Professor Chris Hays: Publications

Search for new physics using QUAERO: a general interface to D0 event data.

Phys Rev Lett 87:23 (2001) 231801

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, 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, 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 Duperrin, 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, 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, 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, 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, W Kahl, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, AM Kalinin, D Karmanov, D Karmgard, Z Ke, 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, J Li, QZ Li, X 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, 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, BG Pope, E Popkov, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, J Qian, R Raja, S Rajagopalan, E Ramberg, PA Rapidis, NW Reay, S Reucroft, M Ridel, M Rijssenbeek, F Rizatdinova, T Rockwell, M Roco, 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, 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, M Strauss, M Strovink, L Stutte, A Sznajder, M Talby, 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, F Villeneuve-Seguier, 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

Abstract:

We describe QUAERO, a method that (i) enables the automatic optimization of searches for physics beyond the standard model, and (ii) provides a mechanism for making high energy collider data generally available. We apply QUAERO to searches for standard model WW, ZZ, and t t macro production, to searches for these objects produced through a new heavy resonance, and to the first direct search for W'-->WZ. Through this interface, we make three data sets collected by the D0 experiment at square root of [s] = 1.8 TeV publicly available.

Measurement of the ratio of differential cross sections for W and Z boson production as a function of transverse momentum in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 517:3-4 (2001) 299-308

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We report on a measurement of the ratio of the differential cross sections for W and Z boson production as a function of transverse momentum in proton-antiproton collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV. This measurement uses data recorded by the DØ detector at the Fermilab Tevatron in 1994-1995. It represents the first investigation of a proposal that ratios between W and Z observables can be calculated reliably using perturbative QCD, even when the individual observables are not. Using the ratio of differential cross sections reduces both experimental and theoretical uncertainties, and can therefore provide smaller overall uncertainties in the measured mass and width of the W boson than current methods used at hadron colliders. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Search for single top quark production at DØ using neural networks

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 517:3-4 (2001) 282-294

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We present a search for electroweak production of single top quarks in ≈90 pb-1 of data collected with the DØ detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. Using arrays of neural networks to separate signals from backgrounds, we set upper limits on the cross sections of 17 pb for the s-channel process pp̄ → tb + X, and 22 pb for the t-channel process pp̄ → tqb + X, both at the 95% confidence level. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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

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, 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.

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