Measurement of Prompt Charm Meson Production Cross Sections in pp¯ Collisions at s=1.96 TeV

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 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 Pompoš, 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

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

Phys Rev Lett 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.

Observation of the Narrow State $X(3872)\to J/ψπ^{+}π^{-}$ in $\bar{p}p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96 \TeV$

ArXiv hep-ex/0312021 (2003)

Authors:

the CDFII Collaboration, D Acosta, T Affolder, MH Ahn, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev

Position Dependence of Charge Collection in Prototype Sensors for the CMS Pixel Detector

ArXiv physics/0312009 (2003)

Authors:

T Rohe, D Bortoletto, V Chiochia, LM Cremaldi, S Cucciarelli, A Dorokhov, M Konecki, K Prokofiev, C Regenfus, DA Sanders, S Son, T Speer, M Swartz

An aging study of industrially produced micro-patterned gas detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record 5 (2003) 3723-3725

Authors:

PS Barbeau, J Collar, J Miyamoto, I Shipsey

Abstract:

Micropatterned gas detectors like GEMs and MICROMEGAS are being considered for time projection chambers (TPC) for linear collider experiments. These devices are made mainly of Kapton insulators and thick copper layers. Because in the micropatterned gas detectors a dense plasma of avalanche electrons and ions are created in a small volume, aging due to polymerization is a concern. A shot-term aging study on a single GEM foil produced by 3M using reel-to-reel flex circuit technology is reported.