Measurement of the WW production cross section in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV
Physical Review Letters 94:15 (2005)
Abstract:
We present a measurement of the W boson pair-production cross section in pp̄ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √s = 1.96 TeV. The data, collected with the Run II D0 detector at Fermilab, correspond to an integrated luminosity of 224-252 pb-1 depending on the final state (ee, eμ, or μμ). We observe 25 candidates with a background expectation of 8.1 ± 0.6(stat) ± 0.6(syst) ± 0.5(1um) events. The probability for an upward fluctuation of the background to produce the observed signal is 2.3 X 10~7, equivalent to 5.2 standard deviations. The measurement yields a cross section of 13.8-3.8+4.3(stat)-0.9+1.2(syst) ±0,9(1um) pb, in agreement with predictions from the standard model. © 2005 The American Physical Society.Search for Anomalous Heavy-Flavor Quark Production in Association with W Bosons
Physical Review Letters 94:15 (2005)
Abstract:
We search for anomalous production of heavy-flavor quark jets in association with W bosons at the Fermilab Tevatron pp̄ Collider in final states in which the heavy-flavor quark content is enhanced by requiring at least one tagged jet in an event. Jets are tagged using one algorithm based on semileptonic decays of b/c hadrons, and another on their lifetimes. We compare e + jets (164 pb-1) and μ + jets (145 pb-1) channels collected with the D0 detector at √s = 1.96 TeV to expectations from the standard model and set upper limits on anomalous production of such events. © 2005 The American Physical Society.Measurement of the azimuthal angle distribution of leptons from W boson decays as a function of the W transverse momentum in proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV
ArXiv hep-ex/0504020 (2005)
Measurement of Partial Widths and Search for Direct CP Violation in $D^0$ Meson Decays to $K^-K^+$ and $π^-π^+$
ArXiv hep-ex/0504006 (2005)