Measurement of [formula presented] rapidity correlations in [formula presented] collisions at [formula presented]
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 61:3 (2000)
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We report the first direct measurement of (Formula presented) rapidity correlations in (Formula presented) collisions at (Formula presented) We select events with a high transverse momentum muon accompanied by a jet, and a second jet associated with a decay vertex displaced from the (Formula presented) interaction vertex. Two independent samples are obtained corresponding to events with a forward (Formula presented) or central (Formula presented) muon. We measure the ratio of forward to central (Formula presented) production to be (Formula presented) in good agreement with the next-to-leading order QCD prediction (Formula presented) © 1999 The American Physical Society.Measurement of the helicity of W bosons in top quark decays
Physical review letters 84:2 (2000) 216-221
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We use the transverse momentum spectrum of leptons in the decay chain t-->bW with W-->lnu to measure the helicity of the W bosons in the top quark rest frame. Our measurement uses a t&tmacr; sample isolated in 106+/-4 pb(-1) of data collected in p&pmacr; collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.8 TeV with the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. Assuming a standard V-A weak decay, we find that the fraction of W's with zero helicity in the top rest frame is F0 = 0.91+/-0. 37(stat)+/-0.13(syst), consistent with the standard model prediction of F0 = 0.70 for a top mass of 175 GeV/c(2).Observation of diffractive b-quark production at the fermilab tevatron
Physical review letters 84:2 (2000) 232-237
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We report a measurement of the fraction of b quarks produced diffractively in &pmacr;p collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.8 TeV. Diffraction is identified by the absence of particles in a forward pseudorapidity region. From events with an electron of transverse momentum 9.5
Observation of radiative leptonic decay of the tau lepton
Physical review letters 84:5 (2000) 830-834
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Using 4.68 fb(-1) of e(+)e(-) annihilation data collected with the CLEO II detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, we have studied tau radiative decays tau(-)-->nu(tau)&mgr;(-)nu;(&mgr;)gamma and tau(-)-->nu(tau)e(-)nu;(e)gamma. For a 10 MeV minimum photon energy in the tau rest frame, the branching fraction for radiative tau decay to a muon or electron is measured to be (3.61+/-0.16+/-0. 35)x10(-3) or (1.75+/-0.06+/-0.17)x10(-2), respectively. The branching fractions are in agreement with standard model theoretical predictions.Search for a fourth-generation quark more massive than the Z0 boson in p&pmacr; collisions at radicals = 1.8 TeV
Physical review letters 84:5 (2000) 835-840