Search for a two-higgs-boson doublet using a simplified model in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV

Physical Review Letters 110:12 (2013)

Authors:

T Aaltonen, J Adelman, B Álvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, T Bae, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, F Bedeschi, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, D Bisello, I Bizjak, KR Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, WH Chung, YS Chung, MA Ciocci, A Clark, C Clarke, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, N D'Ascenzo, M Datta, P De Barbaro, M Dell'Orso, L Demortier, M Deninno, F Devoto

Abstract:

We present a search for new particles in an extension to the standard model that includes a heavy Higgs boson (H0), a lighter charged Higgs boson (H ±), and an even lighter Higgs boson h0, with decays leading to a W-boson pair and a bottom-antibottom quark pair in the final state. We use events with exactly one lepton, missing transverse momentum, and at least four jets in data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 8.7 fb-1 collected by the CDF II detector in proton-antiproton collisions at √s=1.96 TeV. We find the data to be consistent with standard model predictions and report the results in terms of a simplified Higgs-cascade-decay model, setting 95% confidence level upper limits on the product of cross section and branching fraction from 1.3 pb to 15 fb as a function of H0 and H ± masses for mh0=126 GeV/c2. © 2013 American Physical Society.

Measurement of associated production of vector bosons and top quark-antiquark pairs at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

ArXiv 1303.3239 (2013)

Muon-induced background in the EDELWEISS dark matter search

Astroparticle Physics 44 (2013) 28-39

Authors:

B Schmidt, E Armengaud, C Augier, A Benoit, L Bergé, T Bergmann, J Blümer, G Bres, A Broniatowski, V Brudanin, B Censier, M Chapellier, F Charlieux, S Collin, P Coulter, GA Cox, O Crauste, J Domange, L Dumoulin, K Eitel, D Filosofov, N Fourches, G Garde, J Gascon, G Gerbier, M Gros, L Hehn, S Henry, S Hervé, G Heuermann, A Juillard, H Kluck, VY Kozlov, M Kleifges, H Kraus, VA Kudryavtsev, P Loaiza, S Marnieros, A Menshikov, XF Navick, H Nieder, C Nones, E Olivieri, P Pari, B Paul, M Robinson, H Rodenas, S Rozov, V Sanglard, B Siebenborn, D Tcherniakhovski, AS Torrentó-Coello, L Vagneron, RJ Walker, M Weber, E Yakushev, X Zhang

Abstract:

A dedicated analysis of the muon-induced background in the EDELWEISS dark matter search has been performed on a data set acquired in 2009 and 2010. The total muon flux underground in the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM) was measured to be Φμ=(5.4±0.2-0.9+0.5) muons/m 2/d. The modular design of the μ-veto system allows the reconstruction of the muon trajectory and hence the determination of the angular dependent muon flux in LSM. The results are in good agreement with both MC simulations and earlier measurements. Synchronization of the μ-veto system with the phonon and ionization signals of the Ge detector array allowed identification of muon-induced events. Rates for all muon-induced events Γμ=(0.172±0.012)evts/(kgd) and of WIMP-like events Γμ-n=0.008-0.004+0.005evts/(kgd) were extracted. After vetoing, the remaining rate of accepted muon-induced neutrons in the EDELWEISS-II dark matter search was determined to be Γirredμ- n<6·10-4evts/(kgd) at 90% C.L. Based on these results, the muon-induced background expectation for an anticipated exposure of 3000 kg d for EDELWEISS-III is N3000kgdμ-n<0.6 events. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Search for supersymmetry in hadronic final states with missing transverse energy using the variables AlphaT and b-quark multiplicity in pp collisions at 8 TeV

ArXiv 1303.2985 (2013)

Measurement of the Cross Section for Prompt Isolated Diphoton Production Using the Full CDF Run II Data Sample

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 110:10 (2013) 101801

Authors:

T Aaltonen, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, T Bae, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, F Bedeschi, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, KR Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, P Butti, A Buzatu, A Calamba, S Camarda, M Campanelli, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, K Cho, D Chokheli, MA Ciocci, A Clark, C Clarke, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, M Cremonesi, D Cruz, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, N d’Ascenzo, M Datta, P De Barbaro, L Demortier, M Deninno, F Devoto, M d’Errico, A Di Canto, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D’Onofrio, S Donati, M Dorigo, A Driutti, K Ebina, R Edgar, A Elagin, R Erbacher, S Errede, B Esham, R Eusebi, S Farrington, JP Fernández Ramos, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, M Franklin, JC Freeman, H Frisch, Y Funakoshi, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, K Gibson, CM Ginsburg, N Giokaris, P Giromini, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, D Goldin, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González López, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, E Gramellini, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, J Guimaraes da Costa, SR Hahn, JY Han, F Happacher, K Hara, M Hare, RF Harr, T Harrington-Taber, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, J Heinrich, M Herndon, A Hocker, Z Hong, W Hopkins, S Hou, RE Hughes, U Husemann, J Huston, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, S Jindariani, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, TR Junk, M Kambeitz, T Kamon, PE Karchin, A Kasmi, Y Kato, W Ketchum, J Keung, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, YJ Kim, N Kimura, M Kirby, K Knoepfel, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, AV Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, M Kruse, T Kuhr, M Kurata, AT Laasanen, S Lammel, M Lancaster, K Lannon, G Latino, HS Lee, JS Lee, S Leo, S Leone, JD Lewis, A Limosani, E Lipeles, H Liu, Q Liu, T Liu, S Lockwitz, A Loginov, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, J Lys, R Lysak, R Madrak, P Maestro, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, F Margaroli, P Marino, M Martínez, K Matera, ME Mattson, A Mazzacane, P Mazzanti, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, C Mesropian, T Miao, D Mietlicki, A Mitra, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, I Nakano, A Napier, J Nett, C Neu, T Nigmanov, L Nodulman, SY Noh, O Norniella, L Oakes, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, L Ortolan, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, P Palni, V Papadimitriou, W Parker, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, J Pilot, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, S Poprocki, K Potamianos, F Prokoshin, A Pranko, F Ptohos, G Punzi, N Ranjan, I Redondo Fernández, P Renton, M Rescigno, T Riddick, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodriguez, S Rolli, M Ronzani, R Roser, JL Rosner, F Ruffini, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, Y Sakurai, L Santi, K Sato, V Saveliev, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, F Scuri, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Sforza, SZ Shalhout, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, I Shreyber-Tecker, A Simonenko, P Sinervo, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, V Sorin, H Song, M Stancari, R St. Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, Y Sudo, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, K Takemasa, Y Takeuchi, J Tang, M Tecchio, PK Teng, J Thom, E Thomson, V Thukral, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, M Trovato, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, C Vernieri, M Vidal, R Vilar, J Vizán, M Vogel, G Volpi, P Wagner, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, WC Wester, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, S Wilbur, HH Williams, JS Wilson, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, H Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, Z Wu, K Yamamoto, D Yamato, T Yang, UK Yang, YC Yang, W-M Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, GB Yu, I Yu, AM Zanetti, Y Zeng, C Zhou, S Zucchelli