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Measurement of the pseudoscalar decay constant fDs using Ds+→τ+ν, τ+→ρ+ν̄ decays

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 80:11 (2009)

Authors:

P Naik, J Rademacker, DM Asner, KW Edwards, K Randrianarivony, J Reed, AN Robichaud, G Tatishvili, EJ White, RA Briere, H Vogel, PUE Onyisi, JL Rosner, JP Alexander, DG Cassel, R Ehrlich, L Fields, L Gibbons, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, JM Hunt, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, J Ledoux, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, X Shi, S Stroiney, WM Sun, J Yelton, P Rubin, N Lowrey, S Mehrabyan, M Selen, J Wiss, M Kornicer, RE Mitchell, MR Shepherd, CM Tarbert, D Besson, TK Pedlar, J Xavier, D Cronin-Hennessy, KY Gao, J Hietala, R Poling, P Zweber, S Dobbs, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, BJY Tan, A Tomaradze, S Brisbane, J Libby, L Martin, A Powell, P Spradlin, G Wilkinson, H Mendez, JY Ge, DH Miller, IPJ Shipsey, B Xin, GS Adams, D Hu, B Moziak, J Napolitano, KM Ecklund, J Insler, H Muramatsu, CS Park, EH Thorndike, F Yang, S Ricciardi, C Thomas, M Artuso, S Blusk, S Khalil, R Mountain, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, LM Zhang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, A Lincoln, MJ Smith, P Zhou, J Zhu

Abstract:

Analyzing 600pb-1 of e+e- collisions at 4170 MeV center-of-mass energy with the CLEO-c detector, we measure the branching fraction B(Ds+→τ+ν)= (5.52±0.57±0.21)% using the τ+→ρ+ν̄ decay mode. Combining with other CLEO measurements of B(Ds+→τ+ν) we determine the pseudoscalar decay constant fDs=(259.7±7.8±3.4)MeV consistent with the value obtained from our Ds+→μ+ν measurement of (257.6±10.3±4.3)MeV. Combining these measurements we find a value of fDs=(259.0±6.2±3.0)MeV, that differs from the most accurate prediction based on unquenched lattice gauge theory of (241±3)MeV by 2.4 standard deviations. We also present the first measurements of B(Ds+→K0π+π0)=(1.00±0.18±0.04)%, and B(Ds+→π+π0π0)=(0.65±0.13±0.03)%, and measure a new value for B(Ds+→ηρ+)=(8.9±0.6±0.5)%. © 2009 The American Physical Society.
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Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross section in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV using the CDF detector

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 80:11 (2009)

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T Aaltonen, J Adelman, BA González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, G Bauer, PH Beauchemin, F Bedeschi, D Beecher, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, RE Blair, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, A Bridgeman, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, C Calancha, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, SH Chang, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, G Choudalakis, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, T Chwalek, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway

Abstract:

A measurement of the cross section for the inclusive production of isolated photons by the CDF experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider is presented. The measurement covers the pseudorapidity region |ηγ|<1.0 and the transverse energy range ETγ>30GeV and is based on 2.5fb-1 of integrated luminosity. The sample is almost a factor of 7 larger than those used for recent published results and extends the ETγ coverage by 100 GeV. The result agrees with next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations within uncertainties over the range 50
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Trapping Ultracold Atoms in a Time-Averaged Adiabatic Potential

(2009)

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M Gildemeister, E Nugent, BE Sherlock, M Kubasik, BT Sheard, CJ Foot
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Search for Pair Production of Supersymmetric Top Quarks in Dilepton Events from $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 1.96 TeV

ArXiv 0912.1308 (2009)
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Commissioning and Performance of the CMS Pixel Tracker with Cosmic Ray Muons

ArXiv 0911.5434 (2009)
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