Measurement of the tt̄ production cross section in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV using lepton + jets events with secondary vertex b -tagging

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 71:5 (2005) 1-28

Authors:

D Acosta, J Adelman, T Affolder, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, JF Arguin, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, GJ Barker, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, E Ben-Haim, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, A Bolshov, PSL Booth, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, S Bourov, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campanelli, M Campbell, A Canepa, M Casarsa, D Carlsmith, S Carron, R Carosi, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, A Cerri, C Cerri, L Cerrito, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, I Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, ML Chu, S Chuang, JY Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, AG Clark, D Clark, M Coca, A Connolly, M Convery

Abstract:

We present a measurement of the tt̄ production cross section using events with one charged lepton and jets from pp̄ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. In these events, heavy flavor quarks from top quark decay are identified with a secondary vertex tagging algorithm. From 162 pb-1 of data collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab, a total of 48 candidate events are selected, where 13.5 ± 1.8 events are expected from background contributions. We measure a tt̄ production cross section of 5.6-1.1+1.2(stat.)-0.6+0.9(syst.) pb. © 2005 The American Physical Society.

Beam tests of ATLAS SCT silicon strip detector modules

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 538:1-3 (2005) 384-407

Authors:

F Campabadal, C Fleta, M Key, M Lozano, C Martinez, G Pellegrini, JM Rafi, M Ullan, L Johansen, B Pommeresche, B Stugu, A Ciocio, V Fadeyev, M Gilchriese, C Haber, J Siegrist, H Spieler, C Vu, PJ Bell, DG Charlton, JD Dowell, BJ Gallop, RJ Homer, P Jovanovic, G Mahout, TJ McMahon, JA Wilson, AJ Barr, JR Carter, BP Fromant, MJ Goodrick, JC Hill, CG Lester, MJ Palmer, MA Parker, D Robinson, A Sabetfakhri, RJ Shaw, F Anghinolfi, E Chesi, S Chouridou, R Fortin, J Grosse-Knetter, P Jarron, J Kaplon, A Macpherson, T Niinikoski, H Pernegger, S Roe, A Rudge, G Ruggiero, R Wallny, P Weilhammer, W Bialas, W Dabrowski, P Grybos, S Koperny, J Blocki, P Bruckman, S Gadomski, J Godlewski, E Gornicki, P Malecki, A Moszczynski, E Stanecka, M Stodulski, R Szczygiel, M Turala, M Wolter, A Ahmad, J Benes, C Carpentieri, K Runge, B Mikulec, M Mangin-Brinet, M D'Onofrio, M Donega, S Moed, A Sfyrla, D Ferrerej, AG Clark, E Perrin, M Weber, RL Bates, A Cheplakov, DH Saxon, V O'Shea, KM Smith, Y Iwata, T Kondo, S Terada, N Ujiie, Y Ikegami, Y Unno, R Takashima, T Brodbeck, A Chilingarov, G Hughes, P Ratoff, T Sloan

Abstract:

The design and technology of the silicon strip detector modules for the Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) of the ATLAS experiment have been finalised in the last several years. Integral to this process has been the measurement and verification of the tracking performance of the different module types in test beams at the CERN SPS and the KEK PS. Tests have been performed to explore the module performance under various operating conditions including detector bias voltage, magnetic field, incidence angle, and state of irradiation up to 3×1014 protons per square centimetre. A particular emphasis has been the understanding of the operational consequences of the binary readout scheme. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Measurement of the J/ψ meson and b-hadron production cross sections in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1960 GeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 71:3 (2005) 032001-1-032001-26

Authors:

DE Acosta, J Adelman, T Affolder, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, DJ Ambrose, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antoš, M Aoki, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, JF Arguin, AM Artikov, WJ Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, WF Badgett, AA Barbaro-Galtieri, GJ Barker, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, G Bellettini, JN Bellinger, E Ben-Haim, DP Benjamin, A Beretvas, AA Bhatti, ME Binkley, DB Bisello, MR Bishai, RE Blair, CA Blocker, K Bloom, BJ Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, AA Bolshov, PSL Boóth, D Bortoletto, JF Boudreau, S Bourov, BP Brau, CM Bromberg, EM Brubaker, JA Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, PJ Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campanelli, MK Campbell, A Canepa, M Casarsa, D Carlsmith, S Carron, R Carosi, MC Cavalli-Sforza, AJ Castro, PL Catastini, D Cauz, A Cerri, L Cerrito, JW Chapman, C Chen, Y Chen, MB Chertok, G Chiarelli, GA Chlachidze, FS Chlebana, L Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, J Chou, M Chu, SHS Chuang, J Chung, WH Chung, Y Chung, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, AG Clark, DE Clark, MN Coca, A Connolly, ME Convery, JS Conway, BD Cooper, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, J Cranshaw, J Cuevas, RL Culbertson, CA Currat, D Cyr, DW Dagenhart, S Da Ronco, S D'Auria, P De Barbaro, SD De Cecco, G De Lentdecker, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, SM Demers, L Demortier, MM Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, C Dionisi, JR Dittmann, C Dörr, P Doksus, A Domínguez, S Donati, M Donegà, J Donini, M D'Onofrio, T Dorigo, DrollingerV, K Ebina, N Eddy, JE Ehlers, RP Ely, RD Erbacher, M Erdmann, D Errede, SM Errede, R Eusebi, H Fang, SM Farrington, I Fedorko, WT Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernández, C Ferretti, RD Field, GP Flanagan, BL Flaugher, LR Flores-Castillo, AD Foland, S Forrester, GW Foster, MEB Franklin, JC Freeman, Y Fujii, IK Furić, A Gajjar, AA Gallas, J Galyardt, M Gallinaro, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, HK Gerberich, DW Gerdes, EA Gerchtein, S Giagu, P Giannetti, AJ Gibson, KR Gibson, C Ginsburg, K Giolo, MP Giordani, M Giunta, GA Giurgiu, VV Glagolev, DA Glenzinskí, MS Gold, N Goldschmidt, DJ Goldstein, J Goldstein, G Gómez, G Gómez-Ceballos, MV Goncharov, O González, IV Gorelov, AT Goshaw, YN Gotra, K Goulianos, A Gresele, M Griffiths, C Grosso-Pilcher, U Grundler, M Guenther, JB Guimarães Da Costa, V Haber, K Hahn, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamilton, B Han, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, MF Hare, RF Harr, RM Harris, FX Hartmann, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, CP Hays, HaywardH, EM Heider, B Heinemann, JG Heinrich, M Hennecke, M Herndon, CS Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Höcker, D HoffmanK, A Holloway, S Hou, MA Houlden, BT Huffman, Y Huang, RE Hughes, JW Huston, K Ikado, JR Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, Y Ishizawa, C Ìşsever, A Ivanov, Y Iwata, B Iyutin, EB James, D Jang, J Jarrell, DT Jeans, HB Jensen, E Jeon, MK Jones, K Joo, S Jun, TR Junk, T Kamon, J Kang, MK Ünel, PE Karchin, SN Kartal, Y Kato, Y Kemp, RD Kephart, U Kerzel, V Khotilovich, BJ Kilminster, DH Kim, H Kim, J Kim, M Kim, M Kim, SB Kim, S Kim, T Kim, Y Kim, BT King, MH Kirby, LE Kirsch, S Klimenko, B Knuteson, B Ko, H Kobayashi, P Koehn, D Kong, K Kondo, J Königsberg, K Kordas, A Korn, AV Korytov, KA Kotelnikov, AV Kotwal, AI Kovalev, JA Kraus, IT Kravchenko, AE Kreymer, J Kroll, MC Kruse, V Krutelyov, SE Kuhlmann, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lai, SS Lami, S Lammel, JM Lancaster, MA Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, RTA Lauhakangas, I Lazzizzera, Y Le, C Lecci, TJ LeCompte, J Lee, J Lee, S Lee, RP Lefèvre, NT Leonardo, S Leone, SL Levy, JD Lewis, K Li, CS Lin, CSS Lin, MA Lindgren, TM Liss, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, T Liu, Y Liu, NS Lockyer, AY Loginov, M Loreti, PF Loverre, R Lu, D Lucchesi, PJ Lujan, PT Lukens, GA Lungu, LPR Lyons, JEA Lys, R Lysak, DM MacQueen, RL Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimović, L Malferrari, G Manca, RM Mǎrginean, C Marino, AJ Martin, MS Martin, VJ Martin, MI Martínez, T Maruyama, H Matsunaga, M Mattson, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, D McGivern, PM McIntyre, PA McNamara, R NcNulty, A Mehta, S Menzemer, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, AM Messina, T Miao, N Miladinovic, LM Miller, RJD Miller, JS Miller, R Miquel, S Miscetti, GV Mitselmakher, A Miyamoto, Y Miyazaki, N Moggi, B Mohr, RW Moore, MJ Morello, PAM Fernández, A Mukherjee, M Mulhearn, TA Müller, R Mumford, A Munar, PA Murat, JM Nachtman, S Nahn, I Nakamura, I Nakano, A Napier, R Napora, DV Naumov, V Necula, F Niell, JA Nielsen, CA Nelson, TK Nelson, C Neu, MS Neubauer, CB Newman-Holmes, TS Nigmanov, LJ Nodulman, O Norniella, K Oesterberg, T Ogawa, SH Oh, Y Oh, T Ohsugi, T Okusawa, RGC Oldeman, R Orava, W Orejudos, CE Pagliarone, E Palencia, R Paoletti, VK Papadimitriou, S Pashapour, JF Patrick, G Pauletta, MG Paulini, T Pauly, C Paus, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, GM Piacentino, J Piedra, KT Pitts, CL Plager, A Pompoš, LG Pondrom, G Pope, X Portell, O Poukhov, F Prakoshyn, T Pratt, A Pronko, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, JH Rademacker, MA Rahaman, A Rakitine, S Rappoccio, FD Ratnikov, H Ray, B Reisert, V Rekovic, PB Renton, M Rescigno, F Rimondi, K Rinnert, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, A Robson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, L Rosenson, RM Roser, R Rossin, C Rott, JS Russ, VL Rusu, A Ruiz-Jimeno, DT Ryan, HMT Saarikko, S Sabik, AN Safonov, RDS St Denis, WK Sakumoto, G Salamanna, DP Saltzberg, CAS Sánchez, A Sansoni, L Santi, S Sarkar, K Sato, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, SC Seidel, Y Seiya, F Semeria, L Sexton-Kennedy, I Sfiligoi, MD Shapiro, TG Shears, PF Shepard, D Sherman, M Shimojima, MJ Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, A Sidoti, JL Siegrist, M Šiket, AF Sill, PK Sinervo, AN Sisakyan, A Skiba, AJ Slaughter, K Śliwa, DV Smirnov, JRH Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, A Soha, SV Somalwar, J Spalding, MA Spezziga, L Spiegel, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, P Squillacioti, H Stadie, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, J Strologas, DD Stuart, AI Sukhanov, KCTO Sumorok, H Sun, T Suzuki, AC Taffard, R Tafirout, SF Takach, H Takano, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, K Takikawa, M Tanaka, R Tanaka, N Tanimoto, S Tapprogge, M Tecchio, P Teng, K Terashi, RJ Tesarek, S Tether, J Thom, AS Thompson, EJ Thomson, PL Tipton, V Tiwari, SM Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, M Tönnesmann, SD Torre, D Torretta, S Tourneur, W Trischuk, J Tseng, R Tsuchiya, S Tsuno, D Tsybychev, N Turini, MF Turner, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, S Uozumi, D Usynin, L Vacavant, A Vaiciulis, AV Varganov, ES Vataga, S Vejcik, GV Velev, V Veszprémi, G Veramendi, T Vickey, RA Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Vollrath, I Volobouev, M Von Der Mey, PD Wágner, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, RS Wallny, T Walter, T Yamashita, K Yamamoto, Z Wan, M Wang, S Wang, A Warburton, BR Ward, S Waschke, DS Waters, TL Watts, MS Weber, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, AB Wicklund, EJ Wicklund, HH Williams, PJ Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, SA Wolbers, CE Wolfe, MW Wolter, M Worcester, SD Worm, TR Wright, X Wu, F Würthwein, AC Wyatt, A Yagil, C Yang, U Yang, W Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, PS Yoon, K Yorita, T Yoshida, I Yu, S Yu, Z Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, AM Zanetti, I Zaw, F Zetti, J Zhou, A Žsenei, S Zucchelli

Abstract:

We present a new measurement of the inclusive and differential production cross sections of J/ψ mesons and b hadrons in proton-antiproton collisions at √s = 1960 GeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 39.7 pb-1 collected by the CDF run II detector. We find the integrated cross section for inclusive J/ψ production for all transverse momenta from 0 to 20 GeV/c in the rapidity range |y| < 0.6 to be 4.08 ± 0.02(Stat)-0.33 +0.36(syst) μb. We separate the fraction of J/ψ events from the decay of the long-lived b hadrons using the lifetime distribution in all events with pT(J/ψ) > 1.25 GeV/c. We find the total cross section for b hadrons, including both hadrons and antihadrons, decaying to J/ψ with transverse momenta greater than 1.25 GeV/c in the rapidity range |y(J/ψ)| < 0.6 is 0.330 ± 0.005(stat) -0.033 +0.036(syst) μb. Using a Monte Carlo simulation of the decay kinematics of b hadrons to all final states containing a J/ψ, we extract the first measurement of the total single b-hadron cross section down to zero transverse momentum at √s = 1960 GeV. We find the total single b-hadron cross section integrated over all transverse momenta for b hadrons in the rapidity range |y| < 0.6 to be 17.6 ± 0.4(stat) -2.3 +2.5(syst) μb. © 2005 The American Physical Society.

Search for anomalous production of diphoton events with missing transverse energy at CDF and limits on gauge-mediated supersymmetry-breaking models

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 71:3 (2005)

Authors:

D Acosta, J Adelman, T Affolder, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, JF Arguin, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, GJ Barker, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, E Ben-Haim, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, A Bolshov, PSL Booth, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, S Bourov, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campanelli, M Campbell, A Canepa, M Casarsa, D Carlsmith, S Carron, R Carosi, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, A Cerri, L Cerrito, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, I Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, ML Chu, S Chuang, JY Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, AG Clark, D Clark, M Coca, A Connolly, M Convery

Abstract:

We present the results of a search for anomalous production of diphoton events with large missing transverse energy using the Collider Detector at Fermilab. In 202 pb -1 of pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV we observe no candidate events, with an expected standard model background of 0.27 ± 0.07(stat) ± 0.10(syst) events. The results exclude a lightest chargino of mass less than 167 GeV/c 2, and lightest neutralino of mass less than 93 GeV/c 2 at 95% C.L. in a gauge-mediated supersymmetry-breaking model with a light gravitino. © 2005 The American Physical Society.

Design constraints for a liquid neon detector for dark matter and solar neutrino interactions

Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements 143:1-3 SPEC. ISS. (2005) 486

Authors:

MG Boulay, A Hime, J Lidgard