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W and Z Cross Sections at the Tevatron
The CDF and D0 experiments at the Tevatron have used p-pbar collisions at
sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV to measure the cross section of W and Z boson production using
several leptonic final states. An indirect measurement of the total W width has
been extracted, and the lepton charge asymmetry in Drell-Yan production has
been studied up to invariant masses of 600 GeV/c^2.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, proceedings of Moriond QCD 2003, Les Arcs 22-29
march 2003, to be published by World Scientific (ed. T.T.Vanh
Recent Results of the CMS Experiment
The CMS collaboration has recently produced results of a number of searches
for new physics processes using data collected during the 2011 run of the Large
Hadron Collider. Up to 5 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collisions at 7
TeV centre-of-mass energy have been used to search for the standard model Higgs
boson in five different decay modes, divided in 42 independent sub-channels.
The combination of the results has allowed CMS to set 95% confidence-level
limits on the Higgs boson mass, constraining it to lay in the region
114.4600 GeV. An excess of events with a local
significance of 3.1 standard deviations is observed for M(H)=124 GeV; the
global significance of observing such an effect anywhere in the search range
110-600 GeV is estimated to be 1.5 standard deviations. A number of signatures
of supersymmetric particles have also been investigated, significantly
restricting the parameter space of natural low-scale theories. A search for the
rare decays of neutral bottom mesons to muon pairs, Bs to mu mu and Bd to mu
mu, has achieved the tightest limits to date, and is approaching the
sensitivity to measure the standard model branching ratios. As it happens,
though, the highly informative results extracted from 2011 data produce more
questions than answers; this doubles expectations for the 2012 run of LHC,
which will conclusively answer several of them.Comment: 33 pages, 20 figures. Contribution to the Proceedings of the 50th
International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, Bormio (Italy) 23-27 January
201
Observation of Z Decays to b Quark Pairs at the Tevatron Collider
A search for Z boson decays to pairs of b-quark jets has been performed in
the full dataset collected with the CDF detector at the Tevatron
proton-antiproton collider. After the selection of a pure sample of bb events
by means of the identification of secondary vertices from b-quark decays, we
have used two kinematic variables to further discriminate the electroweak bb
production from QCD processes, and sought evidence for the Z decay in the dijet
invariant mass distribution. An absolute background prediction allows the
extraction of an excess of events inconsistent with the background predictions
by 3.23 sigma but in good agreement with the amount and characteristics of the
expected signal. We then fit the mass distribution with an unbinned likelihood
technique, and obtain a Z -> bb signal amounting to 91+-30+-19 events.Comment: 12 pages, 8 .eps figure
Charmless and Penguin Decays at CDF
Penguin transitions play a key role in the search of New Physics hints in the
heavy flavor sector. During the last decade CDF has been exploring this
opportunity with a rich study of two--body charmless decays of neutral B mesons
into charged final--state particles. After briefly introducing the aspects of
this physics peculiar to the hadron collision environment, I report on two
interesting results: the first polarization measurement of the B^0_s --> phi
phi decay and the update of the B^0(_s) --> h^+h'^- decays analysis.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of CKM2010, the 6th International
Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, University of Warwick, UK, 6-10
September 201
Measurements of the masses, lifetimes and decay modes of hadrons at Tevatron
The Tevatron provides 1.96 TeV ppbar collisions and allows for collection of
rich b-hadron samples to the two experiments CDF and D0. The study of heavy
flavor properties represents a fruitful opportunity to investigate the flavor
sector of the Standard Model (SM) and to look for hints of New Physics (NP).
Here we report the first measurement of polarization amplitudes in B^0_s
charmless decays, world leading results on b-hadron lifetimes, and measurements
of several other properties of b-hadrons.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, contribution submitted to 45th Rencontres de
Moriond, QCD and High Energy Interactions, La Thuile, March 13-20, 201
Recent heavy flavor results from the Tevatron
The CDF and D0 experiments at the Tevatron ppbar collider have pioneered and
established the role of flavor physics in hadron collisions. A broad program is
now at its full maturity. We report on three new results sensitive to physics
beyond the standard model, obtained using the whole CDF dataset: a measurement
of the difference of CP asymmetries in and decays of
mesons, new bounds on the mixing phase and on the decay width
difference of mass-eigenstates, and an update of the summer 2011 search
for mesons decaying into pairs of muons. Finally, the D0 confirmation
of the observation of a new hadron, the state, is briefly
mentioned.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, contribution submitted to 47th Rencontres de
Moriond, QCD and High Energy Interactions, La Thuile, March 10-17, 201
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