Measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry and extraction of sin2θWeff in pp̄→Z/γ*+X→e+e-+X events produced at s=1.96TeV

Physical Review Letters 101:19 (2008)

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, E Aguilo, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, LS Ancu, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, MS Anzelc, M Aoki, Y Arnoud, M Arov, M Arthaud, A Askew, B Åsman, ACSA Jesus, O Atramentov, C Avila, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, DV Bandurin, P Banerjee, S Banerjee, E Barberis, AF Barfuss, P Bargassa, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, S Beale, A Bean, M Begalli, M Begel, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, A Bellavance, JA Benitez, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, C Biscarat, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, K Bloom, A Boehnlein, D Boline, TA Bolton, EE Boos, G Borissov, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, V Bunichev, S Burdin, S Burke, TH Burnett, CP Buszello, JM Butler, P Calfayan, S Calvet, J Cammin, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, K Chan, KM Chan, A Chandra, F Charles

Abstract:

We present a measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry (AFB) in pp̄→Z/γ*+X→e+e-+X events at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV using 1.1fb-1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. AFB is measured as a function of the invariant mass of the electron-positron pair, and found to be consistent with the standard model prediction. We use the AFB measurement to extract the effective weak mixing angle sin2θWeff=0.2326±0.0018(stat)±0.0006(syst). © 2008 The American Physical Society.

Top Quark Mass Measurement in the tt-bar All Hadronic Channel using a Matrix Element Technique in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.96 TeV

ArXiv 0811.1062 (2008)

Authors:

CDF Collaboration, T Aaltonen

Measurement of W-Boson Helicity Fractions in Top-Quark Decays Using costheta*

ArXiv 0811.0344 (2008)

A search for high-mass resonances decaying to dimuons at CDF

ArXiv 0811.0053 (2008)

Measurement of the polarization of the Υ(1S) and Υ(2S) states in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV

Physical Review Letters 101:18 (2008)

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, E Aguilo, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, LS Ancu, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, MS Anzelc, M Aoki, Y Arnoud, M Arov, M Arthaud, A Askew, B Åsman, ACSA Jesus, O Atramentov, C Avila, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, DV Bandurin, P Banerjee, S Banerjee, E Barberis, AF Barfuss, P Bargassa, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, S Beale, A Bean, M Begalli, M Begel, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, A Bellavance, JA Benitez, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, C Biscarat, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, K Bloom, A Boehnlein, D Boline, TA Bolton, EE Boos, G Borissov, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, V Bunichev, S Burdin, S Burke, TH Burnett, CP Buszello, JM Butler, P Calfayan, S Calvet, J Cammin, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, K Chan, KM Chan, A Chandra, F Charles

Abstract:

We present a study of the polarization of the Υ(1S) and Υ(2S) states using a 1.3fb-1 data sample collected by the D0 experiment in 2002-2006 during run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We measure the polarization parameter α=(σT-2σL)/(σT+2σL), where σT and σL are the transversely and longitudinally polarized components of the production cross section, as a function of the transverse momentum (pTΥ) for the Υ(1S) and Υ(2S). Significant pTΥ-dependent longitudinal polarization is observed for the Υ(1S). A comparison with theoretical models is presented. © 2008 The American Physical Society.