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Electron identification using the TOPAZ detector at TRISTAN
We present an electron-identification method using the time-projection
chamber and the lead-glass calorimeter in the TOPAZ detector system. Using this
method we have achieved good electron identification against hadron backgrounds
over a wide momentum range in the hadronic events produced by both
single-photon exchange and two-photon processes. Pion-rejection factors and
electron efficiencies were 163 and 68.4\% for high- electrons and 137 and
42.7\% for low- electrons in the single-photon-exchange process, and 8600
and 36.0\% for the two-photon process, respectively.Comment: 32 pages, latex format (article), 24 figures, submitted for
publication
New GUT predictions for quark and lepton mass ratios confronted with phenomenology
Group theoretical factors from GUT symmetry breaking can lead to predictions
for the ratios of quark and lepton masses (or Yukawa couplings) at the
unification scale. Due to supersymmetric (SUSY) threshold corrections the
viability of such predictions can depend strongly on the SUSY parameters. For
three common minimal SUSY breaking scenarios with anomaly, gauge and gravity
mediation we investigate which GUT scale ratios , ,
and are allowed when phenomenological constraints from
electroweak precision observables, physics, , mass-limits on
sparticles from direct searches as well as, optionally, constraints from the
observed dark matter density are taken into account. We derive possible new
predictions for the GUT scale mass ratios and compare them with the
phenomenologically allowed ranges. We find that new GUT scale predictions such
as or 6 and or 2 are often favoured
compared to the ubiquitous relations or . They
are viable for characteristic SUSY scenarios, testable at the CERN LHC and
future colliders.Comment: 33 pages, 5 figures; references added; version to appear in Phys.
Rev.
Inclusive One- and Two-Jet Cross sections in Reactions at Colliders
We have calculated inclusive one-- and two--jet production in photon--photon
collisions superimposing direct, single resolved and double resolved cross
sections for center of mass energies of the LEP1, LEP2 and NLC range. The
direct and single resolved cross sections are calculated up to
next--to--leading order. The double resolved two--jet cross section is
calculated only in LO with a factor estimated from the NLO one--jet cross
section. Various differential cross sections as functions of transverse momenta
and rapidities of the jets are evaluated.Comment: 25 pages, latex, 15 figures appended as uuencoded fil
Measurement of inclusive electron cross section in collisions at TRISTAN
We have studied open charm production in collisions with the
TOPAZ detector at the TRISTAN collider. In this study, charm
quarks were identified by electrons (and positrons) from semi-leptonic decays
of charmed hadrons. The data corresponded to an integrated luminosity of 95.3
pb at a center-of-mass energy of 58 GeV. The results are presented as
the cross sections of inclusive electron production in
collisions with an anti-tag condition, as well as the subprocess cross
sections, which correspond to resolved-photon processes. The latter were
measured by using a sub-sample with remnant jets. A comparison with various
theoretical predictions based on direct and resolved-photon processes showed
that our data prefer that with relatively large gluon contents in a photon at
small , with the next-to-leading order correction, and with a
charm-quark mass of 1.3 GeV.Comment: 26 pages, Latex format (article), 5 figures included, to be published
in Phys. Lett.
On the Determination of the Gluon Density of the Proton from Heavy-Flavour Production at HERA
Using a recent next-to-leading-order calculation of the photoproduction
double differential cross section for heavy quarks, we study the possibility of
extracting the gluon density of the proton from heavy-quark photoproduction
data. We discuss the theoretical uncertainties connected with this method, and
we conclude that they are well under control in a wide domain.Comment: CERN-TH.6864/93, GeF-TH-12/93. Latex, 5 topdrawer figures appended at
the en
Search for neutrinoless tau decays tau -> 3l and tau -> l K0S
Neutrinoless tau-lepton decays into either three leptons (tau- -> l1- l2 l3)
or one lepton and one K0S meson(tau- -> l- K0S) where lepton l means either an
electron or muon, have been searched for using 48.6 fb^{-1} of data collected
with the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- collider. No evidence for candidate
decays are found in any channel. Therefore we set 90% confidence level upper
limits on the branching fraction for 8 different decay modes. These limits are
more stringent than those set previously and reach to the 10^{-7} level.Comment: Invited talk at the Seventh International Workshop on Tau Lepton
Physics (TAU02), Santa Cruz, Ca, USA, Sept 2002, 7 pages, LaTeX, 3 eps
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