Search for Higgs bosons predicted in two-Higgs-doublet models via decays to tau lepton pairs in 1.96 TeV pp collisions.
Phys Rev Lett 103:20 (2009) 201801
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We present the results of a search for Higgs bosons predicted in two-Higgs-doublet models, in the case where the Higgs bosons decay to tau lepton pairs, using 1.8 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity of pp collisions recorded by the CDF II experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. Studying the mass distribution in events where one or both tau leptons decay leptonically, no evidence for a Higgs boson signal is observed. The result is used to infer exclusion limits in the two-dimensional space of tanbeta versus m(A) (the ratio of the vacuum expectation values of the two Higgs doublets and the mass of the pseudoscalar boson, respectively).First observation of B̄s0→Ds±K and Measurement of the Ratio of Branching Fractions B(B̄s0→Ds±K)/ B(B̄s0→Ds+π-)
Physical Review Letters 103:19 (2009)
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A combined mass and particle identification fit is used to make the first observation of the decay B̄s0→Ds±K□ and measure the branching fraction of B̄s0→Ds±K□ relative to B̄s0→Ds+π-. This analysis uses 1.2fb-1 integrated luminosity of pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We observe a B̄s0→Ds±K□ signal with a statistical significance of 8.1σ and measure B(B̄s0→ Ds±K□)/B(B̄s0→Ds+π-)=0.097±0.018(stat)±0. 009(syst). © 2009 The American Physical Society.Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with Z→ ℓ+ ℓ - Using the matrix element method at CDF II
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 80:7 (2009)
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We present a search for associated production of the standard model Higgs boson and a Z boson where the Z boson decays to two leptons and the Higgs decays to a pair of b quarks in pp̄ collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron. We use event probabilities based on standard model matrix elements to construct a likelihood function of the Higgs content of the data sample. In a CDF data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.7fb-1 we see no evidence of a Higgs boson with a mass between 100GeV/c2 and 150GeV/c2. We set 95% confidence level upper limits on the cross section for ZH production as a function of the Higgs boson mass mH; the limit is 8.2 times the standard model prediction at mH=115GeV/c2. © 2009 The American Physical Society.Precision measurement of the X(3872) mass in J/psi pi(+) pi(-) decays.
Phys Rev Lett 103:15 (2009) 152001
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We present an analysis of the mass of the X(3872) reconstructed via its decay to J/psi pi(+)pi(-) using 2.4 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity from pp collisions at square root(s)=1.96 TeV, collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The possible existence of two nearby mass states is investigated. Within the limits of our experimental resolution the data are consistent with a single state, and having no evidence for two states we set upper limits on the mass difference between two hypothetical states for different assumed ratios of contributions to the observed peak. For equal contributions, the 95% confidence level upper limit on the mass difference is 3.6 MeV/c(2). Under the single-state model the X(3872) mass is measured to be 3871.61+/-0.16(stat)+/-0.19(syst) MeV/c(2), which is the most precise determination to date.Publisher's Note: Search for hadronic decays of W and Z bosons in photon events in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 80:7 (2009)