Dr Elizabeth Gallas: Publications

Improved W boson mass measurement with the DØ detector

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 66:1 II (2002) 120011-1200118

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, MM Baarmand, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, A Baden, 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, R Breedon, G Briskin, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, F Canelli, W Carvalho, D Casey, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, SV Chekulaev, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, L Coney, B Connolly, WE Cooper, D Coppage, S Crépé-Renaudin, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, 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, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, S Duensing, L Duflot

Abstract:

We have measured the W boson mass using the DØ detector and a data sample of 82 pb^-1 from the Fermilab Tevatron collider. This measurement uses W→eν decays, where the electron is close to a boundary of a central electromagnetic calorimeter module. Such "edge" electrons have not been used in any previous DØ analysis, and represent a 14% increase in the W boson sample size. For these electrons, new response and resolution parameters are determined, and revised backgrounds and underlying event energy flow measurements are made. When the current measurement is combined with previous DØ W boson mass measurements, we obtain MW=80.483±0.084 GeV. The 8% improvement from the previous DØ measurement is primarily due to the improved determination of the response parameters for non-edge electrons using the sample of Z bosons with non-edge and edge electrons.

Search for leptoquark pairs decaying into vv + jets in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 Tev

Physical Review Letters 88:19 (2002) 1918011-1918017

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Abstract:

The results of a search for leptoquark (LQ) pairs in (85.2 ±3.7) pb^-1 of pp̄ collider data collected by the DO experiments were presented. Scalar leptoquarks for the masses less than 98 GeV/c², vector leptoquarks for masses less than 200 GeV/c² and coupling which produced the minimum cross-section were excluded. Results showed absence of an evidence for leptoquark production and a limit was set on νν + jets as a function of the mass of leptoquark.

Search for leptoquark pairs decaying into nunu+jets in pp collisions at square root[s] = 1.8 TeV.

Phys Rev Lett 88:19 (2002) 191801

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, N Amos, EW Anderson, Y Arnoud, C Avila, MM Baarmand, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, A Baden, 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, F Borcherding, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, R Breedon, G Briskin, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, F Canelli, W Carvalho, D Casey, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, SV Chekulaev, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, L Coney, B Connolly, WE Cooper, D Coppage, S Crépé-Renaudin, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, GA Davis, K Davis, K De, SJ De Jong, K Del Signore, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, S Doulas, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, S Duensing, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Duperrin, A Dyshkant, D Edmunds, J Ellison, JT Eltzroth, VD Elvira, R Engelmann, S Eno, G Eppley, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, J Estrada, H Evans, VN Evdokimov, T Fahland, S Feher, D Fein, T Ferbel, F Filthaut, HE Fisk, Y Fisyak, E Flattum, F Fleuret, M Fortner, H Fox, KC Frame, S Fu, S Fuess, E Gallas, AN Galyaev, M Gao, V Gavrilov, RJ Genik, K Genser, CE Gerber, Y Gershtein, R Gilmartin, G Ginther, B Gómez, G Gómez, PI Goncharov, JL González Solís, H Gordon, LT Goss, K Gounder, A Goussiou, N Graf, G Graham, PD Grannis, JA Green, H Greenlee, ZD Greenwood, S Grinstein, L Groer, S Grünendahl, A Gupta, SN Gurzhiev, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, NJ Hadley, H Haggerty, S Hagopian, V Hagopian, RE Hall, P Hanlet, S Hansen, JM Hauptman, C Hays, C Hebert, D Hedin, JM Heinmiller, AP Heinson, U Heintz, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, Y Huang, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, AS Ito, M Jaffré, S Jain, R Jesik, K Johns, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, H Jöstlein, A Juste, W Kahl, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, AM Kalinin, D Karmanov, D Karmgard, R Kehoe, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, SK Kim, B Klima, B Knuteson, W Ko, JM Kohli, AV Kostritskiy, J Kotcher, B Kothari, AV Kotwal, AV Kozelov, EA Kozlovsky, J Krane, MR Krishnaswamy, P Krivkova, S Krzywdzinski, M Kubantsev, S Kuleshov, Y Kulik, S Kunori, A Kupco, VE Kuznetsov, G Landsberg, WM Lee, A Leflat, C Leggett, F Lehner, C Leonidopoulos, J Li, QZ Li, X Li, JGR Lima, D Lincoln, SL Linn, J Linnemann, R Lipton, A Lucotte, L Lueking, C Lundstedt, C Luo, AKA Maciel, RJ Madaras, VL Malyshev, V Manankov, HS Mao, T Marshall, MI Martin, KM Mauritz, AA Mayorov, R McCarthy, T McMahon, HL Melanson, M Merkin, KW Merritt, C Miao, H Miettinen, D Mihalcea, CS Mishra, N Mokhov, NK Mondal, HE Montgomery, RW Moore, M Mostafa, H Da Motta, E Nagy, F Nang, M Narain, VS Narasimham, NA Naumann, HA Neal, JP Negret, S Negroni, T Nunnemann, D O'Neil, V Oguri, B Olivier, N Oshima, P Padley, LJ Pan, K Papageorgiou, A Para, N Parashar, R Partridge, N Parua, M Paterno, A Patwa, B Pawlik, J Perkins, O Peters, P Pétroff, R Piegaia, BG Pope, E Popkov, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, MB Przybycien, J Qian, R Raja, S Rajagopalan, E Ramberg, PA Rapidis, NW Reay, S Reucroft, M Ridel, M Rijssenbeek, F Rizatdinova, T Rockwell, M Roco, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, J Rutherfoord, BM Sabirov, G Sajot, A Santoro, L Sawyer, RD Schamberger, H Schellman, A Schwartzman, N Sen, E Shabalina, RK Shivpuri, D Shpakov, M Shupe, RA Sidwell, V Simak, H Singh, JB Singh, V Sirotenko, P Slattery, E Smith, RP Smith, R Snihur, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, J Solomon, Y Song, V Sorín, M Sosebee, N Sotnikova, K Soustruznik, M Souza, NR Stanton, G Steinbrück, RW Stephens, F Stichelbaut, D Stoker, V Stolin, A Stone, DA Stoyanova, MA Strang, M Strauss, M Strovink, L Stutte, A Sznajder, M Talby, W Taylor, S Tentindo-Repond, SM Tripathi, TG Trippe, AS Turcot, PM Tuts, V Vaniev, R Van Kooten, N Varelas, LS Vertogradov, F Villeneuve-Seguier, AA Volkov, AP Vorobiev, HD Wahl, H Wang, Z-M Wang, J Warchol, G Watts, M Wayne, H Weerts, A White, JT White, D Whiteson, DA Wijngaarden, S Willis, SJ Wimpenny, J Womersley, DR Wood, Q Xu, R Yamada, P Yamin, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, K Yip, S Youssef, J Yu, Z Yu, M Zanabria, X Zhang, H Zheng, B Zhou, Z Zhou, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, V Zutshi, EG Zverev, A Zylberstejn, D0 Collaboration

Abstract:

We present the results of a search for leptoquark (LQ) pairs in (85.2+/-3.7) pb(-1) of pp* collider data collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. We observe no evidence for leptoquark production and set a limit on sigma(pp*-->LQLQ-->nunu+jets) as a function of the mass of the leptoquark (m(LQ)). Assuming the decay LQ-->nuq, we exclude scalar leptoquarks for m(LQ) < 98 GeV/c(2), and vector leptoquarks for m(LQ) < 200 GeV/c(2) and coupling which produces the minimum cross section, at a 95% confidence level.

Search for Leptoquark Pairs Decaying into nu nu + jets in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV

Physical Review Letters 88 (2002) 191801 7pp

Authors:

C Hays, P. M. Tuts, G. Landsberg, H. B. Prosper

Search for the scalar top quark in p p̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

Physical Review Letters 88:17 (2002) 1718021-1718026

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, A Abdesselam, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, SN Ahmed, GD Alexeev, GA Alves, N Amos, EW Anderson, Y Arnoud, MM Baarmand, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, A Baden, 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, S Blessing, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, K Bos, A Brandt, R Breedon, G Briskin, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, F Canelli, W Carvalho, D Casey, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, SV Chekulaev, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, J Cochran, L Coney, B Connolly, WE Cooper, D Coppage, S Crépé-Renaudin, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, GA Davis, K Davis, K De, SJ de Jong, K Del Signore, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, S Doulas, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, S Duensing, L Duflot, SR Dugad

Abstract:

A search for scalar top (stop) quark pair production in the inclusive electron-muon-missing transverse energy final state was presented. The search was performed within the framework of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) assuming the sneutrino to be the lightest supersymmetric particle. No evidence for signal was found for the dominant decays of the lightest stop. The cross-section limits of the stop, chargino and sneutrino masses were also derived.

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