Search for electron antineutrino appearance at the deltam(2) approximately 1 eV(2) Scale.

Physical review letters 103:11 (2009) 111801

Authors:

AA Aguilar-Arevalo, CE Anderson, SJ Brice, BC Brown, L Bugel, JM Conrad, Z Djurcic, BT Fleming, R Ford, FG Garcia, GT Garvey, J Gonzales, J Grange, C Green, JA Green, R Imlay, RA Johnson, G Karagiorgi, T Katori, T Kobilarcik, SK Linden, WC Louis, KBM Mahn, W Marsh, C Mauger, VT McGary, W Metcalf, GB Mills, CD Moore, J Mousseau, RH Nelson, P Nienaber, JA Nowak, B Osmanov, Z Pavlovic, D Perevalov, CC Polly, H Ray, BP Roe, AD Russell, MH Shaevitz, M Sorel, J Spitz, I Stancu, RJ Stefanski, R Tayloe, M Tzanov, RG Van de Water, MO Wascko, DH White, MJ Wilking, GP Zeller, ED Zimmerman, MiniBooNE Collaboration

Abstract:

The MiniBooNE Collaboration reports initial results from a search for nu(mu)-->nu(e) oscillations. A signal-blind analysis was performed using a data sample corresponding to 3.39x10(20) protons on target. The data are consistent with background prediction across the full range of neutrino energy reconstructed assuming quasielastic scattering, 200

First observation of vector boson pairs in a hadronic final state at the tevatron collider.

Phys Rev Lett 103:9 (2009) 091803

Authors:

T Aaltonen, J Adelman, T Akimoto, B Alvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, V Bartsch, G Bauer, P-H Beauchemin, F Bedeschi, D Beecher, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, RE Blair, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, A Bridgeman, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, S Burke, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, C Calancha, 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, SH Chang, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, G Choudalakis, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, T Chwalek, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, C Cuenca Almenar, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, JC Cully, D Dagenhart, M Datta, T Davies, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, A Deisher, G De Lorenzo, M Dell'Orso, C Deluca, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, PF Derwent, A Di Canto, GP di Giovanni, C Dionisi, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D'Onofrio, S Donati, P Dong, J Donini, T Dorigo, S Dube, J Efron, A Elagin, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, HC Fang, S Farrington, WT Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, C Ferrazza, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, MJ Frank, M Franklin, JC Freeman, I Furic, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, F Garberson, JE Garcia, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, K Genser, H Gerberich, D Gerdes, A Gessler, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, JL Gimmell, CM Ginsburg, N Giokaris, M Giordani, P Giromini, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, A Gresele, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, U Grundler, J Guimaraes da Costa, Z Gunay-Unalan, C Haber, K Hahn, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, B-Y Han, JY Han, F Happacher, K Hara, D Hare, M Hare, S Harper, RF Harr, RM Harris, M Hartz, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, M Heck, A Heijboer, B Heinemann, J Heinrich, C Henderson, M Herndon, J Heuser, S Hewamanage, D Hidas, CS Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, S Hou, M Houlden, S-C Hsu, BT Huffman, RE Hughes, U Husemann, M Hussein, J Huston, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, MK Jha, S Jindariani, W Johnson, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, JE Jung, TR Junk, T Kamon, D Kar, PE Karchin, Y Kato, R Kephart, W Ketchum, J Keung, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, HW Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, N Kimura, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, B Knuteson, BR Ko, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, A Korytov, AV Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, N Krumnack, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kubo, T Kuhr, NP Kulkarni, M Kurata, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, I Lazzizzera, T LeCompte, E Lee, HS Lee, SW Lee, S Leone, JD Lewis, C-S Lin, J Linacre, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, T Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, L Lovas, D Lucchesi, C Luci, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, L Lyons, J Lys, R Lysak, D MacQueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, K Makhoul, T Maki, P Maksimovic, S Malde, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, F Margaroli, C Marino, CP Marino, A Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, R Martínez-Ballarín, T Maruyama, P Mastrandrea, T Masubuchi, M Mathis, ME Mattson, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, T Miao, N Miladinovic, R Miller, C Mills, M Milnik, A Mitra, G Mitselmakher, H Miyake, N Moggi, MN Mondragon, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, J Morlock, P Movilla Fernandez, J Mülmenstädt, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, R Mumford, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, A Nagano, J Naganoma, K Nakamura, I Nakano, A Napier, V Necula, J Nett, C Neu, MS Neubauer, S Neubauer, J Nielsen, L Nodulman, M Norman, O Norniella, E Nurse, L Oakes, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, K Osterberg, S Pagan Griso, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, A Papaikonomou, AA Paramonov, B Parks, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, T Peiffer, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, L Pinera, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, O Poukhov, N Pounder, F Prakoshyn, A Pronko, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, E Pueschel, G Punzi, J Pursley, J Rademacker, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, N Ranjan, I Redondo, P Renton, M Renz, M Rescigno, S Richter, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodrigo, T Rodriguez, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, M Rossi, R Rossin, P Roy, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, B Rutherford, H Saarikko, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, O Saltó, L Santi, S Sarkar, L Sartori, K Sato, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, A Schmidt, EE Schmidt, MA Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, L Sexton-Kennedy, F Sforza, A Sfyrla, SZ Shalhout, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, S Shiraishi, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, AJ Slaughter, J Slaunwhite, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, A Soha, S Somalwar, V Sorin, T Spreitzer, P Squillacioti, M Stanitzki, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, GL Strycker, JS Suh, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, T Suzuki, A Taffard, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, R Tanaka, M Tecchio, PK Teng, K Terashi, J Thom, AS Thompson, GA Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, P Ttito-Guzmán, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, S Tourneur, M Trovato, S-Y Tsai, Y Tu, N Turini, F Ukegawa, S Vallecorsa, N van Remortel, A Varganov, E Vataga, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, M Vidal, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, T Vine, M Vogel, I Volobouev, G Volpi, P Wagner, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, J Wagner-Kuhr, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, M Weinberger, J Weinelt, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, G Williams, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, C Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, F Würthwein, S Xie, A Yagil, K Yamamoto, J Yamaoka, UK Yang, YC Yang, WM Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, GB Yu, I Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, X Zhang, Y Zheng, S Zucchelli, CDF Collaboration

Abstract:

We present the first observation in hadronic collisions of the electroweak production of vector boson pairs (VV, V = W, Z) where one boson decays to a dijet final state. The data correspond to 3.5 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity of pp[over ] collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV collected by the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. We observe 1516 + or - 239(stat) + or - 144(syst) diboson candidate events and measure a cross section sigma(pp[over ]-->VV + X) of 18.0 + or - 2.8(stat) + or - 2.4(syst) + or -1.1(lumi) pb, in agreement with the expectations of the standard model.

Observation of electroweak single top-quark production.

Phys Rev Lett 103:9 (2009) 092002

Authors:

T Aaltonen, J Adelman, T Akimoto, B Alvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, V Bartsch, G Bauer, P-H Beauchemin, F Bedeschi, D Beecher, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, RE Blair, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, A Bridgeman, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, S Burke, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, C Calancha, 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, SH Chang, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, G Choudalakis, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, T Chwalek, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, C Cuenca Almenar, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, JC Cully, D Dagenhart, M Datta, T Davies, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, A Deisher, G De Lorenzo, M Dell'orso, C Deluca, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, PF Derwent, P Di Canto, GP di Giovanni, C Dionisi, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D'Onofrio, S Donati, P Dong, J Donini, T Dorigo, S Dube, J Efron, A Elagin, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, HC Fang, S Farrington, WT Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, C Ferrazza, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, MJ Frank, M Franklin, JC Freeman, I Furic, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, F Garberson, JE Garcia, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, K Genser, H Gerberich, D Gerdes, A Gessler, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, JL Gimmell, CM Ginsburg, N Giokaris, M Giordani, P Giromini, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, A Gresele, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, U Grundler, J Guimaraes da Costa, Z Gunay-Unalan, C Haber, K Hahn, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, B-Y Han, JY Han, F Happacher, K Hara, D Hare, M Hare, S Harper, RF Harr, RM Harris, M Hartz, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, M Heck, A Heijboer, J Heinrich, C Henderson, M Herndon, J Heuser, S Hewamanage, D Hidas, CS Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, S Hou, M Houlden, S-C Hsu, BT Huffman, RE Hughes, U Husemann, M Hussein, J Huston, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, MK Jha, S Jindariani, W Johnson, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, JE Jung, TR Junk, T Kamon, D Kar, PE Karchin, Y Kato, R Kephart, J Keung, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, HW Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, N Kimura, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, B Knuteson, BR Ko, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, A Korytov, AV Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, N Krumnack, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kubo, T Kuhr, NP Kulkarni, M Kurata, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, I Lazzizzera, T LeCompte, E Lee, HS Lee, SW Lee, S Leone, JD Lewis, C-S Lin, J Linacre, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, TM Liss, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, T Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, L Lovas, D Lucchesi, C Luci, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, L Lyons, J Lys, R Lysak, D MacQueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, K Makhoul, T Maki, P Maksimovic, S Malde, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, F Margaroli, C Marino, CP Marino, A Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, R Martínez-Ballarín, T Maruyama, P Mastrandrea, T Masubuchi, M Mathis, ME Mattson, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, T Miao, N Miladinovic, R Miller, C Mills, M Milnik, A Mitra, G Mitselmakher, H Miyake, N Moggi, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, J Morlock, P Movilla Fernandez, J Mülmenstädt, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, R Mumford, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, A Nagano, J Naganoma, K Nakamura, I Nakano, A Napier, V Necula, J Nett, C Neu, MS Neubauer, S Neubauer, J Nielsen, L Nodulman, M Norman, O Norniella, E Nurse, L Oakes, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, K Osterberg, S Pagan Griso, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, A Papaikonomou, AA Paramonov, B Parks, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, T Peiffer, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, L Pinera, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, K Potamianos, O Poukhov, N Pounder, F Prakoshyn, A Pronko, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, E Pueschel, G Punzi, J Pursley, J Rademacker, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, N Ranjan, I Redondo, P Renton, M Renz, M Rescigno, S Richter, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodrigo, T Rodriguez, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, M Rossi, R Rossin, P Roy, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, B Rutherford, H Saarikko, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, O Saltó, L Santi, S Sarkar, L Sartori, K Sato, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, A Schmidt, EE Schmidt, MA Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, L Sexton-Kennedy, F Sforza, A Sfyrla, SZ Shalhout, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, S Shiraishi, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, AJ Slaughter, J Slaunwhite, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, A Soha, S Somalwar, V Sorin, J Spalding, T Spreitzer, P Squillacioti, M Stanitzki, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, GL Strycker, D Stuart, JS Suh, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, T Suzuki, A Taffard, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, R Tanaka, M Tecchio, PK Teng, K Terashi, J Thom, AS Thompson, GA Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, P Ttito-Guzmán, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, S Tourneur, M Trovato, S-Y Tsai, Y Tu, N Turini, F Ukegawa, S Vallecorsa, N van Remortel, A Varganov, E Vataga, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, M Vidal, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, T Vine, M Vogel, I Volobouev, G Volpi, P Wagner, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, J Wagner-Kuhr, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, M Weinberger, J Weinelt, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, G Williams, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, C Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, F Würthwein, S Xie, A Yagil, K Yamamoto, J Yamaoka, UK Yang, YC Yang, WM Yao, GP Yeh, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, GB Yu, I Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, X Zhang, Y Zheng, S Zucchelli, CDF Collaboration

Abstract:

We report the observation of single top-quark production using 3.2 fb(-1) of pp[over ] collision data with sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. The significance of the observed data is 5.0 standard deviations, and the expected sensitivity for standard model production and decay is in excess of 5.9 standard deviations. Assuming m(t) = 175 GeV/c(2), we measure a cross section of 2.3(-0.5);(+0.6)(stat + syst) pb, extract the CKM matrix-element value |V(tb)| = 0.91 + or - 0.11(stat + syst) + or - 0.07(theory), and set the limit |V(tb)| > 0.71 at the 95% C.L.

Search for a fermiophobic Higgs boson decaying into diphotons in pp[over] collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV.

Phys Rev Lett 103:6 (2009) 061803

Authors:

T Aaltonen, J Adelman, T Akimoto, B Alvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, A Aurisano, F Azfar, P Azzurri, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, V Bartsch, G Bauer, P-H Beauchemin, F Bedeschi, D Beecher, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, RE Blair, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, A Bridgeman, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, S Burke, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, C Calancha, 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, SH Chang, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, G Choudalakis, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, T Chwalek, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, C Cuenca Almenar, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, JC Cully, D Dagenhart, M Datta, T Davies, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, A Deisher, G De Lorenzo, M Dell'orso, C Deluca, C Demay, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, PF Derwent, GP di Giovanni, C Dionisi, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D'Onofrio, S Donati, P Dong, J Donini, T Dorigo, S Dube, J Efron, A Elagin, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, HC Fang, S Farrington, WT Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, C Ferrazza, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, MJ Frank, M Franklin, JC Freeman, I Furic, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, F Garberson, JE Garcia, AF Garfinkel, K Genser, H Gerberich, D Gerdes, A Gessler, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, JL Gimmell, CM Ginsburg, N Giokaris, M Giordani, P Giromini, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, A Gresele, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, U Grundler, J Guimaraes da Costa, Z Gunay-Unalan, C Haber, K Hahn, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, B-Y Han, JY Han, F Happacher, K Hara, D Hare, M Hare, S Harper, RF Harr, RM Harris, M Hartz, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, M Heck, A Heijboer, J Heinrich, C Henderson, M Herndon, J Heuser, S Hewamanage, D Hidas, CS Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, S Hou, M Houlden, S-C Hsu, BT Huffman, RE Hughes, U Husemann, M Hussein, U Husemann, J Huston, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, E James, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, MK Jha, S Jindariani, W Johnson, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, JE Jung, TR Junk, T Kamon, D Kar, PE Karchin, Y Kato, R Kephart, J Keung, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, HW Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, N Kimura, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, B Knuteson, BR Ko, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, A Korytov, AV Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, N Krumnack, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kubo, T Kuhr, NP Kulkarni, M Kurata, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, I Lazzizzera, T Lecompte, E Lee, HS Lee, SW Lee, S Leone, JD Lewis, C-S Lin, J Linacre, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, T Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, L Lovas, D Lucchesi, C Luci, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, L Lyons, J Lys, R Lysak, D Macqueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, K Makhoul, T Maki, P Maksimovic, S Malde, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, F Margaroli, C Marino, CP Marino, A Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, R Martínez-Ballarín, T Maruyama, P Mastrandrea, T Masubuchi, M Mathis, ME Mattson, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, T Miao, N Miladinovic, R Miller, C Mills, M Milnik, A Mitra, G Mitselmakher, H Miyake, N Moggi, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, J Morlock, P 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Abstract:

A search for a narrow diphoton mass resonance is presented based on data from 3.0 fb;{-1} of integrated luminosity from pp[over ] collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV collected by the CDF experiment. No evidence of a resonance in the diphoton mass spectrum is observed, and upper limits are set on the cross section times branching fraction of the resonant state as a function of Higgs boson mass. The resulting limits exclude Higgs bosons with masses below 106 GeV/c;{2} at a 95% Bayesian credibility level for one fermiophobic benchmark model.

Production of ψ(2S) mesons in pp̄ collisions at 1.96 TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 80:3 (2009)

Authors:

T Aaltonen, J Adelman, T Akimoto, B Álvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, V Bartsch, G Bauer, PH Beauchemin, F Bedeschi, D Beecher, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, RE Blair, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, A Bridgeman, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, S Burke, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, C Calancha, 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, SH Chang, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, G Choudalakis, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, T Chwalek, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark

Abstract:

We have measured the differential cross section for the inclusive production of ψ(2S) mesons decaying to μ+μ- that were produced in prompt or B-decay processes from pp̄ collisions at 1.96 TeV. These measurements have been made using a data set from an integrated luminosity of 1.1fb-1 collected by the CDF II detector at Fermilab. For events with transverse momentum pT(ψ(2S))>2GeV/c and rapidity | y(ψ(2S))| <0.6 we measure the integrated inclusive cross section σ(pp̄→ψ(2S)X) •Br(ψ(2S)→μ+μ-) to be 3.29±0.04(stat)±0. 32(syst)nb. © 2009 The American Physical Society.