The measurement of α8 from event shapes with the DELPHI detector at the highest LEP energies

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C 37:1 (2004) 1-23

Authors:

J Abdallah, P Abreu, W Adam, P Adzic, T Albrecht, T Alderweireld, R Alemany-Fernandez, T Allmendinger, P Allport, U Amaldi, N Amapane, S Amato, E Anashkin, A Andreazza, S Andringa, N Anjos, P Antilogus, WD Apel, Y Arnoud, S Ask, B Asman, E Augustin, A Augustinus, P Baillon, A Ballestrero, P Bambade, R Barbier, D Bardin, J Barker, A Baroncelli, M Battaglia, M Baubillier, KH Becks, M Begalli, A Behrmann, E Ben-Haim, N Benekos, A Benvenuti, C Berat, M Berggren, L Berntzon, D Bertrand, M Besancon, N Besson, D Bloch, M Blom, M Bluj, M Bonesini, M Boonekamp, L Booth, G Borisov, O Botner, B Bouquet, V Bowcock, I Boyko, M Bracko, R Brenner, E Brodet, P Bruckman, M Brunet, L Bugge, P Buschmann, M Calvi, T Camporesi, V Canale, F Carena, N Castro, F Cavallo, M Chapkin, P Charpentier, P Checchia, R Chierici, P Chliapnikov, J Chudoba, U Chung, K Cieslik, P Collins, R Contri, G Cosme, F Cossutti, J Costa, D Crennell, J Cuevas, J D'Hondt, J Dalmau, T da Silva, W Da Silva, G Della Ricca, A De Angelis, W De Boer, C De Clercq, B De Lotto, N De Maria, A De Min, L de Paula, L Di Ciaccio, A Di Simone, K Doroba, J Drees, M Dris, G Eigen, T Ekelof, M Ellert, M Elsing, CE Santo, G Fanourakis, D Fassouliotis, M Feindt, J Fernandez, A Ferrer, F Ferro, U Flagmeyer, H Foeth, E Fokitis, F Fulda-Quenzer, J Fuster, M Gandelman, C Garcia, P Gavillet, E Gazis, R Gokieli, B Golob, G Gomez-Ceballos, P Goncalves, E Graziani, G Grosdidier, K Grzelak, J Guy, C Haag, A Hallgren, K Hamacher, K Hamilton, S Haug, F Hauler, V Hedberg, M Hennecke, H Herr, J Hoffman, SO Holmgren, J Holt, A Houlden, K Hultqvist, N Jackson, G Jarlskog, P Jarry, D Jeans, K Johansson, D Johansson, P Jonsson, C Joram, L Jungermann, F Kapusta, S Katsanevas, E Katsoufis, G Kernel, P Kersevan, U Kerzel, A Kiiskinen, T King, J Kjaer, P Kluit, P Kokkinias, C Kourkoumelis, O Kouznetsov, Z Krumstein, M Kucharczyk, J Lamsa, G Leder, F Ledroit, L Leinonen, R Leitner, J Lemonne, V Lepeltier, T Lesiak, W Liebig, D Liko, A Lipniacka, H Lopes, M Lopez, D Loukas, P Lutz, L Lyons, J MacNaughton, A Malek, S Maltezos, F Mandl, J Marco, R Marco, B Marechal, M Margoni, JC Marin, C Mariotti, A Markou, C Martinez-Rivero, J Masik, N Mastroyiannopoulos, F Matorras, C Matteuzzi, F Mazzucato, M Mazzucato, R Mc Nulty, C Meroni, E Migliore, W Mitaroff, U Mjoernmark, T Moa, M Moch, K Moenig, R Monge, J Montenegro, D Moraes, S Moreno, P Morettini, U Mueller, K Muenich, M Mulders, L Mundim, W Murray, B Muryn, G Myatt, T Myklebust, M Nassiakou, F Navarria, K Nawrocki, R Nicolaidou, M Nikolenko, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, A Olshevski, A Onofre, R Orava, K Osterberg, A Ouraou, A Oyanguren, M Paganoni, S Paiano, P Palacios, H Palka, D Papadopoulou, L Pape, C Parkes, F Parodi, U Parzefall, A Passeri, O Passon, L Peralta, V Perepelitsa, A Perrotta, A Petrolini, J Piedra, L Pieri, F Pierre, M Pimenta, E Piotto, T Podobnik, V Poireau, E Pol, G Polok, V Pozdniakov, N Pukhaeva, A Pullia, J Rames, A Read, P Rebecchi, J Rehn, D Reid, R Reinhardt, P Renton, F Richard, J Ridky, M Rivero, D Rodriguez, A Romero, P Ronchese, P Roudeau, T Rovelli, V Ruhlmann-Kleider, D Ryabtchikov, A Sadovsky, L Salmi, J Salt, C Sander, A Savoy-Navarro, U Schwickerath, A Segar, R Sekulin, M Siebel, A Sisakian, G Smadja, O Smirnova, A Sokolov, A Sopczak, R Sosnowski, T Spassov, M Stanitzki, A Stocchi, J Strauss, B Stugu, M Szczekowski, M Szeptycka, T Szumlak, T Tabarelli, C Taffard, F Tegenfeldt, J Timmermans, L Tkatchev, M Tobin, S Todorovova, B Tome, A Tonazzo, P Tortosa, P Travnicek, D Treille, G Tristram, M Trochimczuk, C Troncon, ML Turluer, A Tyapkin, P Tyapkin, S Tzamarias, V Uvarov, G Valenti, P Van Dam, J Van Eldik, A Van Lysebetten, N van Remortel, I Van Vulpen, G Vegni, F Veloso, W Venus, P Verdier, V Verzi, D Vilanova, L Vitale, V Vrba, H Wahlen, J Washbrook, C Weiser, D Wicke, J Wickens, G Wilkinson, M Winter, M Witek, O Yushchenko, A Zalewska, P Zalewski, D Zavrtanik, V Zhuravlov, I Zimin, A Zintchenko, M Zupan

Observation of a significant excess of π0π0 events in B meson decays

Physical Review Letters 91:24 (2003)

Authors:

B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, P Robbe, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, A Palano, A Pompili, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, GS Abrams, A 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, JF Kral, G Kukartsev, C LeClerc, ME Levi, G Lynch, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, A Romosan, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, K Ford, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, DJ Knowles, SE Morgan, RC Penny, AT Watson, NK Watson, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, NR Barlow, JT Boyd, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, TE Latham, C Mackay, FF Wilson, K Abe, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, P Kyberd, AK McKemey, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Bruinsma, M Chao, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, RK Mommsen

Measurement of prompt charm meson production cross sections in pp collisions at square root s = 1.96 TeV.

Physical review letters 91:24 (2003) 241804

Authors:

D Acosta, T Affolder, MH Ahn, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, J-F Arguin, T Arisawa, A Artikov, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, S Bailey, A Barbaro-Galtieri, G Barker, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, A Bolshov, PSL Booth, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, S Bourov, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campanelli, M Campbell, A Canepa, D Carlsmith, S Carron, R Carosi, M Casarsa, W Caskey, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, A Cerri, C Cerri, L Cerrito, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, ML Chu, JY Chung, W-H Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, AG Clark, MN Coca, A Connolly, ME Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, J Cranshaw, R Culbertson, C Currat, D Cyr, D Dagenhart, S DaRonco, S D'Auria, P De Barbaro, S De Cecco, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, S Demers, L Demortier, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, C Dionisi, JR Dittmann, P Doksus, A Dominguez, S Donati, M D'Onofrio, T Dorigo, V Drollinger, K Ebina, N Eddy, R Ely, R Erbacher, M Erdmann, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, H-C Fang, S Farrington, I Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, C Ferretti, RD Field, I Fiori, G Flanagan, B Flaugher, LR Flores-Castillo, A Foland, S Forrester, GW Foster, M Franklin, H Frisch, Y Fujii, I Furic, A Gallas, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, DW Gerdes, S Giagu, P Giannetti, A Gibson, K Gibson, C Ginsburg, K Giolo, M Giordani, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, D Goldstein, J Goldstein, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, A Gresele, G Grim, C Grosso-Pilcher, M Guenther, J Guimaraes Da Costa, C Haber, K Hahn, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, C Hall, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, M Hare, RF Harr, RM Harris, F Hartmann, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, C Hays, E Heider, B Heinemann, J Heinrich, M Hennecke, M Herndon, C Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, KD Hoffman, A Holloway, S Hou, MA Houlden, BT Huffman, RE Hughes, J Huston, K Ikado, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, Y Ishizawa, C Issever, A Ivanov, Y Iwata, B Iyutin, E James, D Jang, J Jarrell, D Jeans, H Jensen, M Jones, SY Jun, T Junk, T Kamon, J Kang, M Karagoz Unel, PE Karchin, S Kartal, Y Kato, Y Kemp, R Kephart, U Kerzel, D Khazins, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, BJ Kim, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, MS Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, TH Kim, YK Kim, BT King, M Kirby, M Kirk, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, B Knuteson, H Kobayashi, P Koehn, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, K Kordas, A Korn, A Korytov, K Kotelnikov, AV Kotwal, A Kovalev, J Kraus, I Kravchenko, A Kreymer, J Kroll, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, SE Kuhlmann, N Kuznetsova, AT Laasanen, S Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, J Lancaster, M Lancaster, R Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, R Lauhakangas, I Lazzizzera, Y Le, C Lecci, T LeCompte, J Lee, J Lee, SW Lee, N Leonardo, S Leone, JD Lewis, K Li, CS Lin, M Lindgren, TM Liss, DO Litvintsev, T Liu, Y Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, J Loken, M Loreti, P Loverre, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, L Lyons, J Lys, D MacQueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, L Malferrari, G Manca, R Marginean, A Martin, M Martin, V Martin, M Martinez, T Maruyama, H Matsunaga, M Mattson, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, D McGivern, PM McIntyre, P McNamara, R McNulty, S Menzemer, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Messina, A Meyer, T Miao, L Miller, R Miller, JS Miller, R Miquel, S Miscetti, M Mishina, G Mitselmakher, A Miyamoto, Y Miyazaki, N Moggi, R Moore, M Morello, T Moulik, A Mukherjee, M Mulhearn, T Muller, R Mumford, A Munar, P Murat, S Murgia, J Nachtman, S Nahn, I Nakamura, I Nakano, A Napier, R Napora, V Necula, F Niell, J Nielsen, C Nelson, T Nelson, C Neu, MS Neubauer, C Newman-Holmes, A-S Nicollerat, T Nigmanov, H Niu, L Nodulman, K Oesterberg, T Ogawa, S Oh, YD Oh, T Ohsugi, R Oishi, T Okusawa, R Oldeman, R Orava, W Orejudos, C Pagliarone, F Palmonari, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, D Partos, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, T Pauly, C Paus, D Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, KT Pitts, A Pompos, L Pondrom, G Pope, O Poukhov, F Prakoshyn, T Pratt, A Pronko, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Rademacker, A Rakitine, S Rappoccio, F Ratnikov, H Ray, A Reichold, V Rekovic, P Renton, M Rescigno, F Rimondi, K Rinnert, L Ristori, M Riveline, WJ Robertson, A Robson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, L Rosenson, R Roser, R Rossin, C Rott, J Russ, A Ruiz, D Ryan, H Saarikko, A Safonov, R St Denis, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, A Sansoni, L Santi, S Sarkar, K Sato, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schemitz, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, G Schofield, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, F Semeria, L Sexton-Kennedy, I Sfiligoi, MD Shapiro, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, Y Shon, A Sidoti, M Siket, A Sill, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, A Skiba, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, SV Somalwar, J Spalding, M Spezziga, L Spiegel, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, H Stadie, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, J Strologas, D Stuart, A Sukhanov, K Sumorok, H Sun, T Suzuki, A Taffard, SF Takach, H Takano, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, K Takikawa, P Tamburello, M Tanaka, R Tanaka, B Tannenbaum, N Tanimoto, S Tapprogge, M Tecchio, PK Teng, K Terashi, RJ Tesarek, S Tether, J Thom, AS Thompson, E Thomson, R Thurman-Keup, P Tipton, V Tiwari, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, D Tonelli, M Tönnesmann, S Torre, D Torretta, W Trischuk, J Tseng, R Tsuchiya, S Tsuno, D Tsybychev, N Turini, M Turner, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, S Uozumi, D Usynin, L Vacavant, T Vaiciulis, A Varganov, E Vataga, S Vejcik, G Velev, G Veramendi, T Vickey, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Volobouev, M Von Der Mey, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, N Wallace, T Walter, Z Wan, MJ Wang, SM Wang, B Ward, S Waschke, D Waters, T Watts, M Weber, W Wester, B Whitehouse, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, T Wilkes, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, M Wolter, M Worcester, S Worm, T Wright, X Wu, F Würthwein, A Wyatt, A Yagil, T Yamashita, K Yamamoto, UK Yang, W Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, P Yoon, K Yorita, T Yoshida, I Yu, S Yu, Z Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, I Zaw, F Zetti, J Zhou, A Zsenei, S Zucchelli, CDF II Collaboration

Abstract:

We report on measurements of differential cross sections dsigma/dp(T) for prompt charm meson production in ppmacr; collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV using 5.8+/-0.3 pb(-1) of data from the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The data are collected with a new trigger that is sensitive to the long lifetime of hadrons containing heavy flavor. The charm meson cross sections are measured in the central rapidity region |y|K-pi(+), D(*+)-->D0pi(+), D+-->K-pi(+)pi(+), D(+)(s)-->phipi(+), and their charge conjugates. The measured cross sections are compared to theoretical calculations.

Evidence for the rare decay B → K*ℓ+- and measurement of the B → Kℓ+- branching fraction

Physical Review Letters 91:22 (2003)

Authors:

B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, P Robbe, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, A Palano, 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, JF Kral, G Kukartsev, C LeClerc, ME Levi, G Lynch, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, A Romosan, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, K Ford, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, DJ Knowles, SE Morgan, RC Penny, AT Watson, NK Watson, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, NR Barlow, JT Boyd, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, TE Latham, C Mackay, FF Wilson, K Abe, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, P Kyberd, AK McKemey, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Bruinsma, M Chao, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, RK Mommsen

Measurements of branching fractions and CP-violating asymmetries in B0 → ρ±h decays

Physical Review Letters 91:20 (2003)

Authors:

B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, P Robbe, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, A Palano, A Pompili, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, GS Abrams, A 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, JF Kral, G Kukartsev, C LeClerc, ME Levi, G Lynch, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, A Romosan, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, K Ford, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, DJ Knowles, SE Morgan, RC Penny, AT Watson, NK Watson, T Deppermann, K Goetzen, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, NR Barlow, JT Boyd, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, TE Latham, C Mackay, FF Wilson, K Abe, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, P Kyberd, AK McKemey, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Chao, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, S McMahon, RK Mommsen

Abstract:

Measurements of branching fractions and CP-violating asymmetries in B0→ρ±πplusmn; and ρ-K+ decays are presented. As such, no evidence is found for either mixing-induced CP violation in the time-dependent asymmetry of B0→ρ±π± decays, or direct CP violation in B0→ρ-K+. The measurement of direct CP violation is found to be consistent with zero within 2.0 standard deviations, when both statistical and systematic errors are taken into account.