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Asymmetric Beams in Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Experiments

ArXiv astro-ph/0007212 (2000)

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JHP Wu, A Balbi, J Borrill, PG Ferreira, S Hanany, AH Jaffe, AT Lee, S Oh, B Rabii, PL Richards, GF Smoot, R Stompor, CD Winant

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We propose a new formalism to handle asymmetric beams in the data analysis of cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiments. For any beam shape, the formalism finds the optimal circularly symmetric equivalent and is thus easily adaptable to existing data analysis methods. We demonstrate certain key points by using a simulated highly elliptic beam, and the beams and data of the MAXIMA-1 experiment, where the asymmetry is mild. In particular, we show that in both cases the formalism does not bias the angular power spectrum estimates. We analyze the limitations of the formalism and find that it is well suited for most practical situations.
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The infrared counterpart of the Z source GX 5–1

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 315:4 (2000) l57-l60

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PG Jonker, RP Fender, NC Hambly, M Van Der Klis
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Measurement of charge asymmetries in charmless hadronic B meson decays.

Physical review letters 85:3 (2000) 525-529

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S Chen, J Fast, JW Hinson, J Lee, N Menon, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IP Shipsey, V Pavlunin, D Cronin-Hennessey, Y Kwon, 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 Ayaad, C Boulahouache, K Bukin, E Dambasuren, S Karamnov, S Kopp, G Majumder, GC Moneti, R Mountain, S Schuh, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, G Viehauser, JC Wang, A Wolf, J Wu, SE Csorna, I Danko, KW McLean, S Márka, Z Xu, R Godang, A Shapiro

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We search for CP-violating charge asymmetries (alpha(CP)) in the B meson decays to K(+/-)pi(-/+), K(+/-)pi(0), K(0)(S)pi(+/-), K(+/-)eta('), and omega pi(+/-). Using 9.66 million upsilon(4S) decays collected with the CLEO detector, the statistical precision on alpha(CP) is in the range of +/-0.12 to +/-0.25 depending on decay mode. While CP-violating asymmetries of up to +/-0.5 are possible within the standard model, the measured asymmetries are consistent with zero in all five decay modes studied.
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Two-body B meson decays to eta and eta('): observation of B --> eta K*.

Physical review letters 85:3 (2000) 520-524

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SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, A Undrus, S Chen, J Fast, JW Hinson, J Lee, N Menon, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IP Shipsey, V Pavlunin, D Cronin-Hennessey, Y Kwon, 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 Karamnov, S Kopp, G Majumder, GC Moneti, R Mountain, S Schuh, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, G Viehauser, JC Wang, A Wolf, J Wu, SE Csorna, I Danko, GJ Zhou

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In a sample of 19 x 10(6) produced B mesons, we have observed the decays B-->eta K(*) and improved our previous measurements of B-->eta'K. The branching fractions we measure for these decay modes are B(B+-->eta K(*+)) = (26.4(+9.6)(-8.2)+/-3.3)x10(-6), B(B(0)-->eta K(*0)) = (13.8(+5.5)(-4.6)+/-1.6)x10(-6), B(B(+)-->eta'K(+) = (80(+10)(-9)+/-7)x10(-6), and B(B(0)-->eta'K0) = (89(+18)(-16)+/-9)x10(-6). We have searched with comparable sensitivity for related decays and report upper limits for these branching fractions.
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Hadronic structure in the decay τ-→π-π0ντ

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 61:11 (2000) 1-19

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S Anderson, VV Frolov, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, R Mahapatra, JJ O'Neill, R Poling, T Riehle, A Smith, S Ahmed, MS Alam, SB Athar, L Jian, L Ling, AH Mahmood, M Saleem, S Timm, F Wappler, A Anastassov, JE Duboscq, KK Gan, C Gwon, T Hart, K Honscheid, H Kagan, R Kass, J Lorenc, H Schwarthoff, E Von Toerne, MM Zoeller, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, A Undrus, M Bishai, S Chen, J Fast, JW Hinson, J Lee, N Menon, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, Y Kwon, AL Lyon, EH Thorndike, CP Jessop, H Marsiske, ML Perl, V Savinov, D Ugolini, X Zhou, TE Coan, V Fadeyev, I Korolkov, Y Maravin, I Narsky, R Stroynowski, J Ye, T Wlodek, M Artuso, R Ayad, E Dambasuren, S Kopp, G Majumder, GC Moneti, R Mountain, S Schuh, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, A Titov, G Viehhauser, JC Wang, A Wolf, J Wu, SE Csorna, KW McLean, S Marka, Z Xu, R Godang, K Kinoshita, IC Lai, S Schrenk, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, R Greene, LP Perera, GJ Zhou, S Chan, G Eigen, E Lipeles, M Schmidtler, A Shapiro, WM Sun, J Urheim, AJ Weinstein, F Würthwein, DE Jaffe, G Masek, HP Paar

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We report on a study of the invariant mass spectrum of the hadronic system in the decay τ-→π-π0ντ. This study was performed with data obtained with the CLEO II detector operating at the CESR e+e- collider. We present fits to phenomenological models in which resonance parameters associated with the ρ(770) and ρ(1450) mesons are determined. The π-π0 spectral function inferred from the invariant mass spectrum is compared with data on e+e-π+π- as a test of the conserved vector current theorem. We also discuss the implications of our data with regard to estimates of the hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment. ©2000 The American Physical Society.
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