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Further properties of high-mass multijet events at the Fermilab proton-antiproton collider

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 54:7 (1996) 4221-4233

Authors:

F Abe, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, J Antos, C Anway-Wiese, S Aota, G Apollinari, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, W Badgett, S Bagdasarov, MW Bailey, J Bao, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, E Barzi, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Benlloch, J Bensinger, D Benton, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, S Bertolucci, A Bhatti, K Biery, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, A Bodek, W Bokhari, V Bolognesi, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, L Breccia, C Bromberg, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, J Cammerata, C Campagnari, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, A Castro, D Cauz, Y Cen, F Cervelli, PS Chang, PT Chang, HY Chao, J Chapman, M Cheng, G Chiarelli, T Chikamatsu, CN Chiou, L Christofek, S Cihangir, AG Clark, M Cobal, M Contreras, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, C Couyoumtzelis, D Crane, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Culbertson, JD Cunningham, T Daniels, F DeJongh, S Delchamps, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, R Demina, L Demortier, B Denby, M Deninno

Abstract:

The properties of high-mass multijet events produced at the Fermilab proton-antiproton collider are compared with leading order QCD matrix element predictions, QCD parton shower Monte Carlo predictions, and the predictions from a model in which events are distributed uniformly over the available multibody phase space. Multijet distributions corresponding to ([Formula presented]) variables that span the [Formula presented]-body parameter space are found to be well described by the QCD calculations for inclusive three-jet, four-jet, and five-jet events. The agreement between data, QCD matrix element calculations, and QCD parton shower Monte Carlo predictions suggests that 2→2 scattering plus gluon radiation provides a good first approximation to the full LO QCD matrix element for events with three, four, or even five jets in the final state. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

Jet production via strongly interacting color-singlet exchange in pp- collisions

Physical Review Letters 76:5 (1996) 734-739

Authors:

S Abachi, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, I Adam, DL Adams, M Adams, S Ahn, H Aihara, J Alitti, G Álvarez, GA Alves, E Amidi, N Amos, EW Anderson, SH Aronson, R Astur, RE Avery, A Baden, V Balamurali, J Balderston, B Baldin, J Bantly, JF Bartlett, K Bazizi, J Bendich, SB Beri, I Bertram, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, A Bischoff, N Biswas, G Blazey, S Blessing, P Bloom, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, J Borders, C Boswell, A Brandt, R Brock, A Bross, D Buchholz, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, W Carvalho, D Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, SM Chang, SV Chekulaev, LP Chen, W Chen, L Chevalier, S Chopra, BC Choudhary, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, WG Cobau, J Cochran, WE Cooper, C Cretsinger, D Cullen-Vidal, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, OI Dahl, K De, M Demarteau, H Johari, K Denisenko, N Denisenko, D Denisov, SP Denisov, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G Di Loreto, R Dixon, P Draper, J Drinkard, Y Ducros, SR Dugad, S Durston-Johnson, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, R Engelmann, S Eno, G Eppley, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, VN Evdokimov, S Fahey, T Fahland, M Fatyga, MK Fatyga

Abstract:

A study of the particle multiplicity between jets with large rapidity separation has been performed using the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp¯ Collider operating at √s = 1.8 TeV. A significant excess of low-multiplicity events is observed above the expectation for color-exchange processes. The measured fractional excess is 1.07±0.10(stat)+0.25−0.13(syst)%, which is consistent with a strongly interacting color-singlet (colorless) exchange process and cannot be explained by electroweak exchange alone. A lower limit of 0.80% (95% C.L.) is obtained on the fraction of dijet events with color-singlet exchange, independent of the rapidity gap survival probability. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

Measurement of the B- and B−0 meson lifetimes using semileptonic decays

Physical Review Letters 76:24 (1996) 4462-4467

Authors:

F Abe, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, J Antos, C Anway-Wiese, S Aota, G Apollinari, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, W Badgett, S Bagdasarov, MW Bailey, J Bao, P De Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, E Barzi, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Benlloch, J Bensinger, D Benton, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, S Bertolucci, A Bhatti, K Biery, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, A Bodek, W Bokhari, V Bolognesi, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, L Breccia, C Bromberg, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, J Cammerata, C Campagnari, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, A Castro, D Cauz, Y Cen, F Cervelli, HY Chao, J Chapman, MT Cheng, G Chiarelli, T Chikamatsu, CN Chiou, L Christofek, S Cihangir, AG Clark, M Cobal, M Contreras, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, C Couyoumtzelis, D Crane, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Culbertson, JD Cunningham, T Daniels, F DeJongh, S Delchamps, S Dell’agnello, M Dell’orso, L Demortier, B Denby, M Deninno, PF Derwent, T Devlin, JR Dittmann

Abstract:

The lifetimes of the B- and B−0 mesons are measured using the partially reconstructed semileptonic decays B−→D1-v−X, where D is either a D0 or D*+ meson. The data were collected by the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider during 1992-1993 and correspond to 19.3 pb−1 of p−p collisions at s = 1.8 TeV. We measure the decay length distributions and find the lifetimes to be τ(B−) = 1.56±0.13±0.06 ps and τ(B−0) = 1.54±0.08±0.06 ps, and the ratio of lifetimes to be τ(B−)/τ(B−0) = 1.01±0.11±0.02, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

Measurement of the W boson mass

Physical Review Letters 77:16 (1996) 3309-3314

Authors:

S Abachi, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, I Adam, DL Adams, M Adams, S Ahn, H Aihara, J Alitti, G Álvarez, GA Alves, E Amidi, N Amos, EW Anderson, SH Aronson, R Astur, RE Avery, MM Baarmand, A Baden, V Balamurali, J Balderston, B Baldin, S Banerjee, J Bantly, JF Bartlett, K Bazizi, A Belyaev, J Bendich, SB Beri, I Bertram, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, A Bischoff, N Biswas, G Blazey, S Blessing, P Bloom, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, J Borders, C Boswell, A Brandt, R Brock, A Bross, D Buchholz, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, W Carvalho, D Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, SM Chang, SV Chekulaev, LP Chen, W Chen, S Choi, S Chopra, BC Choudhary, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, WG Cobau, J Cochran, WE Cooper, C Cretsinger, D Cullen-Vidal, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, OI Dahl, K De, M Demarteau, N Denisenko, D Denisov, SP Denisov, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G Di Loreto, R Dixon, P Draper, J Drinkard, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, SR Dugad, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, R Engelmann, S Eno, G Eppley, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, VN Evdokimov, S Fahey, T Fahland, M Fatyga

Abstract:

A measurement of the mass of the W boson is presented based on a sample of 5982 W → eν decays observed in pp¯ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV with the D0 detector during the 1992-1993 run. From a fit to the transverse mass spectrum, combined with measurements of the Z boson mass, the W boson mass is measured to be MW = 80.350 ± 0.140(stat) ± 0.165(syst) ± 0.160(scale) GeV/c2. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

Measurement of the branching fraction B(B+u→J/ψπ+) and Search for B+c→J/ψπ+

Physical Review Letters 77:26 (1996) 5176-5181

Authors:

F Abe, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, J Antos, C Anway-Wiese, S Aota, G Apollinari, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, W Badgett, S Bagdasarov, MW Bailey, J Bao, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, E Barzi, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Benlloch, J Bensinger, D Benton, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, S Bertolucci, B Bevensee, A Bhatti, K Biery, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, A Bodek, W Bokhari, V Bolognesi, G Bolla, D Bortoletto, J Bondreau, L Breccia, C Bromberg, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, J Cammerata, C Campagnari, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, A Castro, D Cauz, Y Cen, F Cervelli, PS Chang, PT Chang, HY Chao, J Chapman, MT Cheng, G Chiarelli, T Chikamatsu, CN Chiou, L Christofek, S Cihangir, AG Clark, M Cobal, E Cocca, M Contreras, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, C Couyoumtzelis, D Crane, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Culbertson, T Daniels, F De Jongh, S Delchamps, S Dell’agnello, M Dell’orso, R Demina, L Demortier

Abstract:

We report on a measurement of the branching fraction of the Cabibbo-suppressed decay B+u→J/ψπ+, where J/ψJ/ψμ+μ-. The data were collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab during 1992–1995 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 110pb-1 in pp collisions at √s=1.8TeV. A signal of 28+10-9 events is observed and we determine the ratio of branching fractions B(B+u→J/ψπ+)/B(B+u→J/ψ+) to be [5.0+1.9-1.7(stat)±0.1(syst)]%. Using the world average value for B(B+u→J/ψπ+), we calculate the branching fraction B(B+u→J/ψπ+) to be (5.0+2.1-1.9)×10-5. We also search for the decay B+c→J/ψπ+ and report a 95% confidence level limit on σ(B+c)B+c→J/ψπ+/σ(+u)B(B+u→J/ψ+) as a function of the B+c lifetime. © 1996 The American Physical Society.