Precision measurement of the top-quark mass from dilepton events at CDF II
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 75:3 (2007)
Abstract:
We report a measurement of the top-quark mass, Mt, in the dilepton decay channel of tt̄→b ′+ν ′b̄ -ν̄ using an integrated luminosity of 1.0fb-1 of pp̄ collisions collected with the CDF II detector. We apply a method that convolutes a leading-order matrix element with detector resolution functions to form event-by-event likelihoods; we have enhanced the leading-order description to describe the effects of initial-state radiation. The joint likelihood is the product of the likelihoods from 78 candidate events in this sample, which yields a measurement of Mt=164.5±3.9(stat.)±3.9(syst.)GeV/c2, the most precise measurement of Mt in the dilepton channel. © 2007 The American Physical Society.First Measurement of the Ratio of Central-Electron to Forward-Electron W Partial Cross Sections in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV
ArXiv hep-ex/0702037 (2007)
Collisional relaxation of Feshbach molecules and three-body recombination in Rb87 Bose-Einstein condensates
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics 75:2 (2007)
Abstract:
We predict the resonance-enhanced magnetic field dependence of atom-dimer relaxation and three-body recombination rates in a Rb87 Bose-Einstein condensate close to 1007 G. Our exact treatments of three-particle scattering explicitly include the dependence of the interactions on the atomic Zeeman levels. The Feshbach resonance distorts the entire diatomic energy spectrum, causing interferences in both loss phenomena. Our two independent experiments confirm the predicted recombination loss over a range of rate constants that spans four orders of magnitude. © 2007 The American Physical Society.Search for New Physics in Lepton + Photon + X Events with 929 pb-1 of ppbar Collisions at roots = 1.96 TeV
ArXiv hep-ex/0702029 (2007)