya, MA Parker, TO White, SA Wotton, R Arcidiacono, G Barr, G Bocquet, A Ceccucci, T Cuhadar-Dönszelmann, D Cundy, N Doble, V Falaleev, L Gatignon, A Gonidec, B Gorini, P Grafström, W Kubischta, A Lacourt, A Norton, B Panzer-Steindel, G Tatishvili, H Wahl, C Cheshkov, P Hristov, V Kekelidze, D Madigojine, N Molokanova, Y Potrebenikov, A Zinchenko, V Martin, P Rubin, R Sacco, A Walker, M Contalbrigo, P Dalpiaz, J Duclos, PL Frabetti, A Gianoli, M Martini, F Petrucci, M Savrié, A Bizzeti, M Calvetti, G Collazuol, G Graziani, E Iacopini, M Lenti, F Martelli, M Veltri, M Eppard, A Hirstius, K Holtz, K Kleinknecht, U Koch, L Köpke, P Lopes da Silva, P Marouelli, I Mestvirishvili, I Pellmann, A Peters, SA Schmidt, V Schönharting, Y Schué, R Wanke, A Winhart, M Wittgen, JC Chollet, L Fayard, L Iconomidou-Fayard, G Unal, I Wingerter-Seez, G Anzivino, P Cenci, E Imbergamo, P Lubrano, A Mestvirishvili, A Nappi, M Pepe, M Piccini, R Casali, C Cerri, M Cirilli, F Costantini, R Fantechi, L Fiorini, S Giudici, I Mannelli, G Pierazzini, M Sozzi, JB Cheze, M De Beer, P Debu

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Using the NA48 detector at the CERN SPS, 31 KS → π 0γγ candidates with an estimated background of 13.7 ± 3.2 events have been observed. This first observation leads to a branching ratio of BR(KS → π0γγ) z>0.2 = (4.9 ± 1.6stat ± 0.9 syst) × 10-8 in agreement with Chiral Perturbation Theory predictions. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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