Search for First-Generation Scalar Leptoquarks in $\bm{p \bar{p}}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=1.96 TeV

ArXiv hep-ex/0506074 (2005)

Authors:

The CDF Collaboration, D Acosta, J Adelman, T Affolder, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, J-F Arguin, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, GJ Barker, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, A Belloni, E Ben-Haim, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, T Berry, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, A Bolshov, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, S Bourov, B Brau, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, M Casarsa, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carron, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, A Cerri, L Cerrito, J Chapman, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, I Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, S Chuang, K Chung, W-H Chung, YS Chung, M Cijliak, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, AG Clark, D Clark, M Coca, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, B Cooper, K Copic, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, J Cranshaw, J Cuevas, A Cruz, R Culbertson, C Currat, D Cyr, D Dagenhart, S DaRonco, S D'Auria, P deBarbaro, S DeCecco, A Deisher, G DeLentdecker, M Dell'Orso, S Demers, L Demortier, M Deninno, D DePedis, PF Derwent, T Devlin, C Dionisi, JR Dittmann, P DiTuro, C Dörr, A Dominguez, S Donati, M Donega, J Donini, M D'Onofrio, T Dorigo, K Ebina, J Efron, J Ehlers, R Erbacher, M Erdmann, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, H-C Fang, S Farrington, I Fedorko, WT Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, RD Field, G Flanagan, LR Flores-Castillo, A Foland, S Forrester, GW Foster, M Franklin, JC Freeman, Y Fujii, I Furic, A Gajjar, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, H Gerberich, DW Gerdes, E Gerchtein, S Giagu, P Giannetti, A Gibson, K Gibson, C Ginsburg, K Giolo, M Giordani, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, D Goldstein, J Goldstein, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, A Gresele, M Griffiths, C Grosso-Pilcher, U Grundler, J GuimaraesdaCosta, C Haber, K Hahn, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamilton, B-Y Han, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, M Hare, RF Harr, RM Harris, F Hartmann, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, C Hays, H Hayward, B Heinemann, J Heinrich, M Hennecke, M Herndon, C Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, KD Hoffman, A Holloway, S Hou, MA Houlden, BT Huffman, Y Huang, RE Hughes, J Huston, K Ikado, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, Y Ishizawa, C Issever, A Ivanov, Y Iwata, B Iyutin, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, D Jeans, H Jensen, EJ Jeon, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, T Junk, T Kamon, J Kang, M KaragozUnel, PE Karchin, Y Kato, Y Kemp, R Kephart, U Kerzel, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, MS Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, M Kirby, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, M Klute, B Knuteson, BR Ko, H Kobayashi, DJ Kong, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, K Kordas, A Korn, A Korytov, AV Kotwal, A Kovalev, J Kraus, I Kravchenko, A Kreymer, J Kroll, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, SE Kuhlmann, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, R Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, I Lazzizzera, C Lecci, T LeCompte, J Lee, J Lee, SW Lee, R Lefèvre, N Leonardo, S Leone, S Levy, JD Lewis, K Li, C Lin, CS Lin, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, TM Liss, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, T Liu, Y Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, P Loverre, R-S Lu, D Lucchesi, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, L Lyons, J Lys, R Lysak, E Lytken, D MacQueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, G Manca, F Margaroli, R Marginean, C Marino, A Martin, M Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, T Maruyama, H Matsunaga, M Mattson, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, D McGivern, PM McIntyre, P McNamara, R McNulty, A Mehta, S Menzemer, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Messina, T Miao, N Miladinovic, J Miles, L Miller, R Miller, JS Miller, C Mills, R Miquel, S Miscetti, G Mitselmakher, A Miyamoto, N Moggi, B Mohr, R Moore, M Morello, PA MovillaFernandez, J Muelmenstaedt, A Mukherjee, M Mulhearn, T Muller, R Mumford, A Munar, P Murat, J Nachtman, S Nahn, I Nakano, A Napier, R Napora, D Naumov, V Necula, J Nielsen, T Nelson, C Neu, MS Neubauer, T Nigmanov, L Nodulman, O Norniella, T Ogawa, SH Oh, YD Oh, T Ohsugi, T Okusawa, R Oldeman, R Orava, W Orejudos, K Osterberg, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, AA Paramonov, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, D Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, KT Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, G Pope, X Portell, O Poukhov, N Pounder, F Prakoshyn, A Pronko, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Rademacker, MA Rahaman, A Rakitine, S Rappoccio, F Ratnikov, H Ray, B Reisert, V Rekovic, P Renton, M Rescigno, F Rimondi, K Rinnert, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, A Robson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, R Roser, R Rossin, C Rott, J Russ, V Rusu, A Ruiz, D Ryan, H Saarikko, S Sabik, A Safonov, R St Denis, WK Sakumoto, G Salamanna, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, L Santi, S Sarkar, K Sato, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, AL Scott, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Semeria, L Sexton-Kennedy, I Sfiligoi, MD Shapiro, T Shears, PF Shepard, D Sherman, M Shimojima, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, A Sidoti, A Sill, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, J Sjolin, A Skiba, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, D Smirnov, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, M Soderberg, A Soha, SV Somalwar, J Spalding, M Spezziga, F Spinella, P Squillacioti, H Stadie, M Stanitzki, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, D Stuart, JS Suh, A Sukhanov, K Sumorok, H Sun, T Suzuki, A Taffard, R Tafirout, H Takano, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, K Takikawa, M Tanaka, R Tanaka, N Tanimoto, M Tecchio, PK Teng, K Terashi, RJ Tesarek, S Tether, J Thom, AS Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, V Tiwari, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, M Tönnesmann, S Torre, D Torretta, S Tourneur, W Trischuk, R Tsuchiya, S Tsuno, D Tsybychev, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, S Uozumi, D Usynin, L Vacavant, A Vaiciulis, A Varganov, S VejcikIII, G Velev, V Veszpremi, G Veramendi, T Vickey, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Vollrath, I Volobouev, M vonderMey, P Wagner, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, R Wallny, T Walter, Z Wan, MJ Wang, SM Wang, A Warburton, B Ward, S Waschke, D Waters, T Watts, M Weber, WC WesterIII, B Whitehouse, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, C Wolfe, M Wolter, M Worcester, S Worm, T Wright, X Wu, F Würthwein, A Wyatt, A Yagil, T Yamashita, K Yamamoto, J Yamaoka, C Yang, UK Yang, W Yao, GP Yeh, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, I Yu, S Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, I Zaw, F Zetti, J Zhou, S Zucchelli

Abstract:

We report on a search for pair production of first-generation scalar leptoquarks ($LQ$) in $p \bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=1.96 TeV using an integrated luminosity of 203 $pb^{-1}$ collected at the Fermilab Tevatron collider by the CDF experiment. We observe no evidence for $LQ$ production in the topologies arising from $LQ \bar{LQ} \to eqeq$ and $LQ \bar{LQ} \to eq \nu q$, and derive 95% C.L. upper limits on the $LQ$ production cross section. %as a function of $\beta$, where $\beta$ is the branching fraction for $LQ \to eq$. The results are combined with those obtained from a separately reported CDF search in the topology arising from $LQ\bar{LQ} \to \nu q \nu q$ and 95% C.L. lower limits on the LQ mass as a function of $\beta = BR(LQ \to eq) $ are derived. The limits are 236, 205 and 145 GeV/c$^2$ for $\beta$ = 1, $\beta$ = 0.5 and $\beta$ = 0.1, respectively.

Study of τ Decays to Four-Hadron Final States with Kaons

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 94:24 (2005) 241802

Authors:

K Arms, KK Gan, H Severini, DM Asner, SA Dytman, W Love, S Mehrabyan, JA Mueller, V Savinov, Z Li, A Lopez, H Mendez, J Ramirez, GS Huang, DH Miller, V Pavlunin, B Sanghi, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, GS Adams, M Chasse, M Cravey, JP Cummings, I Danko, J Napolitano, H Muramatsu, CS Park, W Park, JB Thayer, EH Thorndike, TE Coan, YS Gao, F Liu, R Stroynowski, M Artuso, C Boulahouache, S Blusk, J Butt, E Dambasuren, O Dorjkhaidav, J Li, N Menaa, R Mountain, R Nandakumar, R Redjimi, R Sia, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, K Zhang, SE Csorna, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, A Bornheim, SP Pappas, AJ Weinstein, RA Briere, GP Chen, T Ferguson, G Tatishvili, H Vogel, ME Watkins, JL Rosner, NE Adam, JP Alexander, K Berkelman, DG Cassel, V Crede, JE Duboscq, KM Ecklund, R Ehrlich, L Fields, RS Galik, L Gibbons, B Gittelman, R Gray, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, D Hertz, L Hsu, CD Jones, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, H Mahlke-Krüger, TO Meyer, PUE Onyisi, JR Patterson, D Peterson, J Pivarski, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, H Schwarthoff, MR Shepherd, S Stroiney, WM Sun, JG Thayer, D Urner, T Wilksen, M Weinberger, SB Athar, P Avery, L Breva-Newell, R Patel, V Potlia, H Stoeck, J Yelton, P Rubin, C Cawlfield, BI Eisenstein, GD Gollin, I Karliner, D Kim, N Lowrey, P Naik, C Sedlack, M Selen, J Williams, J Wiss, KW Edwards, D Besson, TK Pedlar, D Cronin-Hennessy, KY Gao, DT Gong, Y Kubota, T Klein, BW Lang, SZ Li, R Poling, AW Scott, A Smith, CJ Stepaniak, J Urheim, S Dobbs, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, A Tomaradze, P Zweber, J Ernst, AH Mahmood

A unified model for black hole X-ray binary jets ?

(2005)

Authors:

Rob Fender, Tomaso Belloni, Elena Gallo

Imaging of SDSS z > 6 quasar fields: Gravitational lensing, companion galaxies, and the host dark matter halos

Astrophysical Journal 626:2 I (2005) 657-665

Authors:

CJ Willott, WJ Percival, RJ Mclure, D Crampton, JB Hutchings, MJ Jarvis, M Sawicki, L Simard

Abstract:

We have undertaken deep optical imaging observations of three 6.2 < z < 6.5 quasar fields in the i′ and z′ filters. These data are used to search for foreground galaxies that are gravitationally lensing the quasars and distant galaxies physically associated with the quasars. Foreground galaxies are found closer than 5″ to the lines of sight of two of the three quasars. However, the faintness of these galaxies suggests that they have fairly low masses and provide only weak magnifications (μ ≲1.1). No convincing galaxies physically associated with the quasars are found, and the number of i′-band dropouts is consistent with that found in random fields. We consider the expected dark matter halo masses that host these quasars under the assumption that a correlation between black hole mass and dark matter halo mass exists. We show that the steepness of the high-mass tail of the halo mass function at this redshift, combined with realistic amounts of scatter in this correlation, leads to expected halo masses substantially lower than previously believed. This analysis can explain the lack of companion galaxies found here and the low dynamical mass recently published for one of the quasars. © 2005. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Luminosity and mass limits for the progenitor of the type Ic supernova 2004gt in NGC 4038

(2005)

Authors:

Justyn R Maund, Stephen Smartt, Francois Schweizer