Combination of Tevatron searches for the standard model Higgs boson in the W+W- decay mode.

Phys Rev Lett 104:6 (2010) 061802

Authors:

T Aaltonen, VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, J Adelman, E Aguilo, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, B Alvarez González, G Alverson, GA Alves, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, LS Ancu, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, J Appel, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, Y Arnoud, M Arov, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, A Askew, B Asman, O Atramentov, A Attal, A Aurisano, C Avila, F Azfar, J BackusMayes, F Badaud, W Badgett, L Bagby, B Baldin, DV Bandurin, S Banerjee, A Barbaro-Galtieri, E Barberis, A-F Barfuss, P Baringer, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, J Barreto, P Barria, JF Bartlett, P Bartos, U Bassler, D Bauer, G Bauer, S Beale, A Bean, P-H Beauchemin, F Bedeschi, D Beecher, M Begalli, M Begel, S Behari, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, JA Benitez, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, RE Blair, G Blazey, S Blessing, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, A Boehnlein, V Boisvert, D Boline, TA Bolton, EE Boos, G Borissov, D Bortoletto, T Bose, J Boudreau, A Boveia, A Brandt, B Brau, A Bridgeman, L Brigliadori, R Brock, C Bromberg, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, E Brubaker, XB Bu, D Buchholz, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, M Buehler, V Buescher, V Bunichev, S Burdin, K Burkett, TH Burnett, G Busetto, P Bussey, CP Buszello, A Buzatu, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, C Calancha, P Calfayan, B Calpas, S Calvet, E Camacho-Pérez, S Camarda, J Cammin, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, MA Carrasco-Lizarraga, E Carrera, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, BCK Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, SH Chang, YC Chen, M Chertok, E Cheu, S Chevalier-Théry, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, DK Cho, SW Cho, S Choi, D Chokheli, JP Chou, B Choudhary, T Christoudias, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, T Chwalek, S Cihangir, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, D Claes, A Clark, D Clark, J Clutter, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Cooke, WE Cooper, M Corbo, M Corcoran, M Cordelli, F Couderc, M-C Cousinou, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, C Cuenca Almenar, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, JC Cully, D Cutts, M Cwiok, D Dagenhart, N d'Ascenzo, A Das, M Datta, G Davies, T Davies, K De, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, A Deisher, SJ de Jong, E De la Cruz-Burelo, F Déliot, M Dell'Orso, G De Lorenzo, C Deluca, M Demarteau, R Demina, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, D Denisov, SP Denisov, M d'Errico, S Desai, K DeVaughan, A Di Canto, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, A Dominguez, S Donati, P Dong, M D'Onofrio, T Dorigo, T Dorland, S Dube, A Dubey, LV Dudko, L Duflot, D Duggan, A Duperrin, S Dutt, A Dyshkant, M Eads, K Ebina, D Edmunds, A Elagin, J Ellison, VD Elvira, Y Enari, S Eno, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, N Ershaidat, R Eusebi, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, G Facini, HC Fang, S Farrington, WT Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, AV Ferapontov, T Ferbel, JP Fernandez, C Ferrazza, F Fiedler, R Field, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, G Flanagan, R Forrest, M Fortner, H Fox, MJ Frank, M Franklin, JC Freeman, S Fuess, I Furic, T Gadfort, CF Galea, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, F Garberson, JE Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, V Gavrilov, P Gay, W Geist, W Geng, D Gerbaudo, CE Gerber, H Gerberich, D Gerdes, Y Gershtein, A Gessler, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, D Gillberg, JL Gimmell, CM Ginsburg, G Ginther, N Giokaris, M Giordani, P Giromini, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Golovanov, B Gómez, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, S Greder, H Greenlee, ZD Greenwood, EM Gregores, G Grenier, A Gresele, S Grinstein, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, A Grohsjean, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, U Grundler, S Grünendahl, MW Grünewald, J Guimaraes da Costa, Z Gunay-Unalan, F Guo, J Guo, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, C Haber, P Haefner, S Hagopian, SR Hahn, J Haley, E Halkiadakis, I Hall, B-Y Han, JY Han, L Han, F Happacher, K Hara, K Harder, D Hare, M Hare, A Harel, RF Harr, M Hartz, K Hatakeyama, JM Hauptman, C Hays, J Hays, T Hebbeker, M Heck, D Hedin, JG Hegeman, J Heinrich, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, I Heredia-De la Cruz, M Herndon, K Herner, G Hesketh, J Heuser, S Hewamanage, D Hidas, MD Hildreth, CS Hill, R Hirosky, D Hirschbuehl, T Hoang, JD Hobbs, A Hocker, B Hoeneisen, M Hohlfeld, S Hossain, P Houben, S Hou, M Houlden, S-C Hsu, Y Hu, Z Hubacek, RE Hughes, M Hurwitz, U Husemann, N Huske, M Hussein, J Huston, V Hynek, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, AS Ito, A Ivanov, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, S Jain, E James, D Jamin, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, R Jesik, MK Jha, S Jindariani, K Johns, C Johnson, M Johnson, W Johnson, D Johnston, A Jonckheere, M Jones, P Jonsson, KK Joo, SY Jun, JE Jung, TR Junk, A Juste, E Kajfasz, T Kamon, PE Karchin, D Kar, D Karmanov, PA Kasper, Y Kato, I Katsanos, V Kaushik, R Kehoe, R Kephart, S Kermiche, W Ketchum, J Keung, N Khalatyan, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YN Kharzheev, D Khatidze, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, HW Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, N Kimura, MH Kirby, L Kirsch, M Kirsch, S Klimenko, JM Kohli, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, A Korytov, AV Kotwal, AV Kozelov, J Kraus, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, N Krumnack, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kuhr, NP Kulkarni, A Kumar, A Kupco, M Kurata, T Kurca, VA Kuzmin, J Kvita, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, D Lam, S Lami, S Lammel, S Lammers, M Lancaster, RL Lander, G Landsberg, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, I Lazzizzera, P Lebrun, T LeCompte, E Lee, HS Lee, HS Lee, JS Lee, SW Lee, WM Lee, A Leflat, J Lellouch, S Leone, JD Lewis, L Li, QZ Li, SM Lietti, JK Lim, J Linacre, D Lincoln, C-J Lin, M Lindgren, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, E Lipeles, R Lipton, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, T Liu, Y Liu, Z Liu, A Lobodenko, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Lokajicek, L Lovas, P Love, HJ Lubatti, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, R Luna-Garcia, G Lungu, AL Lyon, R Lysak, J Lys, AKA Maciel, D Mackin, D MacQueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, R Magaña-Villalba, K Makhoul, P Maksimovic, PK Mal, S Malde, S Malik, S Malik, VL Malyshev, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, Y Maravin, F Margaroli, C Marino, CP Marino, A Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, R Martínez-Ballarín, J Martínez-Ortega, P Mastrandrea, M Mathis, P Mättig, ME Mattson, P Mazzanti, R McCarthy, KS McFarland, CL McGivern, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, MM Meijer, A Melnitchouk, L Mendoza, D Menezes, A Menzione, PG Mercadante, M Merkin, C Mesropian, A Meyer, J Meyer, T Miao, D Mietlicki, N Miladinovic, R Miller, C Mills, M Milnik, A Mitra, G Mitselmakher, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, NK Mondal, MN Mondragon, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, J Morlock, T Moulik, P Movilla Fernandez, GS Muanza, A Mukherjee, M Mulhearn, Th Muller, J Mülmenstädt, O Mundal, L Mundim, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, E Nagy, M Naimuddin, K Nakamura, I Nakano, A Napier, M Narain, R Nayyar, HA Neal, JP Negret, J Nett, C Neu, MS Neubauer, S Neubauer, P Neustroev, J Nielsen, H Nilsen, L Nodulman, H Nogima, M Norman, O Norniella, SF Novaes, T Nunnemann, E Nurse, L Oakes, G Obrant, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, D Onoprienko, R Orava, J Orduna, N Osman, J Osta, K Osterberg, R Otec, GJ Otero y Garzón, M Owen, M Padilla, P Padley, S Pagan Griso, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, M Pangilinan, V Papadimitriou, A Papaikonomou, AA Paramanov, N Parashar, V Parihar, S-J Park, SK Park, B Parks, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, S Pashapour, J Patrick, A Patwa, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, T Peiffer, DE Pellett, B Penning, A Penzo, M Perfilov, K Peters, Y Peters, P Pétroff, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, R Piegaia, L Pinera, J Piper, K Pitts, C Plager, M-A Pleier, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, M-E Pol, P Polozov, L Pondrom, AV Popov, K Potamianos, O Poukhov, M Prewitt, D Price, F Prokoshin, A Pronko, S Protopopescu, F Ptohos, E Pueschel, G Punzi, J Pursley, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, J Rademacker, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, MS Rangel, K Ranjan, N Ranjan, PN Ratoff, I Razumov, I Redondo, P Renkel, P Renton, M Renz, M Rescigno, P Rich, S Richter, M Rijssenbeek, F Rimondi, I Ripp-Baudot, L Ristori, F Rizatdinova, S Robinson, A Robson, T Rodrigo, T Rodriguez, E Rogers, S Rolli, M Rominsky, R Roser, M Rossi, R Rossin, P Roy, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, B Rutherford, H Saarikko, A Safonov, G Safronov, G Sajot, WK Sakumoto, A Sánchez-Hernández, MP Sanders, B Sanghi, L Santi, L Sartori, K Sato, G Savage, V Saveliev, A Savoy-Navarro, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, D Schaile, RD Schamberger, Y Scheglov, H Schellman, P Schlabach, T Schliephake, S Schlobohm, A Schmidt, EE Schmidt, MA Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, C Schwanenberger, T Schwarz, R Schwienhorst, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, J Sekaric, A Semenov, H Severini, L Sexton-Kennedy, F Sforza, A Sfyrla, E Shabalina, SZ Shalhout, V Shary, AA Shchukin, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, S Shiraishi, RK Shivpuri, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, V Simak, A Simonenko, P Sinervo, V Sirotenko, A Sisakyan, P Skubic, P Slattery, AJ Slaughter, J Slaunwhite, K Sliwa, D Smirnov, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, A Soha, S Söldner-Rembold, S Somalwar, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, V Sorin, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, B Spurlock, P Squillacioti, M Stanitzki, J Stark, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, V Stolin, DA Stoyanova, J Strandberg, MA Strang, E Strauss, M Strauss, R Ströhmer, J Strologas, D Strom, GL Strycker, L Stutte, JS Suh, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, P Svoisky, A Taffard, M Takahashi, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, R Tanaka, A Tanasijczuk, J Tang, W Taylor, M Tecchio, PK Teng, J Thom, J Thome, GA Thompson, E Thomson, B Tiller, P Tipton, M Titov, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, S Tokar, VV Tokmenin, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, M Trovato, S-Y Tsai, D Tsybychev, P Ttito-Guzmán, B Tuchming, Y Tu, C Tully, N Turini, PM Tuts, F Ukegawa, R Unalan, S Uozumi, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, PJ van den Berg, R Van Kooten, WM van Leeuwen, N van Remortel, N Varelas, A Varganov, EW Varnes, IA Vasilyev, E Vataga, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, P Verdier, LS Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, M Vesterinen, M Vidal, I Vila, D Vilanova, R Vilar, P Vint, M Vogel, P Vokac, I Volobouev, G Volpi, P Wagner, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, J Wagner-Kuhr, HD Wahl, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, MHLS Wang, SM Wang, A Warburton, J Warchol, D Waters, G Watts, M Wayne, G Weber, M Weber, M Weinberger, J Weinelt, WC Wester, M Wetstein, A White, B Whitehouse, D Whiteson, D Wicke, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, G Williams, HH Williams, MRJ Williams, GW Wilson, P Wilson, SJ Wimpenny, BL Winer, P Wittich, M Wobisch, S Wolbers, C Wolfe, H Wolfe, DR Wood, T Wright, X Wu, F Würthwein, TR Wyatt, Y Xie, C Xu, S Yacoob, A Yagil, R Yamada, K Yamamoto, J Yamaoka, UK Yang, W-C Yang, YC Yang, WM Yao, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, Z Ye, GP Yeh, K Yi, H Yin, K Yip, J Yoh, HD Yoo, K Yorita, T Yoshida, SW Youn, GB Yu, I Yu, J Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, C Zeitnitz, S Zelitch, Y Zeng, X Zhang, T Zhao, Y Zheng, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, L Zivkovic, S Zucchelli, V Zutshi, EG Zverev, CDF Collaboration, D0 Collaboration

Abstract:

We combine searches by the CDF and D0 Collaborations for a Higgs boson decaying to W+W-. The data correspond to an integrated total luminosity of 4.8 (CDF) and 5.4 (D0) fb(-1) of pp collisions at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. No excess is observed above background expectation, and resulting limits on Higgs boson production exclude a standard model Higgs boson in the mass range 162-166 GeV at the 95% C.L.

Inclusive search for standard model Higgs boson production in the WW decay channel using the CDF II detector.

Phys Rev Lett 104:6 (2010) 061803

Authors:

T Aaltonen, J Adelman, B Alvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, J Appel, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, G Bauer, P-H Beauchemin, F Bedeschi, D Beecher, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, RE Blair, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, A Bridgeman, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, C Calancha, S Camarda, 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, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, T Chwalek, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, C Cuenca Almenar, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, JC Cully, D Dagenhart, N d'Ascenzo, M Datta, T Davies, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, A Deisher, G De Lorenzo, M Dell'Orso, C Deluca, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, M d'Errico, A Di Canto, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D'Onofrio, S Donati, P Dong, T Dorigo, S Dube, K Ebina, A Elagin, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, N Ershaidat, R Eusebi, HC Fang, S Farrington, WT Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, C Ferrazza, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, MJ Frank, M Franklin, JC Freeman, I Furic, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, F Garberson, JE Garcia, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, H Gerberich, D Gerdes, A Gessler, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, JL Gimmell, CM Ginsburg, N Giokaris, M Giordani, P Giromini, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, A Gresele, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, U Grundler, J Guimaraes da Costa, Z Gunay-Unalan, C Haber, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, B-Y Han, JY Han, F Happacher, K Hara, D Hare, M Hare, RF Harr, M Hartz, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, M Heck, J Heinrich, M Herndon, J Heuser, S Hewamanage, D Hidas, CS Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, S Hou, M Houlden, S-C Hsu, RE Hughes, M Hurwitz, U Husemann, M Hussein, J Huston, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, MK Jha, S Jindariani, W Johnson, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, JE Jung, TR Junk, T Kamon, D Kar, PE Karchin, Y Kato, R Kephart, W Ketchum, J Keung, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, HW Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, N Kimura, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, A Korytov, AV Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, N Krumnack, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kuhr, NP Kulkarni, M Kurata, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, I Lazzizzera, T LeCompte, E Lee, HS Lee, JS Lee, SW Lee, S Leone, JD Lewis, C-J Lin, J Linacre, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, T Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, L Lovas, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, J Lys, R Lysak, D MacQueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, K Makhoul, P Maksimovic, S Malde, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, F Margaroli, C Marino, CP Marino, A Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, R Martínez-Ballarín, P Mastrandrea, M Mathis, ME Mattson, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, A Menzione, C Mesropian, T Miao, D Mietlicki, N Miladinovic, R Miller, C Mills, M Milnik, A Mitra, G Mitselmakher, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, MN Mondragon, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, J Morlock, P Movilla Fernandez, J Mülmenstädt, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, K Nakamura, I Nakano, A Napier, J Nett, C Neu, MS Neubauer, S Neubauer, J Nielsen, L Nodulman, M Norman, O Norniella, E Nurse, L Oakes, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, K Osterberg, S Pagan Griso, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, A Papaikonomou, AA Paramanov, B Parks, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, T Peiffer, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, L Pinera, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, K Potamianos, O Poukhov, F Prokoshin, A Pronko, F Ptohos, E Pueschel, G Punzi, J Pursley, J Rademacker, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, N Ranjan, I Redondo, P Renton, M Renz, M Rescigno, S Richter, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodrigo, T Rodriguez, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, M Rossi, R Rossin, P Roy, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, B Rutherford, H Saarikko, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, L Santi, L Sartori, K Sato, V Saveliev, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, A Schmidt, EE Schmidt, MA Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, L Sexton-Kennedy, F Sforza, A Sfyrla, SZ Shalhout, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, S Shiraishi, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, A Simonenko, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, AJ Slaughter, J Slaunwhite, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, A Soha, S Somalwar, V Sorin, P Squillacioti, M Stanitzki, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, GL Strycker, JS Suh, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, A Taffard, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, R Tanaka, J Tang, M Tecchio, PK Teng, J Thom, J Thome, GA Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, P Ttito-Guzmán, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, M Trovato, S-Y Tsai, Y Tu, N Turini, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, N van Remortel, A Varganov, E Vataga, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, M Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, M Vogel, I Volobouev, G Volpi, P Wagner, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, J Wagner-Kuhr, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, M Weinberger, J Weinelt, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, G Williams, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, C Wolfe, H Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, F Würthwein, A Yagil, K Yamamoto, J Yamaoka, UK Yang, YC Yang, WM Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, GB Yu, I Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, Y Zeng, X Zhang, Y Zheng, S Zucchelli, CDF Collaboration

Abstract:

We present a search for standard model (SM) Higgs boson production using pp collision data at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV, collected with the CDF II detector and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb(-1). We search for Higgs bosons produced in all processes with a significant production rate and decaying to two W bosons. We find no evidence for SM Higgs boson production and place upper limits at the 95% confidence level on the SM production cross section (sigma(H)) for values of the Higgs boson mass (sigma(H)) in the range from 110 to 200 GeV. These limits are the most stringent for m(H) > 130 GeV and are 1.29 above the predicted value of sigma(H) for c = 165 GeV.

Measurements of the top-quark mass using charged particle tracking

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 81:3 (2010)

Authors:

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, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, 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

Abstract:

We present three measurements of the top-quark mass in the lepton plus jets channel with approximately 1.9fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected with the CDF II detector using quantities with minimal dependence on the jet energy scale. One measurement exploits the transverse decay length of b-tagged jets to determine a top-quark mass of 166.9-8.5+9.5(stat)±2. 9(syst)GeV/c2, and another the transverse momentum of electrons and muons from W-boson decays to determine a top-quark mass of 173.5-8.9+8.8(stat)±3. 8(syst)GeV/c2. These quantities are combined in a third, simultaneous mass measurement to determine a top-quark mass of 170.7±6.3(stat)±2. 6(syst)GeV/c2. © 2010 The American Physical Society.

Search for supersymmetry with gauge-mediated breaking in diphoton events with missing transverse energy at CDF II.

Phys Rev Lett 104:1 (2010) 011801

Authors:

T Aaltonen, J Adelman, B Alvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, G Bauer, P-H Beauchemin, F Bedeschi, D Beecher, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, RE Blair, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, A Bridgeman, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, C Calancha, S Camarda, 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, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, T Chwalek, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, C Cuenca Almenar, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, JC Cully, D Dagenhart, M Datta, T Davies, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, A Deisher, G De Lorenzo, M Dell'Orso, C Deluca, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, M d'Errico, A Di Canto, GP di Giovanni, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D'Onofrio, S Donati, P Dong, T Dorigo, S Dube, K Ebina, A Elagin, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, N Ershaidat, R Eusebi, HC Fang, S Farrington, WT Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, C Ferrazza, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, MJ Frank, M Franklin, JC Freeman, I Furic, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, F Garberson, JE Garcia, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, K Genser, H Gerberich, D Gerdes, A Gessler, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, JL Gimmell, CM Ginsburg, N Giokaris, M Giordani, P Giromini, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, A Gresele, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, U Grundler, J Guimaraes da Costa, Z Gunay-Unalan, C Haber, K Hahn, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, B-Y Han, JY Han, F Happacher, K Hara, D Hare, M Hare, RF Harr, M Hartz, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, M Heck, J Heinrich, C Henderson, M Herndon, J Heuser, S Hewamanage, D Hidas, CS Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, S Hou, M Houlden, S-C Hsu, BT Huffman, RE Hughes, M Hurwitz, U Husemann, M Hussein, J Huston, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, MK Jha, S Jindariani, W Johnson, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, JE Jung, TR Junk, T Kamon, D Kar, PE Karchin, Y Kato, R Kephart, W Ketchum, J Keung, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, HW Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, N Kimura, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, B Knuteson, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, A Korytov, AV Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, N Krumnack, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kuhr, NP Kulkarni, M Kurata, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, I Lazzizzera, T LeCompte, E Lee, HS Lee, JS Lee, SW Lee, S Leone, JD Lewis, C-J Lin, J Linacre, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, T Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, L Lovas, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, J Lys, R Lysak, D MacQueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, K Makhoul, P Maksimovic, S Malde, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, F Margaroli, C Marino, CP Marino, A Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, R Martínez-Ballarín, P Mastrandrea, M Mathis, ME Mattson, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, A Menzione, C Mesropian, T Miao, D Mietlicki, N Miladinovic, R Miller, C Mills, M Milnik, A Mitra, G Mitselmakher, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, MN Mondragon, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, J Morlock, P Movilla Fernandez, J Mülmenstädt, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, K Nakamura, I Nakano, A Napier, J Nett, C Neu, MS Neubauer, S Neubauer, J Nielsen, L Nodulman, M Norman, O Norniella, E Nurse, L Oakes, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, K Osterberg, S Pagan Griso, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, A Papaikonomou, AA Paramanov, B Parks, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, T Peiffer, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, L Pinera, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, K Potamianos, O Poukhov, F Prokoshin, A Pronko, F Ptohos, E Pueschel, G Punzi, J Pursley, J Rademacker, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, N Ranjan, I Redondo, P Renton, M Renz, M Rescigno, S Richter, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodrigo, T Rodriguez, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, M Rossi, R Rossin, P Roy, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, B Rutherford, H Saarikko, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, L Santi, L Sartori, K Sato, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, A Schmidt, EE Schmidt, MA Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, L Sexton-Kennedy, F Sforza, A Sfyrla, SZ Shalhout, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, S Shiraishi, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, A Simonenko, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, AJ Slaughter, J Slaunwhite, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, A Soha, S Somalwar, V Sorin, T Spreitzer, P Squillacioti, M Stanitzki, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, GL Strycker, JS Suh, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, A Taffard, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, R Tanaka, J Tang, M Tecchio, PK Teng, J Thom, J Thome, GA Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, P Ttito-Guzmán, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, S Tourneur, M Trovato, S-Y Tsai, Y Tu, N Turini, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, N van Remortel, A Varganov, E Vataga, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, M Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, M Vogel, I Volobouev, G Volpi, P Wagner, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, J Wagner-Kuhr, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, M Weinberger, J Weinelt, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, G Williams, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, C Wolfe, H Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, F Würthwein, S Xie, A Yagil, K Yamamoto, J Yamaoka, UK Yang, YC Yang, WM Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, GB Yu, I Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, Y Zeng, X Zhang, Y Zheng, S Zucchelli

Abstract:

We present the results of a search for supersymmetry with gauge-mediated breaking and chi(1)(0) --> gammaG in the gammagamma + missing transverse energy final state. In 2.6+/-0.2 fb(-1) of pp collisions at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV recorded by the CDF II detector we observe no candidate events, consistent with a standard model background expectation of 1.4+/-0.4 events. We set limits on the cross section at the 95% C.L. and place the world's best limit of 149 GeV/c2 on the chi(1)(0) mass at tau(chi(1)(0)) << 1 ns. We also exclude regions in the chi(1)(0) mass-lifetime plane for tau(chi(1)(0)) approximately < 2 ns.

Aligning the CMS muon chambers with the muon alignment system during an extended cosmic ray run

Journal of Instrumentation 5:3 (2010)

Authors:

S Chatrchyan, V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, W Adam, B Arnold, H Bergauer, T Bergauer, M Dragicevic, M Eichberger, J Erö, M Friedl, R Frühwirth, VM Ghete, J Hammer, S Hansel, M Hoch, N Hörmann, J Hrubec, M Jeitler, G Kasieczka, K Kastner, M Krammer, D Liko, I De Magrans Abril, I Mikulec, F Mittermayr, B Neuherz, M Oberegger, M Padrta, M Pernicka, H Rohringer, S Schmid, R Schöfbeck, T Schreiner, R Stark, H Steininger, J Strauss, A Taurok, F Teischinger, T Themel, D Uhl, P Wagner, W Waltenberger, G Walzel, E Widl, CE Wulz, V Chekhovsky, O Dvornikov, I Emeliantchik, A Litomin, V Makarenko, I Marfin, V Mossolov, N Shumeiko, A Solin, R Stefanovitch, J Suarez Gonzalez, A Tikhonov, A Fedorov, A Karneyeu, M Korzhik, V Panov, R Zuyeuski, P Kuchinsky, W Beaumont, L Benucci, M Cardaci, EA De Wolf, E Delmeire, D Druzhkin, M Hashemi, X Janssen, T Maes, L Mucibello, S Ochesanu, R Rougny, M Selvaggi, H Van Haevermaet, P Van Mechelen, N Van Remortel, V Adler, S Beauceron, S Blyweert, J D'Hondt, S De Weirdt, O Devroede, J Heyninck, A Kalogeropoulos, J Maes, M Maes, MU Mozer, S Tavernier, W Van Doninck, P Van Mulders, I Villella, O Bouhali, EC Chabert, O Charaf, B Clerbaux, G De Lentdecker

Abstract:

The alignment system for the muon spectrometer of the CMS detector comprises three independent subsystems of optical and analog position sensors. It aligns muon chambers with respect to each other and to the central silicon tracker. System commissioning at full magnetic field began in 2008 during an extended cosmic ray run. The system succeeded in tracking muon detector movements of up to 18 mm and rotations of several milliradians under magnetic forces. Depending on coordinate and subsystem, the system achieved chamber alignment precisions of 140-350 μm and 30-200 μrad, close to the precision requirements of the experiment. Systematic errors on absolute positions are estimated to be 340-590 μm based on comparisons with independent photogrammetry measurements. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA.