Observation of orbitally excited B mesons in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.8 TeV

Physical Review D 64:7 (2001)

Authors:

T Affolder, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, P Amaral, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, MW Bailey, S Bailey, P De Barbara, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Belferte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, S Bertolucci, B Bevensee, A Bhatti, C Bigongiari, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, BS Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, W Bokhari, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandi, S Van Den Brink, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, J Cassada, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, AW Chan, PS Chang, PT Chang, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, S Cihangir, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, M Cobal, E Cocca, A Connolly, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, D Costanzo, J Cranshaw, D Cronin-Hennessy

Abstract:

We measure the relative rate of production of orbitally excited (L=1) states of B mesons (B**) by observing their decays into Bπ±. We reconstruct B mesons through semileptonic decay channels using data collected pp̄ collisions at √s= 1.8 TeV. The fraction of light B mesons that are produced as L= 1B** states is measured to be 0.28±0.06(stat)±0.03(syst). We also measure the collective mass of the B** states, and quantify the result by quoting the (model-dependent) mass of the lowest B** state to be m(B1) = 5.71 ±0.02GeV/c2. ©2001 The American Physical Society.

Study of B Decays to Charmonium States: B→ηcK and B → χc0K

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 86:1 (2001) 30-34

Authors:

KW Edwards, R Janicek, PM Patel, AJ Sadoff, R Ammar, A Bean, D Besson, R Davis, N Kwak, X Zhao, S Anderson, VV Frolov, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, R Mahapatra, JJ O'Neill, R Poling, T Riehle, A Smith, CJ Stepaniak, J Urheim, S Ahmed, MS Alam, SB Athar, L Jian, L Ling, M Saleem, S Timm, F Wappler, A Anastassov, JE Duboscq, E Eckhart, KK Gan, C Gwon, T Hart, K Honscheid, D Hufnagel, H Kagan, R Kass, TK Pedlar, H Schwarthoff, JB Thayer, E von Toerne, MM Zoeller, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, A Undrus, S Chen, J Fast, JW Hinson, J Lee, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, V Pavlunin, D Cronin-Hennessy, AL Lyon, EH Thorndike, CP Jessop, H Marsiske, ML Perl, V Savinov, D Ugolini, X Zhou, TE Coan, V Fadeyev, Y Maravin, I Narsky, R Stroynowski, J Ye, T Wlodek, M Artuso, R Ayad, C Boulahouache, K Bukin, E Dambasuren, S Karamov, G Majumder, GC Moneti, R Mountain, S Schuh, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, G Viehhauser, JC Wang, A Wolf, J Wu, S Kopp, AH Mahmood, SE Csorna, I Danko, KW McLean, Sz Márka, Z Xu, R Godang, K Kinoshita, IC Lai, S Schrenk, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, S McGee, LP Perera, GJ Zhou, E Lipeles, SP Pappas, M Schmidtler, A Shapiro, WM Sun, AJ Weinstein, F Würthwein, DE Jaffe, G Masek, HP Paar, EM Potter, S Prell, V Sharma, DM Asner, A Eppich, TS Hill, RJ Morrison, RA Briere, BH Behrens, WT Ford, A Gritsan, J Roy, JG Smith, JP Alexander, R Baker, C Bebek, BE Berger, K Berkelman, F Blanc, V Boisvert, DG Cassel, M Dickson, PS Drell, KM Ecklund, R Ehrlich, AD Foland, P Gaidarev, L Gibbons, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, PI Hopman, CD Jones, DL Kreinick, M Lohner, A Magerkurth, TO Meyer, NB Mistry, E Nordberg, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, JG Thayer, PG Thies, B Valant-Spaight, A Warburton, P Avery, C Prescott, AI Rubiera, J Yelton, J Zheng, G Brandenburg, A Ershov, YS Gao, DY-J Kim, R Wilson, TE Browder, Y Li, JL Rodriguez, H Yamamoto, T Bergfeld, BI Eisenstein, J Ernst, GE Gladding, GD Gollin, RM Hans, E Johnson, I Karliner, MA Marsh, M Palmer, C Plager, C Sedlack, M Selen, JJ Thaler, J Williams

First Measurement of the Ratio B(t-->Wb)/B(t-->Wq) and Associated Limit on the CKM Element Vtb

ArXiv hep-ex/0012029 (2000)

Measurement of the Two-Jet Differential Cross Section in proton-antiproton Collisions at sqrt{s} = 1800 GeV

ArXiv hep-ex/0012013 (2000)

An aging study of double GEMs in Ar-CO2

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 1 (2000)

Authors:

J Miyamoto, I Shipsey

Abstract:

An aging study was performed using double OEMs and a printed circuit readout board (PCB) with an intense X-ray source in an ultra clean Argon-CO2 gas environment. The detector was irradiated continuously for about 1000 hours without interruption until a large amount of charge was accumulated. A single-wire chamber served as a monitoring device to check the beam and ambient conditions and gas chromatography was used to ensure no hydrocarbon materials were present in the gas mixture. The detector could withstand more than 25 mC/mm2 with only a slight sign of aging and the charge accumulated is presumably sufficient to conduct large-scale and long-term experiments in intense radiation fields.