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Limits on WWγ and WWZ couplings from IV boson pair production

Physical Review D 58:5 (1998) DUMMY1

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B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, I Adam, DL Adams, M Adams, S Ahn, H Aihara, GA Alves, N Amos, EW Anderson, R Astur, MM Baarmand, L Babukhadia, A Baden, V Balamurali, J Balderston, B Baldin, S Banerjee, J Bantly, E Barberis, JF Bartlett, A Belyaev, SB Beri, I Bertram, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, N Biswas, G Blazey, S Blessing, P Bloom, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, C Boswell, A Brandt, R Brock, A Bross, D Buchholz, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, W Carvalho, D Casey, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, SM Chang, SV Chekulaev, LP Chen, W Chen, S Choi, S Chopra, BC Choudhary, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, WG Cobau, J Cochran, L Coney, WE Cooper, C Cretsinger, D Cullen-Vidal, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, OI Dahl, K Davis, K De, K del Signore, M Demarteau, D Denisov, SP Denisov, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G di Loreto, P Draper, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, SR Dugad, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, R Engelmann, S Eno, G Eppley, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, VN Evdokimov, T Fahland, MK Fatyga, S Feher, D Fein, T Ferbel, G Finocchiaro, HE Fisk, Y Fisyak, E Flattum, GE Forden

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The results of a search for W boson pair production in pp collisions at √s= 1.8 TeV with subsequent decay to eμ, ee, and μμ channels are presented. Five candidate events are observed with an expected background of 3.1 ±0.4 events for an integrated luminosity of approximately 97 pb-1. Limits on the anomalous couplings are obtained from a maximum likelihood fit of the ET spectra of the leptons in the candidate events. Assuming identical WWγ and WWZ couplings, the 95% C.L. limits are -0.62<Δκ<0.77 (X. = 0) and -0.53<λ <0.56 (Δκ=0) for a form factor scale Λ= 1.5 TeV. © 1998 The American Physical Society.
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Measurement of dijet angular distributions and search for quark compositeness

Physical Review Letters 80:4 (1998) 666-671

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B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, I Adam, DL Adams, M Adams, S Ahn, H Aihara, GA Alves, E Amidi, N Amos, EW Anderson, R Astur, MM Baarmand, A Baden, V Balamurali, J Balderston, B Baldin, S Banerjee, J Bantly, JF Bartlett, K Bazizi, A Belyaev, SB Beri, I Bertram, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, N Biswas, G Blazey, S Blessing, P Bloom, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, C Boswell, A Brandt, R Brock, A Bross, D Buchholz, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, W Carvalho, D Casey, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, SM Chang, SV Chekulaev, LP Chen, W Chen, S Choi, S Chopra, BC Choudhary, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, WG Cobau, J Cochran, WE Cooper, C Cretsinger, D Cullen-Vidal, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, OI Dahl, K Davis, K De, K Del Signore, M Demarteau, D Denisov, SP Denisov, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G Di Loreto, P Draper, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, SR Dugad, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, R Engelmann, S Eno, G Eppley, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, VN Evdokimov, T Fahland, M Fatyga, MK Fatyga, J Featherly, S Feher, D Fein, T Ferbel, G Finocchiaro, HE Fisk, Y Fisyak, E Flattum

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We have measured the dijet angular distribution in s = 1.8 TeV pp collisions using the D0 detector. Order αs3 QCD predictions are in good agreement with the data. At 95% confidence limit the data exclude models of quark compositeness in which the contact interaction scale is below 2 TeV. © 1998 The American Physical Society.
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Measurement of the W boson mass

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 58:9 (1998)

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B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, I Adam, DL Adams, M Adams, S Ahn, H Aihara, GA Alves, N Amos, EW Anderson, R Astur, MM Baarmand, A Baden, V Balamurali, J Balderston, B Baldin, S Banerjee, J Bantly, E Barberis, JF Bartlett, K Bazizi, A Belyaev, SB Beri, I Bertram, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, N Biswas, G Blazey, S Blessing, P Bloom, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, C Boswell, A Brandt, R Brock, A Bross, D Buchholz, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, W Carvalho, D Casey, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, SM Chang, SV Chekulaev, LP Chen, W Chen, S Choi, S Chopra, BC Choudhary, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, WG Cobau, J Cochran, L Coney, WE Cooper, C Cretsinger, D Cullen-Vidal, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, OI Dahl, K Davis, K De, K Del Signore, M Demarteau, D Denisov, SP Denisov, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G Di Loreto, P Draper, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, SR Dugad, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, R Engelmann, S Eno, G Eppley, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, VN Evdokimov, T Fahland, MK Fatyga, S Feher, D Fein, T Ferbel, G Finocchiaro, HE Fisk, Y Fisyak, E Flattum, GE Forden

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We present a measurement of the W boson mass using data collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron during 1994–1995. We identify W bosons by their decays to [Formula Presented] final states. We extract the W mass [Formula Presented] by fitting the transverse mass and transverse electron momentum spectra from a sample of 28 323 [Formula Presented] decay candidates. We use a sample of 3563 dielectron events, mostly due to [Formula Presented] decays, to constrain our model of the detector response. From the transverse mass fit we measure [Formula Presented] GeV. Combining this with our previously published result from data taken in 1992–1993, we obtain [Formula Presented]. © 1998 The American Physical Society.
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Measurement of the average lifetime of b-hadrons in Z decays

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics 416:1-2 (1998) 220-232

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M Acciarri, O Adriani, M Aguilar-Benitez, S Ahlen, J Alcaraz, G Alemanni, J Allaby, A Aloisio, G Alverson, MG Alviggi, G Ambrosi, H Anderhub, VP Andreev, T Angelescu, F Anselmo, A Arefiev, T Azemoon, T Aziz, P Bagnaia, L Baksay, RC Ball, S Banerjee, S Banerjee, K Banicz, A Barczyk, R Barillère, L Barone, P Bartalini, A Baschirotto, M Basile, R Battiston, A Bay, F Becattini, U Becker, F Behner, J Berdugo, P Berges, B Bertucci, BL Betev, S Bhattacharya, M Biasini, A Biland, GM Bilei, JJ Blaising, SC Blyth, GJ Bobbink, R Bock, A Böhm, L Boldizsar, B Borgia, D Bourilkov, M Bourquin, D Boutigny, S Braccini, JG Branson, V Brigljevic, IC Brock, A Buffini, A Buijs, JD Burger, WJ Burger, J Busenitz, XD Cai, M Campanelli, M Capell, G Cara Romeo, G Carlino, AM Cartacci, J Casaus, G Castellini, F Cavallari, N Cavallo, C Cecchi, M Cerrada, F Cesaroni, M Chamizo, YH Chang, UK Chaturvedi, SV Chekanov, M Chemarin, A Chen, G Chen, GM Chen, HF Chen, HS Chen, M Chen, G Chiefari, CY Chien, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, C Civinini, I Clare, R Clare, HO Cohn, G Coignet, AP Colijn, N Colino, S Costantini, F Cotorobai, B de la Cruz

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We present a measurement of the average b-hadron lifetime τb at the e+e collider LEP. Using hadronic Z decays collected in the period from 1991 to 1994, two independent analyses have been performed. In the first one, the b-decay position is reconstructed as a secondary vertex of hadronic b-decay particles. The second analysis is an updated measurement of Tb using the impact parameter of leptons with high momentum and high transverse momentum. The combined result is τb = [1549 ± 9 (stat) ± 15 (syst)] fs. In addition, we measure the average charged b-decay multiplicity 〈nb〉 and the normalized average b-energy 〈xE〉b at LEP to be 〈nb〉 = 4.90 ± 0.04 (stat) ± 0.11 (syst), 〈xE〉b = 0.709 ± 0.004 (stat + syst). © 1998 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
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Measurement of the shape of the transverse momentum distribution of W bosons produced in pp¯ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

Physical Review Letters 80:25 (1998) 5498-5503

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B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, I Adam, DL Adams, M Adams, S Ahn, H Aihara, GA Alves, N Amos, EW Anderson, R Astur, MM Baarmand, L Babukhadia, A Baden, V Balamurali, J Balderston, B Baldin, S Banerjee, J Bantly, E Barberis, JF Bartlett, A Belyaev, SB Beri, I Bertram, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, N Biswas, G Blazey, S Blessing, P Bloom, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, C Boswell, A Brandt, R Brock, A Bross, D Buchholz, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, W Carvalho, D Casey, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, SM Chang, SV Chekulaev, LP Chen, W Chen, S Choi, S Chopra, BC Choudhary, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, WG Cobau, J Cochran, L Coney, WE Cooper, C Cretsinger, D Cullen-Vidal, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, OI Dahl, K Davis, K De, K Del Signore, M Demarteau, D Denisov, SP Denisov, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G Di Loreto, P Draper, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, SR Dugad, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, R Engelmann, S Eno, G Eppley, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, VN Evdokimov, T Fahland, MK Fatyga, S Feher, D Fein, T Ferbel, G Finocchiaro, HE Fisk, Y Fisyak, E Flattum, GE Forden

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The shape of the transverse momentum distribution of W bosons (pWT) produced in pp¯ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV is measured with the D0 detector at Fermilab. The result is compared with QCD perturbative and resummation calculations over the pWT range from 0 to 200 GeV/c. The shape of the distribution is consistent with the theoretical prediction. © 1998 The American Physical Society.
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