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Rehwinkel J, Maelfait J, Rigby R, Bridgeman A, Reis e Sousa C. SAMHD1-dependent retroviral control and escape in mice. Retrovirology 2013. [PMCID: PMC3848126 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-10-s1-p70] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Agakishiev G, Aggarwal MM, Ahammed Z, Alakhverdyants AV, Alekseev I, Alford J, Anderson BD, Anson CD, Arkhipkin D, Averichev GS, Balewski J, Barnby LS, Beavis DR, Behera NK, Bellwied R, Betancourt MJ, Betts RR, Bhasin A, Bhati AK, Bichsel H, Bielcik J, Bielcikova J, Bland LC, Bordyuzhin IG, Borowski W, Bouchet J, Braidot E, Brandin AV, Bridgeman A, Brovko SG, Bruna E, Bueltmann S, Bunzarov I, Burton TP, Cai XZ, Caines H, Sánchez MCDLB, Cebra D, Cendejas R, Cervantes MC, Chaloupka P, Chattopadhyay S, Chen HF, Chen JH, Chen JY, Chen L, Cheng J, Cherney M, Chikanian A, Choi KE, Christie W, Chung P, Codrington MJM, Corliss R, Cramer JG, Crawford HJ, Cui X, Leyva AD, De Silva LC, Debbe RR, Dedovich TG, Deng J, Derevschikov AA, de Souza RD, Didenko L, Djawotho P, Dogra SM, Dong X, Drachenberg JL, Draper JE, Du CM, Dunlop JC, Efimov LG, Elnimr M, Engelage J, Eppley G, Estienne M, Eun L, Evdokimov O, Fatemi R, Fedorisin J, Fersch RG, Filip P, Finch E, Fine V, Fisyak Y, Gagliardi CA, Gangadharan DR, Geurts F, Ghosh P, Gorbunov YN, Gordon A, Grebenyuk OG, Grosnick D, Gupta A, Gupta S, Guryn W, Haag B, Hajkova O, Hamed A, Han LX, Harris JW, Hays-Wehle JP, Heinz M, Heppelmann S, Hirsch A, Hjort E, Hoffmann GW, Hofman DJ, Huang B, Huang HZ, Humanic TJ, Huo L, Igo G, Jacobs P, Jacobs WW, Jena C, Jin F, Jones PG, Joseph J, Judd EG, Kabana S, Kang K, Kapitan J, Kauder K, Ke HW, Keane D, Kechechyan A, Kettler D, Kikola DP, Kiryluk J, Kisiel A, Kizka V, Klein SR, Knospe AG, Koetke DD, Kollegger T, Konzer J, Koralt I, Koroleva L, Korsch W, Kotchenda L, Kouchpil V, Kravtsov P, Krueger K, Krus M, Kumar L, Lamont MAC, Landgraf JM, LaPointe S, Lauret J, Lebedev A, Lednicky R, Lee JH, Leight W, LeVine MJ, Li C, Li L, Li N, Li W, Li X, Li X, Li Y, Li ZM, Lima LM, Lisa MA, Liu F, Liu H, Liu J, Ljubicic T, Llope WJ, Longacre RS, Lu Y, Lukashov EV, Luo X, Ma GL, Ma YG, Mahapatra DP, Majka R, Mall OI, Manweiler R, Margetis S, Markert C, Masui H, Matis HS, McDonald D, McShane TS, Meschanin A, Milner R, Minaev NG, Mioduszewski S, Mitrovski MK, Mohammed Y, Mohanty B, Mondal MM, Morozov B, Morozov DA, Munhoz MG, Mustafa MK, Naglis M, Nandi BK, Nayak TK, Nelson JM, Nogach LV, Nurushev SB, Odyniec G, Ogawa A, Oh K, Ohlson A, Okorokov V, Oldag EW, Oliveira RAN, Olson D, Pachr M, Page BS, Pal SK, Pandit Y, Panebratsev Y, Pawlak T, Pei H, Peitzmann T, Perkins C, Peryt W, Pile P, Planinic M, Ploskon MA, Pluta J, Plyku D, Poljak N, Porter J, Poskanzer AM, Potukuchi BVKS, Powell CB, Prindle D, Pruneau C, Pruthi NK, Pujahari PR, Putschke J, Qiu H, Raniwala R, Raniwala S, Ray RL, Redwine R, Reed R, Ritter HG, Roberts JB, Rogachevskiy OV, Romero JL, Ruan L, Rusnak J, Sahoo NR, Sakrejda I, Salur S, Sandweiss J, Sangaline E, Sarkar A, Schambach J, Scharenberg RP, Schaub J, Schmah AM, Schmitz N, Schuster TR, Seele J, Seger J, Selyuzhenkov I, Seyboth P, Shah N, Shahaliev E, Shao M, Sharma M, Shi SS, Shou QY, Sichtermann EP, Simon F, Singaraju RN, Skoby MJ, Smirnov N, Solanki D, Sorensen P, deSouza UG, Spinka HM, Srivastava B, Stanislaus TDS, Steadman SG, Stevens JR, Stock R, Strikhanov M, Stringfellow B, Suaide AAP, Suarez MC, Subba NL, Sumbera M, Sun XM, Sun Y, Sun Z, Surrow B, Svirida DN, Symons TJM, de Toledo AS, Takahashi J, Tang AH, Tang Z, Tarini LH, Tarnowsky T, Thein D, Thomas JH, Tian J, Timmins AR, Tlusty D, Tokarev M, Trainor TA, Trentalange S, Tribble RE, Tribedy P, Trzeciak BA, Tsai OD, Ullrich T, Underwood DG, Van Buren G, van Nieuwenhuizen G, Vanfossen JA, Varma R, Vasconcelos GMS, Vasiliev AN, Videbæk F, Viyogi YP, Vokal S, Voloshin SA, Wada M, Walker M, Wang F, Wang G, Wang H, Wang JS, Wang Q, Wang XL, Wang Y, Webb G, Webb JC, Westfall GD, Whitten C, Wieman H, Wissink SW, Witt R, Witzke W, Wu YF, Xiao Z, Xie W, Xu H, Xu N, Xu QH, Xu W, Xu Y, Xu Z, Xue L, Yang Y, Yang Y, Yepes P, Yip K, Yoo IK, Zawisza M, Zbroszczyk H, Zhan W, Zhang JB, Zhang S, Zhang WM, Zhang XP, Zhang Y, Zhang ZP, Zhao F, Zhao J, Zhong C, Zhu X, Zhu YH, Zoulkarneeva Y. Strangeness enhancement in Cu-Cu and Au-Au collisions at √S(NN)=200 GeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2012; 108:072301. [PMID: 22401196 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.108.072301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We report new STAR measurements of midrapidity yields for the Λ, Λ[over ¯], K(S)(0), Ξ(-), Ξ[over ¯](+), Ω(-), Ω[over ¯](+) particles in Cu+Cu collisions at √S(NN)==200 GeV, and midrapidity yields for the Λ, Λ[over ¯], K(S)(0) particles in Au+Au at √S(NN)==200 GeV. We show that, at a given number of participating nucleons, the production of strange hadrons is higher in Cu+Cu collisions than in Au+Au collisions at the same center-of-mass energy. We find that aspects of the enhancement factors for all particles can be described by a parametrization based on the fraction of participants that undergo multiple collisions.
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Rosario M, Borthwick N, Stewart-Jones GB, Mbewe-Mvula A, Bridgeman A, Colloca S, Montefiori D, McMichael AJ, Nicosia A, Quakkelaar ED, Drijfhout JW, Melief CJ, Hanke T. Prime-boost regimens with adjuvanted synthetic long peptides elicit T cells and antibodies to conserved regions of HIV-1 in macaques. AIDS 2012; 26:275-84. [PMID: 22095198 DOI: 10.1097/qad.0b013e32834ed9b2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Administration of synthetic long peptides (SLPs) derived from human papillomavirus to cervical cancer patients resulted in clinical benefit correlated with expansions of tumour-specific T cells. Because vaginal mucosa is an important port of entry for HIV-1, we have explored SLP for HIV-1 vaccination. Using immunogen HIVconsv derived from the conserved regions of HIV-1, we previously showed in rhesus macaques that SLP.HIVconsv delivered as a boost increased the breath of T-cell specificities elicited by single-gene vaccines. Here, we compared and characterized the use of electroporated pSG2.HIVconsv DNA (D) and imiquimod/montanide-adjuvanted SLP.HIVconsv (S) as priming vaccines for boosting with attenuated chimpanzee adenovirus ChAdV63.HIVconsv (C) and modified vaccinia virus Ankara MVA.HIVconsv (M). DESIGN Prime-boost regimens of DDDCMS, DSSCMS and SSSCMS in rhesus macaques. METHODS Animals' blood was analysed regularly throughout the vaccination for HIV-1-specific T-cell and antibody responses. RESULTS We found that electroporation spares DNA dose, both SLP.HIVconsv and pSG2.HIVconsv DNA primed weakly HIVconsv-specific T cells, regimen DDDCM induced the highest frequencies of oligofunctional, proliferating CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells, and a subsequent SLP.HIVconsv boost expanded primarily CD4(+) cells. DSS was the most efficient regimen inducing antibodies binding to regions of trimeric HIV-1 Env, which are highly conserved among the four major global clades, although no unequivocal neutralizing activity was detected. CONCLUSION The present results encourage evaluation of the SLP.HIVconsv vaccine modality in human volunteers along the currently trialled pSG2.HIVconsv DNA, ChAdV63.HIVconsv and MVA.HIVconsv vaccines. These results are discussed in the context of the RV144 trial outcome.
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Hopkins R, Bridgeman A, Bourne C, Mbewe-Mvula A, Sadoff JC, Both GW, Joseph J, Fulkerson J, Hanke T. Optimizing HIV-1-specific CD8+ T-cell induction by recombinant BCG in prime-boost regimens with heterologous viral vectors. Eur J Immunol 2011; 41:3542-52. [PMID: 21932450 DOI: 10.1002/eji.201141962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2011] [Revised: 08/18/2011] [Accepted: 09/12/2011] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The desire to induce HIV-1-specific responses soon after birth to prevent breast milk transmission of HIV-1 led us to propose a vaccine regimen which primes HIV-1-specific T cells using a recombinant Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (rBCG) vaccine. Because attenuated live bacterial vaccines are typically not sufficiently immunogenic as stand-alone vaccines, rBCG-primed T cells will likely require boost immunization(s). Here, we compared modified Danish (AERAS-401) and Pasteur lysine auxotroph (222) strains of BCG expressing the immunogen HIVA for their potency to prime HIV-1-specific responses in adult BALB/c mice and examined four heterologous boosting HIVA vaccines for their immunogenic synergy. We found that both BCG.HIVA(401) and BCG.HIVA(222) primed HIV-1-specific CD8(+) T-cell-mediated responses. The strongest boosts were delivered by human adenovirus-vectored HAdV5.HIVA and sheep atadenovirus-vectored OAdV7.HIVA vaccines, followed by poxvirus MVA.HIVA; the weakest was plasmid pTH.HIVA DNA. The prime-boost regimens induced T cells capable of efficient in vivo killing of sensitized target cells. We also observed that the BCG.HIVA(401) and BCG.HIVA(222) vaccines have broadly similar immunologic properties, but display a number of differences mainly detected through distinct profiles of soluble intercellular signaling molecules produced by immune splenocytes in response to both HIV-1- and BCG-specific stimuli. These results encourage further development of the rBCG prime-boost regimen.
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Im EJ, Hong JP, Roshorm Y, Bridgeman A, Létourneau S, Liljeström P, Potash MJ, Volsky DJ, McMichael AJ, Hanke T. Protective efficacy of serially up-ranked subdominant CD8+ T cell epitopes against virus challenges. PLoS Pathog 2011; 7:e1002041. [PMID: 21625575 PMCID: PMC3098219 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2010] [Accepted: 03/08/2011] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Immunodominance in T cell responses to complex antigens like viruses is still incompletely understood. Some data indicate that the dominant responses to viruses are not necessarily the most protective, while other data imply that dominant responses are the most important. The issue is of considerable importance to the rational design of vaccines, particularly against variable escaping viruses like human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and hepatitis C virus. Here, we showed that sequential inactivation of dominant epitopes up-ranks the remaining subdominant determinants. Importantly, we demonstrated that subdominant epitopes can induce robust responses and protect against whole viruses if they are allowed at least once in the vaccination regimen to locally or temporally dominate T cell induction. Therefore, refocusing T cell immune responses away from highly variable determinants recognized during natural virus infection towards subdominant, but conserved regions is possible and merits evaluation in humans.
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Hopkins R, Bridgeman A, Joseph J, Gilbert SC, McShane H, Hanke T. Dual neonate vaccine platform against HIV-1 and M. tuberculosis. PLoS One 2011; 6:e20067. [PMID: 21603645 PMCID: PMC3094449 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2011] [Accepted: 04/20/2011] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and tuberculosis (TB) are two of the
world's most devastating diseases. The first vaccine the majority of
infants born in Africa receive is Mycobacterium bovis bacillus
Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as a prevention against TB. BCG protects against
disseminated disease in the first 10 years of life, but provides a variable
protection against pulmonary TB and enhancing boost delivered by recombinant
modified vaccinia virus Ankara (rMVA) expressing antigen 85A (Ag85A) of
M. tuberculosis is currently in phase IIb evaluation in
African neonates. If the newborn's mother is positive for human
immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the baby is at high risk of acquiring
HIV-1 through breastfeeding. We suggested that a vaccination consisting of
recombinant BCG expressing HIV-1 immunogen administered at birth followed by a
boost with rMVA sharing the same immunogen could serve as a strategy for
prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 and rMVA expressing an
African HIV-1-derived immunogen HIVA is currently in phase I trials in African
neonates. Here, we aim to develop a dual neonate vaccine platform against HIV-1
and TB consisting of BCG.HIVA administered at birth followed by a boost with
MVA.HIVA.85A. Thus, mMVA.HIVA.85A and sMVA.HIVA.85A vaccines were constructed,
in which the transgene transcription is driven by either modified H5 or short
synthetic promoters, respectively, and tested for immunogenicity alone and in
combination with BCG.HIVA222. mMVA.HIVA.85A was produced markerless
and thus suitable for clinical manufacture. While sMVA.HIVA.85A expressed higher
levels of the immunogens, it was less immunogenic than mMVA.HIVA.85A in BALB/c
mice. A BCG.HIVA222–mMVA.HIVA.85A prime-boost regimen induced
robust T cell responses to both HIV-1 and M. tuberculosis.
Therefore, proof-of-principle for a dual anti-HIV-1/M.
tuberculosis infant vaccine platform is established. Induction of
immune responses against these pathogens soon after birth is highly desirable
and may provide a basis for lifetime protection maintained by boosts later in
life.
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Aggarwal MM, Ahammed Z, Alakhverdyants AV, Alekseev I, Alford J, Anderson BD, Anson CD, Arkhipkin D, Averichev GS, Balewski J, Beavis DR, Bellwied R, Betancourt MJ, Betts RR, Bhasin A, Bhati AK, Bichsel H, Bielcik J, Bielcikova J, Biritz B, Bland LC, Borowski W, Bouchet J, Braidot E, Brandin AV, Bridgeman A, Brovko SG, Bruna E, Bueltmann S, Bunzarov I, Burton TP, Cai XZ, Caines H, Calderón de la Barca Sánchez M, Cebra D, Cendejas R, Cervantes MC, Chajecki Z, Chaloupka P, Chattopadhyay S, Chen HF, Chen JH, Chen JY, Cheng J, Cherney M, Chikanian A, Choi KE, Christie W, Chung P, Codrington MJM, Corliss R, Cramer JG, Crawford HJ, Dash S, Davila Leyva A, De Silva LC, Debbe RR, Dedovich TG, Derevschikov AA, Derradi de Souza R, Didenko L, Djawotho P, Dogra SM, Dong X, Drachenberg JL, Draper JE, Dunlop JC, Dutta Mazumdar MR, Efimov LG, Elnimr M, Engelage J, Eppley G, Erazmus B, Estienne M, Eun L, Evdokimov O, Fatemi R, Fedorisin J, Fersch RG, Finch E, Fine V, Fisyak Y, Gagliardi CA, Gangadharan DR, Ganti MS, Geromitsos A, Geurts F, Ghosh P, Gorbunov YN, Gordon A, Grebenyuk O, Grosnick D, Guertin SM, Gupta A, Guryn W, Haag B, Hamed A, Han LX, Harris JW, Hays-Wehle JP, Heinz M, Heppelmann S, Hirsch A, Hjort E, Hoffmann GW, Hofman DJ, Huang B, Huang HZ, Humanic TJ, Huo L, Igo G, Jacobs P, Jacobs WW, Jena C, Jin F, Joseph J, Judd EG, Kabana S, Kang K, Kapitan J, Kauder K, Keane D, Kechechyan A, Kettler D, Kikola DP, Kiryluk J, Kisiel A, Kizka V, Klein SR, Knospe AG, Kocoloski A, Koetke DD, Kollegger T, Konzer J, Koralt I, Koroleva L, Korsch W, Kotchenda L, Kouchpil V, Kravtsov P, Krueger K, Krus M, Kumar L, Kurnadi P, Lamont MAC, Landgraf JM, LaPointe S, Lauret J, Lebedev A, Lednicky R, Lee CH, Lee JH, Leight W, LeVine MJ, Li C, Li L, Li N, Li W, Li X, Li X, Li Y, Li ZM, Lisa MA, Liu F, Liu H, Liu J, Ljubicic T, Llope WJ, Longacre RS, Love WA, Lu Y, Lukashov EV, Luo X, Ma GL, Ma YG, Mahapatra DP, Majka R, Mall OI, Mangotra LK, Manweiler R, Margetis S, Markert C, Masui H, Matis HS, Matulenko YA, McDonald D, McShane TS, Meschanin A, Milner R, Minaev NG, Mioduszewski S, Mischke A, Mitrovski MK, Mohanty B, Mondal MM, Morozov B, Morozov DA, Munhoz MG, Naglis M, Nandi BK, Nayak TK, Netrakanti PK, Ng MJ, Nogach LV, Nurushev SB, Odyniec G, Ogawa A, Ohlson A, Okorokov V, Oldag EW, Olson D, Pachr M, Page BS, Pal SK, Pandit Y, Panebratsev Y, Pawlak T, Peitzmann T, Perkins C, Peryt W, Phatak SC, Pile P, Planinic M, Ploskon MA, Pluta J, Plyku D, Poljak N, Poskanzer AM, Potukuchi BVKS, Powell CB, Prindle D, Pruneau C, Pruthi NK, Pujahari PR, Putschke J, Qiu H, Raniwala R, Raniwala S, Ray RL, Redwine R, Reed R, Ritter HG, Roberts JB, Rogachevskiy OV, Romero JL, Rose A, Ruan L, Sakai S, Sakrejda I, Sakuma T, Salur S, Sandweiss J, Sangaline E, Schambach J, Scharenberg RP, Schmah AM, Schmitz N, Schuster TR, Seele J, Seger J, Selyuzhenkov I, Seyboth P, Shahaliev E, Shao M, Sharma M, Shi SS, Sichtermann EP, Simon F, Singaraju RN, Skoby MJ, Smirnov N, Sorensen P, Spinka HM, Srivastava B, Stanislaus TDS, Staszak D, Stevens JR, Stock R, Strikhanov M, Stringfellow B, Suaide AAP, Suarez MC, Subba NL, Sumbera M, Sun XM, Sun Y, Sun Z, Surrow B, Svirida DN, Symons TJM, Szanto de Toledo A, Takahashi J, Tang AH, Tang Z, Tarini LH, Tarnowsky T, Thein D, Thomas JH, Tian J, Timmins AR, Timoshenko S, Tlusty D, Tokarev M, Trainor TA, Tram VN, Trentalange S, Tribble RE, Tsai OD, Ullrich T, Underwood DG, Van Buren G, van Leeuwen M, van Nieuwenhuizen G, Vanfossen JA, Varma R, Vasconcelos GMS, Vasiliev AN, Videbæk F, Viyogi YP, Vokal S, Voloshin SA, Wada M, Walker M, Wang F, Wang G, Wang H, Wang JS, Wang Q, Wang XL, Wang Y, Webb G, Webb JC, Westfall GD, Whitten C, Wieman H, Wissink SW, Witt R, Wu YF, Xie W, Xu H, Xu N, Xu QH, Xu W, Xu Y, Xu Z, Xue L, Yang Y, Yepes P, Yip K, Yoo IK, Yue Q, Zawisza M, Zbroszczyk H, Zhan W, Zhang JB, Zhang S, Zhang WM, Zhang XP, Zhang Y, Zhang ZP, Zhao J, Zhong C, Zhou W, Zhu X, Zhu YH, Zoulkarneev R, Zoulkarneeva Y. Measurement of the parity-violating longitudinal single-spin asymmetry for W± boson production in polarized proton-proton collisions at sqrt[s] = 500 GeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2011; 106:062002. [PMID: 21405460 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.062002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We report the first measurement of the parity-violating single-spin asymmetries for midrapidity decay positrons and electrons from W+ and W- boson production in longitudinally polarized proton-proton collisions at sqrt[s] = 500 GeV by the STAR experiment at RHIC. The measured asymmetries, A(L)(W+) = -0.27 ± 0.10(stat.) ± 0.02(syst.) ± 0.03(norm.) and A(L)(W-) = 0.14 ± 0.19(stat.) ± 0.02(syst.) ± 0.01(norm.), are consistent with theory predictions, which are large and of opposite sign. These predictions are based on polarized quark and antiquark distribution functions constrained by polarized deep-inelastic scattering measurements.
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Aggarwal MM, Ahammed Z, Alakhverdyants AV, Alekseev I, Alford J, Anderson BD, Anson D, Arkhipkin D, Averichev GS, Balewski J, Barnby LS, Baumgart S, Beavis DR, Bellwied R, Betancourt MJ, Betts RR, Bhasin A, Bhati AK, Bichsel H, Bielcik J, Bielcikova J, Biritz B, Bland LC, Bonner BE, Bouchet J, Braidot E, Brandin AV, Bridgeman A, Bruna E, Bueltmann S, Bunzarov I, Burton TP, Cai XZ, Caines H, Calderón de la Barca Sánchez M, Catu O, Cebra D, Cendejas R, Cervantes MC, Chajecki Z, Chaloupka P, Chattopadhyay S, Chen HF, Chen JH, Chen JY, Cheng J, Cherney M, Chikanian A, Choi KE, Christie W, Chung P, Clarke RF, Codrington MJM, Corliss R, Cramer JG, Crawford HJ, Das D, Dash S, Davila Leyva A, De Silva LC, Debbe RR, Dedovich TG, Derevschikov AA, Derradi de Souza R, Didenko L, Djawotho P, Dogra SM, Dong X, Drachenberg JL, Draper JE, Dunlop JC, Dutta Mazumdar MR, Efimov LG, Elhalhuli E, Elnimr M, Engelage J, Eppley G, Erazmus B, Estienne M, Eun L, Evdokimov O, Fachini P, Fatemi R, Fedorisin J, Fersch RG, Filip P, Finch E, Fine V, Fisyak Y, Gagliardi CA, Gangadharan DR, Ganti MS, Garcia-Solis EJ, Geromitsos A, Geurts F, Ghazikhanian V, Ghosh P, Gorbunov YN, Gordon A, Grebenyuk O, Grosnick D, Guertin SM, Gupta A, Guryn W, Haag B, Hamed A, Han LX, Harris JW, Hays-Wehle JP, Heinz M, Heppelmann S, Hirsch A, Hjort E, Hoffman AM, Hoffmann GW, Hofman DJ, Huang B, Huang HZ, Humanic TJ, Huo L, Igo G, Jacobs P, Jacobs WW, Jena C, Jin F, Jones CL, Jones PG, Joseph J, Judd EG, Kabana S, Kajimoto K, Kang K, Kapitan J, Kauder K, Keane D, Kechechyan A, Kettler D, Kikola DP, Kiryluk J, Kisiel A, Kizka V, Klein SR, Knospe AG, Kocoloski A, Koetke DD, Kollegger T, Konzer J, Koralt I, Koroleva L, Korsch W, Kotchenda L, Kouchpil V, Kravtsov P, Krueger K, Krus M, Kumar L, Kurnadi P, Lamont MAC, Landgraf JM, Lapointe S, Lauret J, Lebedev A, Lednicky R, Lee CH, Lee JH, Leight W, Levine MJ, Li C, Li L, Li N, Li W, Li X, Li X, Li Y, Li ZM, Lin G, Lin XY, Lindenbaum SJ, Lisa MA, Liu F, Liu H, Liu J, Ljubicic T, Llope WJ, Longacre RS, Love WA, Lu Y, Lukashov EV, Luo X, Ma GL, Ma YG, Mahapatra DP, Majka R, Mall OI, Mangotra LK, Manweiler R, Margetis S, Markert C, Masui H, Matis HS, Matulenko YA, McDonald D, McShane TS, Meschanin A, Milner R, Minaev NG, Mioduszewski S, Mischke A, Mitrovski MK, Mohanty B, Mondal MM, Morozov B, Morozov DA, Munhoz MG, Nandi BK, Nattrass C, Nayak TK, Nelson JM, Netrakanti PK, Ng MJ, Nogach LV, Nurushev SB, Odyniec G, Ogawa A, Okorokov V, Oldag EW, Olson D, Pachr M, Page BS, Pal SK, Pandit Y, Panebratsev Y, Pawlak T, Peitzmann T, Perevoztchikov V, Perkins C, Peryt W, Phatak SC, Pile P, Planinic M, Ploskon MA, Pluta J, Plyku D, Poljak N, Poskanzer AM, Potukuchi BVKS, Powell CB, Prindle D, Pruneau C, Pruthi NK, Pujahari PR, Putschke J, Qiu H, Raniwala R, Raniwala S, Ray RL, Redwine R, Reed R, Ritter HG, Roberts JB, Rogachevskiy OV, Romero JL, Rose A, Roy C, Ruan L, Sahoo R, Sakai S, Sakrejda I, Sakuma T, Salur S, Sandweiss J, Sangaline E, Schambach J, Scharenberg RP, Schmitz N, Schuster TR, Seele J, Seger J, Selyuzhenkov I, Seyboth P, Shahaliev E, Shao M, Sharma M, Shi SS, Sichtermann EP, Simon F, Singaraju RN, Skoby MJ, Smirnov N, Sorensen P, Sowinski J, Spinka HM, Srivastava B, Stanislaus TDS, Staszak D, Stevens JR, Stock R, Strikhanov M, Stringfellow B, Suaide AAP, Suarez MC, Subba NL, Sumbera M, Sun XM, Sun Y, Sun Z, Surrow B, Svirida DN, Symons TJM, Szanto de Toledo A, Takahashi J, Tang AH, Tang Z, Tarini LH, Tarnowsky T, Thein D, Thomas JH, Tian J, Timmins AR, Timoshenko S, Tlusty D, Tokarev M, Trainor TA, Tram VN, Trentalange S, Tribble RE, Tsai OD, Ulery J, Ullrich T, Underwood DG, Van Buren G, van Leeuwen M, van Nieuwenhuizen G, Vanfossen JA, Varma R, Vasconcelos GMS, Vasiliev AN, Videbaek F, Viyogi YP, Vokal S, Voloshin SA, Wada M, Walker M, Wang F, Wang G, Wang H, Wang JS, Wang Q, Wang XL, Wang Y, Webb G, Webb JC, Westfall GD, Whitten C, Wieman H, Wissink SW, Witt R, Wu YF, Xie W, Xu H, Xu N, Xu QH, Xu W, Xu Y, Xu Z, Xue L, Yang Y, Yepes P, Yip K, Yoo IK, Yue Q, Zawisza M, Zbroszczyk H, Zhan W, Zhang JB, Zhang S, Zhang WM, Zhang XP, Zhang Y, Zhang ZP, Zhao J, Zhong C, Zhou J, Zhou W, Zhu X, Zhu YH, Zoulkarneev R, Zoulkarneeva Y. Measurement of the bottom quark contribution to nonphotonic electron production in p + p collisions at √s=200 GeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 105:202301. [PMID: 21231222 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.202301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The contribution of B meson decays to nonphotonic electrons, which are mainly produced by the semileptonic decays of heavy-flavor mesons, in p + p collisions at √s=200 GeV has been measured using azimuthal correlations between nonphotonic electrons and hadrons. The extracted B decay contribution is approximately 50% at a transverse momentum of pT≥5 GeV/c. These measurements constrain the nuclear modification factor for electrons from B and D meson decays. The result indicates that B meson production in heavy ion collisions is also suppressed at high pT.
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Aaltonen T, Adelman J, Alvarez González B, Amerio S, Amidei D, Anastassov A, Annovi A, Antos J, Apollinari G, Appel J, Apresyan A, Arisawa T, Artikov A, Asaadi J, Ashmanskas W, Attal A, Aurisano A, Azfar F, Badgett W, Barbaro-Galtieri A, Barnes VE, Barnett BA, Barria P, Bartos P, Bauer G, Beauchemin PH, Bedeschi F, Beecher D, Behari S, Bellettini G, Bellinger J, Benjamin D, Beretvas A, Bhatti A, Binkley M, Bisello D, Bizjak I, Blair RE, Blocker C, Blumenfeld B, Bocci A, Bodek A, Boisvert V, Bortoletto D, Boudreau J, Boveia A, Brau B, Bridgeman A, Brigliadori L, Bromberg C, Brubaker E, Budagov J, Budd HS, Budd S, Burkett K, Busetto G, Bussey P, Buzatu A, Byrum KL, Cabrera S, Calancha C, Camarda S, Campanelli M, Campbell M, Canelli F, Canepa A, Carls B, Carlsmith D, Carosi R, Carrillo S, Carron S, Casal B, Casarsa M, Castro A, Catastini P, Cauz D, Cavaliere V, Cavalli-Sforza M, Cerri A, Cerrito L, Chang SH, Chen YC, Chertok M, Chiarelli G, Chlachidze G, Chlebana F, Cho K, Chokheli D, Chou JP, Chung K, Chung WH, Chung YS, Chwalek T, Ciobanu CI, Ciocci MA, Clark A, Clark D, Compostella G, Convery ME, Conway J, Corbo M, Cordelli M, Cox CA, Cox DJ, Crescioli F, Cuenca Almenar C, Cuevas J, Culbertson R, Cully JC, Dagenhart D, d'Ascenzo N, Datta M, Davies T, de Barbaro P, De Cecco S, Deisher A, De Lorenzo G, Dell'Orso M, Deluca C, Demortier L, Deng J, Deninno M, d'Errico M, Di Canto A, Di Ruzza B, Dittmann JR, D'Onofrio M, Donati S, Dong P, Dorigo T, Dube S, Ebina K, Elagin A, Erbacher R, Errede D, Errede S, Ershaidat N, Eusebi R, Fang HC, Farrington S, Fedorko WT, Feild RG, Feindt M, Fernandez JP, Ferrazza C, Field R, Flanagan G, Forrest R, Frank MJ, Franklin M, Freeman JC, Furic I, Gallinaro M, Galyardt J, Garberson F, Garcia JE, Garfinkel AF, Garosi P, Gerberich H, Gerdes D, Gessler A, Giagu S, Giakoumopoulou V, Giannetti P, Gibson K, Gimmell JL, Ginsburg CM, Giokaris N, Giordani M, Giromini P, Giunta M, Giurgiu G, Glagolev V, Glenzinski D, Gold M, Goldschmidt N, Golossanov A, Gomez G, Gomez-Ceballos G, Goncharov M, González O, Gorelov I, Goshaw AT, Goulianos K, Gresele A, Grinstein S, Grosso-Pilcher C, Group RC, Grundler U, Guimaraes da Costa J, Gunay-Unalan Z, Haber C, Hahn SR, Halkiadakis E, Han BY, Han JY, Happacher F, Hara K, Hare D, Hare M, Harr RF, Hartz M, Hatakeyama K, Hays C, Heck M, Heinrich J, Herndon M, Heuser J, Hewamanage S, Hidas D, Hill CS, Hirschbuehl D, Hocker A, Hou S, Houlden M, Hsu SC, Hughes RE, Hurwitz M, Husemann U, Hussein M, Huston J, Incandela J, Introzzi G, Iori M, Ivanov A, James E, Jang D, Jayatilaka B, Jeon EJ, Jha MK, Jindariani S, Johnson W, Jones M, Joo KK, Jun SY, Jung JE, Junk TR, Kamon T, Kar D, Karchin PE, Kato Y, Kephart R, Ketchum W, Keung J, Khotilovich V, Kilminster B, Kim DH, Kim HS, Kim HW, Kim JE, Kim MJ, Kim SB, Kim SH, Kim YK, Kimura N, Kirsch L, Klimenko S, Ko BR, Kondo K, Kong DJ, Konigsberg J, Korytov A, Kotwal AV, Kreps M, Kroll J, Krop D, Krumnack N, Kruse M, Krutelyov V, Kuhr T, Kulkarni NP, Kurata M, Kwang S, Laasanen AT, Lami S, Lammel S, Lancaster M, Lander RL, Lannon K, Lath A, Latino G, Lazzizzera I, LeCompte T, Lee E, Lee HS, Lee JS, Lee SW, Leone S, Lewis JD, Lin CJ, Linacre J, Lindgren M, Lipeles E, Lister A, Litvintsev DO, Liu C, Liu T, Lockyer NS, Loginov A, Lovas L, Lucchesi D, Lueck J, Lujan P, Lukens P, Lungu G, Lys J, Lysak R, MacQueen D, Madrak R, Maeshima K, Makhoul K, Maksimovic P, Malde S, Malik S, Manca G, Manousakis-Katsikakis A, Margaroli F, Marino C, Marino CP, Martin A, Martin V, Martínez M, Martínez-Ballarín R, Mastrandrea P, Mathis M, Mattson ME, Mazzanti P, McFarland KS, McIntyre P, McNulty R, Mehta A, Mehtala P, Menzione A, Mesropian C, Miao T, Mietlicki D, Miladinovic N, Miller R, Mills C, Milnik M, Mitra A, Mitselmakher G, Miyake H, Moed S, Moggi N, Mondragon MN, Moon CS, Moore R, Morello MJ, Morlock J, Movilla Fernandez P, Mülmenstädt J, Mukherjee A, Muller T, Murat P, Mussini M, Nachtman J, Nagai Y, Naganoma J, Nakamura K, Nakano I, Napier A, Nett J, Neu C, Neubauer MS, Neubauer S, Nielsen J, Nodulman L, Norman M, Norniella O, Nurse E, Oakes L, Oh SH, Oh YD, Oksuzian I, Okusawa T, Orava R, Osterberg K, Pagan Griso S, Pagliarone C, Palencia E, Papadimitriou V, Papaikonomou A, Paramanov AA, Parks B, Pashapour S, Patrick J, Pauletta G, Paulini M, Paus C, Peiffer T, Pellett DE, Penzo A, Phillips TJ, Piacentino G, Pianori E, Pinera L, Pitts K, Plager C, Pondrom L, Potamianos K, Poukhov O, Prokoshin F, Pronko A, Ptohos F, Pueschel E, Punzi G, Pursley J, Rademacker J, Rahaman A, Ramakrishnan V, Ranjan N, Redondo I, Renton P, Renz M, Rescigno M, Richter S, Rimondi F, Ristori L, Robson A, Rodrigo T, Rodriguez T, Rogers E, Rolli S, Roser R, Rossi M, Rossin R, Roy P, Ruiz A, Russ J, Rusu V, Rutherford B, Saarikko H, Safonov A, Sakumoto WK, Santi L, Sartori L, Sato K, Saveliev V, Savoy-Navarro A, Schlabach P, Schmidt A, Schmidt EE, Schmidt MA, Schmidt MP, Schmitt M, Schwarz T, Scodellaro L, Scribano A, Scuri F, Sedov A, Seidel S, Seiya Y, Semenov A, Sexton-Kennedy L, Sforza F, Sfyrla A, Shalhout SZ, Shears T, Shepard PF, Shimojima M, Shiraishi S, Shochet M, Shon Y, Shreyber I, Simonenko A, Sinervo P, Sisakyan A, Slaughter AJ, Slaunwhite J, Sliwa K, Smith JR, Snider FD, Snihur R, Soha A, Somalwar S, Sorin V, Squillacioti P, Stanitzki M, St Denis R, Stelzer B, Stelzer-Chilton O, Stentz D, Strologas J, Strycker GL, Suh JS, Sukhanov A, Suslov I, Taffard A, Takashima R, Takeuchi Y, Tanaka R, Tang J, Tecchio M, Teng PK, Thom J, Thome J, Thompson GA, Thomson E, Tipton P, Ttito-Guzmán P, Tkaczyk S, Toback D, Tokar S, Tollefson K, Tomura T, Tonelli D, Torre S, Torretta D, Totaro P, Trovato M, Tsai SY, Tu Y, Turini N, Ukegawa F, Uozumi S, van Remortel N, Varganov A, Vataga E, Vázquez F, Velev G, Vellidis C, Vidal M, Vila I, Vilar R, Vogel M, Volobouev I, Volpi G, Wagner P, Wagner RG, Wagner RL, Wagner W, Wagner-Kuhr J, Wakisaka T, Wallny R, Wang SM, Warburton A, Waters D, Weinberger M, Weinelt J, Wester WC, Whitehouse B, Whiteson D, Wicklund AB, Wicklund E, Wilbur S, Williams G, Williams HH, Wilson P, Winer BL, Wittich P, Wolbers S, Wolfe C, Wolfe H, Wright T, Wu X, Würthwein F, Yagil A, Yamamoto K, Yamaoka J, Yang UK, Yang YC, Yao WM, Yeh GP, Yi K, Yoh J, Yorita K, Yoshida T, Yu GB, Yu I, Yu SS, Yun JC, Zanetti A, Zeng Y, Zhang X, Zheng Y, Zucchelli S. Search for R-parity violating decays of sneutrinos to eμ, μτ, and eτ pairs in pp collisions at square root s = 1.96 TeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 105:191801. [PMID: 21231160 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.191801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We present a search for supersymmetric neutrino ν production using the Tevatron pp collision data collected with the CDF II detector and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1 fb-1. We focus on the scenarios predicted by the R-parity violating (RPV) supersymmetric models in which sneutrinos decay to two charged leptons of different flavor. With the data consistent with the standard model expectations, we set upper limits on σ(pp→ν)×BR(ν→eμ,μτ,eτ) and use these results to constrain the RPV couplings as a function of the sneutrino mass.
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Howles S, Guimarães-Walker A, Yang H, Hancock G, di Gleria K, Tarragona-Fiol T, Hayes P, Gilmour J, Bridgeman A, Hanke T, McMichael A, Dorrell L. Vaccination with a modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA)-vectored HIV-1 immunogen induces modest vector-specific T cell responses in human subjects. Vaccine 2010; 28:7306-12. [DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.08.077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2010] [Revised: 08/11/2010] [Accepted: 08/18/2010] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Aaltonen T, Adelman J, Alvarez González B, Amerio S, Amidei D, Anastassov A, Annovi A, Antos J, Apollinari G, Apresyan A, Arisawa T, Artikov A, Asaadi J, Ashmanskas W, Attal A, Aurisano A, Azfar F, Badgett W, Barbaro-Galtieri A, Barnes VE, Barnett BA, Barria P, Bartos P, Bauer G, Beauchemin PH, Bedeschi F, Beecher D, Behari S, Bellettini G, Bellinger J, Benjamin D, Beretvas A, Bhatti A, Binkley M, Bisello D, Bizjak I, Blair RE, Blocker C, Blumenfeld B, Bocci A, Bodek A, Boisvert V, Bortoletto D, Boudreau J, Boveia A, Brau B, Bridgeman A, Brigliadori L, Bromberg C, Brubaker E, Budagov J, Budd HS, Budd S, Burkett K, Busetto G, Bussey P, Buzatu A, Byrum KL, Cabrera S, Calancha C, Camarda S, Campanelli M, Campbell M, Canelli F, Canepa A, Carls B, Carlsmith D, Carosi R, Carrillo S, Carron S, Casal B, Casarsa M, Castro A, Catastini P, Cauz D, Cavaliere V, Cavalli-Sforza M, Cerri A, Cerrito L, Chang SH, Chen YC, Chertok M, Chiarelli G, Chlachidze G, Chlebana F, Cho K, Chokheli D, Chou JP, Chung K, Chung WH, Chung YS, Chwalek T, Ciobanu CI, Ciocci MA, Clark A, Clark D, Compostella G, Convery ME, Conway J, Corbo M, Cordelli M, Cox CA, Cox DJ, Crescioli F, Cuenca Almenar C, Cuevas J, Culbertson R, Cully JC, Dagenhart D, Datta M, Davies T, de Barbaro P, De Cecco S, Deisher A, De Lorenzo G, Dell'orso M, Deluca C, Demortier L, Deng J, Deninno M, d'Errico M, Deviveiros PO, Di Canto A, di Giovanni GP, Di Ruzza B, Dittmann JR, D'Onofrio M, Donati S, Dong P, Dorigo T, Dube S, Ebina K, Elagin A, Erbacher R, Errede D, Errede S, Ershaidat N, Eusebi R, Fang HC, Farrington S, Fedorko WT, Feild RG, Feindt M, Fernandez JP, Ferrazza C, Field R, Flanagan G, Forrest R, Frank MJ, Franklin M, Freeman JC, Furic I, Gallinaro M, Galyardt J, Garberson F, Garcia JE, Garfinkel AF, Garosi P, Gerberich H, Gerdes D, Gessler A, Giagu S, Giakoumopoulou V, Giannetti P, Gibson K, Gimmell JL, Ginsburg CM, Giokaris N, Giordani M, Giromini P, Giunta M, Giurgiu G, Glagolev V, Glenzinski D, Gold M, Goldschmidt N, Golossanov A, Gomez G, Gomez-Ceballos G, Goncharov M, González O, Gorelov I, Goshaw AT, Goulianos K, Gresele A, Grinstein S, Grosso-Pilcher C, Grundler U, Guimaraes da Costa J, Gunay-Unalan Z, Haber C, Hahn SR, Halkiadakis E, Han BY, Han JY, Happacher F, Hara K, Hare D, Hare M, Harr RF, Hartz M, Hatakeyama K, Hays C, Heck M, Heinrich J, Herndon M, Heuser J, Hewamanage S, Hidas D, Hill CS, Hirschbuehl D, Hocker A, Hou S, Houlden M, Hsu SC, Hughes RE, Hurwitz M, Husemann U, Hussein M, Huston J, Incandela J, Introzzi G, Iori M, Ivanov A, James E, Jang D, Jayatilaka B, Jeon EJ, Jha MK, Jindariani S, Johnson W, Jones M, Joo KK, Jun SY, Jung JE, Junk TR, Kamon T, Kar D, Karchin PE, Kato Y, Kephart R, Ketchum W, Keung J, Khotilovich V, Kilminster B, Kim DH, Kim HS, Kim HW, Kim JE, Kim MJ, Kim SB, Kim SH, Kim YK, Kimura N, Kirsch L, Klimenko S, Kondo K, Kong DJ, Konigsberg J, Korytov A, Kotwal AV, Kreps M, Kroll J, Krop D, Krumnack N, Kruse M, Krutelyov V, Kuhr T, Kulkarni NP, Kurata M, Kwang S, Laasanen AT, Lami S, Lammel S, Lancaster M, Lander RL, Lannon K, Lath A, Latino G, Lazzizzera I, Lecompte T, Lee E, Lee HS, Lee JS, Lee SW, Leone S, Lewis JD, Lin CJ, Linacre J, Lindgren M, Lipeles E, Lister A, Litvintsev DO, Liu C, Liu T, Lockyer NS, Loginov A, Lovas L, Lucchesi D, Lueck J, Lujan P, Lukens P, Lungu G, Lys J, Lysak R, Macqueen D, Madrak R, Maeshima K, Makhoul K, Maksimovic P, Malde S, Malik S, Manca G, Manousakis-Katsikakis A, Margaroli F, Marino C, Marino CP, Martin A, Martin V, Martínez M, Martínez-Ballarín R, Mastrandrea P, Mathis M, Mattson ME, Mazzanti P, McFarland KS, McIntyre P, McNulty R, Mehta A, Mehtala P, Menzione A, Mesropian C, Miao T, Mietlicki D, Miladinovic N, Miller R, Mills C, Milnik M, Mitra A, Mitselmakher G, Miyake H, Moed S, Moggi N, Mondragon MN, Moon CS, Moore R, Morello MJ, Morlock J, Movilla Fernandez P, Mülmenstädt J, Mukherjee A, Muller T, Murat P, Mussini M, Nachtman J, Nagai Y, Naganoma J, Nakamura K, Nakano I, Napier A, Nett J, Neu C, Neubauer MS, Neubauer S, Nielsen J, Nodulman L, Norman M, Norniella O, Nurse E, Oakes L, Oh SH, Oh YD, Oksuzian I, Okusawa T, Orava R, Osterberg K, Pagan Griso S, Pagliarone C, Palencia E, Papadimitriou V, Papaikonomou A, Paramanov AA, Parks B, Pashapour S, Patrick J, Pauletta G, Paulini M, Paus C, Peiffer T, Pellett DE, Penzo A, Phillips TJ, Piacentino G, Pianori E, Pinera L, Pitts K, Plager C, Pondrom L, Potamianos K, Poukhov O, Prokoshin F, Pronko A, Ptohos F, Pueschel E, Punzi G, Pursley J, Rademacker J, Rahaman A, Ramakrishnan V, Ranjan N, Redondo I, Renton P, Renz M, Rescigno M, Richter S, Rimondi F, Ristori L, Robson A, Rodrigo T, Rodriguez T, Rogers E, Rolli S, Roser R, Rossi M, Rossin R, Roy P, Ruiz A, Russ J, Rusu V, Rutherford B, Saarikko H, Safonov A, Sakumoto WK, Santi L, Sartori L, Sato K, Savard P, Savoy-Navarro A, Schlabach P, Schmidt A, Schmidt EE, Schmidt MA, Schmidt MP, Schmitt M, Schwarz T, Scodellaro L, Scribano A, Scuri F, Sedov A, Seidel S, Seiya Y, Semenov A, Sexton-Kennedy L, Sforza F, Sfyrla A, Shalhout SZ, Shears T, Shepard PF, Shimojima M, Shiraishi S, Shochet M, Shon Y, Shreyber I, Simonenko A, Sinervo P, Sisakyan A, Slaughter AJ, Slaunwhite J, Sliwa K, Smith JR, Snider FD, Snihur R, Soha A, Somalwar S, Sorin V, Squillacioti P, Stanitzki M, St Denis R, Stelzer B, Stelzer-Chilton O, Stentz D, Strologas J, Strycker GL, Suh JS, Sukhanov A, Suslov I, Taffard A, Takashima R, Takeuchi Y, Tanaka R, Tang J, Tecchio M, Teng PK, Thom J, Thome J, Thompson GA, Thomson E, Tipton P, Ttito-Guzmán P, Tkaczyk S, Toback D, Tokar S, Tollefson K, Tomura T, Tonelli D, Torre S, Torretta D, Totaro P, Tourneur S, Trovato M, Tsai SY, Tu Y, Turini N, Ukegawa F, Uozumi S, van Remortel N, Varganov A, Vataga E, Vázquez F, Velev G, Vellidis C, Vidal M, Vila I, Vilar R, Vogel M, Volobouev I, Volpi G, Wagner P, Wagner RG, Wagner RL, Wagner W, Wagner-Kuhr J, Wakisaka T, Wallny R, Wang SM, Warburton A, Waters D, Weinberger M, Weinelt J, Wester WC, Whitehouse B, Whiteson D, Wicklund AB, Wicklund E, Wilbur S, Williams G, Williams HH, Wilson P, Winer BL, Wittich P, Wolbers S, Wolfe C, Wolfe H, Wright T, Wu X, Würthwein F, Yagil A, Yamamoto K, Yamaoka J, Yang UK, Yang YC, Yao WM, Yeh GP, Yi K, Yoh J, Yorita K, Yoshida T, Yu GB, Yu I, Yu SS, Yun JC, Zanetti A, Zeng Y, Zhang X, Zheng Y, Zucchelli S. Search for new physics with a dijet plus missing E(T) signature in pp collisions at √s=1.96 TeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 105:131801. [PMID: 21230762 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.131801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2010] [Revised: 08/17/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We present results of a signature-based search for new physics using a dijet plus missing transverse energy (E(T)) data sample collected in 2 fb⁻¹ of pp collisions at √s=1.96 TeV with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. We observe no significant event excess with respect to the standard model prediction and extract a 95% C.L. upper limit on the cross section times acceptance for a potential contribution from a nonstandard model process. The search is made by using novel, data-driven techniques for estimating backgrounds that are applicable to first searches at the LHC.
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Aaltonen T, Adelman J, Alvarez González B, Amerio S, Amidei D, Anastassov A, Annovi A, Antos J, Apollinari G, Appel J, Apresyan A, Arisawa T, Artikov A, Asaadi J, Ashmanskas W, Attal A, Aurisano A, Azfar F, Badgett W, Barbaro-Galtieri A, Barnes VE, Barnett BA, Barria P, Bartos P, Bauer G, Beauchemin PH, Bedeschi F, Beecher D, Behari S, Bellettini G, Bellinger J, Benjamin D, Beretvas A, Bhatti A, Binkley M, Bisello D, Bizjak I, Blair RE, Blocker C, Blumenfeld B, Bocci A, Bodek A, Boisvert V, Bortoletto D, Boudreau J, Boveia A, Brau B, Bridgeman A, Brigliadori L, Bromberg C, Brubaker E, Budagov J, Budd HS, Budd S, Burkett K, Busetto G, Bussey P, Buzatu A, Byrum KL, Cabrera S, Calancha C, Camarda S, Campanelli M, Campbell M, Canelli F, Canepa A, Carls B, Carlsmith D, Carosi R, Carrillo S, Carron S, Casal B, Casarsa M, Castro A, Catastini P, Cauz D, Cavaliere V, Cavalli-Sforza M, Cerri A, Cerrito L, Chang SH, Chen YC, Chertok M, Chiarelli G, Chlachidze G, Chlebana F, Cho K, Chokheli D, Chou JP, Chung K, Chung WH, Chung YS, Chwalek T, Ciobanu CI, Ciocci MA, Clark A, Clark D, Compostella G, Convery ME, Conway J, Corbo M, Cordelli M, Cox CA, Cox DJ, Crescioli F, Cuenca Almenar C, Cuevas J, Culbertson R, Cully JC, Dagenhart D, d'Ascenzo N, Datta M, Davies T, de Barbaro P, De Cecco S, Deisher A, De Lorenzo G, Dell'orso M, Deluca C, Demortier L, Deng J, Deninno M, d'Errico M, Di Canto A, Di Ruzza B, Dittmann JR, D'Onofrio M, Donati S, Dong P, Dorigo T, Dube S, Ebina K, Elagin A, Erbacher R, Errede D, Errede S, Ershaidat N, Eusebi R, Fang HC, Farrington S, Fedorko WT, Feild RG, Feindt M, Fernandez JP, Ferrazza C, Field R, Flanagan G, Forrest R, Frank MJ, Franklin M, Freeman JC, Furic I, Gallinaro M, Galyardt J, Garberson F, Garcia JE, Garfinkel AF, Garosi P, Gerberich H, Gerdes D, Gessler A, Giagu S, Giakoumopoulou V, Giannetti P, Gibson K, Gimmell JL, Ginsburg CM, Giokaris N, Giordani M, Giromini P, Giunta M, Giurgiu G, Glagolev V, Glenzinski D, Gold M, Goldschmidt N, Golossanov A, Gomez G, Gomez-Ceballos G, Goncharov M, González O, Gorelov I, Goshaw AT, Goulianos K, Gresele A, Grinstein S, Grosso-Pilcher C, Grundler U, Guimaraes da Costa J, Gunay-Unalan Z, Haber C, Hahn SR, Halkiadakis E, Han BY, Han JY, Happacher F, Hara K, Hare D, Hare M, Harr RF, Hartz M, Hatakeyama K, Hays C, Heck M, Heinrich J, Herndon M, Heuser J, Hewamanage S, Hidas D, Hill CS, Hirschbuehl D, Hocker A, Hou S, Houlden M, Hsu SC, Hughes RE, Hurwitz M, Husemann U, Hussein M, Huston J, Incandela J, Introzzi G, Iori M, Ivanov A, James E, Jang D, Jayatilaka B, Jeon EJ, Jha MK, Jindariani S, Johnson W, Jones M, Joo KK, Jun SY, Jung JE, Junk TR, Kamon T, Kar D, Karchin PE, Kato Y, Kephart R, Ketchum W, Keung J, Kietzman B, Khotilovich V, Kilminster B, Kim DH, Kim HS, Kim HW, Kim JE, Kim MJ, Kim SB, Kim SH, Kim YK, Kimura N, Kirsch L, Klimenko S, Kondo K, Kong DJ, Konigsberg J, Korytov A, Kotwal AV, Kreps M, Kroll J, Krop D, Krumnack N, Kruse M, Krutelyov V, Kuhr T, Kulkarni NP, Kurata M, Kwang S, Laasanen AT, Lami S, Lammel S, Lancaster M, Lander RL, Lannon K, Lath A, Latino G, Lazzizzera I, Lecompte T, Lee E, Lee HS, Lee JS, Lee SW, Leone S, Lewis JD, Lin CJ, Linacre J, Lindgren M, Lipeles E, Lister A, Litvintsev DO, Liu C, Liu T, Lockyer NS, Loginov A, Lovas L, Lucchesi D, Lueck J, Lujan P, Lukens P, Lungu G, Lys J, Lysak R, Macqueen D, Madrak R, Maeshima K, Makhoul K, Maksimovic P, Malde S, Malik S, Manca G, Manousakis-Katsikakis A, Margaroli F, Marino C, Marino CP, Martin A, Martin V, Martínez M, Martínez-Ballarín R, Mastrandrea P, Mathis M, Mattson ME, Mazzanti P, McFarland KS, McIntyre P, McNulty R, Mehta A, Mehtala P, Menzione A, Mesropian C, Miao T, Mietlicki D, Miladinovic N, Miller R, Mills C, Milnik M, Mitra A, Mitselmakher G, Miyake H, Moed S, Moggi N, Mondragon MN, Moon CS, Moore R, Morello MJ, Morlock J, Movilla Fernandez P, Mülmenstädt J, Mukherjee A, Muller T, Murat P, Mussini M, Nachtman J, Nagai Y, Naganoma J, Nakamura K, Nakano I, Napier A, Nett J, Neu C, Neubauer MS, Neubauer S, Nielsen J, Nodulman L, Norman M, Norniella O, Nurse E, Oakes L, Oh SH, Oh YD, Oksuzian I, Okusawa T, Orava R, Osterberg K, Pagan Griso S, Pagliarone C, Palencia E, Papadimitriou V, Papaikonomou A, Paramanov AA, Parks B, Pashapour S, Patrick J, Pauletta G, Paulini M, Paus C, Peiffer T, Pellett DE, Penzo A, Phillips TJ, Piacentino G, Pianori E, Pinera L, Pitts K, Plager C, Pondrom L, Potamianos K, Poukhov O, Prokoshin F, Pronko A, Ptohos F, Pueschel E, Punzi G, Pursley J, Rademacker J, Rahaman A, Ramakrishnan V, Ranjan N, Redondo I, Renton P, Renz M, Rescigno M, Richter S, Rimondi F, Ristori L, Robson A, Rodrigo T, Rodriguez T, Rogers E, Rolli S, Roser R, Rossi M, Rossin R, Roy P, Ruiz A, Russ J, Rusu V, Rutherford B, Saarikko H, Safonov A, Sakumoto WK, Santi L, Sartori L, Sato K, Saveliev V, Savoy-Navarro A, Schlabach P, Schmidt A, Schmidt EE, Schmidt MA, Schmidt MP, Schmitt M, Schwarz T, Scodellaro L, Scribano A, Scuri F, Sedov A, Seidel S, Seiya Y, Semenov A, Sexton-Kennedy L, Sforza F, Sfyrla A, Shalhout SZ, Shears T, Shepard PF, Shimojima M, Shiraishi S, Shochet M, Shon Y, Shreyber I, Simonenko A, Sinervo P, Sisakyan A, Slaughter AJ, Slaunwhite J, Sliwa K, Smith JR, Snider FD, Snihur R, Soha A, Somalwar S, Sorin V, Squillacioti P, Stanitzki M, St Denis R, Stelzer B, Stelzer-Chilton O, Stentz D, Strologas J, Strycker GL, Suh JS, Sukhanov A, Suslov I, Taffard A, Takashima R, Takeuchi Y, Tanaka R, Tang J, Tecchio M, Teng PK, Thom J, Thome J, Thompson GA, Thomson E, Tipton P, Ttito-Guzmán P, Tkaczyk S, Toback D, Tokar S, Tollefson K, Tomura T, Tonelli D, Torre S, Torretta D, Totaro P, Trovato M, Tsai SY, Tu Y, Turini N, Ukegawa F, Uozumi S, van Remortel N, Varganov A, Vataga E, Vázquez F, Velev G, Vellidis C, Vidal M, Vila I, Vilar R, Vogel M, Volobouev I, Volpi G, Wagner P, Wagner RG, Wagner RL, Wagner W, Wagner-Kuhr J, Wakisaka T, Wallny R, Wang SM, Warburton A, Waters D, Weinberger M, Weinelt J, Wester WC, Whitehouse B, Whiteson D, Wicklund AB, Wicklund E, Wilbur S, Williams G, Williams HH, Wilson P, Winer BL, Wittich P, Wolbers S, Wolfe C, Wolfe H, Wright T, Wu X, Würthwein F, Yagil A, Yamamoto K, Yamaoka J, Yang UK, Yang YC, Yao WM, Yeh GP, Yi K, Yoh J, Yorita K, Yoshida T, Yu GB, Yu I, Yu SS, Yun JC, Zanetti A, Zeng Y, Zhang X, Zheng Y, Zucchelli S. Exclusion of an exotic top quark with -4/3 electric charge using soft lepton tagging. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 105:101801. [PMID: 20867511 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.101801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We present a measurement of the electric charge of the top quark using pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.7 fb(-1) at the CDF II detector. We reconstruct tt events in the lepton + jets final state. We use soft lepton taggers to determine the flavor of the b jets, which we use to reconstruct the top quark's electric charge and exclude an exotic top quark with -4/3 charge at 95% confidence level. This is the strongest exclusion of the exotic charge scenario and the first to use soft leptons for this purpose.
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Aaltonen T, Adelman J, Alvarez González B, Amerio S, Amidei D, Anastassov A, Annovi A, Antos J, Apollinari G, Apresyan A, Arisawa T, Artikov A, Asaadi J, Ashmanskas W, Attal A, Aurisano A, Azfar F, Badgett W, Barbaro-Galtieri A, Barnes VE, Barnett BA, Barria P, Bartos P, Bauer G, Beauchemin PH, Bedeschi F, Beecher D, Behari S, Bellettini G, Bellinger J, Benjamin D, Beretvas A, Bhatti A, Binkley M, Bisello D, Bizjak I, Blair RE, Blocker C, Blumenfeld B, Bocci A, Bodek A, Boisvert V, Bortoletto D, Boudreau J, Boveia A, Brau B, Bridgeman A, Brigliadori L, Bromberg C, Brubaker E, Budagov J, Budd HS, Budd S, Burkett K, Busetto G, Bussey P, Buzatu A, Byrum KL, Cabrera S, Calancha C, Camarda S, Campanelli M, Campbell M, Canelli F, Canepa A, Carls B, Carlsmith D, Carosi R, Carrillo S, Carron S, Casal B, Casarsa M, Castro A, Catastini P, Cauz D, Cavaliere V, Cavalli-Sforza M, Cerri A, Cerrito L, Chang SH, Chen YC, Chertok M, Chiarelli G, Chlachidze G, Chlebana F, Cho K, Chokheli D, Chou JP, Chung K, Chung WH, Chung YS, Chwalek T, Ciobanu CI, Ciocci MA, Clark A, Clark D, Compostella G, Convery ME, Conway J, Corbo M, Cordelli M, Cox CA, Cox DJ, Crescioli F, Cuenca Almenar C, Cuevas J, Culbertson R, Cully JC, Dagenhart D, Datta M, Davies T, de Barbaro P, De Cecco S, Deisher A, De Lorenzo G, Dell'Orso M, Deluca C, Demortier L, Deng J, Deninno M, d'Errico M, Di Canto A, di Giovanni GP, Di Ruzza B, Dittmann JR, D'Onofrio M, Donati S, Dong P, Dorigo T, Dube S, Ebina K, Elagin A, Erbacher R, Errede D, Errede S, Ershaidat N, Eusebi R, Fang HC, Farrington S, Fedorko WT, Feild RG, Feindt M, Fernandez JP, Ferrazza C, Field R, Flanagan G, Forrest R, Frank MJ, Franklin M, Freeman JC, Furic I, Gallinaro M, Galyardt J, Garberson F, Garcia JE, Garfinkel AF, Garosi P, Gerberich H, Gerdes D, Gessler A, Giagu S, Giakoumopoulou V, Giannetti P, Gibson K, Gimmell JL, Ginsburg CM, Giokaris N, Giordani M, Giromini P, Giunta M, Giurgiu G, Glagolev V, Glenzinski D, Gold M, Goldschmidt N, Golossanov A, Gomez G, Gomez-Ceballos G, Goncharov M, González O, Gorelov I, Goshaw AT, Goulianos K, Gresele A, Grinstein S, Grosso-Pilcher C, Group RC, Grundler U, Guimaraes da Costa J, Gunay-Unalan Z, Haber C, Hahn SR, Halkiadakis E, Han BY, Han JY, Happacher F, Hara K, Hare D, Hare M, Harr RF, Hartz M, Hatakeyama K, Hays C, Heck M, Heinrich J, Herndon M, Heuser J, Hewamanage S, Hidas D, Hill CS, Hirschbuehl D, Hocker A, Hou S, Houlden M, Hsu SC, Hughes RE, Hurwitz M, Husemann U, Hussein M, Huston J, Incandela J, Introzzi G, Iori M, Ivanov A, James E, Jang D, Jayatilaka B, Jeon EJ, Jha MK, Jindariani S, Johnson W, Jones M, Joo KK, Jun SY, Jung JE, Junk TR, Kamon T, Kar D, Karchin PE, Kato Y, Kephart R, Ketchum W, Keung J, Khotilovich V, Kilminster B, Kim DH, Kim HS, Kim HW, Kim JE, Kim MJ, Kim SB, Kim SH, Kim YK, Kimura N, Kirsch L, Klimenko S, Kondo K, Kong DJ, Konigsberg J, Korytov A, Kotwal AV, Kreps M, Kroll J, Krop D, Krumnack N, Kruse M, Krutelyov V, Kuhr T, Kulkarni NP, Kurata M, Kwang S, Laasanen AT, Lami S, Lammel S, Lancaster M, Lander RL, Lannon K, Lath A, Latino G, Lazzizzera I, LeCompte T, Lee E, Lee HS, Lee JS, Lee SW, Leone S, Lewis JD, Lin CJ, Linacre J, Lindgren M, Lipeles E, Lister A, Litvintsev DO, Liu C, Liu T, Lockyer NS, Loginov A, Lovas L, Lucchesi D, Lueck J, Lujan P, Lukens P, Lungu G, Lys J, Lysak R, MacQueen D, Madrak R, Maeshima K, Makhoul K, Maksimovic P, Malde S, Malik S, Manca G, Manousakis-Katsikakis A, Margaroli F, Marino C, Marino CP, Martin A, Martin V, Martínez M, Martínez-Ballarín R, Mastrandrea P, Mathis M, Mattson ME, Mazzanti P, McFarland KS, McIntyre P, McNulty R, Mehta A, Mehtala P, Menzione A, Mesropian C, Miao T, Mietlicki D, Miladinovic N, Miller R, Mills C, Milnik M, Mitra A, Mitselmakher G, Miyake H, Moed S, Moggi N, Mondragon MN, Moon CS, Moore R, Morello MJ, Morlock J, Movilla Fernandez P, Mülmenstädt J, Mukherjee A, Muller T, Murat P, Mussini M, Nachtman J, Nagai Y, Naganoma J, Nakamura K, Nakano I, Napier A, Nett J, Neu C, Neubauer MS, Neubauer S, Nielsen J, Nodulman L, Norman M, Norniella O, Nurse E, Oakes L, Oh SH, Oh YD, Oksuzian I, Okusawa T, Orava R, Osterberg K, Pagan Griso S, Pagliarone C, Palencia E, Papadimitriou V, Papaikonomou A, Paramanov AA, Parks B, Pashapour S, Patrick J, Pauletta G, Paulini M, Paus C, Peiffer T, Pellett DE, Penzo A, Phillips TJ, Piacentino G, Pianori E, Pinera L, Pitts K, Plager C, Pondrom L, Potamianos K, Poukhov O, Prokoshin F, Pronko A, Ptohos F, Pueschel E, Punzi G, Pursley J, Rademacker J, Rahaman A, Ramakrishnan V, Ranjan N, Redondo I, Renton P, Renz M, Rescigno M, Richter S, Rimondi F, Ristori L, Robson A, Rodrigo T, Rodriguez T, Rogers E, Rolli S, Roser R, Rossi M, Rossin R, Roy P, Ruiz A, Russ J, Rusu V, Rutherford B, Saarikko H, Safonov A, Sakumoto WK, Santi L, Sartori L, Sato K, Savoy-Navarro A, Schlabach P, Schmidt A, Schmidt EE, Schmidt MA, Schmidt MP, Schmitt M, Schwarz T, Scodellaro L, Scribano A, Scuri F, Sedov A, Seidel S, Seiya Y, Semenov A, Sexton-Kennedy L, Sforza F, Sfyrla A, Shalhout SZ, Shears T, Shepard PF, Shimojima M, Shiraishi S, Shochet M, Shon Y, Shreyber I, Simonenko A, Sinervo P, Sisakyan A, Slaughter AJ, Slaunwhite J, Sliwa K, Smith JR, Snider FD, Snihur R, Soha A, Somalwar S, Sorin V, Squillacioti P, Stanitzki M, St Denis R, Stelzer B, Stelzer-Chilton O, Stentz D, Strologas J, Strycker GL, Suh JS, Sukhanov A, Suslov I, Taffard A, Takashima R, Takeuchi Y, Tanaka R, Tang J, Tecchio M, Teng PK, Thom J, Thome J, Thompson GA, Thomson E, Tipton P, Ttito-Guzmán P, Tkaczyk S, Toback D, Tokar S, Tollefson K, Tomura T, Tonelli D, Torre S, Torretta D, Totaro P, Tourneur S, Trovato M, Tsai SY, Tu Y, Turini N, Ukegawa F, Uozumi S, van Remortel N, Varganov A, Vataga E, Vázquez F, Velev G, Vellidis C, Vidal M, Vila I, Vilar R, Vogel M, Volobouev I, Volpi G, Wagner P, Wagner RG, Wagner RL, Wagner W, Wagner-Kuhr J, Wakisaka T, Wallny R, Wang SM, Warburton A, Waters D, Weinberger M, Weinelt J, Wester WC, Whitehouse B, Whiteson D, Wicklund AB, Wicklund E, Wilbur S, Williams G, Williams HH, Wilson P, Winer BL, Wittich P, Wolbers S, Wolfe C, Wolfe H, Wright T, Wu X, Würthwein F, Yagil A, Yamamoto K, Yamaoka J, Yang UK, Yang YC, Yao WM, Yeh GP, Yi K, Yoh J, Yorita K, Yoshida T, Yu GB, Yu I, Yu SS, Yun JC, Zanetti A, Zeng Y, Zhang X, Zheng Y, Zucchelli S. Search for the production of scalar bottom quarks in pp collisions at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 105:081802. [PMID: 20868091 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.081802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We report on a search for direct scalar bottom quark (sbottom) pair production in pp collisions at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV, in events with large missing transverse energy and two jets of hadrons in the final state, where at least one of the jets is required to be identified as originating from a b quark. The study uses a collider detector at Fermilab Run II data sample corresponding to 2.65 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity. The data are in agreement with the standard model. In an R-parity conserving minimal supersymmetric scenario, and assuming that the sbottom decays exclusively into a bottom quark and a neutralino, 95% confidence-level upper limits on the sbottom pair production cross section of 0.1 pb are obtained. For neutralino masses below 70 GeV/c2, sbottom masses up to 230 GeV/c2 are excluded at 95% confidence level.
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Aaltonen T, Adelman J, Alvarez González B, Amerio S, Amidei D, Anastassov A, Annovi A, Antos J, Apollinari G, Appel J, Apresyan A, Arisawa T, Artikov A, Asaadi J, Ashmanskas W, Attal A, Aurisano A, Azfar F, Badgett W, Barbaro-Galtieri A, Barnes VE, Barnett BA, Barria P, Bartos P, Bauer G, Beauchemin PH, Bedeschi F, Beecher D, Behari S, Bellettini G, Bellinger J, Benjamin D, Beretvas A, Bhatti A, Binkley M, Bisello D, Bizjak I, Blair RE, Blocker C, Blumenfeld B, Bocci A, Bodek A, Boisvert V, Bortoletto D, Boudreau J, Boveia A, Brau B, Bridgeman A, Brigliadori L, Bromberg C, Brubaker E, Budagov J, Budd HS, Budd S, Burkett K, Busetto G, Bussey P, Buzatu A, Byrum KL, Cabrera S, Calancha C, Camarda S, Campanelli M, Campbell M, Canelli F, Canepa A, Carls B, Carlsmith D, Carosi R, Carrillo S, Carron S, Casal B, Casarsa M, Castro A, Catastini P, Cauz D, Cavaliere V, Cavalli-Sforza M, Cerri A, Cerrito L, Chang SH, Chen YC, Chertok M, Chiarelli G, Chlachidze G, Chlebana F, Cho K, Chokheli D, Chou JP, Chung K, Chung WH, Chung YS, Chwalek T, Ciobanu CI, Ciocci MA, Clark A, Clark D, Compostella G, Convery ME, Conway J, Corbo M, Cordelli M, Cox CA, Cox DJ, Crescioli F, Cuenca Almenar C, Cuevas J, Culbertson R, Cully JC, Dagenhart D, d'Ascenzo N, Datta M, Davies T, de Barbaro P, De Cecco S, Deisher A, De Lorenzo G, Dell'orso M, Deluca C, Demortier L, Deng J, Deninno M, d'Errico M, Di Canto A, Di Ruzza B, Dittmann JR, D'Onofrio M, Donati S, Dong P, Dorigo T, Dube S, Ebina K, Elagin A, Erbacher R, Errede D, Errede S, Ershaidat N, Eusebi R, Fang HC, Farrington S, Fedorko WT, Feild RG, Feindt M, Fernandez JP, Ferrazza C, Field R, Flanagan G, Forrest R, Frank MJ, Franklin M, Freeman JC, Furic I, Gallinaro M, Galyardt J, Garberson F, Garcia JE, Garfinkel AF, Garosi P, Gerberich H, Gerdes D, Gessler A, Giagu S, Giakoumopoulou V, Giannetti P, Gibson K, Gimmell JL, Ginsburg CM, Giokaris N, Giordani M, Giromini P, Giunta M, Giurgiu G, Glagolev V, Glenzinski D, Gold M, Goldschmidt N, Golossanov A, Gomez G, Gomez-Ceballos G, Goncharov M, González O, Gorelov I, Goshaw AT, Goulianos K, Gresele A, Grinstein S, Grosso-Pilcher C, Grundler U, Guimaraes da Costa J, Gunay-Unalan Z, Haber C, Hahn SR, Halkiadakis E, Han BY, Han JY, Happacher F, Hara K, Hare D, Hare M, Harr RF, Hartz M, Hatakeyama K, Hays C, Heck M, Heinrich J, Herndon M, Heuser J, Hewamanage S, Hidas D, Hill CS, Hirschbuehl D, Hocker A, Hou S, Houlden M, Hsu SC, Hughes RE, Hurwitz M, Husemann U, Hussein M, Huston J, Incandela J, Introzzi G, Iori M, Ivanov A, James E, Jang D, Jayatilaka B, Jeon EJ, Jha MK, Jindariani S, Johnson W, Jones M, Joo KK, Jun SY, Jung JE, Junk TR, Kamon T, Kar D, Karchin PE, Kato Y, Kephart R, Ketchum W, Keung J, Khotilovich V, Kilminster B, Kim DH, Kim HS, Kim HW, Kim JE, Kim MJ, Kim SB, Kim SH, Kim YK, Kimura N, Kirsch L, Klimenko S, Kondo K, Kong DJ, Konigsberg J, Korytov A, Kotwal AV, Kreps M, Kroll J, Krop D, Krumnack N, Kruse M, Krutelyov V, Kuhr T, Kulkarni NP, Kurata M, Kwang S, Laasanen AT, Lami S, Lammel S, Lancaster M, Lander RL, Lannon K, Lath A, Latino G, Lazzizzera I, Lecompte T, Lee E, Lee HS, Lee JS, Lee SW, Leone S, Lewis JD, Lin CJ, Linacre J, Lindgren M, Lipeles E, Lister A, Litvintsev DO, Liu C, Liu T, Lockyer NS, Loginov A, Lovas L, Lucchesi D, Lueck J, Lujan P, Lukens P, Lungu G, Lys J, Lysak R, Macqueen D, Madrak R, Maeshima K, Makhoul K, Maksimovic P, Malde S, Malik S, Manca G, Manousakis-Katsikakis A, Margaroli F, Marino C, Marino CP, Martin A, Martin V, Martínez M, Martínez-Ballarín R, Mastrandrea P, Mathis M, Mattson ME, Mazzanti P, McFarland KS, McIntyre P, McNulty R, Mehta A, Mehtala P, Menzione A, Mesropian C, Miao T, Mietlicki D, Miladinovic N, Miller R, Mills C, Milnik M, Mitra A, Mitselmakher G, Miyake H, Moed S, Moggi N, Mondragon MN, Moon CS, Moore R, Morello MJ, Morlock J, Movilla Fernandez P, Mülmenstädt J, Mukherjee A, Muller T, Murat P, Mussini M, Nachtman J, Nagai Y, Naganoma J, Nakamura K, Nakano I, Napier A, Nett J, Neu C, Neubauer MS, Neubauer S, Nielsen J, Nodulman L, Norman M, Norniella O, Nurse E, Oakes L, Oh SH, Oh YD, Oksuzian I, Okusawa T, Orava R, Osterberg K, Pagan Griso S, Pagliarone C, Palencia E, Papadimitriou V, Papaikonomou A, Paramanov AA, Parks B, Pashapour S, Patrick J, Pauletta G, Paulini M, Paus C, Peiffer T, Pellett DE, Penzo A, Phillips TJ, Piacentino G, Pianori E, Pinera L, Pitts K, Plager C, Pondrom L, Potamianos K, Poukhov O, Prokoshin F, Pronko A, Ptohos F, Pueschel E, Punzi G, Pursley J, Rademacker J, Rahaman A, Ramakrishnan V, Ranjan N, Redondo I, Renton P, Renz M, Rescigno M, Richter S, Rimondi F, Ristori L, Robson A, Rodrigo T, Rodriguez T, Rogers E, Rolli S, Roser R, Rossi M, Rossin R, Roy P, Ruiz A, Russ J, Rusu V, Rutherford B, Saarikko H, Safonov A, Sakumoto WK, Santi L, Sartori L, Sato K, Saveliev V, Savoy-Navarro A, Schlabach P, Schmidt A, Schmidt EE, Schmidt MA, Schmidt MP, Schmitt M, Schwarz T, Scodellaro L, Scribano A, Scuri F, Sedov A, Seidel S, Seiya Y, Semenov A, Sexton-Kennedy L, Sforza F, Sfyrla A, Shalhout SZ, Shears T, Shepard PF, Shimojima M, Shiraishi S, Shochet M, Shon Y, Shreyber I, Simonenko A, Sinervo P, Sisakyan A, Slaughter AJ, Slaunwhite J, Sliwa K, Smith JR, Snider FD, Snihur R, Soha A, Somalwar S, Sorin V, Squillacioti P, Stanitzki M, St Denis R, Stelzer B, Stelzer-Chilton O, Stentz D, Strologas J, Strycker GL, Suh JS, Sukhanov A, Suslov I, Taffard A, Takashima R, Takeuchi Y, Tanaka R, Tang J, Tecchio M, Teng PK, Thom J, Thome J, Thompson GA, Thomson E, Tipton P, Ttito-Guzmán P, Tkaczyk S, Toback D, Tokar S, Tollefson K, Tomura T, Tonelli D, Torre S, Torretta D, Totaro P, Trovato M, Tsai SY, Tu Y, Turini N, Ukegawa F, Uozumi S, van Remortel N, Varganov A, Vataga E, Vázquez F, Velev G, Vellidis C, Vidal M, Vila I, Vilar R, Vogel M, Volobouev I, Volpi G, Wagner P, Wagner RG, Wagner RL, Wagner W, Wagner-Kuhr J, Wakisaka T, Wallny R, Wang SM, Warburton A, Waters D, Weinberger M, Weinelt J, Wester WC, Whitehouse B, Whiteson D, Wicklund AB, Wicklund E, Wilbur S, Williams G, Williams HH, Wilson P, Winer BL, Wittich P, Wolbers S, Wolfe C, Wolfe H, Wright T, Wu X, Würthwein F, Yagil A, Yamamoto K, Yamaoka J, Yang UK, Yang YC, Yao WM, Yeh GP, Yi K, Yoh J, Yorita K, Yoshida T, Yu GB, Yu I, Yu SS, Yun JC, Zanetti A, Zeng Y, Zhang X, Zheng Y, Zucchelli S. Measurement of W-boson polarization in Top-Quark Decay in pp collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 105:042002. [PMID: 20867838 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.042002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We report measurements of the polarization of W bosons from top-quark decays using 2.7 fb{-1} of pp collisions collected by the CDF II detector. Assuming a top-quark mass of 175 GeV/c{2}, three measurements are performed. A simultaneous measurement of the fraction of longitudinal (f{0}) and right-handed (f{+}) W bosons yields the model-independent results f{0}=0.88±0.11(stat)±0.06(syst) and f{+}=-0.15±0.07(stat)±0.06(syst) with a correlation coefficient of -0.59. A measurement of f{0} [f{+}] constraining f{+} [f{0}] to its standard model value of 0.0 [0.7] yields f{0}=0.70±0.07(stat)±0.04(syst) [f{+}=-0.01±0.02(stat)±0.05(syst)]. All these results are consistent with standard model expectations. We achieve the single most precise measurements of f{0} for both the model-independent and model-dependent determinations.
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Aggarwal MM, Ahammed Z, Alakhverdyants AV, Alekseev I, Alford J, Anderson BD, Arkhipkin D, Averichev GS, Balewski J, Barnby LS, Baumgart S, Beavis DR, Bellwied R, Betancourt MJ, Betts RR, Bhasin A, Bhati AK, Bichsel H, Bielcik J, Bielcikova J, Biritz B, Bland LC, Bonner BE, Bouchet J, Braidot E, Brandin AV, Bridgeman A, Bruna E, Bueltmann S, Bunzarov I, Burton TP, Cai XZ, Caines H, Calderón de la Barca Sánchez M, Catu O, Cebra D, Cendejas R, Cervantes MC, Chajecki Z, Chaloupka P, Chattopadhyay S, Chen HF, Chen JH, Chen JY, Cheng J, Cherney M, Chikanian A, Choi KE, Christie W, Chung P, Clarke RF, Codrington MJM, Corliss R, Cramer JG, Crawford HJ, Das D, Dash S, Davila Leyva A, De Silva LC, Debbe RR, Dedovich TG, Derevschikov AA, Derradi de Souza R, Didenko L, Djawotho P, Dogra SM, Dong X, Drachenberg JL, Draper JE, Dunlop JC, Dutta Mazumdar MR, Efimov LG, Elhalhuli E, Elnimr M, Engelage J, Eppley G, Erazmus B, Estienne M, Eun L, Evdokimov O, Fachini P, Fatemi R, Fedorisin J, Fersch RG, Filip P, Finch E, Fine V, Fisyak Y, Gagliardi CA, Gangadharan DR, Ganti MS, Garcia-Solis EJ, Geromitsos A, Geurts F, Ghazikhanian V, Ghosh P, Gorbunov YN, Gordon A, Grebenyuk O, Grosnick D, Guertin SM, Gupta A, Gupta N, Guryn W, Haag B, Hamed A, Han LX, Harris JW, Hays-Wehle JP, Heinz M, Heppelmann S, Hirsch A, Hjort E, Hoffman AM, Hoffmann GW, Hofman DJ, Huang B, Huang HZ, Humanic TJ, Huo L, Igo G, Jacobs P, Jacobs WW, Jena C, Jin F, Jones CL, Jones PG, Joseph J, Judd EG, Kabana S, Kajimoto K, Kang K, Kapitan J, Kauder K, Keane D, Kechechyan A, Kettler D, Kikola DP, Kiryluk J, Kisiel A, Klein SR, Knospe AG, Kocoloski A, Koetke DD, Kollegger T, Konzer J, Koralt I, Koroleva L, Korsch W, Kotchenda L, Kouchpil V, Kravtsov P, Krueger K, Krus M, Kumar L, Kurnadi P, Lamont MAC, Landgraf JM, LaPointe S, Lauret J, Lebedev A, Lednicky R, Lee CH, Lee JH, Leight W, LeVine MJ, Li C, Li L, Li N, Li W, Li X, Li X, Li Y, Li ZM, Lin G, Lindenbaum SJ, Lisa MA, Liu F, Liu H, Liu J, Ljubicic T, Llope WJ, Longacre RS, Love WA, Lu Y, Lukashov EV, Luo X, Ma GL, Ma YG, Mahapatra DP, Majka R, Mall OI, Mangotra LK, Manweiler R, Margetis S, Markert C, Masui H, Matis HS, Matulenko YA, McDonald D, McShane TS, Meschanin A, Milner R, Minaev NG, Mioduszewski S, Mischke A, Mitrovski MK, Mohanty B, Mondal MM, Morozov B, Morozov DA, Munhoz MG, Nandi BK, Nattrass C, Nayak TK, Nelson JM, Netrakanti PK, Ng MJ, Nogach LV, Nurushev SB, Odyniec G, Ogawa A, Okorokov V, Oldag EW, Olson D, Pachr M, Page BS, Pal SK, Pandit Y, Panebratsev Y, Pawlak T, Peitzmann T, Perevoztchikov V, Perkins C, Peryt W, Phatak SC, Pile P, Planinic M, Ploskon MA, Pluta J, Plyku D, Poljak N, Poskanzer AM, Potukuchi BVKS, Powell CB, Prindle D, Pruneau C, Pruthi NK, Pujahari PR, Putschke J, Qiu H, Raniwala R, Raniwala S, Ray RL, Redwine R, Reed R, Ritter HG, Roberts JB, Rogachevskiy OV, Romero JL, Rose A, Roy C, Ruan L, Sahoo R, Sakai S, Sakrejda I, Sakuma T, Salur S, Sandweiss J, Sangaline E, Schambach J, Scharenberg RP, Schmitz N, Schuster TR, Seele J, Seger J, Selyuzhenkov I, Seyboth P, Shahaliev E, Shao M, Sharma M, Shi SS, Sichtermann EP, Simon F, Singaraju RN, Skoby MJ, Smirnov N, Sorensen P, Sowinski J, Spinka HM, Srivastava B, Stanislaus TDS, Staszak D, Stevens JR, Stock R, Strikhanov M, Stringfellow B, Suaide AAP, Suarez MC, Subba NL, Sumbera M, Sun XM, Sun Y, Sun Z, Surrow B, Svirida DN, Symons TJM, Szanto de Toledo A, Takahashi J, Tang AH, Tang Z, Tarini LH, Tarnowsky T, Thein D, Thomas JH, Tian J, Timmins AR, Timoshenko S, Tlusty D, Tokarev M, Tram VN, Trentalange S, Tribble RE, Tsai OD, Ulery J, Ullrich T, Underwood DG, Van Buren G, van Leeuwen M, van Nieuwenhuizen G, Vanfossen JA, Varma R, Vasconcelos GMS, Vasiliev AN, Videbaek F, Viyogi YP, Vokal S, Voloshin SA, Wada M, Walker M, Wang F, Wang G, Wang H, Wang JS, Wang Q, Wang XL, Wang Y, Webb G, Webb JC, Westfall GD, Whitten C, Wieman H, Wissink SW, Witt R, Wu YF, Xie W, Xu H, Xu N, Xu QH, Xu W, Xu Y, Xu Z, Xue L, Yang Y, Yepes P, Yip K, Yoo IK, Yue Q, Zawisza M, Zbroszczyk H, Zhan W, Zhang JB, Zhang S, Zhang WM, Zhang XP, Zhang Y, Zhang ZP, Zhao J, Zhong C, Zhou J, Zhou W, Zhu X, Zhu YH, Zoulkarneev R, Zoulkarneeva Y. Higher moments of net proton multiplicity distributions at RHIC. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 105:022302. [PMID: 20867702 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.022302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We report the first measurements of the kurtosis (κ), skewness (S), and variance (σ2) of net-proton multiplicity (Np-Np) distributions at midrapidity for Au+Au collisions at square root of s(NN)=19.6, 62.4, and 200 GeV corresponding to baryon chemical potentials (μB) between 200 and 20 MeV. Our measurements of the products κσ2 and Sσ, which can be related to theoretical calculations sensitive to baryon number susceptibilities and long-range correlations, are constant as functions of collision centrality. We compare these products with results from lattice QCD and various models without a critical point and study the square root of s(NN) dependence of κσ2. From the measurements at the three beam energies, we find no evidence for a critical point in the QCD phase diagram for μB below 200 MeV.
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Abelev BI, Aggarwal MM, Ahammed Z, Alakhverdyants AV, Anderson BD, Arkhipkin D, Averichev GS, Balewski J, Barannikova O, Barnby LS, Baumgart S, Beavis DR, Bellwied R, Betancourt MJ, Betts RR, Bhasin A, Bhati AK, Bichsel H, Bielcik J, Bielcikova J, Biritz B, Bland LC, Bnzarov I, Bonner BE, Bouchet J, Braidot E, Brandin AV, Bridgeman A, Bruna E, Bueltmann S, Burton TP, Cai XZ, Caines H, Calderón de la Barca Sánchez M, Catu O, Cebra D, Cendejas R, Cervantes MC, Chajecki Z, Chaloupka P, Chattopadhyay S, Chen HF, Chen JH, Chen JY, Cheng J, Cherney M, Chikanian A, Choi KE, Christie W, Chung P, Clarke RF, Codrington MJM, Corliss R, Cramer JG, Crawford HJ, Das D, Dash S, Davila Leyva A, De Silva LC, Debbe RR, Dedovich TG, DePhillips M, Derevschikov AA, Derradi de Souza R, Didenko L, Djawotho P, Dogra SM, Dong X, Drachenberg JL, Draper JE, Dunlop JC, Dutta Mazumdar MR, Efimov LG, Elhalhuli E, Elnimr M, Engelage J, Eppley G, Erazmus B, Estienne M, Eun L, Fachini P, Fatemi R, Fedorisin J, Fersch RG, Filip P, Finch E, Fine V, Fisyak Y, Gagliardi CA, Gangadharan DR, Ganti MS, Garcia-Solis EJ, Geromitsos A, Geurts F, Ghazikhanian V, Ghosh P, Gorbunov YN, Gordon A, Grebenyuk O, Grosnick D, Grube B, Guertin SM, Gupta A, Gupta N, Guryn W, Haag B, Hallman TJ, Hamed A, Han LX, Harris JW, Hays-Wehle JP, Heinz M, Heppelmann S, Hirsch A, Hjort E, Hoffman AM, Hoffmann GW, Hofman DJ, Hollis RS, Huang HZ, Humanic TJ, Huo L, Igo G, Iordanova A, Jacobs P, Jacobs WW, Jakl P, Jena C, Jin F, Jones CL, Jones PG, Joseph J, Judd EG, Kabana S, Kajimoto K, Kang K, Kapitan J, Kauder K, Keane D, Kechechyan A, Kettler D, Khodyrev VY, Kikola DP, Kiryluk J, Kisiel A, Knospe AG, Kocoloski A, Koetke DD, Kollegger T, Konzer J, Kopytine M, Koralt I, Korsch W, Kotchenda L, Kouchpil V, Kravtsov P, Kravtsov VI, Krueger K, Krus M, Kumar L, Kurnadi P, Lamont MAC, Landgraf JM, LaPointe S, Lauret J, Lebedev A, Lednicky R, Lee CH, Lee JH, Leight W, LeVine MJ, Li C, Li L, Li N, Li W, Li X, Li X, Li Y, Li Z, Lin G, Lindenbaum SJ, Lisa MA, Liu F, Liu H, Liu J, Ljubicic T, Llope WJ, Longacre RS, Love WA, Lu Y, Ludlam T, Ma GL, Ma YG, Mahapatra DP, Majka R, Mall OI, Mangotra LK, Manweiler R, Margetis S, Markert C, Masui H, Matis HS, Matulenko YA, McDonald D, McShane TS, Meschanin A, Milner R, Minaev NG, Mioduszewski S, Mischke A, Mitrovski MK, Mohanty B, Morozov DA, Munhoz MG, Nandi BK, Nattrass C, Nayak TK, Nelson JM, Netrakanti PK, Ng MJ, Nogach LV, Nurushev SB, Odyniec G, Ogawa A, Okada H, Okorokov V, Olson D, Pachr M, Page BS, Pal SK, Pandit Y, Panebratsev Y, Pawlak T, Peitzmann T, Perevoztchikov V, Perkins C, Peryt W, Phatak SC, Pile P, Planinic M, Ploskon MA, Pluta J, Plyku D, Poljak N, Poskanzer AM, Potukuchi BVKS, Powell CB, Prindle D, Pruneau C, Pruthi NK, Pujahari PR, Putschke J, Raniwala R, Raniwala S, Ray RL, Redwine R, Reed R, Rehberg JM, Ritter HG, Roberts JB, Rogachevskiy OV, Romero JL, Rose A, Roy C, Ruan L, Sahoo R, Sakai S, Sakrejda I, Sakuma T, Salur S, Sandweiss J, Sangaline E, Schambach J, Scharenberg RP, Schmitz N, Schuster TR, Seele J, Seger J, Selyuzhenkov I, Seyboth P, Shahaliev E, Shao M, Sharma M, Shi SS, Sichtermann EP, Simon F, Singaraju RN, Skoby MJ, Smirnov N, Sorensen P, Sowinski J, Spinka HM, Srivastava B, Stanislaus TDS, Staszak D, Stevens JR, Stock R, Strikhanov M, Stringfellow B, Suaide AAP, Suarez MC, Subba NL, Sumbera M, Sun XM, Sun Y, Sun Z, Surrow B, Symons TJM, Szanto de Toledo A, Takahashi J, Tang AH, Tang Z, Tarini LH, Tarnowsky T, Thein D, Thomas JH, Tian J, Timmins AR, Timoshenko S, Tlusty D, Tokarev M, Tram VN, Trentalange S, Tribble RE, Tsai OD, Ulery J, Ullrich T, Underwood DG, Van Buren G, van Nieuwenhuizen G, van Leeuwen M, Vanfossen JA, Varma R, Vasconcelos GMS, Vasiliev AN, Videbæk F, Viyogi YP, Vokal S, Wada M, Walker M, Wang F, Wang G, Wang H, Wang JS, Wang Q, Wang X, Wang XL, Wang Y, Webb G, Webb JC, Westfall GD, Whitten C, Wieman H, Wingfield E, Wissink SW, Witt R, Wu Y, Xie W, Xu N, Xu QH, Xu W, Xu Y, Xu Z, Xue L, Yang Y, Yepes P, Yip K, Yoo IK, Yue Q, Zawisza M, Zbroszczyk H, Zhan W, Zhang S, Zhang WM, Zhang XP, Zhang Y, Zhang ZP, Zhao J, Zhong C, Zhou J, Zhou W, Zhu X, Zhu YH, Zoulkarneev R, Zoulkarneeva Y. Three-particle coincidence of the long range pseudorapidity correlation in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 105:022301. [PMID: 20867701 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.022301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We report the first three-particle coincidence measurement in pseudorapidity (Δη) between a high transverse momentum (p⊥) trigger particle and two lower p⊥ associated particles within azimuth |Δϕ|<0.7 in square root of s(NN)=200 GeV d+Au and Au+Au collisions. Charge ordering properties are exploited to separate the jetlike component and the ridge (long range Δη correlation). The results indicate that the correlation of ridge particles are uniform not only with respect to the trigger particle but also between themselves event by event in our measured Δη. In addition, the production of the ridge appears to be uncorrelated to the presence of the narrow jetlike component.
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Aaltonen T, Adelman J, Alvarez González B, Amerio S, Amidei D, Anastassov A, Annovi A, Antos J, Apollinari G, Apresyan A, Arisawa T, Artikov A, Asaadi J, Ashmanskas W, Attal A, Aurisano A, Azfar F, Badgett W, Barbaro-Galtieri A, Barnes VE, Barnett BA, Barria P, Bartos P, Bauer G, Beauchemin PH, Bedeschi F, Beecher D, Behari S, Bellettini G, Bellinger J, Benjamin D, Beretvas A, Bhatti A, Binkley M, Bisello D, Bizjak I, Blair RE, Blocker C, Blumenfeld B, Bocci A, Bodek A, Boisvert V, Bortoletto D, Boudreau J, Boveia A, Brau B, Bridgeman A, Brigliadori L, Bromberg C, Brubaker E, Budagov J, Budd HS, Budd S, Burkett K, Busetto G, Bussey P, Buzatu A, Byrum KL, Cabrera S, Calancha C, Camarda S, Campanelli M, Campbell M, Canelli F, Canepa A, Carls B, Carlsmith D, Carosi R, Carrillo S, Carron S, Casal B, Casarsa M, Castro A, Catastini P, Cauz D, Cavaliere V, Cavalli-Sforza M, Cerri A, Cerrito L, Chang SH, Chen YC, Chertok M, Chiarelli G, Chlachidze G, Chlebana F, Cho K, Chokheli D, Chou JP, Chung K, Chung WH, Chung YS, Chwalek T, Ciobanu CI, Ciocci MA, Clark A, Clark D, Compostella G, Convery ME, Conway J, Corbo M, Cordelli M, Cox CA, Cox DJ, Crescioli F, Cuenca Almenar C, Cuevas J, Culbertson R, Cully JC, Dagenhart D, Datta M, Davies T, de Barbaro P, De Cecco S, Deisher A, De Lorenzo G, Dell'orso M, Deluca C, Demortier L, Deng J, Deninno M, d'Errico M, Di Canto A, di Giovanni GP, Di Ruzza B, Dittmann JR, D'Onofrio M, Donati S, Dong P, Dorigo T, Dube S, Ebina K, Elagin A, Erbacher R, Errede D, Errede S, Ershaidat N, Eusebi R, Fang HC, Farrington S, Fedorko WT, Feild RG, Feindt M, Fernandez JP, Ferrazza C, Field R, Flanagan G, Forrest R, Frank MJ, Franklin M, Freeman JC, Furic I, Gallinaro M, Galyardt J, Garberson F, Garcia JE, Garfinkel AF, Garosi P, Gerberich H, Gerdes D, Gessler A, Giagu S, Giakoumopoulou V, Giannetti P, Gibson K, Gimmell JL, Ginsburg CM, Giokaris N, Giordani M, Giromini P, Giunta M, Giurgiu G, Glagolev V, Glenzinski D, Gold M, Goldschmidt N, Golossanov A, Gomez G, Gomez-Ceballos G, Goncharov M, González O, Gorelov I, Goshaw AT, Goulianos K, Gresele A, Grinstein S, Grosso-Pilcher C, Group RC, Grundler U, Guimaraes da Costa J, Gunay-Unalan Z, Haber C, Hahn SR, Halkiadakis E, Han BY, Han JY, Happacher F, Hara K, Hare D, Hare M, Harr RF, Hartz M, Hatakeyama K, Hays C, Heck M, Heinrich J, Herndon M, Heuser J, Hewamanage S, Hidas D, Hill CS, Hirschbuehl D, Hocker A, Hou S, Houlden M, Hsu SC, Hughes RE, Hurwitz M, Husemann U, Hussein M, Huston J, Incandela J, Introzzi G, Iori M, Ivanov A, James E, Jang D, Jayatilaka B, Jeon EJ, Jha MK, Jindariani S, Johnson W, Jones M, Joo KK, Jun SY, Jung JE, Junk TR, Kamon T, Kar D, Karchin PE, Kato Y, Kephart R, Ketchum W, Keung J, Khotilovich V, Kilminster B, Kim DH, Kim HS, Kim HW, Kim JE, Kim MJ, Kim SB, Kim SH, Kim YK, Kimura N, Kirsch L, Klimenko S, Kondo K, Kong DJ, Konigsberg J, Korytov A, Kotwal AV, Kreps M, Kroll J, Krop D, Krumnack N, Kruse M, Krutelyov V, Kuhr T, Kulkarni NP, Kurata M, Kwang S, Laasanen AT, Lami S, Lammel S, Lancaster M, Lander RL, Lannon K, Lath A, Latino G, Lazzizzera I, Lecompte T, Lee E, Lee HS, Lee JS, Lee SW, Leone S, Lewis JD, Lin CJ, Linacre J, Lindgren M, Lipeles E, Lister A, Litvintsev DO, Liu C, Liu T, Lockyer NS, Loginov A, Lovas L, Lucchesi D, Lueck J, Lujan P, Lukens P, Lungu G, Lys J, Lysak R, Macqueen D, Madrak R, Maeshima K, Makhoul K, Maksimovic P, Malde S, Malik S, Manca G, Manousakis-Katsikakis A, Margaroli F, Marino C, Marino CP, Martin A, Martin V, Martínez M, Martínez-Ballarín R, Mastrandrea P, Mathis M, Mattson ME, Mazzanti P, McFarland KS, McIntyre P, McNulty R, Mehta A, Mehtala P, Menzione A, Mesropian C, Miao T, Mietlicki D, Miladinovic N, Miller R, Mills C, Milnik M, Mitra A, Mitselmakher G, Miyake H, Moed S, Moggi N, Mondragon MN, Moon CS, Moore R, Morello MJ, Morlock J, Movilla Fernandez P, Mülmenstädt J, Mukherjee A, Muller T, Murat P, Mussini M, Nachtman J, Nagai Y, Naganoma J, Nakamura K, Nakano I, Napier A, Nett J, Neu C, Neubauer MS, Neubauer S, Nielsen J, Nodulman L, Norman M, Norniella O, Nurse E, Oakes L, Oh SH, Oh YD, Oksuzian I, Okusawa T, Orava R, Osterberg K, Pagan Griso S, Pagliarone C, Palencia E, Papadimitriou V, Papaikonomou A, Paramanov AA, Parks B, Pashapour S, Patrick J, Pauletta G, Paulini M, Paus C, Peiffer T, Pellett DE, Penzo A, Phillips TJ, Piacentino G, Pianori E, Pinera L, Pitts K, Plager C, Pondrom L, Potamianos K, Poukhov O, Prokoshin F, Pronko A, Ptohos F, Pueschel E, Punzi G, Pursley J, Rademacker J, Rahaman A, Ramakrishnan V, Ranjan N, Redondo I, Renton P, Renz M, Rescigno M, Richter S, Rimondi F, Ristori L, Robson A, Rodrigo T, Rodriguez T, Rogers E, Rolli S, Roser R, Rossi M, Rossin R, Roy P, Ruiz A, Russ J, Rusu V, Rutherford B, Saarikko H, Safonov A, Sakumoto WK, Santi L, Sartori L, Sato K, Savoy-Navarro A, Schlabach P, Schmidt A, Schmidt EE, Schmidt MA, Schmidt MP, Schmitt M, Schwarz T, Scodellaro L, Scribano A, Scuri F, Sedov A, Seidel S, Seiya Y, Semenov A, Sexton-Kennedy L, Sforza F, Sfyrla A, Shalhout SZ, Shears T, Shepard PF, Shimojima M, Shiraishi S, Shochet M, Shon Y, Shreyber I, Simonenko A, Sinervo P, Sisakyan A, Slaughter AJ, Slaunwhite J, Sliwa K, Smith JR, Snider FD, Snihur R, Soha A, Somalwar S, Sorin V, Squillacioti P, Stanitzki M, St Denis R, Stelzer B, Stelzer-Chilton O, Stentz D, Strologas J, Strycker GL, Suh JS, Sukhanov A, Suslov I, Taffard A, Takashima R, Takeuchi Y, Tanaka R, Tang J, Tecchio M, Teng PK, Thom J, Thome J, Thompson GA, Thomson E, Tipton P, Ttito-Guzmán P, Tkaczyk S, Toback D, Tokar S, Tollefson K, Tomura T, Tonelli D, Torre S, Torretta D, Totaro P, Tourneur S, Trovato M, Tsai SY, Tu Y, Turini N, Ukegawa F, Uozumi S, van Remortel N, Varganov A, Vataga E, Vázquez F, Velev G, Vellidis C, Vidal M, Vila I, Vilar R, Vogel M, Volobouev I, Volpi G, Wagner P, Wagner RG, Wagner RL, Wagner W, Wagner-Kuhr J, Wakisaka T, Wallny R, Wang SM, Warburton A, Waters D, Weinberger M, Weinelt J, Wester WC, Whitehouse B, Whiteson D, Wicklund AB, Wicklund E, Wilbur S, Williams G, Williams HH, Wilson P, Winer BL, Wittich P, Wolbers S, Wolfe C, Wolfe H, Wright T, Wu X, Würthwein F, Yagil A, Yamamoto K, Yamaoka J, Yang UK, Yang YC, Yao WM, Yeh GP, Yi K, Yoh J, Yorita K, Yoshida T, Yu GB, Yu I, Yu SS, Yun JC, Zanetti A, Zeng Y, Zhang X, Zheng Y, Zucchelli S. Measurement of the ratio σ{tt}/σ{Z/γ{*}→ll} and precise extraction of the tt cross section. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 105:012001. [PMID: 20867436 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.012001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We report a measurement of the ratio of the tt to Z/γ{*} production cross sections in sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV pp collisions using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of up to 4.6 fb{-1}, collected by the CDF II detector. The tt cross section ratio is measured using two complementary methods, a b-jet tagging measurement and a topological approach. By multiplying the ratios by the well-known theoretical Z/γ{*}→ll cross section predicted by the standard model, the extracted tt cross sections are effectively insensitive to the uncertainty on luminosity. A best linear unbiased estimate is used to combine both measurements with the result σ{tt}=7.70±0.52 pb, for a top-quark mass of 172.5 GeV/c{2}.
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Rosario M, Bridgeman A, Quakkelaar ED, Quigley MF, Hill BJ, Knudsen ML, Ammendola V, Ljungberg K, Borthwick N, Im EJ, McMichael AJ, Drijfhout JW, Greenaway HY, Venturi V, Douek DC, Colloca S, Liljeström P, Nicosia A, Price DA, Melief CJM, Hanke T. Long peptides induce polyfunctional T cells against conserved regions of HIV-1 with superior breadth to single-gene vaccines in macaques. Eur J Immunol 2010; 40:1973-84. [PMID: 20468055 DOI: 10.1002/eji.201040344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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A novel T-cell vaccine strategy designed to deal with the enormity of HIV-1 variation is described and tested for the first time in macaques to inform and complement approaching clinical trials. T-cell immunogen HIVconsv, which directs vaccine-induced responses to the most conserved regions of the HIV-1, proteome and thus both targets diverse clades in the population and reduces the chance of escape in infected individuals, was delivered using six different vaccine modalities: plasmid DNA (D), attenuated human (A) and chimpanzee (C) adenoviruses, modified vaccinia virus Ankara (M), synthetic long peptides, and Semliki Forest virus replicons. We confirmed that the initial DDDAM regimen, which mimics one of the clinical schedules (DDDCM), is highly immunogenic in macaques. Furthermore, adjuvanted synthetic long peptides divided into sub-pools and delivered into anatomically separate sites induced T-cell responses that were markedly broader than those elicited by traditional single-open-reading-frame genetic vaccines and increased by 30% the overall response magnitude compared with DDDAM. Thus, by improving both the HIV-1-derived immunogen and vector regimen/delivery, this approach could induce stronger, broader, and theoretically more protective T-cell responses than vaccines previously used in humans.
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Aaltonen T, Adelman J, Akimoto T, Alvarez González B, Amerio S, Amidei D, Anastassov A, Annovi A, Antos J, Apollinari G, Apresyan A, Arisawa T, Artikov A, Ashmanskas W, Attal A, Aurisano A, Azfar F, Badgett W, Barbaro-Galtieri A, Barnes VE, Barnett BA, Barria P, Bartsch V, Bauer G, Beauchemin PH, Bedeschi F, Beecher D, Behari S, Bellettini G, Bellinger J, Benjamin D, Beretvas A, Beringer J, Bhatti A, Binkley M, Bisello D, Bizjak I, Blair RE, Blocker C, Blumenfeld B, Bocci A, Bodek A, Boisvert V, Bolla G, Bortoletto D, Boudreau J, Boveia A, Brau B, Bridgeman A, Brigliadori L, Bromberg C, Brubaker E, Budagov J, Budd HS, Budd S, Burke S, Burkett K, Busetto G, Bussey P, Buzatu A, Byrum KL, Cabrera S, Calancha C, Campanelli M, Campbell M, Canelli F, Canepa A, Carls B, Carlsmith D, Carosi R, Carrillo S, Carron S, Casal B, Casarsa M, Castro A, Catastini P, Cauz D, Cavaliere V, Cavalli-Sforza M, Cerri A, Cerrito L, Chang SH, Chen YC, Chertok M, Chiarelli G, Chlachidze G, Chlebana F, Cho K, Chokheli D, Chou JP, Choudalakis G, Chuang SH, Chung K, Chung WH, Chung YS, Chwalek T, Ciobanu CI, Ciocci MA, Clark A, Clark D, Compostella G, Convery ME, Conway J, Cordelli M, Cortiana G, Cox CA, Cox DJ, Crescioli F, Cuenca Almenar C, Cuevas J, Culbertson R, Cully JC, Dagenhart D, Datta M, Davies T, de Barbaro P, De Cecco S, Deisher A, De Lorenzo G, Dell'orso M, Deluca C, Demortier L, Deng J, Deninno M, Derwent PF, Di Canto A, di Giovanni GP, Dionisi C, Di Ruzza B, Dittmann JR, D'Onofrio M, Donati S, Dong P, Donini J, Dorigo T, Dube S, Efron J, Elagin A, Erbacher R, Errede D, Errede S, Eusebi R, Fang HC, Farrington S, Fedorko WT, Feild RG, Feindt M, Fernandez JP, Ferrazza C, Field R, Flanagan G, Forrest R, Frank MJ, Franklin M, Freeman JC, Furic I, Gallinaro M, Galyardt J, Garberson F, Garcia JE, Garfinkel AF, Garosi P, Genser K, Gerberich H, Gerdes D, Gessler A, Giagu S, Giakoumopoulou V, Giannetti P, Gibson K, Gimmell JL, Ginsburg CM, Giokaris N, Giordani M, Giromini P, Giunta M, Giurgiu G, Glagolev V, Glenzinski D, Gold M, Goldschmidt N, Golossanov A, Gomez G, Gomez-Ceballos G, Goncharov M, González O, Gorelov I, Goshaw AT, Goulianos K, Gresele A, Grinstein S, Grosso-Pilcher C, Group RC, Grundler U, Guimaraes da Costa J, Gunay-Unalan Z, Haber C, Hahn K, Hahn SR, Halkiadakis E, Han BY, Han JY, Happacher F, Hara K, Hare D, Hare M, Harper S, Harr RF, Harris RM, Hartz M, Hatakeyama K, Hays C, Heck M, Heijboer A, Heinrich J, Henderson C, Herndon M, Heuser J, Hewamanage S, Hidas D, Hill CS, Hirschbuehl D, Hocker A, Hou S, Houlden M, Hsu SC, Huffman BT, Hughes RE, Husemann U, Hussein M, Huston J, Incandela J, Introzzi G, Iori M, Ivanov A, James E, Jang D, Jayatilaka B, Jeon EJ, Jha MK, Jindariani S, Johnson W, Jones M, Joo KK, Jun SY, Jung JE, Junk TR, Kamon T, Kar D, Karchin PE, Kato Y, Kephart R, Ketchum W, Keung J, Khotilovich V, Kilminster B, Kim DH, Kim HS, Kim HW, Kim JE, Kim MJ, Kim SB, Kim SH, Kim YK, Kimura N, Kirsch L, Klimenko S, Knuteson B, Ko BR, Kondo K, Kong DJ, Konigsberg J, Korytov A, Kotwal AV, Kreps M, Kroll J, Krop D, Krumnack N, Kruse M, Krutelyov V, Kubo T, Kuhr T, Kulkarni NP, Kurata M, Kwang S, Laasanen AT, Lami S, Lammel S, Lancaster M, Lander RL, Lannon K, Lath A, Latino G, Lazzizzera I, Lecompte T, Lee E, Lee HS, Lee SW, Leone S, Lewis JD, Lin CS, Linacre J, Lindgren M, Lipeles E, Lister A, Litvintsev DO, Liu C, Liu T, Lockyer NS, Loginov A, Loreti M, Lovas L, Lucchesi D, Luci C, Lueck J, Lujan P, Lukens P, Lungu G, Lyons L, Lys J, Lysak R, Macqueen D, Madrak R, Maeshima K, Makhoul K, Maki T, Maksimovic P, Malde S, Malik S, Manca G, Manousakis-Katsikakis A, Margaroli F, Marino C, Marino CP, Martin A, Martin V, Martínez M, Martínez-Ballarín R, Maruyama T, Mastrandrea P, Masubuchi T, Mathis M, Mattson ME, Mazzanti P, McFarland KS, McIntyre P, McNulty R, Mehta A, Mehtala P, Menzione A, Merkel P, Mesropian C, Miao T, Miladinovic N, Miller R, Mills C, Milnik M, Mitra A, Mitselmakher G, Miyake H, Moggi N, Moon CS, Moore R, Morello MJ, Morlock J, Movilla Fernandez P, Mülmenstädt J, Mukherjee A, Muller T, Mumford R, Murat P, Mussini M, Nachtman J, Nagai Y, Nagano A, Naganoma J, Nakamura K, Nakano I, Napier A, Necula V, Nett J, Neu C, Neubauer MS, Neubauer S, Nielsen J, Nodulman L, Norman M, Norniella O, Nurse E, Oakes L, Oh SH, Oh YD, Oksuzian I, Okusawa T, Orava R, Osterberg K, Pagan Griso S, Palencia E, Papadimitriou V, Papaikonomou A, Paramonov AA, Parks B, Pashapour S, Patrick J, Pauletta G, Paulini M, Paus C, Peiffer T, Pellett DE, Penzo A, Phillips TJ, Piacentino G, Pianori E, Pinera L, Pitts K, Plager C, Pondrom L, Poukhov O, Pounder N, Prakoshyn F, Pronko A, Proudfoot J, Ptohos F, Pueschel E, Punzi G, Pursley J, Rademacker J, Rahaman A, Ramakrishnan V, Ranjan N, Redondo I, Renton P, Renz M, Rescigno M, Richter S, Rimondi F, Ristori L, Robson A, Rodrigo T, Rodriguez T, Rogers E, Rolli S, Roser R, Rossi M, Rossin R, Roy P, Ruiz A, Russ J, Rusu V, Rutherford B, Saarikko H, Safonov A, Sakumoto WK, Saltó O, Santi L, Sarkar S, Sartori L, Sato K, Savoy-Navarro A, Schlabach P, Schmidt A, Schmidt EE, Schmidt MA, Schmidt MP, Schmitt M, Schwarz T, Scodellaro L, Scribano A, Scuri F, Sedov A, Seidel S, Seiya Y, Semenov A, Sexton-Kennedy L, Sforza F, Sfyrla A, Shalhout SZ, Shears T, Shepard PF, Shimojima M, Shiraishi S, Shochet M, Shon Y, Shreyber I, Sinervo P, Sisakyan A, Slaughter AJ, Slaunwhite J, Sliwa K, Smith JR, Snider FD, Snihur R, Soha A, Somalwar S, Sorin V, Spreitzer T, Squillacioti P, Stanitzki M, St Denis R, Stelzer B, Stelzer-Chilton O, Stentz D, Strologas J, Strycker GL, Suh JS, Sukhanov A, Suslov I, Suzuki T, Taffard A, Takashima R, Takeuchi Y, Tanaka R, Tecchio M, Teng PK, Terashi K, Thom J, Thompson AS, Thompson GA, Thomson E, Tipton P, Ttito-Guzmán P, Tkaczyk S, Toback D, Tokar S, Tollefson K, Tomura T, Tonelli D, Torre S, Torretta D, Totaro P, Tourneur S, Trovato M, Tsai SY, Tu Y, Turini N, Ukegawa F, Vallecorsa S, van Remortel N, Varganov A, Vataga E, Vázquez F, Velev G, Vellidis C, Vidal M, Vidal R, Vila I, Vilar R, Vine T, Vogel M, Volobouev I, Volpi G, Wagner P, Wagner RG, Wagner RL, Wagner W, Wagner-Kuhr J, Wakisaka T, Wallny R, Wang SM, Warburton A, Waters D, Weinberger M, Weinelt J, Wester WC, Whitehouse B, Whiteson D, Wicklund AB, Wicklund E, Wilbur S, Williams G, Williams HH, Wilson P, Winer BL, Wittich P, Wolbers S, Wolfe C, Wright T, Wu X, Würthwein F, Xie S, Yagil A, Yamamoto K, Yamaoka J, Yang UK, Yang YC, Yao WM, Yeh GP, Yoh J, Yorita K, Yoshida T, Yu GB, Yu I, Yu SS, Yun JC, Zanello L, Zanetti A, Zhang X, Zheng Y, Zucchelli S. Search for pair production of supersymmetric top quarks in dilepton events from pp collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 104:251801. [PMID: 20867364 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.251801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2009] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We present the results of a search for pair production of the supersymmetric partner of the top quark (the top squark t{1}) decaying to a b quark and a chargino χ{1}{±} with a subsequent χ{1}{±} decay into a neutralino χ{1}{0}, lepton ℓ, and neutrino ν. Using a data sample corresponding to 2.7 fb{-1} of integrated luminosity of pp collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV collected by the CDF II detector, we reconstruct the mass of top squark candidate events and fit the observed mass spectrum to a combination of standard model processes and t{1}t{1} signal. We find no evidence for t{1}t{1} production and set 95% C.L. limits on the masses of the top squark and the neutralino for several values of the chargino mass and the branching ratio B(χ{1}{±}→χ{1}{0}ℓ{±}ν).
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Aaltonen T, Adelman J, Alvarez González B, Amerio S, Amidei D, Anastassov A, Annovi A, Antos J, Apollinari G, Appel J, Apresyan A, Arisawa T, Artikov A, Asaadi J, Ashmanskas W, Attal A, Aurisano A, Azfar F, Badgett W, Barbaro-Galtieri A, Barnes VE, Barnett BA, Barria P, Bartos P, Bauer G, Beauchemin PH, Bedeschi F, Beecher D, Behari S, Bellettini G, Bellinger J, Benjamin D, Beretvas A, Bhatti A, Binkley M, Bisello D, Bizjak I, Blair RE, Blocker C, Blumenfeld B, Bocci A, Bodek A, Boisvert V, Bortoletto D, Boudreau J, Boveia A, Brau B, Bridgeman A, Brigliadori L, Bromberg C, Brubaker E, Budagov J, Budd HS, Budd S, Burkett K, Busetto G, Bussey P, Buzatu A, Byrum KL, Cabrera S, Calancha C, Camarda S, Campanelli M, Campbell M, Canelli F, Canepa A, Carls B, Carlsmith D, Carosi R, Carrillo S, Carron S, Casal B, Casarsa M, Castro A, Catastini P, Cauz D, Cavaliere V, Cavalli-Sforza M, Cerri A, Cerrito L, Chang SH, Chen YC, Chertok M, Chiarelli G, Chlachidze G, Chlebana F, Cho K, Chokheli D, Chou JP, Chung K, Chung WH, Chung YS, Chwalek T, Ciobanu CI, Ciocci MA, Clark A, Clark D, Compostella G, Convery ME, Conway J, Corbo M, Cordelli M, Cox CA, Cox DJ, Crescioli F, Cuenca Almenar C, Cuevas J, Culbertson R, Cully JC, Dagenhart D, d'Ascenzo N, Datta M, Davies T, de Barbaro P, De Cecco S, Deisher A, De Lorenzo G, Dell'Orso M, Deluca C, Demortier L, Deng J, Deninno M, d'Errico M, Di Canto A, Di Ruzza B, Dittmann JR, D'Onofrio M, Donati S, Dong P, Dorigo T, Dube S, Ebina K, Elagin A, Erbacher R, Errede D, Errede S, Ershaidat N, Eusebi R, Fang HC, Farrington S, Fedorko WT, Feild RG, Feindt M, Fernandez JP, Ferrazza C, Field R, Flanagan G, Forrest R, Frank MJ, Franklin M, Freeman JC, Furic I, Gallinaro M, Galyardt J, Garberson F, Garcia JE, Garfinkel AF, Garosi P, Gerberich H, Gerdes D, Gessler A, Giagu S, Giakoumopoulou V, Giannetti P, Gibson K, Gimmell JL, Ginsburg CM, Giokaris N, Giordani M, Giromini P, Giunta M, Giurgiu G, Glagolev V, Glenzinski D, Gold M, Goldschmidt N, Golossanov A, Gomez G, Gomez-Ceballos G, Goncharov M, González O, Gorelov I, Goshaw AT, Goulianos K, Gresele A, Grinstein S, Grosso-Pilcher C, Group RC, Grundler U, Guimaraes da Costa J, Gunay-Unalan Z, Haber C, Hahn SR, Halkiadakis E, Han BY, Han JY, Happacher F, Hara K, Hare D, Hare M, Harr RF, Hartz M, Hatakeyama K, Hays C, Heck M, Heinrich J, Herndon M, Heuser J, Hewamanage S, Hidas D, Hill CS, Hirschbuehl D, Hocker A, Hou S, Houlden M, Hsu SC, Hughes RE, Hurwitz M, Husemann U, Hussein M, Huston J, Incandela J, Introzzi G, Iori M, Ivanov A, James E, Jang D, Jayatilaka B, Jeon EJ, Jha MK, Jindariani S, Johnson W, Jones M, Joo KK, Jun SY, Jung JE, Junk TR, Kamon T, Kar D, Karchin PE, Kato Y, Kephart R, Ketchum W, Keung J, Khotilovich V, Kilminster B, Kim DH, Kim HS, Kim HW, Kim JE, Kim MJ, Kim SB, Kim SH, Kim YK, Kimura N, Kirsch L, Klimenko S, Ko BR, Kondo K, Kong DJ, Konigsberg J, Korytov A, Kotwal AV, Kreps M, Kroll J, Krop D, Krumnack N, Kruse M, Krutelyov V, Kuhr T, Kulkarni NP, Kurata M, Kwang S, Laasanen AT, Lami S, Lammel S, Lancaster M, Lander RL, Lannon K, Lath A, Latino G, Lazzizzera I, LeCompte T, Lee E, Lee HS, Lee JS, Lee SW, Leone S, Lewis JD, Lin CJ, Linacre J, Lindgren M, Lipeles E, Lister A, Litvintsev DO, Liu C, Liu T, Lockyer NS, Loginov A, Lovas L, Lucchesi D, Lueck J, Lujan P, Lukens P, Lungu G, Lys J, Lysak R, MacQueen D, Madrak R, Maeshima K, Makhoul K, Maksimovic P, Malde S, Malik S, Manca G, Manousakis-Katsikakis A, Margaroli F, Marino C, Marino CP, Martin A, Martin V, Martínez M, Martínez-Ballarín R, Mastrandrea P, Mathis M, Mattson ME, Mazzanti P, McFarland KS, McIntyre P, McNulty R, Mehta A, Mehtala P, Menzione A, Mesropian C, Miao T, Mietlicki D, Miladinovic N, Miller R, Mills C, Milnik M, Mitra A, Mitselmakher G, Miyake H, Moed S, Moggi N, Mondragon MN, Moon CS, Moore R, Morello MJ, Morlock J, Movilla Fernandez P, Mülmenstädt J, Mukherjee A, Muller T, Murat P, Mussini M, Nachtman J, Nagai Y, Naganoma J, Nakamura K, Nakano I, Napier A, Nett J, Neu C, Neubauer MS, Neubauer S, Nielsen J, Nodulman L, Norman M, Norniella O, Nurse E, Oakes L, Oh SH, Oh YD, Oksuzian I, Okusawa T, Orava R, Osterberg K, Pagan Griso S, Pagliarone C, Palencia E, Papadimitriou V, Papaikonomou A, Paramanov AA, Parks B, Pashapour S, Patrick J, Pauletta G, Paulini M, Paus C, Peiffer T, Pellett DE, Penzo A, Phillips TJ, Piacentino G, Pianori E, Pinera L, Pitts K, Plager C, Pondrom L, Potamianos K, Poukhov O, Prokoshin F, Pronko A, Ptohos F, Pueschel E, Punzi G, Pursley J, Rademacker J, Rahaman A, Ramakrishnan V, Ranjan N, Redondo I, Renton P, Renz M, Rescigno M, Richter S, Rimondi F, Ristori L, Robson A, Rodrigo T, Rodriguez T, Rogers E, Rolli S, Roser R, Rossi M, Rossin R, Roy P, Ruiz A, Russ J, Rusu V, Rutherford B, Saarikko H, Safonov A, Sakumoto WK, Santi L, Sartori L, Sato K, Saveliev V, Savoy-Navarro A, Schlabach P, Schmidt A, Schmidt EE, Schmidt MA, Schmidt MP, Schmitt M, Schwarz T, Scodellaro L, Scribano A, Scuri F, Sedov A, Seidel S, Seiya Y, Semenov A, Sexton-Kennedy L, Sforza F, Sfyrla A, Shalhout SZ, Shears T, Shepard PF, Shimojima M, Shiraishi S, Shochet M, Shon Y, Shreyber I, Simonenko A, Sinervo P, Sisakyan A, Slaughter AJ, Slaunwhite J, Sliwa K, Smith JR, Snider FD, Snihur R, Soha A, Somalwar S, Sorin V, Squillacioti P, Stanitzki M, St Denis R, Stelzer B, Stelzer-Chilton O, Stentz D, Strologas J, Strycker GL, Suh JS, Sukhanov A, Suslov I, Taffard A, Takashima R, Takeuchi Y, Tanaka R, Tang J, Tecchio M, Teng PK, Thom J, Thome J, Thompson GA, Thomson E, Tipton P, Ttito-Guzmán P, Tkaczyk S, Toback D, Tokar S, Tollefson K, Tomura T, Tonelli D, Torre S, Torretta D, Totaro P, Trovato M, Tsai SY, Tu Y, Turini N, Ukegawa F, Uozumi S, van Remortel N, Varganov A, Vataga E, Vázquez F, Velev G, Vellidis C, Vidal M, Vila I, Vilar R, Vogel M, Volobouev I, Volpi G, Wagner P, Wagner RG, Wagner RL, Wagner W, Wagner-Kuhr J, Wakisaka T, Wallny R, Wang C, Wang SM, Warburton A, Waters D, Weinberger M, Weinelt J, Wester WC, Whitehouse B, Whiteson D, Wicklund AB, Wicklund E, Wilbur S, Williams G, Williams HH, Wilson P, Winer BL, Wittich P, Wolbers S, Wolfe C, Wolfe H, Wright T, Wu X, Würthwein F, Yagil A, Yamamoto K, Yamaoka J, Yang UK, Yang YC, Yao WM, Yeh GP, Yi K, Yoh J, Yorita K, Yoshida T, Yu GB, Yu I, Yu SS, Yun JC, Zanetti A, Zeng Y, Zhang X, Zheng Y, Zucchelli S. Search for WW and WZ resonances decaying to electron, missing E(T), and two jets in pp collisions at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 104:241801. [PMID: 20867293 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.241801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Using data from 2.9 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected with the CDF II detector at the Tevatron, we search for resonances decaying into a pair of on-shell gauge bosons, WW or WZ, where one W decays into an electron and a neutrino, and the other boson decays into two jets. We observed no statistically significant excess above the expected standard model background, and we set cross section limits at 95% confidence level on G* (Randall-Sundrum graviton), Z', and W' bosons. By comparing these limits to theoretical cross sections, mass exclusion regions for the three particles are derived. The mass exclusion regions for Z' and W' are further evaluated as a function of their gauge coupling strength.
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Aaltonen T, Adelman J, Alvarez González B, Amerio S, Amidei D, Anastassov A, Annovi A, Antos J, Apollinari G, Apresyan A, Arisawa T, Artikov A, Asaadi J, Ashmanskas W, Attal A, Aurisano A, Azfar F, Badgett W, Barbaro-Galtieri A, Barnes VE, Barnett BA, Barria P, Bartos P, Bauer G, Beauchemin PH, Bedeschi F, Beecher D, Behari S, Bellettini G, Bellinger J, Benjamin D, Beretvas A, Bhatti A, Binkley M, Bisello D, Bizjak I, Blair RE, Blocker C, Blumenfeld B, Bocci A, Bodek A, Boisvert V, Bortoletto D, Boudreau J, Boveia A, Brau B, Bridgeman A, Brigliadori L, Bromberg C, Brubaker E, Budagov J, Budd HS, Budd S, Burkett K, Busetto G, Bussey P, Buzatu A, Byrum KL, Cabrera S, Calancha C, Camarda S, Campanelli M, Campbell M, Canelli F, Canepa A, Carls B, Carlsmith D, Carosi R, Carrillo S, Carron S, Casal B, Casarsa M, Castro A, Catastini P, Cauz D, Cavaliere V, Cavalli-Sforza M, Cerri A, Cerrito L, Chang SH, Chen YC, Chertok M, Chiarelli G, Chlachidze G, Chlebana F, Cho K, Chokheli D, Chou JP, Chung K, Chung WH, Chung YS, Chwalek T, Ciobanu CI, Ciocci MA, Clark A, Clark D, Compostella G, Convery ME, Conway J, Corbo M, Cordelli M, Cox CA, Cox DJ, Crescioli F, Cuenca Almenar C, Cuevas J, Culbertson R, Cully JC, Dagenhart D, Datta M, Davies T, de Barbaro P, De Cecco S, Deisher A, De Lorenzo G, Dell'Orso M, Deluca C, Demortier L, Deng J, Deninno M, d'Errico M, Di Canto A, di Giovanni GP, Di Ruzza B, Dittmann JR, D'Onofrio M, Donati S, Dong P, Dorigo T, Dube S, Ebina K, Elagin A, Erbacher R, Errede D, Errede S, Ershaidat N, Eusebi R, Fang HC, Farrington S, Fedorko WT, Feild RG, Feindt M, Fernandez JP, Ferrazza C, Field R, Flanagan G, Forrest R, Frank MJ, Franklin M, Freeman JC, Furic I, Gallinaro M, Galyardt J, Garberson F, Garcia JE, Garfinkel AF, Garosi P, Gerberich H, Gerdes D, Gessler A, Giagu S, Giakoumopoulou V, Giannetti P, Gibson K, Gimmell JL, Ginsburg CM, Giokaris N, Giordani M, Giromini P, Giunta M, Giurgiu G, Glagolev V, Glenzinski D, Gold M, Goldschmidt N, Golossanov A, Gomez G, Gomez-Ceballos G, Goncharov M, González O, Gorelov I, Goshaw AT, Goulianos K, Gresele A, Grinstein S, Grosso-Pilcher C, Group RC, Grundler U, Guimaraes da Costa J, Gunay-Unalan Z, Haber C, Hahn SR, Halkiadakis E, Han BY, Han JY, Happacher F, Hara K, Hare D, Hare M, Harr RF, Hartz M, Hatakeyama K, Hays C, Heck M, Heinrich J, Herndon M, Heuser J, Hewamanage S, Hidas D, Hill CS, Hirschbuehl D, Hocker A, Hou S, Houlden M, Hsu SC, Hughes RE, Hurwitz M, Husemann U, Hussein M, Huston J, Incandela J, Introzzi G, Iori M, Ivanov A, James E, Jang D, Jayatilaka B, Jeon EJ, Jha MK, Jindariani S, Johnson W, Jones M, Joo KK, Jun SY, Jung JE, Junk TR, Kamon T, Kar D, Karchin PE, Kato Y, Kephart R, Ketchum W, Keung J, Khotilovich V, Kilminster B, Kim DH, Kim HS, Kim HW, Kim JE, Kim MJ, Kim SB, Kim SH, Kim YK, Kimura N, Kirsch L, Klimenko S, Kondo K, Kong DJ, Konigsberg J, Korytov A, Kotwal AV, Kreps M, Kroll J, Krop D, Krumnack N, Kruse M, Krutelyov V, Kuhr T, Kulkarni NP, Kurata M, Kwang S, Laasanen AT, Lami S, Lammel S, Lancaster M, Lander RL, Lannon K, Lath A, Latino G, Lazzizzera I, LeCompte T, Lee E, Lee HS, Lee JS, Lee SW, Leone S, Lewis JD, Lin CJ, Linacre J, Lindgren M, Lipeles E, Lister A, Litvintsev DO, Liu C, Liu T, Lockyer NS, Loginov A, Lovas L, Lucchesi D, Lueck J, Lujan P, Lukens P, Lungu G, Lys J, Lysak R, MacQueen D, Madrak R, Maeshima K, Makhoul K, Maksimovic P, Malde S, Malik S, Manca G, Manousakis-Katsikakis A, Margaroli F, Marino C, Marino CP, Martin A, Martin V, Martínez M, Martínez-Ballarín R, Mastrandrea P, Mathis M, Mattson ME, Mazzanti P, McFarland KS, McIntyre P, McNulty R, Mehta A, Mehtala P, Menzione A, Mesropian C, Miao T, Mietlicki D, Miladinovic N, Miller R, Mills C, Milnik M, Mitra A, Mitselmakher G, Miyake H, Moed S, Moggi N, Mondragon MN, Moon CS, Moore R, Morello MJ, Morlock J, Movilla Fernandez P, Mülmenstädt J, Mukherjee A, Muller T, Murat P, Mussini M, Nachtman J, Nagai Y, Naganoma J, Nakamura K, Nakano I, Napier A, Nett J, Neu C, Neubauer MS, Neubauer S, Nielsen J, Nodulman L, Norman M, Norniella O, Nurse E, Oakes L, Oh SH, Oh YD, Oksuzian I, Okusawa T, Orava R, Osterberg K, Pagan Griso S, Pagliarone C, Palencia E, Papadimitriou V, Papaikonomou A, Paramanov AA, Parks B, Pashapour S, Patrick J, Pauletta G, Paulini M, Paus C, Peiffer T, Pellett DE, Penzo A, Phillips TJ, Piacentino G, Pianori E, Pinera L, Pitts K, Plager C, Pondrom L, Potamianos K, Poukhov O, Prokoshin F, Pronko A, Ptohos F, Pueschel E, Punzi G, Pursley J, Rademacker J, Rahaman A, Ramakrishnan V, Ranjan N, Redondo I, Renton P, Renz M, Rescigno M, Richter S, Rimondi F, Ristori L, Robson A, Rodrigo T, Rodriguez T, Rogers E, Rolli S, Roser R, Rossi M, Rossin R, Roy P, Ruiz A, Russ J, Rusu V, Rutherford B, Saarikko H, Safonov A, Sakumoto WK, Santi L, Sartori L, Sato K, Savoy-Navarro A, Schlabach P, Schmidt A, Schmidt EE, Schmidt MA, Schmidt MP, Schmitt M, Schwarz T, Scodellaro L, Scribano A, Scuri F, Sedov A, Seidel S, Seiya Y, Semenov A, Sexton-Kennedy L, Sforza F, Sfyrla A, Shalhout SZ, Shears T, Shepard PF, Shimojima M, Shiraishi S, Shochet M, Shon Y, Shreyber I, Simonenko A, Sinervo P, Sisakyan A, Slaughter AJ, Slaunwhite J, Sliwa K, Smith JR, Snider FD, Snihur R, Soha A, Somalwar S, Sorin V, Squillacioti P, Stanitzki M, St Denis R, Stelzer B, Stelzer-Chilton O, Stentz D, Strologas J, Strycker GL, Suh JS, Sukhanov A, Suslov I, Taffard A, Takashima R, Takeuchi Y, Tanaka R, Tang J, Tecchio M, Teng PK, Thom J, Thome J, Thompson GA, Thomson E, Tipton P, Ttito-Guzmán P, Tkaczyk S, Toback D, Tokar S, Tollefson K, Tomura T, Tonelli D, Torre S, Torretta D, Totaro P, Tourneur S, Trovato M, Tsai SY, Tu Y, Turini N, Ukegawa F, Uozumi S, Vanguri R, van Remortel N, Varganov A, Vataga E, Vázquez F, Velev G, Vellidis C, Vidal M, Vila I, Vilar R, Vogel M, Volobouev I, Volpi G, Wagner P, Wagner RG, Wagner RL, Wagner W, Wagner-Kuhr J, Wakisaka T, Wallny R, Wang SM, Warburton A, Waters D, Weinberger M, Weinelt J, Wester WC, Whitehouse B, Whiteson D, Wicklund AB, Wicklund E, Wilbur S, Williams G, Williams HH, Wilson P, Winer BL, Wittich P, Wolbers S, Wolfe C, Wolfe H, Wright T, Wu X, Würthwein F, Yagil A, Yamamoto K, Yamaoka J, Yang UK, Yang YC, Yao WM, Yeh GP, Yi K, Yoh J, Yorita K, Yoshida T, Yu GB, Yu I, Yu SS, Yun JC, Zanetti A, Zeng Y, Zhang X, Zheng Y, Zucchelli S. Measurement of the W+ W- production cross section and search for anomalous WWγ and WWZ couplings in pp collisions at square root(s)=1.96 TeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 104:201801. [PMID: 20867022 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.201801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2009] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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This Letter describes the current most precise measurement of the W boson pair production cross section and most sensitive test of anomalous WWγ and WWZ couplings in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The WW candidates are reconstructed from decays containing two charged leptons and two neutrinos. Using data collected by the CDF II detector from 3.6 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity, a total of 654 candidate events are observed with an expected background of 320±47 events. The measured cross section is σ(pp→W+ W- +X)=12.1±0.9(stat)-1.4+1.6(syst) pb, which is in good agreement with the standard model prediction. The same data sample is used to place constraints on anomalous WWγ and WWZ couplings.
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Aaltonen T, Adelman J, Alvarez González B, Amerio S, Amidei D, Anastassov A, Annovi A, Antos J, Apollinari G, Apresyan A, Arisawa T, Artikov A, Asaadi J, Ashmanskas W, Attal A, Aurisano A, Azfar F, Badgett W, Barbaro-Galtieri A, Barnes VE, Barnett BA, Barria P, Bartos P, Bauer G, Beauchemin PH, Bedeschi F, Beecher D, Behari S, Bellettini G, Bellinger J, Benjamin D, Beretvas A, Bhatti A, Binkley M, Bisello D, Bizjak I, Blair RE, Blocker C, Blumenfeld B, Bocci A, Bodek A, Boisvert V, Bortoletto D, Boudreau J, Boveia A, Brau B, Bridgeman A, Brigliadori L, Bromberg C, Brubaker E, Budagov J, Budd HS, Budd S, Burkett K, Busetto G, Bussey P, Buzatu A, Byrum KL, Cabrera S, Calancha C, Camarda S, Campanelli M, Campbell M, Canelli F, Canepa A, Carls B, Carlsmith D, Carosi R, Carrillo S, Carron S, Casal B, Casarsa M, Castro A, Catastini P, Cauz D, Cavaliere V, Cavalli-Sforza M, Cerri A, Cerrito L, Chang SH, Chen YC, Chertok M, Chiarelli G, Chlachidze G, Chlebana F, Cho K, Chokheli D, Chou JP, Chung K, Chung WH, Chung YS, Chwalek T, Ciobanu CI, Ciocci MA, Clark A, Clark D, Compostella G, Convery ME, Conway J, Corbo M, Cordelli M, Cox CA, Cox DJ, Crescioli F, Cuenca Almenar C, Cuevas J, Culbertson R, Cully JC, Dagenhart D, Datta M, Davies T, de Barbaro P, De Cecco S, Deisher A, De Lorenzo G, Dell'Orso M, Deluca C, Demortier L, Deng J, Deninno M, d'Errico M, Di Canto A, di Giovanni GP, Di Ruzza B, Dittmann JR, D'Onofrio M, Donati S, Dong P, Dorigo T, Dube S, Ebina K, Elagin A, Erbacher R, Errede D, Errede S, Ershaidat N, Eusebi R, Fang HC, Farrington S, Fedorko WT, Feild RG, Feindt M, Fernandez JP, Ferrazza C, Field R, Flanagan G, Forrest R, Frank MJ, Franklin M, Freeman JC, Furic I, Gallinaro M, Galyardt J, Garberson F, Garcia JE, Garfinkel AF, Garosi P, Gerberich H, Gerdes D, Gessler A, Giagu S, Giakoumopoulou V, Giannetti P, Gibson K, Gimmell JL, Ginsburg CM, Giokaris N, Giordani M, Giromini P, Giunta M, Giurgiu G, Glagolev V, Glenzinski D, Gold M, Goldschmidt N, Golossanov A, Gomez G, Gomez-Ceballos G, Goncharov M, González O, Gorelov I, Goshaw AT, Goulianos K, Gresele A, Grinstein S, Grosso-Pilcher C, Group RC, Grundler U, Guimaraes da Costa J, Gunay-Unalan Z, Haber C, Hahn SR, Halkiadakis E, Han BY, Han JY, Happacher F, Hara K, Hare D, Hare M, Harr RF, Hartz M, Hatakeyama K, Hays C, Heck M, Heinrich J, Herndon M, Heuser J, Hewamanage S, Hidas D, Hill CS, Hirschbuehl D, Hocker A, Hou S, Houlden M, Hsu SC, Hughes RE, Hurwitz M, Husemann U, Hussein M, Huston J, Incandela J, Introzzi G, Iori M, Ivanov A, James E, Jang D, Jayatilaka B, Jeon EJ, Jha MK, Jindariani S, Johnson W, Jones M, Joo KK, Jun SY, Jung JE, Junk TR, Kamon T, Kar D, Karchin PE, Kato Y, Kephart R, Ketchum W, Keung J, Khotilovich V, Kilminster B, Kim DH, Kim HS, Kim HW, Kim JE, Kim MJ, Kim SB, Kim SH, Kim YK, Kimura N, Kirsch L, Klimenko S, Kondo K, Kong DJ, Konigsberg J, Korytov A, Kotwal AV, Kreps M, Kroll J, Krop D, Krumnack N, Kruse M, Krutelyov V, Kuhr T, Kulkarni NP, Kurata M, Kwang S, Laasanen AT, Lami S, Lammel S, Lancaster M, Lander RL, Lannon K, Lath A, Latino G, Lazzizzera I, LeCompte T, Lee E, Lee HS, Lee JS, Lee SW, Leone S, Lewis JD, Lin CJ, Linacre J, Lindgren M, Lipeles E, Lister A, Litvintsev DO, Liu C, Liu T, Lockyer NS, Loginov A, Lovas L, Lucchesi D, Lueck J, Lujan P, Lukens P, Lungu G, Lys J, Lysak R, MacQueen D, Madrak R, Maeshima K, Makhoul K, Maksimovic P, Malde S, Malik S, Manca G, Manousakis-Katsikakis A, Margaroli F, Marino C, Marino CP, Martin A, Martin V, Martínez M, Martínez-Ballarín R, Mastrandrea P, Mathis M, Mattson ME, Mazzanti P, McFarland KS, McIntyre P, McNulty R, Mehta A, Mehtala P, Menzione A, Mesropian C, Miao T, Mietlicki D, Miladinovic N, Miller R, Mills C, Milnik M, Mitra A, Mitselmakher G, Miyake H, Moed S, Moggi N, Mondragon MN, Moon CS, Moore R, Morello MJ, Morlock J, Movilla Fernandez P, Mülmenstädt J, Mukherjee A, Muller T, Murat P, Mussini M, Nachtman J, Nagai Y, Naganoma J, Nakamura K, Nakano I, Napier A, Nett J, Neu C, Neubauer MS, Neubauer S, Nielsen J, Nodulman L, Norman M, Norniella O, Nurse E, Oakes L, Oh SH, Oh YD, Oksuzian I, Okusawa T, Orava R, Osterberg K, Pagan Griso S, Pagliarone C, Palencia E, Papadimitriou V, Papaikonomou A, Paramanov AA, Parks B, Pashapour S, Patrick J, Pauletta G, Paulini M, Paus C, Peiffer T, Pellett DE, Penzo A, Phillips TJ, Piacentino G, Pianori E, Pinera L, Pitts K, Plager C, Pondrom L, Potamianos K, Poukhov O, Prokoshin F, Pronko A, Ptohos F, Pueschel E, Punzi G, Pursley J, Rademacker J, Rahaman A, Ramakrishnan V, Ranjan N, Redondo I, Renton P, Renz M, Rescigno M, Richter S, Rimondi F, Ristori L, Robson A, Rodrigo T, Rodriguez T, Rogers E, Rolli S, Roser R, Rossi M, Rossin R, Roy P, Ruiz A, Russ J, Rusu V, Rutherford B, Saarikko H, Safonov A, Sakumoto WK, Santi L, Sartori L, Sato K, Savoy-Navarro A, Schlabach P, Schmidt A, Schmidt EE, Schmidt MA, Schmidt MP, Schmitt M, Schwarz T, Scodellaro L, Scribano A, Scuri F, Sedov A, Seidel S, Seiya Y, Semenov A, Sexton-Kennedy L, Sforza F, Sfyrla A, Shalhout SZ, Shears T, Shepard PF, Shimojima M, Shiraishi S, Shochet M, Shon Y, Shreyber I, Simonenko A, Sinervo P, Sisakyan A, Slaughter AJ, Slaunwhite J, Sliwa K, Smith JR, Snider FD, Snihur R, Soha A, Somalwar S, Sorin V, Squillacioti P, Stanitzki M, St Denis R, Stelzer B, Stelzer-Chilton O, Stentz D, Strologas J, Strycker GL, Suh JS, Sukhanov A, Suslov I, Taffard A, Takashima R, Takeuchi Y, Tanaka R, Tang J, Tecchio M, Teng PK, Thom J, Thome J, Thompson GA, Thomson E, Tipton P, Ttito-Guzmán P, Tkaczyk S, Toback D, Tokar S, Tollefson K, Tomura T, Tonelli D, Torre S, Torretta D, Totaro P, Tourneur S, Trovato M, Tsai SY, Tu Y, Turini N, Ukegawa F, Uozumi S, van Remortel N, Varganov A, Vataga E, Vázquez F, Velev G, Vellidis C, Vidal M, Vila I, Vilar R, Vogel M, Volobouev I, Volpi G, Wagner P, Wagner RG, Wagner RL, Wagner W, Wagner-Kuhr J, Wakisaka T, Wallny R, Wang SM, Warburton A, Waters D, Weinberger M, Weinelt J, Wester WC, Whitehouse B, Whiteson D, Wicklund AB, Wicklund E, Wilbur S, Williams G, Williams HH, Wilson P, Winer BL, Wittich P, Wolbers S, Wolfe C, Wolfe H, Wright T, Wu X, Würthwein F, Yagil A, Yamamoto K, Yamaoka J, Yang UK, Yang YC, Yao WM, Yeh GP, Yi K, Yoh J, Yorita K, Yoshida T, Yu GB, Yu I, Yu SS, Yun JC, Zanetti A, Zeng Y, Zhang X, Zheng Y, Zucchelli S. Search for the Higgs boson using neural networks in events with missing energy and b-quark jets in pp collisions at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 104:141801. [PMID: 20481931 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.141801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2009] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We report on a search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W or Z boson in pp collisions at square root(s)=1.96 TeV recorded by the CDF II experiment at the Tevatron in a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.1 fb(-1). We consider events which have no identified charged leptons, an imbalance in transverse momentum, and two or three jets where at least one jet is consistent with originating from the decay of a b hadron. We find good agreement between data and background predictions. We place 95% confidence level upper limits on the production cross section for several Higgs boson masses ranging from 110 GeV/c(2) to 150 GeV/c(2). For a mass of 115 GeV/c(2) the observed (expected) limit is 6.9 (5.6) times the standard model prediction.
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Aaltonen T, Adelman J, Akimoto T, Alvarez González B, Amerio S, Amidei D, Anastassov A, Annovi A, Antos J, Apollinari G, Apresyan A, Arisawa T, Artikov A, Ashmanskas W, Attal A, Aurisano A, Azfar F, Badgett W, Barbaro-Galtieri A, Barnes VE, Barnett BA, Barria P, Bartos P, Bartsch V, Bauer G, Beauchemin PH, Bedeschi F, Beecher D, Behari S, Bellettini G, Bellinger J, Benjamin D, Beretvas A, Beringer J, Bhatti A, Binkley M, Bisello D, Bizjak I, Blair RE, Blocker C, Blumenfeld B, Bocci A, Bodek A, Boisvert V, Bolla G, Bortoletto D, Boudreau J, Boveia A, Brau B, Bridgeman A, Brigliadori L, Bromberg C, Brubaker E, Budagov J, Budd HS, Budd S, Burke S, Burkett K, Busetto G, Bussey P, Buzatu A, Byrum KL, Cabrera S, Calancha C, Campanelli M, Campbell M, Canelli F, Canepa A, Carls B, Carlsmith D, Carosi R, Carrillo S, Carron S, Casal B, Casarsa M, Castro A, Catastini P, Cauz D, Cavaliere V, Cavalli-Sforza M, Cerri A, Cerrito L, Chang SH, Chen YC, Chertok M, Chiarelli G, Chlachidze G, Chlebana F, Cho K, Chokheli D, Chou JP, Choudalakis G, Chuang SH, Chung K, Chung WH, Chung YS, Chwalek T, Ciobanu CI, Ciocci MA, Clark A, Clark D, Compostella G, Convery ME, Conway J, Cordelli M, Cortiana G, Cox CA, Cox DJ, Crescioli F, Cuenca Almenar C, Cuevas J, Culbertson R, Cully JC, Dagenhart D, Datta M, Davies T, de Barbaro P, De Cecco S, Deisher A, De Lorenzo G, Dell'Orso M, Deluca C, Demortier L, Deng J, Deninno M, Derwent PF, Di Canto A, di Giovanni GP, Dionisi C, Di Ruzza B, Dittmann JR, D'Onofrio M, Donati S, Dong P, Donini J, Dorigo T, Dube S, Efron J, Elagin A, Erbacher R, Errede D, Errede S, Eusebi R, Fang HC, Farrington S, Fedorko WT, Feild RG, Feindt M, Fernandez JP, Ferrazza C, Field R, Flanagan G, Forrest R, Frank MJ, Franklin M, Freeman JC, Furic I, Gallinaro M, Galyardt J, Garberson F, Garcia JE, Garfinkel AF, Garosi P, Genser K, Gerberich H, Gerdes D, Gessler A, Giagu S, Giakoumopoulou V, Giannetti P, Gibson K, Gimmell JL, Ginsburg CM, Giokaris N, Giordani M, Giromini P, Giunta M, Giurgiu G, Glagolev V, Glenzinski D, Gold M, Goldschmidt N, Golossanov A, Gomez G, Gomez-Ceballos G, Goncharov M, González O, Gorelov I, Goshaw AT, Goulianos K, Gresele A, Grinstein S, Grosso-Pilcher C, Group RC, Grundler U, Guimaraes da Costa J, Gunay-Unalan Z, Haber C, Hahn K, Hahn SR, Halkiadakis E, Han BY, Han JY, Happacher F, Hara K, Hare D, Hare M, Harper S, Harr RF, Harris RM, Hartz M, Hatakeyama K, Hays C, Heck M, Heijboer A, Heinrich J, Henderson C, Herndon M, Heuser J, Hewamanage S, Hidas D, Hill CS, Hirschbuehl D, Hocker A, Hou S, Houlden M, Hsu SC, Huffman BT, Hughes RE, Husemann U, Hussein M, Huston J, Incandela J, Introzzi G, Iori M, Ivanov A, James E, Jang D, Jayatilaka B, Jeon EJ, Jha MK, Jindariani S, Johnson W, Jones M, Joo KK, Jun SY, Jung JE, Junk TR, Kamon T, Kar D, Karchin PE, Kato Y, Kephart R, Ketchum W, Keung J, Khotilovich V, Kilminster B, Kim DH, Kim HS, Kim HW, Kim JE, Kim MJ, Kim SB, Kim SH, Kim YK, Kimura N, Kirsch L, Klimenko S, Knuteson B, Ko BR, Kondo K, Kong DJ, Konigsberg J, Korytov A, Kotwal AV, Kreps M, Kroll J, Krop D, Krumnack N, Kruse M, Krutelyov V, Kubo T, Kuhr T, Kulkarni NP, Kurata M, Kwang S, Laasanen AT, Lami S, Lammel S, Lancaster M, Lander RL, Lannon K, Lath A, Latino G, Lazzizzera I, LeCompte T, Lee E, Lee HS, Lee SW, Leone S, Lewis JD, Lin CS, Linacre J, Lindgren M, Lipeles E, Lister A, Litvintsev DO, Liu C, Liu T, Lockyer NS, Loginov A, Loreti M, Lovas L, Lucchesi D, Luci C, Lueck J, Lujan P, Lukens P, Lungu G, Lyons L, Lys J, Lysak R, MacQueen D, Madrak R, Maeshima K, Makhoul K, Maki T, Maksimovic P, Malde S, Malik S, Manca G, Manousakis-Katsikakis A, Margaroli F, Marino C, Marino CP, Martin A, Martin V, Martínez M, Martínez-Ballarín R, Maruyama T, Mastrandrea P, Masubuchi T, Mathis M, Mattson ME, Mazzanti P, McFarland KS, McIntyre P, McNulty R, Mehta A, Mehtala P, Menzione A, Merkel P, Mesropian C, Miao T, Miladinovic N, Miller R, Mills C, Milnik M, Mitra A, Mitselmakher G, Miyake H, Moed S, Moggi N, Mondragon MN, Moon CS, Moore R, Morello MJ, Morlock J, Movilla Fernandez P, Mülmenstädt J, Mukherjee A, Muller T, Mumford R, Murat P, Mussini M, Nachtman J, Nagai Y, Nagano A, Naganoma J, Nakamura K, Nakano I, Napier A, Necula V, Nett J, Neu C, Neubauer MS, Neubauer S, Nielsen J, Nodulman L, Norman M, Norniella O, Nurse E, Oakes L, Oh SH, Oh YD, Oksuzian I, Okusawa T, Orava R, Osterberg K, Pagan Griso S, Pagliarone C, Palencia E, Papadimitriou V, Papaikonomou A, Paramonov AA, Parks B, Pashapour S, Patrick J, Pauletta G, Paulini M, Paus C, Peiffer T, Pellett DE, Penzo A, Phillips TJ, Piacentino G, Pianori E, Pinera L, Pitts K, Plager C, Pondrom L, Poukhov O, Pounder N, Prakoshyn F, Pronko A, Proudfoot J, Ptohos F, Pueschel E, Punzi G, Pursley J, Rademacker J, Rahaman A, Ramakrishnan V, Ranjan N, Redondo I, Renton P, Renz M, Rescigno M, Richter S, Rimondi F, Ristori L, Robson A, Rodrigo T, Rodriguez T, Rogers E, Rolli S, Roser R, Rossi M, Rossin R, Roy P, Ruiz A, Russ J, Rusu V, Rutherford B, Saarikko H, Safonov A, Sakumoto WK, Saltó O, Santi L, Sarkar S, Sartori L, Sato K, Savoy-Navarro A, Schlabach P, Schmidt A, Schmidt EE, Schmidt MA, Schmidt MP, Schmitt M, Schwarz T, Scodellaro L, Scribano A, Scuri F, Sedov A, Seidel S, Seiya Y, Semenov A, Sexton-Kennedy L, Sforza F, Sfyrla A, Shalhout SZ, Shears T, Shepard PF, Shimojima M, Shiraishi S, Shochet M, Shon Y, Shreyber I, Simonenko A, Sinervo P, Sisakyan A, Slaughter AJ, Slaunwhite J, Sliwa K, Smith JR, Snider FD, Snihur R, Soderberg M, Soha A, Somalwar S, Sorin V, Spreitzer T, Squillacioti P, Stanitzki M, St Denis R, Stelzer B, Stelzer-Chilton O, Stentz D, Strologas J, Strycker GL, Suh JS, Sukhanov A, Suslov I, Suzuki T, Taffard A, Takashima R, Takeuchi Y, Tanaka R, Tecchio M, Teng PK, Terashi K, Thom J, Thompson AS, Thompson GA, Thomson E, Tipton P, Ttito-Guzmán P, Tkaczyk S, Toback D, Tokar S, Tollefson K, Tomura T, Tonelli D, Torre S, Torretta D, Totaro P, Tourneur S, Trovato M, Tsai SY, Tu Y, Turini N, Ukegawa F, Vallecorsa S, van Remortel N, Varganov A, Vataga E, Vázquez F, Velev G, Vellidis C, Vidal M, Vidal R, Vila I, Vilar R, Vine T, Vogel M, Volobouev I, Volpi G, Wagner P, Wagner RG, Wagner RL, Wagner W, Wagner-Kuhr J, Wakisaka T, Wallny R, Wang SM, Warburton A, Waters D, Weinberger M, Weinelt J, Wester WC, Whitehouse B, Whiteson D, Wicklund AB, Wicklund E, Wilbur S, Williams G, Williams HH, Wilson P, Winer BL, Wittich P, Wolbers S, Wolfe C, Wright T, Wu X, Würthwein F, Xie S, Yagil A, Yamamoto K, Yamaoka J, Yang UK, Yang YC, Yao WM, Yeh GP, Yi K, Yoh J, Yorita K, Yoshida T, Yu GB, Yu I, Yu SS, Yun JC, Zanello L, Zanetti A, Zhang X, Zheng Y, Zucchelli S. First measurement of the b-jet cross section in events with a W boson in pp collisions at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 104:131801. [PMID: 20481871 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.131801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2009] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The cross section for jets from b quarks produced with a W boson has been measured in pp collision data from 1.9 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity recorded by the CDF II detector at the Tevatron. The W+b-jets process poses a significant background in measurements of top quark production and prominent searches for the Higgs boson. We measure a b-jet cross section of 2.74+/-0.27(stat)+/-0.42(syst) pb in association with a single flavor of leptonic W boson decay over a limited kinematic phase space. This measured result cannot be accommodated in several available theoretical predictions.
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Abelev BI, Aggarwal MM, Ahammed Z, Alakhverdyants AV, Alekseev I, Anderson BD, Arkhipkin D, Averichev GS, Balewski J, Barnby LS, Baumgart S, Beavis DR, Bellwied R, Betancourt MJ, Betts RR, Bhasin A, Bhati AK, Bichsel H, Bielcik J, Bielcikova J, Biritz B, Bland LC, Bonner BE, Bouchet J, Braidot E, Brandin AV, Bridgeman A, Bruna E, Bueltmann S, Bunzarov I, Burton TP, Cai XZ, Caines H, Calderon M, Catu O, Cebra D, Cendejas R, Cervantes MC, Chajecki Z, Chaloupka P, Chattopadhyay S, Chen HF, Chen JH, Chen JY, Cheng J, Cherney M, Chikanian A, Choi KE, Christie W, Chung P, Clarke RF, Codrington MJM, Corliss R, Cramer JG, Crawford HJ, Das D, Dash S, Leyva AD, De Silva LC, Debbe RR, Dedovich TG, DePhillips M, Derevschikov AA, Derradi de Souza R, Didenko L, Djawotho P, Dogra SM, Dong X, Drachenberg JL, Draper JE, Dunlop JC, Dutta Mazumdar MR, Efimov LG, Elhalhuli E, Elnimr M, Engelage J, Eppley G, Erazmus B, Estienne M, Eun L, Evdokimov O, Fachini P, Fatemi R, Fedorisin J, Fersch RG, Filip P, Finch E, Fine V, Fisyak Y, Gagliardi CA, Gangadharan DR, Ganti MS, Garcia-Solis EJ, Geromitsos A, Geurts F, Ghazikhanian V, Ghosh P, Gorbunov YN, Gordon A, Grebenyuk O, Grosnick D, Grube B, Guertin SM, Gupta A, Gupta N, Guryn W, Haag B, Hamed A, Han LX, Harris JW, Hays-Wehle JP, Heinz M, Heppelmann S, Hirsch A, Hjort E, Hoffman AM, Hoffmann GW, Hofman DJ, Hollis RS, Huang B, Huang HZ, Humanic TJ, Huo L, Igo G, Iordanova A, Jacobs P, Jacobs WW, Jakl P, Jena C, Jin F, Jones CL, Jones PG, Joseph J, Judd EG, Kabana S, Kajimoto K, Kang K, Kapitan J, Kauder K, Keane D, Kechechyan A, Kettler D, Kikola DP, Kiryluk J, Kisiel A, Klein SR, Knospe AG, Kocoloski A, Koetke DD, Kollegger T, Konzer J, Kopytine M, Koralt I, Koroleva L, Korsch W, Kotchenda L, Kouchpil V, Kravtsov P, Krueger K, Krus M, Kumar L, Kurnadi P, Lamont MAC, Landgraf JM, LaPointe S, Lauret J, Lebedev A, Lednicky R, Lee CH, Lee JH, Leight W, Levine MJ, Li C, Li L, Li N, Li W, Li X, Li Y, Li Z, Lin G, Lindenbaum SJ, Lisa MA, Liu F, Liu H, Liu J, Ljubicic T, Llope WJ, Longacre RS, Love WA, Lu Y, Luo X, Ma GL, Ma YG, Mahapatra DP, Majka R, Mal OI, Mangotra LK, Manweiler R, Margetis S, Markert C, Masui H, Matis HS, Matulenko YA, McDonald D, McShane TS, Meschanin A, Milner R, Minaev NG, Mioduszewski S, Mischke A, Mitrovski MK, Mohanty B, Mondal MM, Morozov B, Morozov DA, Munhoz MG, Nandi BK, Nattrass C, Nayak TK, Nelson JM, Netrakanti PK, Ng MJ, Nogach LV, Nurushev SB, Odyniec G, Ogawa A, Okada H, Okorokov V, Olson D, Pachr M, Page BS, Pal SK, Pandit Y, Panebratsev Y, Pawlak T, Peitzmann T, Perevoztchikov V, Perkins C, Peryt W, Phatak SC, Pile P, Planinic M, Ploskon MA, Pluta J, Plyku D, Poljak N, Poskanzer AM, Potukuchi BVKS, Powell CB, Prindle D, Pruneau C, Pruthi NK, Pujahari PR, Putschke J, Qiu H, Raniwala R, Raniwala S, Ray RL, Redwine R, Reed R, Ritter HG, Roberts JB, Rogachevskiy OV, Romero JL, Rose A, Roy C, Ruan L, Sahoo R, Sakai S, Sakrejda I, Sakuma T, Salur S, Sandweiss J, Sangaline E, Schambach J, Scharenberg RP, Schmitz N, Schuster TR, Seele J, Seger J, Selyuzhenkov I, Seyboth P, Shahaliev E, Shao M, Sharma M, Shi SS, Sichtermann EP, Simon F, Singaraju RN, Skoby MJ, Smirnov N, Sorensen P, Sowinski J, Spinka HM, Srivastava B, Stanislaus TDS, Staszak D, Stevens JR, Stock R, Strikhanov M, Stringfellow B, Suaide AAP, Suarez MC, Subba NL, Sumbera M, Sun XM, Sun Y, Sun Z, Surrow B, Svirida DN, Symons TJM, Szanto de Toledo A, Takahashi J, Tang AH, Tang Z, Tarini LH, Tarnowsky T, Thein D, Thomas JH, Tian J, Timmins AR, Timoshenko S, Tlusty D, Tokarev M, Trainor TA, Tram VN, Trentalange S, Tribble RE, Tsai OD, Ulery J, Ullrich T, Underwood DG, Van Buren G, van Leeuwen M, van Nieuwenhuizen G, Vanfossen JA, Varma R, Vasconcelos GMS, Vasiliev AN, Videbaek F, Viyogi YP, Vokal S, Voloshin SA, Wada M, Walker M, Wang F, Wang G, Wang H, Wang JS, Wang Q, Wang XL, Wang Y, Webb G, Webb JC, Westfall GD, Whitten C, Wieman H, Wingfield E, Wissink SW, Witt R, Wu Y, Xie W, Xu H, Xu N, Xu QH, Xu W, Xu Y, Xu Z, Xue L, Yang Y, Yepes P, Yip K, Yoo IK, Yue Q, Zawisza M, Zbroszczyk H, Zhan W, Zhang J, Zhang S, Zhang WM, Zhang XP, Zhang Y, Zhang ZP, Zhao J, Zhong C, Zhou J, Zhou W, Zhu X, Zhu YH, Zoulkarneev R, Zoulkarneeva Y. Observation of an Antimatter Hypernucleus. Science 2010; 328:58-62. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1183980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 209] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Aaltonen T, Adelman J, Alvarez González B, Amerio S, Amidei D, Anastassov A, Annovi A, Antos J, Apollinari G, Apresyan A, Arisawa T, Artikov A, Asaadi J, Ashmanskas W, Attal A, Aurisano A, Azfar F, Badgett W, Barbaro-Galtieri A, Barnes VE, Barnett BA, Barria P, Bartos P, Bauer G, Beauchemin PH, Bedeschi F, Beecher D, Behari S, Bellettini G, Bellinger J, Benjamin D, Beretvas A, Bhatti A, Binkley M, Bisello D, Bizjak I, Blair RE, Blocker C, Blumenfeld B, Bocci A, Bodek A, Boisvert V, Bortoletto D, Boudreau J, Boveia A, Brau B, Bridgeman A, Brigliadori L, Bromberg C, Brubaker E, Budagov J, Budd HS, Budd S, Burkett K, Busetto G, Bussey P, Buzatu A, Byrum KL, Cabrera S, Calancha C, Camarda S, Campanelli M, Campbell M, Canelli F, Canepa A, Carls B, Carlsmith D, Carosi R, Carrillo S, Carron S, Casal B, Casarsa M, Castro A, Catastini P, Cauz D, Cavaliere V, Cavalli-Sforza M, Cerri A, Cerrito L, Chang SH, Chen YC, Chertok M, Chiarelli G, Chlachidze G, Chlebana F, Cho K, Chokheli D, Chou JP, Chung K, Chung WH, Chung YS, Chwalek T, Ciobanu CI, Ciocci MA, Clark A, Clark D, Compostella G, Convery ME, Conway J, Corbo M, Cordelli M, Cox CA, Cox DJ, Crescioli F, Cuenca Almenar C, Cuevas J, Culbertson R, Cully JC, Dagenhart D, Datta M, Davies T, de Barbaro P, De Cecco S, Deisher A, De Lorenzo G, Dell'orso M, Deluca C, Demortier L, Deng J, Deninno M, d'Errico M, Di Canto A, di Giovanni GP, Di Ruzza B, Dittmann JR, D'Onofrio M, Donati S, Dong P, Dorigo T, Dube S, Ebina K, Elagin A, Erbacher R, Errede D, Errede S, Ershaidat N, Eusebi R, Fang HC, Farrington S, Fedorko WT, Feild RG, Feindt M, Fernandez JP, Ferrazza C, Field R, Flanagan G, Forrest R, Frank MJ, Franklin M, Freeman JC, Furic I, Gallinaro M, Galyardt J, Garberson F, Garcia JE, Garfinkel AF, Garosi P, Gerberich H, Gerdes D, Gessler A, Giagu S, Giakoumopoulou V, Giannetti P, Gibson K, Gimmell JL, Ginsburg CM, Giokaris N, Giordani M, Giromini P, Giunta M, Giurgiu G, Glagolev V, Glenzinski D, Gold M, Goldschmidt N, Golossanov A, Gomez G, Gomez-Ceballos G, Goncharov M, González O, Gorelov I, Goshaw AT, Goulianos K, Gresele A, Grinstein S, Grosso-Pilcher C, Grundler U, Guimaraes da Costa J, Gunay-Unalan Z, Haber C, Hahn SR, Halkiadakis E, Han BY, Han JY, Happacher F, Hara K, Hare D, Hare M, Harr RF, Hartz M, Hatakeyama K, Hays C, Heck M, Heijboer A, Heinrich J, Henderson C, Herndon M, Heuser J, Hewamanage S, Hidas D, Hill CS, Hirschbuehl D, Hocker A, Hou S, Houlden M, Hsu SC, Hughes RE, Hurwitz M, Husemann U, Hussein M, Huston J, Incandela J, Introzzi G, Iori M, Ivanov A, James E, Jang D, Jayatilaka B, Jeon EJ, Jha MK, Jindariani S, Johnson W, Jones M, Joo KK, Jun SY, Jung JE, Junk TR, Kamon T, Kar D, Karchin PE, Kato Y, Kephart R, Ketchum W, Keung J, Khotilovich V, Kilminster B, Kim DH, Kim HS, Kim HW, Kim JE, Kim MJ, Kim SB, Kim SH, Kim YK, Kimura N, Kirsch L, Klimenko S, Kondo K, Kong DJ, Konigsberg J, Korytov A, Kotwal AV, Kreps M, Kroll J, Krop D, Krumnack N, Kruse M, Krutelyov V, Kuhr T, Kulkarni NP, Kurata M, Kwang S, Laasanen AT, Lami S, Lammel S, Lancaster M, Lander RL, Lannon K, Lath A, Latino G, Lazzizzera I, Lecompte T, Lee E, Lee HS, Lee JS, Lee SW, Leone S, Lewis JD, Lin CJ, Linacre J, Lindgren M, Lipeles E, Lister A, Litvintsev DO, Liu C, Liu T, Lockyer NS, Loginov A, Lovas L, Lucchesi D, Lueck J, Lujan P, Lukens P, Lungu G, Lys J, Lysak R, Macqueen D, Madrak R, Maeshima K, Makhoul K, Maksimovic P, Malde S, Malik S, Manca G, Manousakis-Katsikakis A, Margaroli F, Marino C, Marino CP, Martin A, Martin V, Martínez M, Martínez-Ballarín R, Mastrandrea P, Mathis M, Mattson ME, Mazzanti P, McFarland KS, McIntyre P, McNulty R, Mehta A, Mehtala P, Menzione A, Mesropian C, Miao T, Mietlicki D, Miladinovic N, Miller R, Mills C, Milnik M, Mitra A, Mitselmakher G, Miyake H, Moed S, Moggi N, Mondragon MN, Moon CS, Moore R, Morello MJ, Morlock J, Movilla Fernandez P, Mülmenstädt J, Mukherjee A, Muller T, Murat P, Mussini M, Nachtman J, Nagai Y, Naganoma J, Nakamura K, Nakano I, Napier A, Nett J, Neu C, Neubauer MS, Neubauer S, Nielsen J, Nodulman L, Norman M, Norniella O, Nurse E, Oakes L, Oh SH, Oh YD, Oksuzian I, Okusawa T, Orava R, Osterberg K, Pagan Griso S, Pagliarone C, Palencia E, Papadimitriou V, Papaikonomou A, Paramanov AA, Parks B, Pashapour S, Patrick J, Pauletta G, Paulini M, Paus C, Peiffer T, Pellett DE, Penzo A, Phillips TJ, Piacentino G, Pianori E, Pinera L, Pitts K, Plager C, Pondrom L, Potamianos K, Poukhov O, Prokoshin F, Pronko A, Ptohos F, Pueschel E, Punzi G, Pursley J, Rademacker J, Rahaman A, Ramakrishnan V, Ranjan N, Redondo I, Renton P, Renz M, Rescigno M, Richter S, Rimondi F, Ristori L, Robson A, Rodrigo T, Rodriguez T, Rogers E, Rolli S, Roser R, Rossi M, Rossin R, Roy P, Ruiz A, Russ J, Rusu V, Rutherford B, Saarikko H, Safonov A, Sakumoto WK, Santi L, Sartori L, Sato K, Savoy-Navarro A, Schlabach P, Schmidt A, Schmidt EE, Schmidt MA, Schmidt MP, Schmitt M, Schwarz T, Scodellaro L, Scribano A, Scuri F, Sedov A, Seidel S, Seiya Y, Semenov A, Sexton-Kennedy L, Sforza F, Sfyrla A, Shalhout SZ, Shears T, Shepard PF, Shimojima M, Shiraishi S, Shochet M, Shon Y, Shreyber I, Simonenko A, Sinervo P, Sisakyan A, Slaughter AJ, Slaunwhite J, Sliwa K, Smith JR, Snider FD, Snihur R, Soha A, Somalwar S, Sorin V, Squillacioti P, Stanitzki M, St Denis R, Stelzer B, Stelzer-Chilton O, Stentz D, Strologas J, Strycker GL, Suh JS, Sukhanov A, Suslov I, Taffard A, Takashima R, Takeuchi Y, Tanaka R, Tang J, Tecchio M, Teng PK, Thom J, Thome J, Thompson GA, Thomson E, Tipton P, Ttito-Guzmán P, Tkaczyk S, Toback D, Tokar S, Tollefson K, Tomura T, Tonelli D, Torre S, Torretta D, Totaro P, Tourneur S, Trovato M, Tsai SY, Tu Y, Turini N, Ukegawa F, Uozumi S, van Remortel N, Varganov A, Vataga E, Vázquez F, Velev G, Vellidis C, Vidal M, Vila I, Vilar R, Vogel M, Volobouev I, Volpi G, Wagner P, Wagner RG, Wagner RL, Wagner W, Wagner-Kuhr J, Wakisaka T, Wallny R, Wang SM, Warburton A, Waters D, Weinberger M, Weinelt J, Wester WC, Whitehouse B, Whiteson D, Wicklund AB, Wicklund E, Wilbur S, Williams G, Williams HH, Wilson P, Winer BL, Wittich P, Wolbers S, Wolfe C, Wolfe H, Wright T, Wu X, Würthwein F, Yagil A, Yamamoto K, Yamaoka J, Yang UK, Yang YC, Yao WM, Yeh GP, Yi K, Yoh J, Yorita K, Yoshida T, Yu GB, Yu I, Yu SS, Yun JC, Zanetti A, Zeng Y, Zhang X, Zheng Y, Zucchelli S. Search for technicolor particles produced in association with a W Boson at CDF. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 104:111802. [PMID: 20366464 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.111802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2009] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We present a search for the technicolor particles rho{T} and pi_{T} in the process pp-->rho{T}-->Wpi{T} at a center of mass energy of sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV. The search uses a data sample corresponding to approximately 1.9 fb{-1} of integrated luminosity accumulated by the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The event signature we consider is W-->lnu and pi{T}-->bb, bc or bu depending on the pi{T} charge. We select events with a single high-p{T} electron or muon, large missing transverse energy, and two jets. Jets corresponding to bottom quarks are identified with multiple b-tagging algorithms. The observed number of events and the invariant mass distributions are consistent with the standard model background expectations, and we exclude a region at 95% confidence level in the rho{T}-pi{T} mass plane. As a result, a large fraction of the region m(rho{T})=180-250 GeV/c{2} and m(pi{T})=95-145 GeV/c{2} is excluded.
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