Professor Daniela Bortoletto: Publications

First results on radiation damage studies using n+/p/p+ diodes fabricated with multi-guard ring structures1This research was supported in part by the US Department of Energy: Contracts DE-AC02-98CH10886, DE-FG03-91ER40674, and DE-FG02-91ER40681.1

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment Elsevier 423:2-3 (1999) 290-296

Authors:

G Bolla, D Bortoletto, GP Grim, RL Lander, Z Li, S Willard

Measurement of the Bd⁰-��̄d⁰ flavor oscillation frequency and study of same side flavor tagging of B mesons in pp̄ collisions

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 59:3 (1999) 1-41

Authors:

F Abe, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, A Amadon, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, J Antos, S Aota, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, S Bagdasarov, MW Bailey, P De Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, M Barone, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, S Bertolucci, S Bettelli, B Bevensee, A Bhatti, K Biery, C Bigongiari, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, S Blusk, A Bodek, W Bokhari, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, L Breccia, C Bromberg, N Bruner, R Brunetti, E Buckley-Geer, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, J Cassada, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, PS Chang, PT Chang, HY Chao, J Chapman, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, CN Chiou, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, S Cihangir, AG Clark, M Cobal, E Cocca, M Contreras, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, D Costanzo, C Couyoumtzelis, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, T Daniels, F DeJongh, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, R Demina, L Demortier

Abstract:

Bd0-��̄d0 oscillations are observed in "self-tagged" samples of partially reconstructed B mesons decaying into a lepton and a charmed meson collected in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.8 TeV. A flavor tagging technique is employed which relies upon the correlation between the flavor of B mesons and the charge of a nearby particle. We measure the flavor oscillation frequency to be Δmd=0.471-0.068+0.078±0.034 ps-1. The tagging method is also demonstrated in exclusive samples of Bu+→J/ψK+ and Bd0→J/ψK*0(892), where similar flavor-charge correlations are observed. The tagging characteristics of the various samples are compared with each other, and with Monte Carlo simulations.

Measurement of the BS⁰ meson lifetime using semileptonic decays

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 59:3 (1999) 1-14

Authors:

Abstract:

The lifetime of the BS0 meson is measured using the semileptonic decay BS0→DS-l+νX. The data sample consists of about 110 pb-1 of pp̄ collisions at √s=1.8 TeV collected by the CDF detector at Fermilab. Four different DS- decay modes are reconstructed resulting in approximately 600 DS-l+ signal events. The BS0 meson lifetime is determined to be τ(BS0)=(1.36±0.09-0.05+0.06) ps, where the first and second uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. The BS0 meson decay length distribution is examined for a lifetime difference ΔΓ/Γ between the two mass eigenstates of the BS0 meson. An upper limit of ΔΓ/Γ<0.83 is set at the 95% confidence level.

Measurement of the Associated $γ+ μ^\pm$ Production Cross Section in $p \bar p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8$ TeV

ArXiv hep-ex/9902001 (1999)

The measurement of sin(2β)

Proceedings of Science 3 (1999)

Abstract:

Since the first observation in 1964, CP violation remains one of the most elusive aspects of the standard model. The CDF collaboration has reported the first evidence of CP violation in the B system using the world's largest sample of B → J/ψKS0 decays. The direct measurement of sin(2β)=0.79+0.41−0.44(combined statistical and systematic error) agrees with the standard model predictions. New data collected from the B-factories and from the upgraded experiments at the Tevatron should allow a more precise measurement of sin 2β in the near future.

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