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Search for Wbb̄ and W H production in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV

Physical Review Letters 94:9 (2005)

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, JL 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 Besancon, 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

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We present a search for Wbb̄ production in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV in events containing one electron, an imbalance in transverse momentum, and two b-tagged jets. Using 174 pb-1 of integrated luminosity accumulated by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, and the standard-model description of such events, we set a 95% C.L. upper limit on Wbb̄ production of 6.6 pb for b quarks with transverse momenta pTb > 20 GeV and bb̄ separation in pseudorapidity-azimuth space δRbb > 0.75. Restricting the search to optimized bb̄ mass intervals provides upper limits on WH production of 9.0-12.2 pb for Higgs-boson masses of 105-135 GeV. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
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Erratum: Measurement of the W boson polarization in top decay at CDF at √s p = 1:8 TeV (Physical Review D (2005) 71 (031101))

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 71:5 (2005) 1-2

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D Acosta, T Affolder, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, 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, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campbell, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, L Cerrito, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, ML Chu, JY Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, M Coca, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, S D'Auria, P De Barbaro, S De Cecco, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, S Demers, L Demortier, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, C Dionisi, JR Dittmann, A Dominguez, S Donati, M D'Onofrio, T Dorigo, N Eddy, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede
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Measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry from W→ev production in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 71:5 (2005) 1-9

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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 Connolly

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We report a measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry of electrons from W boson decays in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV using a data sample of 170 pb-1 collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. The asymmetry is measured as a function of electron rapidity and transverse energy and provides new input on the momentum fraction dependence of the u and d quark parton distribution functions within the proton. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
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Measurement of the moments of the hadronic invariant mass distribution in semileptonic B decays

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 71:5 (2005) 1-9

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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 Connolly

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Using 180 pb -1 of data collected with the CDF II detector at the Tevatron, we measure the first two moments of the hadronic invariant mass-squared distribution in charmed semileptonic B decays. From these we determine the nonperturbative Heavy Quark Effective Theory parameters Λ and λ 1 used to relate the B meson semileptonic branching ratio to the CKM matrix element |V cb|. For a minimum lepton momentum of 0.7 GeV/c in the B rest frame we measure the first two moments of the D** → D (*)π component to be 〈m D** 2〉 = (5.83 ± 0.16 stat ± 0.08 syst) GeV 2/c 4 and 〈(m D** 2 - 〈m D** 2〉) 2〉 = (1.30 ± 0.69 stat ± 0.22 syst) GeV 4/c 8. Combining these with the discrete mass terms from the D and D* mesons, we find the total moments to be 〈M Ξc 2〉 - m̄ D 2 = (0.467 ± 0.038 stat ± 0.068 syst GeV 2/c 4 and 〈(M Ξc 2 - 〈M Ξc 2〉) 2〉 = (1.05 ± 0.26 stat ± 0.13 syst) GeV 4/c 8, where m̄ D is the spin-averaged D mass. The systematic error is dominated by the uncertainties in the world-average branching ratios used to combine the D, D*, and D** contributions. The analysis makes no assumptions about the shape or resonant structure of the D** → D (*)π invariant mass distribution. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
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Measurement of the tt̄ production cross section in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV using lepton + jets events with secondary vertex b -tagging

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 71:5 (2005) 1-28

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, 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 Connolly, M Convery

Abstract:

We present a measurement of the tt̄ production cross section using events with one charged lepton and jets from pp̄ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. In these events, heavy flavor quarks from top quark decay are identified with a secondary vertex tagging algorithm. From 162 pb-1 of data collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab, a total of 48 candidate events are selected, where 13.5 ± 1.8 events are expected from background contributions. We measure a tt̄ production cross section of 5.6-1.1+1.2(stat.)-0.6+0.9(syst.) pb. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
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