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Observation and properties of the X(3872) decaying to J/ψπ⁺π^- in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV

Physical Review Letters 93:16 (2004)

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VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, JL Agram, SN Ahmed, SH Ahn, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, S Anderson, B Andrieu, Y Arnoud, A Askew, B Åsman, C Autermann, C Avila, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, A Baden, S Baffioni, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Bargassa, P Baringer, C Barnes, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, S Beauceron, F Beaudette, M Begel, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, M Besançon, A Besson, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, M Binder, A Bischoff, KM Black, I Blackler, G Blazey, F Blekman, D Bloch, U Blumenschein, A Boehnlein, TA Bolton, P Bonamy, F Borcherding, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, C Boswell, A Brandt, G Briskin, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, S Burdin, TH Burnett, E Busato, JM Butler, J Bystricky, F Canelli, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, D Casey, NM Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, D Chapin, F Charles, E Cheu, L Chevalier, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, T Christiansen, L Christofek

Abstract:

The discovery of a new particle, X(3872) by the Belle collaboration in the decay mode B±→ XK± (X→ J/ψπ+π - was discussed. It was found that the mass of the X(3872) was measured to be 3872.0 ± 0.6(stat) ± 0.5 (syst) MeV/C2. The X(3872) particle were observed in approximately 230 pb-1 of data with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations. The results show that there was no significant differences between the X(3872) and the cc̄ state ψ (2S).

Measurement of the tt production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV using dilepton events.

Phys Rev Lett 93:14 (2004) 142001

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D Acosta, 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, J-F 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, 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, P Calafiura, M Campanelli, M Campbell, A Canepa, M Casarsa, D Carlsmith, S Carron, R Carosi, 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, W-H Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobano, MA Ciocci, AG Clark, D Clark, M Coca, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, J Cranshaw, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, C Currat, D Cyr, D Dagenhart, S Da Ronco, S D'Auria, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, G De Lentdecker, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, S Demers, L Demortier, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, C Dionisi, JR Dittmann, P Doksus, A Dominguez, S Donati, M Donega, M D'Onofrio, T Dorigo, V Drollinger, K Ebina, N Eddy, R Ely, R Erbacher, M Erdmann, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, H-C Fang, S Farrington, I Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, C Ferretti, RD Field, I Fiori, G Flanagan, B Flaugher, LR Flores-Castillo, A Foland, S Forrester, GW Foster, M Franklin, H Frisch, Y Fujii, I Furic, A Gajjar, A Gallas, J Galyardt, M Gallinaro, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, H Gerberich, DW Gerdes, E Gerchtein, S Giagu, P Giannetti, A Gibson, K Gibson, C Ginsburg, K Giolo, M Giordani, G Giurgui, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, D Goldstein, J Goldstein, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, A Gresele, C Grosso-Pilcher, M Guenther, J Guimaraes de Costa, C Haber, K Hahn, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, M Hare, RF Harr, RM Harris, F Hartmann, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, C Hays, H Hayward, E Heider, B Heinemann, J Heinrich, M Hennecke, M Herndon, C Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, KD Hoffman, A Holloway, S Hou, MA Houlden, BT Huffman, Y Huang, RE Hughes, J Huston, K Ikado, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, Y Ishizawa, C Issever, A Ivanov, Y Iwata, B Iyutin, E James, D Jang, J Jarrell, D Jeans, H Jensen, EJ Jeon, M Jones, KK Joo, S Jun, T Junk, T Kamon, J Kang, M Karagoz Unel, PE Karchin, S Kartal, Y Kato, Y Kemp, R Kephart, U Kerzel, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, MS Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, TH Kim, YK Kim, BT King, M Kirby, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, B Knuteson, BR Ko, H Kobayashi, P Koehn, DJ Kong, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, K Kordas, A Korn, A Korytov, K Kotelnikov, AV Kotwal, A Kovalev, J Kraus, I Kravchenko, A Kreymer, J Kroll, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, SE Kuhlmann, N Kuznetsova, AT Laasanen, S Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, J Lancaster, M Lancaster, R Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, R Lauhakangas, I Lazzizzera, Y Le, C Lecci, T LeCompte, J Lee, J Lee, SW Lee, N Leonardo, S Leone, JD Lewis, K Li, C Lin, CS Lin, M Lindgren, TM Liss, DO Litvintsev, T Liu, Y Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, P Loverre, R-S Lu, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, L Lyons, J Lys, R Lysak, D MacQueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, L Malferrari, G Manca, R Marginean, M Martin, A Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, T Maruyama, H Matsunaga, M Mattson, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, D McGivern, PM McIntyre, P McNamara, R McNulty, S Menzemer, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Messina, T Miao, N Miladinovic, L Miller, R Miller, JS Miller, C Mills, R Miquel, S Miscetti, G Mitselmakher, A Miyamoto, Y Miyazaki, N Moggi, B Mohr, R Moore, M Morello, T Moulik, A Mukherjee, M Mulhearn, T Muller, R Mumford, A Munar, P Murat, J Nachtman, S Nahn, I Nakamura, I Nakano, A Napier, R Napora, D Naumov, V Necula, F Niell, J Nielsen, C Nelson, T Nelson, C Neu, MS Neubauer, C Newman-Holmes, A-S Nicollerat, T Nignamov, L Nodulman, K Oesterberg, T Ogawa, S Oh, YD Oh, T Ohsugi, T Okusawa, R Oldeman, R Orava, W Orejudos, C Pagliarone, F Palmonari, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, T Pauly, C Paus, D Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, KT Pitts, C Plager, A Pompos, L Pondrom, G Pope, O Poukhov, F Prakoshyn, T Pratt, A Pronko, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Rademacker, A Rakitine, S Rappoccio, F Ratnikov, H Ray, A Reichold, B Reisert, V Rekovic, P Renton, M Rescigno, F Rimondi, K Rinnert, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, A Robson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, L Rosenson, R Roser, R Rossin, C Rott, J Russ, A Ruiz, D Ryan, H Saarikko, A Safonov, R St Denis, WK Sakumoto, G Salamanna, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, A Sansoni, L Santi, S Sarkar, K Sato, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schemitz, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, L Scodellaro, I Sfiligoi, T Shears, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, F Semeria, L Sexton-Kennedy, MD Shapiro, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, A Sidoti, M Siket, A Sill, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, A Skiba, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, SV Somalwar, J Spalding, M Spezziga, L Spiegel, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, P Squillacioti, H Stadie, A Stefanini, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, J Strologas, D Stuart, A Sukhanov, K Sumorok, H Sun, T Suzuki, A Taffard, R Tafirout, SF Takach, H Takano, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, K Takikawa, M Tanaka, R Takaka, N Tanimoto, S Tapprogge, M Tecchio, PK Teng, K Terashi, RJ Tesarek, S Tether, J Thom, AS Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, V Tiwari, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, D Tonelli, M Tonnesmann, S Torre, D Torretta, W Trischuk, J Tseng, R Tsuchiya, S Tsuno, D Tsybychev, N Turini, M Turner, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, S Uozumi, D Usynin, L Vacavant, A Vaiciulis, A Varganov, E Vataga, S Vejcik, G Velev, G Veramendi, T Vickey, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Volobouev, M von der Mey, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, R Wallny, T Walter, T Yamashita, K Yamamoto, Z Wan, MJ Wang, SM Wang, A Warburton, B Ward, S Waschke, D Waters, T Watts, M Weber, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, M Wolter, M Worcester, S Worm, T Wright, X Wu, F Würthwein, A Wyatt, A Yagil, UK Yang, W Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, P Yoon, K Yorita, T Yoshida, I Yu, S Yu, Z Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, I Zaw, F Zetti, J Zhou, A Zsenei, S Zucchelli, CDF Collaboration

Abstract:

We report a measurement of the tt production cross section using dilepton events with jets and missing transverse energy in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. Using a 197+/-12 pb(-1) data sample recorded by the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab, we use two complementary techniques to select candidate events. We compare the number of observed events and selected kinematical distributions with the predictions of the standard model and find good agreement. The combined result of the two techniques yields a tt production cross section of 7.0(+2.4)(-2.1)(stat)+1.6-1.1(syst)+/-0.4(lum) pb.

Search for Doubly Charged Higgs Boson Pair Production in the Decay to μ⁺μ⁺μ-μin pp̄ Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV

Physical Review Letters 93:14 (2004)

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The pair production of doubly charged Higgs bosons in the decay to μ+ μ+ μ- μ- in pp̄ Collisions was investigated. It was observed that the total signal efficiency for the event selection was (47.5±2.5)% and does not depend on the mass of the doubly charged Higgs boson in the studied mass range. Data and the Monte Carlo simulation, for both the normalization and shapes of the dimuon mass and δφ distributions were found to be in agreement. A lower limit of 118.4 GeV/c2 for a left-handed and 98.2 GeV/c2 for a right-handed doubly charged Higgs boson, was obtained, by taking into account systematic uncertainties.

Search for narrow tt̄ Resonances in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 Te V

Physical Review Letters 92:22 (2004)

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, A Abdesselam, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, SN Ahmed, GD Alexeev, A Alton, GA Alves, EW Anderson, Y Arnoud, C Avila, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, A Baden, S Baffioni, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, F Beaudette, M Begel, A Belyaev, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, A Besson, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, TA Bolton, F Borcherding, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, G Briskin, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, F Canelli, W Carvalho, D Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, SV Chekulaev, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, D Claes, AR Clark, B Connolly, WE Cooper, D Coppage, S Crépé-Renaudin, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, H da Motta, GA Davis, K De, SJ de Jong, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, S Doulas, LV Dudko, S Duensing, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Duperrin, A Dyshkant, D Edmunds, J Ellison

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A search for narrow resonances decaying to tt̄ pairs was carried out. No significant deviation was observed from the standard-model predictions at a top-quark mass of 175 GeV/c2. Upper limits were established at the 95% confidence level on the product of the production cross section and branching fraction to tt̄ for narrow resonances as a function of the resonance mass Mx. The existence of a leptophobic top-color particle with mass Mx<560 GeV/c2 was excluded for a width T x = 0.012Mx.

Search for pair production of light scalar top quarks in pp collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

Physical Review Letters 93:1 (2004)

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VM Abazov, B Abbott, A Abdesselam, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, SN Ahmed, GD Alexeev, A Alton, GA Alves, Y Arnoud, C Avila, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, A Baden, S Baffioni, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, F Beaudette, M Begel, A Belyaev, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, A Besson, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, TA Bolton, F Borcherding, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, G Briskin, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, F Canelli, W Carvalho, D Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, SV Chekulaev, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, D Claes, AR Clark, B Connolly, WE Cooper, D Coppage, S Crépé-Renaudin, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, H da Motta, GA Davis, K De, SJ de Jong, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, S Doulas, LV Dudko, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Duperrin, A Dyshkant, D Edmunds, J Ellison, JT Eltzroth, VD Elvira

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The results of a search for direct pair production of scalar top quarks (t̃), the supersymmetric partners of the top quark were presented. Events containing two or more jets and missing transverse energy, the signature of light scalar top quark decays to charm quarks and neutralinos were investigated. 27 events were observed after the selection, while expecting 31.1±6.4 events from known standard model processes. The results were compared to next-to-leading-order production cross sections, and a significant region of t̃ and neutralino phase space was excluded.

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