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Measurement of the CP-violation parameter sin(2β) in B0 d/B-0 d → J/ψK0 S decays

Physical Review Letters 81:25 (1998) 5513-5518

Authors:

F Abe, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, A Amadon, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, J Antos, S Aota, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, S Bagdasarov, MW Bailey, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, M Barone, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, S Bertolucci, S Bettelli, B Bevensee, A Bhatti, K Biery, C Bigongiari, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, S Blusk, A Bodek, W Bokhari, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, L Breccia, C Bromberg, N Bruner, R Brunetti, E Buckley-Geer, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, J Cassada, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, PS Chang, PT Chang, HY Chao, J Chapman, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, CN Chiou, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, S Cihangir, AG Clark, M Cobal, E Cocca, M Contreras, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, D Costanzo, C Couyoumtzelis, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, T Daniels, F De Jongh, S Dell’agnello, M Dell’orso, R Demina, L Demortier

Abstract:

We present a measurement of the time-dependent asymmetry in the rate for B-0 d versus B0 d decays to J/ψK0 S. A nonzero asymmetry would be an indication of CP violation, and within the standard model this may be used to measure the CP-violation parameter sin(2β)2. A total of 198 ± 17 B0 d/µþ¯0 d decays were observed in 99¯ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV by the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. B0 d and B¯0 d are distinguished by a technique based on charge correlations from hadronization of the b quark. Our analysis results in sin(2β) = 1.8 ± 1.1(stat) ± 0.3(syst). © 1998 The American Physical Society.

Measurement of the W-pair cross-section and of the W mass in e+e- interactions at 172 GeV

European Physical Journal C 2:4 (1998) 581-595

Authors:

P Abreu, W Adam, T Adye, P Adzic, I Ajinenko, GD Alekseev, R Alemany, PP Allport, S Almehed, U Amaldi, S Amato, P Andersson, A Andreazza, P Antilogus, WD Apel, Y Arnoud, B Ã…sman, JE Augustin, A Augustinus, P Baillon, P Bambade, F Barao, G Barbiellini, R Barbier, DY Bardin, G Barker, A Baroncelli, O Barring, MJ Bates, M Battaglia, M Baubillier, KH Becks, M Begalli, P Beilliere, Y Belokopytov, K Belous, AC Benvenuti, C Berat, M Berggren, D Bertini, D Bertrand, M Besancon, F Bianchi, M Bigi, MS Bilenky, P Billoir, MA Bizouard, D Bloch, M Blume, M Bonesini, W Bonivento, M Boonekamp, PSL Booth, AW Borgland, G Borisov, C Bosio, O Botner, E Boudinov, B Bouquet, C Bourdarios, TJV Bowcock, I Bozovic, M Bozzo, P Branchini, KD Brand, T Brenke, RA Brenner, R Brown, P Bruckman, JM Brunet, L Bugge, T Buran, T Burgsmueller, P Buschmann, S Cabrera, M Caccia, M Calvi, AJ Camacho Rozas, T Camporesi, V Canale, M Canepa, F Carena, L Carroll, C Caso, MV Castillo Gimenez, A Cattai, FR Cavallo, C Cerruti, V Chabaud, N Chalanda, P Charpentier, L Chaussard, P Checchia, GA Chelkov, M Chen, R Chierici, P Chliapnikov, P Chochula, V Chorowicz, J Chudoba

Abstract:

From a data sample of 9.98 pb-1 integrated luminosity, collected by DELPHI at a centre-of-mass energy of 172 GeV, 118 events were selected as W-pair candidates. From these, the branching fraction Br(W → qq̄) was measured to be 0.660+0.036-0.037 (stat.) ± 0.009(syst.) and the cross-section for the doubly resonant process e+e- → W+W- to be 11.58+1.44-1.35 (stat.) ± 0.32(syst.) pb. The mass of the W boson, obtained from direct reconstruction of the invariant mass of the fermion pairs in the decays WW → ℓvqq̄ and WW → qq̄qq̄, was determined to be mW = 80.22±0.41(stat.)±0.04(syst.)±0.05(int.)±0.03(LEP) GeV/c2, where "int." denotes the uncertainty from interconnection effects like colour reconnection and Bose-Einstein interference. Combined with the W mass obtained from the cross-sections measured by DELPHI at threshold, a value of mW = 80.33 ± 0.30(stat.) ± 0.05(syst.) ± 0.03(int.) ± 0.03(LEP) GeV/c2 was found.

Measurement of the diffractive structure function FD(4) 2 at HERA

European Physical Journal C 1:1-2 (1998) 81-96

Authors:

J Breitweg, M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, D Mikunas, B Musgrave, J Repond, R Stanek, RL Talaga, R Yoshida, H Zhang, MCK Mattingly, F Anselmo, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Castellini, M Chiarini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, S de Pasquale, I Gialas, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, C Nemoz, F Palmonari, A Pesci, A Polini, F Ricci, G Sartorelli, Y Zamora Garcia, A Zichichi, C Amelung, A Bornheim, I Brock, K Coböken, J Crittenden, R Deffner, M Eckert, M Grothe, H Hartmann, K Heinloth, L Heinz, E Hilger, HP Jakob, UF Katz, R Kerger, E Paul, M Pfeiffer, C Rembser, J Stamm, R Wedemeyer, H Wieber, DS Bailey, S Campbell-Robson, WN Cottingham, B Foster, R Hall-Wilton, ME Hayes, GP Heath, HF Heath, JD McFall, D Piccioni, DG Roff, RJ Tapper, M Arneodo, R Ayad, M Capua, A Garfagnini, L Iannotti, M Schioppa, G Susinno, JY Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, MY Pac, A Caldwell, N Cartiglia, Z Jing, W Liu, B Mellado, JA Parsons, S Ritz, S Sampson, F Sciulli, PB Straub, Q Zhu, P Borzemski

Abstract:

This paper presents the first analysis of diffractive photon dissociation events in deep inelastic positron-proton scattering at HERA in which the proton in the final state is detected and its momentum measured. The events are selected by requiring a scattered proton in the ZEUS leading proton spectrometer (LPS) with xL > 0.97, where xL is the fraction of the incoming proton beam momentum carried by the scattered proton. The use of the LPS significantly reduces the contamination from events with diffractive dissociation of the proton into low mass states and allows a direct measurement of t, the square of the four-momentum exchanged at the proton vertex. The dependence of the cross section on t is measured in the interval 0.073 < \t\ < 0.4 GeV2 and is found to be described by an exponential shape with the slope parameter b = 7.2 ± 1.1(stat.)+0.7 -0.9(syst.) GeV-2. The diffractive structure function FD(4) 2 is presented as a function of xIP, ≃ 1 - xL and β, the momentum fraction of the struck quark with respect to xIP, and averaged over the t interval 0.073 < \t\ < 0.4 GeV2 and the photon virtuality range 5 < Q2 < 20 GeV2. In the kinematic range 4 x 10-4 < xIP < 0.03 and 0.015 < β < 0.5, the xIP dependence of FD(4) 2 is fitted with a form (1/xIP)a , yielding a = 1.00 ± 0.09 (stat.)+0.11 -0.05(syst.). Upon integration over t, the structure function FD(3) 2 is determined in a kinematic range extending to higher xIP and lower β compared to our previous analysis; the results are discussed within the framework of Regge theory.

Measurement of the t distribution in diffractive photoproduction at HERA

European Physical Journal C 2:2 (1998) 237-246

Authors:

J Breitweg, M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, D Mikunas, B Musgrave, J Repond, R Stanek, RL Talaga, R Yoshida, H Zhang, MCK Mattingly, F Anselmo, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Castellini, M Chiarini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, S de Pasquale, I Gialas, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, C Nemoz, F Palmonari, A Pesci, A Polini, F Ricci, G Sartorelli, Y Zamora Garcia, A Zichichi, C Amelung, A Bornheim, I Brock, K Coböken, J Crittenden, R Deffner, M Eckert, M Grothe, H Hartmann, K Heinloth, L Heinz, E Hilger, HP Jakob, UF Katz, R Kerger, E Paul, M Pfeiffer, C Rembser, J Stamm, R Wedemeyer, H Wieber, DS Bailey, S Campbell-Robson, WN Cottingham, B Foster, R Hall-Wilton, ME Hayes, GP Heath, HF Heath, JD McFall, D Piccioni, DG Roff, RJ Tapper, M Arneodo, R Ayad, M Capua, A Garfagnini, L Iannotti, M Schioppa, G Susinno, JY Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, MY Pac, A Caldwell, N Cartiglia, Z Jing, W Liu, B Mellado, JA Parsons, S Ritz, S Sampson, F Sciulli, PB Straub, Q Zhu, P Borzemski

Abstract:

Photon diffractive dissociation, γp → Xp, has been studied at HERA with the ZEUS detector using ep interactions where the virtuality Q2 of the exchanged photon is smaller than 0.02 GeV2. The squared four-momentum t exchanged at the proton vertex was determined in the range 0.073 < \t\ < 0.40 GeV2 by measuring the scattered proton in the ZEUS Leading Proton Spectrometer. In the photonproton centre-of-mass energy interval 176 < W < 225 GeV and for masses of the dissociated photon system 4 < Mx < 32 GeV, the t distribution has an exponential shape, dN/d\t\ ∠exp (-b\t\), with a slope parameter b = 6.8 ± 0.9 (stat.) +1.2-1.1 (syst.) GeV-2.

Rapidity correlations in Λ baryon and proton production in hadronic Z° decays

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 416:1-2 (1998) 247-256

Authors:

P Abreu, W Adam, T Adye, I Ajinenko, GD Alekseev, R Alemany, PP Allport, S Almehed, U Amaldi, S Amato, A Andreazza, ML Andrieux, P Antilogus, WD Apel, B Ã…sman, JE Augustin, A Augustinus, P Baillon, P Bambade, F Barao, M Barbi, DY Bardin, G Barker, A Baroncelli, O Barring, MJ Bates, M Battaglia, M Baubillier, J Baudot, KH Becks, M Begalli, P Beilliere, Y Belokopytov, K Belous, AC Benvenuti, M Berggren, D Bertini, D Bertrand, M Besancon, F Bianchi, M Bigi, MS Bilenky, P Billoir, MA Bizouard, D Bloch, M Blume, M Bonesini, W Bonivento, PSL Booth, AW Borgland, G Borisov, C Bosio, O Botner, E Boudinov, B Bouquet, C Bourdarios, TJV Bowcock, I Bozovic, M Bozzo, P Branchini, KD Brand, T Brenke, RA Brenner, C Bricman, RCA Brown, P Bruckman, JM Brunet, L Bugge, T Buran, T Burgsmueller, P Buschmann, S Cabrera, M Caccia, M Calvi, AJ Camacho Rozas, T Camporesi, V Canale, M Canepa, K Cankocak, F Cao, F Carena, L Carroll, C Caso, MV Castillo Gimenez, A Cattai, FR Cavallo, V Chabaud, P Charpentier, L Chaussard, P Checchia, GA Chelkov, M Chen, R Chierici, P Chliapnikov, P Chochula, V Chorowicz, J Chudoba, V Cindro, P Collins, R Contri

Abstract:

In an analysis of multihadronic events recorded at LEP by DELPHI in the years 1992 through 1994, rapidity correlations of A-A, proton-proton, and A-proton pairs are compared with each other and with the predictions of the string fragmentation model. For Ap̄ pairs, the additional correlation with respect to charged kaons is also analysed. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.