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Credit: CERN

Professor Chris Hays

Professor of Physics

Research theme

  • Fundamental particles and interactions

Sub department

  • Particle Physics

Research groups

  • ATLAS
Chris.Hays@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)73355
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 675
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Search for anomalous semileptonic decay of heavy flavor hadrons produced in association with a W boson at CDF II

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 73:5 (2006)

Authors:

A Abulencia, D Acosta, J Adelman, T Affolder, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, JF Arguin, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, P Azzurri, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, V Bartsch, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, A Belloni, EB Haim, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, T Berry, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, A Bolshov, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, S Bourov, A Boveia, B Brau, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carron, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, SH Chang, J Chapman, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, I Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, PH Chu, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung

Abstract:

We present a search for anomalous semileptonic decays of heavy flavor hadrons produced in association with a W boson in proton-antiproton collisions at s=1.96TeV. We use 162pb-1 of data collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We select events with one W boson and at least one jet with an identified secondary vertex. In the jets with a secondary vertex we look for a semileptonic decay to a muon. We compare the number of jets with both a secondary vertex and a semileptonic decay and the kinematic properties of these jets, with the standard model expectation of W plus heavy flavor production and decay. No discrepancy is seen between the observation and the expectation, and we set limits on the production cross section of a B-like hadron with an anomalously high semileptonic branching ratio. © 2006 The American Physical Society.
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Search for second-generation scalar leptoquarks in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 73:5 (2006)

Authors:

A Abulencia, D Acosta, J Adelman, T Affolder, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, JF Arguin, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, P Azzurri, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, V Bartsch, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, A Belloni, EB Haim, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, T Berry, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, A Bolshov, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, S Bourov, A Boveia, B Brau, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carron, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, SH Chang, J Chapman, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, I Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, PH Chu, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung

Abstract:

Results on a search for pair production of second-generation scalar leptoquark in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV are reported. The data analyzed were collected by the CDF detector during the 2002-2003 Tevatron Run II and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 198pb-1. Leptoquarks (LQ) are sought through their decay into (charged) leptons and quarks, with final state signatures represented by two muons and jets and one muon, large transverse missing energy and jets. We observe no evidence for LQ production and derive 95% C.L. upper limits on the LQ production cross sections as well as lower limits on their mass as a function of β, where β is the branching fraction for LQ→μq. © 2006 The American Physical Society.
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Evidence for the exclusive decay B(c)+- --> J/psi pi+- and measurement of the mass of the B(c)+- meson.

Phys Rev Lett 96:8 (2006) 082002

Authors:

A Abulencia, D Acosta, J Adelman, T Affolder, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, J-F Arguin, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, P Azzurri, N Bacchetta, H Bachocou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, V Bartsch, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, A Belloni, E Ben-Haim, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, T Berry, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, A Bolshov, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, S Bourov, A Boveia, B Brau, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carron, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, SH Chang, J Chapman, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, I Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, PH Chu, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, M Cijliak, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, M Coca, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, B Cooper, K Copic, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, J Cranshaw, A Cruz, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Cyr, S Da Ronco, S D'Auria, M D'Onofrio, D Dagenhart, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, A Deisher, G De Lentdecker, M Dell'Orso, S Demers, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, T Devlin, C Dionisi, JR Dittmann, P DiTuro, C Dörr, A Dominguez, S Donati, M Donega, P Dong, J Donini, T Dorigo, S Dube, K Ebina, J Efron, J Ehlers, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, HC Fang, S Farrington, I Fedorko, WT Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, R Field, G Flanagan, LR Flores-Castillo, A Foland, S Forrester, GW Foster, M Franklin, JC Freeman, Y Fujii, I Furic, A Gajjar, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, JE Garcia, M Garcia Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, D Gerdes, S Giagu, P Giannetti, A Gibson, K Gibson, C Ginsburg, K Giolo, M Giordani, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, J Goldstein, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, A Gresele, M Griffiths, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, U Grundler, J Guimaraes da Costa, C Haber, SR Hahn, K Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamilton, B-Y Han, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, M Hare, S Harper, RF Harr, RM Harris, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, C Hays, H Hayward, A Heijboer, B Heinemann, J Heinrich, M Hennecke, M Herndon, J Heuser, D Hidas, CS Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, A Holloway, S Hou, M Houlden, S-C Hsu, BT Huffman, RE Hughes, J Huston, K Ikado, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, Y Ishizawa, A Ivanov, B Iyutin, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, D Jeans, H Jensen, EJ Jeon, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, TR Junk, T Kamon, J Kang, M Karagoz-Unel, PE Karchin, Y Kato, Y Kemp, R Kephart, U Kerzel, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, MS Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, M Kirby, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, M Klute, B Knuteson, BR Ko, H Kobayashi, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, K Kordas, A Korytov, AV Kotwal, A Kovalev, J Kraus, I Kravchenko, M Kreps, A Kreymer, J Kroll, N Krumnack, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, SE Kuhlmann, Y Kusakabe, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, I Lazzizzera, C Lecci, T LeCompte, J Lee, J Lee, SW Lee, R Lefèvre, N Leonardo, S Leone, S Levy, JD Lewis, K Li, C Lin, CS Lin, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, TM Liss, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, T Liu, Y Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, P Loverre, R-S Lu, D Lucchesi, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, L Lyons, J Lys, R Lysak, E Lytken, P Mack, D MacQueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, G Manca, F Margaroli, R Marginean, C Marino, A Martin, M Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, T Maruyama, H Matsunaga, ME Mattson, R Mazini, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, D McGivern, P McIntyre, P McNamara, R McNulty, A Mehta, S Menzemer, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Messina, M von der Mey, T Miao, N Miladinovic, J Miles, R Miller, JS Miller, C Mills, M Milnik, R Miquel, S Miscetti, G Mitselmakher, A Miyamoto, N Moggi, B Mohr, R Moore, M Morello, P Movilla Fernandez, J Mülmenstädt, A Mukherjee, M Mulhearn, Th Muller, R Mumford, P Murat, J Nachtman, S Nahn, I Nakano, A Napier, D Naumov, V Necula, C Neu, MS Neubauer, L Nicolas, J Nielsen, T Nigmanov, L Nodulman, O Norniella, T Ogawa, SH Oh, YD Oh, T Okusawa, R Oldeman, R Orava, K Osterberg, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, A Papikonomou, AA Paramonov, B Parks, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, G Pope, X Portell, O Poukhov, N Pounder, F Prakoshyn, A Pronko, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Pursley, J Rademacker, A Rahaman, A Rakitin, S Rappoccio, F Ratnikov, B Reisert, V Rekovic, N van Remortel, P Renton, M Rescigno, S Richter, F Rimondi, K Rinnert, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, A Robson, T Rodrigo, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, M Rossi, R Rossin, C Rott, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, D Ryan, H Saarikko, S Sabik, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, G Salamanna, O Salto, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, L Santi, S Sarkar, K Sato, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, T Scheidle, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, AL Scott, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Semeria, L Sexton-Kennedy, I Sfiligoi, MD Shapiro, T Shears, PF Shepard, D Sherman, M Shimojima, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, A Sidoti, A Sill, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, J Sjolin, A Skiba, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, D Smirnov, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, M Soderberg, A Soha, S Somalwar, V Sorin, J Spalding, M Spezziga, F Spinella, P Squillacioti, M Stanitzki, A Staveris-Polykalas, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, D Stuart, JS Suh, A Sukhanov, K Sumorok, H Sun, T Suzuki, A Taffard, R Tafirout, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, K Takikawa, M Tanaka, R Tanaka, M Tecchio, PK Teng, K Terashi, S Tether, J Thom, AS Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, V Tiwari, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, M Tönnesmann, S Torre, D Torretta, S Tourneur, W Trischuk, R Tsuchiya, S Tsuno, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, S Uozumi, D Usynin, L Vacavant, A Vaiciulis, S Vallecorsa, A Varganov, E Vataga, G Velev, G Veramendi, V Veszpremi, T Vickey, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Vollrath, I Volobouev, F Würthwein, P Wagner, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, R Wallny, T Walter, Z Wan, MJ Wang, SM Wang, A Warburton, B Ward, S Waschke, D Waters, T Watts, M Weber, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, C Wolfe, S Worm, T Wright, X Wu, SM Wynne, A Yagil, K Yamamoto, J Yamaoka, Y Yamashita, C Yang, UK Yang, WM Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, I Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, I Zaw, F Zetti, X Zhang, J Zhou, S Zucchelli, CDF Collaboration

Abstract:

We report the first evidence for a fully reconstructed decay mode of the B(c)+- meson in the channel B(c)+- --> J/psi pi+-, with J/psi --> mu+ mu-. The analysis is based on an integrated luminosity of 360 pb(-1) in pp collisions at 1.96 TeV center of mass energy collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. We observe 14.6 +/- 4.6 signal events with a background of 7.1 +/- 0.9 events, and a fit to the J/psi pi+-mass spectrum yields a B(c)+- mass of 6285.7 +/- 5.3(stat) +/- 1.2(syst) MeV/c2. The probability of a peak of this magnitude occurring by random fluctuation in the search region is estimated as 0.012%.
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Search for Higgs bosons decaying to bb and produced in association with W bosons in pp collisions at square root of s = 1.96 TeV.

Phys Rev Lett 96:8 (2006) 081803

Authors:

A Abulencia, D Acosta, J Adelman, T Affolder, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, J-F Arguin, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, P Azzurri, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, V Bartsch, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, A Belloni, E Ben-Haim, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, T Berry, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, A Bolshov, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, S Bourov, A Boveia, B Brau, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carron, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, SH Chang, J Chapman, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, I Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, PH Chu, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, M Ciljak, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, M Coca, A Connolly, ME Convery, J Conway, B Cooper, K Copic, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, A Cruz, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Cyr, S DaRonco, S D'Auria, M D'onofrio, D Dagenhart, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, A Deisher, G De Lentdecker, M Dell'Orso, S Demers, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, C Dionisi, JR Dittmann, P DiTuro, C Dörr, A Dominguez, S Donati, M Donega, P Dong, J Donini, T Dorigo, S Dube, K Ebina, J Efron, J Ehlers, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, HC Fang, S Farrington, I Fedorko, WT Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, R Field, G Flanagan, LR Flores-Castillo, A Foland, S Forrester, GW Foster, M Franklin, JC Freeman, Y Fujii, I Furic, A Gajjar, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, JE Garcia, M Garcia Sciverez, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, D Gerdes, S Giagu, GP di Giovanni, P Giannetti, A Gibson, K Gibson, C Ginsburg, N Giokaris, K Giolo, M Giordani, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, J Goldstein, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, A Gresele, M Griffiths, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, U Grundler, J Guimaraes da Costa, C Haber, SR Hahn, K Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamilton, B-Y Han, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, M Hare, S Harper, RF Harr, RM Harris, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, C Hays, H Hayward, A Heijboer, B Heinemann, J Heinrich, M Hennecke, M Herndon, J Heuser, D Hidas, CS Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, A Holloway, S Hou, M Houlden, S-C Hsu, BT Huffman, RE Hughes, J Huston, K Ikado, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, Y Ishizawa, A Ivanov, B Iyutin, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, D Jeans, H Jensen, EJ Jeon, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, TR Junk, T Kamon, J Kang, M Karagoz-Unel, PE Karchin, Y Kato, Y Kemp, R Kephart, U Kerzel, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, MS Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, M Kirby, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, M Klute, B Knuteson, BR Ko, H Kobayashi, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, K Kordas, A Korytov, AV Kotwal, A Kovalev, J Kraus, I Kravchenko, M Kreps, A Kreymer, J Kroll, N Krumnack, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, SE Kuhlmann, Y Kusakabe, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, I Lazzizzera, C Lecci, T LeCompte, J Lee, J Lee, SW Lee, R Lefèvre, N Leonardo, S Leone, S Levy, JD Lewis, K Li, C Lin, CS Lin, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, TM Liss, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, T Liu, Y Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, P Loverre, R-S Lu, D Lucchesi, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, L Lyons, J Lys, R Lysak, E Lytken, P Mack, D MacQueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, G Manca, F Margaroli, R Marginean, C Marino, A Martin, M Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, T Maruyama, H Matsunaga, ME Mattson, R Mazini, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, D McGivern, P McIntyre, P McNamara, R McNulty, A Mehta, S Menzemer, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Messina, M von der Mey, T Miao, N Miladinovic, J Miles, R Miller, JS Miller, C Mills, M Milnik, R Miquel, S Miscetti, G Mitselmakher, A Miyamoto, N Moggi, B Mohr, R Moore, M Morello, P Movilla Fernandez, J Mülmenstädt, A Mukherjee, M Mulhearn, Th Muller, R Mumford, P Murat, J Nachtman, S Nahn, I Nakano, A Napier, D Naumov, V Necula, C Neu, MS Neubauer, J Nielsen, T Nigmanov, L Nodulman, O Norniella, T Ogawa, SH Oh, YD Oh, T Okusawa, R Oldeman, R Orava, K Osterberg, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, A Papikonomou, AA Paramonov, B Parks, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, G Pope, X Portell, O Poukhov, N Pounder, F Prakoshyn, A Pronko, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Pursley, J Rademacker, A Rahaman, A Rakitin, S Rappoccio, F Ratnikov, B Reisert, V Rekovic, N van Remortel, P Renton, M Rescigno, S Richter, F Rimondi, K Rinnert, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, A Robson, T Rodrigo, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, M Rossi, R Rossin, C Rott, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, D Ryan, H Saarikko, S Sabik, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, G Salamanna, O Salto, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, L Santi, S Sarkar, K Sato, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, T Scheidle, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, AL Scott, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Semeria, L Sexton-Kennedy, I Sfiligoi, MD Shapiro, T Shears, PF Shepard, D Sherman, M Shimojima, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, A Sidoti, A Sill, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, J Sjolin, A Skiba, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, D Smirnov, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, M Soderberg, A Soha, S Somalwar, V Sorin, J Spalding, F Spinella, P Squillacioti, M Stanitzki, A Staveris-Polykalas, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, D Stuart, JS Suh, A Sukhanov, K Sumorok, H Sun, T Suzuki, A Taffard, R Tafirout, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, K Takikawa, M Tanaka, R Tanaka, M Tecchio, PK Teng, K Terashi, S Tether, J Thom, AS Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, V Tiwari, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, M Tönnesmann, S Torre, D Torretta, S Tourneur, W Trischuk, R Tsuchiya, S Tsuno, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, S Uozumi, D Usynin, L Vacavant, A Vaiciulis, S Vallecorsa, A Varganov, E Vataga, G Velev, G Veramendi, V Veszpremi, T Vickey, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Vollrath, I Volobouev, F Würthwein, P Wagner, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, R Wallny, T Walter, Z Wan, MJ Wang, SM Wang, A Warburton, B Ward, S Waschke, D Waters, T Watts, M Weber, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, C Wolfe, S Worm, T Wright, X Wu, SM Wynne, A Yagil, K Yamamoto, J Yamaoka, Y Yamashita, C Yang, UK Yang, WM Yao, GP Yeh, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, I Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, I Zaw, F Zetti, X Zhang, J Zhou, S Zucchelli, CDF Collaboration

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We present a search for Higgs bosons decaying into bb and produced in association with W bosons in pp collisions at square root of s = 1.96 TeV. This search uses 320 pb(-1) of the data set accumulated by the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab. Events are selected that have a high-transverse momentum electron or muon, missing transverse energy, and two jets, at least one of which is consistent with the hadronization of a b quark. Both the number of events and the dijet mass distribution are consistent with standard model background expectations, and we set 95% confidence level upper limits on the production cross section times branching ratio for the Higgs boson or any new particle with similar decay kinematics. These upper limits range from 10 pb for mH = 110 GeV/c2 to 3 pb for mH = 150 GeV/c2.
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Measurement of the dipion mass spectrum in decays.

Physical review letters 96:10 (2006) 102002

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A Abulencia, D Acosta, J Adelman, T Affolder, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, J-F Arguin, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, P Azzurri, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, V Bartsch, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, A Belloni, E Ben Haim, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, T Berry, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, A Bolshov, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, S Bourov, A Boveia, B Brau, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carron, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, SH Chang, J Chapman, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, I Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, PH Chu, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, M Ciljak, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, M Coca, A Connolly, ME Convery, J Conway, B Cooper, K Copic, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, A Cruz, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Cyr, S Daronco, S D'Auria, M D'onofrio, D Dagenhart, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, A Deisher, G De Lentdecker, M Dell'orso, S Demers, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, C Dionisi, JR Dittmann, P DiTuro, C Dörr, A Dominguez, S Donati, M Donega, P Dong, J Donini, T Dorigo, S Dube, K Ebina, J Efron, J Ehlers, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, HC Fang, S Farrington, I Fedorko, WT Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, R Field, G Flanagan, LR Flores-Castillo, A Foland, S Forrester, GW Foster, M Franklin, JC Freeman, Y Fujii, I Furic, A Gajjar, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, JE Garcia, M Garcia Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, D Gerdes, S Giagu, GP di Giovanni, P Giannetti, A Gibson, K Gibson, C Ginsburg, N Giokaris, K Giolo, M Giordani, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, J Goldstein, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, A Gresele, M Griffiths, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, U Grundler, J Guimaraes da Costa, C Haber, SR Hahn, K Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamilton, B-Y Han, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, M Hare, S Harper, RF Harr, RM Harris, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, C Hays, H Hayward, A Heijboer, B Heinemann, J Heinrich, M Hennecke, M Herndon, J Heuser, D Hidas, CS Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, A Holloway, S Hou, M Houlden, S-C Hsu, BT Huffman, RE Hughes, J Huston, K Ikado, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, Y Ishizawa, A Ivanov, B Iyutin, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, D Jeans, H Jensen, EJ Jeon, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, TR Junk, T Kamon, J Kang, M Karagoz-Unel, PE Karchin, Y Kato, Y Kemp, R Kephart, U Kerzel, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, MS Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, M Kirby, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, M Klute, B Knuteson, BR Ko, H Kobayashi, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, K Kordas, A Korytov, AV Kotwal, A Kovalev, J Kraus, I Kravchenko, M Kreps, A Kreymer, J Kroll, N Krumnack, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, SE Kuhlmann, Y Kusakabe, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, I Lazzizzera, C Lecci, T Lecompte, J Lee, J Lee, SW Lee, R Lefèvre, N Leonardo, S Leone, S Levy, JD Lewis, K Li, C Lin, CS Lin, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, TM Liss, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, T Liu, Y Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, P Loverre, R-S Lu, D Lucchesi, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, L Lyons, J Lys, R Lysak, E Lytken, P Mack, D MacQueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, G Manca, F Margaroli, R Marginean, C Marino, A Martin, M Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, T Maruyama, H Matsunaga, ME Mattson, R Mazini, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, D McGivern, P McIntyre, P McNamara, R McNulty, A Mehta, S Menzemer, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Messina, M von der Mey, T Miao, N Miladinovic, J Miles, R Miller, JS Miller, C Mills, M Milnik, R Miquel, S Miscetti, G Mitselmakher, A Miyamoto, N Moggi, B Mohr, R Moore, M Morello, P Movilla Fernandez, J Mülmenstädt, A Mukherjee, M Mulhearn, Th Muller, R Mumford, P Murat, J Nachtman, S Nahn, I Nakano, A Napier, D Naumov, V Necula, C Neu, MS Neubauer, J Nielsen, T Nigmanov, L Nodulman, O Norniella, T Ogawa, SH Oh, YD Oh, T Okusawa, R Oldeman, R Orava, K Osterberg, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, A Papikonomou, AA Paramonov, B Parks, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, G Pope, X Portell, O Poukhov, N Pounder, F Prakoshyn, A Pronko, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Pursley, J Rademacker, A Rahaman, A Rakitin, S Rappoccio, F Ratnikov, B Reisert, V Rekovic, N van Remortel, P Renton, M Rescigno, S Richter, F Rimondi, K Rinnert, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, A Robson, T Rodrigo, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, M Rossi, R Rossin, C Rott, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, D Ryan, H Saarikko, S Sabik, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, G Salamanna, O Salto, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, L Santi, S Sarkar, K Sato, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, T Scheidle, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, AL Scott, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Semeria, L Sexton-Kennedy, I Sfiligoi, MD Shapiro, T Shears, PF Shepard, D Sherman, M Shimojima, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, A Sidoti, A Sill, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, J Sjolin, A Skiba, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, D Smirnov, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, M Soderberg, A Soha, S Somalwar, V Sorin, J Spalding, F Spinella, P Squillacioti, M Stanitzki, A Staveris-Polykalas, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, D Stuart, JS Suh, A Sukhanov, K Sumorok, H Sun, T Suzuki, A Taffard, R Tafirout, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, K Takikawa, M Tanaka, R Tanaka, M Tecchio, PK Teng, K Terashi, S Tether, J Thom, AS Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, V Tiwari, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, M Tönnesmann, S Torre, D Torretta, S Tourneur, W Trischuk, R Tsuchiya, S Tsuno, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, S Uozumi, D Usynin, L Vacavant, A Vaiciulis, S Vallecorsa, A Varganov, E Vataga, G Velev, G Veramendi, V Veszpremi, T Vickey, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Vollrath, I Volobouev, F Würthwein, P Wagner, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, R Wallny, T Walter, Z Wan, MJ Wang, SM Wang, A Warburton, B Ward, S Waschke, D Waters, T Watts, M Weber, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, C Wolfe, S Worm, T Wright, X Wu, SM Wynne, A Yagil, K Yamamoto, J Yamaoka, T Yamashita, C Yang, UK Yang, WM Yao, GP Yeh, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, I Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, I Zaw, F Zetti, X Zhang, J Zhou, S Zucchelli, CDF 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Abstract:

We measure the dipion mass spectrum in X(3872)--> J/psipi(+) pi(-) decays using 360 pb(-1) of pp collisions at square root s= 1.96 TeV collected with the CDF II detector. The spectrum is fit with predictions for odd C-parity ((3)S(1), (1)P(1), and (3)D(J)) charmonia decaying to J/psipi(+) pi(-), as well as even C-parity states in which the pions are from rho(0) decay. The latter case also encompasses exotic interpretations, such as a D(0)D(*0) molecule. Only the (3)S(1) and J/psirho hypotheses are compatible with our data. Since (3)S(1) is untenable on other grounds, decay via J/psirho is favored, which implies C= +1 for the X(3872). Models for J/psi - rho different angular momenta L are considered. Flexibility in the models, especially the introduction of rho - omega interference, enables good descriptions of our data for both L = 0 and 1.
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