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Scaling in many-body systems and proton structure function
The observation of scaling in processes in which a weakly interacting probe
delivers large momentum to a many-body system simply reflects the
dominance of incoherent scattering off target constituents. While a suitably
defined scaling function may provide rich information on the internal dynamics
of the target, in general its extraction from the measured cross section
requires careful consideration of the nature of the interaction driving the
scattering process. The analysis of deep inelastic electron-proton scattering
in the target rest frame within standard many-body theory naturally leads to
the emergence of a scaling function that, unlike the commonly used structure
functions and , can be directly identified with the intrinsic proton
response.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Recent
Progress in Many-Body Theories, Manchester, UK, July 9-13 200
Four-jet angular distributions and color charge measurements: leading order versus next-to-leading order
We present the next-to-leading order perturbative QCD prediction to the
four-jet angular distributions used by experimental collaborations at LEP for
measuring the QCD color charge factors. We compare our results to ALEPH data
corrected to parton level. We perform a leading order ``measurement'' of the
QCD color factor ratios by fitting the leading order perturbative predictions
to the next-to-leading order result. Our result shows that in an experimental
analysis for measuring the color charge factors the use of the O()
QCD predictions instead of the O() results may shift the center of
the fit by a relative factor of 1+2\as in the direction.Comment: 14 pages, 10 tables, 5 figures, revtex, eps style
The BFKL Pomeron in 2+1 Dimensional QCD
We investigate the high-energy scattering in the spontaneously broken Yang -
Mills gauge theory in 2+1 space--time dimensions and present the exact solution
of the leading BFKL equation. The solution is constructed in terms of
special functions using the earlier results of two of us (L.N.L. and L.S.). The
analytic properties of the -channel partial wave as functions of the angular
momentum and momentum transfer have been studied. We find in the angular
momentum plane: (i) a Regge pole whose trajectory has an intercept larger than
1 and (ii) a fixed cut with the rightmost singularity located at . The
massive Yang - Mills theory can be considered as a theoretical model for the
(non-perturbative) Pomeron. We study the main structure and property of the
solution including the Pomeron trajectory at momentum transfer different from
zero. The relation to the results of M. Li and C-I. Tan for the massless case
is discussed.Comment: 28 pages LATEX, 3 EPS figures include
A FORTRAN code for in SM and MSSM
Through the present paper, the code gamgamZZ is presented, which may be used
to calculate all possible observables related to the process , in either the Standard Model (SM), or the minimal sypersymmetric standard
model (MSSM) with real parameters.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures Revised according to the EPJC Referee suggestion
Search for supersymmetry with a dominant R-parity violating LQDbar couplings in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 130GeV to 172 GeV
A search for pair-production of supersymmetric particles under the assumption
that R-parity is violated via a dominant LQDbar coupling has been performed
using the data collected by ALEPH at centre-of-mass energies of 130-172 GeV.
The observed candidate events in the data are in agreement with the Standard
Model expectation. This result is translated into lower limits on the masses of
charginos, neutralinos, sleptons, sneutrinos and squarks. For instance, for
m_0=500 GeV/c^2 and tan(beta)=sqrt(2) charginos with masses smaller than 81
GeV/c^2 and neutralinos with masses smaller than 29 GeV/c^2 are excluded at the
95% confidence level for any generation structure of the LQDbar coupling.Comment: 32 pages, 30 figure
Search for the Higgs boson in events with missing transverse energy and b quark jets produced in proton-antiproton collisions at s**(1/2)=1.96 TeV
We search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with an
electroweak vector boson in events with no identified charged leptons, large
imbalance in transverse momentum, and two jets where at least one contains a
secondary vertex consistent with the decay of b hadrons. We use ~1 fb-1
integrated luminosity of proton-antiproton collisions at s**(1/2)=1.96 TeV
recorded by the CDF II experiment at the Tevatron. We find 268 (16) single
(double) b-tagged candidate events, where 248 +/- 43 (14.4 +/- 2.7) are
expected from standard model background processes. We place 95% confidence
level upper limits on the Higgs boson production cross section for several
Higgs boson masses ranging from 110 GeV/c2 to 140 GeV/c2. For a mass of 115
GeV/c2 the observed (expected) limit is 20.4 (14.2) times the standard model
prediction.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Precision Top-Quark Mass Measurements at CDF
We present a precision measurement of the top-quark mass using the full
sample of Tevatron TeV proton-antiproton collisions collected
by the CDF II detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 8.7
. Using a sample of candidate events decaying into the
lepton+jets channel, we obtain distributions of the top-quark masses and the
invariant mass of two jets from the boson decays from data. We then compare
these distributions to templates derived from signal and background samples to
extract the top-quark mass and the energy scale of the calorimeter jets with
{\it in situ} calibration. The likelihood fit of the templates from signal and
background events to the data yields the single most-precise measurement of the
top-quark mass, \mtop = 172.85 \pm\pmComment: submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Evidence for t\bar{t}\gamma Production and Measurement of \sigma_t\bar{t}\gamma / \sigma_t\bar{t}
Using data corresponding to 6.0/fb of ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
collected by the CDF II detector, we present a cross section measurement of
top-quark pair production with an additional radiated photon. The events are
selected by looking for a lepton, a photon, significant transverse momentum
imbalance, large total transverse energy, and three or more jets, with at least
one identified as containing a b quark. The ttbar+photon sample requires the
photon to have 10 GeV or more of transverse energy, and to be in the central
region. Using an event selection optimized for the ttbar+photon candidate
sample we measure the production cross section of, and the ratio of cross
sections of the two samples. Control samples in the dilepton+photon and
lepton+photon+\met, channels are constructed to aid in decay product
identification and background measurements. We observe 30 ttbar+photon
candidate events compared to the standard model expectation of 26.9 +/- 3.4
events. We measure the ttbar+photon cross section to be 0.18+0.08 pb, and the
ratio of the cross section of ttbar+photon to ttbar to be 0.024 +/- 0.009.
Assuming no ttbar+photon production, we observe a probability of 0.0015 of the
background events alone producing 30 events or more, corresponding to 3.0
standard deviations.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
A search for resonant production of pairs in $4.8\ \rm{fb}^{-1}p\bar{p}\sqrt{s}=1.96\ \rm{TeV}$
We search for resonant production of tt pairs in 4.8 fb^{-1} integrated
luminosity of ppbar collision data at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV in the lepton+jets decay
channel, where one top quark decays leptonically and the other hadronically. A
matrix element reconstruction technique is used; for each event a probability
density function (pdf) of the ttbar candidate invariant mass is sampled. These
pdfs are used to construct a likelihood function, whereby the cross section for
resonant ttbar production is estimated, given a hypothetical resonance mass and
width. The data indicate no evidence of resonant production of ttbar pairs. A
benchmark model of leptophobic Z \rightarrow ttbar is excluded with m_{Z'} <
900 GeV at 95% confidence level.Comment: accepted for publication in Physical Review D Sep 21, 201
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