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Direct Evidence for Neutrino Flavor Transformation from Neutral-Current Interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Physical Review Letters 89:1 (2002)

Authors:

QR Ahmad, RC Allen, TC Andersen, J D.Anglin, JC Barton, EW Beier, M Bercovitch, J Bigu, SD Biller, RA Black, I Blevis, RJ Boardman, J Boger, E Bonvin, MG Boulay, MG Bowler, TJ Bowles, SJ Brice, MC Browne, TV Bullard, G Bühler, J Cameron, YD Chan, HH Chen, M Chen, X Chen, BT Cleveland, ETH Clifford, JHM Cowan, DF Cowen, GA Cox, X Dai, F Dalnoki-Veress, WF Davidson, PJ Doe, G Doucas, MR Dragowsky, CA Duba, FA Duncan, M Dunford, JA Dunmore, ED Earle, SR Elliott, HC Evans, GT Ewan, J Farine, H Fergani, AP Ferraris, RJ Ford, JA Formaggio, MM Fowler, K Frame, ED Frank, W Frati, N Gagnon, JV Germani, S Gil, K Graham, DR Grant, RL Hahn, AL Hallin, ED Hallman, AS Hamer, AA Hamian, WB Handler, RU Haq, CK Hargrove, PJ Harvey, R Hazama, KM Heeger, WJ Heintzelman, J Heise, RL Helmer, JD Hepburn, H Heron, J Hewett, A Hime, M Howe, JG Hykawy, MCP Isaac, P Jagam, NA Jelley, C Jillings, G Jonkmans, K Kazkaz, PT Keener, JR Klein, AB Knox, RJ Komar, R Kouzes, T Kutter, CCM Kyba, J Law, IT Lawson, M Lay, HW Lee, KT Lesko, JR Leslie, I Levine, W Locke

Abstract:

Observations of neutral-current [Formula presented] interactions on deuterium in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory are reported. Using the neutral current (NC), elastic scattering, and charged current reactions and assuming the standard [Formula presented] shape, the [Formula presented] component of the [Formula presented] solar flux is [Formula presented] for a kinetic energy threshold of 5 MeV. The non- [Formula presented] component is [Formula presented], [Formula presented] greater than zero, providing strong evidence for solar [Formula presented] flavor transformation. The total flux measured with the NC reaction is [Formula presented], consistent with solar models. © 2002 The American Physical Society.
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Measurement of Day and Night Neutrino Energy Spectra at SNO and Constraints on Neutrino Mixing Parameters

Physical Review Letters 89:1 (2002)

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QR Ahmad, RC Allen, TC Andersen, JD Anglin, JC Barton, EW Beier, M Bercovitch, J Bigu, SD Biller, RA Black, I Blevis, RJ Boardman, J Boger, E Bonvin, MG Boulay, MG Bowler, TJ Bowles, SJ Brice, MC Browne, TV Bullard, G Bühler, J Cameron, YD Chan, HH Chen, M Chen, X Chen, BT Cleveland, ETH Clifford, JHM Cowan, DF Cowen, GA Cox, X Dai, F Dalnoki-Veress, WF Davidson, PJ Doe, G Doucas, MR Dragowsky, CA Duba, FA Duncan, M Dunford, JA Dunmore, ED Earle, SR Elliott, HC Evans, GT Ewan, J Farine, H Fergani, AP Ferraris, RJ Ford, JA Formaggio, MM Fowler, K Frame, ED Frank, W Frati, N Gagnon, JV Germani, S Gil, K Graham, DR Grant, RL Hahn, AL Hallin, ED Hallman, AS Hamer, AA Hamian, WB Handler, RU Haq, CK Hargrove, PJ Harvey, R Hazama, KM Heeger, WJ Heintzelman, J Heise, RL Helmer, JD Hepburn, H Heron, J Hewett, A Hime, M Howe, JG Hykawy, MCP Isaac, P Jagam, NA Jelley, C Jillings, G Jonkmans, K Kazkaz, PT Keener, JR Klein, AB Knox, RJ Komar, R Kouzes, T Kutter, CCM Kyba, J Law, IT Lawson, M Lay, HW Lee, KT Lesko, JR Leslie, I Levine, W Locke

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The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) has measured day and night solar neutrino energy spectra and rates. For charged current events, assuming an undistorted [Formula presented] spectrum, the night minus day rate is [Formula presented] of the average rate. If the total flux of active neutrinos is additionally constrained to have no asymmetry, the [Formula presented] asymmetry is found to be [Formula presented]. A global solar neutrino analysis in terms of matter-enhanced oscillations of two active flavors strongly favors the large mixing angle solution. © 2002 The American Physical Society.
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Measurement of the B+total cross section and B+differential cross section dσ/dpTin pp̄ collisions at √s=1.8 TeV

Physical Review D 65:5 (2002)

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D Acosta, T Affolder, H Akimoto, MG Albrow, P Amaral, D Ambrose, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, A Artikov, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, S Bailey, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, S van den Brink, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, AW Chan, PS Chang, PT Chang, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, JY Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, AP Colijn, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart

Abstract:

We present measurements of the B+meson total cross section and differential cross section dσ/dpT. The measurements use a 98±4 pb-1sample of pp̄ collisions at √s=1.8 TeV collected by the CDF detector. Charged B meson candidates are reconstructed through the decay B±→J|ψ±with J|ψ→µ+µ-. The total cross section, measured in the central rapidity region |y|<1.0 for pT(B)>6.0 GeV/c, is 3.6±0.6(stat ⊕ syst) µb. The measured differential cross section is substantially larger than typical QCD predictions calculated to next-to-leading order.
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Measurement of the ratio of b quark production cross sections in pp collisions at √s=630 GeV and √s=1800 GeV

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 66:3 (2002)

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D Acosta, T Affolder, H Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, A Artikov, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, S Bailey, P De Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, S Van Den Brink, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, AW Chan, PS Chang, PT Chang, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, JY Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, AP Colijn, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart

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We report a measurement of the ratio of the bottom quark production cross section in antiproton-proton collisions at (Formula Presented)=630 GeV to 1800 GeV using bottom quarks with transverse momenta greater than 10.75 GeV identified through their semileptonic decays and long lifetimes. The measured ratio σ(630)/ σ(1800) 50.171±.024±.012 is in good agreement with next-to-leading order quantum chromodynamics.
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Search for radiative b-hadron decays in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.8 TeV

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 66:11 (2002)

Authors:

D Acosta, T Affolder, H Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, A Artikov, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, S Bailey, P De Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, J Berryhill, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, N Bruner, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, AW Chan, PS Chang, PT Chang, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, JY Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, M Coca, AP Colijn, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, S D’Auria

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We have performed a search for radiative 6-hadron decays using events produced in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.8TeV and collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. The decays we considered were B0̅d→K*0(→K-π+γ, B0̅s→φ(→K+K-)γ,0b→γ(→p03C0-)γ), and their charge conjugates. Two independent methods to identify photons from such decays were employed. In the first method, the photon was detected in the electromagnetic calorimeter. In the second method, the photon was identified by an electron-positron pair produced through the external photon conversion before the tracking detector volume. By combining the two methods we obtain upper limits on the branching fractions for the B0̅d, B0̅s and γ,0b radiative decays which, at the 95% confidence level, are found to be B(B0̅d→K*0γ<1.4×-4,B(B0̅d→φγ)<1.6×-4,and (γ,0b→γγ)<1.9×-3.
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