Search for Heavy, Long-Lived Particles that Decay to Photons at CDF II

ArXiv 0704.0760 (2007)

Polarizations of J/psi and psi(2S) Mesons Produced in ppbar Collisions at 1.96 TeV

ArXiv 0704.0638 (2007)

Measurement of the top-quark mass in all-hadronic decays in pp̄ collisions at CDF II

Physical Review Letters 98:14 (2007)

Authors:

T Aaltonen, A Abulencia, J Adelman, T Affolder, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, JF Arguin, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, P Azzurri, N Bacchetta, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, V Bartsch, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, A Belloni, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, T Berry, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, 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, S Budroni, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, S Carillo, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, 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 Ciljak, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci

Abstract:

We present a measurement of the top-quark mass Mtop in the all-hadronic decay channel tt̄→W+bW-b̄→q1q̄2bq3q̄4b̄. The analysis is performed using 310pb-1 of s=1.96TeV pp̄ collisions collected with the CDF II detector using a multijet trigger. The mass measurement is based on an event-by-event likelihood which depends on both the sample purity and the value of the top-quark mass, using 90 possible jet-to-parton assignments in the six-jet final state. The joint likelihood of 290 selected events yields a value of Mtop=177.1±4.9(stat)±4.7(syst)GeV/c2. © 2007 The American Physical Society.

Event shapes in deep inelastic scattering at HERA

Nuclear Physics B 767:1-2 (2007) 1-28

Authors:

S Chekanov, M Derrick, S Magill, S Miglioranzi, B Musgrave, D Nicholass, J Repond, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, 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, L Rinaldi, G Sartorelli, A Zichichi, G Aghuzumtsyan, D Bartsch, I Brock, S Goers, H Hartmann, E Hilger, HP Jakob, M Jüngst, OM Kind, E Paul, J Rautenberg, R Renner, U Samson, V Schönberg, M Wang, M Wlasenko, NH Brook, GP Heath, JD Morris, T Namsoo, 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, A Bonato, K Borras, N Coppola, J Fourletova, A Geiser, D Gladkov, P Göttlicher, I Gregor, O Gutsche, T Haas, W Hain, C Horn, B Kahle, U Kötz

Abstract:

Mean values and differential distributions of event-shape variables have been studied in neutral current deep inelastic scattering using an integrated luminosity of 82.2 pb-1 collected with the ZEUS detector at HERA. The kinematic range is 80 < Q2 < 20 480 GeV2 and 0.0024 < x < 0.6, where Q2 is the virtuality of the exchanged boson and x is the Bjorken variable. The data are compared with a model based on a combination of next-to-leading-order QCD calculations with next-to-leading-logarithm corrections and the Dokshitzer-Webber non-perturbative power corrections. The power-correction method provides a reasonable description of the data for all event-shape variables studied. Nevertheless, the lack of consistency of the determination of αs and of the non-perturbative parameter of the model, over(α0, -), suggests the importance of higher-order processes that are not yet included in the model. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Measurement of open beauty production at HERA in the D *μ final state

European Physical Journal C 50:2 (2007) 299-314

Authors:

S Chekanov, M Derrick, S Magill, S Miglioranzi, B Musgrave, D Nicholass, J Repond, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, 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, L Rinaldi, G Sartorelli, A Zichichi, G Aghuzumtsyan, D Bartsch, I Brock, S Goers, H Hartmann, E Hilger, HP Jakob, M Jüngst, OM Kind, E Paul, J Rautenberg, R Renner, U Samson, V Schönberg, M Wang, M Wlasenko, NH Brook, GP Heath, JD Morris, T Namsoo, 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, A Bonato, K Borras, N Coppola, J Fourletova, A Geiser, D Gladkov, P Göttlicher, I Gregor, T Haas, W Hain, C Horn, B Kahle, U Kötz, H Kowalski

Abstract:

The production of beauty quarks with a D*± and a muon in the final state has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 114 pb-1. Low transverse-momentum thresholds for the muon and D* meson allow for a measurement of beauty production closer to the production threshold than previous measurements. The beauty signal was extracted using the charge correlations and angular distributions of the muon with respect to the D* meson. Cross sections for photoproduction and deep inelastic scattering are somewhat higher than, but compatible with, next-to-leading-order QCD predictions, and compatible with other measurements. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.