Search for the familon via B± → π±X0, B± → K±X0, and B0 → Ks0X0 decays

Physical Review Letters 87:27 I (2001) 2718011-2718015

Authors:

R Ammar, A Bean, D Besson, X Zhao, S Anderson, VV Frolov, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, R Poling, A Smith, CJ Stepaniak, J Urheim, S Ahmed, MS Alam, SB Athar, L Jian, L Ling, M Saleem, S Timm, F Wappler, A Anastassov, E Eckhart, KK Gan, C Gwon, T Hart, K Honscheid, D Hufnagel, H Kagan, R Kass, TK Pedlar, JB Thayer, E von Toerne, MM Zoeller, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, A Undrus, V Savinov, S Chen, JW Hinson, J Lee, DH Miller, V Pavlunin, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, D Cronin-Hennessy, AL Lyon, EH Thorndike, TE Coan, V Fadeyev, YS Gao, Y Maravin, I Narsky, R Stroynowski, J Ye, T Wlodek, M Artuso, K Benslama, C Boulahouache, K Bukin, E Dambasuren, G Majumder, R Mountain, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, A Wolf, S Kopp, M Kostin, AH Mahmood, SE Csorna, I Danko, KW McLean, Z Xu, R Godang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, S McGee, A Bornheim, E Lipeles, SP Pappas, A Shapiro, WM Sun, AJ Weinstein, DE Jaffe, R Mahapatra, G Masek, HP Paar, DM Asner, A Eppich, TS Hill, RJ Morrison, RA Briere, GP Chen, T Ferguson, H Vogel, JP Alexander, C Bebek, BE Berger

Abstract:

A search for the decay of the meson B±→H±X0 and B0→Ks0X0 was performed. The upper limits for the branching fractions constrained new physics leading to two-body B decays involving any massless neutral feebly interacting particle X0. The first lower bound on the family symmetry breaking scale involving the third generation of quarks at 108 GeV was obtained by applying the limit to the case where X0 was a familon.

Branching fraction and photon energy spectrum for b --> s gamma.

Phys Rev Lett 87:25 (2001) 251807

Authors:

S Chen, JW Hinson, J Lee, DH Miller, V Pavlunin, EI Shibata, IP Shipsey, D Cronin-Hennessy, AL Lyon, EH Thorndike, TE Coan, V Fadeyev, YS Gao, Y Maravin, I Narsky, R Stroynowski, J Ye, T Wlodek, M Artuso, K Benslama, C Boulahouache, K Bukin, E Dambasuren, G Majumder, R Mountain, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, A Wolf, S Kopp, M Kostin, AH Mahmood, SE Csorna, I Danko, KW McLean, Z Xu, R Godang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, S McGee, GJ Zhou, A Bornheim, E Lipeles, SP Pappas, A Shapiro, WM Sun, AJ Weinstein, DE Jaffe, R Mahapatra, G Masek, HP Paar, DM Asner, A Eppich, TS Hill, RJ Morrison, RA Briere, GP Chen, T Ferguson, H Vogel, JP Alexander, C Bebek, BE Berger, K Berkelman, F Blanc, V Boisvert, DG Cassel, PS Drell, JE Duboscq, KM Ecklund, R Ehrlich, P Gaidarev, L Gibbons, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, L Hsu, CD Jones, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, M Lohner, A Magerkurth, TO Meyer, NB Mistry, E Nordberg, M Palmer, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Romano, H Schwarthoff, JG Thayer, D Urner, B Valant-Spaight, G Viehhauser, A Warburton, P Avery, C Prescott, AI Rubiera, H Stoeck, J Yelton, G Brandenburg, A Ershov, DY Kim, R Wilson, T Bergfeld, BI Eisenstein, J Ernst, GE Gladding, GD Gollin, RM Hans, E Johnson, I Karliner, MA Marsh, C Plager, C Sedlack, M Selen, JJ Thaler, J Williams, KW Edwards, AJ Sadoff, R Ammar, A Bean, D Besson, X Zhao, S Anderson, VV Frolov, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, R Poling, A Smith, CJ Stepaniak, J Urheim, S Ahmed, MS Alam, SB Athar, L Jian, L Ling, M Saleem, S Timm, F Wappler, A Anastassov, E Eckhart, KK Gan, C Gwon, T Hart, K Honscheid, D Hufnagel, H Kagan, R Kass, TK Pedlar, JB Thayer, E von Toerne, MM Zoeller, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, A Undrus, V Savinov, CLEO Collaboration

Abstract:

We have measured the branching fraction and photon energy spectrum for the radiative penguin process b-->s gamma. We find Beta(b-->s gamma) = (3.21+/-0.43+/-0.27(+0.18)(-0.10))x10(-4), where the errors are statistical, systematic, and from theory corrections. We obtain first and second moments of the photon energy spectrum above 2.0 GeV, = 2.346+/-0.032+/-0.011 GeV, and -(2) = 0.0226+/-0.0066+/-0.0020 GeV(2), where the errors are statistical and systematic. From the first moment, we obtain (in the modified minimal subtraction renormalization scheme, to order 1/M(3)(B) and beta(0)alpha(2)(s)) the heavy quark effective theory parameter Lambda = 0.35+/-0.08+/-0.10 GeV.

First measurement of Γ(D *+)

Physical Review Letters 87:25 (2001)

Authors:

S Ahmed, MS Alam, SB Athar, L Jian, L Ling, M Saleem, S Timm, F Wappler, A Anastassov, E Eckhart, KK Gan, C Gwon, T Hart, K Honscheid, D Hufnage, H Kagan, R Kass, TK Pedlar, JB Thayer, E Von Toerne, MM Zoeller, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, A Undrus, V Savinov, S Chen, JW Hinson, J Lee, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, V Pavlunin, D Cronin-Hennessy, AL Lyon, W Park, EH Thorndike, TE Coan, YS Gao, Y Maravin, I Narsky, R Stroynowski, J Ye, T Wlodek, M Artuso, K Benslama, C Boulahouache, K Bukin, E Dambasuren, G Majumder, R Mountain, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, A Wolf, S Kopp, M Kostin, AH Mahmood, SE Csorna, I Danko, V Jain, KW McLean, Z Xu, R Godang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, S McGee, A Bornheim, E Lipeles, SP Pappas, A Shapiro, WM Sun, AJ Weinstein, DE Jaffe, R Mahapatra, G Masek, HP Paar, A Eppich, TS Hill, RJ Morrison, HN Nelson

Abstract:

The width of the D *+ was measured by studying the distribution of the energy release in D *+→D 0π + followed by D 0→K -π + decay. For the smallest statistical uncertainty, Γ(D *+)=96±4±22 keV, was obtained.

First measurement of gamma(D*(+)).

Phys Rev Lett 87:25 (2001) 251801

Authors:

S Ahmed, MS Alam, SB Athar, L Jian, L Ling, M Saleem, S Timm, F Wappler, A Anastassov, E Eckhart, KK Gan, C Gwon, T Hart, K Honscheid, D Hufnagel, H Kagan, R Kass, TK Pedlar, JB Thayer, E von Toerne, MM Zoeller, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, A Undrus, V Savinov, S Chen, JW Hinson, J Lee, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IP Shipsey, V Pavlunin, D Cronin-Hennessy, AL Lyon, W Park, EH Thorndike, TE Coan, YS Gao, Y Maravin, I Narsky, R Stroynowski, J Ye, T Wlodek, M Artuso, K Benslama, C Boulahouache, K Bukin, E Dambasuren, G Majumder, R Mountain, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, A Wolf, S Kopp, M Kostin, AH Mahmood, SE Csorna, I Danko, V Jain, KW McLean, Z Xu, R Godang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, S McGee, A Bornheim, E Lipeles, SP Pappas, A Shapiro, WM Sun, AJ Weinstein, DE Jaffe, R Mahapatra, G Masek, HP Paar, A Eppich, TS Hill, RJ Morrison, HN Nelson, RA Briere, GP Chen, T Ferguson, H Vogel, JP Alexander, C Bebek, BE Berger, K Berkelman, F Blanc, V Boisvert, DG Cassel, PS Drell, JE Duboscq, KM Ecklund, R Ehrlich, P Gaidarev, L Gibbons, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, L Hsu, CD Jones, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, M Lohner, A Magerkurth, H Mahlke-Krüger, TO Meyer, NB Mistry, E Nordberg, M Palmer, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Romano, H Schwarthoff, JG Thayer, D Urner, B Valant-Spaight, G Viehhauser, A Warburton, P Avery, C Prescott, AI Rubiera, H Stoeck, J Yelton, G Brandenburg, A Ershov, DY Kim, R Wilson, BI Eisenstein, J Ernst, GE Gladding, GD Gollin, RM Hans, E Johnson, I Karliner, MA Marsh, C Plager, C Sedlack, M Selen, JJ Thaler, J Williams, KW Edwards, AJ Sadoff, R Ammar, A Bean, D Besson, X Zhao, S Anderson, VV Frolov, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, R Poling, A Smith, CJ Stepaniak, J Urheim, CLEO Collaboration

Abstract:

We present the first measurement of the D*(+) width using 9/fb of e(+)e(-) data collected near the Upsilon(4S) resonance by the CLEO II.V detector. Our method uses advanced tracking techniques and a reconstruction method that takes advantage of the small vertical size of the Cornell Electron-positron Storage Ring beam spot to measure the energy release distribution from the D*(+)-->D(0)pi(+) decay. We find gamma(D*(+)) = 96+/-4 (stat)+/-22 (syst) keV. We also measure the energy release in the decay and compute Delta m identical with m(D*(+))-m(D(0)) = 145.412+/-0.002 (stat)+/-0.012 (syst) MeV/c(2).

Search for gluinos and squarks using like-sign dileptons in pp macro collisions at square root of s = 1.8 TeV.

Phys Rev Lett 87:25 (2001) 251803

Authors:

T Affolder, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, P Amaral, 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, 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, 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, E Brubaker, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, 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, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, A Connolly, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, 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, A Dominguez, S Donati, J Done, M D'Onofrio, 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, A Gallas, 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, 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, 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, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, M Kirby, M Kirk, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, P Koehn, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, A Korn, A Korytov, E Kovacs, J Kroll, M Kruse, SE Kuhlmann, K Kurino, T Kuwabara, AT Laasanen, N Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, J Lancaster, M Lancaster, R Lander, A Lath, G Latino, T LeCompte, AM Lee, K Lee, SW Lee, S Leone, JD Lewis, M Lindgren, TM Liss, 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, JA 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, I Nakano, C Nelson, T Nelson, C Neu, D Neuberger, C Newman-Holmes, CY Ngan, H Niu, L Nodulman, A Nomerotski, SH Oh, YD Oh, T Ohmoto, T Ohsugi, R Oishi, T Okusawa, J Olsen, W Orejudos, C Pagliarone, F Palmonari, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, D Partos, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, D Pellett, 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, A Rakitine, F Ratnikov, 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 Ruiz, 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, 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, D Tonelli, H Toyoda, W Trischuk, JF de Troconiz, J Tseng, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Vaiciulis, J Valls, S Vejcik, G Velev, G Veramendi, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Volobouev, M von der Mey, D Vucinic, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, NB Wallace, Z Wan, C Wang, MJ Wang, B Ward, S Waschke, 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, W Yao, GP Yeh, P Yeh, J Yoh, C Yosef, T Yoshida, I Yu, S Yu, Z Yu, A Zanetti, F Zetti, S Zucchelli, CDF Collaboration

Abstract:

We present results of the first search for like-sign dilepton ( e(+/-)e(+/-), e(+/-)mu(+/-), mu(+/-)mu(+/-)) events associated with multijets and large missing energy using 106 pb(-1) of data in pp macro collisions at square root of s = 1.8 TeV collected during 1992-1995 by the CDF experiment. Finding no events that pass our selection, we examine pair production of gluinos (tilde g) and squarks (tilde q) in a constrained framework of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. At tan beta = 2 and mu = -800 GeV/c(2), we set 95% confidence level limits of M(tilde g)>221 GeV/c(2) for M(tilde g) approximately M(tilde q), and M(tilde q)>168 GeV/c(2) for M(tilde q)>>M(tilde g), both with small variation as a function of mu.