Dr Elizabeth Gallas: Publications

Measurement of the polarization of the Υ(1S) and Υ(2S) states in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV

Physical Review Letters 101:18 (2008)

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We present a study of the polarization of the Υ(1S) and Υ(2S) states using a 1.3fb-1 data sample collected by the D0 experiment in 2002-2006 during run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We measure the polarization parameter α=(σT-2σL)/(σT+2σL), where σT and σL are the transversely and longitudinally polarized components of the production cross section, as a function of the transverse momentum (pTΥ) for the Υ(1S) and Υ(2S). Significant pTΥ-dependent longitudinal polarization is observed for the Υ(1S). A comparison with theoretical models is presented. © 2008 The American Physical Society.

Measurement of the polarization of the upsilon(1S) and upsilon(2S) states in pp collisions at square root[s]=1.96 TeV.

Phys Rev Lett 101:18 (2008) 182004

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VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, E Aguilo, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, LS Ancu, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, MS Anzelc, M Aoki, Y Arnoud, M Arov, M Arthaud, A Askew, B Asman, ACS Assis Jesus, O Atramentov, C Avila, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, DV Bandurin, P Banerjee, S Banerjee, E Barberis, A-F Barfuss, P Bargassa, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, S Beale, A Bean, M Begalli, M Begel, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, A Bellavance, JA Benitez, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, C Biscarat, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, K Bloom, A Boehnlein, D Boline, TA Bolton, EE Boos, G Borissov, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, V Bunichev, S Burdin, S Burke, TH Burnett, CP Buszello, JM Butler, P Calfayan, S Calvet, J Cammin, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, K Chan, KM Chan, A Chandra, F Charles, E Cheu, F Chevallier, DK Cho, S Choi, B Choudhary, L Christofek, T Christoudias, S Cihangir, D Claes, J Clutter, M Cooke, WE Cooper, M Corcoran, F Couderc, M-C Cousinou, S Crépé-Renaudin, D Cutts, M Cwiok, H da Motta, A Das, G Davies, K De, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, C De Oliveira Martins, JD Degenhardt, F Déliot, M Demarteau, R Demina, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, A Dominguez, H Dong, LV Dudko, L Duflot, SR Dugad, D Duggan, A Duperrin, J Dyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, Y Enari, S Eno, P Ermolov, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, AV Ferapontov, T Ferbel, F Fiedler, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, M Fortner, H Fox, S Fu, S Fuess, T Gadfort, CF Galea, E Gallas, C Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, V Gavrilov, P Gay, W Geist, D Gelé, CE Gerber, Y Gershtein, D Gillberg, G Ginther, N Gollub, B Gómez, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, H Greenlee, ZD Greenwood, EM Gregores, G Grenier, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, A Grohsjean, S Grünendahl, MW Grünewald, F Guo, J Guo, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, NJ Hadley, P Haefner, S Hagopian, J Haley, I Hall, RE Hall, L Han, K Harder, A Harel, JM Hauptman, R Hauser, J Hays, T Hebbeker, D Hedin, JG Hegeman, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, K Herner, G Hesketh, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, H Hoeth, M Hohlfeld, SJ Hong, S Hossain, P Houben, Y Hu, Z Hubacek, V Hynek, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, AS Ito, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, S Jain, K Jakobs, C Jarvis, R Jesik, K Johns, C Johnson, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, P Jonsson, A Juste, E Kajfasz, JM Kalk, D Karmanov, PA Kasper, I Katsanos, D Kau, V Kaushik, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, N Khalatyan, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YM Kharzheev, D Khatidze, TJ Kim, MH Kirby, M Kirsch, B Klima, JM Kohli, J-P Konrath, AV Kozelov, J Kraus, D Krop, T Kuhl, A Kumar, A Kupco, T Kurca, VA Kuzmin, J Kvita, F Lacroix, D Lam, S Lammers, G Landsberg, P Lebrun, WM Lee, A Leflat, J Lellouch, J Leveque, J Li, L Li, QZ Li, SM Lietti, JGR Lima, D Lincoln, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, R Lipton, Y Liu, Z Liu, A Lobodenko, M Lokajicek, P Love, HJ Lubatti, R Luna, AL Lyon, AKA Maciel, D Mackin, RJ Madaras, P Mättig, C Magass, A Magerkurth, PK Mal, HB Malbouisson, S Malik, VL Malyshev, HS Mao, Y Maravin, B Martin, R McCarthy, A Melnitchouk, L Mendoza, PG Mercadante, M Merkin, KW Merritt, A Meyer, J Meyer, T Millet, J Mitrevski, RK Mommsen, NK Mondal, RW Moore, T Moulik, GS Muanza, M Mulhearn, O Mundal, L Mundim, E Nagy, M Naimuddin, M Narain, NA Naumann, HA Neal, JP Negret, P Neustroev, H Nilsen, H Nogima, SF Novaes, T Nunnemann, V O'Dell, DC O'Neil, G Obrant, C Ochando, D Onoprienko, N Oshima, N Osman, J Osta, R Otec, GJ Otero Y Garzón, M Owen, P Padley, M Pangilinan, N Parashar, S-J Park, SK Park, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, A Patwa, G Pawloski, B Penning, M Perfilov, K Peters, Y Peters, P Pétroff, M Petteni, R Piegaia, J Piper, M-A Pleier, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, Y Pogorelov, M-E Pol, P Polozov, BG Pope, AV Popov, C Potter, WL Prado da Silva, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, A Rakitine, MS Rangel, K Ranjan, PN Ratoff, P Renkel, S Reucroft, P Rich, J Rieger, M Rijssenbeek, I Ripp-Baudot, F Rizatdinova, S Robinson, RF Rodrigues, M Rominsky, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, G Safronov, G Sajot, A Sánchez-Hernández, MP Sanders, B Sanghi, A Santoro, G Savage, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, D Schaile, RD Schamberger, Y Scheglov, H Schellman, T Schliephake, C Schwanenberger, A Schwartzman, R Schwienhorst, J Sekaric, H Severini, E Shabalina, M Shamim, V Shary, AA Shchukin, RK Shivpuri, V Siccardi, V Simak, V Sirotenko, P Skubic, P Slattery, D Smirnov, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, S Söldner-Rembold, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, B Spurlock, J Stark, J Steele, V Stolin, DA Stoyanova, J Strandberg, S Strandberg, MA Strang, E Strauss, M Strauss, R Ströhmer, D Strom, L Stutte, S Sumowidagdo, P Svoisky, A Sznajder, P Tamburello, A Tanasijczuk, W Taylor, J Temple, B Tiller, F Tissandier, M Titov, VV Tokmenin, T Toole, I Torchiani, T Trefzger, D Tsybychev, B Tuchming, C Tully, PM Tuts, R Unalan, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, B Vachon, PJ van den Berg, R Van Kooten, WM van Leeuwen, N Varelas, EW Varnes, IA Vasilyev, M Vaupel, P Verdier, LS Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, F Villeneuve-Seguier, P Vint, P Vokac, E Von Toerne, M Voutilainen, R Wagner, HD Wahl, L Wang, MHLS Wang, J Warchol, G Watts, M Wayne, G Weber, M Weber, L Welty-Rieger, A Wenger, N Wermes, M Wetstein, A White, D Wicke, GW Wilson, SJ Wimpenny, M Wobisch, DR Wood, TR Wyatt, Y Xie, S Yacoob, R Yamada, M Yan, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, K Yip, HD Yoo, SW Youn, J Yu, C Zeitnitz, T Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, L Zivkovic, V Zutshi, EG Zverev, DØ Collaboration

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We present a study of the polarization of the Upsilon(1S) and Upsilon(2S) states using a 1.3 fb;{-1} data sample collected by the D0 experiment in 2002-2006 during run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We measure the polarization parameter alpha=(sigma_{T}-2sigma_{L})/(sigma_{T}+2sigma_{L}), where sigma_{T} and sigma_{L} are the transversely and longitudinally polarized components of the production cross section, as a function of the transverse momentum (p_{T};{Upsilon}) for the Upsilon(1S) and Upsilon(2S). Significant p_{T};{Upsilon}-dependent longitudinal polarization is observed for the Upsilon(1S). A comparison with theoretical models is presented.

Search for t over(t, ̄) resonances in the lepton plus jets final state in p over(p, ̄) collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics 668:2 (2008) 98-104

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We present a search for a narrow-width heavy resonance decaying into top quark pairs (X → t over(t, ̄)) in p over(p, ̄) collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV using approximately 0.9 fb^-1 of data collected with the DØ detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. This analysis considers t over(t, ̄) candidate events in the lepton plus jets channel with at least one identified b jet and uses the t over(t, ̄) invariant mass distribution to search for evidence of resonant production. We find no evidence for a narrow resonance X decaying to t over(t, ̄). Therefore, we set upper limits on σX ṡ B (X → t over(t, ̄)) for different hypothesized resonance masses using a Bayesian approach. For a Topcolor-assisted technicolor model, the existence of a leptophobic Z^′ boson with mass MZ^′ < 700 GeV and width ΓZ^′ = 0.012 MZ^′ can be excluded at the 95% C.L. © 2008 Elsevier B.V.

Measurement of the differential cross section for the production of an isolated photon with associated jet in p over(p, ̄) collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics 666:5 (2008) 435-445

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The process p over(p, ̄) → γ + jet + X is studied using 1.0 fb^-1 of data collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron p over(p, ̄) collider at a center-of-mass energy sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV. Photons are reconstructed in the central rapidity region | y^γ | < 1.0 with transverse momenta in the range 30 < pT ^γ < 400 GeV while jets are reconstructed in either the central | y^jet | < 0.8 or forward 1.5 < | y^jet | < 2.5 rapidity intervals with pT ^jet > 15 GeV. The differential cross section d³ σ / d pT ^γ d y^γ d y^jet is measured as a function of pT ^γ in four regions, differing by the relative orientations of the photon and the jet in rapidity. Ratios between the differential cross sections in each region are also presented. Next-to-leading order QCD predictions using different parameterizations of parton distribution functions and theoretical scale choices are compared to the data. The predictions do not simultaneously describe the measured normalization and pT ^γ dependence of the cross section in the four measured regions.

Search for Higgs bosons decaying to tau pairs in pp over collisions with the D0 detector.

Phys Rev Lett 101:7 (2008) 071804

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VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, E Aguilo, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, LS Ancu, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, MS Anzelc, M Aoki, Y Arnoud, M Arov, M Arthaud, A Askew, B Asman, ACS Assis Jesus, O Atramentov, C Avila, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, DV Bandurin, P Banerjee, S Banerjee, E Barberis, A-F Barfuss, P Bargassa, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, S Beale, A Bean, M Begalli, M Begel, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, A Bellavance, JA Benitez, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, C Biscarat, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, K Bloom, A Boehnlein, D Boline, TA Bolton, EE Boos, G Borissov, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, V Bunichev, S Burdin, S Burke, TH Burnett, CP Buszello, JM Butler, P Calfayan, S Calvet, J Cammin, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, K Chan, KM Chan, A Chandra, F Charles, E Cheu, F Chevallier, DK Cho, S Choi, B Choudhary, L Christofek, T Christoudias, S Cihangir, D Claes, J Clutter, M Cooke, WE Cooper, M Corcoran, F Couderc, M-C Cousinou, S Crépé-Renaudin, D Cutts, M Cwiok, H da Motta, A Das, G Davies, K De, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, C De Oliveira Martins, JD Degenhardt, F Déliot, M Demarteau, R Demina, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, A Dominguez, H Dong, LV Dudko, L Duflot, SR Dugad, D Duggan, A Duperrin, J Dyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, Y Enari, S Eno, P Ermolov, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, AV Ferapontov, T Ferbel, F Fiedler, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, M Fortner, H Fox, S Fu, S Fuess, T Gadfort, CF Galea, E Gallas, C Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, V Gavrilov, P Gay, W Geist, D Gelé, CE Gerber, Y Gershtein, D Gillberg, G Ginther, N Gollub, B Gómez, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, H Greenlee, ZD Greenwood, EM Gregores, G Grenier, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, A Grohsjean, S Grünendahl, MW Grünewald, F Guo, J Guo, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, NJ Hadley, P Haefner, S Hagopian, J Haley, I Hall, RE Hall, L Han, K Harder, A Harel, JM Hauptman, R Hauser, J Hays, T Hebbeker, D Hedin, JG Hegeman, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, K Herner, G Hesketh, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, H Hoeth, M Hohlfeld, SJ Hong, S Hossain, P Houben, Y Hu, Z Hubacek, V Hynek, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, AS Ito, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, S Jain, K Jakobs, C Jarvis, R Jesik, K Johns, C Johnson, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, P Jonsson, A Juste, E Kajfasz, JM Kalk, D Karmanov, PA Kasper, I Katsanos, D Kau, V Kaushik, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, N Khalatyan, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YM Kharzheev, D Khatidze, TJ Kim, MH Kirby, M Kirsch, B Klima, JM Kohli, J-P Konrath, AV Kozelov, J Kraus, D Krop, T Kuhl, A Kumar, A Kupco, T Kurca, VA Kuzmin, J Kvita, F Lacroix, D Lam, S Lammers, G Landsberg, P Lebrun, WM Lee, A Leflat, J Lellouch, J Leveque, J Li, L Li, QZ Li, SM Lietti, JGR Lima, D Lincoln, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, R Lipton, Y Liu, Z Liu, A Lobodenko, M Lokajicek, P Love, HJ Lubatti, R Luna, AL Lyon, AKA Maciel, D Mackin, RJ Madaras, P Mättig, C Magass, A Magerkurth, PK Mal, HB Malbouisson, S Malik, VL Malyshev, HS Mao, Y Maravin, B Martin, R McCarthy, A Melnitchouk, L Mendoza, PG Mercadante, M Merkin, KW Merritt, A Meyer, J Meyer, T Millet, J Mitrevski, RK Mommsen, NK Mondal, RW Moore, T Moulik, GS Muanza, M Mulhearn, O Mundal, L Mundim, E Nagy, M Naimuddin, M Narain, NA Naumann, HA Neal, JP Negret, P Neustroev, H Nilsen, H Nogima, SF Novaes, T Nunnemann, V O'Dell, DC O'Neil, G Obrant, C Ochando, D Onoprienko, N Oshima, N Osman, J Osta, R Otec, GJ Otero y Garzón, M Owen, P Padley, M Pangilinan, N Parashar, S-J Park, SK Park, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, A Patwa, G Pawloski, B Penning, M Perfilov, K Peters, Y Peters, P Pétroff, M Petteni, R Piegaia, J Piper, M-A Pleier, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, Y Pogorelov, M-E Pol, P Polozov, BG Pope, AV Popov, C Potter, WL Prado da Silva, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, A Rakitine, MS Rangel, K Ranjan, PN Ratoff, P Renkel, S Reucroft, P Rich, J Rieger, M Rijssenbeek, I Ripp-Baudot, F Rizatdinova, S Robinson, RF Rodrigues, M Rominsky, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, G Safronov, G Sajot, A Sánchez-Hernández, MP Sanders, B Sanghi, A Santoro, G Savage, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, D Schaile, RD Schamberger, Y Scheglov, H Schellman, T Schliephake, C Schwanenberger, A Schwartzman, R Schwienhorst, J Sekaric, H Severini, E Shabalina, M Shamim, V Shary, AA Shchukin, RK Shivpuri, V Siccardi, V Simak, V Sirotenko, P Skubic, P Slattery, D Smirnov, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, S Söldner-Rembold, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, B Spurlock, J Stark, J Steele, V Stolin, DA Stoyanova, J Strandberg, S Strandberg, MA Strang, E Strauss, M Strauss, R Ströhmer, D Strom, L Stutte, S Sumowidagdo, P Svoisky, A Sznajder, P Tamburello, A Tanasijczuk, W Taylor, J Temple, B Tiller, F Tissandier, M Titov, VV Tokmenin, T Toole, I Torchiani, T Trefzger, D Tsybychev, B Tuchming, C Tully, PM Tuts, R Unalan, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, B Vachon, PJ van den Berg, R Van Kooten, WM van Leeuwen, N Varelas, EW Varnes, IA Vasilyev, M Vaupel, P Verdier, LS Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, F Villeneuve-Seguier, P Vint, P Vokac, E Von Toerne, M Voutilainen, R Wagner, HD Wahl, L Wang, MHLS Wang, J Warchol, G Watts, M Wayne, G Weber, M Weber, L Welty-Rieger, A Wenger, N Wermes, M Wetstein, A White, D Wicke, GW Wilson, SJ Wimpenny, M Wobisch, DR Wood, TR Wyatt, Y Xie, S Yacoob, R Yamada, M Yan, W-C Yang, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, K Yip, HD Yoo, SW Youn, J Yu, C Zeitnitz, T Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, L Zivkovic, V Zutshi, EG Zverev, D0 Collaboration

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We present a search for the production of neutral Higgs bosons varphi decaying into tau+tau - final states in pp over collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 1 fb(-1), were collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Limits on the production cross section times branching ratio are set. The results are interpreted in the minimal supersymmetric standard model yielding limits that are the most stringent to date at hadron colliders.

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