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Performance of multi-anode photomultiplier tubes for the LHCb RICH detectors

NUCL INSTRUM METH A 546:1-2 (2005) 93-98

Authors:

J Bibby, A Buckley, R Chamonal, S Easo, S Eisenhardt, V Gibson, N Harnew, F Muheim, A Howard, J Lawrence, A Pickford, R Plackett, D Price, J Rademacker, N Smale, FJP Soler, L Somerville, J Storey, D Websdale, G Wilkinson, S Wotton

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An array of Multi-anode Photomultiplier Tubes (MaPMT) was evaluated for use in the LHCb Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors using a prototype RICH detector in a charged particle beam. The MaPMT performance was measured with different radiator gases with and without lenses. The performance of the MaPMTs in terms of photon yield and pixel cross-talk is presented. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Search for the decay τ-→4π-3π+(π0)ντ

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 72:1 (2005) 1-8

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B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, F Couderc, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, V Poireau, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, E Grauges, A Palano, M Pappagallo, A Pompili, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, GS Abrams, M Battaglia, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, E Charles, CT Day, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, G Kukartsev, G Lynch, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, MT Ronan, WA Wenzel, M Barrett, KE Ford, TJ Harrison, AJ Hart, CM Hawkes, SE Morgan, AT Watson, M Fritsch, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, K Peters, T Schroeder, M Steinke, JT Boyd, JP Burke, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, NS Knecht, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, A Khan, P Kyberd, L Teodorescu, AE Blinov, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, VP Druzhinin, VB Golubev, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Bondioli, M Bruinsma, M Chao, I Eschrich, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, RK Mommsen, W Roethel, DP Stoker, C Buchanan, BL Hartfiel

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A search for the decay of the τ lepton to seven charged pions and one or zero π0 mesons was performed using the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. The analysis uses 232.2fb-1 of data at center-of-mass energies on or near the Υ(4S) resonance. We observe 24 events with an expected background of 21.6±1.3 events. Without evidence for a signal, we calculate an upper limit of B(τ-→4π-3π+(π0) ντ)<3.0×10-7 at 90% confidence level. This is an improvement by nearly an order of magnitude over the previously established limit. In addition, we set upper limits for the exclusive decays τ-→4π-3π+ντ and τ-→4π-3π+π0ντ. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
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Search for the rare decays B+→D(*)+KS0

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 72:1 (2005) 1-7

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B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, F Couderc, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, V Poireau, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, E Grauges, A Palano, M Pappagallo, A Pompili, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, GS Abrams, M Battaglia, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, E Charles, CT Day, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, G Kukartsev, G Lynch, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, MT Ronan, WA Wenzel, M Barrett, KE Ford, TJ Harrison, AJ Hart, CM Hawkes, SE Morgan, AT Watson, M Fritsch, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, K Peters, T Schroeder, M Steinke, JT Boyd, JP Burke, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, NS Knecht, TS Mattison, JA Mckenna, A Khan, P Kyberd, L Teodorescu, AE Blinov, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, VP Druzhinin, VB Golubev, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Bondioli, M Bruinsma, M Chao, I Eschrich, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, RK Mommsen, W Roethel, DP Stoker, C Buchanan, BL Hartfiel

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We report on the search for the rare decays B+→D(*)+KS0 in approximately 226×106 Υ(4S)→BB̄ decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory at SLAC. We do not observe any significant signal and we set 90% confidence-level upper limits on the branching fractions, B(B+→D+K0)<0.5×10-5 and B(B+→D*+K0)<0.9×10-5. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
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Evidence for the decay B±→K*±π0

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 71:11 (2005)

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B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, F Couderc, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, V Poireau, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, E Grauges, A Palano, M Pappagallo, A Pompili, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, E Charles, CT Day, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, G Kukartsev, G Lynch, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, MT Ronan, WA Wenzel, M Barrett, KE Ford, TJ Harrison, AJ Hart, CM Hawkes, SE Morgan, AT Watson, M Fritsch, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, K Peters, T Schroeder, M Steinke, JT Boyd, JP Burke, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, NS Knecht, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, A Khan, P Kyberd, L Teodorescu, AE Blinov, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, VP Druzhinin, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Bondioli, M Bruinsma, M Chao, I Eschrich, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, RK Mommsen, W Roethel, DP Stoker, C Buchanan

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We have measured the process B±→ (K*±→K±π0)π0 with 232×106 Υ(4S) →BB̄ decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC. From a signal yield of 89±26 events we obtain the branching fraction B(B±→K*±π0)=[6. 9±2.0(stat)±1.3(syst)]×10-6 with a statistical significance of 3.6 standard deviations including systematic uncertainties, and a charge asymmetry of 0.04±0.29(stat)±0.05(syst). © 2005 The American Physical Society.
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Measurement of the branching fraction and the CP-violating asymmetry for the decay B0→KS0π0

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 71:11 (2005)

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B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, F Couderc, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, V Poireau, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, E Grauges-Pous, A Palano, M Pappagallo, A Pompili, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, E Charles, CT Day, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, G Kukartsev, G Lynch, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, MT Ronan, WA Wenzel, M Barrett, KE Ford, TJ Harrison, AJ Hart, CM Hawkes, SE Morgan, AT Watson, M Fritsch, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, K Peters, T Schroeder, M Steinke, JT Boyd, JP Burke, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, NS Knecht, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, A Khan, P Kyberd, L Teodorescu, AE Blinov, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, VP Druzhinin, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Bondioli, M Bruinsma, M Chao, I Eschrich, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, RK Mommsen, W Roethel, DP Stoker, C Buchanan

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We measure the branching fraction and the CP-violating asymmetry of B0→KS0π0 decays with 227 million Υ(4S)→BB̄ events collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider at SLAC. We obtain a branching fraction B(B0→K0π0)=(11.4±0. 9±0.6)×10-6 and CP-violating asymmetry parameters CKS0π0=0.06±0.18±0.03 and SKS0π0=0.35-0.33+0.30±0.04, where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
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