Micro strip gas chambers overcoated with carbon, hydrogenated amorphous silicon, and glass films

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment Elsevier 400:2-3 (1997) 233-242

Authors:

MR Bishai, EKE Gerndt, IPJ Shipsey, AV Bagulya, VM Grishin, MA Negodaev, V Ligachev

Observation of Hadronic W Decays in t-tbar Events with the Collider Detector at Fermilab

ArXiv hep-ex/9711004 (1997)

Observation of Exclusive B Decays to Final States Containing a Charmed Baryon

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 79:17 (1997) 3125-3129

Authors:

X Fu, B Nemati, SJ Richichi, WR Ross, P Skubic, M Wood, M Bishai, J Fast, E Gerndt, JW Hinson, T Miao, DH Miller, M Modesitt, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, PN Wang, L Gibbons, SD Johnson, Y Kwon, S Roberts, EH Thorndike, CP Jessop, K Lingel, H Marsiske, ML Perl, SF Schaffner, R Wang, TE Coan, J Dominick, V Fadeyev, I Korolkov, M Lambrecht, S Sanghera, V Shelkov, R Stroynowski, I Volobouev, G Wei, M Artuso, A Efimov, M Gao, M Goldberg, D He, N Horwitz, S Kopp, GC Moneti, R Mountain, Y Mukhin, S Playfer, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, X Xing, J Bartelt, SE Csorna, V Jain, S Marka, A Freyberger, D Gibaut, K Kinoshita, P Pomianowski, S Schrenk, D Cinabro, B Barish, M Chadha, S Chan, G Eigen, JS Miller, C O'Grady, M Schmidtler, J Urheim, AJ Weinstein, F Würthwein, DM Asner, M Athanas, DW Bliss, WS Brower, G Masek, HP Paar, J Gronberg, CM Korte, R Kutschke, S Menary, RJ Morrison, S Nakanishi, HN Nelson, TK Nelson, C Qiao, JD Richman, D Roberts, A Ryd, H Tajima, MS Witherell, R Balest, K Cho, WT Ford, M Lohner, H Park, P Rankin, J Roy, JG Smith, JP Alexander, C Bebek, BE Berger, K Berkelman, K Bloom, DG Cassel, HA Cho, DM Coffman, DS Crowcroft, M Dickson, PS Drell, DJ Dumas, R Ehrlich, R Elia, P Gaidarev, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, CD Jones, SL Jones, J Kandaswamy, N Katayama, PC Kim, DL Kreinick, T Lee, Y Liu, GS Ludwig, J Masui, J Mevissen, NB Mistry, CR Ng, E Nordberg, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Soffer, C Ward, P Avery, C Prescott, S Yang, J Yelton, G Brandenburg, RA Briere, T Liu, M Saulnier, R Wilson, H Yamamoto, TE Browder, F Li, JL Rodriguez, T Bergfeld, BI Eisenstein, J Ernst, GE Gladding, GD Gollin, M Palmer, M Selen, JJ Thaler, KW Edwards, KW McLean, M Ogg, A Bellerive, DI Britton, R Janicek, DB MacFarlane, PM Patel, B Spaan, AJ Sadoff, R Ammar, P Baringer, A Bean, D Besson, D Coppage, N Copty, R Davis, N Hancock, S Kotov, I Kravchenko, N Kwak, Y Kubota, M Lattery, JK Nelson, S Patton, R Poling, T Riehle, V Savinov, MS Alam, IJ Kim, Z Ling, AH Mahmood, JJ O'Neill, H Severini, CR Sun, S Timm, F Wappler, JE Duboscq, R Fulton, D Fujino, KK Gan, K Honscheid, H Kagan, R Kass, J Lee, M Sung, A Undrus, C White, R Wanke, A Wolf, MM Zoeller

Measurement of the t-tbar Production Cross Section in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV

ArXiv hep-ex/9710008 (1997)

First observation of τ → 3πηντ and τ → f1 πντ decays

Physical Review Letters 79:13 (1997) 2406-2410

Authors:

T Bergfeld, BI Eisenstein, J Ernst, GE Gladding, GD Gollin, RM Hans, E Johnson, I Karliner, MA Marsh, M Palmer, M Selen, JJ Thaler, KW Edwards, A Bellerive, R Janicek, DB MacFarlane, PM Patel, AJ Sadoff, R Ammar, P Baringer, A Bean, D Besson, D Coppage, C Darling, R Davis, N Hancock, S Kotov, I Kravchenko, N Kwak, S Anderson, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, JJ O’neill, S Patton, R Poling, T Riehle, V Savinov, A Smith, MS Alam, SB Athar, Z Ling, AH Mahmood, H Severini, S Timm, F Wappler, A Anastassov, S Blinov, JE Duboscq, D Fujino, KK Gan, T Hart, K Honscheid, H Kagan, R Kass, J Lee, MB Spencer, M Sung, A Undrus, R Wanke, A Wolf, MM Zoeller, B Nemati, SJ Richichi, WR Ross, P Skubic, M Bishai, J Fast, E Gerndt, JW Hinson, N Menon, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, M Yurko, L Gibbons, S Glenn, SD Johnson, Y Kwon, S Roberts, EH Thorndike, CP Jessop, K Lingel, H Marsiske, ML Perl, D Ugolini, R Wang, X Zhou, TE Coan, V Fadeyev, I Korolkov, Y Maravin, I Narsky, V Shelkov, J Staeck, R Stroynowski, I Volobouev, J Ye, M Artuso, A Efimov, M Gao

Abstract:

We have observed new channels for τ decays with an η in the final state. We study 3-prong tau decays, using the η → γγ and η → 3π0 decay modes and 1-prong decays with two π0’s using the η → γγ channel. The measured branching fractions are B(τ → π−π−π+ηντ = (3.4+0.6-0.5 ± 0.6) × 10-4 and B(τ− → π−2π0ηντ = (1.4 ± 0.6 ± 0.3) × 10-4. We observe clear evidence for f1 → ηππ substructure and measure B(τ− → f1π−ντ) = (5.8+1.4-1.3 ± 1.8) × 10-4. We have also searched for η′(958) production and obtain 90% C.L. upper limits B(τ → π−η′ντ) < 7.4 × 10-5 and B(τ → π−π0η′ντ) < 8.0 × 10-5. © 1997 American Physical Society.