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Measurement of D (+/-) and D (0) production in deep inelastic scattering using a lifetime tag at HERA

EUR PHYS J C 63:3 (2009) 171-188

Authors:

S Chekanov, M Derrick, S Magill, B Musgrave, D Nicholass, J Repond, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, P Antonioli, G Bari, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, F Cindolo, M Corradi, G Iacobucci, A Margotti, R Nania, A Polini, S Antonelli, M Basile, M Bindi, L Cifarelli, A Contin, S De Pasquale, G Sartorelli, A Zichichi, D Bartsch, I Brock, H Hartmann, E Hilger, HP Jakob, M Jungst, AE Nuncio-Quiroz, E Paul, U Samson, V Schonberg, R Shehzadi, M Wlasenko, NH Brook, GP Heath, JD Morris, M Kaur, P Kaur, I Singh, M Capua, S Fazio, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, E Tassi, JY Kim, ZA Ibrahim, F Idris, B Kamaluddin, WATW Abdullah, Y Ning, Z Ren, F Sciulli, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, A Galas, K Olkiewicz, B Pawlik, P Stopa, L Zawiejski, L Adamczyk, T Bold, I Grabowska-Bold, D Kisielewska, J Laukasik, M Przybycien, L Suszycki, A Kotanski, W Sominski, O Behnke, U Behrens, C Blohm, A Bonato, K Borras, D Bot, R Ciesielski, N Coppola, S Fang, J Fourletova, A Geiser, P Gottlicher, J Grebenyuk, I Gregor, T Haas, W Hain, A Huttmann, F Januschek, B Kahle, II Katkov, U Klein, U Kotz, H Kowalski, M Lisovyi, E Lobodzinska, B Lohr, R Mankel, IA Melzer-Pellmann, S Miglioranzi, A Montanari, T Namsoo, D Notz, A Parenti, L Rinaldi, P Roloff, I Rubinsky, U Schneekloth, A Spiridonov, D Szuba, J Szuba, T Theedt, J Ukleja, G Wolf, K Wrona, AGY Molina, C Youngman, W Zeuner, V Drugakov, W Lohmann, S Schlenstedt, G Barbagli, E Gallo, PG Pelfer, A Bamberger, D Dobur, F Karstens, NN Vlasov, PJ Bussey, AT Doyle, W Dunne, M Forrest, M Rosin, DH Saxon, IO Skillicorn, I Gialas, K Papageorgiu, U Holm, R Klanner, E Lohrmann, H Perrey, P Schleper, T Schorner-Sadenius, J Sztuk, H Stadie, M Turcato, C Foudas, C Fry, KR Long, AD Tapper, T Matsumoto, K Nagano, K Tokushuku, S Yamada, Y Yamazaki, AN Barakbaev, EG Boos, NS Pokrovskiy, BO Zhautykov, V Aushev, O Bachynska, M Borodin, I Kadenko, A Kozulia, V Libov, D Lontkovskyi, I Makarenko, I Sorokin, A Verbytskyi, O Volynets, D Son, J de Favereau, K Piotrzkowski, F Barreiro, C Glasman, M Jimenez, L Labarga, J del Peso, E Ron, M Soares, J Terron, C Uribe-Estrada, M Zambrana, F Corriveau, C Liu, J Schwartz, R Walsh, C Zhou, T Tsurugai, A Antonov, BA Dolgoshein, D Gladkov, V Sosnovtsev, A Stifutkin, S Suchkov, RK Dementiev, PF Ermolov, LK Gladilin, YA Golubkov, LA Khein, IA Korzhavina, VA Kuzmin, BB Levchenko, OY Lukina, AS Proskuryakov, LM Shcheglova, DS Zotkin, I Abt, A Caldwell, D Kollar, B Reisert, WB Schmidke, G Grigorescu, A Keramidas, E Koffeman, P Kooijman, A Pellegrino, H Tiecke, M Vazquez, L Wiggers, N Brummer, B Bylsma, LS Durkin, A Lee, TY Ling, PD Allfrey, MA Bell, AM Cooper-Sarkar, RCE Devenish, J Ferrando, B Foster, C Gwenlan, K Horton, K Oliver, A Robertson, R Walczak, A Bertolin, F Dal Corso, S Dusini, A Longhin, L Stanco, P Bellan, R Brugnera, R Carlin, A Garfagnini, S Limentani, BY Oh, A Raval, JJ Whitmore, Y Iga, G D'Agostini, G Marini, A Nigro, JE Cole, JC Hart, H Abramowicz, R Ingbir, S Kananov, A Levy, A Stern, M Kuze, J Maeda, R Hori, S Kagawa, N Okazaki, S Shimizu, T Tawara, R Hamatsu, H Kaji, S Kitamura, O Ota, YD Ri, M Costa, MI Ferrero, V Monaco, R Sacchi, V Sola, A Solano, M Arneodo, M Ruspa, S Fourletov, JF Martin, TP Stewart, SK Boutle, JM Butterworth, R Hall-Wilton, TW Jones, JH Loizides, MR Sutton, M Wing, B Brzozowska, J Ciborowski, G Grzelak, P Kulinski, P Luzniak, J Malka, RJ Nowak, JM Pawlak, W Perlanski, T Tymieniecka, AF Zarnecki, M Adamus, P Plucinski, A Ukleja, Y Eisenberg, D Hochman, U Karshon, E Brownson, DD Reeder, AA Savin, WH Smith, H Wolfe, S Bhadra, CD Catterall, Y Cui, G Hartner, S Menary, U Noor, J Standage, J Whyte, ZEUS Collaboration

Abstract:

The production of D-+/-- and D-0-mesons has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 133.6 pb(-1). The measurements cover the kinematic range 5 < Q(2) < 1000 GeV2, 0.02 < y < 0.7, 1.5 < p(T)(D) < 15 GeV and |eta(D)| < 1.6. Combinatorial background to the D-meson signals is reduced by using the ZEUS microvertex detector to reconstruct displaced secondary vertices. Production cross sections are compared with the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD, which is found to describe the data well. Measurements are extrapolated to the full kinematic phase space in order to obtain the open-charm contribution, F-2(c (c) over bar), to the proton structure function, F-2.
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New techniques in the search for Z' bosons and other neutral resonances

Modern Physics Letters A 24:30 (2009) 2387-2403

Authors:

C Hays, A Kotwal, O Stelzer-Chilton

Abstract:

The search for neutral resonances at the energy frontier has a long and illustrious history, resulting in multiple discoveries. The canonical search scans the reconstructed invariant mass distribution of identified fermion pairs. Two recent analyses from the CDF experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron have applied novel methods to resonance searches. One analysis uses simulated templates to fit the inverse mass distribution of muon pairs, a quantity with approximately constant resolution for momenta measured with a tracking detector. The other analysis measures the angular distribution of electron pairs as a function of dielectron mass, gaining sensitivity over a probe of the mass spectrum alone. After reviewing several models that predict new neutral resonances, we discuss these CDF analyses and potential future applications. © 2009 World Scientific Publishing Company.
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Search for hadronic decays of W and Z bosons in photon events in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 80:5 (2009)

Authors:

T Aaltonen, J Adelman, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, BA González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, A Aurisano, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, P Azzurri, N Bacchetta, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, V Bartsch, G Bauer, PH Beauchemin, F Bedeschi, P Bednar, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, A Belloni, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, T Berry, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, RE Blair, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, A Bolshov, 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, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, 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, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu

Abstract:

We report on a search for the process pp̄→γ+W/Z with W/Z→qq̄ in events containing two jets and a photon at the center-of-mass energy s=1.96TeV, using 184pb-1 of data collected by the CDF II detector. A neural network event selection has been developed to optimize the rejection of the large QCD production background; it is shown that this method gives a significant improvement in both signal-to-noise ratio and signal sensitivity, as compared with an event selection based on conventional cuts. An upper limit is presented for the γ+W/Z production cross section with the W and Z decaying hadronically. © 2009 The American Physical Society.
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Measurement of isolated photon production in deep inelastic ep scattering

ArXiv 0909.4223 (2009)
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Measurement of dijet photoproduction for events with a leading neutron at HERA

ArXiv 0909.3032 (2009)
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