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Search for lepton-flavor-violating decays of B mesons

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 65:11 (2002) 1111021-1111024

Authors:

KW Edwards, R Ammar, D Besson, X Zhao, S Anderson, VV Frolov, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, SZ Li, R Poling, A Smith, CJ Stepaniak, J Urheim, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, A Tomaradze, P Zweber, S Ahmed, MS Alam, L Jian, M Saleem, F Wappler, E Eckhart, KK Gan, C Gwon, T Hart, K Honscheid, D Hufnagel, H Kagan, R Kass, TK Pedlar, JB Thayer, E von Toerne, T Wilksen, MM Zoeller, H Muramatsu, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, SA Dytman, JA Mueller, S Nam, V Savinov, S Chen, JW Hinson, J Lee, DH Miller, V Pavlunin, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, D Cronin-Hennessy, AL Lyon, CS Park, W Park, EH Thorndike, TE Coan, YS Gao, F Liu, Y Maravin, I Narsky, R Stroynowski, M Artuso, C Boulahouache, K Bukin, E Dambasuren, K Khroustalev, R Mountain, R Nandakumar, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, AH Mahmood, SE Csorna, I Danko, Z Xu, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, S McGee, A Bornheim, E Lipeles, SP Pappas, A Shapiro, WM Sun, AJ Weinstein, G Masek, HP Paar, R Mahapatra, RA Briere, GP Chen, T Ferguson, G Tatishvili, H Vogel, NE Adam, JP Alexander, K Berkelman, F Blanc, V Boisvert, DG Cassel, PS Drell

Abstract:

We have searched a sample of 9.6 million BB̄ events for the lepton-flavor-violating decays B→he±μ±, B+→h-e-e+, B+→h-e+μ+, and B+→h-μ-μ+, where h is π, K, p, and K*(892), a total of sixteen modes. We find no evidence for these decays, and place 90% confidence level upper limits on their branching fractions that range from 1.0 to 8.3×10-6.

Search for the decay Bs→μ+μ-φ in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 65:11 (2002) 1111011-1111016

Authors:

D Acosta, T Affolder, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, P Amaral, 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, S Bailey, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, W Bokhari, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, S van den Brink, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, 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, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, AP Colijn, A Connolly, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Cropp, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart

Abstract:

We present a search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay Bs→μ+μ-φ in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV, using 91 pb-1 of data collected at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). We find two candidate events for this decay, which are consistent with the background estimate of one event, and set an upper limit on the branching fraction of B(Bs→ μ+μ-φ)<6.7×10-5 at a 95% confidence level. This is the first limit on the branching fraction of this decay.

OBSERVATION OF IRROTATIONAL FLOW AND VORTICITY IN A BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE

World Scientific Publishing (2002) 297-300

Authors:

G HECHENBLAIKNER, E HODBY, SA HOPKINS, O MARAGÃ’, CJ FOOT

Sensor development for the CMS pixel detector

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment Elsevier 485:1-2 (2002) 89-99

Authors:

G Bolla, D Bortoletto, R Horisberger, R Kaufmann, T Rohe, A Roy

Limits on Extra Dimensions and New Particle Production in the Exclusive Photon and Missing Energy Signature in p pbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV

ArXiv hep-ex/0205057 (2002)