Measurement of the production cross-section of positive pions in the collision of 8.9 GeV/c protons on beryllium

European Physical Journal C 52:1 (2007) 29-53

Authors:

MG Catanesi, E Radicioni, R Edgecock, M Ellis, S Robbins, FJP Soler, C Gößling, S Bunyatov, G Chelkov, D Dedovitch, M Gostkin, A Guskov, D Khartchenko, A Krasnoperov, Z Kroumchtein, Y Nefedov, B Popov, V Serdiouk, V Tereshchenko, A Zhemchugov, E Di Capua, G Vidal-Sitjes, A Artamonov, P Arce, S Giani, S Gilardoni, P Gorbunov, A Grant, A Grossheim, P Gruber, V Ivanchenko, A Kayis-Topaksu, J Panman, I Papadopoulos, J Pasternak, E Tcherniaev, I Tsukerman, R Veenhof, C Wiebusch, P Zucchelli, A Blondel, S Borghi, M Campanelli, MC Morone, G Prior, R Schroeter, R Engel, C Meurer, I Kato, U Gastaldi, GB Mills, JS Graulich, G Grégoire, M Bonesini, A De Min, F Ferri, M Paganoni, F Paleari, M Kirsanov, A Bagulya, V Grichine, N Polukhina, V Palladino, L Coney, D Schmitz, G Barr, A De Santo, C Pattison, K Zuber, F Bobisut, D Gibin, A Guglielmi, M Mezzetto, J Dumarchez, F Vannucci, V Ammosov, V Koreshev, A Semak, V Zaets, U Dore, D Orestano, F Pastore, A Tonazzo, L Tortora, C Booth, C Buttar, P Hodgson, L Howlett, M Bogomilov, M Chizhov, D Kolev, R Tsenov, S Piperov, P Temnikov, M Apollonio, P Chimenti, G Giannini, G Santin, J Burguet-Castell, A Cervera-Villanueva

Abstract:

The double-differential production cross-section of positive pions, d 2σπ+/d pdΩ, measured in the HARP experiment is presented. The incident particles are 8.9 GeV/c protons directed onto a beryllium target with a thickness of 5% of a nuclear interaction length. The measured cross-section has a direct impact on the prediction of neutrino fluxes for the MiniBooNE and SciBooNE experiments at Fermilab. After cuts, 13 million protons on target produced about 96000 reconstructed secondary tracks which were used in this analysis. Cross-section results are presented in the kinematic range 0.75∈GeV/c≤pπ≤ 6.5∈GeV/c and 30∈mrad≤θπ≤ 210∈mrad in the laboratory frame. © 2007 Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica.

Uncertainty estimates for atmospheric neutrino fluxes

Proceedings of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2007 5:HE PART 2 (2007) 1495-1498

Authors:

G Barr, TK Gaisser, T Stanev

Abstract:

Starting from a survey of experimental measurements, we assign uncertainties to the two most critical inputs to the calculation of fluxes of unoscillated atmospheric neutrinos, the hadron production and the primary cosmic ray fluxes. We then propagate these uncertainties through the entire flux calculation to arrive at estimates of the uncertainties in the fluxes of neutrinos and of various ratios of neutrino fluxes. We find that there is indeed a significant cancellation of flux uncertainties when these ratios are made. The uncertainties as a function of neutrino energy will be presented.

Evidence for production of single top quarks and first direct measurement of |Vtb|

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 98:18 (2007) ARTN 181802

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, E Aguilo, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, LS Ancu, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, MS Anzelc, Y Arnoud, M Arov, A Askew, B Asman, ACS Assis Jesus, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, C Ay, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, DV Bandurin, P Banerjee, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Bargassa, P Baringer, C Barnes, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, S Beale, A Bean, M Begalli, M Begel, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, A Bellavance, JA Benitez, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, L Berntzon, I Bertram, M Besancon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Binder, C Biscarat, I Blackler, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, K Bloom, A Boehnlein, D Boline, TA Bolton, EE Boos, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, V Bunichev, S Burdin, S Burke, TH Burnett, E Busato, CP Buszello, JM Butler, P Calfayan, S Calvet, J Cammin, S Caron, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, NM Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, F Charles, E Cheu, F Chevallier, DK Cho, S Choi, B Choudhary, L Christofek, D Claes, B Clement, C Clement, Y Coadou, M Cooke, WE Cooper, M Corcoran, F Couderc, M-C Cousinou, B Cox, S Crepe-Renaudin, D Cutts, M Cwiok, H da Motta, A Das, M Das, B Davies, G Davies, K De, P de Jong, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, C De Oliveira Martins, JD Degenhardt, F Deliot, M Demarteau, R Demina, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, M Doidge, A Dominguez, H Dong, LV Dudko, L Duflot, SR Dugad, D Duggan, A Duperrin, J Dyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, Y Enari, S Eno, P Ermolov, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, L Feligioni, AV Ferapontov, T Ferbel, F Fiedler, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, M Ford, M Fortner, H Fox, S Fu, S Fuess, T Gadfort, CF Galea, E Gallas, E Galyaev, C Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, V Gavrilov, A Gay, P Gay, W Geist, D Gele, R Gelhaus, CE Gerber, Y Gershtein, D Gillberg, G Ginther, N Gollub, B Gomez, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, H Greenlee, ZD Greenwood, EM Gregores, G Grenier, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, A Grohsjean, S Gruenenendahl, MW Gruenewald, F Guo, J Guo, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, NJ Hadley, P Haefner, S Hagopian, J Haley, I Hall, RE Hall, L Han, K Hanagaki, P Hansson, K Harder, A Harel, R Harrington, JM Hauptman, R Hauser, J Hays, T Hebbeker, D Hedin, JG Hegeman, JM Heinmiller, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, K Herner, G Hesketh, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, H Hoeth, M Hohlfeld, SJ Hong, R Hooper, P Houben, Y Hu, Z Hubacek, V Hynek, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, AS Ito, S Jabeen, M Jaffre, S Jain, K Jakobs, C Jarvis, A Jenkins, R Jesik, K Johns, C Johnson, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, P Jonsson, A Juste, D Kaefer, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, AM Kalinin, JM Kalk, JR Kalk, S Kappler, D Karmanov, J Kasper, P Kasper, I Katsanos, D Kau, R Kaur, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, N Khalatyan, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YM Kharzheev, D Khatidze, H Kim, TJ Kim, MH Kirby, B Klima, JM Kohli, J-P Konrath, M Kopal, VM Korablev, J Kotcher, B Kothari, A Koubarovsky, AV Kozelov, D Krop, A Kryemadhi, T Kuhl, A Kumar, S Kunori, A Kupco, T Kurca, J Kvita, D Lam, S Lammers, G Landsberg, J Lazoflores, A-C Le Bihan, P Lebrun, WM Lee, A Leflat, F Lehner, V Lesne, J Leveque, P Lewis, J Li, L Li, QZ Li, SM Lietti, JGR Lima, D Lincoln, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, R Lipton, Z Liu, L Lobo, A Lobodenko, M Lokajicek, A Lounis, P Love, HJ Lubatti, M Lynker, AL Lyon, AKA Maciel, RJ Madaras, P Maettig, C Magass, A Magerkurth, N Makovec, PK Mal, HB Malbouisson, S Malik, VL Malyshev, HS Mao, Y Maravin, R McCarthy, A Melnitchouk, A Mendes, L Mendoza, PG Mercadante, M Merkin, KW Merritt, A Meyer, J Meyer, M Michaut, H Miettinen, T Millet, J Mitrevski, J Molina, RK Mommsen, NK Mondal, J Monk, RW Moore, T Moulik, GS Muanza, M Mulders, M Mulhearn, O Mundal, L Mundim, E Nagy, M Naimuddin, M Narain, NA Naumann, HA Neal, JP Negret, P Neustroev, C Noeding, A Nomerotski, SF Novaes, T Nunnemann, V O'Dell, DC O'Neil, G Obrant, C Ochando, V Oguri, N Oliveira, D Onoprienko, N Oshima, J Osta, R Otec, GJ Otero y Garzon, M Owen, P Padley, M Pangilinan, N Parashar, S-J Park, SK Park, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, A Patwa, G Pawloski, PM Perea, M Perfilov, K Peters, Y Peters, P Petroff, M Petteni, R Piegaia, J Piper, M-A Pleier, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, Y Pogorelov, M-E Pol, A Pompos, BG Pope, AV Popov, C Potter, WL Prado da Silva, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, MS Rangel, KJ Rani, K Ranjan, PN Ratoff, P Renkel, S Reucroft, M Rijssenbeek, I Ripp-Baudot, F Rizatdinova, S Robinson, RF Rodrigues, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, G Sajot, A Sanchez-Hernandez, MP Sanders, A Santoro, G Savage, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, D Schaile, RD Schamberger, Y Scheglov, H Schellman, P Schieferdecker, C Schmitt, C Schwanenberger, A Schwartzman, R Schwienhorst, J Sekaric, S Sengupta, H Severini, E Shabalina, M Shamim, V Shary, AA Shchukin, RK Shivpuri, D Shpakov, V Siccardi, RA Sidwell, V Simak, V Sirotenko, P Skubic, P Slattery, RP Smith, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, S Soeldner-Rembold, X Song, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, M Souza, B Spurlock, J Stark, J Steele, V Stolin, A Stone, DA Stoyanova, J Strandberg, S Strandberg, MA Strang, M Strauss, R Stroehmer, D Strom, M Strovink, L Stutte, S Sumowidagdo, P Svoisky, A Sznajder, M Talby, P Tamburello, W Taylor, P Telford, J Temple, B Tiller, M Titov, VV Tokmenin, M Tomoto, T Toole, I Torchiani, T Trefzger, S Trincaz-Duvoid, D Tsybychev, B Tuchming, C Tully, PM Tuts, R Unalan, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, B Vachon, PJ van den Berg, B van Eijk, R Van Kooten, WM van Leeuwen, N Varelas, EW Varnes, A Vartapetian, IA Vasilyev, M Vaupel, P Verdier, LS Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, M Vetterli, F Villeneuve-Seguier, P Vint, J-R Vlimant, E Von Toerne, M Voutilainen, M Vreeswijk, HD Wahl, L Wang, MHLS Wang, J Warchol, G Watts, M Wayne, G Weber, M Weber, H Weerts, N Wermes, M Wetstein, A White, D Wicke, GW Wilson, SJ Wimpenny, M Wobisch, J Womersley, DR Wood, TR Wyatt, Y Xie, S Yacoob, R Yamada, M Yan, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, K Yip, HD Yoo, SW Youn, C Yu, J Yu, A Yurkewicz, A Zatserklyaniy, C Zeitnitz, D Zhang, T Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, V Zutshi, EG Zverev

Hadron interaction simulation in atmospheric neutrino flux calculations

AIP CONF PROC 896 (2007) 150-157

Abstract:

The aspects of hadron simulation affecting the calculation of unoscillated atmospheric neutrino fluxes is discussed. The method of simulating the atmospheric cascades is described. An evaluation of the errors on the atmospheric neutrino fluxes and various experimentally convenient ratios is presented. A new measurement of hadron production with the NA49 experiment at CERN is briefly reported.

Inclusive search for new physics with like-sign dilepton events in p(p)over-bar collisions at √s=1.96 TeV

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 98:22 (2007) ARTN 221803

Authors:

A Abulencia, 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, 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, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, T Berry, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, A Bolshov, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, S Budroni, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, S Carillo, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carron, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, SH Chang, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, I Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, G Choudalakis, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, M Ciljak, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, M Coca, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, B Cooper, K Copic, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, F Crescioli, C Cuenca Almenar, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, JC Cully, D Cyr, S DaRonco, M Datta, S D'Auria, T Davies, M D'Onofrio, D Dagenhart, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, A Deisher, G De Lentdecker, M Dell'Orso, F Delli Paoli, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, GP Di Giovanni, C Dionisi, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, P DiTuro, C Doerr, S Donati, M Donega, P Dong J Donini, T Dorigo, S Dube, J Efron, 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, A Foland, S Forrester, GW Foster, M Franklin, JC Freeman, I Furic, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, JE Garcia, F Garberson, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, H Gerberich, D Gerdes, S Giagu, P Giannetti, A Gibson, K Gibson, JL Gimmell, C Ginsburg, N Giokaris, M Giordani, P Giromini, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, J Goldstein, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O Gonzalez, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, A Gresele, M Griffiths, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, U Grundler, J Guimaraes da Costa, Z Gunay-Unalan, C Haber, K Hahn, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamilton, B-Y Han, JY Han, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, M Hare, S Harper, RF Harr, RM Harris, M Hartz, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, A Heijboer, B Heinemann, J Heinrich, C Henderson, 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, U Husemann, J Huston, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, Y Ishizawa, A Ivanov, B Iyutin, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, D Jeans, H Jensen, EJ Jeon, S Jindariani, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, JE Jung, TR Junk, T Kamon, PE Karchin, Y Kato, Y Kemp, R Kephart, U Kerzel, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, N Kimura, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, M Klute, B Knuteson, BR Ko, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, A Korytov, AV Kotwal, A Kovalev, AC Kraan, J Kraus, I Kravchenko, M Kreps, J Kroll, N Krumnack, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kubo, SE Kuhlmann, T Kuhr, Y Kusakabe, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, I Lazzizzera, T LeCompte, J Lee, J Lee, YJ Lee, SW Lee, R Lefevre, N Leonardo, S Leone, S Levy, JD Lewis, C Lin, CS Lin, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, T 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, K Makhoul, T Maki, P Maksimovic, S Malde, G Manca, G Manca, F Margaroli, R Marginean, C Marino, CP Marino, A Martin, M Martin, V Martin, M Martinez, T Maruyama, P Mastrandrea, T Masubuchi, H Matsunaga, ME Mattson, R Mazini, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, S Menzemer, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Messina, T Miao, N Miladinovic, J Miles, R Miller, C Mills, M Milnik, A Mitra, G Mitselmakher, A Miyamoto, S Moed, N Moggi, B Mohr, R Moore, M Morello, P Movilla Fernandez, J Muelmenstaedt, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, R Mumford, P Murat, J Nachtman, A Nagano, J Naganoma, I Nakano, A Napier, V Necula, C Neu, MS Neubauer, J Nielsen, T Nigmanov, L Nodulman, O Norniella, E Nurse, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Oldeman, R Orava, K Osterberg, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, AA Paramonov, B Parks, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, L Pinera, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, X Portell, O Poukhov, N Pounder, F Prakoshyn, A Pronko, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Pursley, J Rademacker, A Rahaman, N Ranjan, S Rappoccio, B Reisert, V Rekovic, P Renton, M Rescigno, S Richter, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodrigo, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, M Rossi, R Rossin, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, H Saarikko, S Sabik, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, G Salamanna, O Saltó, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, L Santi, S Sarkar, L Sartori, 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, L Sexton-Kennedy, A Sfyrla, MD Shapiro, T Shears, PF Shepard, D Sherman, M Shimojima, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, A Sidoti, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, J Sjolin, AJ Slaughter, J Slaunwhite, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, M Soderberg, A Soha, S Somalwar, V Sorin, J Spalding, F Spinella, T Spreitzer, 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, H Sun, T Suzuki, A Taffard, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, K Takikawa, M Tanaka, R Tanaka, M Tecchio, PK Teng, K Terashi, J Thom, AS Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, V Tiwari, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, S Tourneur, W Trischuk, R Tsuchiya, S Tsuno, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, S Uozumi, D Usynin, S Vallecorsa, N van Remortel, A Varganov, E Vataga, F Vazquez, G Velev, G Veramendi, V Veszpremi, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, T Vine, I Vollrath, I Volobouev, G Volpi, F Wuerthwein, P Wagner, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, J Wagner, W Wagner, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, S Waschke, D Waters, M Weinberger, WCIII Wester, B Whitehouse, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, G Williams, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, C Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, SM Wynne, A Yagil, K Yamamoto, J Yamaoka, T Yamashita, C Yang, 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, I Zaw, X Zhang, J Zhou, S Zucchelli