Measurement of the tt¯ production cross section in pp¯collisions at s=1.96 TeV using kinematic fitting of b-tagged lepton+jet events

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 71:7 (2005) 072005

Authors:

D Acosta, J Adelman, T Affolder, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, J-F Arguin, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, GJ Barker, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, E Ben-Haim, 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, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campanelli, M Campbell, A Canepa, M Casarsa, D Carlsmith, S Carron, R Carosi, M Cavalli-Sforza, 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, I Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, ML Chu, S Chuang, JY Chung, W-H Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, AG Clark, D Clark, M Coca, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, B Cooper, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, J Cranshaw, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, C Currat, D Cyr, D Dagenhart, S Da Ronco, S D’Auria, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, G De Lentdecker, 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 Donega, J Donini, 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, J Freeman, H Frisch, Y Fujii, I Furic, A Gajjar, A Gallas, J Galyardt, M Gallinaro, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, H Gerberich, DW Gerdes, E Gerchtein, 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, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, A Gresele, M Griffiths, C Grosso-Pilcher, M Guenther, J Guimaraes da Costa, C Haber, K Hahn, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamilton, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, M Hare, RF Harr, RM Harris, F Hartmann, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, C Hays, H Hayward, 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, Y Huang, 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, EJ Jeon, M Jones, KK Joo, S Jun, T Junk, T Kamon, J Kang, M Karagoz Unel, PE Karchin, S Kartal, Y Kato, Y Kemp, R Kephart, U Kerzel, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, MS Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, TH Kim, YK Kim, BT King, M Kirby, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, B Knuteson, BR Ko, H Kobayashi, P Koehn, DJ Kong, 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, R Lefevre, N Leonardo, S Leone, JD Lewis, K Li, C Lin, CS Lin, M Lindgren, TM Liss, DO Litvintsev, T Liu, Y Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, P Loverre, R-S Lu, D Lucchesi, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, L Lyons, J Lys, R Lysak, D MacQueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, L Malferrari, G Manca, R Marginean, M Martin, A Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, T Maruyama, H Matsunaga, M Mattson, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, D McGivern, PM McIntyre, P McNamara, R NcNulty, S Menzemer, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Messina, T Miao, N Miladinovic, L Miller, R Miller, JS Miller, R Miquel, S Miscetti, G Mitselmakher, A Miyamoto, Y Miyazaki, N Moggi, B Mohr, R Moore, M Morello, A Mukherjee, M Mulhearn, T Muller, R Mumford, A Munar, P Murat, J Nachtman, S Nahn, I Nakamura, I Nakano, A Napier, R Napora, D Naumov, V Necula, F Niell, J Nielsen, C Nelson, T Nelson, C Neu, MS Neubauer, C Newman-Holmes, A-S Nicollerat, T Nigmanov, L Nodulman, O Norniella, K Oesterberg, T Ogawa, SH Oh, YD Oh, T Ohsugi, T Okusawa, R Oldeman, R Orava, W Orejudos, C Pagliarone, F Palmonari, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, T Pauly, C Paus, D Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, KT Pitts, C Plager, 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, B Reisert, V Rekovic, P Renton, M Rescigno, F Rimondi, K Rinnert, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, A Robson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, L Rosenson, R Roser, R Rossin, C 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Measurement of the tt̄ production cross section in pp̄ collisions at √s=1:96 TeV using kinematic fitting of b-tagged lepton+jet events

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 71:7 (2005) 1-11

Authors:

D Acosta, J Adelman, T Affolder, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, JF Arguin, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, GJ Barker, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, E Ben-Haim, 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, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campanelli, M Campbell, A Canepa, M Casarsa, D Carlsmith, S Carron, R Carosi, M Cavalli-Sforza, 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, I Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, ML Chu, S Chuang, JY Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, AG Clark, D Clark, M Coca, A Connolly

Abstract:

We report a measurement of the tt̄ production cross section using the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The data consist of events with an energetic electron or muon, missing transverse energy, and three or more hadronic jets, at least one of which is identified as a b-quark jet by reconstructing a secondary vertex. The background fraction is determined from a fit of the transverse energy of the leading jet. Using 162 ± 10 pb -1 of data, the total cross section is found to be 6.0 ± 1.6(stat.) ± 1.2(syst.) pb, which is consistent with the standard model prediction. © 2005 The American Physical Society.

Search for η(1475)→KS0K±π∓ in two-photon fusion at the CLEO detector at Cornell

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 71:7 (2005) 072001

Authors:

R Ahohe, DM Asner, SA Dytman, W Love, S Mehrabyan, JA Mueller, V Savinov, Z Li, A Lopez, H Mendez, J Ramirez, GS Huang, DH Miller, V Pavlunin, B Sanghi, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, GS Adams, M Chasse, M Cravey, JP Cummings, I Danko, J Napolitano, H Muramatsu, CS Park, W Park, JB Thayer, EH Thorndike, TE Coan, YS Gao, F Liu, R Stroynowski, M Artuso, C Boulahouache, S Blusk, J Butt, E Dambasuren, O Dorjkhaidav, J Li, N Menaa, R Mountain, R Nandakumar, R Redjimi, R Sia, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, K Zhang, SE Csorna, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, A Bornheim, SP Pappas, AJ Weinstein, RA Briere, GP Chen, T Ferguson, G Tatishvili, H Vogel, ME Watkins, JL Rosner, NE Adam, JP Alexander, K Berkelman, DG Cassel, V Crede, JE Duboscq, KM Ecklund, R Ehrlich, L Fields, RS Galik, L Gibbons, B Gittelman, R Gray, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, D Hertz, L Hsu, CD Jones, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, H Mahlke-Krüger, TO Meyer, PUE Onyisi, JR Patterson, D Peterson, J Pivarski, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, H Schwarthoff, MR Shepherd, S Stroiney, WM Sun, JG Thayer, D Urner, T Wilksen, M Weinberger, SB Athar, P Avery, L Breva-Newell, R Patel, V Potlia, H Stoeck, J Yelton, P Rubin, C Cawlfield, BI Eisenstein, GD Gollin, I Karliner, D Kim, N Lowrey, P Naik, C Sedlack, M Selen, J Williams, J Wiss, KW Edwards, D Besson, TK Pedlar, D Cronin-Hennessy, KY Gao, DT Gong, Y Kubota, T Klein, BW Lang, SZ Li, R Poling, AW Scott, A Smith, CJ Stepaniak, S Dobbs, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, A Tomaradze, P Zweber, J Ernst, AH Mahmood, K Arms, KK Gan, H Severini

Radiation-hard semiconductor detectors for SuperLHC

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment Elsevier 541:1-2 (2005) 189-201

Authors:

M Bruzzi, J Adey, A Al-Ajili, P Alexandrov, G Alfieri, PP Allport, A Andreazza, M Artuso, S Assouak, BS Avset, L Barabash, E Baranova, A Barcz, A Basile, R Bates, N Belova, SF Biagi, GM Bilei, D Bisello, A Blue, A Blumenau, V Boisvert, G Bolla, G Bondarenko, E Borchi, L Borrello, D Bortoletto, M Boscardin, L Bosisio, TJV Bowcock, TJ Brodbeck, J Broz, A Brukhanov, A Brzozowski, M Buda, P Buhmann, C Buttar, F Campabadal, D Campbell, A Candelori, G Casse, A Cavallini, A Chilingarov, D Chren, V Cindro, M Citterio, P Collins, R Coluccia, D Contarato, J Coutinho, D Creanza, W Cunningham, V Cvetkov, G-F Dalla Betta, G Davies, I Dawson, W de Boer, M De Palma, R Demina, P Dervan, A Dierlamm, S Dittongo, L Dobrzanski, Z Dolezal, A Dolgolenko, T Eberlein, V Eremin, C Fall, F Fasolo, T Ferbel, F Fizzotti, C Fleta, E Focardi, E Forton, S Franchenko, E Fretwurst, F Gamaz, C Garcia, JE Garcia-Navarro, E Gaubas, M-H Genest, KA Gill, K Giolo, M Glaser, C Goessling, V Golovine, S González Sevilla, I Gorelov, J Goss, A Gouldwell, G Grégoire, P Gregori, E Grigoriev, C Grigson, A Grillo, A Groza, J Guskov, L Haddad, J Härkönen, R Harding, F Hauler, S Hayama, M Hoeferkamp, F Hönniger, T Horazdovsky, R Horisberger, M Horn, A Houdayer, B Hourahine, A Hruban, G Hughes, I Ilyashenko, K Irmscher, A Ivanov, K Jarasiunas, T Jin, BK Jones, R Jones, C Joram, L Jungermann, E Kalinina, P Kaminski, A Karpenko, A Karpov, V Kazlauskiene, V Kazukauskas, V Khivrich, V Khomenkov, J Kierstead, J Klaiber-Lodewigs, M Kleverman, R Klingenberg, P Kodys, Z Kohout, S Korjenevski, A Kowalik, R Kozlowski, M Kozodaev, G Kramberger, O Krasel, A Kuznetsov, S Kwan, S Lagomarsino, T Lari, K Lassila-Perini, V Lastovetsky, G Latino, S Latushkin, S Lazanu, I Lazanu, C Lebel, K Leinonen, C Leroy, Z Li, G Lindström, L Lindstrom, V Linhart, A Litovchenko, P Litovchenko, V Litvinov, A Lo Giudice, M Lozano, Z Luczynski, P Luukka, A Macchiolo, A Mainwood, LF Makarenko, I Mandić, C Manfredotti, S Marti I Garcia, S Marunko, K Mathieson, A Mozzanti, J Melone, D Menichelli, C Meroni, A Messineo, S Miglio, M Mikuž, J Miyamoto, M Moll, E Monakhov, F Moscatelli, L Murin, F Nava, D Naoumov, E Nossarzewska-Orlowska, S Nummela, J Nysten, P Olivero, V Oshea, T Palviainen, C Paolini, C Parkes, D Passeri, U Pein, G Pellegrini, L Perera, M Petasecca, B Piatkowski, C Piemonte, GU Pignatel, N Pinho, I Pintilie, L Pintilie, L Polivtsev, P Polozov, AI Popa, J Popule, S Pospisil, G Pucker, V Radicci, JM Rafí, F Ragusa, M Rahman, R Rando, R Roeder, T Rohe, S Ronchin, C Rott, P Roy, A Roy, A Ruzin, A Ryazanov, HFW Sadrozinski, S Sakalauskas, M Scaringella, L Schiavulli, S Schnetzer, B Schumm, S Sciortino, A Scorzoni, G Segneri, S Seidel, A Seiden, G Sellberg, P Sellin, D Sentenac, I Shipsey, P Sicho, T Sloan, M Solar, S Son, B Sopko, N Spencer, J Stahl, I Stavitski, D Stolze, R Stone, J Storasta, N Strokan, W Strupinski, M Sudzius, B Surma, J Suuronen, A Suvorov, BG Svensson, P Tipton, M Tomasek, C Troncon, A Tsvetkov, E Tuominen, E Tuovinen, T Tuuva, M Tylchin, H Uebersee, J Uher, M Ullán, JV Vaitkus, P Vanni, J Velthuis, G Verzellesi, E Verbitskaya, V Vrba, G Wagner, I Wilhelm, S Worm, V Wright, R Wunstorf, P Zabierowski, A Zaluzhny, M Zavrtanik, M Zen, V Zhukov, N Zorzi

Search for Higgs Bosons Decaying into b anti-b and Produced in Association with a Vector Boson in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV

ArXiv hep-ex/0503039 (2005)