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Search for first-generation scalar leptoquarks in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 71:7 (2005) 1-7

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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, T Andeen, 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 Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Binder, C Biscarat, 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, B Choudhary, T Christiansen, L Christofek, D Claes, B Clément, C Clément

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We report on a search for pair production of first-generation scalar leptoquarks (LQ) in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV using an integrated luminosity of 252 pb-1 collected at the Fermilab Tevatron collider by the D0 detector. We observe no evidence for LQ production in the topologies arising from LQLQ → eqeq and LQLQ → eqvq, and derive 95% C.L. lower limits on the LQ mass as a function of β, where β is the branching fraction for LQ → eq. The limits are 241 and 218 GeV/c 2 for β = 1 and 0.5, respectively. These results are combined with those obtained by D0 at √s = 1.8 TeV, which increases these LQ mass limits to 256 and 234 GeV/c2. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
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NOvA Proposal to Build a 30 Kiloton Off-Axis Detector to Study Neutrino Oscillations in the Fermilab NuMI Beamline

ArXiv hep-ex/0503053 (2005)

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The NOvA Collaboration, D Ayres
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Search for CP violation in K0→3π0 decays

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics 610:3-4 (2005) 165-176

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A Lai, D Marras, JR Batley, RS Dosanjh, TJ Gershon, GE Kalmus, C Lazzeroni, DJ Munday, E Olaiya, MA Parker, TO White, SA Wotton, R Arcidiacono, G Barr, G Bocquet, A Ceccucci, T Cuhadar-Dönszelmann, D Cundy, N Doble, V Falaleev, L Gatignon, A Gonidec, B Gorini, P Grafström, W Kubischta, A Lacourt, I Mikulec, A Norton, B Panzer-Steindel, G Tatishvili, H Wahl, C Cheshkov, P Hristov, V Kekelidze, D Madigojine, N Molokanova, Y Potrebenikov, A Zinchenko, V Martin, P Rubin, R Sacco, A Walker, M Contalbrigo, P Dalpiaz, J Duclos, M Fiorini, PL Frabetti, A Gianoli, M Martini, F Petrucci, M Savrié, A Bizzeti, M Calvetti, G Collazuol, G Graziani, E Iacopini, M Lenti, F Martelli, M Veltri, K Eppard, M Eppard, A Hirstius, K Kleinknecht, U Koch, L Köpke, P Lopes Da Silva, P Marouelli, I Mestvirishvili, I Pellmann, A Peters, SA Schmidt, V Schönharting, Y Schué, R Wanke, A Winhart, M Wittgen, JC Chollet, L Fayard, L Iconomidou-Fayard, G Unal, I Wingerter-Seez, G Anzivino, P Cenci, E Imbergamo, P Lubrano, A Mestvirishvili, A Nappi, M Pepe, M Piccini, R Casali, C Cerri, M Cirilli, F Costantini, R Fantechi, L Fiorini, S Giudici, I Mannelli, G Pierazzini, M Sozzi, JB Cheze

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Using data taken during the year 2000 with the NA48 detector at the CERN SPS, a search for the CP violating decay KS→3π0 has been performed. From a fit to the lifetime distribution of about 4.9 million reconstructed K0/K̄0→3π0 decays, the CP violating amplitude η000=A(KS→3π0)/ A(KL→3π0) has been found to be Re(η000)=-0.002±0.011±0.015 and Im(η000)=-0.003±0. 013±0.017. This corresponds to an upper limit on the branching fraction of Br(KS→3π0)<7.4×10-7 at 90% confidence level. The result is used to improve knowledge of Re(ε) and the CPT violating quantity Im(δ) via the Bell-Steinberger relation. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Measurement of the Lambda0b lifetime in the decay lambda0b--> J/psiLambda0 with the D0 detector.

Phys Rev Lett 94:10 (2005) 102001

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VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, J-L 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 Asman, 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 Besançon, 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, D Coppage, M Corcoran, J Coss, A Cothenet, M-C Cousinou, S Crépé-Renaudin, M Cristetiu, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, H da Motta, B Davies, G Davies, GA Davis, K De, P de Jong, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, C De Oliveira Martins, S Dean, F Déliot, PA Delsart, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, M Doidge, H Dong, S Doulas, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Duperrin, J Dyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, D Edmunds, T Edwards, J Ellison, J Elmsheuser, JT Eltzroth, VD Elvira, S Eno, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, J Estrada, D Evans, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, J Fast, SN Fatakia, L Feligioni, T Ferbel, F Fiedler, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, M Fortner, H Fox, W Freeman, S Fu, S Fuess, T Gadfort, CF Galea, E Gallas, E Galyaev, C Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, J Gardner, V Gavrilov, P Gay, D Gelé, R Gelhaus, K Genser, CE Gerber, Y Gershtein, G Ginther, T Golling, B Gómez, K Gounder, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, S Greder, H Greenlee, ZD Greenwood, EM Gregores, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, L Groer, S Grünendahl, MW Grünewald, SN Gurzhiev, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, NJ Hadley, S Hagopian, I Hall, RE Hall, C Han, L Han, K Hanagaki, K Harder, R Harrington, JM Hauptman, R Hauser, J Hays, T Hebbeker, D Hedin, JM Heinmiller, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, G Hesketh, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, M Hohlfeld, SJ Hong, R Hooper, P Houben, Y Hu, J Huang, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, AS Ito, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, S Jain, V Jain, K Jakobs, A Jenkins, R Jesik, K Johns, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, P Jonsson, H Jöstlein, A Juste, MM Kado, D Käfer, W Kahl, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, AM Kalinin, J Kalk, D Karmanov, J Kasper, D Kau, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, S Kesisoglou, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YM Kharzheev, KH Kim, B Klima, M Klute, JM Kohli, M Kopal, VM Korablev, J Kotcher, B Kothari, A Koubarovsky, AV Kozelov, J Kozminski, S Krzywdzinski, S Kuleshov, Y Kulik, S Kunori, A Kupco, T Kurca, S Lager, N Lahrichi, G Landsberg, J Lazoflores, A-C Le Bihan, P Lebrun, SW Lee, WM Lee, A Leflat, F Lehner, C Leonidopoulos, P Lewis, J Li, QZ Li, JGR Lima, D Lincoln, SL Linn, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, R Lipton, L Lobo, A Lobodenko, M Lokajicek, A Lounis, HJ Lubatti, L Lueking, M Lynker, AL Lyon, AKA Maciel, RJ Madaras, P Mättig, A Magerkurth, A-M Magnan, N Makovec, PK Mal, S Malik, VL Malyshev, HS Mao, Y Maravin, M Martens, SEK Mattingly, AA Mayorov, R McCarthy, R McCroskey, D Meder, HL Melanson, A Melnitchouk, M Merkin, KW Merritt, A Meyer, H Miettinen, D Mihalcea, J Mitrevski, N Mokhov, J Molina, NK Mondal, HE Montgomery, RW Moore, GS Muanza, M Mulders, YD Mutaf, E Nagy, M Narain, NA Naumann, HA Neal, JP Negret, S Nelson, P Neustroev, C Noeding, A Nomerotski, SF Novaes, T Nunnemann, E Nurse, V O'dell, DC O'Neil, V Oguri, N Oliveira, N Oshima, GJ Otero Y Garzón, P Padley, N Parashar, J Park, SK Park, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, A Patwa, PM Perea, E Perez, O Peters, P Pétroff, M Petteni, L Phaf, R Piegaia, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, Y Pogorelov, BG Pope, WL Prado da Silva, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, MB Przybycien, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, KJ Rani, PA Rapidis, PN Ratoff, NW Reay, S Reucroft, M Rijssenbeek, I Ripp-Baudot, F Rizatdinova, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, G Sajot, A Sánchez-Hernández, MP Sanders, A Santoro, G Savage, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, RD Schamberger, H Schellman, P Schieferdecker, C Schmitt, AA Schukin, A Schwartzman, R Schwienhorst, S Sengupta, H Severini, E Shabalina, M Shamim, V Shary, WD Shephard, D Shpakov, RA Sidwell, V Simak, V Sirotenko, P Skubic, P Slattery, RP Smith, K Smolek, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, S Söldner-Rembold, X Song, Y Song, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, M Souza, B Spurlock, NR Stanton, J Stark, J Steele, G Steinbrück, K Stevenson, V Stolin, A Stone, DA Stoyanova, J Strandberg, MA Strang, M Strauss, R Ströhmer, M Strovink, L Stutte, S Sumowidagdo, A Sznajder, M Talby, P Tamburello, W Taylor, P Telford, J Temple, S Tentindo-Repond, E Thomas, B Thooris, M Tomoto, T Toole, J Torborg, S Towers, T Trefzger, S Trincaz-Duvoid, B Tuchming, C Tully, AS Turcot, PM Tuts, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, B Vachon, R Van Kooten, WM van Leeuwen, N Varelas, EW Varnes, IA Vasilyev, M Vaupel, P Verdier, LS Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, F Villeneuve-Seguier, J-R Vlimant, E Von Toerne, M Vreeswijk, T Vu Anh, HD Wahl, R Walker, L Wang, Z-M Wang, J Warchol, M Warsinsky, G Watts, M Wayne, M Weber, H Weerts, M Wegner, N Wermes, A White, V White, D Whiteson, D Wicke, DA Wijngaarden, GW Wilson, SJ Wimpenny, J Wittlin, M Wobisch, J Womersley, DR Wood, TR Wyatt, Q Xu, N Xuan, R Yamada, M Yan, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, Y Yen, K Yip, SW Youn, J Yu, A Yurkewicz, A Zabi, A Zatserklyaniy, M Zdrazil, C Zeitnitz, D Zhang, X Zhang, T Zhao, Z Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, R Zitoun, V Zutshi, EG Zverev, A Zylberstejn, D0 Collaboration

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We present measurements of the Lambda(0)(b) lifetime in the exclusive decay channel Lambda(0)(b)--> J/psiLambda(0), with J/psi--> mu(+)mu(-) and Lambda(0)--> ppi(-), the B0 lifetime in the decay B0-->J/psiK(0)(S) with J/psi--> mu(+)mu(-) and K(0)(S)-->pi(+)pi(-), and the ratio of these lifetimes. The analysis is based on approximately 250 pb(-1) of data recorded with the D0 detector in pp collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV. The Lambda(0)(b) lifetime is determined to be tau(Lambda(0)(b)) = 1.22(+0.22)(-0.18)(stat) +/- 0.04(syst) ps, the B0 lifetime tau(B0) = 1.40(+0.11)(-0.10)(stat) +/- 0.03(syst) ps, and the ratio tau(Lambda(0)(b))/tau(B0) = 0.87(+0.17)(-0.14)(stat) +/- 0.03(syst). In contrast with previous measurements using semileptonic decays, this is the first determination of the Lambda(0)(b) lifetime based on a fully reconstructed decay channel.
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Measurement of the Λ b 0 lifetime in the decay Λ b 0 → J/ψΛ 0 with the D0 detector

Physical Review Letters 94:10 (2005)

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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 Asman, 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 measurements of the Λ b 0 lifetime in the exclusive decay channel Λ b 0 → J/ψΛ 0with J/ψ → μ +μ - and Λ 0 → pπ -, the B 0 lifetime in the decay B 0 → J/ψ/K s 0 with J/ ψ → μ + μ - and K s 0 → π + π -, and the ratio of these lifetimes. The analysis is based on approximately 250 pb -1 of data recorded with the D0 detector in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV. The Λ b 0 lifetime is determined to be τ(Λ b 0) = 1.22 -0.18 +0.22(stat) ± 0.04(syst) ps, the B 0 lifetime τ(B 0) = 1.40 -0.10 0.11(stat) ± 0.03(syst) ps, and the ratio τ(Λ b 0)/ τ(B 0) = 0.87- 0.14 0.17(stat) ± 0.03(syst). In contrast with previous measurements using semileptonic decays, this is the first determination of the Λ b 0 lifetime based on a fully reconstructed decay channel. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
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