Search for Supersymmetry at the LHC in Events with Jets and Missing Transverse Energy
ArXiv 1109.2352 (2011)
Measurement of the cross section for prompt isolated diphoton production in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96TeV
Physical Review Letters 107:10 (2011)
Abstract:
This Letter reports a measurement of the cross section of prompt isolated photon pair production in pp̄ collisions at a total energy √s=1.96TeV using data of 5.36fb-1 integrated luminosity collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The measured cross section, differential in basic kinematic variables, is compared with three perturbative QCD predictions, a leading order parton shower calculation and two next-to-leading order calculations. The next-to-leading order calculations reproduce most aspects of the data. By including photon radiation from quarks before and after hard scattering, the parton shower prediction becomes competitive with the next-to-leading order predictions.Missing transverse energy performance of the CMS detector
Journal of Instrumentation IOP Publishing 6:09 (2011) p09001-p09001
Evidence for tt̄γ production and measurement of σtt̄γ /σtt̄
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 84:3 (2011)
Abstract:
Using data corresponding to 6.0fb-1 of pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96TeV collected by the CDF II detector, we present a cross section measurement of top-quark pair production with an additional radiated photon in the central region with 10 GeV or more of transverse energy tt̄γ. The events are selected by looking for a lepton (ℓ or μ), a photon (γ), significant transverse momentum imbalance (ET), large total transverse energy, and three or more jets, with at least one identified as containing a b quark (b). Using an event selection optimized for the tt̄γ candidate sample, we also measure the cross section of tt̄ (σtt̄). We measure the tt̄γ cross section (σtt̄γ) to be 0.18±0.08pb, and the ratio of σtt̄γ to σtt̄ to be 0.024±0.009. We observe a probability of 0.0015 (3.0 standard deviations) of the background (non-tt̄γ events alone producing 30 events or more. © 2011 American Physical Society.Observation of the Ξb0 baryon
Physical Review Letters 107:10 (2011)