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Planet Hunters: New Kepler planet candidates from analysis of quarter 2

ArXiv 1202.6007 (2012)

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Chris J Lintott, Megan E Schwamb, Thomas Barclay, Charlie Sharzer, Debra A Fischer, John Brewer, Matthew Giguere, Stuart Lynn, Michael Parrish, Natalie Batalha, Steve Bryson, Jon Jenkins, Darin Ragozzine, Jason F Rowe, Kevin Schwainski, Robert Gagliano, Joe Gilardi, Kian J Jek, Jari-Pekka Pääkkönen, Tjapko Smits

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We present new planet candidates identified in NASA Kepler quarter two public release data by volunteers engaged in the Planet Hunters citizen science project. The two candidates presented here survive checks for false-positives, including examination of the pixel offset to constrain the possibility of a background eclipsing binary. The orbital periods of the planet candidates are 97.46 days (KIC 4552729) and 284.03 (KIC 10005758) days and the modeled planet radii are 5.3 and 3.8 R_Earth. The latter star has an additional known planet candidate with a radius of 5.05 R_Earth and a period of 134.49 which was detected by the Kepler pipeline. The discovery of these candidates illustrates the value of massively distributed volunteer review of the Kepler database to recover candidates which were otherwise uncatalogued.
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Measurements of the angular distributions in the decays B→K( *)μ+μ- at CDF

Physical Review Letters 108:8 (2012)

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T Aaltonen, B Álvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, D Beecher, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, KR Bland, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, L Brigliadori, A Brisuda, C Bromberg, E Brucken, M Bucciantonio, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, S Cabrera, C Calancha, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, 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, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli

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We report an indirect search for nonstandard model physics using the flavor-changing neutral current decays B→K(*) μ+μ-. We reconstruct the decays and measure their angular distributions, as a function of q2=Mμμ2c2, where M μμ is the dimuon mass, in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96TeV using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.8fb-1. The transverse polarization asymmetry AT(2) and the time-reversal-odd charge-and-parity asymmetry Aim are measured for the first time, together with the K* longitudinal polarization fraction FL and the muon forward-backward asymmetry AFB for the decays B0→K*0μ+μ- and B+→K*+μ+μ -. The B→K*μ+μ- forward-backward asymmetry in the most sensitive kinematic regime, 1≤q2<6GeV2/c2, is measured to be AFB=0.29-0.23+0.20(stat) ±0.07(syst), the most precise result to date. No deviations from the standard model predictions are observed. © 2012 American Physical Society.
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Combination of CDF and D0 measurements of the W boson helicity in top quark decays

(2012)

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The CDF, D0 Collaborations, :, T Aaltonen, VM Abazov, B Abbott, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, B Álvarez González, G Alverson, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, A Askew, B Åsman, S Atkins, O Atramentov, B Auerbach, K Augsten, A Aurisano, C Avila, F Azfar, F Badaud, W Badgett, T Bae, L Bagby, B Baldin, DV Bandurin, S Banerjee, A Barbaro-Galtieri, E Barberis, P Baringer, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, J Barreto, P Barria, JF Bartlett, P Bartos, U Bassler, M Bauce, V Bazterra, A Bean, F Bedeschi, M Begalli, S Behari, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, S Bhatia, V Bhatnagar, A Bhatti, PC Bhat, D Bisello, I Bizjak, KR Bland, G Blazey, S Blessing, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, A Boehnlein, D Boline, EE Boos, G Borissov, D Bortoletto, T Bose, J Boudreau, A Boveia, A Brandt, O Brandt, L Brigliadori, R Brock, C Bromberg, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, J Brown, E Brucken, XB Bu, J Budagov, HS Budd, M Buehler, V Buescher, V Bunichev, S Burdin, K Burkett, P Bussey, CP Buszello, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, E Camacho-Pérez, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, BCK Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, A Castro, P Catastini, S Caughron, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, E Chapon, YC Chen, G Chen, M Chertok, S Chevalier-Théry, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, S Choi, D Chokheli, B Choudhary, DK Cho, K Cho, SW Cho, WH Chung, YS Chung, S Cihangir, MA Ciocci, D Claes, C Clarke, A Clark, J Clutter, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Cooke, WE Cooper, M Corbo, M Corcoran, M Cordelli, F Couderc, M-C Cousinou, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, A Croc, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Cutts, N d'Ascenzo, M d'Errico, M D'Onofrio, D Dagenhart, A Das, M Datta, G Davies, F Déliot, M Dell'Orso, R Demina, L Demortier, M Deninno, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, C Deterre, K DeVaughan, F Devoto, P de Barbaro, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, PF Ding, JR Dittmann, A Di Canto, B Di Ruzza, A Dominguez, S Donati, P Dong, M Dorigo, T Dorigo, T Dorland, A Dubey, LV Dudko, D Duggan, A Duperrin, S Dutt, A Dyshkant, M Eads, K Ebina, D Edmunds, A Elagin, J Ellison, VD Elvira, Y Enari, A Eppig, R Erbacher, S Errede, N Ershaidat, R Eusebi, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, G Facini, S Farrington, M Feindt, T Ferbel, L Feng, JP Fernandez, F Fiedler, R Field, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, G Flanagan, R Forrest, M Fortner, H Fox, M Franklin, MJ Frank, JC Freeman, S Fuess, Y Funakoshi, I Furic, M Gallinaro, JE Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, GA García-Guerra, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, V Gavrilov, P Gay, W Geng, D Gerbaudo, CE Gerber, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, Y Gershtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, CM Ginsburg, G Ginther, N Giokaris, P Giromini, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, D Goldin, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Golovanov, G Gomez-Ceballos, G Gomez, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, S Greder, H Greenlee, G Grenier, S Grinstein, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, A Grohsjean, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, S Grünendahl, MW Grünewald, T Guillemin, J Guimaraes da Costa, F Guo, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, S Hagopian, SR Hahn, J Haley, E Halkiadakis, A Hamaguchi, JY Han, L Han, F Happacher, K Hara, K Harder, D Hare, M Hare, A Harel, RF Harr, K Hatakeyama, JM Hauptman, C Hays, J Hays, T Head, T Hebbeker, M Heck, D Hedin, H Hegab, J Heinrich, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, I Heredia-De La Cruz, M Herndon, K Herner, G Hesketh, S Hewamanage, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, T Hoang, JD Hobbs, A Hocker, B Hoeneisen, M Hohlfeld, W Hopkins, D Horn, S Hou, I Howley, Z Hubacek, RE Hughes, M Hurwitz, U Husemann, N Hussain, M Hussein, J Huston, V Hynek, I Iashvili, Y Ilchenko, R Illingworth, G Introzzi, M Iori, AS Ito, A Ivanov, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, E James, D Jamin, D Jang, A Jayasinghe, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, R Jesik, S Jindariani, K Johns, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, M Jones, P Jonsson, KK Joo, J Joshi, SY Jun, AW Jung, TR Junk, A Juste, K Kaadze, E Kajfasz, T Kamon, PE Karchin, D Karmanov, A Kasmi, PA Kasper, Y Kato, I Katsanos, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, W Ketchum, J Keung, N Khalatyan, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YN Kharzheev, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, N Kimura, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YJ Kim, YK Kim, S Klimenko, K Knoepfel, JM Kohli, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, AV Kotwal, AV Kozelov, J Kraus, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kuhr, S Kulikov, A Kumar, A Kupco, M Kurata, T Kurča, VA Kuzmin, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, S Lammers, M Lancaster, RL Lander, G Landsberg, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, P Lebrun, T LeCompte, E Lee, HS Lee, HS Lee, JS Lee, WM Lee, SW Lee, SW Lee, J Lellouch, S Leo, S Leone, JD Lewis, H Li, L Li, QZ Li, JK Lim, A Limosani, C-J Lin, D Lincoln, M Lindgren, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, E Lipeles, R Lipton, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, H Liu, H Liu, T Liu, Q Liu, Y Liu, A Lobodenko, S Lockwitz, A Loginov, M Lokajicek, R Lopes de Sa, HJ Lubatti, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, R Luna-Garcia, G Lungu, AL Lyon, R Lysak, J Lys, AKA Maciel, D Mackin, R Madar, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maestro, R Magaña-Villalba, S Malik, S Malik, VL Malyshev, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, Y Maravin, F Margaroli, C Marino, M Martínez, J Martínez-Ortega, P Mastrandrea, K Matera, ME Mattson, A Mazzacane, P Mazzanti, R McCarthy, KS McFarland, CL McGivern, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, MM Meijer, A Melnitchouk, D Menezes, PG Mercadante, M Merkin, C Mesropian, A Meyer, J Meyer, T Miao, F Miconi, D Mietlicki, A Mitra, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, NK Mondal, MN Mondragon, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, J Morlock, P Movilla Fernandez, A Mukherjee, M Mulhearn, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, E Nagy, M Naimuddin, I Nakano, A Napier, M Narain, R Nayyar, HA Neal, JP Negret, J Nett, MS Neubauer, P Neustroev, C Neu, J Nielsen, L Nodulman, SY Noh, O Norniella, T Nunnemann, L Oakes, G Obrant, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, J Orduna, L Ortolan, N Osman, J Osta, M Padilla, S Pagan Griso, C Pagliarone, A Pal, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, AA Paramonov, N Parashar, V Parihar, SK Park, R Partridge, N Parua, J Patrick, A Patwa, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, DE Pellett, B Penning, A Penzo, M Perfilov, Y Peters, K Petridis, G Petrillo, P Pétroff, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, J Pilot, K Pitts, C Plager, M-A Pleier, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, P Polozov, L Pondrom, AV Popov, S Poprocki, K Potamianos, M Prewitt, D Price, N Prokopenko, F Prokoshin, A Pranko, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, MS Rangel, K Ranjan, N Ranjan, PN Ratoff, I Razumov, I Redondo, P Renkel, P Renton, M Rescigno, T Riddick, F Rimondi, I Ripp-Baudot, L Ristori, F Rizatdinova, A Robson, T Rodrigo, T Rodriguez, E Rogers, S Rolli, M Rominsky, R Roser, A Ross, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, F Ruffini, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, A Safonov, G Safronov, G Sajot, WK Sakumoto, Y Sakurai, P Salcido, A Sánchez-Hernández, MP Sanders, B Sanghi, L Santi, AS Santos, K Sato, G Savage, V Saveliev, A Savoy-Navarro, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, RD Schamberger, Y Scheglov, H Schellman, P Schlabach, S Schlobohm, A Schmidt, EE Schmidt, C Schwanenberger, T Schwarz, R Schwienhorst, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, F Scuri, S Seidel, Y Seiya, J Sekaric, A Semenov, H Severini, F Sforza, E Shabalina, SZ Shalhout, V Shary, S Shaw, AA Shchukin, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, RK Shivpuri, M Shochet, I Shreyber-Tecker, V Simak, A Simonenko, P Sinervo, P Skubic, P Slattery, K Sliwa, D Smirnov, JR Smith, KJ Smith, FD Snider, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, A Soha, S Söldner-Rembold, H Song, L Sonnenschein, V Sorin, K Soustruznik, P Squillacioti, R St Denis, M Stancari, J Stark, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, V Stolin, DA Stoyanova, M Strauss, J Strologas, GL Strycker, L Stutte, Y Sudo, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, L Suter, P Svoisky, M Takahashi, K Takemasa, Y Takeuchi, J Tang, M Tecchio, PK Teng, J Thom, J Thome, GA Thompson, E Thomson, M Titov, D Toback, S Tokar, VV Tokmenin, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, D Torretta, S Torre, P Totaro, M Trovato, Y-T Tsai, K Tschann-Grimm, D Tsybychev, B Tuchming, C Tully, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, R Van Kooten, WM van Leeuwen, N Varelas, A Varganov, EW Varnes, IA Vasilyev, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, P Verdier, AY Verkheev, LS Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, M Vesterinen, M Vidal, I Vila, D Vilanova, R Vilar, J Vizán, M Vogel, P Vokac, G Volpi, P Wagner, RL Wagner, HD Wahl, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, MHLS Wang, SM Wang, A Warburton, J Warchol, D Waters, G Watts, M Wayne, J Weichert, L Welty-Rieger, WC Wester, A White, D Whiteson, F Wick, D Wicke, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, HH Williams, MRJ Williams, GW Wilson, JS Wilson, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, M Wobisch, S Wolbers, H Wolfe, DR Wood, T Wright, X Wu, Z Wu, TR Wyatt, Y Xie, R Yamada, K Yamamoto, T Yang, UK Yang, W-C Yang, YC Yang, W-M Yao, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, Z Ye, GP Yeh, K Yi, H Yin, K Yip, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, SW Youn, I Yu, GB Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, Y Zeng, T Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, L Zivkovic, S Zucchelli
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Combination of CDF and D0 measurements of the W boson helicity in top quark decays

ArXiv 1202.5272 (2012)

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CDF The, D0 Collaborations, T Aaltonen, VM Abazov, B Abbott, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, B Álvarez González, G Alverson, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, A Askew, B Åsman, S Atkins, O Atramentov, B Auerbach, K Augsten, A Aurisano, C Avila, F Azfar, F Badaud, W Badgett, T Bae, L Bagby, B Baldin, DV Bandurin, S Banerjee, A Barbaro-Galtieri, E Barberis, P Baringer, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, J Barreto, P Barria, JF Bartlett, P Bartos, U Bassler, M Bauce, V Bazterra, A Bean, F Bedeschi, M Begalli, S Behari, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, S Bhatia, V Bhatnagar, A Bhatti, PC Bhat, D Bisello, I Bizjak, KR Bland, G Blazey, S Blessing, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, A Boehnlein, D Boline, EE Boos, G Borissov, D Bortoletto, T Bose, J Boudreau, A Boveia, A Brandt, O Brandt, L Brigliadori, R Brock, C Bromberg, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, J Brown, E Brucken, XB Bu, J Budagov, HS Budd, M Buehler, V Buescher, V Bunichev, S Burdin, K Burkett, P Bussey, CP Buszello, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, E Camacho-Pérez, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, BCK Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, A Castro, P Catastini, S Caughron, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, E Chapon, YC Chen, G Chen, M Chertok, S Chevalier-Théry, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, S Choi, D Chokheli, B Choudhary, DK Cho, K Cho, SW Cho, WH Chung, YS Chung, S Cihangir, MA Ciocci, D Claes, C Clarke, A Clark, J Clutter, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Cooke, WE Cooper, M Corbo, M Corcoran, M Cordelli, F Couderc, M-C Cousinou, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, A Croc, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Cutts, N d'Ascenzo, M d'Errico, M D'Onofrio, D Dagenhart, A Das, M Datta, G Davies, F Déliot, M Dell'Orso, R Demina, L Demortier, M Deninno, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, C Deterre, K DeVaughan, F Devoto, P de Barbaro, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, PF Ding, JR Dittmann, A Di Canto, B Di Ruzza, A Dominguez, S Donati, P Dong, M Dorigo, T Dorigo, T Dorland, A Dubey, LV Dudko, D Duggan, A Duperrin, S Dutt, A Dyshkant, M Eads, K Ebina, D Edmunds, A Elagin, J Ellison, VD Elvira, Y Enari, A Eppig, R Erbacher, S Errede, N Ershaidat, R Eusebi, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, G Facini, S Farrington, M Feindt, T Ferbel, L Feng, JP Fernandez, F Fiedler, R Field, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, G Flanagan, R Forrest, M Fortner, H Fox, M Franklin, MJ Frank, JC Freeman, S Fuess, Y Funakoshi, I Furic, M Gallinaro, JE Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, GA García-Guerra, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, V Gavrilov, P Gay, W Geng, D Gerbaudo, CE Gerber, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, Y Gershtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, CM Ginsburg, G Ginther, N Giokaris, P Giromini, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, D Goldin, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Golovanov, G Gomez-Ceballos, G Gomez, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, S Greder, H Greenlee, G Grenier, S Grinstein, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, A Grohsjean, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, S Grünendahl, MW Grünewald, T Guillemin, J Guimaraes da Costa, F Guo, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, S Hagopian, SR Hahn, J Haley, E Halkiadakis, A Hamaguchi, JY Han, L Han, F Happacher, K Hara, K Harder, D Hare, M Hare, A Harel, RF Harr, K Hatakeyama, JM Hauptman, C Hays, J Hays, T Head, T Hebbeker, M Heck, D Hedin, H Hegab, J Heinrich, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, I Heredia-De La Cruz, M Herndon, K Herner, G Hesketh, S Hewamanage, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, T Hoang, JD Hobbs, A Hocker, B Hoeneisen, M Hohlfeld, W Hopkins, D Horn, S Hou, I Howley, Z Hubacek, RE Hughes, M Hurwitz, U Husemann, N Hussain, M Hussein, J Huston, V Hynek, I Iashvili, Y Ilchenko, R Illingworth, G Introzzi, M Iori, AS Ito, A Ivanov, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, E James, D Jamin, D Jang, A Jayasinghe, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, R Jesik, S Jindariani, K Johns, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, M Jones, P Jonsson, KK Joo, J Joshi, SY Jun, AW Jung, TR Junk, A Juste, K Kaadze, E Kajfasz, T Kamon, PE Karchin, D Karmanov, A Kasmi, PA Kasper, Y Kato, I Katsanos, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, W Ketchum, J Keung, N Khalatyan, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YN Kharzheev, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, N Kimura, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YJ Kim, YK Kim, S Klimenko, K Knoepfel, JM Kohli, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, AV Kotwal, AV Kozelov, J Kraus, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kuhr, S Kulikov, A Kumar, A Kupco, M Kurata, T Kurča, VA Kuzmin, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, S Lammers, M Lancaster, RL Lander, G Landsberg, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, P Lebrun, T LeCompte, E Lee, HS Lee, HS Lee, JS Lee, WM Lee, SW Lee, SW Lee, J Lellouch, S Leo, S Leone, JD Lewis, H Li, L Li, QZ Li, JK Lim, A Limosani, C-J Lin, D Lincoln, M Lindgren, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, E Lipeles, R Lipton, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, H Liu, H Liu, T Liu, Q Liu, Y Liu, A Lobodenko, S Lockwitz, A Loginov, M Lokajicek, R Lopes de Sa, HJ Lubatti, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, R Luna-Garcia, G Lungu, AL Lyon, R Lysak, J Lys, AKA Maciel, D Mackin, R Madar, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maestro, R Magaña-Villalba, S Malik, S Malik, VL Malyshev, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, Y Maravin, F Margaroli, C Marino, M Martínez, J Martínez-Ortega, P Mastrandrea, K Matera, ME Mattson, A Mazzacane, P Mazzanti, R McCarthy, KS McFarland, CL McGivern, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, MM Meijer, A Melnitchouk, D Menezes, PG Mercadante, M Merkin, C Mesropian, A Meyer, J Meyer, T Miao, F Miconi, D Mietlicki, A Mitra, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, NK Mondal, MN Mondragon, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, J Morlock, P Movilla Fernandez, A Mukherjee, M Mulhearn, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, E Nagy, M Naimuddin, I Nakano, A Napier, M Narain, R Nayyar, HA Neal, JP Negret, J Nett, MS Neubauer, P Neustroev, C Neu, J Nielsen, L Nodulman, SY Noh, O Norniella, T Nunnemann, L Oakes, G Obrant, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, J Orduna, L Ortolan, N Osman, J Osta, M Padilla, S Pagan Griso, C Pagliarone, A Pal, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, AA Paramonov, N Parashar, V Parihar, SK Park, R Partridge, N Parua, J Patrick, A Patwa, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, DE Pellett, B Penning, A Penzo, M Perfilov, Y Peters, K Petridis, G Petrillo, P Pétroff, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, J Pilot, K Pitts, C Plager, M-A Pleier, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, P Polozov, L Pondrom, AV Popov, S Poprocki, K Potamianos, M Prewitt, D Price, N Prokopenko, F Prokoshin, A Pranko, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, A Rahaman, V 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We report the combination of recent measurements of the helicity of the W boson from top quark decay by the CDF and D0 collaborations, based on data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of 2.7 - 5.4 fb^-1 of ppbar collisions collected during Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Combining measurements that simultaneously determine the fractions of W bosons with longitudinal (f0) and right-handed (f+) helicities, we find f0 = 0.722 \pm 0.081 [\pm 0.062 (stat.) \pm 0.052 (syst.)] and f+ = -0.033 \pm 0.046 [\pm 0.034 (stat.) \pm 0.031 (syst.)]. Combining measurements where one of the helicity fractions is fixed to the value expected in the standard model, we find f0 = 0.682 \pm 0.057 [\pm 0.035 (stat.) \pm 0.046 (syst.)] and f+ = -0.015\pm0.035 [\pm 0.018 (stat.) \pm 0.030 (syst.)]. The results are consistent with standard model expectations.
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Observation of exclusive γγ production in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96TeV

Physical Review Letters 108:8 (2012)

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T Aaltonen, MG Albrow, B Álvarez González, 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, D Bisello, I Bizjak, KR Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, 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, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, WH Chung, YS Chung, MA Ciocci, A Clark, C Clarke, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, N D'ascenzo, M Datta, P De Barbaro, M Dell'orso, L Demortier, M Deninno, F Devoto

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We have observed exclusive γγ production in proton-antiproton collisions at √s=1.96TeV, using data from 1.11±0.07fb-1 integrated luminosity taken by the Run II Collider Detector at Fermilab. We selected events with two electromagnetic showers, each with transverse energy ET>2.5GeV and pseudorapidity |η|<1.0, with no other particles detected in -7.4<η<+7.4. The two showers have similar E T and azimuthal angle separation Δψ∼π; 34 events have two charged particle tracks, consistent with the QED process pp̄→p+e+e-+p̄ by two-photon exchange, while 43 events have no charged tracks. The number of these events that are exclusive π0π0 is consistent with zero and is <15 at 95% C.L. The cross section for pp̄→p+γγ+p̄ with |η(γ)|<1.0 and ET(γ)>2.5GeV is 2.48-0.35+0.40(stat)-0.51+0.40(syst)pb. © 2012 American Physical Society.
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