Powerful jets from black hole X-ray binaries in low/hard X-ray states

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 322:1 (2001) 31-42

Measurement of the Λc+ lifetime

Physical Review Letters 86:11 (2001) 2232-2236

Authors:

AH Mahmood, SE Csorna, I Danko, KW McLean, S Márka, Z Xu, R Godang, K Kinoshita, IC Lai, S Schrenk, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, S McGee, LP Perera, GJ Zhou, E Lipeles, SP Pappas, M Schmidtler, A Shapiro, WM Sun, AJ Weinstein, F Würthwein, DE Jaffe, G Masek, HP Paar, EM Potter, S Prell, V Sharma, DM Asner, A Eppich, TS Hill, RJ Morrison, HN Nelson, RA Briere, GP Chen, BH Behrens, WT Ford, A Gritsan, J Roy, JG Smith, JP Alexander, R Baker, C Bebek, BE Berger, K Berkelman, F Blanc, V Boisvert, DG Cassel, M Dickson, PS Drell, KM Ecklund, R Ehrlich, AD Foland, P Gaidarev, RS Galik, L Gibbons, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, PI Hopman, CD Jones, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, M Lohner, A Magerkurth, TO Meyer, NB Mistry, E Nordberg, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, JG Thayer, D Urner, B Valant-Spaight, A Warburton, P Avery, C Prescott, AI Rubiera, J Yelton, J Zheng, G Brandenburg, A Ershov, YS Gao, DYJ Kim, R Wilson, TE Browder, Y Li, JL Rodriguez, H Yamamoto, T Bergfeld, BI Eisenstein, J Ernst, GE Gladding, GD Gollin, RM Hans, E Johnson, I Karliner, MA Marsh, M Palmer

Abstract:

The lifetime of the lowest-mass charm bryon is measured to provide a window for the nonperturbative sector of heavy quark decay. The data are obtained in a colliding beam environment in the CLEO II.V detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring. In this environment, the event topologies and backgrounds are very different from those encountered in high energy fixed-target experiments.

Present and Future CP Measurements

(2001)

Authors:

Tobias Hurth, Choong Sun Kim, Claire Shepherd-Themistocleous, Fergus Wilson, Farrukh Azfar, Roger Barlow, Martin Beneke, Noel Cottingham, Glen Cowan, Amol Dighe, Paolo Gambino, Val Gibson, Yoshihito Iwasaki, Shaaban Khalil, Victoria Martin, Matthew Martin, Fabrizio Salvatore, James Weatherall, Daniel Wyler

First observation of the sigma(*+)(c) baryon and a new measurement of the sigma(*+)(c) mass.

Phys Rev Lett 86:7 (2001) 1167-1170

Authors:

R Ammar, A Bean, D Besson, R Davis, N Kwak, X Zhao, S Anderson, VV Frolov, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, R Mahapatra, JJ O'Neill, R Poling, T Riehle, A Smith, CJ Stepaniak, J Urheim, S Ahmed, MS Alam, SB Athar, L Jian, L Ling, M Saleem, S Timm, F Wappler, A Anastassov, JE Duboscq, E Eckhart, KK Gan, C Gwon, T Hart, K Honscheid, D Hufnagel, H Kagan, R Kass, TK Pedlar, H Schwarthoff, JB Thayer, E von Toerne, MM Zoeller, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, A Undrus, S Chen, J Fast, JW Hinson, J Lee, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IP Shipsey, V Pavlunin, D Cronin-Hennessy, AL Lyon, EH Thorndike, CP Jessop, H Marsiske, ML Perl, V Savinov, X Zhou, TE Coan, V Fadeyev, Y Maravin, I Narsky, R Stroynowski, J Ye, T Wlodek, M Artuso, R Ayad, C Boulahouache, K Bukin, E Dambasuren, S Karamov, G Majumder, GC Moneti, R Mountain, S Schuh, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, G Viehhauser, JC Wang, A Wolf, J Wu, S Kopp, AH Mahmood, SE Csorna, I Danko, KW McLean, S Márka, Z Xu, R Godang, K Kinoshita, IC Lai, S Schrenk, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, S McGee, LP Perera, GJ Zhou, E Lipeles, SP Pappas, M Schmidtler, A Shapiro, WM Sun, AJ Weinstein, F Würthwein, DE Jaffe, G Masek, HP Paar, EM Potter, S Prell, V Sharma, DM Asner, A Eppich, TS Hill, RJ Morrison, RA Briere, GP Chen, BH Behrens, WT Ford, A Gritsan, J Roy, JG Smith, JP Alexander, R Baker, C Bebek, BE Berger, K Berkelman, F Blanc, V Boisvert, DG Cassel, M Dickson, PS Drell, KM Ecklund, R Ehrlich, AD Foland, P Gaidarev, RS Galik, L Gibbons, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, PI Hopman, CD Jones, DL Kreinick, M Lohner, A Magerkurth, TO Meyer, NB Mistry, E Nordberg, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, JG Thayer, D Urner, B Valant-Spaight, A Warburton, P Avery, C Prescott, AI Rubiera, J Yelton, J Zheng, G Brandenburg, A Ershov, YS Gao, DY Kim, R Wilson, TE Browder, Y Li, JL Rodriguez, H Yamamoto, T Bergfeld, BI Eisenstein, J Ernst, GE Gladding, GD Gollin, RM Hans, E Johnson, I Karliner, MA Marsh, M Palmer, C Plager, C Sedlack, M Selen, JJ Thaler, J Williams, KW Edwards, R Janicek, PM Patel, AJ Sadoff, CLEO Collaboration

Abstract:

Using data recorded with the CLEO II and CLEO II.V detector configurations at the Cornell Electron Storage Rings, we report the first observation and mass measurement of the Sigma(*+)(c) charmed baryon, and an updated measurement of the mass of the Sigma(+)(c) baryon. We find M(Sigma(*+)(c))-M(Lambda(+)(c)) = (231.0+/-1.1+/-2.0) MeV, and M(Sigma(+)(c))-M(Lambda(+)(c)) = (166.4+/-0.2+/-0.3) MeV, where the errors are statistical and systematic, respectively.

Galaxy mapping with the sauron integral-field spectrograph: The star formation history of NGC 4365

Astrophysical Journal 548:1 PART 2 (2001)

Authors:

RL Davies, H Kuntschner, E Emsellem, R Bacon, M Bureau, CM Carollo, Y Copin, BW Miller, G Monnet, RF Peletier, EK Verolme, PT De Zeeuw

Abstract:

We report the first wide-field mapping of the kinematics and stellar populations in the E3 galaxy NGC 4365. The velocity maps extend previous long-slit work. They show two independent kinematic subsystems: the central 300 pc × 700 pc rotates about the projected minor axis, and the main body of the galaxy, 3 kpc × 4 kpc, rotates almost at right angles to this. The line strength maps show that the metallicity of the stellar population decreases from a central value greater than solar to one-half solar at a radius of 2 kpc. The decoupled core and main body of the galaxy have the same luminosity-weighted age, ≈14 Gyr, and the same elevated magnesium-to-iron ratio. The two kinematically distinct components have thus shared a common star formation history. We infer that the galaxy underwent a sequence of mergers associated with dissipative star formation that ended ≳ 12 Gyr ago. The misalignment between the photometric and kinematic axes of the main body is unambiguous evidence of triaxiality. The similarity of the stellar populations in the two components suggests that the observed kinematic structure has not changed substantially in 12 Gyr.