Measurement of the tt̄ production cross section in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96 TeV using lepton plus jets events with semileptonic B decays to muons
Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 72:3 (2005) 1-20
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We present a measurement of the tt̄ production cross section using 194 pb-1 of CDF II data using events with a high transverse momentum electron or muon, three or more jets, and missing transverse energy. The measurement assumes 100% t→Wb branching fraction. Events consistent with tt̄ decay are found by identifying jets containing heavy-flavor semileptonic decays to muons. The dominant backgrounds are evaluated directly from the data. Based on 20 candidate events and an expected background of 9.5±1.1 events, we measure a production cross section of 5.3±3.3-1.0+1.3 pb, in agreement with the standard model. © 2005 The American Physical Society.Searches for CP violation and ππ S wave in the Dalitz-plot analysis of D0→π+π-π0
Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 72:3 (2005) 1-6
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In e+e- collisions recorded using the CLEO II.V detector we have studied the Cabibbo suppressed decay of D0→π+π-π0 with the initial flavor of the D0 tagged by the decay D*+→D0π+. We use the Dalitz-plot analysis technique to measure the resonant substructure in this final state and observe ρπ and nonresonant contributions by fitting for their amplitudes and relative phases. We describe the ππ S wave with a K-matrix formalism and limit this contribution to the rate to be <2.5%@95% confidence level, in contrast to the large rate observed in D+→π+π-π+ decay. Using the amplitudes and phases from this analysis, we calculate an integrated CP asymmetry of 0.01-0.07+0.09±0.05. © 2005 The American Physical Society.Simulation of Heavily Irradiated Silicon Pixel Sensors and Comparison With Test Beam Measurements
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 52:4 (2005) 1067-1075
Search for Higgs bosons decaying into bb and produced in association with a vector boson in pp collisions at square root of s = 1.8 TeV.
Phys Rev Lett 95:5 (2005) 051801
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We present a new search for H0V production, where H0 is a scalar Higgs boson decaying into bb with branching ratio beta, and V is a Z0 boson decaying into e+e-, mu+mu-, or nunu. This search is then combined with previous searches for H0V where V is a W+/- boson or a hadronically decaying Z0. The data sample consists of 106 +/- 4 pb(-1) of pp collisions at square root of s = 1.8 TeV accumulated by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Observing no evidence of a signal, we set 95% Bayesian credibility level upper limits on sigma(pp --> H0V) x beta. For H0 masses of 90, 110, and 130 GeV/c2, the limits are 7.8, 7.2, and 6.6 pb, respectively.Search for New High Mass Particles Decaying to Lepton Pairs in pbarp Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
ArXiv hep-ex/0507104 (2005)