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Particle Physics and Astrophysics -- A whitepaper in response to a call to the Astronomy and Astrophysics Community from the Committee on Astro2010 for State of the Profession Position Papers

ArXiv 0904.0595 (2009)

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I Shipsey, L Buckley-Geer, P Burchat, D Burke, E Cheu, D Cinabro, K Honscheid, S Kahn, D Kirkby, B Meadows, R Schindler, J Thaler, W Wester

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We discuss some of the key science questions that are bringing particle physicists and astrophysicists together, and comment on some of the cultural and funding issues that have arisen as these two communities become increasingly intertwined.
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Dalitz plot analysis of Ds+→K+K-π+

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 79:7 (2009)

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RE Mitchell, MR Shepherd, D Besson, TK Pedlar, J Xavier, D Cronin-Hennessy, KY Gao, J Hietala, Y Kubota, T Klein, R Poling, AW Scott, P Zweber, S Dobbs, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, BJY Tan, A Tomaradze, J Libby, L Martin, A Powell, C Thomas, G Wilkinson, H Mendez, JY Ge, DH Miller, IPJ Shipsey, B Xin, GS Adams, D Hu, B Moziak, J Napolitano, KM Ecklund, Q He, J Insler, H Muramatsu, CS Park, EH Thorndike, F Yang, M Artuso, S Blusk, S Khalil, R Mountain, K Randrianarivony, N Sultana, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, LM Zhang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, A Lincoln, MJ Smith, P Zhou, J Zhu, P Naik, J Rademacker, DM Asner, KW Edwards, J Reed, AN Robichaud, G Tatishvili, EJ White, RA Briere, H Vogel, PUE Onyisi, JL Rosner, JP Alexander, DG Cassel, JE Duboscq, R Ehrlich, L Fields, L Gibbons, R Gray, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, D Hertz, JM Hunt, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, J Ledoux, H Mahlke-Krüger, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, X Shi, S Stroiney, WM Sun, T Wilksen, J Yelton, P Rubin, N Lowrey, S Mehrabyan, M Selen, J Wiss

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We perform a Dalitz plot analysis of the decay Ds+→K+K-π+ with the CLEO-c data set of 586pb-1 of e+e- collisions accumulated at s=4.17GeV. This corresponds to about 0.57×106 Ds±Ds* pairs from which we select 14400 candidates with a background of roughly 15%. In contrast to previous measurements we find good agreement with our data only by including an additional f0(1370)π+ contribution. We measure the magnitude, phase, and fit fraction of K*(892)0K+, (1020)π+, K0*(1430)K+, f0(980)π+, f0(1710)π+, and f0(1370)π+ contributions and limit the possible contributions of other KK and Kπ resonances that could appear in this decay. © 2009 The American Physical Society.
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Measurement of the top quark mass at CDF using the "neutrino ø weighting" template method on a lepton plus isolated track sample

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 79:7 (2009)

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T Aaltonen, J Adelman, T Akimoto, BA González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, A Aurisano, F Azfar, P Azzurri, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, V Bartsch, G Bauer, PH Beauchemin, F Bedeschi, D Beecher, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, RE Blair, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, A Bridgeman, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, S Burke, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, C Calancha, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, 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, SH Chang, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, G Choudalakis, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, T Chwalek, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark

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We present a measurement of the top quark mass with tt̄ dilepton events produced in pp̄ collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron (s=1.96TeV) and collected by the CDF II detector. A sample of 328 events with a charged electron or muon and an isolated track, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.9fb-1, are selected as tt̄ candidates. To account for the unconstrained event kinematics, we scan over the phase space of the azimuthal angles (ν1,ν2) of neutrinos and reconstruct the top quark mass for each ν1, ν2 pair by minimizing a χ2 function in the tt̄ dilepton hypothesis. We assign χ2-dependent weights to the solutions in order to build a preferred mass for each event. Preferred mass distributions (templates) are built from simulated tt̄ and background events, and parametrized in order to provide continuous probability density functions. A likelihood fit to the mass distribution in data as a weighted sum of signal and background probability density functions gives a top quark mass of 165.5-3.3+3.4(stat)±3. 1(syst)GeV/c2. © 2009 The American Physical Society.
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New measurement of exclusive decays of the χc0 and χc2 to two-meson final states

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 79:7 (2009)

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DM Asner, KW Edwards, J Reed, AN Robichaud, G Tatishvili, RA Briere, H Vogel, PUE Onyisi, JL Rosner, JP Alexander, DG Cassel, JE Duboscq, R Ehrlich, L Fields, RS Galik, L Gibbons, R Gray, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, D Hertz, JM Hunt, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, J Ledoux, H Mahlke-Krüger, D Mohapatra, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, X Shi, S Stroiney, WM Sun, T Wilksen, SB Athar, J Yelton, P Rubin, S Mehrabyan, N Lowrey, M Selen, EJ White, J Wiss, RE Mitchell, MR Shepherd, D Besson, TK Pedlar, D Cronin-Hennessy, KY Gao, J Hietala, Y Kubota, T Klein, R Poling, AW Scott, P Zweber, S Dobbs, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, BJY Tan, A Tomaradze, J Libby, L Martin, A Powell, G Wilkinson, H Mendez, JY Ge, DH Miller, V Pavlunin, B Sanghi, IPJ Shipsey, B Xin, GS Adams, D Hu, B Moziak, J Napolitano, KM Ecklund, Q He, J Insler, H Muramatsu, CS Park, EH Thorndike, F Yang, M Artuso, S Blusk, S Khalil, J Li, R Mountain, K Randrianarivony, N Sultana, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, LM Zhang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, A Lincoln, P Naik

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Using a sample of 2.59×107 ψ(2S) decays collected by the CLEO-c detector, we present results of a study of χc0 and χc2 decays into two-meson final states. We present the world's most precise measurements of the χcJ,(J=0,2)→π+π-, π0π0, K+K-, KS0KS0, ηη, and η′η′ branching fractions, and a search for χc decays into ηη′. These results shed light on the mechanism of charmonium decays into pseudoscalar mesons. © 2009 The American Physical Society.
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Top quark mass measurement in the lepton plus jets channel using a modified matrix element method

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 79:7 (2009)

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T Aaltonen, J Adelman, T Akimoto, BA González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, A Aurisano, F Azfar, P Azzurri, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, V Bartsch, G Bauer, PH Beauchemin, F Bedeschi, D Beecher, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, RE Blair, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, A Bridgeman, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, S Burke, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, C Calancha, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, 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, SH Chang, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, G Choudalakis, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, T Chwalek, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark

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We report a measurement of the top quark mass, mt, obtained from pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron using the CDF II detector. We analyze a sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.9fb-1. We select events with an electron or muon, large missing transverse energy, and exactly four high-energy jets in the central region of the detector, at least one of which is tagged as coming from a b quark. We calculate a signal likelihood using a matrix element integration method, where the matrix element is modified by using effective propagators to take into account assumptions on event kinematics. Our event likelihood is a function of mt and a parameter JES (jet energy scale) that determines in situ the calibration of the jet energies. We use a neural network discriminant to distinguish signal from background events. We also apply a cut on the peak value of each event likelihood curve to reduce the contribution of background and badly reconstructed events. Using the 318 events that pass all selection criteria, we find mt=172.7±1.8(stat+JES) ±1.2(syst)GeV/c2. © 2009 The American Physical Society.
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