Study of the heavy flavor content of jets produced in association with W bosons in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.8TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 65:5 (2002) 520071-5200726

Authors:

D Acosta, T Affolder, H Akimoto, A Akopian, P Amaral, D Ambrose, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, A Artikov, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, S Bailey, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, S van den Brink, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, YS Chung, AG Clark, AP Colijn, A Connolly, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Cropp, D Dagenhart, S D'Auria, F DeJongh, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, S Demers, L Demortier, M Deninno, PF Derwent, JR Dittmann

Abstract:

We present a detailed examination of the heavy flavor content of the W+jet data sample collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab during the 1992-1995 collider run at the Fermilab Tevatron. Jets containing heavy flavor quarks are selected via the identification of secondary vertices or semileptonic decays of b and c quarks. There is generally good agreement between the rates of secondary vertices and soft leptons in the data and in the standard model simulation including single and pair production of top quarks. An exception is the number of events in which a single jet has both a soft lepton and a secondary vertex tag. In W+2,3 jet data, we find 13 such events where we expected 4.4±0.6 events. The kinematic properties of this small sample of events are statistically difficult to reconcile with the simulation of standard model processes.

Deep Westerbork 1.4 GHz Imaging of the Bootes Field

\aj 123 (2002) 1784-1800-1784-1800

Authors:

WH de Vries, R Morganti, HJA Röttgering, R Vermeulen, W van Breugel, R Rengelink, MJ Jarvis

Study of B0 --> J/psiK(*)0pi(+)pi(-) decays with the collider detector at Fermilab.

Phys Rev Lett 88:7 (2002) 071801

Authors:

T Affolder, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, P Amaral, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, A Artikov, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, S Bailey, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, W Bokhari, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, S van den Brink, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, AW Chan, PS Chang, PT Chang, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M-T Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, AP Colijn, A Connolly, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Cropp, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, S D'Auria, F DeJongh, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, L Demortier, M Deninno, PF Derwent, T Devlin, JR Dittmann, A Dominguez, S Donati, J Done, M D'Onofrio, T Dorigo, N Eddy, K Einsweiler, JE Elias, E Engels, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, Q Fan, H-C Fang, RG Feild, JP Fernandez, C Ferretti, RD Field, I Fiori, B Flaugher, GW Foster, M Franklin, J Freeman, J Friedman, Y Fukui, I Furic, S Galeotti, A Gallas, M Gallinaro, T Gao, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, P Gatti, C Gay, DW Gerdes, P Giannetti, P Giromini, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, J Goldstein, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, C Green, G Grim, P Gris, L Groer, C Grosso-Pilcher, M Guenther, G Guillian, J Guimaraes da Costa, RM Haas, C Haber, SR Hahn, C Hall, T Handa, R Handler, W Hao, F Happacher, K Hara, AD Hardman, RM Harris, F Hartmann, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, J Heinrich, A Heiss, M Herndon, C Hill, KD Hoffman, C Holck, R Hollebeek, L Holloway, BT Huffman, R Hughes, J Huston, J Huth, H Ikeda, J Incandela, G Introzzi, J Iwai, Y Iwata, E James, M Jones, U Joshi, H Kambara, T Kamon, T Kaneko, K Karr, H Kasha, Y Kato, TA Keaffaber, K Kelley, M Kelly, RD Kennedy, R Kephart, D Khazins, T Kikuchi, B Kilminster, BJ Kim, DH Kim, HS Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, M Kirby, M Kirk, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, P Koehn, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, A Korn, A Korytov, E Kovacs, J Kroll, M Kruse, SE Kuhlmann, K Kurino, T Kuwabara, AT Laasanen, N Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, J Lancaster, M Lancaster, R Lander, A Lath, G Latino, T LeCompte, AM Lee, K Lee, S Leone, JD Lewis, M Lindgren, TM Liss, JB Liu, YC Liu, DO Litvintsev, O Lobban, N Lockyer, J Loken, M Loreti, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, S Lusin, L Lyons, J Lys, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, L Malferrari, M Mangano, M Mariotti, G Martignon, A Martin, JAJ Matthews, J Mayer, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, E McKigney, M Menguzzato, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Meyer, T Miao, R Miller, JS Miller, H Minato, S Miscetti, M Mishina, G Mitselmakher, N Moggi, E Moore, R Moore, Y Morita, T Moulik, M Mulhearn, A Mukherjee, T Muller, A Munar, P Murat, S Murgia, J Nachtman, V Nagaslaev, S Nahn, H Nakada, I Nakano, C Nelson, T Nelson, C Neu, D Neuberger, C Newman-Holmes, C-YP Ngan, H Niu, L Nodulman, A Nomerotski, SH Oh, YD Oh, T Ohmoto, T Ohsugi, R Oishi, T Okusawa, J Olsen, W Orejudos, C Pagliarone, F Palmonari, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, D Partos, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, D Pellett, L Pescara, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, KT Pitts, A Pompos, L Pondrom, G Pope, M Popovic, F Prokoshin, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, O Pukhov, G Punzi, A Rakitine, F Ratnikov, D Reher, A Reichold, A Ribon, W Riegler, F Rimondi, L Ristori, M Riveline, WJ Robertson, A Robinson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, L Rosenson, R Roser, R Rossin, C Rott, A Roy, A Ruiz, A Safonov, R St Denis, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, A Sansoni, L Santi, H Sato, P Savard, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, L Scodellaro, A Scott, A Scribano, S Segler, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Semeria, T Shah, MD Shapiro, PF Shepard, T Shibayama, M Shimojima, M Shochet, A Sidoti, J Siegrist, A Sill, P Sinervo, P Singh, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, C Smith, FD Snider, A Solodsky, J Spalding, T Speer, P Sphicas, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, L Spiegel, J Steele, A Stefanini, J Strologas, F Strumia, D Stuart, K Sumorok, T Suzuki, T Takano, R Takashima, K Takikawa, P Tamburello, M Tanaka, B Tannenbaum, M Tecchio, R Tesarek, PK Teng, K Terashi, S Tether, AS Thompson, R Thurman-Keup, P Tipton, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, A Tollestrup, D Tonelli, H Toyoda, W Trischuk, JF de Troconiz, J Tseng, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Vaiciulis, J Valls, S Vejcik, G Velev, G Veramendi, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Volobouev, M von der Mey, D Vucinic, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, NB Wallace, Z Wan, C Wang, MJ Wang, B Ward, S Waschke, T Watanabe, D Waters, T Watts, R Webb, H Wenzel, WC Wester, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, T Wilkes, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, D Winn, S Wolbers, D Wolinski, J Wolinski, S Wolinski, S Worm, X Wu, J Wyss, W Yao, GP Yeh, P Yeh, J Yoh, C Yosef, T Yoshida, I Yu, S Yu, Z Yu, A Zanetti, F Zetti, S Zucchelli, CDF Collaboration

Abstract:

We report a study of the decays B0 --> J/psiK(*)0pi(+)pi(-), which involve the creation of a uu or dd quark pair in addition to a b -->c(cs) decay. The data sample consists of 110 pb(-1) of pp collisions at square root[s] = 1.8 TeV collected by the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider during 1992-1995. We measure the branching fractions to be B(B0 --> J/psiK(*0)pi(+)pi(-)) = (6.6 +/- 1.9 +/- 1.1)x10(-4) and B(B0 --> J/psiK0pi(+)pi(-)) = (10.3 +/- 3.3 +/- 1.5)x10(-4). Evidence is seen for contributions from psi(2S)K(*)0, J/psiK0rho(0), J/psiK(*+)pi(-), and J/psiK1(1270).

Study of B0 → J/ψK(*)0π+π- decays with the collider detector at Fermilab

Physical Review Letters 88:7 (2002) 718011-718016

Authors:

T Affolder, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, P Amaral, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, A Artikov, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, S Bailey, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, W Bokhari, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, S van den Brink, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, AW Chan, PS Chang, PT Chang, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, AP Colijn, A Connolly, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Cropp, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, S D'Auria

Abstract:

The study of the decays B0 → J/ψK(*)0 π+π-, was reported. The study involved the creation of a uū or dd̄ quark pair in addition to a b̄ → c̄(cs̄) decay. Three-level dimuon trigger was used in the analysis. Events with two separate sets of atleast three linked hits in the muon chambers. The second level required drift chamber tracks with pT > 2.0 GeV/c. J/ψ → μ+μ- candidates, were accepted in the third level, with a reconstructed invariant mass between 2.8 and 3.8 GeV/c2.

Spectral, polarization and time-lag properties of GRS 1915+105 radio oscillations

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 330:1 (2002) 212-218

Authors:

RP Fender, D Rayner, SA Trushkin, K O'Brien, RJ Sault, GG Pooley, RP Norris