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
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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.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
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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.Study of B0 --> J/psiK(*)0pi(+)pi(-) decays with the collider detector at Fermilab.
Phys Rev Lett 88:7 (2002) 071801
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We report a study of the decays B0 --> J/psiK(*)0pi(+)pi(-), which involve the creation of a uu or dd quark pair in addition to a b -->c(cs) decay. The data sample consists of 110 pb(-1) of pp collisions at square root[s] = 1.8 TeV collected by the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider during 1992-1995. We measure the branching fractions to be B(B0 --> J/psiK(*0)pi(+)pi(-)) = (6.6 +/- 1.9 +/- 1.1)x10(-4) and B(B0 --> J/psiK0pi(+)pi(-)) = (10.3 +/- 3.3 +/- 1.5)x10(-4). Evidence is seen for contributions from psi(2S)K(*)0, J/psiK0rho(0), J/psiK(*+)pi(-), and J/psiK1(1270).Study of B0 → J/ψK(*)0π+π- decays with the collider detector at Fermilab
Physical Review Letters 88:7 (2002) 718011-718016
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The study of the decays B0 → J/ψK(*)0 π+π-, was reported. The study involved the creation of a uū or dd̄ quark pair in addition to a b̄ → c̄(cs̄) decay. Three-level dimuon trigger was used in the analysis. Events with two separate sets of atleast three linked hits in the muon chambers. The second level required drift chamber tracks with pT > 2.0 GeV/c. J/ψ → μ+μ- candidates, were accepted in the third level, with a reconstructed invariant mass between 2.8 and 3.8 GeV/c2.Erratum: Measurement of the two-jet differential cross section in pp collisions at √s=1800 GeV (Physical Review D- Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology (2001) 64 (012001)
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 65:3 (2002) 399021