Measurement of dσ/dM and forward-backward charge asymmetry for high-mass Drell-Yan e+e- pairs from pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

Physical Review Letters 87:13 (2001)

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

Abstract:

An overview is given on the measurements of dσ/dM and improvement of the existing measurements of AFB. All the measurements have been taken by the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). The measurements of e+e- pairs with invariant masses between 40 and 500 eV/c2 complement measurements in e+e- machines, that currently extend to 200 GeV/c2.

Measurement of the top quark pT distribution

Physical Review Letters 87:10 (2001)

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, 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, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Cropp, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, S D'Auria

Abstract:

The first measurement of the true top quark PT distributon was carried out. An attempt was also made to compute a 95% confidence level upper limit on the fraction of top quarks that are produced with 225 > PT > 425 GeV/c. It was found that R4 > 0.16 at 95% C.L.

Search for the supersymmetric partner of the top quark in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.8 TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 63:9 (2001) 911011-911016

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, 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, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Cropp, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart

Abstract:

We report on a search for the supersymmetric partner of the top quark (top squark) produced in tt̄ events using 110 pb-1 of pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV recorded with the Collider Detector at Fermilab. In the case of a light top squark, the decay of the top quark into a top squark plus the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) could have a significant branching ratio. The observed events are consistent with standard model tt̄ production and decay. Hence, we set limits on the branching ratio of the top quark decaying into a top squark plus LSP, excluding branching ratios above 45% for a LSP mass up to 40 GeV/c2.

Tests of enhanced leading order QCD in W boson plus jets events from 1.8 TeV p̄p collisions

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 63:7 (2001) 720031-7200329

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, 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, J Cassada, 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, J Cooper, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Cropp, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, S D'Auria

Abstract:

We present a study of events with W bosons and hadronic jets produced in p̄p collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.8 TeV. The data consist of 51400 W → e ν decay candidates from 108 pb-1 of integrated luminosity collected using the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. Cross sections and jet production properties have been measured for W + ≥ 1 to ≥ 4 jet events. The data compare well to predictions of leading-order QCD matrix element calculations with added gluon radiation and simulated parton fragmentation.

Measurement of the rate of nu(e) + d --> p + p + e(-) interactions produced by (8)B solar neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.

Phys Rev Lett 87:7 (2001) 071301

Authors:

QR Ahmad, RC Allen, TC Andersen, JD Anglin, G Bühler, JC Barton, EW Beier, M Bercovitch, J Bigu, S Biller, RA Black, I Blevis, RJ Boardman, J Boger, E Bonvin, MG Boulay, MG Bowler, TJ Bowles, SJ Brice, MC Browne, TV Bullard, TH Burritt, K Cameron, J Cameron, YD Chan, M Chen, HH Chen, X Chen, MC Chon, BT Cleveland, ET Clifford, JH Cowan, DF Cowen, GA Cox, Y Dai, X Dai, F Dalnoki-Veress, WF Davidson, PJ Doe, G Doucas, MR Dragowsky, CA Duba, FA Duncan, J Dunmore, ED Earle, SR Elliott, HC Evans, GT Ewan, J Farine, H Fergani, AP Ferraris, RJ Ford, MM Fowler, K Frame, ED Frank, W Frati, JV Germani, S Gil, A Goldschmidt, DR Grant, RL Hahn, AL Hallin, ED Hallman, A Hamer, AA Hamian, RU Haq, CK Hargrove, PJ Harvey, R Hazama, R Heaton, KM Heeger, WJ Heintzelman, J Heise, RL Helmer, JD Hepburn, H Heron, J Hewett, A Hime, M Howe, JG Hykawy, MC Isaac, P Jagam, NA Jelley, C Jillings, G Jonkmans, J Karn, PT Keener, K Kirch, JR Klein, AB Knox, RJ Komar, R Kouzes, T Kutter, CC Kyba, J Law, IT Lawson, M Lay, HW Lee, KT Lesko, JR Leslie, I Levine, W Locke, MM Lowry, S Luoma, J Lyon, S Majerus, HB Mak, AD Marino, N McCauley, AB McDonald, DS McDonald, K McFarlane, G McGregor, W McLatchie, R Meijer Drees, H Mes, C Mifflin, GG Miller, G Milton, BA Moffat, M Moorhead, CW Nally, MS Neubauer, FM Newcomer, HS Ng, AJ Noble, EB Norman, VM Novikov, M O'Neill, CE Okada, RW Ollerhead, M Omori, JL Orrell, SM Oser, AW Poon, TJ Radcliffe, A Roberge, BC Robertson, RG Robertson, JK Rowley, VL Rusu, E Saettler, KK Schaffer, A Schuelke, MH Schwendener, H Seifert, M Shatkay, JJ Simpson, D Sinclair, P Skensved, AR Smith, MW Smith, N Starinsky, TD Steiger, RG Stokstad, RS Storey, B Sur, R Tafirout, N Tagg, NW Tanner, RK Taplin, M Thorman, P Thornewell, PT Trent, YI Tserkovnyak, R Van Berg, RG Van de Water, CJ Virtue, CE Waltham, JX Wang, DL Wark, N West, JB Wilhelmy, JF Wilkerson, J Wilson, P Wittich, JM Wouters, M Yeh, SNO Collaboration. Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Abstract:

Solar neutrinos from (8)B decay have been detected at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory via the charged current (CC) reaction on deuterium and the elastic scattering (ES) of electrons. The flux of nu(e)'s is measured by the CC reaction rate to be straight phi(CC)(nu(e)) = 1.75 +/- 0.07(stat)(+0.12)(-0.11)(syst) +/- 0.05(theor) x 10(6) cm(-2) s(-1). Comparison of straight phi(CC)(nu(e)) to the Super-Kamiokande Collaboration's precision value of the flux inferred from the ES reaction yields a 3.3 sigma difference, assuming the systematic uncertainties are normally distributed, providing evidence of an active non- nu(e) component in the solar flux. The total flux of active 8B neutrinos is determined to be 5.44+/-0.99 x 10(6) cm(-2) s(-1).