A limit on the mass of the ν

Physics Letters B Elsevier BV 431:1-2 (1998) 209-218

Authors:

R Ammar, P Baringer, A Bean, D Besson, D Coppage, C Darling, R Davis, S Kotov, I Kravchenko, N Kwak, L Zhou, S Anderson, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, JJ O'Neill, R Poling, T Riehle, A Smith, MS Alam, SB Athar, Z Ling, AH Mahmood, S Timm, F Wappler, A Anastassov, JE Duboscq, D Fujino, KK Gan, T Hart, K Honscheid, H Kagan, R Kass, J Lee, H Schwarthoff, MB Spencer, M Sung, A Undrus, A Wolf, MM Zoeller, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, M Bishai, J Fast, JW Hinson, N Menon, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, M Yurko, S Glenn, Y Kwon, AL Lyon, S Roberts, EH Thorndike, CP Jessop, K Lingel, H Marsiske, ML Perl, V Savinov, D Ugolini, X Zhou, TE Coan, V Fadeyev, I Korolkov, Y Maravin, I Narsky, V Shelkov, J Staeck, R Stroynowski, I Volobouev, J Ye, M Artuso, F Azfar, A Efimov, M Goldberg, D He, S Kopp, GC Moneti, R Mountain, S Schuh, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, G Viehhauser, JC Wang, X Xing, J Bartelt, SE Csorna, V Jain, KW McLean, S Marka, R Godang, K Kinoshita, IC Lai, P Pomianowski, S Schrenk, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, R Greene, LP Perera, GJ Zhou, M Chadha, S Chan, G Eigen, JS Miller, M Schmidtler, J Urheim, AJ Weinstein, F Würthwein, DW Bliss, DE Jaffe, G Masek, HP Paar, S Prell, V Sharma, DM Asner, J Gronberg, TS Hill, DJ Lange, RJ Morrison, HN Nelson, TK Nelson, D Roberts, BH Behrens, WT Ford, A Gritsan, J Roy, JG Smith, JP Alexander, R Baker, C Bebek, BE Berger, K Berkelman, K Bloom, V Boisvert, DG Cassel, DS Crowcroft, M Dickson, S von Dombrowski, PS Drell, KM Ecklund, R Ehrlich, AD Foland, P Gaidarev, L Gibbons, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, PI Hopman, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, T Lee, Y Liu, NB Mistry, CR Ng, E Nordberg, M Ogg, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Soffer, B Valant-Spaight, C Ward, M Athanas, P Avery, CD Jones, M Lohner, S Patton, C Prescott, J Yelton, J Zheng, G Brandenburg, RA Briere, A Ershov, YS Gao, DY-J Kim, R Wilson, H Yamamoto, TE Browder, Y Li, JL Rodriguez, T Bergfeld, BI Eisenstein, J Ernst, GE Gladding, GD Gollin, RM Hans, E Johnson, I Karliner, MA Marsh, M Palmer, M Selen, JJ Thaler, KW Edwards, A Bellerive, R Janicek, DB MacFarlane, PM Patel, AJ Sadoff

First Observation of the Cabibbo Suppressed Decay B+→D¯0K+

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 80:25 (1998) 5493-5497

Authors:

M Athanas, P Avery, CD Jones, M Lohner, S Patton, C Prescott, J Yelton, J Zheng, G Brandenburg, RA Briere, A Ershov, YS Gao, DY-J Kim, R Wilson, H Yamamoto, TE Browder, Y Li, JL Rodriguez, T Bergfeld, BI Eisenstein, J Ernst, GE Gladding, GD Gollin, RM Hans, E Johnson, I Karliner, MA Marsh, M Palmer, M Selen, JJ Thaler, KW Edwards, A Bellerive, R Janicek, DB MacFarlane, PM Patel, AJ Sadoff, R Ammar, P Baringer, A Bean, D Besson, D Coppage, C Darling, R Davis, S Kotov, I Kravchenko, N Kwak, L Zhou, S Anderson, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, JJ O'Neill, R Poling, T Riehle, A Smith, MS Alam, SB Athar, Z Ling, AH Mahmood, S Timm, F Wappler, A Anastassov, JE Duboscq, D Fujino, KK Gan, T Hart, K Honscheid, H Kagan, R Kass, J Lee, MB Spencer, M Sung, A Undrus, A Wolf, MM Zoeller, B Nemati, SJ Richichi, WR Ross, H Severini, P Skubic, M Bishai, J Fast, JW Hinson, N Menon, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, M Yurko, S Glenn, Y Kwon, AL Lyon, S Roberts, EH Thorndike, CP Jessop, K Lingel, H Marsiske, ML Perl, V Savinov, D Ugolini, X Zhou, TE Coan, V Fadeyev, I Korolkov, Y Maravin, I Narsky, V Shelkov, J Staeck, R Stroynowski, I Volobouev, J Ye, M Artuso, F Azfar, A Efimov, M Goldberg, D He, S Kopp, GC Moneti, R Mountain, S Schuh, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, G Viehhauser, JC Wang, X Xing, J Bartelt, SE Csorna, V Jain, KW McLean, S Marka, R Godang, K Kinoshita, IC Lai, P Pomianowski, S Schrenk, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, R Greene, LP Perera, GJ Zhou, M Chadha, S Chan, G Eigen, JS Miller, M Schmidtler, J Urheim, AJ Weinstein, F Würthwein, DW Bliss, G Masek, HP Paar, S Prell, V Sharma, DM Asner, J Gronberg, TS Hill, DJ Lange, RJ Morrison, HN Nelson, TK Nelson, D Roberts, BH Behrens, WT Ford, A Gritsan, J Roy, JG Smith, JP Alexander, R Baker, C Bebek, BE Berger, K Berkelman, K Bloom, V Boisvert, DG Cassel, DS Crowcroft, M Dickson, S von Dombrowski, PS Drell, KM Ecklund, R Ehrlich, AD Foland, P Gaidarev, L Gibbons, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, PI Hopman, J Kandaswamy, PC Kim, DL Kreinick, T Lee, Y Liu, NB Mistry, CR Ng, E Nordberg, M Ogg, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Soffer, B Valant-Spaight, C Ward

Status of construction and first tests of the CLEO III RICH

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 45:3 (1998) 643-647

Authors:

M Artuso, F Azfar, A Efimov, S Kopp, R Mountain, S Schuh, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, G Viehhauser, S Anderson, A Smith, Y Kubota, E Lipeles, T Coan, J Staeck, V Fadeyev, I Volobouev, J Ye

Study of semileptonic decays of B mesons to charmed baryons

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 57:11 (1998) 6604-6608

Authors:

G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, R Greene, LP Perera, GJ Zhou, M Chadha, S Chan, G Eigen, JS Miller, C O’Grady, M Schmidtler, J Urheim, AJ Weinstein, F Würthwein, DW Bliss, G Masek, HP Paar, S Prell, V Sharma, DM Asner, J Gronberg, TS Hill, DJ Lange, RJ Morrison, HN Nelson, TK Nelson, D Roberts, A Ryd, R Balest, BH Behrens, WT Ford, H Park, J Roy, JG Smith, JP Alexander, R Baker, C Bebek, BE Berger, K Berkelman, K Bloom, V Boisvert, DG Cassel, DS Crowcroft, M Dickson, S von Dombrowski, PS Drell, KM Ecklund, R Ehrlich, AD Foland, P Gaidarev, L Gibbons, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, PI Hopman, J Kandaswamy, PC Kim, DL Kreinick, T Lee, Y Liu, NB Mistry, CR Ng, E Nordberg, M Ogg, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Soffer, B Valant-Spaight, C Ward, M Athanas, P Avery, CD Jones, M Lohner, S Patton, C Prescott, J Yelton, J Zheng, G Brandenburg, RA Briere, A Ershov, YS Gao, DY-J Kim, R Wilson, H Yamamoto, TE Browder, Y Li, JL Rodriguez, T Bergfeld, BI Eisenstein, J Ernst, GE Gladding, GD Gollin, RM Hans, E Johnson, I Karliner, MA Marsh, M Palmer, M Selen, JJ Thaler, KW Edwards, A Bellerive, R Janicek, DB MacFarlane, PM Patel, AJ Sadoff, R Ammar, P Baringer, A Bean, D Besson, D Coppage, C Darling, R Davis, S Kotov, I Kravchenko, N Kwak, L Zhou, S Anderson, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, JJ O’Neill, R Poling, T Riehle, A Smith, MS Alam, SB Athar, Z Ling, AH Mahmood, S Timm, F Wappler, A Anastassov, JE Duboscq, D Fujino, KK Gan, T Hart, K Honscheid, H Kagan, R Kass, J Lee, MB Spencer, M Sung, A Undrus, R Wanke, A Wolf, MM Zoeller, B Nemati, SJ Richichi, WR Ross, H Severini, P Skubic, M Bishai, J Fast, JW Hinson, N Menon, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, M Yurko, S Glenn, SD Johnson, Y Kwon, S Roberts, EH Thorndike, CP Jessop, K Lingel, H Marsiske, ML Perl, V Savinov, D Ugolini, R Wang, X Zhou, TE Coan, V Fadeyev, I Korolkov, Y Maravin, I Narsky, V Shelkov, J Staeck, R Stroynowski, I Volobouev, J Ye, M Artuso, F Azfar, A Efimov, M Goldberg, D He, S Kopp, GC Moneti, R Mountain, S Schuh, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, G Viehhauser, X Xing, J Bartelt, SE Csorna, V Jain, KW McLean, S Marka, R Godang, K Kinoshita, IC Lai, P Pomianowski, S Schrenk

Search for the proton decay mode p → ν K+ in Soudan 2

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 427:1-2 (1998) 217-224

Authors:

WWM Allison, GJ Alner, DS Ayres, G Barr, WL Barrett, C Bode, PM Border, CB Brooks, JH Cobb, R Cotton, H Courant, DM Demuth, TH Fields, HR Gallagher, C Garcia-Garcia, MC Goodman, R Gran, T Joffe-Minor, T Kafka, SMS Kasahara, W Leeson, PJ Litchfield, NP Longley, WA Mann, ML Marshak, RH Milburn, WH Miller, L Mualem, A Napier, WP Oliver, GF Pearce, EA Peterson, DA Petyt, LE Price, K Ruddick, J Schneps, MH Schub, R Seidlein, A Stassinakis, H Tom, JL Thron, V Vassiliev, G Villaume, S Wakeley, D Wall, N West, UM Wielgosz

Abstract:

We have searched for the proton decay mode p → ν K+ using the one-kiloton Soudan 2 high resolution calorimeter. Contained events obtained from a 3.56 kiloton-year fiducial exposure through June 1997 are examined for occurrence of a visible K+ track which decays at rest into μ+ ν or π+ π0. We found one candidate event consistent with background, yielding a limit, τ/B(p → ν K+) > 4.3 × 1031 years at 90% CL with no background subtraction. © 1998 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.