Proton structure from HERA to LHC
Proceedings of 40th International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, ISMD 2010 (2011)
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The kinematic region covered by the LHC experiments probes low values of Bjorken-x. At the scale relevant for W and Z production the central rapidity region covers 10-3 < × < 10-1, for √s = 7 TeV. This means that it is the HERA data which give the most insight into the behaviour of parton distribution functions (PDFs) for the early phase of running at the LHC. The H1 and ZEUS experiments are combining their data so as to provide a legacy of HERA results. The present status of the data combinations and the impact of these data on our knowledge of parton distribution functions is explored.Measurements of branching fraction ratios and CP-asymmetries in suppressed B-→D(→K+π-)K- and B-→D(→K+π-)π- decays
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 84:9 (2011)
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We report the first reconstruction in hadron collisions of the suppressed decays B-→D(→K+π-)K- and B-→D(→K+π-)π-, sensitive to the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa phase γ, using data from 7fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected by the CDF II detector at the Tevatron collider. We reconstruct a signal for the B -→D(→K+π-)K- suppressed mode with a significance of 3.2 standard deviations, and measure the ratios of the suppressed to favored branching fractions R(K)=[22.0±8.6(stat) ±2.6(syst)]×10-3, R+(K)=[42.6±13. 7(stat)±2.8(syst)]×10-3, R-(K)=[3. 8±10.3(stat)±2.7(syst)]×10-3 as well as the direct CP-violating asymmetry A(K)=-0.82±0.44(stat)±0.09(syst) of this mode. Corresponding quantities for B-→D(→K +π-)π- decay are also reported. © 2011 American Physical Society.Top-quark mass measurement using events with missing transverse energy and jets at CDF
Physical Review Letters 107:23 (2011)
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We present a measurement of the top-quark mass using a sample of tt̄ events in 5.7fb-1 of integrated luminosity from pp̄ collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron with √s=1.96TeV and collected by the CDF II Detector. We select events having large missing transverse energy, and four, five, or six jets with at least one jet tagged as coming from a b quark, and reject events with identified charged leptons. This analysis considers events from the semileptonic tt̄ decay channel, including events that contain tau leptons. The measurement is based on a multidimensional template method. We fit the data to signal templates of varying top-quark masses and background templates, and measure a top-quark mass of Mtop=172.32±2. 4(stat)±1.0(syst)GeV/c2. © 2011 American Physical Society.Measurement of the transverse momentum distribution of Z/γ* bosons in proton-proton collisions at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 705:5 (2011) 415-434
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A measurement of the Z/γ* transverse momentum (pTZ) distribution in proton-proton collisions at s=7 TeV is presented using Z/γ*→e+e- and Z/γ*→μ+μ- decays collected with the ATLAS detector in data sets with integrated luminosities of 35 pb-1 and 40 pb-1, respectively. The normalized differential cross sections are measured separately for electron and muon decay channels as well as for their combination up to pTZ of 350 GeV for invariant dilepton masses 66 GeVSearch for supersymmetry in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV in events with a single lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum
Journal of High Energy Physics 2011:8 (2011)