Direct Observation of Longitudinally Polarised W Bosons

ArXiv hep-ex/0001016 (2000)

Cross section for b-jet production in supp¯p collisions at √s=1.8 TeV

Physical Review Letters 85:24 (2000) 5068-5073

Authors:

B Abbott, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, GA Alves, N Amos, EW Anderson, MM Baarmand, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, A Baden, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, J Bantly, E Barberis, P Baringer, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, A Bean, M Begel, A Belyaev, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, A Besson, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, G Blazey, S Blessing, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, A Brandt, R Breedon, G Briskin, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, F Canelli, W Carvalho, D Casey, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, SV Chekulaev, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, J Cochran, L Coney, B Connolly, WE Cooper, D Coppage, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, OI Dahl, GA Davis, K Davis, K De, K Del Signore, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G Di Loreto, S Doulas, P Draper, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, S Duensing, SR Dugad, A Dyshkant, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, R Engelmann, S Eno, G Eppley, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, J Estrada

Abstract:

Bottom-quark production in p¯p collisions at √s=1.8 TeV is studied with 5 pb−1 of data collected in 1995 by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The differential production cross section for b jets in the central rapidity region (|yb|<1) as a function of jet transverse energy is extracted from a muon-tagged jet sample. Within experimental and theoretical uncertainties, D0 results are found to be higher than, but compatible with, next-to-leading-order QCD predictions. © 2000 The American Physical Society.

Precision measurement of the Ξ0 mass and the branching ratios of the decays Ξ0 → Λγ and Ξ0 → ∑0γ

European Physical Journal C 12:1 (2000) 69-76

Authors:

V Fanti, A Lai, D Marras, L Musa, A Nappi, B Hay, KN Moore, RW Moore, DJ Munday, MD Needham, MA Parker, TO White, SA Wotton, G Barr, H Blümer, G Bocquet, J Bremer, A Ceccucci, J Cogan, D Cundy, N Doble, G Fischer, W Funk, L Gatignon, A Gianoli, A Gonidec, G Govi, P Grafström, A Lacourt, S Luitz, V Marzulli, JP Matheys, A Norton, S Palestini, B Panzer-Steindel, D Schinzel, H Taureg, M Velasco, O Vossnack, H Wahl, G Wirrer, A Gaponenko, V Kekelidze, D Madigojine, A Mestvirishvili, N Molokanova, Y Potrebenikov, G Tatishvili, A Tkatchev, A Zinchenko, O Boyle, IG Knowles, VJ Martin, H Parsons, M Contalbrigo, P Dalpiaz, J Duclos, A Formica, PL Frabetti, M Martini, F Petrucci, M Savrie, A Bizzeti, M Calvetti, G Collazuol, G Graziani, E Iacopini, M Lenti, A Michetti, C Talamonti, HG Becker, D Coward, C Ebersberger, H Fox, A Kalter, K Kleinknecht, U Koch, L Köpke, B Renk, J Scheidt, J Schmidt, Y Schue, V Schönharting, R Wilhelm, M Wittgen, JC Chollet, S Crépé, L Fayard, L Iconomidou-Fayard, J Ocariz, G Unal, I Wingerter, G Anzivino, P Cenci, P Lubrano, M Pepe, P Calafiura, R Carosi, R Casali, C Cerri

Abstract:

A new precision measurement of the Ξ0 mass has been performed at the NA48 experiment at the CERN SPS. The value obtained is [1314.82±0.06 (stat.) ±0.2 (syst.)] MeV/c2. The branching ratios of Xi;0 radiative decays have been measured as: Br(Ξ0 → Λγ) = [1.90 ± 0.34(stat.) ± 0.19(syst.)] · 10-3 and Br(Ξ0 → ∑0γ) = [3.14 ± 0.76(stat.) ± 0.32(syst.)] · 10-3.

The NA481 LKr calorimeter readout electronics

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 47:2 PART 1 (2000) 136-141

Authors:

A Gianoli, F Bal, G Barr, P Brodier-Yourstone, P Buchholz, A Ceccucci, C Cerri, A Chlopik, F Costantini, R Fantechi, F Forment, W Funk, S Giudici, B Gorini, Z Guzik, B Hailgren, Y Kozhevnikov, W Iwansky, C De La Taille, A Lacourt, G Laverriere, C Ljuslin, Mannelli, G Martin-Chassard, M Martini, A Papi, N Seguin-Moreau, M Sozzi, JC Tarle, M Velasco, O Vossnack, H Wahl, M Ziolkowsky

Abstract:

The NA48 experiment at the CERN SPS accelerator is making a measurement of the direct CP violation parameter e//£by compari ng the four rates of decay of Kä andKJ. into 2n° and 7i+7iT. To reconstruct the decays into 27C11 the information from the almost 13500 channels of a quasi-homogeneous liquid krypton electromagnetic calorimeter is used. The readout electronics of the calorimeter has been designed to provide a dynamic range from a few MeV to about 50 GeV energy deposition per cell, and to sustain a high rate of incident particles. The system is made by cold charge preamplifiers (working at 120°K), low-noise fast shapers followed by digitizer electronics at 40 MHz sampling rate that employs a gain switching technique to expand the dynamic range, where the gain can be selected for each sample individually (i. e. every 25 ns). To reduce the amount of data collected the system contains a zero suppression circuit based on halo expansion. © 2000 IEEE.

Cross section for b-jet production in (p)over-barp collisions at √s=1.8 TeV

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 85:24 (2000) 5068-5073

Authors:

B Abbott, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, GA Alves, N Amos, EW Anderson, MM Baarmand, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, A Baden, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, J Bantly, E Barberis, P Baringer, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, A Bean, M Begel, A Belyaev, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, A Besson, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, G Blazey, S Blessing, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, A Brandt, R Breedon, G Briskin, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, F Canelli, W Carvalho, D Casey, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, SV Chekulaev, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, J Cochran, L Coney, B Connolly, WE Cooper, D Coppage, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, OI Dahl, GA Davis, K Davis, K De, K Del Signore, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G Di Loreto, S Doulas, P Draper, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, S Duensing, SR Dugad, A Dyshkant, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, R Engelmann, S Eno, G Eppley, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, J Estrada, H Evans, VN Evdokimov, T Fahland, S Feher, D Fein, T Ferbel, HE Fisk, Y Fisyak, E Flattum, F Fleuret, M Fortner, KC Frame, S Fuess, E Gallas, AN Galyaev, P Gartung, V Gavrilov, RJ Genik, K Genser, CE Gerber, Y Gershtein, B Gibbard, R Gilmartin, G Ginther, B Gómez, G Gómez, PI Goncharov, JLG Solís, H Gordon, LT Goss, K Gounder, A Goussiou, N Graf, G Graham, PD Grannis, JA Green, H Greenlee, S Grinstein, L Groer, P Grudberg, S Grünendahl, A Gupta, SN Gurzhiev, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, NJ Hadley, H Haggerty, S Hagopian, V Hagopian, KS Hahn, RE Hall, P Hanlet, S Hansen, JM Hauptman, C Hays, C Hebert, D Hedin, AP Heinson, U Heintz, T Heuring, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, JS Hoftun, S Hou, Y Huang, AS Ito, SA Jerger, R Jesik, K Johns, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, M Jones, H Jöstlein, A Juste, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, D Karmanov, D Karmgard, R Kehoe, SK Kim, B Klima, C Klopfenstein, B Knuteson, W Ko, JM Kohli, AV Kostritskiy, J Kotcher, AV Kotwal, AV Kozelov, EA Kozlovsky, J Krane, MR Krishnaswamy, S Krzywdzinski, M Kubantsev, S Kuleshov, Y Kulik, S Kunori, VE Kuznetsov, G Landsberg, A Leflat, F Lehner, J Li, QZ Li, JGR Lima, D Lincoln, S Linn, J Linnemann, R Lipton, A Lucotte, L Lueking, C Lundstedt, AKA Maciel, RJ Madaras, V Manankov, HS Mao, T Marshall, MI Martin, RD Martin, KM Mauritz, B May, AA Mayorov, R McCarthy, J McDonald, T McMahon, HL Melanson, XC Meng, M Merkin, KW Merritt, C Miao, H Miettinen, D Mihalcea, A Mincer, CS Mishra, N Mokhov, NK Mondal, HE Montgomery, RW Moore, M Mostafa, H da Motta, E Nagy, F Nang, M Narain, VS Narasimham, HA Neal, JP Negret, S Negroni, D Norman, L Oesch, V Oguri, B Olivier, N Oshima, P Padley, LJ Pan, A Para, N Parashar, R Partridge, N Parua, M Paterno, A Patwa, B Pawlik, J Perkins, M Peters, O Peters, R Piegaia, H Piekarz, BG Pope, E Popkov, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, J Qian, PZ Quintas, R Raja, S Rajagopalan, E Ramberg, PA Rapidis, NW Reay, S Reucroft, J Rha, M Rijssenbeek, T Rockwell, M Roco, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, J Rutherfoord, A Santoro, L Sawyer, RD Schamberger, H Schellman, A Schwartzman, J Sculli, N Sen, E Shabalina, HC Shankar, RK Shivpuri, D Shpakov, M Shupe, RA Sidwell, V Simak, H Singh, JB Singh, V Sirotenko, P Slattery, E Smith, RP Smith, R Snihur, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, J Solomon, V Sorín, M Sosebee, N Sotnikova, K Soustruznik, M Souza, NR Stanton, G Steinbrück, RW Stephens, ML Stevenson, F Stichelbaut, D Stoker, V Stolin, DA Stoyanova, M Strauss, K Streets, M Strovink, L Stutte, A Sznajder, W Taylor, S Tentindo-Repond, J Thompson, D Toback, SM Tripathi, TG Trippe, AS Turcot, PM Tuts, P van Gemmeren, V Vaniev, R Van Kooten, N Varelas, AA Volkov, AP Vorobiev, HD Wahl, H Wang, ZM Wang, J Warchol, G Watts, M Wayne, H Weerts, A White, JT White, D Whiteson, JA Wightman, DA Wijngaarden, S Willis, SJ Wimpenny, JVD Wirjawan, J Womersley, DR Wood, R Yamada, P Yamin, T Yasuda, K Yip, S Youssef, J Yu, Z Yu, M Zanabria, H Zheng, Z Zhou, ZH Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, V Zutshi, EG Zverev, A Zylberstejn