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Search for heavy particles decaying into electron-positron pairs in pp̄ collisions

Physical Review Letters 87:6 (2001) 618021-618026

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, A Abdesselam, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, SN Ahmed, GD Alexeev, GA Alves, N Amos, EW Anderson, MM Baarmand, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, A Baden, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, M Begel, A Belyaev, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, A Besson, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, G Blazey, S Blessing, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, K Bos, 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, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, SV Chekulaev, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, J Cochran, L Coney, B Connolly, WE Cooper, D Coppage, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, GA Davis, K Davis, K De, SJ De Jong, K Del Signore, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G Di Loreto, S Doulas, P Draper, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, S Duensing, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Dyshkant

Abstract:

The data collected by DO detector was used to study the decay of heavy particles into electron-positron pairs during collisions. The dielectron invariant mass spectra for the events with both electrons in central region and with one electron in central region and other in forward region of central calorimeter (CC)/end calorimeter (EC) were also studied. PYTHIA was used to determine the product of cross section and branching ratio for the system. The superimposed histograms represented the estimated spectrum from standard model processes and instrumental effects.

Search for heavy particles decaying into electron-positron pairs in pp collisions.

Phys Rev Lett 87:6 (2001) 061802

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, A Abdesselam, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, SN Ahmed, GD Alexeev, GA Alves, N Amos, EW Anderson, MM Baarmand, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, A Baden, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, M Begel, A Belyaev, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, A Besson, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, G Blazey, S Blessing, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, K Bos, 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, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, SV Chekulaev, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, J Cochran, L Coney, B Connolly, WE Cooper, D Coppage, MA Cummings, D Cutts, GA Davis, K Davis, K De, SJ de Jong, K Del Signore, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G Di Loreto, S Doulas, P Draper, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, S Duensing, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Dyshkant, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, R Engelmann, S Eno, G Eppley, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, J Estrada, H Evans, VN Evdokimov, T Fahland, S Feher, D Fein, T Ferbel, F Filthaut, HE Fisk, Y Fisyak, E Flattum, F Fleuret, M Fortner, KC Frame, S Fuess, E Gallas, AN Galyaev, M Gao, V Gavrilov, RJ Genik, K Genser, CE Gerber, Y Gershtein, R Gilmartin, G Ginther, B Gómez, G Gómez, PI Goncharov, JL González Solís, H Gordon, LT Goss, K Gounder, A Goussiou, N Graf, G Graham, PD Grannis, JA Green, H Greenlee, S Grinstein, L Groer, S Grünendahl, A Gupta, SN Gurzhiev, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, NJ Hadley, H Haggerty, S Hagopian, V Hagopian, RE Hall, P Hanlet, S Hansen, JM Hauptman, C Hays, C Hebert, D Hedin, AP Heinson, U Heintz, T Heuring, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, Y Huang, R Illingworth, AS Ito, M Jaffré, S Jain, R Jesik, K Johns, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, M Jones, H Jöstlein, A Juste, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, AM Kalinin, D Karmanov, D Karmgard, R Kehoe, A Kharchilava, SK Kim, B Klima, B Knuteson, W Ko, JM Kohli, AV Kostritskiy, J Kotcher, AV Kotwal, AV Kozelov, EA Kozlovsky, J Krane, MR Krishnaswamy, P Krivkova, S Krzywdzinski, M Kubantsev, S Kuleshov, Y Kulik, S Kunori, A Kupco, VE Kuznetsov, G Landsberg, A Leflat, C Leggett, F Lehner, J Li, QZ Li, JG Lima, D Lincoln, SL Linn, J Linnemann, R Lipton, A Lucotte, L Lueking, C Lundstedt, C Luo, AK Maciel, RJ Madaras, VL Malyshev, V Manankov, HS Mao, T Marshall, MI Martin, RD Martin, KM Mauritz, B May, AA Mayorov, R McCarthy, J McDonald, T McMahon, HL Melanson, M Merkin, KW Merritt, C Miao, H Miettinen, D Mihalcea, CS Mishra, N Mokhov, NK Mondal, HE Montgomery, RW Moore, M Mostafa, H da Motta, E Nagy, F Nang, M Narain, VS Narasimham, HA Neal, JP Negret, S Negroni, T Nunnemann, D O'Neil, V Oguri, B Olivier, N Oshima, P Padley, LJ Pan, K Papageorgiou, A Para, N Parashar, R Partridge, N Parua, M Paterno, A Patwa, B Pawlik, J Perkins, M Peters, O Peters, P Pétroff, R Piegaia, H Piekarz, BG Pope, E Popkov, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, J Qian, R Raja, S Rajagopalan, E Ramberg, PA Rapidis, NW Reay, S Reucroft, J Rha, M Ridel, M Rijssenbeek, T Rockwell, M Roco, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, J Rutherfoord, BM Sabirov, A Santoro, L Sawyer, RD Schamberger, H Schellman, A Schwartzman, N Sen, E Shabalina, RK Shivpuri, D Shpakov, M Shupe, RA Sidwell, V Simak, H Singh, JB Singh, V Sirotenko, P Slattery, E Smith, RP Smith, R Snihur, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, J Solomon, V Sorín, M Sosebee, N Sotnikova, K Soustruznik, M Souza, NR Stanton, G Steinbrück, RW Stephens, F Stichelbaut, D Stoker, V Stolin, DA Stoyanova, M Strauss, M Strovink, L Stutte, A Sznajder, W Taylor, S Tentindo-Repond, SM Tripathi, TG Trippe, AS Turcot, PM Tuts, P van Gemmeren, V Vaniev, R Van Kooten, N Varelas, LS Vertogradov, AA Volkov, AP Vorobiev, HD Wahl, H Wang, ZM Wang, J Warchol, G Watts, M Wayne, H Weerts, A White, JT White, D Whiteson, JA Wightman, DA Wijngaarden, S Willis, SJ Wimpenny, J Womersley, DR Wood, R Yamada, P Yamin, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, K Yip, S Youssef, J Yu, Z Yu, M Zanabria, H Zheng, Z Zhou, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, V Zutshi, EG Zverev, A Zylberstejn

Abstract:

We present results of searches for technirho (rho(T)), techniomega (omega(T)), and Z' particles, using the decay channels rho(T),omega(T),Z'-->e(+)e(-). The search is based on 124.8 pb(-1) of data collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron during 1992-1996. In the absence of a signal, we set 95% C.L. upper limits on the cross sections for the processes pp-->rho(T),omega(T),Z'-->e(+)e(-) as a function of the mass of the decaying particle. For certain model parameters, we exclude the existence of degenerate rho(T) and omega(T) states with masses below about 200 GeV. We exclude a Z' with mass below 670 GeV, assuming that it has the same couplings to fermions as the Z boson.
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Differential cross section for w boson production as a function of transverse momentum in p p̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 513:3-4 (2001) 292-300

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, A Abdesselam, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, SN Ahmed, GD Alexeev, GA Alves, N Amos, EW Anderson, MM Baarmand, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, A Baden, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, M Begel, A Belyaev, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, A Besson, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, G Blazey, S Blessing, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, K Bos, 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, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, SV Chekulaev, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, J Cochran, L Coney, B Connolly, WE Cooper, D Coppage, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, GA Davis, K Davis, K De, SJ de Jong, K Del Signore, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G di Loreto, S Doulas, P Draper, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, S Duensing, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Dyshkant

Abstract:

We report a measurement of the differential cross section for W boson production as a function of its transverse momentum in proton-antiproton collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV. The data were collected by the DØ experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider during 1994-1995 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 85 pb-1. The results are in good agreement with quantum chromodynamics over the entire range of transverse momentum. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V.
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Measurement of the tt¯ production cross section in pp¯ collisions at s=1.8 TeV

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 64:3 (2001) 032002

Authors:

T Affolder, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, P Amaral, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, MW Bailey, S Bailey, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, B Bevensee, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, W Bokhari, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, S van den Brink, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, J Cassada, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, AW Chan, PS Chang, PT Chang, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M-T Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, A Connolly, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Cropp, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, S D’Auria, F DeJongh, S Dell’Agnello, M Dell’Orso, L Demortier, M Deninno, PF Derwent, T Devlin, JR Dittmann, S Donati, J Done, T Dorigo, N Eddy, K Einsweiler, JE Elias, E Engels, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, Q Fan, RG Feild, JP Fernandez, C Ferretti, RD Field, I Fiori, B Flaugher, GW Foster, M Franklin, J Freeman, J Friedman, Y Fukui, I Furic, S Galeotti, M Gallinaro, T Gao, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, P Gatti, C Gay, DW Gerdes, P Giannetti, P Giromini, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, J Goldstein, A Gordon, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, C Green, G Grim, P Gris, L Groer, C Grosso-Pilcher, M Guenther, G Guillian, J Guimaraes da Costa, RM Haas, C Haber, E Hafen, SR Hahn, C Hall, T Handa, R Handler, W Hao, F Happacher, K Hara, AD Hardman, RM Harris, F Hartmann, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, J Heinrich, A Heiss, M Herndon, C Hill, KD Hoffman, C Holck, R Hollebeek, L Holloway, R Hughes, J Huston, J Huth, H Ikeda, J Incandela, G Introzzi, J Iwai, Y Iwata, E James, M Jones, U Joshi, H Kambara, T Kamon, T Kaneko, K Karr, H Kasha, Y Kato, TA Keaffaber, K Kelley, M Kelly, RD Kennedy, R Kephart, D Khazins, T Kikuchi, B Kilminster, BJ Kim, DH Kim, HS Kim, MJ Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, M Kirby, M Kirk, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, P Koehn, A Köngeter, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, K Kordas, A Korn, A Korytov, E Kovacs, J Kroll, M Kruse, SE Kuhlmann, K Kurino, T Kuwabara, AT Laasanen, N Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, JI Lamoureux, J Lancaster, M Lancaster, R Lander, G Latino, T LeCompte, AM Lee, K Lee, S Leone, JD Lewis, M Lindgren, JB Liu, YC Liu, DO Litvintsev, O Lobban, N Lockyer, J Loken, M Loreti, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, S Lusin, L Lyons, J Lys, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, L Malferrari, M Mangano, M Mariotti, G Martignon, A Martin, JAJ Matthews, J Mayer, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, E McKigney, M Menguzzato, A Menzione, C Mesropian, A Meyer, T Miao, R Miller, JS Miller, H Minato, S Miscetti, M Mishina, G Mitselmakher, N Moggi, E Moore, R Moore, Y Morita, T Moulik, M Mulhearn, A Mukherjee, T Muller, A Munar, P Murat, S Murgia, J Nachtman, V Nagaslaev, S Nahn, H Nakada, T Nakaya, I Nakano, C Nelson, T Nelson, C Neu, D Neuberger, C Newman-Holmes, C-YP Ngan, H Niu, L Nodulman, A Nomerotski, SH Oh, T Ohmoto, T Ohsugi, R Oishi, T Okusawa, J Olsen, W Orejudos, C Pagliarone, F Palmonari, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, SP Pappas, D Partos, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, L Pescara, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, KT Pitts, A Pompos, L Pondrom, G Pope, M Popovic, F Prokoshin, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, O Pukhov, G Punzi, K Ragan, A Rakitine, D Reher, A Reichold, A Ribon, W Riegler, F Rimondi, L Ristori, M Riveline, WJ Robertson, A Robinson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, L Rosenson, R Roser, R Rossin, A Roy, A Safonov, R St. Denis, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, A Sansoni, L Santi, H Sato, P Savard, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, L Scodellaro, A Scott, A Scribano, S Segler, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Semeria, T Shah, MD Shapiro, PF Shepard, T Shibayama, M Shimojima, M Shochet, A Sidoti, J Siegrist, A Sill, P Sinervo, P Singh, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, C Smith, FD Snider, A Solodsky, J Spalding, T Speer, P Sphicas, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, L Spiegel, J Steele, A Stefanini, J Strologas, F Strumia, D Stuart, K Sumorok, T Suzuki, T Takano, R Takashima, K Takikawa, P Tamburello, M Tanaka, B Tannenbaum, W Taylor, M Tecchio, R Tesarek, PK Teng, K Terashi, S Tether, AS Thompson, R Thurman-Keup, P Tipton, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, A Tollestrup, H Toyoda, W Trischuk, JF de Troconiz, J Tseng, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Vaiciulis, J Valls, S Vejcik, G Velev, R Vidal, R Vilar, I Volobouev, D Vucinic, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, J Wahl, NB Wallace, AM Walsh, C Wang, MJ Wang, T Watanabe, D Waters, T Watts, R Webb, H Wenzel, WC Wester, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, T Wilkes, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, D Winn, S Wolbers, D Wolinski, J Wolinski, S Wolinski, S Worm, X Wu, J Wyss, A Yagil, W Yao, GP Yeh, P Yeh, J Yoh, C Yosef, T Yoshida, I Yu, S Yu, Z Yu, A Zanetti, F Zetti, S Zucchelli

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We update the measurement of the tt¯ production cross section using the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. This measurement uses tt¯ decays to the final states e+ν+jets and μ+ν+jets. We search for b quarks from t decays via secondary-vertex identification or the identification of semileptonic decays of the b and cascade c quarks. The background to the tt¯ production is determined primarily through a Monte Carlo simulation. However, we calibrate the simulation and evaluate its uncertainty using several independent data samples. For a top quark mass of 175 GeV/c2, we measure σtt¯=5.1±1.5 pb and σtt¯=9.2±4.3 pb using the secondary vertex and the lepton tagging algorithms, respectively. Finally, we combine these results with those from other tt¯ decay channels and obtain σtt¯=6.5-1.4+1.7 pb.
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Search for New Heavy Particles in the WZ Final State in Proton Anti-Proton Collisions at Sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV

ArXiv hep-ex/0108004 (2001)
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