Search for ZZ and ZW production in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 71:9 (2005) 1-7
Authors:
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, T Arisawa, JF Arguin, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, GJ Barker, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, E Ben-Haim, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, A Bolshov, PSL Booth, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, S Bourov, B Brau, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campanelli, M Campbell, A Canepa, M Casarsa, D Carlsmith, S Carron, R Carosi, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, A Cerri, L Cerrito, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, I Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, ML Chu, S Chuang, JY Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, AG Clark, D Clark, M Coca, A ConnollyAbstract:
We present a search for ZZ and ZW vector boson pair production in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV using the leptonic decay channels ZZ→llνν, ZZ→lll′l′, and ZW→lll′ν. In a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 194pb-1 collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab, 3 candidate events are found with an expected background of 1.0±0.2 events. We set a 95% confidence level upper limit of 15.2pb on the cross section for ZZ plus ZW production, compared to the standard model prediction of 5.0±0.4pb. © 2005 The American Physical Society.Measurement of the Ratio of Inclusive Cross Sections σ(pp¯→Z+b jet)/σ(pp¯→Z+jet) at s=1.96 TeV
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 94:16 (2005) 161801
Authors:
VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, J-L Agram, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, S Anderson, B Andrieu, Y Arnoud, A Askew, B Åsman, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, F Badaud, A Baden, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Bargassa, P Baringer, C Barnes, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, S Beauceron, M Begel, A Bellavance, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Binder, KM Black, I Blackler, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, U Blumenschein, A Boehnlein, O Boeriu, TA Bolton, F Borcherding, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, S Burdin, TH Burnett, E Busato, JM Butler, J Bystricky, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, NM Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, D Chapin, F Charles, E Cheu, L Chevalier, DK Cho, S Choi, T Christiansen, L Christofek, D Claes, B Clément, C Clément, Y Coadou, M Cooke, WE Cooper, D Coppage, M Corcoran, J Coss, A Cothenet, M-C Cousinou, S Crépé-Renaudin, M Cristetiu, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, H da Motta, B Davies, G Davies, GA Davis, K De, P de Jong, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, C De Oliveira Martins, S Dean, F Déliot, PA Delsart, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, M Doidge, H Dong, S Doulas, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Duperrin, J Dyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, D Edmunds, T Edwards, J Ellison, J Elmsheuser, JT Eltzroth, VD Elvira, S Eno, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, J Estrada, D Evans, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, J Fast, SN Fatakia, L Feligioni, T Ferbel, F Fiedler, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, M Fortner, H Fox, W Freeman, S Fu, S Fuess, T Gadfort, CF Galea, E Gallas, E Galyaev, C Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, J Gardner, V Gavrilov, P Gay, D Gelé, R Gelhaus, K Genser, CE Gerber, Y Gershtein, G Ginther, T Golling, B Gómez, K Gounder, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, S Greder, H Greenlee, ZD Greenwood, EM Gregores, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, L Groer, S Grünendahl, MW Grünewald, SN Gurzhiev, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, NJ Hadley, S Hagopian, I Hall, RE Hall, C Han, L Han, K Hanagaki, K Harder, R Harrington, JM Hauptman, R Hauser, J Hays, T Hebbeker, D Hedin, JM Heinmiller, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, G Hesketh, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, M Hohlfeld, SJ Hong, R Hooper, P Houben, Y Hu, J Huang, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, AS Ito, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, S Jain, V Jain, K Jakobs, A Jenkins, R Jesik, K Johns, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, P Jonsson, H Jöstlein, A Juste, MM Kado, D Käfer, W Kahl, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, AM Kalinin, J Kalk, D Karmanov, J Kasper, D Kau, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, S Kesisoglou, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YM Kharzheev, KH Kim, B Klima, M Klute, JM Kohli, M Kopal, VM Korablev, J Kotcher, B Kothari, A Koubarovsky, AV Kozelov, J Kozminski, S Krzywdzinski, S Kuleshov, Y Kulik, S Kunori, A Kupco, T Kurča, S Lager, N Lahrichi, G Landsberg, J Lazoflores, A-C Le Bihan, P Lebrun, SW Lee, WM Lee, A Leflat, F Lehner, C Leonidopoulos, P Lewis, J Li, QZ Li, JGR Lima, D Lincoln, SL Linn, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, R Lipton, L Lobo, A Lobodenko, M Lokajicek, A Lounis, HJ Lubatti, L Lueking, M Lynker, AL Lyon, AKA Maciel, RJ Madaras, P Mättig, A Magerkurth, A-M Magnan, N Makovec, PK Mal, S Malik, VL Malyshev, HS Mao, Y Maravin, M Martens, SEK Mattingly, AA Mayorov, R McCarthy, R McCroskey, D Meder, HL Melanson, A Melnitchouk, M Merkin, KW Merritt, A Meyer, H Miettinen, D Mihalcea, J Mitrevski, N Mokhov, J Molina, NK Mondal, HE Montgomery, RW Moore, GS Muanza, M Mulders, YD Mutaf, E Nagy, M Narain, NA Naumann, HA Neal, JP Negret, S Nelson, P Neustroev, C Noeding, A Nomerotski, SF Novaes, T Nunnemann, E Nurse, V O’Dell, DC O’Neil, V Oguri, N Oliveira, N Oshima, GJ Otero Y Garzón, P Padley, N Parashar, J Park, SK Park, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, A Patwa, PM Perea, E Perez, O Peters, P Pétroff, M Petteni, L Phaf, R Piegaia, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, Y Pogorelov, BG Pope, WL Prado da Silva, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, MB Przybycien, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, KJ Rani, PA Rapidis, PN Ratoff, NW Reay, S Reucroft, M Rijssenbeek, I Ripp-Baudot, F Rizatdinova, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, G Sajot, A Sánchez-Hernández, MP Sanders, A Santoro, G Savage, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, RD Schamberger, H Schellman, P Schieferdecker, C Schmitt, AA Schukin, A Schwartzman, R Schwienhorst, S Sengupta, H Severini, E Shabalina, M Shamim, V Shary, WD Shephard, D Shpakov, RA Sidwell, V Simak, V Sirotenko, P Skubic, P Slattery, RP Smith, K Smolek, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, S Söldner-Rembold, X Song, Y Song, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, M Souza, B Spurlock, NR Stanton, J Stark, J Steele, G Steinbrück, K Stevenson, V Stolin, A Stone, DA Stoyanova, J Strandberg, MA Strang, M Strauss, R Ströhmer, M Strovink, L Stutte, S Sumowidagdo, A Sznajder, M Talby, P Tamburello, W Taylor, P Telford, J Temple, S Tentindo-Repond, E Thomas, B Thooris, M Tomoto, T Toole, J Torborg, S Towers, T Trefzger, S Trincaz-Duvoid, B Tuchming, C Tully, AS Turcot, PM Tuts, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, B Vachon, R Van Kooten, WM van Leeuwen, N Varelas, EW Varnes, IA Vasilyev, M Vaupel, P Verdier, LS Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, F Villeneuve-Seguier, J-R Vlimant, E Von Toerne, M Vreeswijk, T Vu Anh, HD Wahl, R Walker, L Wang, Z-M Wang, J Warchol, M Warsinsky, G Watts, M Wayne, M Weber, H Weerts, M Wegner, N Wermes, A White, V White, D Whiteson, D Wicke, DA Wijngaarden, GW Wilson, SJ Wimpenny, J Wittlin, M Wobisch, J Womersley, DR Wood, TR Wyatt, Q Xu, N Xuan, R Yamada, M Yan, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, Y Yen, K Yip, SW Youn, J Yu, A Yurkewicz, A Zabi, A Zatserklyaniy, M Zdrazil, C Zeitnitz, D Zhang, X Zhang, T Zhao, Z Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, R Zitoun, V Zutshi, EG Zverev, A ZylberstejnMeasurement of the WW Production Cross Section in pp¯ Collisions at s=1.96 TeV
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 94:15 (2005) 151801
Authors:
VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, J-L Agram, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, S Anderson, B Andrieu, Y Arnoud, A Askew, B Åsman, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, F Badaud, A Baden, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Bargassa, P Baringer, C Barnes, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, S Beauceron, M Begel, A Bellavance, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Binder, KM Black, I Blackler, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, U Blumenschein, A Boehnlein, O Boeriu, TA Bolton, F Borcherding, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, S Burdin, TH Burnett, E Busato, JM Butler, J Bystricky, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, NM Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, D Chapin, F Charles, E Cheu, L Chevalier, DK Cho, S Choi, T Christiansen, L Christofek, D Claes, B Clément, C Clément, Y Coadou, M Cooke, WE Cooper, D Coppage, M Corcoran, J Coss, A Cothenet, M-C Cousinou, S Crépé-Renaudin, M Cristetiu, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, H da Motta, B Davies, G Davies, GA Davis, K De, P de Jong, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, C De Oliveria Martins, S Dean, F Déliot, PA Delsart, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, M Doidge, H Dong, S Doulas, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Duperrin, J Dyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, D Edmunds, T Edwards, J Ellison, J Elmsheuser, JT Eltzroth, VD Elvira, S Eno, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, J Estrada, D Evans, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, J Fast, SN Fatakia, L Feligioni, T Ferbel, F Fiedler, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, M Fortner, H Fox, W Freeman, S Fu, S Fuess, T Gadfort, CF Galea, E Gallas, E Galyaev, C Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, J Gardner, V Gavrilov, P Gay, D Gelé, R Gelhaus, K Genser, CE Gerber, Y Gershtein, G Ginther, T Golling, B Gómez, K Gounder, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, S Greder, H Greenlee, ZD Greenwood, EM Gregores, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, L Groer, S Grünendahl, MW Grünewald, SN Gurzhiev, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, NJ Hadley, S Hagopian, I Hall, RE Hall, C Han, L Han, K Hanagaki, K Harder, R Harrington, JM Hauptman, R Hauser, J Hays, T Hebbeker, D Hedin, JM Heinmiller, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, G Hesketh, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, M Hohlfeld, SJ Hong, R Hooper, P Houben, Y Hu, J Huang, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, AS Ito, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, S Jain, V Jain, K Jakobs, A Jenkins, R Jesik, K Johns, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, P Jonsson, H Jöstlein, A Juste, MM Kado, D Käfer, W Kahl, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, AM Kalinin, J Kalk, D Karmanov, J Kasper, D Kau, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, S Kesisoglou, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YM Kharzheev, KH Kim, B Klima, M Klute, JM Kohli, M Kopal, VM Korablev, J Kotcher, B Kothari, A Koubarovsky, AV Kozelov, J Kozminski, S Krzywdzinski, S Kuleshov, Y Kulik, S Kunori, A Kupco, T Kurča, S Lager, N Lahrichi, G Landsberg, J Lazoflores, A-C Le Bihan, P Lebrun, SW Lee, WM Lee, A Leflat, F Lehner, C Leonidopoulos, P Lewis, J Li, QZ Li, JGR Lima, D Lincoln, SL Linn, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, R Lipton, L Lobo, A Lobodenko, M Lokajicek, A Lounis, HJ Lubatti, L Lueking, M Lynker, AL Lyon, AKA Maciel, RJ Madaras, P Mättig, A Magerkurth, A-M Magnan, N Makovec, PK Mal, S Malik, VL Malyshev, HS Mao, Y Maravin, M Martens, SEK Mattingly, AA Mayorov, R McCarthy, R McCroskey, D Meder, HL Melanson, A Melnitchouk, M Merkin, KW Merritt, A Meyer, H Miettinen, D Mihalcea, J Mitrevski, N Mokhov, J Molina, NK Mondal, HE Montgomery, RW Moore, GS Muanza, M Mulders, YD Mutaf, E Nagy, M Narain, NA Naumann, HA Neal, JP Negret, S Nelson, P Neustroev, C Noeding, A Nomerotski, SF Novaes, T Nunnemann, E Nurse, V O’Dell, DC O’Neil, V Oguri, N Oliveira, N Oshima, GJ Otero Y Garzón, P Padley, N Parashar, J Park, SK Park, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, A Patwa, PM Perea, E Perez, O Peters, P Pétroff, M Petteni, L Phaf, R Piegaia, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, Y Pogorelov, BG Pope, WL Prado da Silva, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, MB Przybycien, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, KJ Rani, PA Rapidis, PN Ratoff, NW Reay, S Reucroft, M Rijssenbeek, I Ripp-Baudot, F Rizatdinova, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, G Sajot, A Sánchez-Hernández, MP Sanders, A Santoro, G Savage, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, RD Schamberger, H Schellman, P Schieferdecker, C Schmitt, AA Schukin, A Schwartzman, R Schwienhorst, S Sengupta, H Severini, E Shabalina, M Shamim, V Shary, WD Shephard, D Shpakov, RA Sidwell, V Simak, V Sirotenko, P Skubic, P Slattery, RP Smith, K Smolek, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, S Söldner-Rembold, X Song, Y Song, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, M Souza, B Spurlock, NR Stanton, J Stark, J Steele, G Steinbrück, K Stevenson, V Stolin, A Stone, DA Stoyanova, J Strandberg, MA Strang, M Strauss, R Ströhmer, M Strovink, L Stutte, S Sumowidagdo, A Sznajder, M Talby, P Tamburello, W Taylor, P Telford, J Temple, S Tentindo-Repond, E Thomas, B Thooris, M Tomoto, T Toole, J Torborg, S Towers, T Trefzger, S Trincaz-Duvoid, B Tuchming, C Tully, AS Turcot, PM Tuts, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, B Vachon, R Van Kooten, WM van Leeuwen, N Varelas, EW Varnes, IA Vasilyev, M Vaupel, P Verdier, LS Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, F Villeneuve-Seguier, J-R Vlimant, E Von Toerne, M Vreeswijk, T Vu Anh, HD Wahl, R Walker, L Wang, Z-M Wang, J Warchol, M Warsinsky, G Watts, M Wayne, M Weber, H Weerts, M Wegner, N Wermes, A White, V White, D Whiteson, D Wicke, DA Wijngaarden, GW Wilson, SJ Wimpenny, J Wittlin, M Wobisch, J Womersley, DR Wood, TR Wyatt, Q Xu, N Xuan, R Yamada, M Yan, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, Y Yen, K Yip, SW Youn, J Yu, A Yurkewicz, A Zabi, A Zatserklyaniy, M Zdrazil, C Zeitnitz, D Zhang, X Zhang, T Zhao, Z Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, R Zitoun, V Zutshi, EG Zverev, A ZylberstejnMeasurement of the tt̄ production cross section in pp̄ collisions at √s=1:96 TeV using kinematic fitting of b-tagged lepton+jet events
Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 71:7 (2005) 1-11
Authors:
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, T Arisawa, JF Arguin, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, GJ Barker, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, E Ben-Haim, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, A Bolshov, PSL Booth, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, S Bourov, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campanelli, M Campbell, A Canepa, M Casarsa, D Carlsmith, S Carron, R Carosi, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, A Cerri, C Cerri, L Cerrito, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, I Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, ML Chu, S Chuang, JY Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, AG Clark, D Clark, M Coca, A ConnollyAbstract:
We report a measurement of the tt̄ production cross section using the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The data consist of events with an energetic electron or muon, missing transverse energy, and three or more hadronic jets, at least one of which is identified as a b-quark jet by reconstructing a secondary vertex. The background fraction is determined from a fit of the transverse energy of the leading jet. Using 162 ± 10 pb -1 of data, the total cross section is found to be 6.0 ± 1.6(stat.) ± 1.2(syst.) pb, which is consistent with the standard model prediction. © 2005 The American Physical Society.Measurement of the Λb0 Lifetime in the Decay Λb0→J/ψΛ0 with the D0 Detector
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 94:10 (2005) 102001