Comparison of Three-jet Events in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at Center-of-mass Energy 1.8 TeV to Predictions from a Next-to-leading Order QCD Calculation

ArXiv hep-ex/0410018 (2004)

Authors:

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, W-H 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, R Eusebi, S Farrington, RG Feild, JP Fernandez, C Ferretti, RD Field, I Fiori, B Flaugher, LR Flores-Castillo, GW Foster, M Franklin, J Friedman, I Furic, M Gallinaro, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, DW Gerdes, E Gerstein, S Giagu, P Giannetti, K Giolo, M Giordani, P Giromini, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, J Goldstein, G Gomez, M Goncharov, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, A Gresele, C Grosso-Pilcher, M Guenther, J Guimaraes da Costa, C Haber, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, RM Harris, F Hartmann, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, J Heinrich, M Hennecke, M Herndon, C Hill, A Hocker, KD Hoffman, S Hou, BT Huffman, R Hughes, J Huston, C Issever, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, Y Iwata, B Iyutin, E James, M Jones, T Kamon, J Kang, M Karagoz Unel, S Kartal, H Kasha, Y Kato, RD Kennedy, R Kephart, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, TH Kim, YK Kim, M Kirby, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, P Koehn, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, A Korn, A Korytov, J Kroll, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, SE Kuhlmann, N Kuznetsova, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, J Lancaster, K Lannon, M Lancaster, R Lander, A Lath, G Latino, T LeCompte, Y Le, J Lee, SW Lee, N Leonardo, S Leone, JD Lewis, K Li, CS Lin, M Lindgren, TM Liss, T Liu, DO Litvintsev, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, L Lyons, J Lys, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, L Malferrari, M Mangano, G Manca, M Mariotti, M Martin, A Martin, V Martin, M Martinez, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, M Menguzzato, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Meyer, T Miao, R Miller, JS Miller, S Miscetti, G Mitselmakher, N Moggi, R Moore, T Moulik, M Mulhearn, A Mukherjee, T Muller, A Munar, P Murat, J Nachtman, S Nahn, I Nakano, R Napora, F Niell, C Nelson, T Nelson, C Neu, MS Neubauer, C Newman-Holmes, T Nigmanov, L Nodulman, SH Oh, YD Oh, T Ohsugi, T Okusawa, W Orejudos, C Pagliarone, F Palmonari, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, T Pauly, C Paus, D Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, KT Pitts, A Pompos, L Pondrom, G Pope, T Pratt, F Prokoshin, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, O Poukhov, G Punzi, J Rademacker, A Rakitine, F Ratnikov, H Ray, A Reichold, P Renton, M Rescigno, F Rimondi, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, L Rosenson, R Roser, R Rossin, C Rott, A Roy, A Ruiz, D Ryan, A Safonov, R St Denis, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, A Sansoni, L Santi, S Sarkar, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Semeria, MD Shapiro, PF Shepard, T Shibayama, M Shimojima, M Shochet, A Sidoti, A Sill, P Sinervo, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, FD Snider, R Snihur, M Spezziga, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, L Spiegel, A Stefanini, J Strologas, D Stuart, A Sukhanov, K Sumorok, T Suzuki, R Takashima, K Takikawa, M Tanaka, M Tecchio, RJ Tesarek, PK Teng, K Terashi, S Tether, J Thom, TL Thomas, AS Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, D Tonelli, M Toennesmann, H Toyoda, W Trischuk, J Tseng, D Tsybychev, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, T Vaiciulis, A Varganov, E Vataga, S Vejcik III, G Velev, G Veramendi, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Volobouev, M von der Mey, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, Z Wan, C Wang, MJ Wang, SM Wang, B Ward, S Waschke, D Waters, T Watts, M Weber, WC Wester III, B Whitehouse, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, HH Williams

Abstract:

The properties of three-jet events with total transverse energy greater than 320 GeV and individual jet energy greater than 20 GeV have been analyzed and compared to absolute predictions from a next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD calculation. These data, of integrated luminosity 86 pb^-1, were recorded by the CDF Experiment for proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt{s}=1.8 TeV. This study tests a model of higher order QCD processes that result in gluon emission and can be used to estimate the magnitude of the contribution of processes higher than NLO. The total cross section is measured to be 466 +/- 3(stat.)^{+207}_{-70}(syst.) pb. The differential cross section is furthermore measured for all kinematically accessible regions of the Dalitz plane, including those for which the theoretical prediction is unreliable. While the measured cross section is consistent with the theoretical prediction in magnitude, the two differ somewhat in shape in the Dalitz plane.

Inclusive double-pomeron exchange at the fermilab tevatron p p collider.

Phys Rev Lett 93:14 (2004) 141601

Authors:

D Acosta, T Affolder, H Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, A Artikov, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, S Bailey, P de Barbaro, 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, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, J Berryhill, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, A Bolshov, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, N Bruner, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, L Cerrito, AW Chan, PS Chang, PT Chang, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M-T Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, JY Chung, W-H 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, S De Cecco, F DeJongh, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, S Demers, L Demortier, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, T Devlin, C Dionisi, JR Dittmann, A Dominguez, S Donati, M D'Onofrio, T Dorigo, N Eddy, K Einsweiler, E Engels, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, Q Fan, S Farrington, RG Feild, JP Fernandez, C Ferretti, RD Field, I Fiori, B Flaugher, LR Flores-Castillo, GW Foster, M Franklin, J Freeman, J Friedman, Y Fukui, I Furic, S Galeotti, A Gallas, M Gallinaro, T Gao, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, P Gatti, C Gay, DW Gerdes, E Gerstein, S Giagu, P Giannetti, K Giolo, M Giordani, P Giromini, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, J Goldstein, G Gomez, M Goncharov, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, C Green, A Gresele, G Grim, C Grosso-Pilcher, M Guenther, G Guillian, J Guimaraes da Costa, RM Haas, C Haber, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, C Hall, T Handa, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, AD Hardman, RM Harris, F Hartmann, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, J Heinrich, A Heiss, M Hennecke, M Herndon, C Hill, A Hocker, KD Hoffman, R Hollebeek, L Holloway, S Hou, BT Huffman, R Hughes, J Huston, J Huth, H Ikeda, C Issever, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, J Iwai, Y Iwata, B Iyutin, E James, M Jones, U Joshi, H Kambara, T Kamon, T Kaneko, J Kang, M Karagoz Unel, K Karr, S Kartal, H Kasha, Y Kato, TA Keaffaber, K Kelley, M Kelly, RD Kennedy, R Kephart, D Khazins, T Kikuchi, B Kilminster, BJ Kim, DH Kim, HS Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, TH Kim, YK Kim, M Kirby, M Kirk, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, P Koehn, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, A Korn, A Korytov, K Kotelnikov, E Kovacs, J Kroll, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, SE Kuhlmann, K Kurino, T Kuwabara, N Kuznetsova, AT Laasanen, N Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, J Lancaster, K Lannon, M Lancaster, R Lander, A Lath, G Latino, T LeCompte, Y Le, J Lee, SW Lee, N Leonardo, S Leone, JD Lewis, K Li, CS Lin, M Lindgren, TM Liss, JB Liu, T Liu, YC Liu, DO Litvintsev, O Lobban, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, J Loken, M Loreti, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, S Lusin, L Lyons, J Lys, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, L Malferrari, M Mangano, G Manca, M Mariotti, G Martignon, M Martin, A Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, JAJ Matthews, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, M Menguzzato, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Meyer, T Miao, R Miller, JS Miller, H Minato, S Miscetti, M Mishina, G Mitselmakher, Y Miyazaki, N Moggi, E Moore, R Moore, Y Morita, T Moulik, M Mulhearn, A Mukherjee, T Muller, A Munar, P Murat, S Murgia, J Nachtman, V Nagaslaev, S Nahn, H Nakada, I Nakano, R Napora, F Niell, C Nelson, T Nelson, C Neu, MS Neubauer, D Neuberger, C Newman-Holmes, C-YP Ngan, T Nigmanov, H Niu, L Nodulman, A Nomerotski, SH Oh, YD Oh, T Ohmoto, T Ohsugi, R Oishi, T Okusawa, J Olsen, W Orejudos, C Pagliarone, F Palmonari, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, D Partos, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, T Pauly, C Paus, D Pellett, A Penzo, L Pescara, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, KT Pitts, A Pompos, L Pondrom, G Pope, T Pratt, F Prokoshin, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, O Pukhov, G Punzi, J Rademacker, A Rakitine, F Ratnikov, H Ray, D Reher, A Reichold, P Renton, M Rescigno, A Ribon, W Riegler, F Rimondi, L Ristori, M Riveline, WJ Robertson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, L Rosenson, R Roser, R Rossin, C Rott, A Roy, A Ruiz, D Ryan, A Safonov, R St Denis, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, A Sansoni, L Santi, S Sarkar, H Sato, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, L Scodellaro, A Scott, A Scribano, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Semeria, T Shah, MD Shapiro, PF Shepard, T Shibayama, M Shimojima, M Shochet, A Sidoti, J Siegrist, A Sill, P Sinervo, P Singh, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, FD Snider, R Snihur, A Solodsky, T Speer, M Spezziga, P Sphicas, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, L Spiegel, J Steele, A Stefanini, J Strologas, F Strumia, D Stuart, A Sukhanov, K Sumorok, T Suzuki, T Takano, R Takashima, K Takikawa, P Tamburello, M Tanaka, B Tannenbaum, M Tecchio, RJ Tesarek, PK Teng, K Terashi, S Tether, J Thom, AS Thompson, E Thomson, R Thurman-Keup, P Tipton, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, D Tonelli, M Tonnesmann, H Toyoda, W Trischuk, JF de Troconiz, J Tseng, D Tsybychev, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, T Vaiciulis, A Varganov, E Vataga, S Vejcik, G Velev, G Veramendi, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Volobouev, M von der Mey, D Vucinic, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, Z Wan, C Wang, MJ Wang, SM Wang, B Ward, S Waschke, T Watanabe, D Waters, T Watts, M Weber, H Wenzel, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, T Wilkes, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, D Winn, S Wolbers, D Wolinski, J Wolinski, S Wolinski, M Wolter, S Worm, X Wu, F Würthwein, J Wyss, UK Yang, W Yao, GP Yeh, P Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, C Yosef, T Yoshida, I Yu, S Yu, Z Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, F Zetti, S Zucchelli, CDF Collaboration

Abstract:

We report results from a study of events with a double-Pomeron exchange topology produced in p p collisions at sqrt[s]=1800 GeV. The events are characterized by a leading antiproton and a large rapidity gap on the outgoing proton side. We find that the differential production cross section agrees in shape with predictions based on Regge theory and factorization, and that the ratio of double-Pomeron exchange to single diffractive production rates is relatively unsuppressed as compared to the O(10) suppression factor previously measured in single diffractive production.

Measurement of the tt¯ Production Cross Section in pp¯ Collisions at s=1.96 TeV Using Dilepton Events

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 93:14 (2004) 142001

Authors:

D Acosta, 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, J-F 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, 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, P Calafiura, M Campanelli, M Campbell, A Canepa, M Casarsa, D Carlsmith, S Carron, R Carosi, 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, W-H Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobano, MA Ciocci, AG Clark, D Clark, M Coca, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, J Cranshaw, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, C Currat, D Cyr, D Dagenhart, S Da Ronco, S D'Auria, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, G De Lentdecker, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, S Demers, L Demortier, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, C Dionisi, JR Dittmann, P Doksus, A Dominguez, S Donati, M Donega, M D'Onofrio, T Dorigo, V Drollinger, K Ebina, N Eddy, R Ely, R Erbacher, M Erdmann, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, H-C Fang, S Farrington, I Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, C Ferretti, RD Field, I Fiori, G Flanagan, B Flaugher, LR Flores-Castillo, A Foland, S Forrester, GW Foster, M Franklin, H Frisch, Y Fujii, I Furic, A Gajjar, A Gallas, J Galyardt, M Gallinaro, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, H Gerberich, DW Gerdes, E Gerchtein, S Giagu, P Giannetti, A Gibson, K Gibson, C Ginsburg, K Giolo, M Giordani, G Giurgui, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, D Goldstein, J Goldstein, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, A Gresele, C Grosso-Pilcher, M Guenther, J Guimaraes de Costa, C Haber, K Hahn, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, M Hare, RF Harr, RM Harris, F Hartmann, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, C Hays, H Hayward, E Heider, B Heinemann, J Heinrich, M Hennecke, M Herndon, C Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, KD Hoffman, A Holloway, S Hou, MA Houlden, BT Huffman, Y Huang, RE Hughes, J Huston, K Ikado, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, Y Ishizawa, C Issever, A Ivanov, Y Iwata, B Iyutin, E James, D Jang, J Jarrell, D Jeans, H Jensen, EJ Jeon, M Jones, KK Joo, S Jun, T Junk, T Kamon, J Kang, M Karagoz Unel, PE Karchin, S Kartal, Y Kato, Y Kemp, R Kephart, U Kerzel, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, MS Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, TH Kim, YK Kim, BT King, M Kirby, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, B Knuteson, BR Ko, H Kobayashi, P Koehn, DJ Kong, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, K Kordas, A Korn, A Korytov, K Kotelnikov, AV Kotwal, A Kovalev, J Kraus, I Kravchenko, A Kreymer, J Kroll, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, SE Kuhlmann, N Kuznetsova, AT Laasanen, S Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, J Lancaster, M Lancaster, R Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, R Lauhakangas, I Lazzizzera, Y Le, C Lecci, T LeCompte, J Lee, J Lee, SW Lee, N Leonardo, S Leone, JD Lewis, K Li, C Lin, CS Lin, M Lindgren, TM Liss, DO Litvintsev, T Liu, Y Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, P Loverre, R-S Lu, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, L Lyons, J Lys, R Lysak, D MacQueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, L Malferrari, G Manca, R Marginean, M Martin, A Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, T Maruyama, H Matsunaga, M Mattson, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, D McGivern, PM McIntyre, P McNamara, R McNulty, S Menzemer, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Messina, T Miao, N Miladinovic, L Miller, R Miller, JS Miller, C Mills, R Miquel, S Miscetti, G Mitselmakher, A Miyamoto, Y Miyazaki, N Moggi, B Mohr, R Moore, M Morello, T Moulik, A Mukherjee, M Mulhearn, T Muller, R Mumford, A Munar, P Murat, J Nachtman, S Nahn, I Nakamura, I Nakano, A Napier, R Napora, D Naumov, V Necula, F Niell, J Nielsen, C Nelson, T Nelson, C Neu, MS Neubauer, C Newman-Holmes, A-S Nicollerat, T Nignamov, L Nodulman, K Oesterberg, T Ogawa, S Oh, YD Oh, T Ohsugi, T Okusawa, R Oldeman, R Orava, W Orejudos, C Pagliarone, F Palmonari, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, T Pauly, C Paus, D Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, KT Pitts, C Plager, A Pompoš, L Pondrom, G Pope, O Poukhov, F Prakoshyn, T Pratt, A Pronko, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Rademacker, A Rakitine, S Rappoccio, F Ratnikov, H Ray, A Reichold, B Reisert, V Rekovic, P Renton, M Rescigno, F Rimondi, K Rinnert, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, A Robson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, L Rosenson, R Roser, R Rossin, C Rott, J Russ, A Ruiz, D Ryan, H Saarikko, A Safonov, R St. Denis, WK Sakumoto, G Salamanna, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, A Sansoni, L Santi, S Sarkar, K Sato, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schemitz, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, L Scodellaro, I Sfiligoi, T Shears, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, F Semeria, L Sexton-Kennedy, MD Shapiro, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, A Sidoti, M Siket, A Sill, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, A Skiba, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, SV Somalwar, J Spalding, M Spezziga, L Spiegel, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, P Squillacioti, H Stadie, A Stefanini, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, J Strologas, D Stuart, A Sukhanov, K Sumorok, H Sun, T Suzuki, A Taffard, R Tafirout, SF Takach, H Takano, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, K Takikawa, M Tanaka, R Takaka, N Tanimoto, S Tapprogge, M Tecchio, PK Teng, K Terashi, RJ Tesarek, S Tether, J Thom, AS Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, V Tiwari, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, D Tonelli, M Tonnesmann, S Torre, D Torretta, W Trischuk, J Tseng, R Tsuchiya, S Tsuno, D Tsybychev, N Turini, M Turner, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, S Uozumi, D Usynin, L Vacavant, A Vaiciulis, A Varganov, E Vataga, S Vejcik, G Velev, G Veramendi, T Vickey, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Volobouev, M von der Mey, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, R Wallny, T Walter, T Yamashita, K Yamamoto, Z Wan, MJ Wang, SM Wang, A Warburton, B Ward, S Waschke, D Waters, T Watts, M Weber, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, M Wolter, M Worcester, S Worm, T Wright, X Wu, F Würthwein, A Wyatt, A Yagil, UK Yang, W Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, P Yoon, K Yorita, T Yoshida, I Yu, S Yu, Z Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, I Zaw, F Zetti, J Zhou, A Zsenei, S Zucchelli

Search for Doubly Charged Higgs Boson Pair Production in the Decay to μ+μ+μ-μin pp̄ Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV

Physical Review Letters 93:14 (2004)

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, JL Agram, SN Ahmed, SH Ahn, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, S Anderson, B Andrieu, Y Arnoud, A Askew, B Åsman, C Autermann, C Avila, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, A Baden, S Baffioni, 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, F Beaudette, M Begel, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, M Besançon, A Besson, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, M Binder, A Bischoff, KM Black, I Blackler, G Blazey, F Blekman, D Bloch, U Blumenschein, A Boehnlein, TA Bolton, P Bonamy, F Borcherding, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, C Boswell, A Brandt, G Briskin, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, S Burdin, TH Burnett, E Busato, JM Butler, J Bystricky, F Canelli, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, D 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, S Chopra, T Christiansen, L Christofek

Abstract:

The pair production of doubly charged Higgs bosons in the decay to μ+ μ+ μ- μ- in pp̄ Collisions was investigated. It was observed that the total signal efficiency for the event selection was (47.5±2.5)% and does not depend on the mass of the doubly charged Higgs boson in the studied mass range. Data and the Monte Carlo simulation, for both the normalization and shapes of the dimuon mass and δφ distributions were found to be in agreement. A lower limit of 118.4 GeV/c2 for a left-handed and 98.2 GeV/c2 for a right-handed doubly charged Higgs boson, was obtained, by taking into account systematic uncertainties.

Measurement of the cross section of W-boson pair production at LEP

Physics Letters B Elsevier 600:1-2 (2004) 22-40

Authors:

L3 Collaboration, P Achard, O Adriani, M Aguilar-Benitez, J Alcaraz, G Alemanni, J Allaby, A Aloisio, MG Alviggi, H Anderhub, VP Andreev, F Anselmo, A Arefiev, T Azemoon, T Aziz, P Bagnaia, A Bajo, G Baksay, L Baksay, SV Baldew, S Banerjee, Sw Banerjee, A Barczyk, R Barillère, P Bartalini, M Basile, N Batalova, R Battiston, A Bay, F Becattini, U Becker, F Behner, L Bellucci, R Berbeco, J Berdugo, P Berges, B Bertucci, BL Betev, M Biasini, M Biglietti, A Biland, JJ Blaising, SC Blyth, GJ Bobbink, A Böhm, L Boldizsar, B Borgia, S Bottai, D Bourilkov, M Bourquin, S Braccini, JG Branson, F Brochu, JD Burger, WJ Burger, A Button, XD Cai, M Capell, G Cara Romeo, G Carlino, A Cartacci, J Casaus, F Cavallari, N Cavallo, C Cecchi, M Cerrada, M Chamizo, YH Chang, M Chemarin, A Chen, G Chen, GM Chen, HF Chen, HS Chen, G Chiefari, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, I Clare, R Clare, G Coignet, N Colino, S Costantini, B de la Cruz, S Cucciarelli, JA van Dalen, R de Asmundis, P Déglon, J Debreczeni, A Degré, K Dehmelt, K Deiters, D della Volpe, E Delmeire, P Denes, F DeNotaristefani, A De Salvo, M Diemoz, M Dierckxsens, D van Dierendonck, C Dionisi, M Dittmar, A Doria, MT Dova, D Duchesneau, M Duda, B Echenard, A Eline, A El Hage, H El Mamouni, A Engler, FJ Eppling, P Extermann, MA Falagan, S Falciano, A Favara, J Fay, O Fedin, M Felcini, T Ferguson, H Fesefeldt, E Fiandrini, JH Field, F Filthaut, PH Fisher, W Fisher, I Fisk, G Forconi, K Freudenreich, C Furetta, Yu Galaktionov, SN Ganguli, P Garcia-Abia, M Gataullin, S Gentile, S Giagu, ZF Gong, G Grenier, O Grimm, MW Gruenewald, M Guida, VK Gupta, A Gurtu, LJ Gutay, D Haas, D Hatzifotiadou, T Hebbeker, A Hervé, J Hirschfelder, H Hofer, M Hohlmann, G Holzner, SR Hou, Y Hu, BN Jin, LW Jones, P de Jong, I Josa-Mutuberría, M Kaur, MN Kienzle-Focacci, JK Kim, J Kirkby, W Kittel, A Klimentov, AC König, M Kopal, V Koutsenko, M Kräber, RW Kraemer, A Krüger, A Kunin, P Ladron de Guevara, I Laktineh, G Landi, M Lebeau, A Lebedev, P Lebrun, P Lecomte, P Lecoq, P Le Coultre, JM Le Goff, R Leiste, M Levtchenko, P Levtchenko, C Li, S Likhoded, CH Lin, WT Lin, FL Linde, L Lista, ZA Liu, W Lohmann, E Longo, YS Lu, C Luci, L Luminari, W Lustermann, WG Ma, L Malgeri, A Malinin, C Maña, J Mans, JP Martin, F Marzano, K Mazumdar, RR McNeil, S Mele, L Merola, M Meschini, WJ Metzger, A Mihul, H Milcent, G Mirabelli, J Mnich, GB Mohanty, T Moulik, GS Muanza, AJM Muijs, B Musicar, M Musy, S Nagy, R Nandakumar, S Natale, M Napolitano, F Nessi-Tedaldi, H Newman, A Nisati, T Novak, H Nowak, R Ofierzynski, G Organtini, I Pal, C Palomares, P Paolucci, R Paramatti, G Passaleva, S Patricelli, T Paul, M Pauluzzi, C Paus, F Pauss, M Pedace, S Pensotti, D Perret-Gallix, B Petersen, D Piccolo, F Pierella, M Pioppi, PA Piroué, E Pistolesi, V Plyaskin, M Pohl, V Pojidaev, J Pothier, D Prokofiev, J Quartieri, G Rahal-Callot, MA Rahaman, P Raics, N Raja, R Ramelli, PG Rancoita, R Ranieri, A Raspereza, P Razis, D Ren, M Rescigno, S Reucroft, S Riemann, K Riles, BP Roe, L Romero, A Rosca, C Rosemann, C Rosenbleck, S Rosier-Lees, S Roth, JA Rubio, G Ruggiero, H Rykaczewski, A Sakharov, S Saremi, S Sarkar, J Salicio, E Sanchez, C Schäfer, V Schegelsky, H Schopper, DJ Schotanus, C Sciacca, L Servoli, S Shevchenko, N Shivarov, V Shoutko, E Shumilov, A Shvorob, D Son, C Souga, P Spillantini, M Steuer, DP Stickland, B Stoyanov, A Straessner, K Sudhakar, G Sultanov, LZ Sun, S Sushkov, H Suter, JD Swain, Z Szillasi, XW Tang, P Tarjan, L Tauscher, L Taylor, B Tellili, D Teyssier, C Timmermans, Samuel CC Ting, SM Ting, SC Tonwar, J Tóth, C Tully, KL Tung, J Ulbricht, E Valente, RT Van de Walle, R Vasquez, V Veszpremi, G Vesztergombi, I Vetlitsky, D Vicinanza, G Viertel, S Villa, M Vivargent, S Vlachos, I Vodopianov, H Vogel, H Vogt, I Vorobiev, AA Vorobyov, M Wadhwa, Q Wang, XL Wang, ZM Wang, A Weber, M Weber, H Wilkens, S Wynhoff, L Xia, ZZ Xu, J Yamamoto, BZ Yang, CG Yang, HJ Yang, M Yang, SC Yeh, An Zalite, Yu Zalite, ZP Zhang, J Zhao, GY Zhu, RY Zhu, HL Zhuang, A Zichichi, B Zimmermann, M Zöller