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CRESST - status and future

NUCL PHYS B-PROC SUP 173 (2007) 104-107

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H Kraus, G Angloher, M Bauer, I Bavykina, C Bucci, P Christ, C Ciemniak, C Cozzini, C Coppi, F von Feilitzsch, D Hauff, S Henry, J Imber, C Isaila, T Jagemann, J Jochum, JC Lanfranchi, R Lang, B Majorovits, M Malek, R McGowan, V Mikhailik, J Ninkovic, E Pantic, F Petricca, S Pfister, W Potzel, F Probst, Y Ramachers, W Rau, M Razeti, K Rottler, S Scholl, W Seidel, M Stark, L Stodolsky, A Tolhurst, W Westphal, H Wulandari

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We present results on WIMP dark matter interaction, obtained using cryogenic phonon-scintillation detectors. The targets are CaWO4 scintillating crystals with phonon sensors, while scintillation is detected with an associated cryogenic light detector. The combination of phonon and light signals leads to a strong suppression of nonnuclear recoil backgrounds. Results obtained before the upgrade of CRESST are presented and a status report on the upgrade itself is given.
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EURECA - the European future of dark matter searches with cryogenic detectors

NUCL PHYS B-PROC SUP 173 (2007) 168-171

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H Kraus, M Bauer, I Bavykina, A Benoit, J Blumer, A Broniatowski, V Brudanin, G Burghart, P Camus, A Chantelauze, M Chapellier, G Chardin, P Christ, C Ciemniak, C Coppi, M De Jesus, A De Lesquen, H Deschamps, P Di Stefano, L Dumoulin, K Eitel, F von Feilitzsch, M Fesquet, J Gascon, G Gerbier, C Goldbach, M Gros, D Hauff, S Henry, M Horn, J Imber, C Isaila, J Jochum, A Juillard, M Kimmerle, JC Lanfranchi, R Lemrani, A Lubashevsky, M Luca, M Malek, S Marnieros, R McGowan, V Mikhailik, XF Navick, T Niinikoski, G Nollez, E Pantic, P Pari, L Perevoshchikov, F Petricca, S Pfister, W Potzel, F Probst, W Rau, F Ritter, K Rottler, V Sanglard, S Scholl, F Schwamm, W Seidel, A Smolnikov, M Stern, M Teshima, B Tolhurst, W Westphal, P Wikus, J Wolf, E Yakushev

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EURECA (European Underground Rare Event Calorimeter Array) is a new project, searching for dark matter, with largely the present groups of the CRESST and EDELWEISS experiments and already a few new groups. The aim is to explore scalar cross sections in the 10(-9) - 10(-10) picobarn region with a target mass of up to one tonne. A major advantage of EURECA is our planned use of more that just one target material (multi target experiment for WIMP identification). In preparation for this large-scale experiment, R&D for EURECA is provided through the current phases of CRESST and EDELWEISS.
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Precise measurement of the top-quark mass in the lepton+jets topology at CDF II

Physical Review Letters 99:18 (2007)

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T Aaltonen, A Abulencia, J Adelman, T Affolder, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, 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, 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, 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, S Carrillo, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, 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, I Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, G Choudalakis, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, M Cilijak

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We present a measurement of the mass of the top quark from proton-antiproton collisions recorded at the CDF experiment in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron. We analyze events from the single lepton plus jets final state (tt̄→W+bW-b̄→lνbqq̄′b̄). The top-quark mass is extracted using a direct calculation of the probability density that each event corresponds to the tt̄ final state. The probability is a function of both the mass of the top quark and the energy scale of the calorimeter jets, which is constrained in situ by the hadronic W boson mass. Using 167 events observed in 955pb-1 of integrated luminosity, we achieve the single most precise measurement of the top-quark mass, 170.8±2.2(stat.) ±1.4(syst.)GeV/c2. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
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Measurement of the Λb0 lifetime using semileptonic decays

Physical Review Letters 99:18 (2007)

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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 Asman, 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

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We report a measurement of the Λb0 lifetime using a sample corresponding to 1.3fb-1 of data collected by the D0 experiment in 2002-2006 during run II of the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The Λb0 baryon is reconstructed via the decay Λb0→μν̄Λc+X. Using 4437±329 signal candidates, we measure the Λb0 lifetime to be τ(Λb0)=1.290-0.110+0.119(stat)-0.091+0.087(syst)ps, which is among the most precise measurements in semileptonic Λb0 decays. This result is in good agreement with the world average value. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
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High-ET dijet photoproduction at HERA

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 76:7 (2007)

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S Chekanov, M Derrick, S Magill, B Musgrave, D Nicholass, J Repond, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, M Jechow, N Pavel, AG Yagües Molina, S Antonelli, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, M Bindi, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, S De Pasquale, G Iacobucci, A Margotti, R Nania, A Polini, G Sartorelli, A Zichichi, D Bartsch, I Brock, S Goers, H Hartmann, E Hilger, HP Jakob, M Jüngst, OM Kind, AE Nuncio-Quiroz, E Paul, R Renner, U Samson, V Schönberg, R Shehzadi, M Wlasenko, NH Brook, GP Heath, JD Morris, M Capua, S Fazio, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, E Tassi, JY Kim, KJ Ma, ZA Ibrahim, B Kamaluddin, WAT Wan Abdullah, Y Ning, Z Ren, F Sciulli, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, A Galas, M Gil, K Olkiewicz, P Stopa, L Zawiejski, L Adamczyk, T Bołd, I Grabowska-Bołd, D Kisielewska, J Łukasik, M Przybycień, L Suszycki, A Kotański, W Słomiński, V Adler, U Behrens, I Bloch, C Blohm, A Bonato, K Borras, R Ciesielski, N Coppola, A Dossanov, V Drugakov, J Fourletova, A Geiser, D Gladkov, P Göttlicher, J Grebenyuk, I Gregor, T Haas, W Hain, C Horn, A Hüttmann

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The cross section for high-ET dijet production in photoproduction has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 81.8pb-1. The events were required to have a virtuality of the incoming photon, Q2, of less than 1GeV2 and a photon-proton center-of-mass energy in the range 14220GeV and ETjet2>15GeV and pseudorapidity (with respect to the proton beam direction) requirements of -1<ηjet1,2<3, with at least one of the jets satisfying -1<ηjet<2.5. The measurements show sensitivity to the parton distributions in the photon and proton and to effects beyond next-to-leading order in QCD. Hence these data can be used to constrain further the parton densities in the proton and photon. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
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