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Search for Excess Dimuon Production in the Radial Region (1.6 < r < 10) cm at the D0 Experiment
We report on a study of dimuon events produced in p{bar p} collisions at {radical}s = 1.96 TeV, using 0.9 fb{sup -1} of data recorded by the D0 experiment during 2008. Using information from the inner-layer silicon tracking detector, we observe 712 {+-} 462 {+-} 942 events in which one or both muons are produced in the range 1.6 < r {approx}< 10 cm, which is expressed as a fraction (0.40 {+-} 0.26 {+-} 0.53)% of the total dimuon sample. We therefore see no significant excess of muons produced a few centimeters away from the interaction point
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Tevatron Experimental Issues at High Luminosities
In this paper we describe the detector components, triggers and analysis techniques for flavor physics at the Tevatron experiments CDF and D0. As Tevatron performs very well and runs at higher luminosities regularly we also touch issues related to it and efforts to improve detectors and triggers for such running
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Observation of Single Top Quark Production at the Tevatron
This paper reports on the first observation of electroweak production of single top quarks by the D0 and CDF collaborations. At Fermilab's 1.96 TeV proton-antiproton collider, a few thousand events are selected from several inverse femtobarns of data that contain an isolated electron or muon and/or missing transverse energy, together with jets that originate from the decays of b quarks. Using sophisticated multivariate analyses to separate signal from background, the D0 collaboration measures a cross section {sigma} (p{bar p} {yields} tb + X, tqb + X) = 3.94 {+-} 0.88 pb (for a top quark mass of 170 GeV) and the CDF collaboration measures a value of 2.3{sub -0.5}{sup +0.6} pb (for a top quark mass of 175 GeV). These values are consistent with theoretical predictions at next-to-leading order precision. Both measurements have a significance of 5.0 standard deviations, meeting the benchmark to be considered unambiguous observation
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Combination of CDF and D0 Measurements of the Single Top Production Cross Section
We report a combination of the CDF and D0 measurements of the inclusive single top quark production cross section in the s- and t-channels, {sigma}{sub s+t}, in p{bar p} collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The total integrated luminosity included in CDF's analysis is 3.2 fb{sup -1} and D0's analysis has 2.3 fb{sup -1}. A Bayesian analysis is used to extract the cross section from the distributions of multivariate discriminants provided by the collaborations. For a top quark mass m{sub t} = 170 GeV/c{sup 2}, we measure a cross section of 2.76{sub -0.47}{sup +0.58} pb. We extract the CKM matrix element |V{sub tb}| = 0.88 {+-} 0.07 with a 95% C.L. lower limit of |V{sub tb}| > 0.77
NLO-QCD Corrections to Dilepton Production in the Randall-Sundrum Model
The dilepton production process at hadron colliders in the Randall-Sundrum
(RS) model is studied at next-to-leading order in QCD. The NLO-QCD corrections
have been computed for the virtual graviton exchange process in the RS model,
in addition to the usual gamma, Z-mediated processes of standard Drell-Yan.
K-factors for the cross-sections at the LHC and Tevatron for differential in
the invariant mass, Q, and the rapidity, Y, of the lepton pair are presented.
We find the K-factors are large over substantial regions of the phase space.Comment: 24 pages, 12 figure
Lepton Polarization Asymmetry in B l l(bar) decays in R-parity violating Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
We study the implication of R-parity violating Rp Minimal Supersymmetric
Standard Model (MSSM) model in lepton polarization asymmetry ALP in B l l(bar)
decays . The analysis show that the ALP is significant in a certain
phenomenological parametric region of Yukawa couplings. We have also placed
indirect bounds on Lambda' lambda couplings as obtained from B t t(bar).Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures Changes of notation in Eq(8-11,17-19),Eq.20 adde
High Physics at HERA and Searches for New Particles
Preliminary results from H1 and ZEUS on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) at
high momentum transfer squared are presented. Used are all available data accumulated by the H1 and ZEUS experiments between 1994 and 1997,
corresponding to integrated luminosities of and ,
respectively. The anomalies observed at high in the 1994 to 1996 data
still remain, though with less significance. Since this high domain
represents a new frontier in DIS, the same data are used to search for new
particles possessing direct couplings to lepton-quark pairs. Assuming that the
slight excess of events observed in Neutral Current DIS is due to a statistical
fluctuation, preliminary limits on the production of leptoquarks and of squarks
in R-parity violating MSSM are presented.Comment: 14 pages, 12 figures, uses iopart style files, contribution to the
3rd UK Phenomenology Workshop on HERA Physics, Durham, Sep 199
Monte Carlo Exploration of Warped Higgsless Models
We have performed a detailed Monte Carlo exploration of the parameter space
for a warped Higgsless model of electroweak symmetry breaking in 5 dimensions.
This model is based on the gauge group
in an AdS bulk with arbitrary gauge kinetic terms on both the Planck and
TeV branes. Constraints arising from precision electroweak measurements and
collider data are found to be relatively easy to satisfy. We show, however,
that the additional requirement of perturbative unitarity up to the cut-off,
TeV, in elastic scattering in the absence of dangerous
tachyons eliminates all models. If successful models of this class exist, they
must be highly fine-tuned.Comment: 26 pages, 7 figures; new fig and additional text adde
Rare K and B Decays in the Littlest Higgs Model without T-Parity
We analyze rare K and B decays in the Littlest Higgs (LH) model without
T-parity. We find that the final result for the Z^0-penguin contribution
contains a divergence that is generated by the one-loop radiative corrections
to the currents corresponding to the dynamically broken generators. Including
an estimate of these logarithmically enhanced terms, we calculate the branching
ratios for the decays K^+ -> pi^+ nu bar nu, K_L -> pi^0 nu bar nu, B_{s,d} ->
mu^+ mu^- and B -> X_{s,d} nu bar nu. We find that for the high energy scale
f=O(2-3) TeV, as required by the electroweak precision studies, the enhancement
of all branching ratios amounts to at most 15% over the SM values. On the
technical side we identify a number of errors in the existing Feynman rules in
the LH model without T-parity that could have some impact on other analyses
present in the literature. Calculating penguin and box diagrams in the unitary
gauge, we find divergences in both contributions that are cancelled in the sum
except for the divergence mentioned above.Comment: 39 pages, 8 figures, typos corrected, comment on (2.17) and (2.18)
added, references added, results unchange