Search for new particles decaying into dijets in proton-antiproton collisions at s=1.96TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 79:11 (2009)

Authors:

T Aaltonen, J Adelman, T Akimoto, B Álvarez 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, P Azzurri, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, 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 a search for new particles which produce narrow two-jet (dijet) resonances using proton-antiproton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.13fb-1 collected with the CDFA II detector. The measured dijet mass spectrum is found to be consistent with next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD predictions, and no significant evidence of new particles is found. We set upper limits at the 95% confidence level on cross sections times the branching fraction for the production of new particles decaying into dijets with both jets having a rapidity magnitude |y| <1. These limits are used to determine the mass exclusions for the excited quark, axigluon, flavor-universal coloron, E6 diquark, color-octet techni-ρ, W′, and Z′. © 2009 The American Physical Society.

A low-energy core-collapse supernova without a hydrogen envelope

Nature Springer Nature 459:7247 (2009) 674-677

Authors:

S Valenti, A Pastorello, E Cappellaro, S Benetti, PA Mazzali, J Manteca, S Taubenberger, N Elias-Rosa, R Ferrando, A Harutyunyan, VP Hentunen, M Nissinen, E Pian, M Turatto, L Zampieri, SJ Smartt

SN 1999ga: a low-luminosity linear type II supernova?

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 500:3 (2009) 1013-1023

Authors:

A Pastorello, RM Crockett, R Martin, SJ Smartt, G Altavilla, S Benetti, MT Botticella, E Cappellaro, S Mattila, JR Maund, SD Ryder, M Salvo, S Taubenberger, M Turatto

The death of massive stars – I. Observational constraints on the progenitors of Type II-P supernovae

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 395:3 (2009) 1409-1437

Authors:

SJ Smartt, JJ Eldridge, RM Crockett, JR Maund

Search for the decays B(s)0→e+μ- and B(s)0→e+e- in CDF run II

Physical Review Letters 102:20 (2009)

Authors:

T Aaltonen, J Adelman, T Akimoto, B Álvarez 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, P Azzurri, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, 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 report results from a search for the lepton flavor violating decays Bs0→e+μ- and B0→e+μ-, and the flavor-changing neutral-current decays Bs0→e+e- and B0→e+e-. The analysis uses data corresponding to 2fb-1 of integrated luminosity of pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV collected with the upgraded Collider Detector (CDF II) at the Fermilab Tevatron. The observed number of B0 and Bs0 candidates is consistent with background expectations. The resulting Bayesian upper limits on the branching ratios at 90% credibility level are B(Bs0→e+μ-)<2.0×10-7, B(B0→e+μ-)<6.4×10-8, B(Bs0→e+e-)<2.8×10-7, and B(B0→e+e-)<8.3×10-8. From the limits on B(B(s)0→e+μ-), the following lower bounds on the Pati-Salam leptoquark masses are also derived: MLQ(Bs0→e+μ-)>47.8TeV/c2, and MLQ(B0→e+μ-)>59.3TeV/c2, at 90% credibility level. © 2009 The American Physical Society.