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Search for long-lived charged massive particles in p p̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

Physical Review Letters 90:13 (2003) 131801/6

Authors:

D Acosta, T Affolder, H Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, A Artikov, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, S Bailey, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, J Berryhill, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, A Bolshov, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, N Bruner, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, L Cerrito, AW Chan, PS Chang, PT Chang, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, JY Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, M Coca, AP Colijn, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Culbertson

Abstract:

A study was performed to search for long-lived charged massive particles in 90 pb-1 of data at CDF. No excess over background was observed. Cross section limits were observed using reference models for the two cases of strongly and weakly produced particles. In the strongly interacting case, these limits extend the excluded mass region to about 200 GeV/c2.

Neutral current and day night measurements from the pure D2O phase of SNO

NUCL PHYS B-PROC SUP 118 (2003) 3-14

Authors:

AL Hallin, EW Beier, SD Biller, MG Boulay, MG Bowler, TJ Bowles, SJ Brice, TV Bullard, J Cameron, YD Chan, X Chen, M Chen, BT Cleveland, GA Cox, X Dai, F Dalnoki-Veress, PJ Doe, G Doucas, MR Dragowsky, CA Duba, FA Duncan, M Dunford, JA Dunmore, ED Earle, SR Elliott, HC Evans, GT Ewan, J Farine, H Fergani, JA Formaggio, MM Fowler, K Frame, W Frati, N Gagnon, K Graham, DR Grant, RL Hahn, ED Hallman, AS Hamer, WB Handler, CK Hargrove, PJ Harvey, R Hazama, KM Heeger, WJ Heintzelman, J Heise, RL Helmer, A Hime, M Howe, P Jagam, NA Jelley, K Kazkaz, PT Keener, JR Klein, T Kutter, CCM Kyba, J Law, IT Lawson, KT Lesko, J Leslie, I Levine, S Luoma, S Majerus, HB Mak, J Maneira, J Manor, AD Marino, N McCauley, AB McDonald, G McGregor, GG Miller, CW Nally, AJ Noble, EB Norman, CE Okada, JL Orrell, SM Oser, AWP Poon, BC Robertson, RGH Robertson, SSE Rosendahl, VL Rusu, KK Schaffer, MH Schwendener, JJ Simpson, CJ Sims, D Sinclair, P Skensved, MWE Smith, T Spreitzer, N Starinsky, RG Stokstad, LC Stonehill, R Tafirout, N Tagg, R Van Berg, RGV Van de Water, CJ Virtue, CE Waltham, DL Wark, N West, JB Wilhelmy, JF Wilkerson, JR Wilson, P Wittich, JM Wouters, M Yeh

Abstract:

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is a 1000 T D2O Cerenkov detector that is sensitive to B-8 solar neutrinos. The energy, radius, and direction with respect to the sun is Measured for each neutrino event; these distributions are used to separately determine the rates of the charged current, neutral current and electron scattering reactions of neutrinos on deuterium. Assuming an undistorted B-8 spectrum, the nu(e) component of the B-8 solar flux is phi(e) = 1.76(-0.05)(+0.05) (stat.)(-0.09)(+0.09) (syst.) X 10(6) cm(-2)s(-1) based on events with a measured kinetic energy above 5 MeV. The non-nu(e) component is phi(mutau) = 3.41(-0.45)(+0.45)(stat.)(-0.45)(+0.48) (syst.) X 10(6) cm(-2)s(-1), 5.3sigma greater than zero, providing strong evidence for solar nu(e) flavor transformation. The total flux measured with the NC reaction is phi(NC) = 5.09(-0.43)(+0.44) (stat.)(-0.43)(+0.46) (syst.) X 10(6) cm(-2)s(-1), consistent with solar models. The night minus day rate is 14.0% +/- 6.3%(+1.5)(-1.4)% of the average rate. If the total flux of active neutrinos is additionally constrained to have no asymmetry, the nu(e) asymmetry is found to be 7.0% +/- 4.9%(+1.3)(-1.2)%. A global solar neutrino analysis in terms of matter-enhanced oscillations of two active flavors strongly favors the Large Mixing Angle (LMA) solution.

Neutrino masses and mixings — experiments past, present, and future

Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings Elsevier 117 (2003) 164-185

Search for the decay KS → π0γγ

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics 556:3-4 (2003) 105-113

Authors:

A Lai, D Marras, R Batley, A Bevan, RS Dosanjh, TJ Gershon, GE Kalmus, DJ Munday, E Olaiya, MA Parker, T White, SA Wotton, G Barr, G Bocquet, A Ceccucci, T Cuhadar-Dönszelmann, D Cundy, N Doble, V Falaleev, L Gatignon, A Gonidec, B Gorini, G Govi, P Grafström, W Kubischta, A Lacourt, M Lenti, A Norton, S Palestini, B Panzer-Steindel, G Tatishvili, H Taureg, M Velasco, H Wahl, C Cheshkov, P Hristov, V Kekelidze, D Madigojine, N Molokanova, Y Potrebenikov, A Tkatchev, A Zinchenko, I Knowles, C Lazzeroni, V Martin, R Sacco, A Walker, M Contalbrigo, P Dalpiaz, J Duclos, PL Frabetti, A Gianoli, M Martini, L Masetti, F Petrucci, M Savrié, A Bizzeti, M Calvetti, G Collazuol, G Graziani, E Iacopini, HG Becker, M Eppard, H Fox, K Holtz, A Kalter, K Kleinknecht, U Koch, L Köpke, P Lopes da Silva, P Marouelli, I Pellmann, A Peters, B Renk, SA Schmidt, V Schönharting, Y Schué, R Wanke, A Winhart, M Wittgen, JC Chollet, L Fayard, L Iconomidou-Fayard, J Ocariz, G Unal, I Wingerter, G Anzivino, P Cenci, E Imbergamo, P Lubrano, A Mestvirishvili, A Nappi, M Pepe, M Piccini, R Carosi, R Casali, C Cerri, M Cirilli, F Costantini, R Fantechi

Abstract:

A search for the decay KS → π0γγ has been made using the NA48 detector at the CERN SPS. Using data collected in 1999 during a 40-hour run with a high-intensity KS beam, an upper limit for the branching ratio BR(KS → π0γγ, z ≥ 0.2) < 3.3 x 10-7 has been obtained at 90% confidence level, where z = m2γγ/mKO2. © 2003 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

Search for a W' boson decaying to a top and bottom quark pair in 1.8 TeV pp collisions.

Phys Rev Lett 90:8 (2003) 081802

Authors:

D Acosta, T Affolder, H Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, A Artikov, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, S Bailey, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, J Berryhill, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, A Bolshov, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, N Bruner, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, L Cerrito, AW Chan, PS Chang, PT Chang, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M-T Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, JY Chung, W-H Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, M Coca, AP Colijn, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, S D'Auria, S De Cecco, F DeJongh, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, S Demers, L Demortier, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, T Devlin, C Dionisi, JR Dittmann, A Dominguez, S Donati, M D'Onofrio, T Dorigo, I Dunietz, N Eddy, K Einsweiler, E Engels, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, Q Fan, H-C Fang, S Farrington, RG Feild, JP Fernandez, C Ferretti, RD Field, I Fiori, B Flaugher, LR Flores-Castillo, GW Foster, M Franklin, J Freeman, J Friedman, Y Fukui, I Furic, S Galeotti, A Gallas, M Gallinaro, T Gao, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, P Gatti, C Gay, DW Gerdes, E Gerstein, S Giagu, P Giannetti, K Giolo, M Giordani, P Giromini, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, J Goldstein, G Gomez, M Goncharov, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, C Green, A Gresele, G Grim, C Grosso-Pilcher, M Guenther, G Guillian, J Guimaraes da Costa, RM Haas, C Haber, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, C Hall, T Handa, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, AD Hardman, RM Harris, F Hartmann, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, J Heinrich, A Heiss, M Hennecke, M Herndon, C Hill, A Hocker, KD Hoffman, R Hollebeek, L Holloway, S Hou, BT Huffman, R Hughes, J Huston, J Huth, H Ikeda, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, J Iwai, Y Iwata, B Iyutin, E James, M Jones, U Joshi, H Kambara, T Kamon, T Kaneko, M Karagoz Unel, K Karr, S Kartal, H Kasha, Y Kato, TA Keaffaber, K Kelley, M Kelly, RD Kennedy, R Kephart, D Khazins, T Kikuchi, B Kilminster, BJ Kim, DH Kim, HS Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, TH Kim, YK Kim, M Kirby, M Kirk, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, P Koehn, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, A Korn, A Korytov, K Kotelnikov, E Kovacs, J Kroll, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, SE Kuhlmann, K Kurino, T Kuwabara, N Kuznetsova, AT Laasanen, N Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, J Lancaster, K Lannon, M Lancaster, R Lander, A Lath, G Latino, T LeCompte, Y Le, J Lee, SW Lee, N Leonardo, S Leone, JD Lewis, K Li, CS Lin, M Lindgren, TM Liss, JB Liu, T Liu, YC Liu, DO Litvintsev, O Lobban, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, J Loken, M Loreti, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, S Lusin, L Lyons, J Lys, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, L Malferrari, M Mangano, G Manca, M Mariotti, G Martignon, M Martin, A Martin, V Martin, JAJ Matthews, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, M Menguzzato, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Meyer, T Miao, R Miller, JS Miller, H Minato, S Miscetti, M Mishina, G Mitselmakher, Y Miyazaki, N Moggi, E Moore, R Moore, Y Morita, T Moulik, M Mulhearn, A Mukherjee, T Muller, A Munar, P Murat, S Murgia, J Nachtman, V Nagaslaev, S Nahn, H Nakada, I Nakano, R Napora, C Nelson, T Nelson, C Neu, MS Neubauer, D Neuberger, C Newman-Holmes, C-YP Ngan, T Nigmanov, H Niu, L Nodulman, A Nomerotski, SH Oh, YD Oh, T Ohmoto, T Ohsugi, R Oishi, T Okusawa, J Olsen, W Orejudos, C Pagliarone, F Palmonari, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, D Partos, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, T Pauly, C Paus, D Pellett, A Penzo, L Pescara, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, KT Pitts, A Pompos, L Pondrom, G Pope, T Pratt, F Prokoshin, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, O Pukhov, G Punzi, J Rademacker, A Rakitine, F Ratnikov, D Reher, A Reichold, P Renton, M Rescigno, A Ribon, W Riegler, F Rimondi, L Ristori, M Riveline, WJ Robertson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, L Rosenson, R Roser, R Rossin, C Rott, A Roy, A Ruiz, D Ryan, A Safonov, R St Denis, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, A Sansoni, L Santi, S Sarkar, H Sato, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, L Scodellaro, A Scott, A Scribano, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Semeria, T Shah, MD Shapiro, PF Shepard, T Shibayama, M Shimojima, M Shochet, A Sidoti, J Siegrist, A Sill, P Sinervo, P Singh, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, FD Snider, R Snihur, A Solodsky, J Spalding, T Speer, M Spezziga, P Sphicas, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, L Spiegel, J Steele, A Stefanini, J Strologas, F Strumia, D Stuart, A Sukhanov, K Sumorok, T Suzuki, T Takano, R Takashima, K Takikawa, P Tamburello, M Tanaka, B Tannenbaum, M Tecchio, RJ Tesarek, PK Teng, K Terashi, S Tether, AS Thompson, E Thomson, R Thurman-Keup, P Tipton, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, A Tollestrup, D Tonelli, M Tonnesmann, H Toyoda, W Trischuk, JF de Troconiz, J Tseng, D Tsybychev, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, T Vaiciulis, J Valls, E Vataga, S Vejcik, G Velev, G Veramendi, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Volobouev, M von der Mey, D Vucinic, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, NB Wallace, Z Wan, C Wang, MJ Wang, SM Wang, B Ward, S Waschke, T Watanabe, D Waters, T Watts, M Weber, H Wenzel, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, T Wilkes, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, D Winn, S Wolbers, D Wolinski, J Wolinski, S Wolinski, M Wolter, S Worm, X Wu, F Würthwein, J Wyss, UK Yang, W Yao, GP Yeh, P Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, C Yosef, T Yoshida, I Yu, S Yu, Z Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, F Zetti, S Zucchelli

Abstract:

We report the results of a search for a W' boson produced in pp; collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.8 TeV using a 106 pb(-1) data sample recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. We observe no significant excess of events above background for a W' boson decaying to a top and bottom quark pair. In a model where this boson would mediate interactions involving a massive right-handed neutrino (nu(R)) and have standard model strength couplings, we use these data to exclude a W' boson with mass between 225 and 536 GeV/c(2) at 95% confidence level for M(W')>>M(nu(R)) and between 225 and 566 GeV/c(2) at 95% confidence level for M(W')