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Measurement of the Λb lifetime in the exclusive decay Λb→J/ψΛ

Physical Review Letters 99:14 (2007)

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, 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, 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, K Chan

Abstract:

We have measured the Λb lifetime using the exclusive decay Λb→J/ψΛ, based on 1.2fb-1 of data collected with the D0 detector during 2002-2006. From 171 reconstructed Λb decays, where the J/ψ and Λ are identified via the decays J/ψ→μ+μ- and Λ→pπ, we measured the Λb lifetime to be τ(Λb)=1.218-0.115+0.130(stat)±0.042(syst)ps. We also measured the B0 lifetime in the decay B0→J/ψ(μ+μ-)KS0(π+π-) to be τ(B0)=1.501-0.074+0.078(stat)±0.050(syst)ps, yielding a lifetime ratio of τ(Λb)/τ(B0)=0.811-0.087+0.096(stat)±0.034(syst). © 2007 The American Physical Society.
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Search for new particles leading to Z+jets final states in pp¯ collisions at s=1.96 TeV

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 76:7 (2007) 072006

Authors:

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, P-H 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, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, M Coca, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, B Cooper, K Copic, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, F Crescioli, C Cuenca Almenar, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, JC Cully, S DaRonco, M Datta, S D’Auria, T Davies, D Dagenhart, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, A Deisher, G De Lentdecker, G De Lorenzo, M Dell’Orso, F Delli Paoli, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, GP Di Giovanni, C Dionisi, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D’Onofrio, C Dörr, S Donati, P Dong, J Donini, T Dorigo, S Dube, J Efron, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, HC Fang, S Farrington, I Fedorko, WT Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, S Forrester, M Franklin, JC Freeman, I Furic, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, JE Garcia, F Garberson, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, H Gerberich, D Gerdes, S Giagu, P Giannetti, K Gibson, JL Gimmell, C Ginsburg, N Giokaris, M Giordani, P Giromini, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, J Goldstein, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, A Gresele, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, U Grundler, J Guimaraes da Costa, Z Gunay-Unalan, C Haber, K Hahn, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamilton, B-Y Han, JY Han, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, D Hare, M Hare, S Harper, RF Harr, RM Harris, M Hartz, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, C Hays, M Heck, A Heijboer, B Heinemann, J Heinrich, C Henderson, M Herndon, J Heuser, D Hidas, CS Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, A Holloway, S Hou, M Houlden, S-C Hsu, BT Huffman, RE Hughes, U Husemann, J Huston, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, B Iyutin, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, D Jeans, EJ Jeon, S Jindariani, W Johnson, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, JE Jung, TR Junk, T Kamon, PE Karchin, Y Kato, Y Kemp, R Kephart, U Kerzel, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, N Kimura, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, M Klute, B Knuteson, BR Ko, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, A Korytov, AV Kotwal, AC Kraan, J Kraus, M Kreps, J Kroll, N Krumnack, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kubo, SE Kuhlmann, T Kuhr, NP Kulkarni, Y Kusakabe, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, I Lazzizzera, T LeCompte, J Lee, J Lee, YJ Lee, SW Lee, R Lefèvre, N Leonardo, S Leone, S Levy, JD Lewis, C Lin, CS Lin, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, T Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, R-S Lu, D Lucchesi, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, L Lyons, J Lys, R Lysak, E Lytken, P Mack, D MacQueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, K Makhoul, T Maki, P Maksimovic, S Malde, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis, F Margaroli, R Marginean, C Marino, CP Marino, A Martin, M Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, R Martínez-Ballarín, T Maruyama, P Mastrandrea, T Masubuchi, H Matsunaga, ME Mattson, R Mazini, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, S Menzemer, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Messina, T Miao, N Miladinovic, J Miles, R Miller, C Mills, M Milnik, A Mitra, G Mitselmakher, A Miyamoto, S Moed, N Moggi, B Mohr, CS Moon, R Moore, M Morello, P Movilla Fernandez, J Mülmenstädt, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, R Mumford, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, A Nagano, J Naganoma, K Nakamura, I Nakano, A Napier, V Necula, C Neu, MS Neubauer, J Nielsen, L Nodulman, O Norniella, E Nurse, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Oldeman, R Orava, K Osterberg, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, A Papaikonomou, AA Paramonov, B Parks, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, L Pinera, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, X Portell, O Poukhov, N Pounder, F Prakoshyn, A Pronko, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Pursley, J Rademacker, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, N Ranjan, I Redondo, B Reisert, V Rekovic, P Renton, M Rescigno, S Richter, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodrigo, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, M Rossi, R Rossin, P Roy, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, H Saarikko, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, G Salamanna, O Saltó, L Santi, S Sarkar, L Sartori, K Sato, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, T Scheidle, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, AL Scott, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, L Sexton-Kennedy, A Sfyrla, SZ Shalhout, MD Shapiro, T Shears, PF Shepard, D Sherman, M Shimojima, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, A Sidoti, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, AJ Slaughter, J Slaunwhite, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, M Soderberg, A Soha, S Somalwar, V Sorin, J Spalding, F Spinella, T Spreitzer, P Squillacioti, M Stanitzki, A Staveris-Polykalas, R St. Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, D Stuart, JS Suh, A Sukhanov, H Sun, I Suslov, T Suzuki, A Taffard, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, R Tanaka, M Tecchio, PK Teng, K Terashi, J Thom, AS Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, V Tiwari, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, S Tourneur, W Trischuk, S Tsuno, Y Tu, N Turini, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, S Vallecorsa, N van Remortel, A Varganov, E Vataga, F Vazquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, G Veramendi, V Veszpremi, M Vidal, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, T Vine, M Vogel, I Vollrath, I Volobouev, G Volpi, F Würthwein, P Wagner, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, J Wagner, W Wagner, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, M Weinberger, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, G Williams, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, C Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, SM Wynne, A Yagil, K Yamamoto, J Yamaoka, T Yamashita, C Yang, UK Yang, YC Yang, WM Yao, GP Yeh, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, GB Yu, I Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, I Zaw, X Zhang, J Zhou, S Zucchelli
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Searches for direct pair production of supersymmetric top and supersymmetric bottom quarks in pp¯ collisions at s=1.96 TeV

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 76:7 (2007) 072010

Authors:

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, P-H 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 Carillo, 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, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, M Coca, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, B Cooper, K Copic, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, F Crescioli, C Cuenca Almenar, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, JC Cully, S DaRonco, M Datta, S D’Auria, T Davies, D Dagenhart, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, A Deisher, G De Lentdecker, G De Lorenzo, M Dell’Orso, F Delli Paoli, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, GP Di Giovanni, C Dionisi, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D’Onofrio, C Dörr, S Donati, P Dong, J Donini, T Dorigo, S Dube, J Efron, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, HC Fang, S Farrington, I Fedorko, WT Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, S Forrester, M Franklin, JC Freeman, I Furic, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, JE Garcia, F Garberson, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, H Gerberich, D Gerdes, S Giagu, P Giannetti, K Gibson, JL Gimmell, C Ginsburg, N Giokaris, M Giordani, P Giromini, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, J Goldstein, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, A Gresele, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, U Grundler, J Guimaraes da Costa, Z Gunay-Unalan, C Haber, K Hahn, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamilton, B-Y Han, JY Han, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, D Hare, M Hare, S Harper, RF Harr, RM Harris, M Hartz, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, C Hays, M Heck, A Heijboer, B Heinemann, J Heinrich, C Henderson, M Herndon, J Heuser, D Hidas, CS Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, A Holloway, S Hou, M Houlden, S-C Hsu, BT Huffman, RE Hughes, U Husemann, J Huston, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, B Iyutin, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, D Jeans, EJ Jeon, S Jindariani, W Johnson, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, JE Jung, TR Junk, T Kamon, PE Karchin, Y Kato, Y Kemp, R Kephart, U Kerzel, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, N Kimura, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, M Klute, B Knuteson, BR Ko, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, A Korytov, AV Kotwal, AC Kraan, J Kraus, M Kreps, J Kroll, N Krumnack, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kubo, SE Kuhlmann, T Kuhr, NP Kulkarni, Y Kusakabe, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, I Lazzizzera, T LeCompte, J Lee, J Lee, YJ Lee, SW Lee, R Lefèvre, N Leonardo, S Leone, S Levy, JD Lewis, C Lin, CS Lin, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, T Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, R-S Lu, D Lucchesi, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, L Lyons, J Lys, R Lysak, E Lytken, P Mack, D MacQueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, K Makhoul, T Maki, P Maksimovic, S Malde, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis, F Margaroli, R Marginean, C Marino, CP Marino, A Martin, M Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, R Martínez-Ballarín, T Maruyama, P Mastrandrea, T Masubuchi, H Matsunaga, ME Mattson, R Mazini, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, S Menzemer, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Messina, T Miao, N Miladinovic, J Miles, R Miller, C Mills, M Milnik, A Mitra, G Mitselmakher, A Miyamoto, S Moed, N Moggi, B Mohr, CS Moon, R Moore, M Morello, P Movilla Fernandez, J Mülmenstädt, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, R Mumford, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, A Nagano, J Naganoma, K Nakamura, I Nakano, A Napier, V Necula, C Neu, MS Neubauer, J Nielsen, L Nodulman, O Norniella, E Nurse, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Oldeman, R Orava, K Osterberg, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, A Papaikonomou, AA Paramonov, B Parks, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, L Pinera, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, X Portell, O Poukhov, N Pounder, F Prakoshyn, A Pronko, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Pursley, J Rademacker, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, N Ranjan, I Redondo, B Reisert, V Rekovic, P Renton, M Rescigno, S Richter, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodrigo, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, M Rossi, R Rossin, P Roy, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, H Saarikko, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, G Salamanna, O Saltó, L Santi, S Sarkar, L Sartori, K Sato, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, T Scheidle, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, AL Scott, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, L Sexton-Kennedy, A Sfyrla, SZ Shalhout, MD Shapiro, T Shears, PF Shepard, D Sherman, M Shimojima, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, A Sidoti, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, AJ Slaughter, J Slaunwhite, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, M Soderberg, A Soha, S Somalwar, V Sorin, J Spalding, F Spinella, T Spreitzer, P Squillacioti, M Stanitzki, A Staveris-Polykalas, R St. Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, D Stuart, JS Suh, A Sukhanov, H Sun, I Suslov, T Suzuki, A Taffard, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, R Tanaka, M Tecchio, PK Teng, K Terashi, J Thom, AS Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, V Tiwari, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, S Tourneur, W Trischuk, S Tsuno, Y Tu, N Turini, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, S Vallecorsa, N van Remortel, A Varganov, E Vataga, F Vazquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, G Veramendi, V Veszpremi, M Vidal, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, T Vine, M Vogel, I Vollrath, I Volobouev, G Volpi, F Würthwein, P Wagner, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, J Wagner, W Wagner, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, M Weinberger, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, G Williams, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, C Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, SM Wynne, A Yagil, K Yamamoto, J Yamaoka, T Yamashita, C Yang, UK Yang, YC Yang, WM Yao, GP Yeh, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, GB Yu, I Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, I Zaw, X Zhang, J Zhou, S Zucchelli
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Measurement of the tt̄ production cross section in pp̄ collisions using dilepton events

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 76:5 (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 Åsman, ACSA 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

Abstract:

We present a measurement of the tt̄ pair production cross section in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV utilizing approximately 425pb-1 of data collected with the D0 detector. We consider decay channels containing two high pT charged leptons (either e or μ) from leptonic decays of both top-daughter W bosons. These were gathered using four sets of selection criteria, three of which required that a pair of fully identified leptons (i.e., eμ, ee, or μμ) be found. The fourth approach imposed less restrictive criteria on one of the lepton candidates and required that at least one hadronic jet in each event be tagged as containing a b quark. For a top quark mass of 175 GeV, the measured cross section is 7.4±1.4(stat)±1.0(syst)pb and for the current Tevatron average top quark mass of 170.9 GeV, the resulting value of the cross section is 7.8±1.8(stat+syst)pb. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
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Polarizations of J/psi and psi(2S) mesons produced in pp collisions at square root s = 1.96 TeV.

Phys Rev Lett 99:13 (2007) 132001

Authors:

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, P-H 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 Carillo, 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, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, M Coca, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, B Cooper, K Copic, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, F Crescioli, C Cuenca Almenar, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, JC Cully, S Daronco, M Datta, S D'Auria, T Davies, D Dagenhart, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, A Deisher, G De Lentdecker, G De Lorenzo, M Dell'orso, F Delli Paoli, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, GP Di Giovanni, C Dionisi, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D'Onofrio, C Dörr, S Donati, P Dong, J Donini, T Dorigo, S Dube, J Efron, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, HC Fang, S Farrington, I Fedorko, WT Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, S Forrester, M Franklin, JC Freeman, I Furic, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, JE Garcia, F Garberson, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, H Gerberich, D Gerdes, S Giagu, P Giannetti, K Gibson, JL Gimmell, C Ginsburg, N Giokaris, 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Abstract:

We have measured the polarizations of J/psi and psi(2S) mesons as functions of their transverse momentum p(T) when they are produced promptly in the rapidity range |y| < 0.6 with p(T) > or =5 GeV/c. The analysis is performed using a data sample with an integrated luminosity of about 800 pb(-1) collected by the CDF II detector. For both vector mesons, we find that the polarizations become increasingly longitudinal as p(T) increases from 5 to 30 GeV/c. These results are compared to the predictions of nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics and other contemporary models. The effective polarizations of J/psi and psi(2S) mesons from B-hadron decays are also reported.
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