A search for dark matter in events with one jet and missing transverse energy in pp-bar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

ArXiv 1203.0742 (2012)

Authors:

The CDF Collaboration, T Aaltonen, B Álvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, T Bae, Y Bai, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, F Bedeschi, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, D Bisello, I Bizjak, KR Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, WH Chung, YS Chung, MA Ciocci, A Clark, C Clarke, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, N d'Ascenzo, M Datta, P de Barbaro, M Dell'Orso, L Demortier, M Deninno, F Devoto, M d'Errico, A Di Canto, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D'Onofrio, S Donati, P Dong, M Dorigo, T Dorigo, K Ebina, A Elagin, A Eppig, R Erbacher, S Errede, N Ershaidat, R Eusebi, S Farrington, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, PJ Fox, MJ Frank, M Franklin, JC Freeman, Y Funakoshi, I Furic, M Gallinaro, JE Garcia, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, CM Ginsburg, N Giokaris, P Giromini, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, D Goldin, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, J Guimaraes da Costa, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamaguchi, JY Han, F Happacher, K Hara, D Hare, M Hare, R Harnik, RF Harr, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, M Heck, J Heinrich, M Herndon, S Hewamanage, A Hocker, W Hopkins, D Horn, S Hou, RE Hughes, M Hurwitz, U Husemann, N Hussain, M Hussein, J Huston, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, S Jindariani, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, TR Junk, T Kamon, PE Karchin, A Kasmi, Y Kato, W Ketchum, J Keung, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, YJ Kim, N Kimura, M Kirby, S Klimenko, K Knoepfel, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, AV Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kuhr, M Kurata, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, T LeCompte, E Lee, HS Lee, JS Lee, SW Lee, S Leo, S Leone, JD Lewis, A Limosani, C-J Lin, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, H Liu, Q Liu, T Liu, S Lockwitz, A Loginov, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, J Lys, R Lysak, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maestro, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, F Margaroli, C Marino, M Martínez, P Mastrandrea, K Matera, ME Mattson, A Mazzacane, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, C Mesropian, T Miao, D Mietlicki, A Mitra, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, MN Mondragon, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, J Morlock, P Movilla Fernandez, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, I Nakano, A Napier, J Nett, C Neu, MS Neubauer, J Nielsen, L Nodulman, SY Noh, O Norniella, L Oakes, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, L Ortolan, S Pagan Griso, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, AA Paramonov, J Patrick, G Pauletta, C Paus, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, J Pilot, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, S Poprocki, K Potamianos, F Prokoshin, A Pranko, F Ptohos, G Punzi, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, N Ranjan, I Redondo, P Renton, M Rescigno, T Riddick, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodrigo, T Rodriguez, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, F Ruffini, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, Y Sakurai, L Santi, K Sato, V Saveliev, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, A Schmidt, EE Schmidt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, F Scuri, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Sforza, SZ Shalhout, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, I Shreyber-Tecker, A Simonenko, P Sinervo, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, A Soha, V Sorin, H Song, P Squillacioti, M Stancari, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, GL Strycker, Y Sudo, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, K Takemasa, Y Takeuchi, J Tang, M Tecchio, PK Teng, J Thom, J Thome, GA Thompson, E Thomson, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, M Trovato, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, A Varganov, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, M Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, J Vizán, M Vogel, G Volpi, P Wagner, RL Wagner, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, WC Wester III, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, F Wick, HH Williams, JS Wilson, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, H Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, Z Wu, K Yamamoto, D Yamato, T Yang, UK Yang, YC Yang, W-M Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, GB Yu, I Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, Y Zeng, C Zhou, S Zucchelli

Abstract:

We present the results of a search for dark matter production in the monojet signature. We analyze a sample of Tevatron pp-bar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.7/fb recorded by the CDF II detector. In events with large missing transverse energy and one energetic jet, we find good agreement between the standard model prediction and the observed data. We set 90% confidence level upper limits on the dark matter production rate. The limits are translated into bounds on nucleon-dark matter scattering rates which are competitive with current direct detection bounds on spin-independent interaction below a dark matter candidate mass of 5 GeV/c^2, and on spin-dependent interactions up to masses of 200 GeV/c^2.

Measurement of the $WZ$ Cross Section and Triple Gauge Couplings in $p \bar p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96$ TeV

(2012)

Authors:

CDF Collaboration, T Aaltonen, B Alvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassovx, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, T Bae, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barriahh, P Bartos, M Bauce, F Bedeschi, S Behari, G Bellettinig, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, D Bisellof, I Bizjak, KR Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadoriee, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillom, S Carron, B Casalk, M Casarsa, A Castroee, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerrif, L Cerritos, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, WH Chung, YS Chung, MA Cioccihh, A Clark, C Clarke, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioligg, J Cuevasz, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, N d'Ascenzo, M Datta, P de Barbaro, M Del'Orso, L Demortier, M Deninno, F Devoto, M d'Errico, A Di Cantogg, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D'Onofrio, S Donatigg, P Dong, M Dorigo, T Dorigo, K Ebina, A Elagin, A Eppig, R Erbacher, S Errede, N Ershaidatdd, R Eusebi, S Farrington, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, R Field, G Flanaganu, R Forrest, MJ Frank, M Franklin, JC Freeman, Y Funakoshi, I Furic, M Gallinaro, JE Garcia, AF Garfinkel, P Garosihh, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, CM Ginsburg, N Giokaris, P Giromini, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, D Goldin, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, J Guimaraes da Costa, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamaguchi, JY Han, F Happacher, K Hara, D Hare, M Hare, RF Harr, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, M Heck, J Heinrich, M Herndon, S Hewamanage, D Hidas, A Hocker, W Hopkinsg, D Horn, S Hou, RE Hughes, M Hurwitz, U Husemann, N Hussain, M Hussein, J Huston, G Introzzi, M Iorijj, A Ivanovp, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, S Jindariani, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, TR Junk, T Kamon, PE Karchin, A Kasmi, Y Katoo, W Ketchum, J Keung, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, YJ Kim, N Kimura, M Kirby, S Klimenko, K Knoepfel, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, AV Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, M Kruse, V Krutelyovc, T Kuhr, M Kurata, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannony, A Lath, G Latinohh, T LeCompte, E Lee, HS Leeq, JS Lee, SW Leebb, S Leogg, S Leone, JD Lewis, A Limosanit, C-J Lin, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, H Liu, Q Liu, T Liu, S Lockwitz, A Loginov, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, J Lys, R Lysake, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maestrohh, S Malik, G Mancaa, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, F Margaroli, C Marino, M Martínez, P Mastrandrea, K Matera, ME Mattson, A Mazzacane, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNultyj, A Mehta, P Mehtala, C Mesropian, T Miao, D Mietlicki, A Mitra, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, MN Mondragonm, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morelloii, J Morlock, P Movilla Fernandez, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussiniee, J Nachtmann, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, I Nakano, A Napier, J Nett, C Neu, MS Neubauer, J Nielsend, L Nodulman, SY Noh, O Norniella, L Oakes, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, L Ortolan, S Pagan Griso, C Pagliarone, E Palenciaf, V Papadimitriou, AA Paramonov, J Patrick, G Paulettakk, M Paulini, C Paus, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, J Pilot, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, S Poprockig, K Potamianos, F Prokoshincc, A Pranko, F Ptohosh, G Punzigg, J Pursley, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, N Ranjan, I Redondo, P Renton, M Rescigno, T Riddick, F Rimondiee, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodrigo, T Rodriguez, E Rogers, S Rollii, R Roser, F Ruffinihh, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, Y Sakurai, L Santikk, K Sato, V Savelievw, A Savoy-Navarroaa, P Schlabach, A Schmidt, EE Schmidt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, A Scribanohh, F Scuri, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Sforzahh, SZ Shalhout, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojimav, M Shochet, I Shreyber-Tecker, A Simonenko, P Sinervo, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, A Soha, V Sorin, H Song, P Squillaciotihh, M Stancari, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentzx, J Strologas, GL Strycker, Y Sudo, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, K Takemasa, Y Takeuchi, J Tang, M Tecchio, PK Teng, J Thomg, J Thome, GA Thompson, E Thomson, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, M Trovatoii, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, R Vanguri, A Varganov, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, M Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, J Vizán, M Vogel, G Volpi, P Wagner, RL Wagner, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, WC Wester, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, F Wick, HH Williams, JS Wilson, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittichg, S Wolbers, H Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, Z Wu, K Yamamoto, D Yamato, T Yang, UK Yangr, YC Yang, W-M Yao, GP Yeh, K Yin, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshidal, GB Yu, I Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, Y Zeng, C Zhou, S Zucchelli

Measurement of the $WZ$ Cross Section and Triple Gauge Couplings in $p \bar p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96$ TeV

ArXiv 1202.6629 (2012)

Authors:

CDF Collaboration, T Aaltonen, B Alvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassovx, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, T Bae, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barriahh, P Bartos, M Bauce, F Bedeschi, S Behari, G Bellettinig, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, D Bisellof, I Bizjak, KR Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadoriee, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillom, S Carron, B Casalk, M Casarsa, A Castroee, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerrif, L Cerritos, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, WH Chung, YS Chung, MA Cioccihh, A Clark, C Clarke, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioligg, J Cuevasz, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, N d'Ascenzo, M Datta, P de Barbaro, M Del'Orso, L Demortier, M Deninno, F Devoto, M d'Errico, A Di Cantogg, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D'Onofrio, S Donatigg, P Dong, M Dorigo, T Dorigo, K Ebina, A Elagin, A Eppig, R Erbacher, S Errede, N Ershaidatdd, R Eusebi, S Farrington, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, R Field, G Flanaganu, R Forrest, MJ Frank, M Franklin, JC Freeman, Y Funakoshi, I Furic, M Gallinaro, JE Garcia, AF Garfinkel, P Garosihh, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, CM Ginsburg, N Giokaris, P Giromini, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, D Goldin, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, J Guimaraes da Costa, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamaguchi, JY Han, F Happacher, K Hara, D Hare, M Hare, RF Harr, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, M Heck, J Heinrich, M Herndon, S Hewamanage, D Hidas, A Hocker, W Hopkinsg, D Horn, S Hou, RE Hughes, M Hurwitz, U Husemann, N Hussain, M Hussein, J Huston, G Introzzi, M Iorijj, A Ivanovp, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, S Jindariani, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, TR Junk, T Kamon, PE Karchin, A Kasmi, Y Katoo, W Ketchum, J Keung, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, YJ Kim, N Kimura, M Kirby, S Klimenko, K Knoepfel, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, AV Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, M Kruse, V Krutelyovc, T Kuhr, M Kurata, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannony, A Lath, G Latinohh, T LeCompte, E Lee, HS Leeq, JS Lee, SW Leebb, S Leogg, S Leone, JD Lewis, A Limosanit, C-J Lin, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, H Liu, Q Liu, T Liu, S Lockwitz, A Loginov, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, J Lys, R Lysake, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maestrohh, S Malik, G Mancaa, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, F Margaroli, C Marino, M Martínez, P Mastrandrea, K Matera, ME Mattson, A Mazzacane, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNultyj, A Mehta, P Mehtala, C Mesropian, T Miao, D Mietlicki, A Mitra, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, MN Mondragonm, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morelloii, J Morlock, P Movilla Fernandez, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussiniee, J Nachtmann, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, I Nakano, A Napier, J Nett, C Neu, MS Neubauer, J Nielsend, L Nodulman, SY Noh, O Norniella, L Oakes, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, L Ortolan, S Pagan Griso, C Pagliarone, E Palenciaf, V Papadimitriou, AA Paramonov, J Patrick, G Paulettakk, M Paulini, C Paus, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, J Pilot, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, S Poprockig, K Potamianos, F Prokoshincc, A Pranko, F Ptohosh, G Punzigg, J Pursley, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, N Ranjan, I Redondo, P Renton, M Rescigno, T Riddick, F Rimondiee, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodrigo, T Rodriguez, E Rogers, S Rollii, R Roser, F Ruffinihh, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, Y Sakurai, L Santikk, K Sato, V Savelievw, A Savoy-Navarroaa, P Schlabach, A Schmidt, EE Schmidt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, A Scribanohh, F Scuri, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Sforzahh, SZ Shalhout, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojimav, M Shochet, I Shreyber-Tecker, A Simonenko, P Sinervo, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, A Soha, V Sorin, H Song, P Squillaciotihh, M Stancari, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentzx, J Strologas, GL Strycker, Y Sudo, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, K Takemasa, Y Takeuchi, J Tang, M Tecchio, PK Teng, J Thomg, J Thome, GA Thompson, E Thomson, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, M Trovatoii, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, R Vanguri, A Varganov, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, M Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, J Vizán, M Vogel, G Volpi, P Wagner, RL Wagner, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, WC Wester III, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, F Wick, HH Williams, JS Wilson, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittichg, S Wolbers, H Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, Z Wu, K Yamamoto, D Yamato, T Yang, UK Yangr, YC Yang, W-M Yao, GP Yeh, K Yin, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshidal, GB Yu, I Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, Y Zeng, C Zhou, S Zucchelli

Abstract:

This Letter describes the current most precise measurement of the $WZ$ production cross section as well as limits on anomalous $WWZ$ couplings at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV in proton-antiproton collisions for the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). $WZ$ candidates are reconstructed from decays containing three charged leptons and missing energy from a neutrino, where the charged leptons are either electrons or muons. Using data collected by the CDF II detector (7.1 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity), 63 candidate events are observed with the expected background contributing $8 \pm 1$ events. The measured total cross section $\sigma (p \bar p \to WZ) = 3.93_{-0.53}^{+0.60}(\text{stat})_{-0.46}^{+0.59}(\text{syst}) $ pb is in good agreement with the standard model prediction of $3.50\pm 0.21$. The same sample is used to set limits on anomalous $WWZ$ couplings.

Measurements of the angular distributions in the decays B→K( *+μ- at CDF

Physical Review Letters 108:8 (2012)

Authors:

T Aaltonen, B Álvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, D Beecher, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, KR Bland, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, L Brigliadori, A Brisuda, C Bromberg, E Brucken, M Bucciantonio, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, S Cabrera, C Calancha, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli

Abstract:

We report an indirect search for nonstandard model physics using the flavor-changing neutral current decays B→K(*) μ+μ-. We reconstruct the decays and measure their angular distributions, as a function of q2=Mμμ2c2, where M μμ is the dimuon mass, in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96TeV using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.8fb-1. The transverse polarization asymmetry AT(2) and the time-reversal-odd charge-and-parity asymmetry Aim are measured for the first time, together with the K* longitudinal polarization fraction FL and the muon forward-backward asymmetry AFB for the decays B0→K*0μ+μ- and B+→K*+μ+μ -. The B→K*μ+μ- forward-backward asymmetry in the most sensitive kinematic regime, 1≤q2<6GeV2/c2, is measured to be AFB=0.29-0.23+0.20(stat) ±0.07(syst), the most precise result to date. No deviations from the standard model predictions are observed. © 2012 American Physical Society.

Combination of CDF and D0 measurements of the W boson helicity in top quark decays

(2012)

Authors:

The CDF, D0 Collaborations, :, T Aaltonen, VM Abazov, B Abbott, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, B Álvarez González, G Alverson, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, A Askew, B Åsman, S Atkins, O Atramentov, B Auerbach, K Augsten, A Aurisano, C Avila, F Azfar, F Badaud, W Badgett, T Bae, L Bagby, B Baldin, DV Bandurin, S Banerjee, A Barbaro-Galtieri, E Barberis, P Baringer, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, J Barreto, P Barria, JF Bartlett, P Bartos, U Bassler, M Bauce, V Bazterra, A Bean, F Bedeschi, M Begalli, S Behari, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, S Bhatia, V Bhatnagar, A Bhatti, PC Bhat, D Bisello, I Bizjak, KR Bland, G Blazey, S Blessing, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, A Boehnlein, D Boline, EE Boos, G Borissov, D Bortoletto, T Bose, J Boudreau, A Boveia, A Brandt, O Brandt, L Brigliadori, R Brock, C Bromberg, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, J Brown, E Brucken, XB Bu, J Budagov, HS Budd, M Buehler, V Buescher, V Bunichev, S Burdin, K Burkett, P Bussey, CP Buszello, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, E Camacho-Pérez, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, BCK Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, A Castro, P Catastini, S Caughron, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, E Chapon, YC Chen, G Chen, M Chertok, S Chevalier-Théry, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, S Choi, D Chokheli, B Choudhary, DK Cho, K Cho, SW Cho, WH Chung, YS Chung, S Cihangir, MA Ciocci, D Claes, C Clarke, A Clark, J Clutter, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Cooke, WE Cooper, M Corbo, M Corcoran, M Cordelli, F Couderc, M-C Cousinou, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, A Croc, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Cutts, N d'Ascenzo, M d'Errico, M D'Onofrio, D Dagenhart, A Das, M Datta, G Davies, F Déliot, M Dell'Orso, R Demina, L Demortier, M Deninno, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, C Deterre, K DeVaughan, F Devoto, P de Barbaro, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, PF Ding, JR Dittmann, A Di Canto, B Di Ruzza, A Dominguez, S Donati, P Dong, M Dorigo, T Dorigo, T Dorland, A Dubey, LV Dudko, D Duggan, A Duperrin, S Dutt, A Dyshkant, M Eads, K Ebina, D Edmunds, A Elagin, J Ellison, VD Elvira, Y Enari, A Eppig, R Erbacher, S Errede, N Ershaidat, R Eusebi, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, G Facini, S Farrington, M Feindt, T Ferbel, L Feng, JP Fernandez, F Fiedler, R Field, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, G Flanagan, R Forrest, M Fortner, H Fox, M Franklin, MJ Frank, JC Freeman, S Fuess, Y Funakoshi, I Furic, M Gallinaro, JE Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, GA García-Guerra, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, V Gavrilov, P Gay, W Geng, D Gerbaudo, CE Gerber, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, Y Gershtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, CM Ginsburg, G Ginther, N Giokaris, P Giromini, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, D Goldin, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Golovanov, G Gomez-Ceballos, G Gomez, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, S Greder, H Greenlee, G Grenier, S Grinstein, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, A Grohsjean, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, S Grünendahl, MW Grünewald, T Guillemin, J Guimaraes da Costa, F Guo, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, S Hagopian, SR Hahn, J Haley, E Halkiadakis, A Hamaguchi, JY Han, L Han, F Happacher, K Hara, K Harder, D Hare, M Hare, A Harel, RF Harr, K Hatakeyama, JM Hauptman, C Hays, J Hays, T Head, T Hebbeker, M Heck, D Hedin, H Hegab, J Heinrich, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, I Heredia-De La Cruz, M Herndon, K Herner, G Hesketh, S Hewamanage, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, T Hoang, JD Hobbs, A Hocker, B Hoeneisen, M Hohlfeld, W Hopkins, D Horn, S Hou, I Howley, Z Hubacek, RE Hughes, M Hurwitz, U Husemann, N Hussain, M Hussein, J Huston, V Hynek, I Iashvili, Y Ilchenko, R Illingworth, G Introzzi, M Iori, AS Ito, A Ivanov, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, E James, D Jamin, D Jang, A Jayasinghe, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, R Jesik, S Jindariani, K Johns, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, M Jones, P Jonsson, KK Joo, J Joshi, SY Jun, AW Jung, TR Junk, A Juste, K Kaadze, E Kajfasz, T Kamon, PE Karchin, D Karmanov, A Kasmi, PA Kasper, Y Kato, I Katsanos, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, W Ketchum, J Keung, N Khalatyan, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YN Kharzheev, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, N Kimura, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YJ Kim, YK Kim, S Klimenko, K Knoepfel, JM Kohli, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, AV Kotwal, AV Kozelov, J Kraus, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kuhr, S Kulikov, A Kumar, A Kupco, M Kurata, T Kurča, VA Kuzmin, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, S Lammers, M Lancaster, RL Lander, G Landsberg, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, P Lebrun, T LeCompte, E Lee, HS Lee, HS Lee, JS Lee, WM Lee, SW Lee, SW Lee, J Lellouch, S Leo, S Leone, JD Lewis, H Li, L Li, QZ Li, JK Lim, A Limosani, C-J Lin, D Lincoln, M Lindgren, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, E Lipeles, R Lipton, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, H Liu, H Liu, T Liu, Q Liu, Y Liu, A Lobodenko, S Lockwitz, A Loginov, M Lokajicek, R Lopes de Sa, HJ Lubatti, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, R Luna-Garcia, G Lungu, AL Lyon, R Lysak, J Lys, AKA Maciel, D Mackin, R Madar, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maestro, R Magaña-Villalba, S Malik, S Malik, VL Malyshev, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, Y Maravin, F Margaroli, C Marino, M Martínez, J Martínez-Ortega, P Mastrandrea, K Matera, ME Mattson, A Mazzacane, P Mazzanti, R McCarthy, KS McFarland, CL McGivern, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, MM Meijer, A Melnitchouk, D Menezes, PG Mercadante, M Merkin, C Mesropian, A Meyer, J Meyer, T Miao, F Miconi, D Mietlicki, A Mitra, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, NK Mondal, MN Mondragon, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, J Morlock, P Movilla Fernandez, A Mukherjee, M Mulhearn, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, E Nagy, M Naimuddin, I Nakano, A Napier, M Narain, R Nayyar, HA Neal, JP Negret, J Nett, MS Neubauer, P Neustroev, C Neu, J Nielsen, L Nodulman, SY Noh, O Norniella, T Nunnemann, L Oakes, G Obrant, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, J Orduna, L Ortolan, N Osman, J Osta, M Padilla, S Pagan Griso, C Pagliarone, A Pal, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, AA Paramonov, N Parashar, V Parihar, SK Park, R Partridge, N Parua, J Patrick, A Patwa, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, DE Pellett, B Penning, A Penzo, M Perfilov, Y Peters, K Petridis, G Petrillo, P Pétroff, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, J Pilot, K Pitts, C Plager, M-A Pleier, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, P Polozov, L Pondrom, AV Popov, S Poprocki, K Potamianos, M Prewitt, D Price, N Prokopenko, F Prokoshin, A Pranko, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, MS Rangel, K Ranjan, N Ranjan, PN Ratoff, I Razumov, I Redondo, P Renkel, P Renton, M Rescigno, T Riddick, F Rimondi, I Ripp-Baudot, L Ristori, F Rizatdinova, A Robson, T Rodrigo, T Rodriguez, E Rogers, S Rolli, M Rominsky, R Roser, A Ross, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, F Ruffini, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, A Safonov, G Safronov, G Sajot, WK Sakumoto, Y Sakurai, P Salcido, A Sánchez-Hernández, MP Sanders, B Sanghi, L Santi, AS Santos, K Sato, G Savage, V Saveliev, A Savoy-Navarro, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, RD Schamberger, Y Scheglov, H Schellman, P Schlabach, S Schlobohm, A Schmidt, EE Schmidt, C Schwanenberger, T Schwarz, R Schwienhorst, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, F Scuri, S Seidel, Y Seiya, J Sekaric, A Semenov, H Severini, F Sforza, E Shabalina, SZ Shalhout, V Shary, S Shaw, AA Shchukin, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, RK Shivpuri, M Shochet, I Shreyber-Tecker, V Simak, A Simonenko, P Sinervo, P Skubic, P Slattery, K Sliwa, D Smirnov, JR Smith, KJ Smith, FD Snider, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, A Soha, S Söldner-Rembold, H Song, L Sonnenschein, V Sorin, K Soustruznik, P Squillacioti, R St Denis, M Stancari, J Stark, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, V Stolin, DA Stoyanova, M Strauss, J Strologas, GL Strycker, L Stutte, Y Sudo, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, L Suter, P Svoisky, M Takahashi, K Takemasa, Y Takeuchi, J Tang, M Tecchio, PK Teng, J Thom, J Thome, GA Thompson, E Thomson, M Titov, D Toback, S Tokar, VV Tokmenin, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, D Torretta, S Torre, P Totaro, M Trovato, Y-T Tsai, K Tschann-Grimm, D Tsybychev, B Tuchming, C Tully, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, R Van Kooten, WM van Leeuwen, N Varelas, A Varganov, EW Varnes, IA Vasilyev, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, P Verdier, AY Verkheev, LS Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, M Vesterinen, M Vidal, I Vila, D Vilanova, R Vilar, J Vizán, M Vogel, P Vokac, G Volpi, P Wagner, RL Wagner, HD Wahl, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, MHLS Wang, SM Wang, A Warburton, J Warchol, D Waters, G Watts, M Wayne, J Weichert, L Welty-Rieger, WC Wester, A White, D Whiteson, F Wick, D Wicke, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, HH Williams, MRJ Williams, GW Wilson, JS Wilson, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, M Wobisch, S Wolbers, H Wolfe, DR Wood, T Wright, X Wu, Z Wu, TR Wyatt, Y Xie, R Yamada, K Yamamoto, T Yang, UK Yang, W-C Yang, YC Yang, W-M Yao, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, Z Ye, GP Yeh, K Yi, H Yin, K Yip, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, SW Youn, I Yu, GB Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, Y Zeng, T Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, L Zivkovic, S Zucchelli