Dr Elizabeth Gallas: Publications

Search for heavy particles decaying into electron-positron pairs in pp̄ collisions

Physical Review Letters 87:6 (2001) 618021-618026

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The data collected by DO detector was used to study the decay of heavy particles into electron-positron pairs during collisions. The dielectron invariant mass spectra for the events with both electrons in central region and with one electron in central region and other in forward region of central calorimeter (CC)/end calorimeter (EC) were also studied. PYTHIA was used to determine the product of cross section and branching ratio for the system. The superimposed histograms represented the estimated spectrum from standard model processes and instrumental effects.

Search for heavy particles decaying into electron-positron pairs in pp collisions.

Phys Rev Lett 87:6 (2001) 061802

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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, 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, 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, MA 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, G Di Loreto, S Doulas, P Draper, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, S Duensing, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Dyshkant, D Edmunds, J Ellison, 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, KC Frame, 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, 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, AP Heinson, U Heintz, T Heuring, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, Y Huang, R Illingworth, AS Ito, M Jaffré, S Jain, R Jesik, K Johns, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, M Jones, H Jöstlein, A Juste, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, AM Kalinin, D Karmanov, D Karmgard, R Kehoe, A Kharchilava, SK Kim, B Klima, B Knuteson, W Ko, JM Kohli, AV Kostritskiy, J Kotcher, 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, A Leflat, C Leggett, F Lehner, J Li, QZ Li, JG Lima, D Lincoln, SL Linn, J Linnemann, R Lipton, A Lucotte, L Lueking, C Lundstedt, C Luo, AK Maciel, RJ Madaras, VL Malyshev, V Manankov, HS Mao, T Marshall, MI Martin, RD Martin, KM Mauritz, B May, AA Mayorov, R McCarthy, J McDonald, 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, 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, M Peters, O Peters, P Pétroff, R Piegaia, H Piekarz, BG Pope, E Popkov, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, J Qian, R Raja, S Rajagopalan, E Ramberg, PA Rapidis, NW Reay, S Reucroft, J Rha, M Ridel, M Rijssenbeek, T Rockwell, M Roco, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, J Rutherfoord, BM Sabirov, 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, V Sorín, M Sosebee, N Sotnikova, K Soustruznik, M Souza, NR Stanton, G Steinbrück, RW Stephens, F Stichelbaut, D Stoker, V Stolin, DA Stoyanova, M Strauss, M Strovink, L Stutte, A Sznajder, W Taylor, S Tentindo-Repond, SM Tripathi, TG Trippe, AS Turcot, PM Tuts, P van Gemmeren, V Vaniev, R Van Kooten, N Varelas, LS Vertogradov, AA Volkov, AP Vorobiev, HD Wahl, H Wang, ZM Wang, J Warchol, G Watts, M Wayne, H Weerts, A White, JT White, D Whiteson, JA Wightman, DA Wijngaarden, S Willis, SJ Wimpenny, J Womersley, DR Wood, R Yamada, P Yamin, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, K Yip, S Youssef, J Yu, Z Yu, M Zanabria, H Zheng, Z Zhou, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, V Zutshi, EG Zverev, A Zylberstejn

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We present results of searches for technirho (rho(T)), techniomega (omega(T)), and Z' particles, using the decay channels rho(T),omega(T),Z'-->e(+)e(-). The search is based on 124.8 pb(-1) of data collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron during 1992-1996. In the absence of a signal, we set 95% C.L. upper limits on the cross sections for the processes pp-->rho(T),omega(T),Z'-->e(+)e(-) as a function of the mass of the decaying particle. For certain model parameters, we exclude the existence of degenerate rho(T) and omega(T) states with masses below about 200 GeV. We exclude a Z' with mass below 670 GeV, assuming that it has the same couplings to fermions as the Z boson.

Differential cross section for w boson production as a function of transverse momentum in p p̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 513:3-4 (2001) 292-300

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We report a measurement of the differential cross section for W boson production as a function of its transverse momentum in proton-antiproton collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV. The data were collected by the DØ experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider during 1994-1995 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 85 pb-1. The results are in good agreement with quantum chromodynamics over the entire range of transverse momentum. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V.

Quasi-model-independent search for new high pT physics at D0

Physical Review Letters 86:17 (2001) 3712-3717

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B Abbott, A Abdesselam, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, GA Alves, N Amos, EW Anderson, MM Baarmand, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, A Baden, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Baringer, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, 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, 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, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, GA Davis, K Davis, K De, K Del Signore, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G di Loreto, S Doulas, P Draper, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, S Duensing, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Dyshkant, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, R Engelmann, S Eno, G Eppley

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An overview is given of a search for new physics beyond the standard model, assuming nothing about the expected characteristics of the new processes other than they will produce an excess of events at high transverse momentum (PT). A quasi-model-independent strategy (Sleuth) is applied to many exclusive final states in a data sample corresponding to 100 pb1 of pp collisions. The resulting data is analyzed in detail.

Ratio of jet cross sections at √s = 630 GeV and 1800 GeV

Physical Review Letters 86:12 (2001) 2523-2528

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B Abbott, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, GA Alves, N Amos, EW Anderson, MM Baarmand, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, A Baden, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, J Bantly, E Barberis, P Baringer, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, A Bean, M Begel, A Belyaev, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, A Besson, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, G Blazey, S Blessing, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, 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, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, OI Dahl, GA Davis, K Davis, K De, K del Signore, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G di Loreto, S Doulas, P Draper, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, S Duensing, SR Dugad, A Dyshkant, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, R Engelmann, S Eno, G Eppley, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, J Estrada

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The inclusive jet cross section in p̄p collisions at √s = 630 GeV was measured. Many uncertainties in the results were observed. Despite a 10% to 15% difference in the absolute magnitude, the dependence of the ratio on jet transverse momentum was very similar for data and theory.

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