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Search for gluinos and scalar quarks in pp̄ Collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV using the missing energy plus multijets signature

Physical Review Letters 88:4 (2002) 418011-418016

Authors:

T Affolder, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, P Amara L, 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 Berryhil L, 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, A Connolly, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw

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A search for gluinos and scalar quarks in a data sample of 84 pb -1 of pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV was performed. The final state of large missing transverse energy and three or more jets was investigated. The data was compared with predictions of constrained supersymmetric models and gluinos masses below 195 GeV/c 2, independent of the squark mass were excluded.
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Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 observations of hyperluminous infrared galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 329:3 (2002) 605-619

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D Farrah, Aprajita Verma, S Oliver, M Rowan-Robinson, R McMahon

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We present Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 I-band imaging for a sample of nine hyperluminous infrared galaxies (HLIRGs) spanning a redshift range 0.45 < z < 1.34. Three of the sample have morphologies showing evidence for interactions and six are quasi-stellar objects (QSOs). Host galaxies in the QSOs are detected reliably out to z ∼ 0.8. The detected QSO host galaxies have an elliptical morphology with scalelengths spanning 6.5 < re (kpc) < 88 and absolute k-corrected magnitudes spanning −24.5 < MI < −25.2. There is no clear correlation between the infrared (IR) power source and the optical morphology. None of the sources in the sample, including F15307+3252, shows any evidence for gravitational lensing. We infer that the IR luminosities are thus real. Based on these results, and previous studies of HLIRGs, we conclude that this class of object is broadly consistent with being a simple extrapolation of the ULIRG population to higher luminosities; ULIRGs being mainly violently interacting systems powered by starbursts and/or active galactic nuclei. Only a small number of sources, the infrared luminosities of which exceed 1013 L⊙, are intrinsically less luminous objects that have been boosted by gravitational lensing.
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Search for charmless B --> VV decays.

Phys Rev Lett 88:2 (2002) 021802

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R Godang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, S McGee, GJ Zhou, A Bornheim, E Lipeles, SP Pappas, M Schmidtler, A Shapiro, WM Sun, AJ Weinstein, DE Jaffe, G Masek, HP Paar, DM Asner, A Eppich, TS Hill, RJ Morrison, RA Briere, GP Chen, T Ferguson, H Vogel, A Gritsan, JP Alexander, R Baker, C Bebek, BE Berger, K Berkelman, F Blanc, V Boisvert, DG Cassel, PS Drell, JE Duboscq, KM Ecklund, R Ehrlich, AD Foland, P Gaidarev, L Gibbons, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, PI Hopman, L Hsu, CD Jones, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, M Lohner, A Magerkurth, TO Meyer, NB Mistry, E Nordberg, M Palmer, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Romano, JG Thayer, D Urner, B Valant-Spaight, G Viehhauser, A Warburton, P Avery, C Prescott, AI Rubiera, H Stoeck, J Yelton, G Brandenburg, A Ershov, DY-J Kim, R Wilson, T Bergfeld, BI Eisenstein, J Ernst, GE Gladding, GD Gollin, RM Hans, E Johnson, I Karliner, MA Marsh, C Plager, C Sedlack, M Selen, JJ Thaler, J Williams, KW Edwards, R Janicek, PM Patel, AJ Sadoff, R Ammar, A Bean, D Besson, X Zhao, S Anderson, VV Frolov, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, R Mahapatra, JJ O'Neill, R Poling, T Riehle, A Smith, CJ Stepaniak, J Urheim, S Ahmed, MS Alam, SB Athar, L Jian, L Ling, M Saleem, S Timm, F Wappler, A Anastassov, E Eckhart, KK Gan, C Gwon, T Hart, K Honscheid, D Hufnagel, H Kagan, R Kass, TK Pedlar, H Schwarthoff, JB Thayer, E von Toerne, MM Zoeller, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, A Undrus, V Savinov, S Chen, J Fast, JW Hinson, J Lee, DH Miller, V Pavlunin, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, D Cronin-Hennessy, AL Lyon, EH Thorndike, TE Coan, V Fadeyev, YS Gao, Y Maravin, I Narsky, R Stroynowski, J Ye, T Wlodek, M Artuso, R Ayad, C Boulahouache, K Bukin, E Dambasuren, G Majumder, GC Moneti, R Mountain, S Schuh, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, A Wolf, J Wu, S Kopp, M Kostin, AH Mahmood, SE Csorna, I Danko, KW McLean, Z Xu, CLEO Collaboration

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We have studied two-body charmless decays of the B meson into the final states rho(0)rho(0), K(*0)rho(0), K(*0)K(*0), K(*0)K(*0), K(*+)rho(0), K(*+)K(*0), and K(*+)K(*-) using only decay modes with charged daughter particles. Using 9.7x10(6) BB pairs collected with the CLEO detector, we place 90% confidence level upper limits on the branching fractions (1.4-14.1)x10(-5), depending on final state and polarization.
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B Physics at the Tevatron: Run II and Beyond

(2002)

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K Anikeev, D Atwood, F Azfar, S Bailey, CW Bauer, W Bell, G Bodwin, E Braaten, G Burdman, JN Butler, K Byrum, N Cason, A Cerri, HWK Cheung, A Dighe, S Donati, RK Ellis, A Falk, G Feild, S Fleming, I Furic, S Gardner, Y Grossman, G Gutierrez, W Hao, BW Harris, J Hewett, G Hiller, R Jesik, M Jones, PA Kasper, A El-Khadra, M Kirk, VV Kiselev, J Kroll, AS Kronfeld, R Kutschke, VE Kuznetsov, E Laenen, Jungil Lee, AK Leibovich, JD Lewis, Z Ligeti, AK Likhoded, HE Logan, M Luke, A Maciel, G Majumder, P Maksimovic, M Martin, S Menary, P Nason, U Nierste, Y Nir, L Nogach, E Norrbin, C Oleari, V Papadimitriou, M Paulini, C Paus, M Petteni, R Poling, M Procario, G Punzi, H Quinn, A Rakitine, G Ridolfi, K Shestermanov, G Signorelli, JP Silva, T Skwarnicki, A Smith, B Speakman, K Stenson, F Stichelbaut, S Stone, K Sumorok, M Tanaka, W Taylor, W Trischuk, J Tseng, R Van Kooten, A Vasiliev, M Voloshin, JC Wang, AB Wicklund, F Wurthwein, N Xuan, J Yarba, K Yip, A Zieminski
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Charged jet evolution and the underlying event in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.8 TeV

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 65:9 (2002)

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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 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, A Connolly, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Cropp, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, S D’Auria, F DeJongh

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The growth and development of “charged particle jets” produced in proton-antiproton collisions at [Formula Presented] are studied over a transverse momentum range from [Formula Presented] [Formula Presented] to [Formula Presented] [Formula Presented] A variety of leading (highest transverse momentum) charged jet observables are compared with the QCD Monte Carlo models HERWIG, ISAJET, and PYTHIA. The models describe fairly well the multiplicity distribution of charged particles within the leading charged jet, the size of the leading charged jet, the radial distribution of charged particles and transverse momentum around the leading charged jet direction, and the momentum distribution of charged particles within the leading charged jet. The direction of the leading “charged particle jet” in each event is used to define three regions of [Formula Presented] space. The “toward” region contains the leading “charged particle jet”, while the “away” region, on the average, contains the away-side jet. The “transverse” region is perpendicular to the plane of the hard [Formula Presented]-to-[Formula Presented] scattering and is very sensitive to the “underlying event” component of the QCD Monte Carlo models. HERWIG, ISAJET, and PYTHIA with their default parameters do not describe correctly all the properties of the “transverse” region. © 2002 The American Physical Society.
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