Kinematics of tt̄ events at CDF

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 59:9 (1999) 1-20

Authors:

F Abe, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, A Amadon, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, J Antos, S Aota, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, S Bagdasarov, MW Bailey, P De Barbara, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, M Barone, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, S Bertolucci, S Bettelli, B Bevensee, A Bhatti, K Biery, C Bigongiari, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, S Blusk, A Bodek, W Bikhari, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, L Breccia, C Bromberg, N Burner, R Brunetti, E Buckley-Geer, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, J Cassada, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, PS Chang, PT Chang, HY Chao, J Chapman, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, CN Chiou, F Chlebana, L Christofek, R Cropp, ML Chu, S Cihangir, AG Clark, M Cobal, E Cocca, M Contreras, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, D Costanzo, C Couyoumtzelis, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, T Daniels, F DeJongh, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso

Abstract:

The kinematic properties of tt̄ events are studied in the W+ multijet channel using data collected with the CDF detector during the 1992-1995 runs at the Fermilab Tevatron collider corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 109 pb-1. Distributions of a variety of kinematic variables chosen to be sensitive to different aspects of tt̄ production are compared with those expected from Monte Carlo calculations. A sample of 34 events rich in tt̄ pairs is obtained by requiring at least one jet identified by the silicon vertex detector (SVX) as having a displaced vertex consistent with the decay of a b hadron. The data are found to be in good agreement with predictions of the leading order tt̄ matrix element with color coherent parton shower evolution. ©1999 The American Physical Society.

Searches for new physics in diphoton events in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 59:9 (1999) 1-29

Authors:

F Abe, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, A Amadon, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, J Antos, S Aota, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, S Bagdasarov, MW Bailey, P De Barbara, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, M Barone, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, S Bertolucci, S Bettelli, B Bevensee, A Bhatti, K Biery, C Bigongiari, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, S Blusk, A Bodek, W Bikhari, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, L Breccia, C Bromberg, N Burner, R Brunetti, E Buckley-Geer, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, J Cassada, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, PS Chang, PT Chang, HY Chao, J Chapman, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, CN Chiou, F Chlebana, L Christofek, R Cropp, ML Chu, S Cihangir, AG Clark, M Cobal, E Cocca, M Contreras, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, D Costanzo, C Couyoumtzelis, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, T Daniels, F DeJongh, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso

Abstract:

We present a detailed description of a search for anomalous production of missing ET (Slashed E signT), jets, leptons (e, μ, τ), b quarks, or additional photons in events containing two isolated, central (|η|<1.0) photons with ET>12 GeV. The results are consistent with standard model expectations, with the possible exception of one event that has, in addition to the two photons, a central electron, a high-ET electromagnetic cluster, and large Slashed E signT. We set limits using two specific SUSY scenarios for production of diphoton events with Slashed E signT. ©1999 The American Physical Society.

MERLIN observations of relativistic ejections from GRS 1915+105

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 304:4 (1999) 865-876

Authors:

RP Fender, ST Garrington, DJ McKay, TWB Muxlow, GG Pooley, RE Spencer, AM Stirling, EB Waltman

First Observation of the Decay B0 → D*+D*-

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 82:15 (1999) 3020-3024

Authors:

M Artuso, E Dambasuren, S Kopp, GC Moneti, R Mountain, S Schuh, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, A Titov, G Viehhauser, JC Wang, SE Csorna, KW McLean, S Marka, Z Xu, R Godang, K Kinoshita, IC Lai, P Pomianowski, S Schrenk, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, R Greene, LP Perera, GJ Zhou, S Chan, G Eigen, E Lipeles, JS Miller, M Schmidtler, A Shapiro, WM Sun, J Urheim, AJ Weinstein, F Würthwein, DE Jaffe, G Masek, HP Paar, EM Potter, S Prell, V Sharma, DM Asner, A Eppich, J Gronberg, TS Hill, CM Korte, DJ Lange, RJ Morrison, HN Nelson, TK Nelson, D Roberts, H Tajima, BH Behrens, WT Ford, A Gritsan, H Krieg, J Roy, JG Smith, JP Alexander, R Baker, C Bebek, BE Berger, K Berkelman, V Boisvert, DG Cassel, DS Crowcroft, M Dickson, S von Dombrowski, PS Drell, KM Ecklund, R Ehrlich, AD Foland, P Gaidarev, L Gibbons, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, PI Hopman, J Kandaswamy, N Katayama, DL Kreinick, T Lee, Y Liu, NB Mistry, CR Ng, E Nordberg, M Ogg, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Soffer, B Valant-Spaight, A Warburton, C Ward, M Athanas, P Avery, CD Jones, M Lohner, C Prescott, AI Rubiera, J Yelton, J Zheng, G Brandenburg, RA Briere, A Ershov, YS Gao, DY-J Kim, R Wilson, TE Browder, Y Li, JL Rodriguez, H Yamamoto, T Bergfeld, BI Eisenstein, J Ernst, GE Gladding, GD Gollin, RM Hans, E Johnson, I Karliner, MA Marsh, M Palmer, M Selen, JJ Thaler, KW Edwards, A Bellerive, R Janicek, PM Patel, AJ Sadoff, R Ammar, P Baringer, A Bean, D Besson, D Coppage, R Davis, S Kotov, I Kravchenko, N Kwak, L Zhou, S Anderson, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, R Mahapatra, JJ O'Neill, R Poling, T Riehle, A Smith, MS Alam, SB Athar, Z Ling, AH Mahmood, S Timm, F Wappler, A Anastassov, JE Duboscq, KK Gan, C Gwon, T Hart, K Honscheid, H Kagan, R Kass, J Lee, J Lorenc, H Schwarthoff, A Wolf, MM Zoeller, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, A Undrus, M Bishai, S Chen, J Fast, JW Hinson, N Menon, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, S Glenn, Y Kwon, AL Lyon, S Roberts, EH Thorndike, CP Jessop, K Lingel, H Marsiske, ML Perl, V Savinov, D Ugolini, X Zhou, TE Coan, V Fadeyev, I Korolkov, Y Maravin, I Narsky, R Stroynowski, J Ye, T Wlodek

High resolution optical and infrared spectroscopic observations of Cir X-1

(1999)

Authors:

Helen Johnston, Rob Fender, Kinwah Wu