Spectral evidence for jets from Accreting Millisecond X‐ray Pulsars

AIP Conference Proceedings AIP Publishing 1068:1 (2008) 221-224

Authors:

DM Russell, RP Fender, P Jonker, D Maitra, Rudy Wijnands, Diego Altamirano, Paolo Soleri, Nathalie Degenaar, Nanda Rea, Piergiorgio Casella, Alessandro Patruno, Manuel Linares

Broad-band X-ray spectral evolution of GX 339-4 during a state transition

(2008)

Authors:

M Del Santo, TM Belloni, J Homan, A Bazzano, P Casella, RP Fender, E Gallo, N Gehrels, WHG Lewin, M Mendez, M van der Klis

Measurement of b-jet shapes in inclusive jet production in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 78:7 (2008)

Authors:

T Aaltonen, J Adelman, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, BA 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, P Bednar, 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, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, C Calancha, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, 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, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, G Compostella

Abstract:

We present a measurement of the shapes of b-jets using 300pb-1 of data obtained with the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF II) in pp̄ collisions at center-of-mass energy s=1.96TeV. This measurement covers a wide transverse momentum range, from 52 to 300GeV/c. Samples of heavy-flavor enhanced jets together with inclusive jets are used to extract the average shapes of b-jets. The b-jets are expected to be broader than inclusive jets. Moreover, b-jets containing a single b-quark are expected to be narrower than those containing a bb̄ pair from gluon splitting. The measured b-jet shapes are found to be significantly broader than expected from the pythia and herwig Monte Carlo simulations. This effect may arise from an underestimation of the fraction of b-jets originating from gluon splitting in these simulations. The jet shape distributions provided in this paper could be compared to any full Monte Carlo simulation and could be used to further constrain the various parameters. © 2008 The American Physical Society.

A parsec scale X-ray extended structure from the X-ray binary Circinus X-1

(2008)

Authors:

P Soleri, S Heinz, R Fender, R Wijnands, V Tudose, D Altamirano, PG Jonker, M van der Klis, L Kuiper, C Kaiser, P Casella

Search for very light CP-odd Higgs boson in radiative decays of Υ(1S)

Physical Review Letters 101:15 (2008)

Authors:

W Love, V Savinov, H Mendez, JY Ge, DH Miller, IPJ Shipsey, B Xin, GS Adams, M Anderson, JP Cummings, I Danko, D Hu, B Moziak, J Napolitano, Q He, J Insler, H Muramatsu, CS Park, EH Thorndike, F Yang, M Artuso, S Blusk, S Khalil, J Li, R Mountain, S Nisar, K Randrianarivony, N Sultana, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, LM Zhang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, A Lincoln, P Naik, J Rademacker, DM Asner, KW Edwards, J Reed, RA Briere, T Ferguson, G Tatishvili, H Vogel, ME Watkins, JL Rosner, JP Alexander, DG Cassel, JE Duboscq, R Ehrlich, L Fields, RS Galik, L Gibbons, R Gray, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, D Hertz, JM Hunt, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, J Ledoux, H Mahlke-Krüger, D Mohapatra, PUE Onyisi, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, X Shi, S Stroiney, WM Sun, T Wilksen, SB Athar, R Patel, J Yelton, P Rubin, BI Eisenstein, I Karliner, S Mehrabyan, N Lowrey, M Selen, EJ White, J Wiss, RE Mitchell, MR Shepherd, D Besson, TK Pedlar, D Cronin-Hennessy, KY Gao, J Hietala, Y Kubota, T Klein, BW Lang, R Poling, AW Scott, P Zweber

Abstract:

We search for a non-SM-like CP-odd Higgs boson (a10) decaying to τ+τ- or μ+μ- in radiative decays of the Υ(1S). No significant signal is found, and upper limits on the product branching ratios are set. Our τ+τ- results are almost 2 orders of magnitude more stringent than previous upper limits. Our data provide no evidence for a Higgs state with a mass of 214 MeV decaying to μ+μ-, previously proposed as an explanation for 3 Σ+→pμ+μ- events observed by the HyperCP experiment. Our results constrain NMSSM models. © 2008 The American Physical Society.