A signature-based search for delayed photons in exclusive photon plus missing transverse energy events from $p \bar{p}$ collisions with $\sqrt{s} = 1.96$ TeV

(2013)

Authors:

CDF Collaboration, T Aaltonen, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, T Bae, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, F Bedeschi, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, KR Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, P Butti, A Buzatu, A Calamba, S Camarda, M Campanelli, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, K Cho, D Chokheli, MA Ciocci, A Clark, C Clarke, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, M Cremonesi, D Cruz, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, N d'Ascenzo, M Datta, P De Barbaro, L Demortier, M Deninno, M d'Errico, F Devoto, A Di Canto, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D'Onofrio, S Donati, M Dorigo, A Driutti, K Ebina, R Edgar, A Elagin, R Erbacher, S Errede, B Esham, R Eusebi, S Farrington, JP Fernández Ramos, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, M Franklin, JC Freeman, H Frisch, Y Funakoshi, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, K Gibson, CM Ginsburg, N Giokaris, P Giromini, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, D Goldin, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González López, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, E Gramellini, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, J Guimaraes da Costa, SR Hahn, JY Han, F Happacher, K Hara, M Hare, RF Harr, T Harrington-Taber, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, J Heinrich, M Herndon, A Hocker, Z Hong, W Hopkins, S Hou, RE Hughes, U Husemann, M Hussein, J Huston, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, S Jindariani, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, TR Junk, M Kambeitz, T Kamon, PE Karchin, A Kasmi, Y Kato, W Ketchum, J Keung, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YJ Kim, YK Kim, N Kimura, M Kirby, K Knoepfel, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, AV Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, M Kruse, T Kuhr, M Kurata, AT Laasanen, S Lammel, M Lancaster, K Lannon, G Latino, HS Lee, JS Lee, S Leo, S Leone, JD Lewis, A Limosani, E Lipeles, A Lister, H Liu, Q Liu, T Liu, S Lockwitz, A Loginov, A Lucà, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, J Lys, R Lysak, R Madrak, P Maestro, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, F Margaroli, P Marino, M Martínez, K Matera, ME Mattson, A Mazzacane, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, C Mesropian, T Miao, D Mietlicki, A Mitra, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, I Nakano, A Napier, J Nett, C Neu, T Nigmanov, L Nodulman, SY Noh, O Norniella, L Oakes, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, L Ortolan, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, P Palni, V Papadimitriou, W Parker, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, J Pilot, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, S Poprocki, K Potamianos, A Pranko, F Prokoshin, F Ptohos, G Punzi, N Ranjan, I Redondo Fernández, P Renton, M Rescigno, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodriguez, S Rolli, M Ronzani, R Roser, JL Rosner, F Ruffini, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, WK Sakumoto, Y Sakurai, L Santi, K Sato, V Saveliev, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, F Scuri, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Sforza, SZ Shalhout, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, I Shreyber-Tecker, A Simonenko, P Sinervo, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, H Song, V Sorin, M Stancari, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, Y Sudo, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, K Takemasa, Y Takeuchi, J Tang, M Tecchio, PK Teng, J Thom, E Thomson, V Thukral, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, M Trovato, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, C Vernieri, M Vidal, R Vilar, J Vizán, M Vogel, G Volpi, P Wagner, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, WC Wester, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, S Wilbur, HH Williams, JS Wilson, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, H Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, Z Wu, K Yamamoto, D Yamato, T Yang, UK Yang, YC Yang, W-M Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, GB Yu, I Yu, AM Zanetti, Y Zeng, C Zhou, S Zucchelli

A signature-based search for delayed photons in exclusive photon plus missing transverse energy events from $p \bar{p}$ collisions with $\sqrt{s} = 1.96$ TeV

ArXiv 1307.0474 (2013)

Authors:

CDF Collaboration, T Aaltonen, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, T Bae, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, F Bedeschi, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, KR Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, P Butti, A Buzatu, A Calamba, S Camarda, M Campanelli, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, K Cho, D Chokheli, MA Ciocci, A Clark, C Clarke, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, M Cremonesi, D Cruz, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, N d'Ascenzo, M Datta, P De Barbaro, L Demortier, M Deninno, M d'Errico, F Devoto, A Di Canto, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D'Onofrio, S Donati, M Dorigo, A Driutti, K Ebina, R Edgar, A Elagin, R Erbacher, S Errede, B Esham, R Eusebi, S Farrington, JP Fernández Ramos, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, M Franklin, JC Freeman, H Frisch, Y Funakoshi, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, K Gibson, CM Ginsburg, N Giokaris, P Giromini, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, D Goldin, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González López, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, E Gramellini, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, J Guimaraes da Costa, SR Hahn, JY Han, F Happacher, K Hara, M Hare, RF Harr, T Harrington-Taber, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, J Heinrich, M Herndon, A Hocker, Z Hong, W Hopkins, S Hou, RE Hughes, U Husemann, M Hussein, J Huston, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, S Jindariani, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, TR Junk, M Kambeitz, T Kamon, PE Karchin, A Kasmi, Y Kato, W Ketchum, J Keung, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YJ Kim, YK Kim, N Kimura, M Kirby, K Knoepfel, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, AV Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, M Kruse, T Kuhr, M Kurata, AT Laasanen, S Lammel, M Lancaster, K Lannon, G Latino, HS Lee, JS Lee, S Leo, S Leone, JD Lewis, A Limosani, E Lipeles, A Lister, H Liu, Q Liu, T Liu, S Lockwitz, A Loginov, A Lucà, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, J Lys, R Lysak, R Madrak, P Maestro, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, F Margaroli, P Marino, M Martínez, K Matera, ME Mattson, A Mazzacane, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, C Mesropian, T Miao, D Mietlicki, A Mitra, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, I Nakano, A Napier, J Nett, C Neu, T Nigmanov, L Nodulman, SY Noh, O Norniella, L Oakes, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, L Ortolan, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, P Palni, V Papadimitriou, W Parker, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, J Pilot, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, S Poprocki, K Potamianos, A Pranko, F Prokoshin, F Ptohos, G Punzi, N Ranjan, I Redondo Fernández, P Renton, M Rescigno, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodriguez, S Rolli, M Ronzani, R Roser, JL Rosner, F Ruffini, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, WK Sakumoto, Y Sakurai, L Santi, K Sato, V Saveliev, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, F Scuri, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Sforza, SZ Shalhout, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, I Shreyber-Tecker, A Simonenko, P Sinervo, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, H Song, V Sorin, M Stancari, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, Y Sudo, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, K Takemasa, Y Takeuchi, J Tang, M Tecchio, PK Teng, J Thom, E Thomson, V Thukral, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, M Trovato, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, C Vernieri, M Vidal, R Vilar, J Vizán, M Vogel, G Volpi, P Wagner, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, WC Wester III, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, S Wilbur, HH Williams, JS Wilson, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, H Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, Z Wu, K Yamamoto, D Yamato, T Yang, UK Yang, YC Yang, W-M Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, GB Yu, I Yu, AM Zanetti, Y Zeng, C Zhou, S Zucchelli

Abstract:

We present the first signature-based search for delayed photons using an exclusive photon plus missing transverse energy final state. Events are reconstructed in a data sample from the CDF II detector corresponding to $6.3 \text{fb}^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity from $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV proton-antiproton collisions. Candidate events are selected if they contain a photon with an arrival time in the detector larger than expected from a promptly-produced photon. The mean number of events from standard model sources predicted by the data-driven background model based on the photon timing distribution is $286 \pm 24$. A total of 322 events are observed. A $p$-value of 12% is obtained, showing consistency of the data with standard model predictions.

Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: The environmental density of far-infrared bright galaxies at z ≤ = 0.5

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 433:1 (2013) 771-786

Authors:

CS Burton, MJ Jarvis, DJB Smith, DG Bonfield, MJ Hardcastle, JA Stevens, N Bourne, M Baes, S Brough, A Cava, A Cooray, A Dariush, G De Zotti, L Dunne, S Eales, R Hopwood, E Ibar, RJ Ivison, J Liske, J Loveday, SJ Maddox, M Negrello, MWL Smith, E Valiante

Abstract:

We compare the environmental and star formation properties of far-infrared detected and non-far-infrared detected galaxies out to z ~ 0.5. Using optical spectroscopy and photometryfrom the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) and Sloan Digital Sky Survey, with farin frared observations from the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (ATLAS)Science Demonstration Phase, we apply the technique of Voronoi tessellations to analyse the environmental densities of individual galaxies. Applying statistical analyses to colour, r-band magnitude and redshift-matched samples, we show that there is a significant differenceat the 3.5σ level between the normalized environmental densities of these two populations. This is such that infrared emission (a tracer of star formation activity) favours underden seregions compared to those inhabited by exclusively optically observed galaxies selected to beof the same r-band magnitude, colour and redshift. Thus, more highly star-forming galaxiesare found to reside in the most underdense environments, confirming previous studies thathave proposed such a correlation. However, the degeneracy between redshift and far-infraredluminosity in our flux-density-limited sample means that we are unable to make a strongerstatement in this respect. We then apply our method to synthetic light cones generated fromsemi-analytic models, finding that over the whole redshift distribution the same correlations between star formation rate and environmental density are found. © 2013 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Measurement of masses in the tt̄ system by kinematic endpoints in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

European Physical Journal C 73:7 (2013) 1-28

Authors:

S Chatrchyan, V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, T Bergauer, M Dragicevic, J Erö, C Fabjan, M Friedl, R Frühwirth, VM Ghete, N Hörmann, J Hrubec, M Jeitler, W Kiesenhofer, V Knünz, M Krammer, I Krätschmer, D Liko, I Mikulec, D Rabady, B Rahbaran, C Rohringer, H Rohringer, R Schöfbeck, J Strauss, A Taurok, W Treberer-Treberspurg, W Waltenberger, CE Wulz, V Mossolov, N Shumeiko, J Suarez Gonzalez, S Alderweireldt, M Bansal, S Bansal, T Cornelis, EA De Wolf, X Janssen, A Knutsson, S Luyckx, L Mucibello, S Ochesanu, B Roland, R Rougny, H Van Haevermaet, P Van Mechelen, N Van Remortel, A Van Spilbeeck, F Blekman, S Blyweert, J D'Hondt, A Kalogeropoulos, J Keaveney, M Maes, A Olbrechts, S Tavernier, W Van Doninck, P Van Mulders, GP Van Onsem, I Villella, B Clerbaux, G De Lentdecker, APR Gay, T Hreus, A Léonard, PE Marage, A Mohammadi, T Reis, L Thomas, C Vander Velde, P Vanlaer, J Wang, V Adler, K Beernaert, L Benucci, A Cimmino, S Costantini, S Dildick, G Garcia, B Klein, J Lellouch, A Marinov, J Mccartin, AA Ocampo Rios, D Ryckbosch, M Sigamani, N Strobbe, F Thyssen, M Tytgat, S Walsh, E Yazgan, N Zaganidis, S Basegmez, G Bruno, R Castello, A Caudron, L Ceard, C Delaere

Abstract:

A simultaneous measurement of the top-quark, W-boson, and neutrino masses is reported for tt̄ events selected in the dilepton final state from a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb-1 collected by the CMS experiment in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV. The analysis is based on endpoint determinations in kinematic distributions. When the neutrino and W-boson masses are constrained to their world-average values, a top-quark mass value of Mt = 173.9 ± 0.9 (stat)+1.7-2.1(syst.) GeV is obtained. When such constraints are not used, the three particle masses are obtained in a simultaneous fit. In this unconstrained mode the study serves as a test of mass determination methods that may be used in beyond standard model physics scenarios where several masses in a decay chain may be unknown and undetected particles lead to underconstrained kinematics. © 2013 CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration.

Search for physics beyond the standard model in events with τ leptons, jets, and large transverse momentum imbalance in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

European Physical Journal C 73:7 (2013) 1-26

Authors:

S Chatrchyan, V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, E Aguilo, T Bergauer, M Dragicevic, J Erö, C Fabjan, M Friedl, R Frühwirth, VM Ghete, J Hammer, N Hörmann, J Hrubec, M Jeitler, W Kiesenhofer, V Knünz, M Krammer, I Krätschmer, D Liko, I Mikulec, M Pernicka, B Rahbaran, C Rohringer, H Rohringer, R Schöfbeck, J Strauss, A Taurok, W Waltenberger, G Walzel, E Widl, CE Wulz, V Mossolov, N Shumeiko, J Suarez Gonzalez, M Bansal, S Bansal, T Cornelis, EA De Wolf, X Janssen, S Luyckx, L Mucibello, S Ochesanu, B Roland, R Rougny, M Selvaggi, Z Staykova, H Van Haevermaet, P Van Mechelen, N Van Remortel, A Van Spilbeeck, F Blekman, S Blyweert, J D'Hondt, R Gonzalez Suarez, A Kalogeropoulos, M Maes, A Olbrechts, W Van Doninck, P Van Mulders, GP Van Onsem, I Villella, B Clerbaux, G De Lentdecker, V Dero, APR Gay, T Hreus, A Léonard, PE Marage, A Mohammadi, T Reis, L Thomas, G Vander Marcken, C Vander Velde, P Vanlaer, J Wang, V Adler, K Beernaert, A Cimmino, S Costantini, G Garcia, M Grunewald, B Klein, J Lellouch, A Marinov, J Mccartin, AA Ocampo Rios, D Ryckbosch, N Strobbe, F Thyssen, M Tytgat, P Verwilligen, S Walsh, E Yazgan, N Zaganidis, S Basegmez, G Bruno, R Castello

Abstract:

A search for physics beyond the standard model is performed with events having one or more hadronically decaying τ leptons, highly energetic jets, and large transverse momentum imbalance. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.98 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at √ = 7 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC in 2011. The number of observed events is consistent with predictions for standard model processes. Lower limits on the mass of the gluino in supersymmetric models are determined. © 2013 CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration.