The Power of Jets: New Clues from Radio Circular Polarization and X-Rays

Chapter in Lighthouses of the Universe: The Most Luminous Celestial Objects and Their Use for Cosmology, Springer Nature (2002) 428-435

Authors:

Heino Falcke, Thomas Beckert, Sera Markoff, Elmar Körding, Geoffrey C Bower, Rob Fender

The SAURON project - II. Sample and early results

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 329:3 (2002) 513-530

Authors:

PT de Zeeuw, M Bureau, E Emsellem, R Bacon, CM Carollo, Y Copin, RL Davies, H Kuntschner, BW Miller, G Monnet, RF Peletier, EK Verolme

Search for the familon via B± → π±X0, B± → K±X0, and B0 → Ks0X0 decays

Physical Review Letters 87:27 I (2001) 2718011-2718015

Authors:

R Ammar, A Bean, D Besson, X Zhao, S Anderson, VV Frolov, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, R Poling, 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, JB Thayer, E von Toerne, MM Zoeller, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, A Undrus, V Savinov, S Chen, 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, K Benslama, C Boulahouache, K Bukin, E Dambasuren, G Majumder, R Mountain, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, A Wolf, S Kopp, M Kostin, AH Mahmood, SE Csorna, I Danko, KW McLean, Z Xu, R Godang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, S McGee, A Bornheim, E Lipeles, SP Pappas, A Shapiro, WM Sun, AJ Weinstein, DE Jaffe, R Mahapatra, G Masek, HP Paar, DM Asner, A Eppich, TS Hill, RJ Morrison, RA Briere, GP Chen, T Ferguson, H Vogel, JP Alexander, C Bebek, BE Berger

Abstract:

A search for the decay of the meson B±→H±X0 and B0→Ks0X0 was performed. The upper limits for the branching fractions constrained new physics leading to two-body B decays involving any massless neutral feebly interacting particle X0. The first lower bound on the family symmetry breaking scale involving the third generation of quarks at 108 GeV was obtained by applying the limit to the case where X0 was a familon.

Branching fraction and photon energy spectrum for b --> s gamma.

Phys Rev Lett 87:25 (2001) 251807

Authors:

S Chen, JW Hinson, J Lee, DH Miller, V Pavlunin, EI Shibata, IP 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, K Benslama, C Boulahouache, K Bukin, E Dambasuren, G Majumder, R Mountain, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, A Wolf, S Kopp, M Kostin, AH Mahmood, SE Csorna, I Danko, KW McLean, Z Xu, R Godang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, S McGee, GJ Zhou, A Bornheim, E Lipeles, SP Pappas, A Shapiro, WM Sun, AJ Weinstein, DE Jaffe, R Mahapatra, G Masek, HP Paar, DM Asner, A Eppich, TS Hill, RJ Morrison, RA Briere, GP Chen, T Ferguson, H Vogel, JP Alexander, C Bebek, BE Berger, K Berkelman, F Blanc, V Boisvert, DG Cassel, PS Drell, JE Duboscq, KM Ecklund, R Ehrlich, P Gaidarev, L Gibbons, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, 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, H Schwarthoff, 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 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, AJ Sadoff, R Ammar, A Bean, D Besson, X Zhao, S Anderson, VV Frolov, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, R Poling, 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, JB Thayer, E von Toerne, MM Zoeller, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, A Undrus, V Savinov, CLEO Collaboration

Abstract:

We have measured the branching fraction and photon energy spectrum for the radiative penguin process b-->s gamma. We find Beta(b-->s gamma) = (3.21+/-0.43+/-0.27(+0.18)(-0.10))x10(-4), where the errors are statistical, systematic, and from theory corrections. We obtain first and second moments of the photon energy spectrum above 2.0 GeV, = 2.346+/-0.032+/-0.011 GeV, and -(2) = 0.0226+/-0.0066+/-0.0020 GeV(2), where the errors are statistical and systematic. From the first moment, we obtain (in the modified minimal subtraction renormalization scheme, to order 1/M(3)(B) and beta(0)alpha(2)(s)) the heavy quark effective theory parameter Lambda = 0.35+/-0.08+/-0.10 GeV.

First measurement of Γ(D *+)

Physical Review Letters 87:25 (2001)

Authors:

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 Hufnage, H Kagan, R Kass, TK Pedlar, JB Thayer, E Von Toerne, MM Zoeller, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, A Undrus, V Savinov, S Chen, JW Hinson, J Lee, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, V Pavlunin, D Cronin-Hennessy, AL Lyon, W Park, EH Thorndike, TE Coan, YS Gao, Y Maravin, I Narsky, R Stroynowski, J Ye, T Wlodek, M Artuso, K Benslama, C Boulahouache, K Bukin, E Dambasuren, G Majumder, R Mountain, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, A Wolf, S Kopp, M Kostin, AH Mahmood, SE Csorna, I Danko, V Jain, KW McLean, Z Xu, R Godang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, S McGee, A Bornheim, E Lipeles, SP Pappas, A Shapiro, WM Sun, AJ Weinstein, DE Jaffe, R Mahapatra, G Masek, HP Paar, A Eppich, TS Hill, RJ Morrison, HN Nelson

Abstract:

The width of the D *+ was measured by studying the distribution of the energy release in D *+→D 0π + followed by D 0→K -π + decay. For the smallest statistical uncertainty, Γ(D *+)=96±4±22 keV, was obtained.