Search for Dijet Resonances in 7 TeV pp Collisions at CMS (vol 105, 211801, 2010)

Publisher’s Note: Search for Dijet Resonances in 7 TeV pp Collisions at CMS [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 211801 (2010)

Search for Z \u27 -\u3e e(+) e(-) using dielectron mass and angular distribution

We search for Z(\u27) bosons in dielectron events produced in p (p) over bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, using 0.45 fb(-1) of data accumulated with the Collider Detector at Fermilab II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. To identify the Z(\u27)-\u3e e(+)e(-) signal, both the dielectron invariant mass distribution and the angular distribution of the electron pair are used. No evidence of a signal is found, and 95% confidence level lower limits are set on the Z(\u27) mass for several models. Limits are also placed on the mass and gauge coupling of a generic Z(\u27), as well as on the contact-interaction mass scales for different helicity structure scenarios

Search for Z ' -> e(+) e(-) using dielectron mass and angular distribution

We search for Z(') bosons in dielectron events produced in p (p) over bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, using 0.45 fb(-1) of data accumulated with the Collider Detector at Fermilab II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. To identify the Z(')-> e(+)e(-) signal, both the dielectron invariant mass distribution and the angular distribution of the electron pair are used. No evidence of a signal is found, and 95% confidence level lower limits are set on the Z(') mass for several models. Limits are also placed on the mass and gauge coupling of a generic Z('), as well as on the contact-interaction mass scales for different helicity structure scenarios

Direct measurement of the W boson width in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV

A direct measurement of the total decay width of the W boson Gamma(W) is presented using 350 pb(-1) of data from p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The width is determined by normalizing predicted signal and background distributions to 230 185 W candidates decaying to e nu and mu nu in the transverse-mass region 50 < M(T) < 90 GeV and then fitting the predicted shape to 6055 events in the high-M(T) region, 90 < M(T) < 200 GeV. The result is Gamma(W) = 2032 +/- 45(stat) +/- 57(syst) MeV, consistent with the standard model expectation

Search for Z ' -&gt; e(+) e(-) using dielectron mass and angular distribution

We search for Z' bosons in dielectron events produced in pp collisions at square root of s = 1.96 TeV, using 0.45 fb(-1) of data accumulated with the Collider Detector at Fermilab II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. To identify the Z' --&gt; e+ e- signal, both the dielectron invariant mass distribution and the angular distribution of the electron pair are used. No evidence of a signal is found, and 95% confidence level lower limits are set on the Z' mass for several models. Limits are also placed on the mass and gauge coupling of a generic Z', as well as on the contact-interaction mass scales for different helicity structure scenarios

Ab-initio computation of superconducting properties of elemental superconductors and MgB2

We present ab-initio predictions of superconducting properties of some elemental superconductors and of MgB2, based on the Super-Conducting Density Functional theory (SC-DFT). This formalism allows a description of superconducting properties at thermal equilibrium by means of three “densities”: the ordinary electron density, the superconducting order parameter, and the diagonal of the nuclear N-body density matrix. These quantities are determined through self-consistent solutions of Bogoliubov-de Gennes Kohn-Sham like equations, involving exchange-correlation potentials which are universal functionals of the three above-mentioned quantities. By means of approximate expressions for the relevant functionals, we obtain an ab-initio description of the superconducting state, completely free of empirical parameters. The results of our present implementation of SC-DFT for selected materials are discussed in terms of superconducting energy gap, critical temperature and specific heat, and compared with experiments