Professor Brian Foster OBE, FRS: Publications

Measurement of the branching fractions for Ψ(2S)→e +e- and Ψ(2S)→μ+-

Physical Review D 65:3 (2002)

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B Aubert, D Boutigny, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, P Robbe, V Tisserand, A Palano, A Pompili, GP Chen, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, PL Reinertsen, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, AR Clark, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, JF Kral, C LeClerc, ME Levi, T Liu, G Lynch, PJ Oddone, A Perazzo, M Pripstein, NA Roe, A Romosan, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, PG Bright-Thomas, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, DJ Knowles, SW O'Neale, RC Penny, AT Watson, NK Watson, T Deppermann, K Goetzen, H Koch, M Kunze, B Lewandowski, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, JC Andress, NR Barlow, W Bhimji, N Chevalier, PJ Clark, WN Cottingham, N de Groot, N Dyce, B Foster, JD McFall, D Wallom, FF Wilson, K Abe, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, S Jolly, AK McKemey, J Tinslay, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, DA Bukin, AR Buzykaev, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, AA Korol, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, AA Salnikov, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, VI Telnov, AN Yushkov, D Best, AJ Lankford

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We measure the branching fractions of the Ψ(2S) meson to the leptonic final states e⁺e^- and μ⁺μ^- relative to that for Ψ(2S)→J/Ψπ^_. The method uses Ψ(2S) mesons produced in the decay of B mesons at the Y(45) resonance in a data sample collected with the BABAR detector at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Using previous measurements for the Ψ(2S) →J/Ψπ⁺π^- branching fraction, we determine the e⁺e^- and π⁺π^- branching fractions to be 0.0078±0.0009±0.0008 and 0.0067±0. 0008±0.0007, respectively. © 2001 The American Physical Society.

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Properties of hadronic final states in diffractive deep inelastic ep scattering at DESY HERA

Physical Review D 65:5 (2002)

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S Chekanov, M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, B Musgrave, A Pellegrino, J Repond, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, GC Romeo, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, S De Pasquale, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Pesci, G Sartorelli, A Zichichi, G Aghuzumtsyan, I Brock, S Goers, H Hartmann, E Hilger, P Irrgang, HP Jakob, A Kappes, UF Katz, R Kerger, O Kind, E Paul, J Rautenberg, H Schnurbusch, A Stifutkin, J Tandler, KC Voss, A Weber, H Wieber, DS Bailey, NH Brook, JE Cole, B Foster, GP Heath, HF Heath, S Robins, E Rodrigues, J Scott, RJ Tapper, M Wing, M Capua, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, HY Jeoung, JY Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, KJ Ma, MY Pac, A Caldwell, M Helbich, W Liu, X Liu, B Mellado, S Paganis, S Sampson, WB Schmidke, F Sciulli, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, K Klimek, K Olkiewicz, MB Przybycień, P Stopa, L Zawiejski, B Bednarek, I Grabowska-Bold, K Jeleń, D Kisielewska, AM Kowal, M Kowal, T Kowalski, B Mindur, M Przybycień, E Rulikowska-Zarȩbska

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Characteristics of the hadronic final state of diffractive deep inelastic scattering events ep→eXp were studied in the kinematic range 4

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Study of CP-violating asymmetries in B⁰→ π⁺π^-K⁺π^- decays

Physical Review D 65:5 (2002)

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B Aubert, D Boutigny, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, P Robbe, V Tisserand, A Palano, A Pompili, GP Chen, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Kong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, AR Clark, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, JF Kral, C LeClerc, ME Levi, G Lynch, PJ Oddone, A Perazzo, M Pripstein, NA Roe, A Romosan, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, PG Bright-Thomas, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, DJ Knowles, SW O'Neale, RC Penny, AT Watson, NK Watson, T Deppermann, K Goetzen, H Koch, M Kunze, B Lewandowski, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, JC Andress, NR Barlow, W Bhimji, N Chevalier, PJ Clark, WN Cottingham, N Dyce, B Foster, C Mackay, FF Wilson, K Abe, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, S Jolly, AK McKemey, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, DA Bukin, AR Buzykaev, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, AA Korol, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, VI Telnov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Chao, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, S McMahon, DP Stoker

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We present a measurement of the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in neutral B decays to the eigenstate, and an updated measurement of the charge asymmetry in B0→K+π-~ decays. In a sample of 33 million Y(4S)→BB̄ decays collected with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric B factory, we find 65-11+12 and 217±18 K+π- candidates and measure the asymmetry parameters Sππ=0.03-0.56+0.53±0.111, Cππ=-0.25-0.17+0.45±0.14, and AKπ = -0.07±0. 08±0.02, where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. © 2002 The American Physical Society.

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Study of time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries and flavor oscillations in neutral B decays at the γ (4S)

Physical Review D 66:3 (2002)

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B Aubert, D Boutigny, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, P Robbe, V Tisserand, A Palano, A Pompili, GP Chen, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, AR Clark, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, JF Kral, C Leclerc, ME Levi, G Lynch, PJ Oddone, M Pripstein, NA Roe, A Romosan, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, DJ Knowles, SW O’neale, RC Penny, AT Watson, NK Watson, T Deppermann, K Goetzen, H Koch, M Kunze, B Lewandowski, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, NR Barlow, W Bhimji, N Chevalier, PJ Clark, WN Cottingham, B Foster, C Mackay, FF Wilson, K Abe, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, S Jolly, AK McKemey, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, DA Bukin, AR Buzykaev, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, AA Korol, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, VI Telnov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Chao, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, S McMahon, DP Stoker, K Arisaka, C Buchanan, S Chun, DB Macfarlane, S Prell

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We present a measurement of time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in neutral B meson decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e⁺e^- collider at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The data sample consists of 29.7 fb^-1 recorded at the γ(4S) resonance and 3.9 fb^-1 off resonance. One of the neutral B mesons, which are produced in pairs at the γ(4S), is fully reconstructed in the CP decay modes J/ ψKS ⁰, ψ(2S)KS ⁰, χc1KS ⁰, J/ψK*⁰ (K*⁰→KS ⁰π⁰) and J/ψKL ⁰, or in flavor-eigenstate modes involving D^(*)π/p/a1 and J/ψK*⁰ (K*⁰→K⁺π ^-). The flavor of the other neutral B meson is tagged at the time of its decay, mainly with the charge of identified leptons and kaons. A neural netsvork tagging algorithm is used to recover events without a clear lepton or kaon tag. The proper time elapsed between the decays is determined by measuring the distance between the decay vertices. Wrong-tag probabilities, the time-difference resolution function, and the B⁰-B̄⁰ oscillation frequency Δmd are measured with a sample of about 6350 fully-reconstructed B⁰ decays in hadronic flavor-eigenstate modes. A maximum-likelihood fit to this flavor eigenstate sample finds Δmd=0.516±0.016(stat)±0.010(syst) ps ^-1. The value of the asymmetry amplitude sin 2β is determined from a simultaneous maximum-likelihood fit to the time-difference distribution of the flavor-eigenstate sample and about 642 tagged B⁰ decays in the CP-eigenstate modes. We find sin 2β=0.59 ±0.14(stat)±0. 05(syst), demonstrating that CP violation exists in the neutral B meson system. We also determine the value of the CP violation parameter |λ|=0. 93±0.09(stat)±0.03(syst), which is consistent with the expectation of |λ|=1 for no direct CP violation. © 2002 The American Physical Society.

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Exclusive photoproduction of J/ψ mesons at HERA

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C 24:3 (2002) 345-360

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S Chekanov, D Krakauer, S Magill, B Musgrave, A Pellegrino, J Repond, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, GC Romeo, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, S De Pasquale, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Pesci, G Sartorelli, A Zichichi, G Aghuzumtsyan, D Bartsch, I Brock, J Crittenden, S Goers, H Hartmann, E Hilger, P Irrgang, HP Jakob, A Kappes, UF Katz, R Kerger, O Kind, E Paul, J Rautenberg, R Renner, H Schnurbusch, A Stifutkin, J Tandler, KC Voss, A Weber, H Wessoleck, DS Bailey, NH Brook, JE Cole, B Foster, GP Heath, HF Heath, S Robins, E Rodrigues, J Scott, RJ Tapper, M Wing, M Capua, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, JY Kim, YK Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, MY Pac, A Caldwell, M Helbich, X Liu, B Mellado, S Paganis, WB Schmidke, F Sciulli, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, K Olkiewicz, MB Przybycien, P Stopa, L Zawiejski, B Bednarek, I Grabowska-Bold, K Jelen, D Kisielewska, AM Kowal, M Kowal, T Kowalski, B Mindur, M Przybycien, E Rulikowska-Zarebska, L Suszycki, D Szuba, J Szuba, A Kotanski, W Slominski, LAT Bauerdick, U Behrens, K Borras, V Chiochia, D Dannheim, M Derrick, K Desler, G Drews, J Fourletova, A Fox-Murphy, U Fricke, A Geiser, F Goebel, P Göttlicher, R Graciani, T Haas, W Hain, GF Hartner, S Hillert, U Kötz, H Kowalski, H Labes, D Lelas, B Löhr, R Mankel, M Martínez, M Moritz, D Notz, MC Petrucci, A Polini, U Schneekloth, F Selonke, B Surrow, R Wichmann, G Wolf, C Youngman, W Zeuner, ALD Viani, A Meyer, S Schlenstedt, G Barbagli, E Gallo, C Genta, PG Pelfer, A Bamberger, A Benen, N Coppola, P Markun, H Raach, S Wölfle, M Bell, PJ Bussey, AT Doyle, C Glasman, S Hanlon, SW Lee, A Lupi, GJ McCance, DH Saxon, IO Skillicorn, B Bodmann, U Holm, H Salehi, K Wick, A Ziegler, A Ziegler, T Carli, I Gialas, K Klimek, E Lohrmann, M Milite, S Stonjek, C Collins-Tooth, C Foudas, R Gonçalo, KR Long, F Metlica, DB Miller, AD Tapper, R Walker, P Cloth, D Filges, M Kuze, K Nagano, K Tokushuku, S Yamada, Y Yamazaki, AN Barakbaev, EG Boos, NS Pokrovskiy, BO Zhautykov, SH Ahn, SB Lee, SK Park, H Lim, D Son, F Barreiro, G García, O González, L Labarga, J del Peso, I Redondo, J Terrón, M Vázquez, M Barbi, A Bertolin, F Corriveau, A Ochs, S Padhi, DG Stairs, M St-Laurent, T Tsurugai, A Antonov, V Bashkirov, P Danilov, BA Dolgoshein, D Gladkov, V Sosnovtsev, S Suchkov, RK Dementiev, PF Ermolov, YA Golubkov, II Katkov, LA Khein, NA Korotkova, IA Korzhavina, VA Kuzmin, BB Levchenko, OY Lukina, AS Proskuryakov, LM Shcheglova, AN Solomin, NN Vlasov, SA Zotkin, C Bokel, J Engelen, S Grijpink, E Koffeman, P Kooijman, E Maddox, S Schagen, E Tassi, H Tiecke, N Tuning, JJ Velthuis, L Wiggers, E de Wolf, N Brümmer, B Bylsma, LS Durkin, J Gilmore, CM Ginsburg, CL Kim, TY Ling, S Boogert, AM Cooper-Sarkar, RCE Devenish, J Ferrando, T Matsushita, M Rigby, O Ruske, MR Sutton, R Walczak, R Brugnera, R Carlin, F Dal Corso, S Dusini, A Garfagnini, S Limentani, A Longhin, A Parenti, M Posocco, L Stanco, M Turcato, L Adamczyk, EA Heaphy, BY Oh, PRB Saull, JJ Whitmore, Y Iga, G D'Agostini, G Marini, A Nigro, C Cormack, JC Hart, NA McCubbin, C Heusch, IH Park, N Pavel, H Abramowicz, S Dagan, A Gabareen, S Kananov, A Kreisel, A Levy, T Abe, T Fusayasu, T Kohno, K Umemori, T Yamashita, R Hamatsu, T Hirose, M Inuzuka, S Kitamura, K Matsuzawa, T Nishimura, M Arneodo, N Cartiglia, R Cirio, M Costa, MI Ferrero, S Maselli, V Monaco, C Peroni, M Ruspa, R Sacchi, A Solano, A Staiano, R Galea, T Koop, GM Levman, JF Martin, A Mirea, A Sabetfakhri, JM Butterworth, C Gwenlan, R Hall-Wilton, TW Jones, JB Lane, MS Lightwood, JH Loizides, BJ West, J Ciborowski, R Ciesielski, G Grzelak, RJ Nowak, JM Pawlak, B Smalska, J Sztuk, T Tymieniecka, A Ukleja, J Ukleja, JA Zakrzewski, AF Zarnecki, M Adamus, P Plucinski, Y Eisenberg, LK Gladilin, D Hochman, U Karshon, D Kçira, S Lammers, DD Reeder, AA Savin, WH Smith, A Deshpande, S Dhawan, VW Hughes, PB Straub, S Bhadra, CD Catterall, S Fourletov, S Menary, M Soares, J Standage

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Measurement of the branching fractions for Ψ(2S)→e +e- and Ψ(2S)→μ+-

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Properties of hadronic final states in diffractive deep inelastic ep scattering at DESY HERA

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Study of CP-violating asymmetries in B⁰→ π⁺π^-K⁺π^- decays

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Study of time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries and flavor oscillations in neutral B decays at the γ (4S)

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Measurement of the branching fractions for Ψ(2S)→e +e- and Ψ(2S)→μ+-

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Properties of hadronic final states in diffractive deep inelastic ep scattering at DESY HERA

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Study of CP-violating asymmetries in B0→ π+π-K+π- decays

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Study of time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries and flavor oscillations in neutral B decays at the γ (4S)

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Exclusive photoproduction of J/ψ mesons at HERA

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Study of CP-violating asymmetries in B⁰→ π⁺π^-K⁺π^- decays