153 research outputs found

    Measurement of charged-particle multiplicities in gluon and quark jets in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV

    Get PDF
    We report the first largely model independent measurement of charged particle multiplicities in quark and gluon jets, N-q and N-g, produced at the Fermilab Tevatron in p (p) over bar collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 1.8 TeV and recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. The measurements are made for jets with average energies of 41 and 53 GeV by counting charged particle tracks in cones with opening angles of θ(c)=0.28, 0.36, and 0.47 rad around the jet axis. The corresponding jet hardness Q=E-jetθ(c) varies in the range from 12 to 25 GeV. At Q=19.2 GeV, the ratio of multiplicities r=N-g/N-q is found to be 1.64± 0.17, where statistical and systematic uncertainties are added in quadrature. The results are in agreement with resummed perturbative QCD calculations

    Measurement of the B- and (B)over-bar(0) meson lifetimes using semileptonic decays

    No full text
    The lifetimes of the B- and (B) over bar(0) mesons an measured using the partially reconstructed semileptonic decays (B) over bar --> Dl(-)<(nu)over bar>X, where D is either a D-0 or D*+ meson. The data were collected by the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider during 1992-1995 and correspond to about 110 pb(-1) of (p) over bar p collisions at root s = 1.8 TeV. We measure decay lengths and extract the lifetimes to be tau(B-) = 1.637 +/- 0.058(-0.043)(+0.045) ps and tau((B) over bar(0)) = 1.474 +/- 0.039(-0.051)(+0.052) ps, and the ratio of the lifetimes to be tau(B-)/tau((B) over bar(0)) = 1.110 +/- 0.056(+0.030)(+0.033), where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. [S0556-2821(98)08419-7]

    Search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay D-0 ->mu(+)mu(-) in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV

    Get PDF
    We report on a search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay D^0\to\mu^+\mu^- in p\bar{p} collisions at \sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV using 65\ipb of data collected by the CDF II experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. A displaced-track trigger selects long-lived D^0 candidates in the D^0\to\mu^+\mu^- search channel, the kinematically similar D^0\to\pi^+\pi^- channel used for normalization, the Cabbibo-favored D^0\to K^+\pi^- channel used to optimize the selection criteria in an unbiased manner, and their charge conjugates. Finding no signal events in the D^0\to\mu^+\mu^- search window, we set an upper limit on the branching fraction {\cal B}(D^0\to\mu^+\mu^-)\leq 2.5E-6 (3.3E-6) at the 90% (95%) confidence level.Comment: 14 pages, 2 postscript figures, RevTeX, submitted to Phys. Rev. D rapid com

    A global approach for natural history museum collections

    No full text
    International audienceIntegration of the world’s natural history collections can provide a resource for decision-maker
    corecore