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Dr Farrukh Azfar

Lecturer

Research theme

  • Particle astrophysics & cosmology
  • Fundamental particles and interactions

Sub department

  • Particle Physics

Research groups

  • Accelerator Neutrinos
  • Rubin-LSST
Farrukh.Azfar@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)73327
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 669
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  • Publications

Branching ratio measurements of exclusive B+ decays to charmonium with the collider detector at fermilab

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 66:5 (2002) 520051-520057

Authors:

D Acosta, T Affolder, H Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, 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, W Badgett, S Bailey, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, J Berryhill, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, N Bruner, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, 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, JY Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, M Coca, AP Colijn, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, S D'Auria

Abstract:

We report on measurements of the branching ratios of the decays B+→Xcl0(1P)K+ and B+ →J/ψK+π+π-, where Xcl0(1P)→J/ψγ and J/ψ→μ+μ- in pp collisions at √s= 1.8 TeV. Using a data sample from an integrated luminosity of 110 pb-1 collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab we measure the branching ratios to be BR(B+→Xcl0(1P) K+)=15.5±5.4(stat)±1.5(syst)±1.3(br)× 10-4 and BR(B+ →J/ψK+π+π-)=6.9 ±1.8(stat)±1.1(syst)±0.4(br)×10-4 where (br) is due to the finite precision on BR(B-→J/ψK+), BR(Xcl0(1P)→J/ψγ)is used to normalize the signal yield, and (syst) encompasses all other systematic uncertainties.
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Γ production and polarization in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

Physical Review Letters 88:16 (2002) 1618021-1618026

Authors:

D Acosta, T Affolder, H Akimoto, MG Albrow, P Amaral, D Ambrose, 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, 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, JY Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, AP Colijn

Abstract:

The differential cross sections for the γ(1S), γ(2S), and γ(3S) states and the γ(1S) polarization were measured. Fits of nonrelativistic quantumchromodynamics (NRQCD) matrix elements could describe the cross sections. The polarization systematic uncertainties were also indicated. The polarization measurement was made by fitting the shape of the uncorrected data.

Diffractive dijet production at sqrt[s] = 630 and 1800 GeV at the Fermilab Tevatron.

Phys Rev Lett 88:15 (2002) 151802

Authors:

D Acosta, T Affolder, H Akimoto, MG Albrow, P Amaral, D Ambrose, 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, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, K Borras, 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, M-T Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, JY Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, AP Colijn, A Connolly, ME Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Cropp, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, S D'Auria, F DeJongh, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, S Demers, 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, H-C Fang, 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, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, J Goldstein, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, C Green, G Grim, P Gris, 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, A Hocker, KD Hoffman, R Hollebeek, L Holloway, BT Huffman, R Hughes, J Huston, J Huth, H Ikeda, J Incandela, G Introzzi, A Ivanov, J Iwai, Y Iwata, E James, M Jones, U Joshi, H Kambara, T Kamon, T Kaneko, K Karr, S Kartal, H Kasha, Y Kato, TA Keaffaber, K Kelley, M Kelly, 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, S Leone, JD Lewis, M Lindgren, TM Liss, JB Liu, YC Liu, DO Litvintsev, O Lobban, NS 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, M Menguzzato, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Meyer, T Miao, R Miller, JS Miller, H Minato, S Miscetti, M Mishina, G Mitselmakher, Y Miyazaki, N Moggi, C Moore, 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, C-YP 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, P Renton, A Ribon, W Riegler, F Rimondi, L Ristori, M Riveline, WJ Robertson, A Robinson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, L Rosenson, R Roser, R Rossin, C Rott, A Roy, A Ruiz, A Safonov, R St Denis, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, A Sansoni, L Santi, H Sato, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, L Scodellaro, A Scott, A Scribano, A Sedov, 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, RJ Tesarek, PK Teng, K Terashi, S Tether, AS Thompson, E Thomson, R Thurman-Keup, P Tipton, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, A Tollestrup, D Tonelli, H Toyoda, W Trischuk, JF de Troconiz, J Tseng, D Tsybychev, 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, SM 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

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We report a measurement of the diffractive structure function F(D)(jj) of the antiproton obtained from a study of dijet events produced in association with a leading antiproton in pp collisions at sqrt[s] = 630 GeV at the Fermilab Tevatron. The ratio of F(D)(jj) at sqrt[s] = 630 GeV to F(D)(jj) obtained from a similar measurement at sqrt[s] = 1800 GeV is compared with expectations from QCD factorization and other theoretical predictions. We also report a measurement of the xi ( x-Pomeron) and beta ( x of parton in Pomeron) dependence of F(D)(jj) at sqrt[s] = 1800 GeV. In the region 0.035
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Searches for new physics in events with a photon and b-quark jet at CDF

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 65:5 (2002) 520061-5200622

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:

We have searched for evidence of physics beyond the standard model in events that include an energetic photon and an energetic b-quark jet, produced in 85 pb-1 of p̄p collisions at 1.8 TeV at the Tevatron Collider at Fermilab. This signature, containing at least one gauge boson and a third-generation quark, could arise in the production and decay of a pair of new particles, such as those predicted by supersymmetry, leading to a production rate exceeding standard model predictions. We also search these events for anomalous production of missing transverse energy, additional jets and leptons (e, μ, and τ), and additional b quarks. We find no evidence for any anomalous production of γb or γb + X events. We present limits on two supersymmetric models: a model where the photon is produced in the decay χ̃20→ γχ̃10, and a model where the photon is produced in the neutralino decay into the gravitino LSP, χ̃10→ γG̃. We also present our limits in a model-independent form and test methods of applying model-independent limits.
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Study of the heavy flavor content of jets produced in association with W bosons in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.8TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 65:5 (2002) 520071-5200726

Authors:

D Acosta, T Affolder, H Akimoto, A Akopian, P Amaral, D Ambrose, 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, 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, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, YS Chung, AG Clark, AP Colijn, A Connolly, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Cropp, D Dagenhart, S D'Auria, F DeJongh, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, S Demers, L Demortier, M Deninno, PF Derwent, JR Dittmann

Abstract:

We present a detailed examination of the heavy flavor content of the W+jet data sample collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab during the 1992-1995 collider run at the Fermilab Tevatron. Jets containing heavy flavor quarks are selected via the identification of secondary vertices or semileptonic decays of b and c quarks. There is generally good agreement between the rates of secondary vertices and soft leptons in the data and in the standard model simulation including single and pair production of top quarks. An exception is the number of events in which a single jet has both a soft lepton and a secondary vertex tag. In W+2,3 jet data, we find 13 such events where we expected 4.4±0.6 events. The kinematic properties of this small sample of events are statistically difficult to reconcile with the simulation of standard model processes.
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