Study of the strong coupling constant using W+Jet processes
Physical Review Letters 75:18 (1995) 3226-3231
Abstract:
The ratio of the number of W+1 jet to W+0 jet events is measured with the D0 detector using data from the 1992-93 Tevatron Collider run. For the W→eν channel with a minimum jet ET cutoff of 25 GeV, the experimental ratio is 0.065±0.003stat±0.007syst. Next-to-leading order QCD predictions for various parton distributions agree well with each other and are all over 1 standard deviation below the measurement. Varying the strong coupling constant αs in both the parton distributions and the partonic cross sections simultaneously does not remove this discrepancy. © 1995 The American Physical Society.Test stand for the Silicon Vertex Detector of the Collider Detector Facility
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 (1995) 528-532 vol.1
Top quark production at the Tevatron
AIP Conference Proceedings AIP Publishing 342 (1995) 345-358
Top quark search with the D0 1992-1993 data sample
Physical Review D 52:9 (1995) 4877-4919
Abstract:
We present results on the search for the top quark in pp̄ collisions at s =1.8 TeV with an integrated luminosity of 13.5±1.6 pb-1. We have considered tt̄ production in the standard model using electron and muon dilepton decay channels (tt̄→eμ+jets, ee+jets, and μμ+jets) and single-lepton decay channels (tt̄→e+jets and μ+jets) with and without tagging of b quark jets. An analysis of these data optimized for top quark masses below 140 GeV/c2 gives a lower top quark mass limit of 128 GeV/c2. An analysis optimized for higher top quark masses yields 9 events with an expected background of 3.8±0.9. If we assume that the excess is due to tt̄ production, and assuming a top quark mass of 180 GeV/c2, we obtain a cross section of 8.2±5.1 pb.W and Z boson production in pp̄ collisions at s=1.8 TeV
Physical Review Letters 75:8 (1995) 1456-1461