First observation of the decay Bs0→Ds-Ds+ and measurement of its branching ratio

Physical Review Letters 100:2 (2008)

Authors:

T Aaltonen, J Adelman, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, B Álvarez 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 the observation of the exclusive decay Bs0→Ds-Ds+ at the 7.5 standard deviation level using 355pb-1 of data collected by the CDF II detector in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron. We measure the relative branching ratio B(Bs0→Ds-Ds+)/B(B0→D-Ds+)=1.44-0.44+0.48. Using the world average value for B(B0→D-Ds+), we find B(Bs0→Ds-Ds+)= (9.4-4.2+4.4)×10-3. This provides a lower bound ΔΓsCP/Γs 2B(Bs0→Ds-Ds+)>1.2×10-2 at 95% C.L. © 2008 The American Physical Society.

Erratum to: "Measurement of the isolated photon cross section in p over(p, ̄) collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96  TeV" [Phys. Lett. B 639 (2006) 151] (DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2006.04.048)

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 658:5 (2008) 285-289

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, E Aguilo, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, LS Ancu, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, MS Anzelc, Y Arnoud, M Arov, M Arthaud, A Askew, B Åsman, ACS Assis Jesus, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, C Ay, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, DV Bandurin, S Banerjee, P Banerjee, E Barberis, AF Barfuss, P Bargassa, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, S Beale, A Bean, M Begalli, M Begel, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, A Bellavance, JA Benitez, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, L Berntzon, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, C Biscarat, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, K Bloom, A Boehnlein, D Boline, TA Bolton, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, S Burdin, S Burke, TH Burnett, CP Buszello, JM Butler, P Calfayan, S Calvet, J Cammin, S Caron, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, NM Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan

Search for New Heavy Particles Decaying to Z^0 Z^0 -> eeee in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

ArXiv 0801.1129 (2008)

Authors:

CDF Collaboration, A Aaltonen

Measurement of the ratios of the Z / γ* + ≥ n jet production cross sections to the total inclusive Z / γ* cross section in p over(p, -) collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96  TeV

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 658:4 (2008) 112-119

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, MS Anzelc, Y Arnoud, M Arov, A Askew, B Åsman, ACSA Jesus, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, C Ay, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, DV Bandurin, P Banerjee, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Bargassa, P Baringer, C Barnes, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, M Begalli, M Begel, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, A Bellavance, JA Benitez, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, L Berntzon, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Binder, C Biscarat, KM Black, I Blackler, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, K Bloom, U Blumenschein, A Boehnlein, O Boeriu, TA Bolton, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, S Burdin, S Burke, TH Burnett, E Busato, CP Buszello, JM Butler, P Calfayan, S Calvet, J Cammin, S Caron, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, NM Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty

Abstract:

We present a study of events with Z bosons and associated jets produced at the Fermilab Tevatron collider in p over(p, ̄) collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The data sample consists of nearly 14 000 Z / γ* → e+ e- candidates corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.4 fb-1 collected with the DØ detector. Ratios of the Z / γ* + ≥ n jet cross sections to the total inclusive Z / γ* cross section have been measured for n = 1 - 4 jets, and found to be in good agreement with a next-to-leading order QCD calculation and with a tree-level QCD prediction with parton shower simulation and hadronization.

Alignment of the pixel and SCT modules for the 2004 ATLAS combined test beam

Journal of Instrumentation 3:9 (2008)

Authors:

A Ahmad, A Andreazza, T Atkinson, J Baines, AJ Barr, R Beccherle, PJ Bell, J Bernabeu, Z Broklova, PA Bruckman De Renstrom, D Cauz, L Chevalier, S Chouridou, M Citterio, A Clark, M Cobal, T Cornelissen, S Correard, MJ Costa, D Costanzo, S Cuneo, M Dameri, G Darbo, JB De Vivie, B Di Girolamo, D Dobos, Z Drasal, J Drohan, K Einsweiler, M Elsing, D Emelyanov, C Escobar, K Facius, P Ferrari, D Fergusson, D Ferrere, T Flick, D Froidevaux, G Gagliardi, M Gallas, BJ Gallop, KK Gan, C Garcia, IL Gavrilenko, C Gemme, P Gerlach, T Golling, S Gonzalez-Sevilla, MJ Goodrick, G Gorfine, T Göttfert, J Grosse-Knetter, PH Hansen, K Hara, R Härtel, A Harvey, RJ Hawkings, FEW Heinemann, T Henss, JC Hill, F Huegging, E Jansen, J Joseph, M Karagöz Ünel, M Kataoka, S Kersten, A Khomich, R Klingenberg, P Kodys, T Koffas, N Konstantinidis, V Kostyukhin, C Lacasta, T Lari, S Latorre, CG Lester, W Liebig, A Lipniacka, KF Lourerio, M Mangin-Brinet, S Marti I Garcia, M Mathes, C Meroni, B Mikulec, B Mindur, S Moed, G Moorhead, P Morettini, EWJ Moyse, K Nakamura, P Nechaeva, K Nikolaev, F Parodi, S Parzhitskiy, J Pater, R Petti, PW Phillips, B Pinto, A Poppleton

Abstract:

A small set of final prototypes of the ATLAS Inner Detector silicon tracking system (Pixel Detector and SemiConductor Tracker), were used to take data during the 2004 Combined Test Beam. Data were collected from runs with beams of different flavour (electrons, pions, muons and photons) with a momentum range of 2 to 180 GeV/c. Four independent methods were used to align the silicon modules. The corrections obtained were validated using the known momenta of the beam particles and were shown to yield consistent results among the different alignment approaches. From the residual distributions, it is concluded that the precision attained in the alignment of the silicon modules is of the order of 5 μm in their most precise coordinate. © 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA.