Observation of D+→ηe+νe
Physical Review Letters 102:8 (2009)
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Using a 281pb-1 data sample collected at the ψ(3770) resonance with the CLEO-c detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, we report the first observation of D+→ηe+νe. We also set upper limits for D+→η′e+νe and D+→φe+νe that are about 2 orders of magnitude more restrictive than those obtained by previous experiments. © 2009 The American Physical Society.Manual of BlackMax, a black-hole event generator with rotation, recoil, split branes, and brane tension
ArXiv 0902.3577 (2009)
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This is the users manual of the black-hole event generator BlackMax, which simulates the experimental signatures of microscopic and Planckian black-hole production and evolution at proton-proton, proton-antiproton and electron-positron colliders in the context of brane world models with low-scale quantum gravity. The generator is based on phenomenologically realistic models free of serious problems that plague low-scale gravity. It includes all of the black-hole gray-body factors known to date and incorporates the effects of black-hole rotation, splitting between the fermions, non-zero brane tension and black-hole recoil due to Hawking radiation (although not all simultaneously).Observation of η′ decays to π+π-π0 and π+π-e+e-
Physical Review Letters 102:6 (2009)
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Using ψ(2S)→π+π-J/ψ, J/ψ→γη′ events acquired with the CLEO-c detector at the CESR e+e- collider, we make the first observations of the decays η′→π+π-π0 and η′→π+π-e+e-, measuring absolute branching fractions (37-9+11±4)×10-4 and (25-9+12±5)×10-4, respectively. For η′→π+π-π0, this result probes the mechanism of isospin violation and the roles of π0/η/η′-mixing and final state rescattering in strong decays. We also set upper limits on branching fractions for η′ decays to π+π-μ+μ-, 2(π+π-), π+π-2π0, 2(π+π-)π0, 3(π+π-), and invisible final states. © 2009 The American Physical Society.First measurement of the ratio of branching fractions B(Λb 0 →Λc+μ-ν̄μ)/B(Λb 0 →Λc+π-)
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 79:3 (2009)
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This article presents the first measurement of the ratio of branching fractions B(Λb0→Λc+μ-ν̄μ)/ B(Λb0→Λc+π-). Measurements in two control samples using the same technique B(B̄0→D+μ- ν̄μ)/B(B̄0→D+π-) and B(B̄ 0→D*(2010)+μ-ν̄μ)/ B(B̄0→D*(2010)+π-) are also reported. The analysis uses data from an integrated luminosity of approximately 172pb-1 of pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV, collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The relative branching fractions are measured to be B(Λb 0→Λc+μ-ν̄μ)B(Λb 0→Λc+π-)=16.6±3.0(stat) ±1.0(syst)+2.6-3.4(PDG) ±0.3(EBR), B(B̄0→D+μ-ν̄μ) B(B̄0→D+π-)=9.9±1.0(stat) ±0.6(syst)±0.4(PDG)± 0.5(EBR), and B(B̄0→D*( 2010)+μ-ν̄μ)B(B̄0→D*( 2010)+π-)=16.5±2.3(stat) ±0.6(syst)±0.5(PDG)± 0.8(EBR). The uncertainties are from statistics (stat), internal systematics (syst), world averages of measurements published by the Particle Data Group or subsidiary measurements in this analysis (PDG), and unmeasured branching fractions estimated from theory (EBR), respectively. This article also presents measurements of the branching fractions of four new Λb 0 semileptonic decays: Λb0→Λc( 2595)+μ-ν̄μ, Λb0→Λc( 2625)+μ-ν̄μ, Λb0→Σc( 2455)0π+μ-ν̄μ, and Λb 0→Σc(2455)++π-μ-ν̄μ, relative to the branching fraction of the Λb0→Λc+μ- ν̄μ decay. Finally, the transverse-momentum distribution of Λb0 baryons produced in pp̄ collisions is measured and found to be significantly different from that of B̄0 mesons, which results in a modification in the production cross-section ratio σΛb0/σB̄0 with respect to the CDF I measurement. © 2009 The American Physical Society.Publisher’s Note: Search for High-Mass e+e- Resonances in pp¯ Collisions at s=1.96 TeV [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 031801 (2009)]
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 102:5 (2009) 059901