Measurement of high-Q2 neutral current deep inelastic e+p scattering cross sections with a longitudinally polarised positron beam at HERA

(2012)

Authors:

ZEUS Collaboration, H Abramowicz, I Abt, L Adamczyk, M Adamus, R Aggarwal, S Antonelli, P Antonioli, A Antonov, M Arneodo, O Arslan, V Aushev, Y Aushev, O Bachynska, A Bamberger, AN Barakbaev, G Barbagli, G Bari, F Barreiro, N Bartosik, D Bartsch, M Basile, O Behnke, J Behr, U Behrens, L Bellagamba, A Bertolin, S Bhadra, M Bindi, C Blohm, V Bokhonov, T Bold, K Bondarenko, EG Boos, K Borras, D Boscherini, D Bot, I Brock, E Brownson, R Brugnera, N Brummer, A Bruni, G Bruni, B Brzozowska, PJ Bussey, B Bylsma, A Caldwell, M Capua, R Carlin, CD Catterall, S Chekanov, J Chwastowski, J Ciborowski, R Ciesielski, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, AM Cooper-Sarkar, N Coppola, M Corradi, F Corriveau, M Costa, G D'Agostini, F Dal Corso, J del Peso, RK Dementiev, S De Pasquale, M Derrick, RCE Devenish, D Dobur, BA Dolgoshein, G Dolinska, AT Doyle, V Drugakov, LS Durkin, S Dusini, Y Eisenberg, PF Ermolov, A Eskreys, S Fang, S Fazio, J Ferrando, MI Ferrero, J Figiel, B Foster, G Gach, A Galas, E Gallo, A Garfagnini, A Geiser, I Gialas, A Gizhko, LK Gladilin, D Gladkov, C Glasman, O Gogota, Yu A Golubkov, P Gottlicher, I Grabowska-Bold, J Grebenyuk, I Gregor, G Grigorescu, G Grzelak, O Gueta, M Guzik, C Gwenlan, T Haas, W Hain, R Hamatsu, JC Hart, H Hartmann, G Hartner, E Hilger, D Hochman, R Hori, A Huttmann, ZA Ibrahim, Y Iga, R Ingbir, M Ishitsuka, H-P Jakob, F Januschek, TW Jones, M Jungst, I Kadenko, B Kahle, S Kananov, T Kanno, U Karshon, F Karstens, II Katkov, M Kaur, P Kaur, A Keramidas, LA Khein, JY Kim, D Kisielewska, S Kitamura, R Klanner, U Klein, E Koffeman, N Kondrashova, O Kononenko, P Kooijman, Ie Korol, IA Korzhavina, A Kotanski, U Kotz, H Kowalski, O Kuprash, M Kuze, A Lee, BB Levchenko, A Levy, V Libov, S Limentani, TY Ling, M Lisovyi, E Lobodzinska, W Lohmann, B Lohr, E Lohrmann, KR Long, A Longhin, D Lontkovskyi, O Yu Lukina, J Maeda, S Magill, I Makarenko, J Malka, R Mankel, A Margotti, G Marini, JF Martin, A Mastroberardino, MCK Mattingly, I-A Melzer-Pellmann, S Mergelmeyer, S Miglioranzi, F Mohamad Idris, V Monaco, A Montanari, JD Morris, K Mujkic, B Musgrave, K Nagano, T Namsoo, R Nania, A Nigro, Y Ning, T Nobe, D Notz, RJ Nowak, AE Nuncio-Quiroz, BY Oh, N Okazaki, K Olkiewicz, Yu Onishchuk, K Papageorgiu, A Parenti, E Paul, JM Pawlak, B Pawlik, PG Pelfer, A Pellegrino, W Perlanski, H Perrey, K Piotrzkowski, P Plucinski, NS Pokrovskiy, A Polini, AS Proskuryakov, M Przybycien, A Raval, DD Reeder, B Reisert, Z Ren, J Repond, YD Ri, A Robertson, P Roloff, I Rubinsky, M Ruspa, R Sacchi, U Samson, G Sartorelli, AA Savin, DH Saxon, M Schioppa, S Schlenstedt, P Schleper, WB Schmidke, U Schneekloth, V Schonberg, T Schorner-Sadenius, J Schwartz, F Sciulli, LM Shcheglova, R Shehzadi, S Shimizu, I Singh, IO Skillicorn, W Slominski, WH Smith, V Sola, A Solano, D Son, V Sosnovtsev, A Spiridonov, H Stadie, L Stanco, N Stefaniuk, A Stern, TP Stewart, A Stifutkin, P Stopa, S Suchkov, G Susinno, L Suszycki, J Sztuk-Dambietz, D Szuba, J Szuba, AD Tapper, E Tassi, J Terron, T Theedt, H Tiecke, K Tokushuku, J Tomaszewska, V Trusov, T Tsurugai, M Turcato, O Turkot, T Tymieniecka, M Vazquez, A Verbytskyi, O Viazlo, NN Vlasov, R Walczak, WAT Wan Abdullah, JJ Whitmore, K Wichmann, L Wiggers, M Wing, M Wlasenko, G Wolf, H Wolfe, K Wrona, AG Yagues-Molina, S Yamada, Y Yamazaki, R Yoshida, C Youngman, O Zabiegalov, AF Zarnecki, L Zawiejski, O Zenaiev, W Zeuner, BO Zhautykov, N Zhmak, A Zichichi, Z Zolkapli, DS Zotkin

Measurement of isolated photons accompanied by jets in deep inelastic ep scattering

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 715:1-3 (2012) 88-97

Authors:

H Abramowicz, I Abt, L Adamczyk, M Adamus, R Aggarwal, S Antonelli, P Antonioli, A Antonov, M Arneodo, O Arslan, V Aushev, Y Aushev, O Bachynska, A Bamberger, AN Barakbaev, G Barbagli, G Bari, F Barreiro, N Bartosik, D Bartsch, M Basile, O Behnke, J Behr, U Behrens, L Bellagamba, A Bertolin, S Bhadra, M Bindi, C Blohm, V Bokhonov, T Bołd, K Bondarenko, EG Boos, K Borras, D Boscherini, D Bot, I Brock, E Brownson, R Brugnera, N Brümmer, A Bruni, G Bruni, B Brzozowska, PJ Bussey, B Bylsma, A Caldwell, M Capua, R Carlin, CD Catterall, S Chekanov, J Chwastowski, J Ciborowski, R Ciesielski, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, AM Cooper-Sarkar, N Coppola, M Corradi, F Corriveau, M Costa, G D'Agostini, F Dal Corso, J del Peso, RK Dementiev, S De Pasquale, M Derrick, RCE Devenish, D Dobur, BA Dolgoshein, G Dolinska, AT Doyle, V Drugakov, LS Durkin, S Dusini, Y Eisenberg, PF Ermolov, A Eskreys, S Fang, S Fazio, J Ferrando, MI Ferrero, J Figiel, M Forrest, B Foster, G Gach, A Galas, E Gallo, A Garfagnini, A Geiser, I Gialas, A Gizhko, LK Gladilin, D Gladkov, C Glasman, O Gogota, YA Golubkov, P Göttlicher, I Grabowska-Bołd, J Grebenyuk

Abstract:

The production of isolated high-energy photons accompanied by jets has been measured in deep inelastic ep scattering with the ZEUS detector at HERA, using an integrated luminosity of 326pb -1. Measurements were made for exchanged photon virtualities, Q 2, in the range 10 to 350GeV 2. The photons were measured in the transverse-energy and pseudorapidity ranges 4

Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a Z boson in 7.9 fb -1 of pp- collisions at s=1.96 TeV using the CDF II detector

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 715:1-3 (2012) 98-104

Authors:

T Aaltonen, 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, M d'Errico

Abstract:

We present a search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a Z boson, using up to 7.9 fb -1 of integrated luminosity from pp- collisions collected with the CDF II detector. We utilize several novel techniques, including multivariate lepton selection, multivariate trigger parametrization, and a multi-stage signal discriminant consisting of specialized functions trained to distinguish individual backgrounds. By increasing acceptance and enhancing signal discrimination, these techniques have significantly improved the sensitivity of the analysis above what was expected from a larger dataset alone. We observe no significant evidence for a signal, and we set limits on the ZH production cross section. For a Higgs boson with mass 115 GeV/c 2, we expect (observe) a limit of 3.9 (4.8) times the standard model predicted value, at the 95% credibility level. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.

Study of W boson production in PbPb and pp collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 715:1-3 (2012) 66-87

Authors:

S Chatrchyan, V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, T Bergauer, M Dragicevic, J Erö, C Fabjan, M Friedl, R Frühwirth, VM Ghete, J Hammer, N Hörmann, J Hrubec, M Jeitler, W Kiesenhofer, V Knünz, M Krammer, D Liko, I Mikulec, M Pernicka, B Rahbaran, C Rohringer, H Rohringer, R Schöfbeck, J Strauss, A Taurok, P Wagner, W Waltenberger, G Walzel, E Widl, CE Wulz, V Mossolov, N Shumeiko, J Suarez Gonzalez, S Bansal, T Cornelis, EA De Wolf, X Janssen, S Luyckx, T Maes, L Mucibello, S Ochesanu, B Roland, R Rougny, M Selvaggi, Z Staykova, H Van Haevermaet, P Van Mechelen, N Van Remortel, A Van Spilbeeck, F Blekman, S Blyweert, J D'Hondt, R Gonzalez Suarez, A Kalogeropoulos, M Maes, A Olbrechts, W Van Doninck, P Van Mulders, GP Van Onsem, I Villella, O Charaf, B Clerbaux, G De Lentdecker, V Dero, APR Gay, T Hreus, A Léonard, PE Marage, T Reis, L Thomas, C Vander Velde, P Vanlaer, J Wang, V Adler, K Beernaert, A Cimmino, S Costantini, G Garcia, M Grunewald, B Klein, J Lellouch, A Marinov, J McCartin, AA Ocampo Rios, D Ryckbosch, N Strobbe, F Thyssen, M Tytgat, L Vanelderen, P Verwilligen, S Walsh, E Yazgan, N Zaganidis, S Basegmez, G Bruno, R Castello, A Caudron

Abstract:

A measurement is presented of W-boson production in PbPb collisions carried out at a nucleon-nucleon (NN) centre-of-mass energy sNN of 2.76 TeV at the LHC using the CMS detector. In data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 7.3 μb-1, the number of W→μνμ decays is extracted in the region of muon pseudorapidity |ημ|<2.1 and transverse momentum pTμ>25 GeV/c. Yields of muons found per unit of pseudorapidity correspond to (159±10(stat.)±12(syst.))×10-8 W+ and (154±10(stat.)±12(syst.))×10-8 W- bosons per minimum-bias PbPb collision. The dependence of W production on the centrality of PbPb collisions is consistent with a scaling of the yield by the number of incoherent NN collisions. The yield of W bosons is also studied in a sample of pp interactions at s=2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 231 nb-1. The individual W+ and W- yields in PbPb and pp collisions are found to agree, once the neutron and proton content in Pb nuclei is taken into account. Likewise, the difference observed in the dependence of the positive and negative muon production on pseudorapidity is consistent with next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations. © 2012 CERN.

Search for supersymmetry in events with b-quark jets and missing transverse energy in pp collisions at 7 TeV

ArXiv 1208.4859 (2012)