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Aubert B, Barate R, Boutigny D, Couderc F, Karyotakis Y, Lees JP, Poireau V, Tisserand V, Zghiche A, Grauges E, Palano A, Pappagallo M, Pompili A, Chen JC, Qi ND, Rong G, Wang P, Zhu YS, Eigen G, Ofte I, Stugu B, Abrams GS, Battaglia M, Breon AB, Brown DN, Button-Shafer J, Cahn RN, Charles E, Day CT, Gill MS, Gritsan AV, Groysman Y, Jacobsen RG, Kadel RW, Kadyk J, Kerth LT, Kolomensky YG, Kukartsev G, Lynch G, Mir LM, Oddone PJ, Orimoto TJ, Pripstein M, Roe NA, Ronan MT, Wenzel WA, Barrett M, Ford KE, Harrison TJ, Hart AJ, Hawkes CM, Morgan SE, Watson AT, Fritsch M, Goetzen K, Held T, Koch H, Lewandowski B, Pelizaeus M, Peters K, Schroeder T, Steinke M, Boyd JT, Burke JP, Chevalier N, Cottingham WN, Cuhadar-Donszelmann T, Fulsom BG, Hearty C, Knecht NS, Mattison TS, McKenna JA, Khan A, Kyberd P, Saleem M, Teodorescu L, Blinov AE, Blinov VE, Bukin AD, Druzhinin VP, Golubev VB, Kravchenko EA, Onuchin AP, Serednyakov SI, Skovpen YI, Solodov EP, Yushkov AN, Best D, Bondioli M, Bruinsma M, Chao M, Curry S, Eschrich I, Kirkby D, Lankford AJ, Lund P, Mandelkern M, Mommsen RK, Roethel W, Stoker DP, Buchanan C, Hartfiel BL, Weinstein AJR, Foulkes SD, Gary JW, Long O, Shen BC, Wang K, Zhang L, del Re D, Hadavand HK, Hill EJ, MacFarlane DB, Paar HP, Rahatlou S, Sharma V, Berryhill JW, Campagnari C, Cunha A, Dahmes B, Hong TM, Mazur MA, Richman JD, Verkerke W, Beck TW, Eisner AM, Flacco CJ, Heusch CA, Kroseberg J, Lockman WS, Nesom G, Schalk T, Schumm BA, Seiden A, Spradlin P, Williams DC, Wilson MG, Albert J, Chen E, Dubois-Felsmann GP, Dvoretskii A, Hitlin DG, Narsky I, Piatenko T, Porter FC, Ryd A, Samuel A, Andreassen R, Mancinelli G, Meadows BT, Sokoloff MD, Blanc F, Bloom P, Chen S, Ford WT, Hirschauer JF, Kreisel A, Nauenberg U, Olivas A, Rankin P, Ruddick WO, Smith JG, Ulmer KA, Wagner SR, Zhang J, Chen A, Eckhart EA, Harton JL, Soffer A, Toki WH, Wilson RJ, Zeng Q, Aleksan R, Emery S, Gaidot A, Ganzhur SF, Giraud PF, Graziani G, Hamel de Monchenault G, Kozanecki W, Legendre M, London GW, Mayer B, Vasseur G, Yeche C, Zito M, Altenburg D, Feltresi E, Hauke A, Spaan B, Brandt T, Brose J, Dickopp M, Klose V, Lacker HM, Nogowski R, Otto S, Petzold A, Schubert J, Schubert KR, Schwierz R, Sundermann JE, Bernard D, Bonneaud GR, Grenier P, Schrenk S, Thiebaux C, Vasileiadis G, Verderi M, Bard DJ, Clark PJ, Gradl W, Muheim F, Playfer S, Xie Y, Andreotti M, Azzolini V, Bettoni D, Bozzi C, Calabrese R, Cibinetto G, Luppi E, Negrini M, Piemontese L, Anulli F, Baldini-Ferroli R, Calcaterra A, de Sangro R, Finocchiaro G, Patteri P, Peruzzi IM, Piccolo M, Zallo A, Buzzo A, Capra R, Contri R, Lo Vetere M, Macri M, Monge MR, Passaggio S, Patrignani C, Robutti E, Santroni A, Tosi S, Brandenburg G, Chaisanguanthum KS, Morii M, Won E, Wu J, Dubitzky RS, Langenegger U, Marks J, Schenk S, Uwer U, Martinez-Vidal F, Bhimji W, Bowerman DA, Dauncey PD, Egede U, Flack RL, Gaillard JR, Morton GW, Nash JA, Nikolich MB, Taylor GP, Vazquez WP, Charles MJ, Mader WF, Mallik U, Mohapatra AK, Cochran J, Crawley HB, Eyges V, Meyer WT, Prell S, Rosenberg EI, Rubin AE, Yi J, Biasini M, Covarelli R, Pacetti S, Pioppi M, Arnaud N, Davier M, Giroux X, Grosdidier G, Höcker A, Le Diberder F, Lepeltier V, Lutz AM, Oyanguren A, Petersen TC, Pierini M, Plaszczynski S, Rodier S, Roudeau P, Schune MH, Stocchi A, Wormser G, Cheng CH, Lange DJ, Simani MC, Wright DM, Bevan AJ, Chavez CA, Forster IJ, Fry JR, Gabathuler E, Gamet R, George KA, Hutchcroft DE, Parry RJ, Payne DJ, Schofield KC, Touramanis C, Cormack CM, Di Lodovico F, Menges W, Sacco R, Brown CL, Cowan G, Flaecher HU, Green MG, Hopkins DA, Jackson PS, McMahon TR, Ricciardi S, Salvatore F, Brown D, Davis CL, Allison J, Barlow NR, Barlow RJ, Edgar CL, Hodgkinson MC, Kelly MP, Lafferty GD, Naisbit MT, Williams JC, Chen C, Hulsbergen WD, Jawahery A, Kovalskyi D, Lae CK, Roberts DA, Simi G, Blaylock G, Dallapiccola C, Hertzbach SS, Kofler R, Koptchev VB, Li X, Moore TB, Saremi S, Staengle H, Willocq S, Cowan R, Koeneke K, Sciolla G, Sekula SJ, Spitznagel M, Taylor F, Yamamoto RK, Kim H, Patel PM, Robertson SH, Lazzaro A, Lombardo V, Palombo F, Bauer JM, Cremaldi L, Eschenburg V, Godang R, Kroeger R, Reidy J, Sanders DA, Summers DJ, Zhao HW, Brunet S, Cote D, Taras P, Viaud B, Nicholson H, Baak M, Bulten H, Raven G, Snoek HL, Wilden L, Cavallo N, De Nardo G, Fabozzi F, Gatto C, Lista L, Monorchio D, Paolucci P, Piccolo D, Sciacca C, Jessop CP, LoSecco JM, Allmendinger T, Benelli G, Gan KK, Honscheid K, Hufnagel D, Jackson PD, Kagan H, Kass R, Pulliam T, Rahimi AM, Ter-Antonyan R, Wong QK, Brau J, Frey R, Igonkina O, Lu M, Potter CT, Sinev NB, Strom D, Strube J, Torrence E, Galeazzi F, Margoni M, Morandin M, Posocco M, Rotondo M, Simonetto F, Stroili R, Voci C, Benayoun M, Briand H, Chauveau J, David P, de la Vaissiere C, Del Buono L, Hamon O, John MJJ, Leruste P, Malcles J, Ocariz J, Roos L, Therin G, Behera PK, Gladney L, Guo QH, Panetta J, Angelini C, Batignani G, Bettarini S, Bucci F, Calderini G, Carpinelli M, Cenci R, Forti F, Giorgi MA, Lusiani A, Marchiori G, Morganit M, Neri N, Paoloni E, Rama M, Rizzo G, Walsh J, Haire M, Judd D, Wagoner DE, Biesiada J, Danielson N, Elmer P, Lau Y, Lu C, Olsen J, Smith AJS, Telnov AV, Bellini F, Cavoto G, D'Orazio A, Di Marco E, Faccini R, Ferrarotto F, Ferroni F, Gaspero M, Li Gioi L, Mazzoni MA, Morganti S, Piredda G, Polci F, Safai Tehrani F, Voena C, Schröder H, Wagner G, Waldi R, Adye T, De Groot N, Franek B, Gopal GP, Olaiya EO, Wilson FF, Purohit MV, Weidemann AW, Wilson JR, Yumiceva FX, Abe T, Allen MT, Aston D, Bartoldus R, Berger N, Boyarski AM, Buchmueller OL, Claus R, Coleman JP, Convery MR, Cristinziani M, Dingfelder JC, Dong D, Dorfan J, Dujmic D, Dunwoodie W, Fan S, Field RC, Glanzman T, Gowdy SJ, Hadig T, Halyo V, Hast C, Hryn'ova T, Innes WR, Kelsey MH, Kim P, Kocian ML, Leith DWGS, Libby J, Luitz S, Luth V, Lynch HL, Marsiske H, Messner R, Muller DR, O'Grady CP, Ozcan VE, Perazzo A, Perl M, Ratcliff BN, Roodman A, Salnikov AA, Schindler RH, Schwiening J, Snyder A, Stelzer J, Su D, Sullivan MK, Suzuki K, Swain SK, Thompson JM, Va'vra J, van Bakel N, Weaver M, Wisniewski WJ, Wittgen M, Wright DH, Yarritu AK, Yi K, Young CC, Burchat PR, Edwards AJ, Majewski SA, Petersen BA, Roat C, Ahmed M, Ahmed S, Alam MS, Bula R, Ernst JA, Saeed MA, Wappler FR, Zain SB, Bugg W, Krishnamurthy M, Spanier SM, Eckmann R, Ritchie JL, Satpathy A, Schwitters RF, Izen JM, Kitayama I, Lou XC, Ye S, Bianchi F, Bona M, Gallo F, Gamba D, Bomben M, Bosisio L, Cartaro C, Cossutti F, Della Ricca G, Dittongo S, Grancagnolo S, Lanceri L, Vitale L, Panvini RS, Banerjee S, Bhuyan B, Brown CM, Fortin D, Hamano K, Kowalewski R, Roney JM, Sobie RJ, Back JJ, Harrison PF, Latham TE, Mohanty GB, Band HR, Chen X, Cheng B, Dasu S, Datta M, Eichenbaum AM, Flood KT, Graham M, Hollar JJ, Johnson JR, Kutter PE, Li H, Liu R, Mellado B, Mihalyi A, Pan Y, Prepost R, Tan P, von Wimmersperg-Toeller JH, Wu SL, Yu Z, Neal H, Schott G. Search for the rare decay B0-->tau+tau- at BABAR. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2006; 96:241802. [PMID: 16907230 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.241802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2005] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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We present the results of a search for the decay B0-->tau+tau- in a data sample of (232+/-3)x10(6) Upsilon(4S)-->BB decays using the BABAR detector. Certain extensions of the standard model predict measurable levels of this otherwise rare decay. We reconstruct fully one neutral B meson and seek evidence for the signal decay in the rest of the event. We find no evidence for signal events and obtain Beta(B0->tau+tau-)<4.1x10(-3) at the 90% confidence level.
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Prathapar SA, Ahmed M, Al Adawi S, Al Sidiari S. Design, construction and evaluation of an ablution water treatment unit in Oman: a case study. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1080/00207230600773257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Rehman A, Ahmed M, Shah S. Injuries in High Mountain Villages of Northern Pakistan. Am J Epidemiol 2006. [DOI: 10.1093/aje/163.suppl_11.s209-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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McDowell D, Condon E, Ahmed M, Crowe M, Barry M, Mehigan D. Synchronous Aortic and Superficial Femoral Artery Pneumococcal Mycotic Aneurysms in a 43-year-old Male: A Question of Timing! Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2005.11.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Esposito M, Ilbeigi P, Ahmed M, Lanteri V. Use of Fourth Arm in da Vinci Robot-Assisted Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Prostatectomy: Novel Technique. J Urol 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5347(06)00201-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Bond J, Flintoff K, Higgins J, Scott S, Bennet C, Parsons J, Mannon J, Jafri H, Rashid Y, Barrow M, Trembath R, Woodruff G, Rossa E, Lynch S, Sheilds J, Newbury-Ecob R, Falconer A, Holland P, Cockburn D, Karbani G, Malik S, Ahmed M, Roberts E, Taylor G, Woods CG. The importance of seeking ALMS1 mutations in infants with dilated cardiomyopathy. J Med Genet 2006; 42:e10. [PMID: 15689433 PMCID: PMC1735981 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.2004.026617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Mangoura D, Sun Y, Li C, Singh D, Gutmann DH, Flores A, Ahmed M, Vallianatos G. Phosphorylation of neurofibromin by PKC is a possible molecular switch in EGF receptor signaling in neural cells. Oncogene 2006; 25:735-45. [PMID: 16314845 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1209113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Children with neurofibromatosis (NF1) typically develop central nervous system (CNS) abnormalities, including aberrant proliferation of astrocytes and formation of benign astrocytomas. The NF1 gene encodes neurofibromin, a Ras-GAP, highly expressed in developing neural cells; the mechanism of regulation of neurofibromin as a Ras-GAP, remains however unknown. We now show that, in response to EGF, neurofibromin is in vivo phosphorylated on serine residues by PKC-alpha, in human, rat, and avian CNS cells and cell lines. EGF-induced PKC phosphorylation was prominent in the cysteine/serine-rich domain (CSRD) of neurofibromin, which lies in the N-terminus and upstream of the Ras-GAP domain (GRD), and this modification significantly increased the association of neurofibromin with actin in co-immunoprecipitations. In addition, we show that Ras activation in response to EGF was significantly lowered when C62B cells overexpressed a construct encoding both CSRD + GRD. Moreover, when PKC-alpha was downregulated, the Ras-GAP activity of CSRD + GRD was significantly diminished, whereas overexpressed GRD alone acted as a weaker GAP and in a PKC-independent manner. Most importantly, functional Ras inhibition and EGF signaling shifts were established at the single cell level in C6-derived cell lines stably overexpressing CSRD + GRD, when transient co-overexpression of Ras and PKC-depletion prior to stimulation with EGF-induced mitosis. Taken together, these data provide the first evidence of a functional, allosteric regulation of GRD by CSRD, which requires neurofibromin phosphorylation by PKC and association with the actin cytoskeleton. Our data may suggest a novel mechanism for regulating biological responses to EGF and provide a new aspect for the understanding of the aberrant proliferation seen in the CNS of children with NF1.
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Eslamian M, Ahmed M, Ashgriz N. Modelling of nanoparticle formation during spray pyrolysis. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2006; 17:1674-85. [PMID: 26558577 DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/17/6/023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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A mathematical model for the evaporation of micro- and nano-sized solution droplets is developed. This model is used to predict whether the particles produced by spray drying and pyrolysis are fully filled or hollow. The model includes the non-continuum effects on the droplet evaporation. This is achieved by combining an interpolation formula based on the numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation for the transition regime with the continuum based governing equations. Results show that the non-continuum effects can be significant for the evaporation of submicron and nano-sized droplets in atmospheric pressures. Correlations for the final particle size and its wall thickness in terms of reactor temperature and pressure and the initial solution concentration are developed. The predictions are in good agreement with experiments performed on the submicron zirconia particles, prepared by spray pyrolysis.
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Aubert B, Barate R, Boutigny D, Couderc F, Karyotakis Y, Lees JP, Poireau V, Tisserand V, Zghiche A, Grauges E, Palano A, Pappagallo M, Pompili A, Chen JC, Qi ND, Rong G, Wang P, Zhu YS, Eigen G, Ofte I, Stugu B, Abrams GS, Battaglia M, Breon AB, Brown DN, Button-Shafer J, Cahn RN, Charles E, Day CT, Gill MS, Gritsan AV, Groysman Y, Jacobsen RG, Kadel RW, Kadyk J, Kerth LT, Kolomensky YG, Kukartsev G, Lynch G, Mir LM, Oddone PJ, Orimoto TJ, Pripstein M, Roe NA, Ronan MT, Wenzel WA, Barrett M, Ford KE, Harrison TJ, Hart AJ, Hawkes CM, Morgan SE, Watson AT, Fritsch M, Goetzen K, Held T, Koch H, Lewandowski B, Pelizaeus M, Peters K, Schroeder T, Steinke M, Boyd JT, Burke JP, Chevalier N, Cottingham WN, Cuhadar-Donszelmann T, Fulsom BG, Hearty C, Knecht NS, Mattison TS, McKenna JA, Khan A, Kyberd P, Saleem M, Teodorescu L, Blinov AE, Blinov VE, Bukin AD, Druzhinin VP, Golubev VB, Kravchenko EA, Onuchin AP, Serednyakov SI, Skovpen YI, Solodov EP, Yushkov AN, Best D, Bondioli M, Bruinsma M, Chao M, Curry S, Eschrich I, Kirkby D, Lankford AJ, Lund P, Mandelkern M, Mommsen RK, Roethel W, Stoker DP, Buchanan C, Hartfiel BL, Weinstein AJR, Foulkes SD, Gary JW, Long O, Shen BC, Wang K, Zhang L, del Re D, Hadavand HK, Hill EJ, MacFarlane DB, Paar HP, Rahatlou S, Sharma V, Berryhill JW, Campagnari C, Cunha A, Dahmes B, Hong TM, Mazur MA, Richman JD, Verkerke W, Beck TW, Eisner AM, Flacco CJ, Heusch CA, Kroseberg J, Lockman WS, Nesom G, Schalk T, Schumm BA, Seiden A, Spradlin P, Williams DC, Wilson MG, Albert J, Chen E, Dubois-Felsmann GP, Dvoretskii A, Hitlin DG, Minamora JS, Narsky I, Piatenko T, Porter FC, Ryd A, Samuel A, Andreassen R, Mancinelli G, Meadows BT, Sokoloff MD, Blanc F, Bloom P, Chen S, Ford WT, Hirschauer JF, Kreisel A, Nauenberg U, Olivas A, Ruddick WO, Smith JG, Ulmer KA, Wagner SR, Zhang J, Chen A, Eckhart EA, Soffer A, Toki WH, Wilson RJ, Zeng Q, Altenburg D, Feltresi E, Hauke A, Spaan B, Brandt T, Brose J, Dickopp M, Klose V, Lacker HM, Nogowski R, Otto S, Petzold A, Schubert J, Schubert KR, Schwierz R, Sundermann JE, Bernard D, Bonneaud GR, Grenier P, Schrenk S, Thiebaux C, Vasileiadis G, Verderi M, Bard DJ, Clark PJ, Gradl W, Muheim F, Playfer S, Xie Y, Andreotti M, Azzolini V, Bettoni D, Bozzi C, Calabrese R, Cibinetto G, Luppi E, Negrini M, Piemontese L, Anulli F, Baldini-Ferroli R, Calcaterra A, de Sangro R, Finocchiaro G, Patteri P, Peruzzi IM, Piccolo M, Zallo A, Buzzo A, Capra R, Contri R, Lo Vetere M, Macri M, Monge MR, Passaggio S, Patrignani C, Robutti E, Santroni A, Tosi S, Brandenburg G, Chaisanguanthum KS, Morii M, Won E, Wu J, Dubitzky RS, Langenegger U, Marks J, Schenk S, Uwer U, Schott G, Bhimji W, Bowerman DA, Dauncey PD, Egede U, Flack RL, Gaillard JR, Nash JA, Nikolich MB, Vazquez WP, Chai X, Charles MJ, Mader WF, Mallik U, Mohapatra AK, Ziegler V, Cochran J, Crawley HB, Eyges V, Meyer WT, Prell S, Rosenberg EI, Rubin AE, Yi J, Arnaud N, Davier M, Giroux X, Grosdidier G, Höcker A, Le Diberder F, Lepeltier V, Lutz AM, Oyanguren A, Petersen TC, Plaszczynski S, Rodier S, Roudeau P, Schune MH, Stocchi A, Wormser G, Cheng CH, Lange DJ, Simani MC, Wright DM, Bevan AJ, Chavez CA, Forster IJ, Fry JR, Gabathuler E, Gamet R, George KA, Hutchcroft DE, Parry RJ, Payne DJ, Schofield KC, Touramanis C, Cormack CM, Di Lodovico F, Menges W, Sacco R, Brown CL, Cowan G, Flaecher HU, Green MG, Hopkins DA, Jackson PS, McMahon TR, Ricciardi S, Salvatore F, Brown D, Davis CL, Allison J, Barlow NR, Barlow RJ, Edgar CL, Hodgkinson MC, Kelly MP, Lafferty GD, Naisbit MT, Williams JC, Chen C, Hulsbergen WD, Jawahery A, Kovalskyi D, Lae CK, Roberts DA, Simi G, Blaylock G, Dallapiccola C, Hertzbach SS, Kofler R, Koptchev VB, Li X, Moore TB, Saremi S, Staengle H, Willocq S, Cowan R, Koeneke K, Sciolla G, Sekula SJ, Spitznagel M, Taylor F, Yamamoto RK, Kim H, Patel PM, Robertson SH, Lazzaro A, Lombardo V, Palombo F, Bauer JM, Cremaldi L, Eschenburg V, Godang R, Kroeger R, Reidy J, Sanders DA, Summers DJ, Zhao HW, Brunet S, Côté D, Taras P, Viaud B, Nicholson H, Cavallo N, De Nardo G, Fabozzi F, Gatto C, Lista L, Monorchio D, Paolucci P, Piccolo D, Sciacca C, Baak M, Bulten H, Raven G, Snoek HL, Wilden L, Jessop CP, Losecco JM, Allmendinger T, Benelli G, Gan KK, Honscheid K, Hufnagel D, Jackson PD, Kagan H, Kass R, Pulliam T, Rahimi AM, Ter-Antonyan R, Wong QK, Brau J, Frey R, Igonkina O, Lu M, Potter CT, Sinev NB, Strom D, Strube J, Torrence E, Galeazzi F, Margoni M, Morandin M, Posocco M, Rotondo M, Simonetto F, Stroili R, Voci C, Benayoun M, Briand H, Chauveau J, David P, Del Buono L, de la Vaissière C, Hamon O, John MJJ, Leruste P, Malclès J, Ocariz J, Roos L, Therin G, Behera PK, Gladney L, Guo QH, Panetta J, Biasini M, Covarelli R, Pacetti S, Pioppi M, Angelini C, Batignani G, Bettarini S, Bucci F, Calderini G, Carpinelli M, Cenci R, Forti F, Giorgi MA, Lusiani A, Marchiori G, Morganti M, Neri N, Paoloni E, Rama M, Rizzo G, Walsh J, Haire M, Judd D, Wagoner DE, Biesiada J, Danielson N, Elmer P, Lau YP, Lu C, Olsen J, Smith AJS, Telnov AV, Bellini F, Cavoto G, D'Orazio A, Marco ED, Faccini R, Ferrarotto F, Ferroni F, Gaspero M, Gioi LL, Mazzoni MA, Morganti S, Piredda G, Polci F, Tehrani FS, Voena C, Schröder H, Wagner G, Waldi R, Adye T, De Groot N, Franek B, Gopal GP, Olaiya EO, Wilson FF, Aleksan R, Emery S, Gaidot A, Ganzhur SF, Graziani G, de Monchenault GH, Kozanecki W, Legendre M, London GW, Mayer B, Vasseur G, Yèche C, Zito M, Purohit MV, Weidemann AW, Wilson JR, Yumiceva FX, Abe T, Allen MT, Aston D, Bartoldus R, Berger N, Boyarski AM, Buchmueller OL, Claus R, Coleman JP, Convery MR, Cristinziani M, Dingfelder JC, Dong D, Dorfan J, Dujmic D, Dunwoodie W, Fan S, Field RC, Glanzman T, Gowdy SJ, Hadig T, Halyo V, Hast C, Hryn'ova T, Innes WR, Kelsey MH, Kim P, Kocian ML, Leith DWGS, Libby J, Luitz S, Luth V, Lynch HL, Marsiske H, Messner R, Muller DR, O'Grady CP, Ozcan VE, Perazzo A, Perl M, Ratcliff BN, Roodman A, Salnikov AA, Schindler RH, Schwiening J, Snyder A, Stelzer J, Su D, Sullivan MK, Suzuki K, Swain SK, Thompson JM, Va'vra J, van Bakel N, Weaver M, Wisniewski WJ, Wittgen M, Wright DH, Yarritu AK, Yi K, Young CC, Burchat PR, Edwards AJ, Majewski SA, Petersen BA, Roat C, Ahmed M, Ahmed S, Alam MS, Bula R, Ernst JA, Saeed MA, Wappler FR, Zain SB, Bugg W, Krishnamurthy M, Spanier SM, Eckmann R, Ritchie JL, Satpathy A, Schwitters RF, Izen JM, Kitayama I, Lou XC, Ye S, Bianchi F, Bona M, Gallo F, Gamba D, Bomben M, Bosisio L, Cartaro C, Cossutti F, Della Ricca G, Dittongo S, Grancagnolo S, Lanceri L, Vitale L, Martinez-Vidal F, Panvini RS, Banerjee S, Bhuyan B, Brown CM, Fortin D, Hamano K, Kowalewski R, Roney JM, Sobie RJ, Back JJ, Harrison PF, Latham TE, Mohanty GB, Band HR, Chen X, Cheng B, Dasu S, Datta M, Eichenbaum AM, Flood KT, Graham M, Hollar JJ, Johnson JR, Kutter PE, Li H, Liu R, Mellado B, Mihalyi A, Pan Y, Pierini M, Prepost R, Tan P, Wu SL, Yu Z, Neal H. Measurements of the absolute branching fractions of B+/- --> K+/-X(cc). PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2006; 96:052002. [PMID: 16486923 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.052002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2005] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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We study the two-body decays of B+/- mesons to K+/- and a charmonium state X(cc) in a sample of 210.5 fb(-1) of data from the BABAR experiment. We perform measurements of absolute branching fractions beta(B+/- --> K+/-X(cc)) using a missing mass technique, and report several new or improved results. In particular, the upper limit beta(B+/- --> K+/- X(3872)) < 3.2 x 10(-4) at 90% C.L. and the inferred lower limit beta(X(3872)J/psipi+ pi-) > 4.2% will help in understanding the nature of the recently discovered X(3872).
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Rahman S, Majumdar SK, Ahmed M, Singha JL, Majid MA, Hasan MR. Repair of cleft lip on relatively older children with anthropometrical surgical outcome. Mymensingh Med J 2006; 15:89-95. [PMID: 16467771 DOI: 10.3329/mmj.v15i1.7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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A prospective study was done on 54 patients aged over 6 months with cleft lip with or without cleft palate admitted in the department of pediatric surgery of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital during the period from Oct 2002 to Dec 2004. The anthropometrical surgical outcome was evaluated by measuring the length, diameter and thickness of hemilip and diameter of nostril both pre and postoperatively (according to schedule). Patients were categorized into three groups according to their age. Mean Corrective rate was evaluated and it was shown 95% in the 1(st) age group, 93% in 2(nd) age group and 95.55% in the 3(rd) group. Complication was evaluated in only 16.66% of patients. Regarding the out come scar, cupid's bow, notching, labial and nasal symmetry were taken in consideration. Beside these this study might play a comparative role with the results of correction of cleft lip in early age.
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Aubert B, Barate R, Boutigny D, Couderc F, Karyotakis Y, Lees JP, Poireau V, Tisserand V, Zghiche A, Grauges E, Palano A, Pappagallo M, Pompili A, Chen JC, Qi ND, Rong G, Wang P, Zhu YS, Eigen G, Ofte I, Stugu B, Abrams GS, Battaglia M, Breon AB, Brown DN, Button-Shafer J, Cahn RN, Charles E, Day CT, Gill MS, Gritsan AV, Groysman Y, Jacobsen RG, Kadel RW, Kadyk J, Kerth LT, Kolomensky YG, Kukartsev G, Lynch G, Mir LM, Oddone PJ, Orimoto TJ, Pripstein M, Roe NA, Ronan MT, Wenzel WA, Barrett M, Ford KE, Harrison TJ, Hart AJ, Hawkes CM, Morgan SE, Watson AT, Fritsch M, Goetzen K, Held T, Koch H, Lewandowski B, Pelizaeus M, Peters K, Schroeder T, Steinke M, Boyd JT, Burke JP, Chevalier N, Cottingham WN, Cuhadar-Donszelmann T, Fulsom BG, Hearty C, Knecht NS, Mattison TS, McKenna JA, Khan A, Kyberd P, Saleem M, Teodorescu L, Blinov AE, Blinov VE, Bukin AD, Druzhinin VP, Golubev VB, Kravchenko EA, Onuchin AP, Serednyakov SI, Skovpen YI, Solodov EP, Yushkov AN, Best D, Bondioli M, Bruinsma M, Chao M, Curry S, Eschrich I, Kirkby D, Lankford AJ, Lund P, Mandelkern M, Mommsen RK, Roethel W, Stoker DP, Buchanan C, Hartfiel BL, Weinstein AJR, Foulkes SD, Gary JW, Long O, Shen BC, Wang K, Zhang L, del Re D, Hadavand HK, Hill EJ, Macfarlane DB, Paar HP, Rahatlou S, Sharma V, Berryhill JW, Campagnari C, Cunha A, Dahmes B, Hong TM, Mazur MA, Richman JD, Verkerke W, Beck TW, Eisner AM, Flacco CJ, Heusch CA, Kroseberg J, Lockman WS, Nesom G, Schalk T, Schumm BA, Seiden A, Spradlin P, Williams DC, Wilson MG, Albert J, Chen E, Dubois-Felsmann GP, Dvoretskii A, Hitlin DG, Minamora JS, Narsky I, Piatenko T, Porter FC, Ryd A, Samuel A, Andreassen R, Mancinelli G, Meadows BT, Sokoloff MD, Blanc F, Bloom P, Chen S, Ford WT, Hirschauer JF, Kreisel A, Nauenberg U, Olivas A, Ruddick WO, Smith JG, Ulmer KA, Wagner SR, Zhang J, Chen A, Eckhart EA, Soffer A, Toki WH, Wilson RJ, Zeng Q, Altenburg D, Feltresi E, Hauke A, Spaan B, Brandt T, Brose J, Dickopp M, Klose V, Lacker HM, Nogowski R, Otto S, Petzold A, Schubert J, Schubert KR, Schwierz R, Sundermann JE, Bernard D, Bonneaud GR, Grenier P, Schrenk S, Thiebaux C, Vasileiadis G, Verderi M, Bard DJ, Clark PJ, Gradl W, Muheim F, Playfer S, Xie Y, Andreotti M, Azzolini V, Bettoni D, Bozzi C, Calabrese R, Cibinetto G, Luppi E, Negrini M, Piemontese L, Anulli F, Baldini-Ferroli R, Calcaterra A, de Sangro R, Finocchiaro G, Patteri P, Peruzzi IM, Piccolo M, Zallo A, Buzzo A, Capra R, Contri R, Lo Vetere M, Macri M, Monge MR, Passaggio S, Patrignani C, Robutti E, Santroni A, Tosi S, Brandenburg G, Chaisanguanthum KS, Morii M, Won E, Wu J, Dubitzky RS, Langenegger U, Marks J, Schenk S, Uwer U, Schott G, Bhimji W, Bowerman DA, Dauncey PD, Egede U, Flack RL, Gaillard JR, Nash JA, Nikolich MB, Vazquez WP, Chai X, Charles MJ, Mader WF, Mallik U, Mohapatra AK, Ziegler V, Cochran J, Crawley HB, Eyges V, Meyer WT, Prell S, Rosenberg EI, Rubin AE, Yi J, Arnaud N, Davier M, Giroux X, Grosdidier G, Höcker A, Le Diberder F, Lepeltier V, Lutz AM, Oyanguren A, Petersen TC, Plaszczynski S, Rodier S, Roudeau P, Schune MH, Stocchi A, Wormser G, Cheng CH, Lange DJ, Simani MC, Wright DM, Bevan AJ, Chavez CA, Forster IJ, Fry JR, Gabathuler E, Gamet R, George KA, Hutchcroft DE, Parry RJ, Payne DJ, Schofield KC, Touramanis C, Cormack CM, Di Lodovico F, Menges W, Sacco R, Brown CL, Cowan G, Flaecher HU, Green MG, Hopkins DA, Jackson PS, McMahon TR, Ricciardi S, Salvatore F, Brown D, Davis CL, Allison J, Barlow NR, Barlow RJ, Edgar CL, Hodgkinson MC, Kelly MP, Lafferty GD, Naisbit MT, Williams JC, Chen C, Hulsbergen WD, Jawahery A, Kovalskyi D, Lae CK, Roberts DA, Simi G, Blaylock G, Dallapiccola C, Hertzbach SS, Kofler R, Koptchev VB, Li X, Moore TB, Saremi S, Staengle H, Willocq S, Cowan R, Koeneke K, Sciolla G, Sekula SJ, Spitznagel M, Taylor F, Yamamoto RK, Kim H, Patel PM, Robertson SH, Lazzaro A, Lombardo V, Palombo F, Bauer JM, Cremaldi L, Eschenburg V, Godang R, Kroeger R, Reidy J, Sanders DA, Summers DJ, Zhao HW, Brunet S, Côté D, Taras P, Viaud B, Nicholson H, Cavallo N, De Nardo G, Fabozzi F, Gatto C, Lista L, Monorchio D, Paolucci P, Piccolo D, Sciacca C, Baak M, Bulten H, Raven G, Snoek HL, Wilden L, Jessop CP, Losecco JM, Allmendinger T, Benelli G, Gan KK, Honscheid K, Hufnagel D, Jackson PD, Kagan H, Kass R, Pulliam T, Rahimi AM, Ter-Antonyan R, Wong QK, Brau J, Frey R, Igonkina O, Lu M, Potter CT, Sinev NB, Strom D, Strube J, Torrence E, Galeazzi F, Margoni M, Morandin M, Posocco M, Rotondo M, Simonetto F, Stroili R, Voci C, Benayoun M, Briand H, Chauveau J, David P, Del Buono L, de la Vaissière C, Hamon O, John MJJ, Leruste P, Malclès J, Ocariz J, Roos L, Therin G, Behera PK, Gladney L, Guo QH, Panetta J, Biasini M, Covarelli R, Pacetti S, Pioppi M, Angelini C, Batignani G, Bettarini S, Bucci F, Calderini G, Carpinelli M, Cenci R, Forti F, Giorgi MA, Lusiani A, Marchiori G, Morganti M, Neri N, Paoloni E, Rama M, Rizzo G, Walsh J, Haire M, Judd D, Wagoner DE, Biesiada J, Danielson N, Elmer P, Lau YP, Lu C, Olsen J, Smith AJS, Telnov AV, Bellini F, Cavoto G, D'Orazio A, Di Marco E, Faccini R, Ferrarotto F, Ferroni F, Gaspero M, Li Gioi L, Mazzoni MA, Morganti S, Piredda G, Polci F, Safai Tehrani F, Voena C, Schröder H, Wagner G, Waldi R, Adye T, De Groot N, Franek B, Gopal GP, Olaiya EO, Wilson FF, Aleksan R, Emery S, Gaidot A, Ganzhur SF, Graziani G, Hamel de Monchenault G, Kozanecki W, Legendre M, London GW, Mayer B, Vasseur G, Yèche C, Zito M, Purohit MV, Weidemann AW, Wilson JR, Yumiceva FX, Abe T, Allen MT, Aston D, Bartoldus R, Berger N, Boyarski AM, Buchmueller OL, Claus R, Coleman JP, Convery MR, Cristinziani M, Dingfelder JC, Dong D, Dorfan J, Dujmic D, Dunwoodie W, Fan S, Field RC, Glanzman T, Gowdy SJ, Hadig T, Halyo V, Hast C, Hryn'ova T, Innes WR, Kelsey MH, Kim P, Kocian ML, Leith DWGS, Libby J, Luitz S, Luth V, Lynch HL, Marsiske H, Messner R, Muller DR, O'Grady CP, Ozcan VE, Perazzo A, Perl M, Ratcliff BN, Roodman A, Salnikov AA, Schindler RH, Schwiening J, Snyder A, Stelzer J, Su D, Sullivan MK, Suzuki K, Swain SK, Thompson JM, Va'vra J, van Bakel N, Weaver M, Wisniewski WJ, Wittgen M, Wright DH, Yarritu AK, Yi K, Young CC, Burchat PR, Edwards AJ, Majewski SA, Petersen BA, Roat C, Ahmed M, Ahmed S, Alam MS, Bula R, Ernst JA, Saeed MA, Wappler FR, Zain SB, Bugg W, Krishnamurthy M, Spanier SM, Eckmann R, Ritchie JL, Satpathy A, Schwitters RF, Izen JM, Kitayama I, Lou XC, Ye S, Bianchi F, Bona M, Gallo F, Gamba D, Bomben M, Bosisio L, Cartaro C, Cossutti F, Della Ricca G, Dittongo S, Grancagnolo S, Lanceri L, Vitale L, Martinez-Vidal F, Panvini RS, Banerjee S, Bhuyan B, Brown CM, Fortin D, Hamano K, Kowalewski R, Roney JM, Sobie RJ, Back JJ, Harrison PF, Latham TE, Mohanty GB, Band HR, Chen X, Cheng B, Dasu S, Datta M, Eichenbaum AM, Flood KT, Graham M, Hollar JJ, Johnson JR, Kutter PE, Li H, Liu R, Mellado B, Mihalyi A, Pan Y, Pierini M, Prepost R, Tan P, Wu SL, Yu Z, Neal H. Search for lepton flavor violation in the decay tau+/--->e+/-gamma. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2006; 96:041801. [PMID: 16486807 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.041801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2005] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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A search for the nonconservation of lepton flavor in the decay tau+/--->e+/-gamma has been performed with 2.07x10(8) e+e--->tau+tau- events collected by the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP II storage ring at a center-of-mass energy near 10.58 GeV. We find no evidence for a signal and set an upper limit on the branching ratio of Beta(tau+/--->e+/-gamma)<1.1x10(-7) at 90% confidence level.
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Rao SC, Ahmed M, Hagan R. One dose per day compared to multiple doses per day of gentamicin for treatment of suspected or proven sepsis in neonates. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2006:CD005091. [PMID: 16437518 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd005091.pub2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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BACKGROUND Gentamicin is widely used in the treatment of suspected or proven neonatal sepsis. Animal studies and systematic reviews from trials in older children and adults suggest that a one dose per day regimen is superior to a multiple doses per day regimen. Pharmacokinetic studies and retrospective audits in neonatal population also favour once a day administration of gentamicin. However, there is no consensus regarding the dose interval regimen in the neonatal population. OBJECTIVES To compare the efficacy and safety of one dose per day compared to multiple doses per day of gentamicin in suspected or proven sepsis in neonates. SEARCH STRATEGY Eligible studies were identified by searching MEDLINE (March 2005), EMBASE 1980 - 2004, Oxford Database of Perinatal Trials, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL, The Cochrane Library, Issue 2, 2005) and CINAHL (December 1982 - March 2005). Abstracts of the Society for Pediatric Research were hand searched from 1980 to 2004 inclusive. No language restrictions were applied. SELECTION CRITERIA All randomised or quasi randomised controlled trials comparing one dose per day ( 'once a day') compared to multiple doses per day ( 'multiple doses a day') of gentamicin to newborn infants < 28 days of life. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS Methodological quality of eligible studies was assessed according to allocation concealment, blinding of intervention, blinding of outcome assessment and completeness of follow up. Data were sought regarding effects on clinical efficacy, pharmacokinetic efficacy, ototoxicity and nephrotoxicity of the two regimens. When appropriate, meta-analysis was conducted to provide a pooled estimate of effect. For categorical data, the typical relative risk (RR), typical risk difference (RD) and number needed to treat (NNT) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated. Continuous data were analysed using weighted mean difference (WMD). MAIN RESULTS Twenty four studies were initially identified. Thirteen were excluded and eleven studies (N = 574) included. All studies compared the effectiveness and safety of 'once a day' versus 'multiple doses a day' regimen of gentamicin in newborn infants. Only one study enrolled infants less than 32 weeks gestation. All except one trial used intravenous infusion. One trial used gentamicin as a bolus dose over one minute. Two trials used intramuscular gentamicin in some of their study infants. For the primary outcome of 'clearance of sepsis', all infants in both 'once a day' as well as 'multiple doses a day' regimen showed adequate clearance of sepsis [Typical RD 0.00 (95% CI - 0.19, 0.19); 3 trials; N = 36]. For the other primary outcome measures relating to gentamicin pharmacokinetics, 'once a day dosing' of gentamicin was superior. 'Once a day' gentamicin regimen is associated with less failures to attain peak level of at least 5 microg/ml [Typical RR 0.22 (95% CI 0.11, 0.47); Typical RD -0.13 (95% CI -0.19, -0.08); 9 trials; N = 422]; less failures to achieve trough levels of < 2 microg/ml [Typical RR 0.38 (95% CI 0.27, 0.55); Typical RD -0.22 (95% CI -0.29, -0.15); 11 trials N = 503]; higher peak levels [WMD 2.58 (95% CI 2.26, 2.89); 10 trials; N = 440] and lower trough levels [WMD -0.57 (95% CI -0.69, -0.44); 10 trials; N = 440] compared to 'multiple doses a day' regimen. Ototoxicity and nephrotoxicity were not noted with either of the treatment regimens. Significant heterogeneity was noted for some of the outcomes measured. Hence the results need to be interpreted with caution. Possible reasons for heterogeneity are different gestational ages of study infants and the timing of collection of blood samples in relation to a particular dose and the day of therapy on which the samples were collected. AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS There is insufficient evidence from the currently available RCTs to conclude whether 'once a day' or 'multiple doses a day' regimen of gentamicin is superior in treating proven neonatal sepsis. However data suggests that pharmacokinetic properties of 'once a day' gentamicin regimen are superior to 'multiple doses a day' regimen in that it achieves higher peak levels while avoiding toxic trough levels. There is no change in nephrotoxicity or auditory toxicity. Based on this assessment of pharmacokinetics, 'once a day regimen' may be superior in treating neonatal sepsis in neonates more than 32 weeks gestation.
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Aubert B, Barate R, Boutigny D, Couderc F, Karyotakis Y, Lees JP, Poireau V, Tisserand V, Zghiche A, Grauges E, Palano A, Pappagallo M, Pompili A, Chen JC, Qi ND, Rong G, Wang P, Zhu YS, Eigen G, Ofte I, Stugu B, Abrams GS, Battaglia M, Best D, Breon AB, Brown DN, Button-Shafer J, Cahn RN, Charles E, Day CT, Gill MS, Gritsan AV, Groysman Y, Jacobsen RG, Kadel RW, Kadyk J, Kerth LT, Kolomensky YG, Kukartsev G, Lynch G, Mir LM, Oddone PJ, Orimoto TJ, Pripstein M, Roe NA, Ronan MT, Wenzel WA, Barrett M, Ford KE, Harrison TJ, Hart AJ, Hawkes CM, Morgan SE, Watson AT, Fritsch M, Goetzen K, Held T, Koch H, Lewandowski B, Pelizaeus M, Peters K, Schroeder T, Steinke M, Boyd JT, Burke JP, Chevalier N, Cottingham WN, Cuhadar-Donszelmann T, Fulsom BG, Hearty C, Knecht NS, Mattison TS, McKenna JA, Khan A, Kyberd P, Saleem M, Teodorescu L, Blinov AE, Blinov VE, Bukin AD, Druzhinin VP, Golubev VB, Kravchenko EA, Onuchin AP, Serednyakov SI, Skovpen YI, Solodov EP, Yushkov AN, Bondioli M, Bruinsma M, Chao M, Curry S, Eschrich I, Kirkby D, Lankford AJ, Lund P, Mandelkern M, Mommsen RK, Roethel W, Stoker DP, Buchanan C, Hartfiel BL, Foulkes SD, Gary JW, Long O, Shen BC, Wang K, Zhang L, Del Re D, Hadavand HK, Hill EJ, Macfarlane DB, Paar HP, Rahatlou S, Sharma V, Berryhill JW, Campagnari C, Cunha A, Dahmes B, Hong TM, Mazur MA, Richman JD, Verkerke W, Beck TW, Eisner AM, Flacco CJ, Heusch CA, Kroseberg J, Lockman WS, Nesom G, Schalk T, Schumm BA, Seiden A, Spradlin P, Williams DC, Wilson MG, Albert J, Chen E, Dubois-Felsmann GP, Dvoretskii A, Hitlin DG, Minamora JS, Narsky I, Piatenko T, Porter FC, Ryd A, Samuel A, Andreassen R, Mancinelli G, Meadows BT, Sokoloff MD, Blanc F, Bloom PC, Chen S, Ford WT, Hirschauer JF, Kreisel A, Nauenberg U, Olivas A, Ruddick WO, Smith JG, Ulmer KA, Wagner SR, Zhang J, Chen A, Eckhart EA, Soffer A, Toki WH, Wilson RJ, Zeng Q, Altenburg D, Feltresi E, Hauke A, Spaan B, Brandt T, Brose J, Dickopp M, Klose V, Lacker HM, Nogowski R, Otto S, Petzold A, Schubert J, Schubert KR, Schwierz R, Sundermann JE, Bernard D, Bonneaud GR, Grenier P, Schrenk S, Thiebaux C, Vasileiadis G, Verderi M, Bard DJ, Clark PJ, Gradl W, Muheim F, Playfer S, Xie Y, Andreotti M, Bettoni D, Bozzi C, Calabrese R, Cibinetto G, Luppi E, Negrini M, Piemontese L, Anulli F, Baldini-Ferroli R, Calcaterra A, de Sangro R, Finocchiaro G, Patteri P, Peruzzi IM, Piccolo M, Zallo A, Buzzo A, Capra R, Contri R, Vetere ML, Macri MM, Monge MR, Passaggio S, Patrignani C, Robutti E, Santroni A, Tosi S, Brandenburg G, Chaisanguanthum KS, Morii M, Won E, Wu J, Dubitzky RS, Langenegger U, Marks J, Schenk S, Uwer U, Bhimji W, Bowerman DA, Dauncey PD, Egede U, Flack RL, Gaillard JR, Nash JA, Nikolich MB, Vazquez WP, Chai X, Charles MJ, Mader WF, Mallik U, Ziegler V, Cochran J, Crawley HB, Eyges V, Meyer WT, Prell S, Rosenberg EI, Rubin AE, Yi JI, Schott G, Arnaud N, Davier M, Giroux X, Grosdidier G, Höcker A, Diberder FL, Lepeltier V, Lutz AM, Oyanguren A, Petersen TC, Plaszczynski S, Rodier S, Roudeau P, Schune MH, Stocchi A, Wormser G, Cheng CH, Lange DJ, Simani MC, Wright DM, Bevan AJ, Chavez CA, Forster IJ, Fry JR, Gabathuler E, Gamet R, George KA, Hutchcroft DE, Parry RJ, Payne DJ, Schofield KC, Touramanis C, Cormack CM, Lodovico FD, Menges W, Sacco R, Brown CL, Cowan G, Flaecher HU, Green MG, Hopkins DA, Jackson PS, McMahon TR, Ricciardi S, Salvatore F, Brown DN, Davis CL, Allison J, Barlow NR, Barlow RJ, Edgar CL, Hodgkinson MC, Kelly MP, Lafferty GD, Naisbit MT, Williams JC, Chen C, Hulsbergen WD, Jawahery A, Kovalskyi D, Lae CK, Roberts DA, Simi G, Blaylock G, Dallapiccola C, Hertzbach SS, Kofler R, Li X, Moore TB, Saremi S, Staengle H, Willocq SY, Cowan R, Koeneke K, Sciolla G, Sekula SJ, Spitznagel M, Taylor F, Yamamoto RK, Kim H, Patel PM, Robertson SH, Lazzaro A, Lombardo V, Palombo F, Bauer JM, Cremaldi L, Eschenburg V, Godang R, Kroeger R, Reidy J, Sanders DA, Summers DJ, Zhao HW, Brunet S, Côté D, Taras P, Viaud FB, Nicholson H, Cavallo N, Nardo GD, Fabozzi F, Gatto C, Lista L, Monorchio D, Paolucci P, Piccolo D, Sciacca C, Baak M, Bulten H, Raven G, Snoek HL, Wilden L, Jessop CP, Losecco JM, Allmendinger T, Benelli G, Gan KK, Honscheid K, Hufnagel D, Jackson PD, Kagan H, Kass R, Pulliam T, Rahimi AM, Ter-Antonyan R, Wong QK, Blount NL, Brau J, Frey R, Igonkina O, Lu M, Potter CT, Rahmat R, Sinev NB, Strom D, Strube J, Torrence E, Galeazzi F, Margoni M, Morandin M, Posocco M, Rotondo M, Simonetto F, Stroili R, Voci C, Benayoun M, Briand H, Chauveau J, David P, Buono LD, de la Vaissière C, Hamon O, John MJJ, Leruste P, Malclès J, Ocariz J, Roos L, Therin G, Behera PK, Gladney L, Guo QH, Panetta J, Biasini M, Covarelli R, Pacetti S, Pioppi M, Angelini C, Batignani G, Bettarini S, Bucci F, Calderini G, Carpinelli M, Cenci R, Forti F, Giorgi MA, Lusiani A, Marchiori G, Morganti M, Neri N, Paoloni E, Rama M, Rizzo G, Walsh J, Haire M, Judd D, Wagoner DE, Biesiada J, Danielson N, Elmer P, Lau YP, Lu C, Olsen J, Smith AJS, Telnov AV, Bellini F, Cavoto G, D'Orazio A, Marco ED, Faccini R, Ferrarotto F, Ferroni F, Gaspero M, Gioi LL, Mazzoni MA, Morganti S, Piredda G, Polci F, Tehrani FS, Voena C, Schröder H, Waldi R, Adye T, Groot ND, Franek B, Gopal GP, Olaiya EO, Wilson FF, Aleksan R, Emery S, Gaidot A, Ganzhur SF, Graziani G, de Monchenault GH, Kozanecki W, Legendre M, London GW, Mayer B, Vasseur G, Yèche C, Zito M, Purohit MV, Weidemann AW, Wilson JR, Yumiceva FX, Abe T, Allen MT, Aston D, Bartoldus R, Berger N, Boyarski AM, Buchmueller OL, Claus R, Coleman JP, Convery MR, Cristinziani M, Dingfelder JC, Dong D, Dorfan J, Dujmic D, Dunwoodie W, Fan S, Field RC, Glanzman T, Gowdy SJ, Hadig T, Halyo V, Hast C, Hryn'ova T, Innes WR, Kelsey MH, Kim P, Kocian ML, Leith DWGS, Libby J, Luitz S, Luth V, Lynch HL, Marsiske H, Messner R, Muller DR, O'grady CP, Ozcan VE, Perazzo A, Perl M, Ratcliff BN, Roodman A, Salnikov AA, Schindler RH, Schwiening J, Snyder A, Stelzer J, Su D, Sullivan MK, Suzuki K, Swain SK, Thompson JM, Va'vra J, van Bakel N, Weaver M, Weinstein AJR, Wisniewski WJ, Wittgen M, Wright DH, Yarritu AK, Yi K, Young CC, Burchat PR, Edwards AJ, Majewski SA, Petersen BA, Roat C, Ahmed M, Ahmed S, Alam MS, Bula R, Ernst JA, Saeed MA, Wappler FR, Zain SB, Bugg W, Krishnamurthy M, Spanier SM, Eckmann R, Ritchie JL, Satpathy A, Schwitters RF, Izen JM, Kitayama I, Lou XC, Ye S, Bianchi F, Bona M, Gallo F, Gamba D, Bomben M, Bosisio L, Cartaro C, Cossutti F, Ricca GD, Dittongo S, Grancagnolo S, Lanceri L, Vitale L, Azzolini V, Martinez-Vidal F, Panvini RS, Banerjee S, Bhuyan B, Brown CM, Fortin D, Hamano K, Kowalewski R, Roney JM, Sobie RJ, Back JJ, Harrison PF, Latham TE, Mohanty GB, Band HR, Chen X, Cheng B, Dasu S, Datta M, Eichenbaum AM, Flood KT, Graham MT, Hollar JJ, Johnson JR, Kutter PE, Li H, Liu R, Mellado B, Mihalyi A, Mohapatra AK, Pan Y, Pierini M, Prepost R, Tan P, Wu SL, Yu Z, Neal H. Measurement of branching fractions and resonance contributions for B0 --> D0K+pi- and search for B0 --> D0K+pi- decays. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2006; 96:011803. [PMID: 16486439 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.011803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2005] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Using 226 x 10(6) gamma(4S) --> BB events collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- storage ring at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, we measure the branching fraction for B0 --> D0K+pi-, excluding B0 --> D*-K+, to be beta(B0 --> D0K+pi-) = (88 +/- 15 +/- 9) x 10(-6). We observe B0 --> D0K*(892)0 and B0 --> D2*(2460)-K+ contributions. The ratio of branching fractions beta(B0 --> D*-K+)/beta(B0 --> D*-pi+) = (7.76 +/- 0.34+/-0.29)% is measured separately. The branching fraction for the suppressed mode B0 --> D0K+pi- is beta(B0 --> D0K+pi-) < 19 x 10(-6) at the 90% confidence level.
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El Sebaie O, Ahmed M, Hussein A, El Sharkawy F, Samy M. Life cycle Analysis of Aluminum Foil Packaging Material. J Egypt Public Health Assoc 2006; 81:199-222. [PMID: 17382061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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A fundamental tent of life cycle analysis (LCA) is that every material product must become a waste. To choose the greener products, it is necessary to take into account their environmental impacts from cradle to grave. LCA is the tool used to measure environmental improvements. Aluminum (Al) is the third most common element found in the earth's crust, after oxygen and silicon. Al packaging foil was chosen as the material for the study with its life cycle perspective at Alexandria. The Al packaging produced from virgin and recycled Al was investigated through life cycle stages in these two production processes; primary and secondary. The aim of this study is to evaluate the environmental impact of aluminum packaging process by using life cycle analysis of its product from two different starting raw materials (virgin and recycled aluminum). The input and output materials, energy, water, natural gas consumptions, and solid waste uses in the foil industry had been analyzed in order to identify those with significant contribution to the total environmental impacts. From the survey done on the two life cycles, it was found that in environmental terms, the most important emissions from the primary process are the emission of CO(2) and perfluorocarbon (PFC) gases, which produce the greenhouse effect, and SO(2) as well as the emission of fluorides and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH compounds), which are toxic to humans and the environment. On over all material balance, it was found that the ingot shares by 45% of the feed to the casthouse furnaces at Egyptian Copper Work (ECW), net production of the casthouse is 43.76% and the yield of rotary dross furnace (RDF) is 28.8%. The net production of the foil unit represents 35% of the total input to the unit. By comparing the two life cycles, it is obvious that, for water consumption, 93.5% is used in the primary cycle, while 6.5% is used in the secondary cycle. For electricity consumption, 99.3% is used in the primary cycle; while 0.63% is used in the secondary cycle. For the natural gas consumption, 46.66% is used in the primary cycle excluding Nag' Hammady as it uses fuel oil, while 53.34% is used in the secondary cycle. Using a matrix approach, the primary cycle scored 6 heavy loaded factors out of 9, while the secondary cycle scored 3 heavy loaded factors out of 9. It can be concluded that Al recycling (secondary cycle) in Al industry decreases the use of virgin material, energy use, and environmental loadings, while increasing the economic life of products, and reducing overall material demands. So, the secondary cycle is to be recommended and is the most favorable option in most of the factors influencing the two cycles. Monitoring of the furnaces, automatic control of the metal, proper dross cooling, better refining of molten Al, rate of solidification of molten Al, and proper annealing process will lead to reduction of the overall fuel, water, and electricity consumption and metal losses will be minimum.
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Patil SJ, Gulati S, Khan F, Tripathi M, Ahmed M, Agrawal S. Angiotensin converting enzyme gene polymorphism in Indian children with steroid sensitive nephrotic syndrome. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005. [PMID: 16272677 DOI: 10.4103/0019-5359.17049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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CONTEXT Nephrotic syndrome is one of the commonest renal problem encountered in children. It is difficult to predict at onset, the clinical course in terms of steroid responsiveness or resistance. Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism has been studied as a predictor of clinical course in common multi-factorial diseases including focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. There is no study available from our country till date to find out any correlation of the steroid response in idiopathic nephrotic syndrome and ACE gene polymorphism. AIM To study distribution and correlation of ACE gene I/D polymorphism in idiopathic steroid sensitive nephrotic syndrome. SETTINGS & DESIGN Case-control retrospective study. SUBJECTS & METHODS We studied ACE gene polymorphism in 90 consecutive patients (82% males, 18% females) with steroid sensitive idiopathic nephrotic syndrome and 300 normal controls (NC). STATISTICAL ANALYSIS Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test (for cases with insufficient expected cell frequencies). RESULTS The mean age of onset was 5.3 +/- 4 years. Steroid sensitive (SS) patients showed II (SS-48%, NC-26%) genotype was more frequent than normal controls (p=0.002). There was no significant difference in genotype frequencies among steroid SS subgroups. CONCLUSIONS In our study II genotype was more frequent in steroid sensitive nephrotic syndrome children in comparison to normal controls. Further functional studies with large number of children are required to investigate the role of II genotype in steroid sensitive nephrotic syndrome. Comparison of the genotypic frequency with steroid resistant patients may provide information, which might be useful in clinical practice.
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Aubert B, Barate R, Boutigny D, Couderc F, Karyotakis Y, Lees JP, Poireau V, Tisserand V, Zghiche A, Grauges E, Palano A, Pappagallo M, Pompili A, Chen JC, Qi ND, Rong G, Wang P, Zhu YS, Eigen G, Ofte I, Stugu B, Abrams GS, Battaglia M, Breon AB, Brown DN, Button-Shafer J, Cahn RN, Charles E, Day CT, Gill MS, Gritsan AV, Groysman Y, Jacobsen RG, Kadel RW, Kadyk J, Kerth LT, Kolomensky YG, Kukartsev G, Lynch G, Mir LM, Oddone PJ, Orimoto TJ, Pripstein M, Roe NA, Ronan MT, Wenzel WA, Barrett M, Ford KE, Harrison TJ, Hart AJ, Hawkes CM, Morgan SE, Watson AT, Fritsch M, Goetzen K, Held T, Koch H, Lewandowski B, Pelizaeus M, Peters K, Schroeder T, Steinke M, Boyd JT, Burke JP, Chevalier N, Cottingham WN, Cuhadar-Donszelmann T, Fulsom BG, Hearty C, Knecht NS, Mattison TS, McKenna JA, Khan A, Kyberd P, Saleem M, Teodorescu L, Blinov AE, Blinov VE, Bukin AD, Druzhinin VP, Golubev VB, Kravchenko EA, Onuchin AP, Serednyakov SI, Skovpen YI, Solodov EP, Yushkov AN, Best D, Bondioli M, Bruinsma M, Chao M, Curry S, Eschrich I, Kirkby D, Lankford AJ, Lund P, Mandelkern M, Mommsen RK, Roethel W, Stoker DP, Buchanan C, Hartfiel BL, Weinstein AJR, Foulkes SD, Gary JW, Long O, Shen BC, Wang K, Zhang L, del Re D, Hadavand HK, Hill EJ, MacFarlane DB, Paar HP, Rahatlou S, Sharma V, Berryhill JW, Campagnari C, Cunha A, Dahmes B, Hong TM, Mazur MA, Richman JD, Verkerke W, Beck TW, Eisner AM, Flacco CJ, Heusch CA, Kroseberg J, Lockman WS, Nesom G, Schalk T, Schumm BA, Seiden A, Spradlin P, Williams DC, Wilson MG, Albert J, Chen E, Dubois-Felsmann GP, Dvoretskii A, Hitlin DG, Narsky I, Piatenko T, Porter FC, Ryd A, Samuel A, Andreassen R, Jayatilleke S, Mancinelli G, Meadows BT, Sokoloff MD, Blanc F, Bloom P, Chen S, Ford WT, Hirschauer JF, Kreisel A, Nauenberg U, Olivas A, Rankin P, Ruddick WO, Smith JG, Ulmer KA, Wagner SR, Zhang J, Chen A, Eckhart EA, Soffer A, Toki WH, Wilson RJ, Zeng Q, Altenburg D, Feltresi E, Hauke A, Spaan B, Brandt T, Brose J, Dickopp M, Klose V, Lacker HM, Nogowski R, Otto S, Petzold A, Schott G, Schubert J, Schubert KR, Schwierz R, Sundermann JE, Bernard D, Bonneaud GR, Grenier P, Schrenk S, Thiebaux C, Vasileiadis G, Verderi M, Bard DJ, Clark PJ, Gradl W, Muheim F, Playfer S, Xie Y, Andreotti M, Azzolini V, Bettoni D, Bozzi C, Calabrese R, Cibinetto G, Luppi E, Negrini M, Piemontese L, Anulli F, Baldini-Ferroli R, Calcaterra A, de Sangro R, Finocchiaro G, Patteri P, Peruzzi IM, Piccolo M, Zallo A, Buzzo A, Capra R, Contri R, Lo Vetere M, Macri M, Monge MR, Passaggio S, Patrignani C, Robutti E, Santroni A, Tosi S, Brandenburg G, Chaisanguanthum KS, Morii M, Won E, Wu J, Dubitzky RS, Langenegger U, Marks J, Schenk S, Uwer U, Bhimji W, Bowerman DA, Dauncey PD, Egede U, Flack RL, Gaillard JR, Morton GW, Nash JA, Nikolich MB, Taylor GP, Vazquez WP, Charles MJ, Mader WF, Mallik U, Mohapatra AK, Cochran J, Crawley HB, Eyges V, Meyer WT, Prell S, Rosenberg EI, Rubin AE, Yi J, Arnaud N, Davier M, Giroux X, Grosdidier G, Höcker A, Le Diberder F, Lepeltier V, Lutz AM, Oyanguren A, Petersen TC, Pierini M, Plaszczynski S, Rodier S, Roudeau P, Schune MH, Stocchi A, Wormser G, Cheng CH, Lange DJ, Simani MC, Wright DM, Bevan AJ, Chavez CA, Forster IJ, Fry JR, Gabathuler E, Gamet R, George KA, Hutchcroft DE, Parry RJ, Payne DJ, Schofield KC, Touramanis C, Cormack CM, Di Lodovico F, Menges W, Sacco R, Brown CL, Cowan G, Flaecher HU, Green MG, Hopkins DA, Jackson PS, McMahon TR, Ricciardi S, Salvatore F, Brown D, Davis CL, Allison J, Barlow NR, Barlow RJ, Edgar CL, Hodgkinson MC, Kelly MP, Lafferty GD, Naisbit MT, Williams JC, Chen C, Hulsbergen WD, Jawahery A, Kovalskyi D, Lae CK, Roberts DA, Simi G, Blaylock G, Dallapiccola C, Hertzbach SS, Kofler R, Koptchev VB, Li X, Moore TB, Saremi S, Staengle H, Willocq S, Cowan R, Koeneke K, Sciolla G, Sekula SJ, Spitznagel M, Taylor F, Yamamoto RK, Kim H, Patel PM, Robertson SH, Lazzaro A, Lombardo V, Palombo F, Bauer JM, Cremaldi L, Eschenburg V, Godang R, Kroeger R, Reidy J, Sanders DA, Summers DJ, Zhao HW, Brunet S, Côté D, Taras P, Viaud B, Nicholson H, Cavallo N, De Nardo G, Fabozzi F, Gatto C, Lista L, Monorchio D, Paolucci P, Piccolo D, Sciacca C, Baak M, Bulten H, Raven G, Snoek HL, Wilden L, Jessop CP, LoSecco JM, Allmendinger T, Benelli G, Gan KK, Honscheid K, Hufnagel D, Jackson PD, Kagan H, Kass R, Pulliam T, Rahimi AM, Ter-Antonyan R, Wong QK, Brau J, Frey R, Igonkina O, Lu M, Potter CT, Sinev NB, Strom D, Strube J, Torrence E, Galeazzi F, Margoni M, Morandin M, Posocco M, Rotondo M, Simonetto F, Stroili R, Voci C, Benayoun M, Briand H, Chauveau J, David P, Del Buono L, de la Vaissière C, Hamon O, John MJJ, Leruste P, Malclès J, Ocariz J, Roos L, Therin G, Behera PK, Gladney L, Guo QH, Panetta J, Biasini M, Covarelli R, Pacetti S, Pioppi M, Angelini C, Batignani G, Bettarini S, Bucci F, Calderini G, Carpinelli M, Cenci R, Forti F, Giorgi MA, Lusiani A, Marchiori G, Morganti M, Neri N, Paoloni E, Rama M, Rizzo G, Walsh J, Haire M, Judd D, Wagoner DE, Biesiada J, Danielson N, Elmer P, Lau YP, Lu C, Olsen J, Smith AJS, Telnov AV, Bellini F, Cavoto G, D'Orazio A, Di Marco E, Faccini R, Ferrarotto F, Ferroni F, Gaspero M, Li Gioi L, Mazzoni MA, Morganti S, Piredda G, Polci F, Safai Tehrani F, Voena C, Schröder H, Wagner G, Waldi R, Adye T, De Groot N, Franek B, Gopal GP, Olaiya EO, Wilson FF, Aleksan R, Emery S, Gaidot A, Ganzhur SF, Giraud PF, Graziani G, Hamel de Monchenault G, Kozanecki W, Legendre M, London GW, Mayer B, Vasseur G, Yèche C, Zito M, Purohit MV, Weidemann AW, Wilson JR, Yumiceva FX, Abe T, Allen MT, Aston D, Bakel N, Bartoldus R, Berger N, Boyarski AM, Buchmueller OL, Claus R, Coleman JP, Convery MR, Cristinziani M, Dingfelder JC, Dong D, Dorfan J, Dujmic D, Dunwoodie W, Fan S, Field RC, Glanzman T, Gowdy SJ, Hadig T, Halyo V, Hast C, Hryn'ova T, Innes WR, Kelsey MH, Kim P, Kocian ML, Leith DWGS, Libby J, Luitz S, Luth V, Lynch HL, Marsiske H, Messner R, Muller DR, O'Grady CP, Ozcan VE, Perazzo A, Perl M, Ratcliff BN, Roodman A, Salnikov AA, Schindler RH, Schwiening J, Snyder A, Stelzer J, Su D, Sullivan MK, Suzuki K, Swain S, Thompson JM, Va'vra J, Weaver M, Wisniewski WJ, Wittgen M, Wright DH, Yarritu AK, Yi K, Young CC, Burchat PR, Edwards AJ, Majewski SA, Petersen BA, Roat C, Ahmed M, Ahmed S, Alam MS, Ernst JA, Saeed MA, Wappler FR, Zain SB, Bugg W, Krishnamurthy M, Spanier SM, Eckmann R, Ritchie JL, Satpathy A, Schwitters RF, Izen JM, Kitayama I, Lou XC, Ye S, Bianchi F, Bona M, Gallo F, Gamba D, Bomben M, Bosisio L, Cartaro C, Cossutti F, Della Ricca G, Dittongo S, Grancagnolo S, Lanceri L, Vitale L, Martinez-Vidal F, Panvini RS, Banerjee S, Bhuyan B, Brown CM, Fortin D, Hamano K, Kowalewski R, Roney JM, Sobie RJ, Back JJ, Harrison PF, Latham TE, Mohanty GB, Band HR, Chen X, Cheng B, Dasu S, Datta M, Eichenbaum AM, Flood KT, Graham M, Hollar JJ, Johnson JR, Kutter PE, Li H, Liu R, Mellado B, Mihalyi A, Pan Y, Prepost R, Tan P, von Wimmersperg-Toeller JH, Wu SL, Yu Z, Neal H. Evidence for B+ --> K0K+ and B0 --> K0K0, and measurement of the branching fraction and search for direct CP violation in B+ --> K0pi+. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2005; 95:221801. [PMID: 16384206 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.95.221801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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We present evidence for the b --> d penguin-dominated decays B+ --> K0K+ and B0 --> K0K0 in 227 x 10(6) Y(4S) --> BB decays collected with the BABAR detector. We measure the branching fractions B(B+ --> K0K+) = (1.5 +/- 0.5 +/- 0.1) x 10(-6)(< 2.4 x 10(-6)) and B(B0 --> K0K0) = [formula: see text], where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. We also present improved measurements of the charge-averaged branching fraction B(B+ --> K0pi+) = (26.0 +/- 1.3 +/- 1.0) x 10(-6) and CP-violating charge asymmetry A(CP) (K0pi+) = -0.09 +/- 0.05 +/- 0.01), where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively.
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Aubert B, Barate R, Boutigny D, Couderc F, Karyotakis Y, Lees JP, Poireau V, Tisserand V, Zghiche A, Grauges E, Palano A, Pappagallo M, Pompili A, Chen JC, Qi ND, Rong G, Wang P, Zhu YS, Eigen G, Ofte I, Stugu B, Abrams GS, Battaglia M, Breon AB, Brown DN, Button-Shafer J, Cahn RN, Charles E, Day CT, Gill MS, Gritsan AV, Groysman Y, Jacobsen RG, Kadel RW, Kadyk J, Kerth LT, Kolomensky YG, Kukartsev G, Lynch G, Mir LM, Oddone PJ, Orimoto TJ, Pripstein M, Roe NA, Ronan MT, Wenzel WA, Barrett M, Ford KE, Harrison TJ, Hart AJ, Hawkes CM, Morgan SE, Watson AT, Fritsch M, Goetzen K, Held T, Koch H, Lewandowski B, Pelizaeus M, Peters K, Schroeder T, Steinke M, Boyd JT, Burke JP, Chevalier N, Cottingham WN, Kelly MP, Cuhadar-Donszelmann T, Fulsom BG, Hearty C, Knecht NS, Mattison TS, McKenna JA, Khan A, Kyberd P, Saleem M, Teodorescu L, Blinov AE, Blinov VE, Bukin AD, Druzhinin VP, Golubev VB, Kravchenko EA, Onuchin AP, Serednyakov SI, Skovpen YI, Solodov EP, Yushkov AN, Best D, Bondioli M, Bruinsma M, Chao M, Eschrich I, Kirkby D, Lankford AJ, Mandelkern M, Mommsen RK, Roethel W, Stoker DP, Buchanan C, Hartfiel BL, Weinstein AJR, Foulkes SD, Gary JW, Long O, Shen BC, Wang K, Zhang L, del Re D, Hadavand HK, Hill EJ, MacFarlane DB, Paar HP, Rahatlou S, Sharma V, Berryhill JW, Campagnari C, Cunha A, Dahmes B, Hong TM, Mazur MA, Richman JD, Verkerke W, Beck TW, Eisner AM, Flacco CJ, Heusch CA, Kroseberg J, Lockman WS, Nesom G, Schalk T, Schumm BA, Seiden A, Spradlin P, Williams DC, Wilson MG, Albert J, Chen E, Dubois-Felsmann GP, Dvoretskii A, Hitlin DG, Narsky I, Piatenko T, Porter FC, Ryd A, Samuel A, Andreassen R, Jayatilleke S, Mancinelli G, Meadows BT, Sokoloff MD, Blanc F, Bloom P, Chen S, Ford WT, Nauenberg U, Olivas A, Rankin P, Ruddick WO, Smith JG, Ulmer KA, Wagner SR, Zhang J, Chen A, Eckhart EA, Soffer A, Toki WH, Wilson RJ, Zeng Q, Altenburg D, Feltresi E, Hauke A, Spaan B, Brandt T, Brose J, Dickopp M, Klose V, Lacker HM, Nogowski R, Otto S, Petzold A, Schott G, Schubert J, Schubert KR, Schwierz R, Sundermann JE, Bernard D, Bonneaud GR, Grenier P, Schrenk S, Thiebaux C, Vasileiadis G, Verderi M, Bard DJ, Clark PJ, Gradl W, Muheim F, Playfer S, Xie Y, Andreotti M, Azzolini V, Bettoni D, Bozzi C, Calabrese R, Cibinetto G, Luppi E, Negrini M, Piemontese L, Anulli F, Baldini-Ferroli R, Calcaterra A, de Sangro R, Finocchiaro G, Patteri P, Peruzzi IM, Piccolo M, Zallo A, Buzzo A, Capra R, Contri R, Lo Vetere M, Macri M, Monge MR, Passaggio S, Patrignani C, Robutti E, Santroni A, Tosi S, Bailey S, Brandenburg G, Chaisanguanthum KS, Morii M, Won E, Wu J, Dubitzky RS, Langenegger U, Marks J, Schenk S, Uwer U, Bhimji W, Bowerman DA, Dauncey PD, Egede U, Flack RL, Gaillard JR, Morton GW, Nash JA, Nikolich MB, Taylor GP, Vazquez WP, Charles MJ, Mader WF, Mallik U, Mohapatra AK, Cochran J, Crawley HB, Eyges V, Meyer WT, Prell S, Rosenberg EI, Rubin AE, Yi J, Arnaud N, Davier M, Giroux X, Grosdidier G, Höcker A, Le Diberder F, Lepeltier V, Lutz AM, Oyanguren A, Petersen TC, Pierini M, Plaszczynski S, Rodier S, Roudeau P, Schune MH, Stocchi A, Wormser G, Cheng CH, Lange DJ, Simani MC, Wright DM, Bevan AJ, Chavez CA, Coleman JP, Forster IJ, Fry JR, Gabathuler E, Gamet R, George KA, Hutchcroft DE, Parry RJ, Payne DJ, Schofield KC, Touramanis C, Cormack CM, Di Lodovico F, Sacco R, Brown CL, Cowan G, Flaecher HU, Green MG, Hopkins DA, Jackson PS, McMahon TR, Ricciardi S, Salvatore F, Brown D, Davis CL, Allison J, Barlow NR, Barlow RJ, Hodgkinson MC, Lafferty GD, Naisbit MT, Williams JC, Chen C, Farbin A, Hulsbergen WD, Jawahery A, Kovalskyi D, Lae CK, Lillard V, Roberts DA, Simi G, Blaylock G, Dallapiccola C, Hertzbach SS, Kofler R, Koptchev VB, Li X, Moore TB, Saremi S, Staengle H, Willocq S, Cowan R, Koeneke K, Sciolla G, Sekula SJ, Spitznagel M, Taylor F, Yamamoto RK, Kim H, Patel PM, Robertson SH, Lazzaro A, Lombardo V, Palombo F, Bauer JM, Cremaldi L, Eschenburg V, Godang R, Kroeger R, Reidy J, Sanders DA, Summers DJ, Zhao HW, Brunet S, Côté D, Taras P, Viaud B, Nicholson H, Cavallo N, De Nardo G, Fabozzi F, Gatto C, Lista L, Monorchio D, Paolucci P, Piccolo D, Sciacca C, Baak M, Bulten H, Raven G, Snoek HL, Wilden L, Jessop CP, LoSecco JM, Allmendinger T, Benelli G, Gan KK, Honscheid K, Hufnagel D, Jackson PD, Kagan H, Kass R, Pulliam T, Rahimi AM, Ter-Antonyan R, Wong QK, Brau J, Frey R, Igonkina O, Lu M, Potter CT, Sinev NB, Strom D, Strube J, Torrence E, Dorigo A, Galeazzi F, Margoni M, Morandin M, Posocco M, Rotondo M, Simonetto F, Stroili R, Voci C, Benayoun M, Briand H, Chauveau J, David P, Del Buono L, de la Vaissière C, Hamon O, John MJJ, Leruste P, Malclès J, Ocariz J, Roos L, Therin G, Behera PK, Gladney L, Guo QH, Panetta J, Biasini M, Covarelli R, Pacetti S, Pioppi M, Angelini C, Batignani G, Bettarini S, Bucci F, Calderini G, Carpinelli M, Cenci R, Forti F, Giorgi MA, Lusiani A, Marchiori G, Morganti M, Neri N, Paoloni E, Rama M, Rizzo G, Walsh J, Haire M, Judd D, Wagoner DE, Biesiada J, Danielson N, Elmer P, Lau YP, Lu C, Olsen J, Smith AJS, Telnov AV, Bellini F, Cavoto G, D'Orazio A, Di Marco E, Faccini R, Ferrarotto F, Ferroni F, Gaspero M, Li Gioi L, Mazzoni MA, Morganti S, Piredda G, Polci F, Tehrani FS, Voena C, Schröder H, Wagner G, Waldi R, Adye T, De Groot N, Franek B, Gopal GP, Olaiya EO, Wilson FF, Aleksan R, Emery S, Gaidot A, Ganzhur SF, Giraud PF, Graziani G, de Monchenault GH, Kozanecki W, Legendre M, London GW, Mayer B, Vasseur G, Yèche C, Zito M, Purohit MV, Weidemann AW, Wilson JR, Yumiceva FX, Abe T, Allen MT, Aston D, Bartoldus R, Berger N, Boyarski AM, Buchmueller OL, Claus R, Convery MR, Cristinziani M, Dingfelder JC, Dong D, Dorfan J, Dujmic D, Dunwoodie W, Fan S, Field RC, Glanzman T, Gowdy SJ, Hadig T, Halyo V, Hast C, Hryn'ova T, Innes WR, Kelsey MH, Kim P, Kocian ML, Leith DWGS, Libby J, Luitz S, Luth V, Lynch HL, Marsiske H, Messner R, Muller DR, O'Grady CP, Ozcan VE, Perazzo A, Perl M, Ratcliff BN, Roodman A, Salnikov AA, Schindler RH, Schwiening J, Snyder A, Stelzer J, Su D, Sullivan MK, Suzuki K, Swain S, Thompson JM, Va'vra J, Weaver M, Wisniewski WJ, Wittgen M, Wright DH, Yarritu AK, Yi K, Young CC, Burchat PR, Edwards AJ, Majewski SA, Petersen BA, Roat C, Ahmed M, Ahmed S, Alam MS, Ernst JA, Saeed MA, Wappler FR, Zain SB, Bugg W, Krishnamurthy M, Spanier SM, Eckmann R, Ritchie JL, Satpathy A, Schwitters RF, Izen JM, Kitayama I, Lou XC, Ye S, Bianchi F, Bona M, Gallo F, Gamba D, Bomben M, Bosisio L, Cartaro C, Cossutti F, Della Ricca G, Dittongo S, Grancagnolo S, Lanceri L, Vitale L, Martinez-Vidal F, Panvini RS, Banerjee S, Bhuyan B, Brown CM, Fortin D, Hamano K, Kowalewski R, Roney JM, Sobie RJ, Back JJ, Harrison PF, Latham TE, Mohanty GB, Band HR, Chen X, Cheng B, Dasu S, Datta M, Eichenbaum AM, Flood KT, Graham M, Hollar JJ, Johnson JR, Kutter PE, Li H, Liu R, Mellado B, Mihalyi A, Pan Y, Prepost R, Tan P, von Wimmersperg-Toeller JH, Wu SL, Yu Z, Neal H. Search for lepton-flavor and lepton-number violation in the decay tau(-) -->l-(+)h+(-)h'(-). PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2005; 95:191801. [PMID: 16383973 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.95.191801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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A search for lepton-flavor and lepton-number violation in the decay of the tau lepton into one charged lepton and two charged hadrons is performed using 221.4 fb(-1) of data collected at an e+e- center-of-mass energy of 10.58 GeV with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II storage ring. In all 14 decay modes considered, the observed data are compatible with background expectations, and upper limits are set in the range B(tau-->lhh')<(0.7 - 4.8) x 10(-7) at 90% confidence level.
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Eschrich I, Kirkby D, Lankford AJ, Mandelkern M, Mommsen RK, Roethel W, Stoker DP, Buchanan C, Hartfiel BL, Weinstein AJR, Foulkes SD, Gary JW, Shen BC, Wang K, del Re D, Hadavand HK, Hill EJ, MacFarlane DB, Paar HP, Rahatlou S, Sharma V, Berryhill JW, Campagnari C, Cunha A, Dahmes B, Hong TM, Lu A, Mazur MA, Richman JD, Verkerke W, Beck TW, Eisner AM, Heusch CA, Kroseberg J, Lockman WS, Nesom G, Schalk T, Schumm BA, Seiden A, Spradlin P, Williams DC, Wilson MG, Albert J, Chen E, Dubois-Felsmann GP, Dvoretskii A, Hitlin DG, Narsky I, Piatenko T, Porter FC, Ryd A, Samuel A, Yang S, Jayatilleke S, Mancinelli G, Meadows BT, Sokoloff MD, Blanc F, Bloom P, Chen S, Ford WT, Nauenberg U, Olivas A, Rankin P, Ruddick WO, Smith JG, Ulmer KA, Zhang J, Zhang L, Chen A, Eckhart EA, Harton JL, Soffer A, Toki WH, Wilson RJ, Zeng Q, Spaan B, Altenburg D, Brandt T, Brose J, Dickopp M, Feltresi E, Hauke A, Lacker HM, Nogowski R, Otto S, Petzold A, Schubert J, Schubert KR, Schwierz R, Sundermann JE, Bernard D, Bonneaud GR, Grenier P, Schrenk S, Thiebaux C, Vasileiadis G, Verderi M, Bard DJ, Clark PJ, Muheim F, Playfer S, Xie Y, Andreotti M, Azzolini V, Bettoni D, Bozzi C, Calabrese R, Cibinetto G, Luppi E, Negrini M, Piemontese L, Sarti A, Anulli F, Baldini-Ferroli R, Calcaterra A, de Sangro R, Finocchiaro G, Patteri P, Peruzzi IM, Piccolo M, Zallo A, Buzzo A, Capra R, Contri R, Crosetti G, Lo Vetere M, Macri M, Monge MR, Passaggio S, Patrignani C, Robutti E, Santroni A, Tosi S, Bailey S, Brandenburg G, Chaisanguanthum KS, Morii M, Won E, Dubitzky RS, Langenegger U, Marks J, Uwer U, Bhimji W, Bowerman DA, Dauncey PD, Egede U, Gaillard JR, Morton GW, Nash JA, Nikolich MB, Taylor GP, Charles MJ, Grenier GJ, Mallik U, Cochran J, Crawley HB, Lamsa J, Meyer WT, Prell S, Rosenberg EI, Rubin AE, Yi J, Arnaud N, Davier M, Giroux X, Grosdidier G, Höcker A, Le Diberder F, Lepeltier V, Lutz AM, Petersen TC, Plaszczynski S, Schune MH, Wormser G, Cheng CH, Lange DJ, Simani MC, Wright DM, Bevan AJ, Chavez CA, Coleman JP, Forster IJ, Fry JR, Gabathuler E, Gamet R, Hutchcroft DE, Parry RJ, Payne DJ, Touramanis C, Cormack CM, Di Lodovico F, Brown CL, Cowan G, Flack RL, Flaecher HU, Green MG, Jackson PS, McMahon TR, Ricciardi S, Salvatore F, Winter MA, Brown D, Davis CL, Allison J, Barlow NR, Barlow RJ, Hodgkinson MC, Lafferty GD, Williams JC, Chen C, Farbin A, Hulsbergen WD, Jawahery A, Kovalskyi D, Lae CK, Lillard V, Roberts DA, Blaylock G, Dallapiccola C, Hertzbach SS, Kofler R, Koptchev VB, Moore TB, Saremi S, Staengle H, Willocq S, Cowan R, Koeneke K, Sciolla G, Sekula SJ, Taylor F, Yamamoto RK, Mangeol DJJ, Patel PM, Robertson SH, Lazzaro A, Lombardo V, Palombo F, Bauer JM, Cremaldi L, Eschenburg V, Godang R, Kroeger R, Reidy J, Sanders DA, Summers DJ, Zhao HW, Brunet S, Côté D, Taras P, Nicholson H, Cavallo N, Fabozzi F, Gatto C, Lista L, Monorchio D, Paolucci P, Piccolo D, Sciacca C, Baak M, Bulten H, Raven G, Snoek HL, Wilden L, Jessop CP, LoSecco JM, Allmendinger T, Gan KK, Honscheid K, Hufnagel D, Kagan H, Kass R, Pulliam T, Rahimi AM, Ter-Antonyan R, Wong QK, Brau J, Frey R, Igonkina O, Lu M, Potter CT, Sinev NB, Strom D, Torrence E, Colecchia F, Dorigo A, Galeazzi F, Margoni M, Morandin M, Posocco M, Rotondo M, Simonetto F, Stroili R, Voci C, Benayoun M, Briand H, Chauveau J, David P, de la Vaissière C, Del Buono L, Hamon O, John MJJ, Leruste P, Malcles J, Ocariz J, Roos L, Therin G, Behera PK, Gladney L, Guo QH, Panetta J, Biasini M, Covarelli R, Pioppi M, Angelini C, Batignani G, Bettarini S, Bondioli M, Bucci F, Calderini G, Carpinelli M, Forti F, Giorgi MA, Lusiani A, Marchiori G, Morganti M, Neri N, Paoloni E, Rama M, Rizzo G, Simi G, Walsh J, Haire M, Judd D, Paick K, Wagoner DE, Danielson N, Elmer P, Lau YP, Lu C, Miftakov V, Olsen J, Smith AJS, Telnov AV, Bellini F, Cavoto G, Faccini R, Ferrarotto F, Ferroni F, Gaspero M, Li Gioi L, Mazzoni MA, Morganti S, Pierini M, Piredda G, Tehrani FS, Voena C, Christ S, Wagner G, Waldi R, Adye T, De Groot N, Franek B, Geddes NI, Gopal GP, Olaiya EO, Aleksan R, Emery S, Gaidot A, Ganzhur SF, Giraud PF, de Monchenault GH, Kozanecki W, Legendre M, London GW, Mayer B, Schott G, Vasseur G, Yèche C, Zito M, Purohit MV, Weidemann AW, Wilson JR, Yumiceva FX, Abe T, Aston D, Bartoldus R, Berger N, Boyarski AM, Buchmueller OL, Claus R, Convery MR, Cristinziani M, De Nardo G, Dingfelder JC, Dong D, Dorfan J, Dujmic D, Dunwoodie W, Fan S, Field RC, Glanzman T, Gowdy SJ, Hadig T, Halyo V, Hast C, Hryn'ova T, Innes WR, Kelsey MH, Kim P, Kocian ML, Leith DWGS, Libby J, Luitz S, Luth V, Lynch HL, Marsiske H, Messner R, Muller DR, O'Grady CP, Ozcan VE, Perazzo A, Perl M, Ratcliff BN, Roodman A, Salnikov AA, Schindler RH, Schwiening J, Snyder A, Soha A, Stelzer J, Strube J, Su D, Sullivan MK, Va'vra J, Wagner SR, Weaver M, Wisniewski WJ, Wittgen M, Wright DH, Yarritu AK, Young CC, Burchat PR, Edwards AJ, Majewski SA, Petersen BA, Roat C, Ahmed M, Ahmed S, Alam MS, Ernst JA, Saeed MA, Saleem M, Wappler FR, Bugg W, Krishnamurthy M, Spanier SM, Eckmann R, Kim H, Ritchie JL, Satpathy A, Schwitters RF, Izen JM, Kitayama I, Lou XC, Ye S, Bianchi F, Bona M, Gallo F, Gamba D, Bosisio L, Cartaro C, Cossutti F, Della Ricca G, Dittongo S, Grancagnolo S, Lanceri L, Poropat P, Vitale L, Vuagnin G, Martinez-Vidal F, Panvini RS, Banerjee S, Bhuyan B, Brown CM, Fortin D, Jackson PD, Kowalewski R, Roney JM, Sobie RJ, Back JJ, Harrison PF, Mohanty GB, Band HR, Chen X, Cheng B, Dasu S, Datta M, Eichenbaum AM, Flood KT, Graham M, Hollar JJ, Johnson JR, Kutter PE, Li H, Liu R, Mihalyi A, Pan Y, Prepost R, Tan P, von Wimmersperg-Toeller JH, Wu J, Wu SL, Yu Z, Greene MG, Neal H. Measurements of branching fractions and Dalitz distributions for B0 --> D(*)+/-K0pi-/+ decays. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2005; 95:171802. [PMID: 16383818 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.95.171802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2004] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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We present measurements of the branching fractions for the three-body decays B0 --> D(*)-/+K0pi+/- and their resonant submodes B0 --> D(*)-/+K*+/-using a sample of approximately 88 x 10(6) BB pairs collected by the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric energy storage ring. We measure: B(B0 --> D-/+K0pi+/-) = (4.9 +/- 0.7stat +/- 0.5syst) x 10(-4), B(B0 --> D*-/+K0pi+/-) = (3.0 +/- 0.7stat +/- 0.3syst) x 10(-4), B(B0 --> D-/+K*+/-) = (4.6 +/- 0.6stat +/- 0.5syst) x 10(-4), B(B0 --> D*-/+K*+/-) = (3.2 +/- 0.6stat +/- 0.3syst) x 10(-4). From these measurements we determine the fractions of resonant events to be f(B0 --> D-/+K*+/-) = 0.63 +/- 0.08stat +/- 0.04syst and f(B0 --> D*-/+K*+/-) = 0.72 +/- 0.14stat +/-0.05syst.
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Aubert B, Barate R, Boutigny D, Couderc F, Karyotakis Y, Lees JP, Poireau V, Tisserand V, Zghiche A, Grauges E, Palano A, Pappagallo M, Pompili A, Chen JC, Qi ND, Rong G, Wang P, Zhu YS, Eigen G, Ofte I, Stugu B, Abrams GS, Battaglia M, Breon AB, Brown DN, Button-Shafer J, Cahn RN, Charles E, Day CT, Gill MS, Gritsan AV, Groysman Y, Jacobsen RG, Kadel RW, Kadyk J, Kerth LT, Kolomensky YG, Kukartsev G, Lynch G, Mir LM, Oddone PJ, Orimoto TJ, Pripstein M, Roe NA, Ronan MT, Wenzel WA, Barrett M, Ford KE, Harrison TJ, Hart AJ, Hawkes CM, Morgan SE, Watson AT, Fritsch M, Goetzen K, Held T, Koch H, Lewandowski B, Pelizaeus M, Peters K, Schroeder T, Steinke M, Boyd JT, Burke JP, Chevalier N, Cottingham WN, Kelly MP, Cuhadar-Donszelmann T, Fulsom BG, Hearty C, Knecht NS, Mattison TS, McKenna JA, Khan A, Kyberd P, Saleem M, Teodorescu L, Blinov AE, Blinov VE, Bukin AD, Druzhinin VP, Golubev VB, Kravchenko EA, Onuchin AP, Serednyakov SI, Skovpen YI, Solodov EP, Yushkov AN, Best D, Bondioli M, Bruinsma M, Chao M, Eschrich I, Kirkby D, Lankford AJ, Mandelkern M, Mommsen RK, Roethel W, Stoker DP, Buchanan C, Hartfiel BL, Weinstein AJR, Foulkes SD, Gary JW, Long O, Shen BC, Wang K, Zhang L, Del Re D, Hadavand HK, Hill EJ, Macfarlane DB, Paar HP, Rahatlou S, Sharma V, Berryhill JW, Campagnari C, Cunha A, Dahmes B, Hong TM, Mazur MA, Richman JD, Verkerke W, Beck TW, Eisner AM, Flacco CJ, Heusch CA, Kroseberg J, Lockman WS, Nesom G, Schalk T, Schumm BA, Seiden A, Spradlin P, Williams DC, Wilson MG, Albert J, Chen E, Dubois-Felsmann GP, Dvoretskii A, Hitlin DG, Narsky I, Piatenko T, Porter FC, Ryd A, Samuel A, Andreassen R, Jayatilleke S, Mancinelli G, Meadows BT, Sokoloff MD, Blanc F, Bloom P, Chen S, Ford WT, Nauenberg U, Olivas A, Rankin P, Ruddick WO, Smith JG, Ulmer KA, Wagner SR, Zhang J, Chen A, Eckhart EA, Soffer A, Toki WH, Wilson RJ, Zeng Q, Altenburg D, Feltresi E, Hauke A, Spaan B, Brandt T, Brose J, Dickopp M, Klose V, Lacker HM, Nogowski R, Otto S, Petzold A, Schott G, Schubert J, Schubert KR, Schwierz R, Sundermann JE, Bernard D, Bonneaud GR, Grenier P, Schrenk S, Thiebaux C, Vasileiadis G, Verderi M, Bard DJ, Clark PJ, Gradl W, Muheim F, Playfer S, Xie Y, Andreotti M, Azzolini V, Bettoni D, Bozzi C, Calabrese R, Cibinetto G, Luppi E, Negrini M, Piemontese L, Anulli F, Baldini-Ferroli R, Calcaterra A, de Sangro R, Finocchiaro G, Patteri P, Peruzzi IM, Piccolo M, Zallo A, Buzzo A, Capra R, Contri R, Lo Vetere M, Macri M, Monge MR, Passaggio S, Patrignani C, Robutti E, Santroni A, Tosi S, Bailey S, Brandenburg G, Chaisanguanthum KS, Morii M, Won E, Wu J, Dubitzky RS, Langenegger U, Marks J, Schenk S, Uwer U, Bhimji W, Bowerman DA, Dauncey PD, Egede U, Flack RL, Gaillard JR, Morton GW, Nash JA, Nikolich MB, Taylor GP, Vazquez WP, Charles MJ, Mader WF, Mallik U, Mohapatra AK, Cochran J, Crawley HB, Eyges V, Meyer WT, Prell S, Rosenberg EI, Rubin AE, Yi J, Arnaud N, Davier M, Giroux X, Grosdidier G, Höcker A, Le Diberder F, Lepeltier V, Lutz AM, Oyanguren A, Petersen TC, Pierini M, Plaszczynski S, Rodier S, Roudeau P, Schune MH, Stocchi A, Wormser G, Cheng CH, Lange DJ, Simani MC, Wright DM, Bevan AJ, Chavez CA, Coleman JP, Forster IJ, Fry JR, Gabathuler E, Gamet R, George KA, Hutchcroft DE, Parry RJ, Payne DJ, Schofield KC, Touramanis C, Cormack CM, Di Lodovico F, Sacco R, Brown CL, Cowan G, Flaecher HU, Green MG, Hopkins DA, Jackson PS, McMahon TR, Ricciardi S, Salvatore F, Brown D, Davis CL, Allison J, Barlow NR, Barlow RJ, Hodgkinson MC, Lafferty GD, Naisbit MT, Williams JC, Chen C, Farbin A, Hulsbergen WD, Jawahery A, Kovalskyi D, Lae CK, Lillard V, Roberts DA, Simi G, Blaylock G, Dallapiccola C, Hertzbach SS, Kofler R, Koptchev VB, Li X, Moore TB, Saremi S, Staengle H, Willocq S, Cowan R, Koeneke K, Sciolla G, Sekula SJ, Spitznagel M, Taylor F, Yamamoto RK, Kim H, Patel PM, Robertson SH, Lazzaro A, Lombardo V, Palombo F, Bauer JM, Cremaldi L, Eschenburg V, Godang R, Kroeger R, Reidy J, Sanders DA, Summers DJ, Zhao HW, Brunet S, Côté D, Taras P, Viaud B, Nicholson H, Cavallo N, De Nardo G, Fabozzi F, Gatto C, Lista L, Monorchio D, Paolucci P, Piccolo D, Sciacca C, Baak M, Bulten H, Raven G, Snoek HL, Wilden L, Jessop CP, Losecco JM, Allmendinger T, Benelli G, Gan KK, Honscheid K, Hufnagel D, Jackson PD, Kagan H, Kass R, Pulliam T, Rahimi AM, Ter-Antonyan R, Wong QK, Brau J, Frey R, Igonkina O, Lu M, Potter CT, Sinev NB, Strom D, Strube J, Torrence E, Dorigo A, Galeazzi F, Margoni M, Morandin M, Posocco M, Rotondo M, Simonetto F, Stroili R, Voci C, Benayoun M, Briand H, Chauveau J, David P, Del Buono L, de la Vaissière C, Hamon O, John MJJ, Leruste P, Malclès J, Ocariz J, Roos L, Therin G, Behera PK, Gladney L, Guo QH, Panetta J, Biasini M, Covarelli R, Pacetti S, Pioppi M, Angelini C, Batignani G, Bettarini S, Bucci F, Calderini G, Carpinelli M, Cenci R, Forti F, Giorgi MA, Lusiani A, Marchiori G, Morganti M, Neri N, Paoloni E, Rama M, Rizzo G, Walsh J, Haire M, Judd D, Wagoner DE, Biesiada J, Danielson N, Elmer P, Lau YP, Lu C, Olsen J, Smith AJS, Telnov AV, Bellini F, Cavoto G, D'Orazio A, Di Marco E, Faccini R, Ferrarotto F, Ferroni F, Gaspero M, Li Gioi L, Mazzoni MA, Morganti S, Piredda G, Polci F, Tehrani FS, Voena C, Schröder H, Wagner G, Waldi R, Adye T, De Groot N, Franek B, Gopal GP, Olaiya EO, Wilson FF, Aleksan R, Emery S, Gaidot A, Ganzhur SF, Giraud PF, Graziani G, Hamel de Monchenault G, Kozanecki W, Legendre M, London GW, Mayer B, Vasseur G, Yèche C, Zito M, Purohit MV, Weidemann AW, Wilson JR, Yumiceva FX, Abe T, Allen MT, Aston D, Bartoldus R, Berger N, Boyarski AM, Buchmueller OL, Claus R, Convery MR, Cristinziani M, Dingfelder JC, Dong D, Dorfan J, Dujmic D, Dunwoodie W, Fan S, Field RC, Glanzman T, Gowdy SJ, Hadig T, Halyo V, Hast C, Hryn'ova T, Innes WR, Kelsey MH, Kim P, Kocian ML, Leith DWGS, Libby J, Luitz S, Luth V, Lynch HL, Marsiske H, Messner R, Muller DR, O'grady CP, Ozcan VE, Perazzo A, Perl M, Ratcliff BN, Roodman A, Salnikov AA, Schindler RH, Schwiening J, Snyder A, Stelzer J, Su D, Sullivan MK, Suzuki K, Swain S, Thompson JM, Va'vra J, Weaver M, Wisniewski WJ, Wittgen M, Wright DH, Yarritu AK, Yi K, Young CC, Burchat PR, Edwards AJ, Majewski SA, Petersen BA, Roat C, Ahmed M, Ahmed S, Alam MS, Ernst JA, Saeed MA, Wappler FR, Zain SB, Bugg W, Krishnamurthy M, Spanier SM, Eckmann R, Ritchie JL, Satpathy A, Schwitters RF, Izen JM, Kitayama I, Lou XC, Ye S, Bianchi F, Bona M, Gallo F, Gamba D, Bomben M, Bosisio L, Cartaro C, Cossutti F, Della Ricca G, Dittongo S, Grancagnolo S, Lanceri L, Vitale L, Martinez-Vidal F, Panvini RS, Banerjee S, Bhuyan B, Brown CM, Fortin D, Hamano K, Kowalewski R, Roney JM, Sobie RJ, Back JJ, Harrison PF, Latham TE, Mohanty GB, Band HR, Chen X, Cheng B, Dasu S, Datta M, Eichenbaum AM, Flood KT, Graham M, Hollar JJ, Johnson JR, Kutter PE, Li H, Liu R, Mellado B, Mihalyi A, Pan Y, Prepost R, Tan P, von Wimmersperg-Toeller JH, Wu SL, Yu Z, Neal H. Measurement of time-dependent CP asymmetries and the CP-odd fraction in the decay B0-->D*+D*-. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2005; 95:151804. [PMID: 16241717 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.95.151804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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We present an updated measurement of time-dependent CP asymmetries and the CP-odd fraction in the decay B0-->D*+D*- using 232x10(6)BB pairs collected by the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II B factory. We determine the CP-odd fraction to be 0.125+/-0.044(stat)+/-0.007(syst). The time-dependent CP asymmetry parameters C+ and S+ are determined to be 0.06+/-0.17(stat)+/-0.03(syst) and -0.75+/-0.25(stat)+/-0.03(syst), respectively. The standard model predicts these parameters to be 0 and -sin2beta, respectively, in the absence of penguin amplitude contributions.
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Aubert B, Barate R, Boutigny D, Couderc F, Karyotakis Y, Lees JP, Poireau V, Tisserand V, Zghiche A, Grauges-Pous E, Palano A, Pompili A, Chen JC, Qi ND, Rong G, Wang P, Zhu YS, Eigen G, Ofte I, Stugu B, Abrams GS, Borgland AW, Breon AB, Brown DN, Button-Shafer J, Cahn RN, Charles E, Day CT, Gill MS, Gritsan AV, Groysman Y, Jacobsen RG, Kadel RW, Kadyk J, Kerth LT, Kolomensky YG, Kukartsev G, Lynch G, Mir LM, Oddone PJ, Orimoto TJ, Pripstein M, Roe NA, Ronan MT, Wenzel WA, Barrett M, Ford KE, Harrison TJ, Hart AJ, Hawkes CM, Morgan SE, Watson AT, Fritsch M, Goetzen K, Held T, Koch H, Lewandowski B, Pelizaeus M, Peters K, Schroeder T, Steinke M, Boyd JT, Burke JP, Chevalier N, Cottingham WN, Kelly MP, Latham TE, Wilson FF, Cuhadar-Donszelmann T, Hearty C, Knecht NS, Mattison TS, McKenna JA, Thiessen D, Khan A, Kyberd P, Teodorescu L, Blinov AE, Blinov VE, Druzhinin VP, Golubev VB, Ivanchenko VN, Kravchenko EA, Onuchin AP, Serednyakov SI, Skovpen YI, Solodov EP, Yushkov AN, Best D, Bruinsma M, Chao M, Eschrich I, Kirkby D, Lankford AJ, Mandelkern M, Mommsen RK, Roethel W, Stoker DP, Buchanan C, Hartfiel BL, Weinstein AJR, Foulkes SD, Gary JW, Long O, Shen BC, Wang K, Del Re D, Hadavand HK, Hill EJ, Macfarlane DB, Paar HP, Rahatlou S, Sharma V, Berryhill JW, Campagnari C, Cunha A, Dahmes B, Hong TM, Lu A, Mazur MA, Richman JD, Verkerke W, Beck TW, Eisner AM, Flacco CJ, Heusch CA, Kroseberg J, Lockman WS, Nesom G, Schalk T, Schumm BA, Seiden A, Spradlin P, Williams DC, Wilson MG, Albert J, Chen E, Dubois-Felsmann GP, Dvoretskii A, Hitlin DG, Narsky I, Piatenko T, Porter FC, Ryd A, Samuel A, Yang S, Jayatilleke S, Mancinelli G, Meadows BT, Sokoloff MD, Blanc F, Bloom P, Chen S, Ford WT, Nauenberg U, Olivas A, Rankin P, Ruddick WO, Smith JG, Ulmer KA, Zhang J, Zhang L, Chen A, Eckhart EA, Harton JL, Soffer A, Toki WH, Wilson RJ, Zeng Q, Spaan B, Altenburg D, Brandt T, Brose J, Dickopp M, Feltresi E, Hauke A, Lacker HM, Maly E, Nogowski R, Otto S, Petzold A, Schott G, Schubert J, Schubert KR, Schwierz R, Sundermann JE, Bernard D, Bonneaud GR, Grenier P, Schrenk S, Thiebaux C, Vasileiadis G, Verderi M, Bard DJ, Clark PJ, Muheim F, Playfer S, Xie Y, Andreotti M, Azzolini V, Bettoni D, Bozzi C, Calabrese R, Cibinetto G, Luppi E, Negrini M, Piemontese L, Sarti A, Anulli F, Baldini-Ferroli R, Calcaterra A, de Sangro R, Finocchiaro G, Patteri P, Peruzzi IM, Piccolo M, Zallo A, Buzzo A, Capra R, Contri R, Crosetti G, Lo Vetere M, Macri M, Monge MR, Passaggio S, Patrignani C, Robutti E, Santroni A, Tosi S, Bailey S, Brandenburg G, Chaisanguanthum KS, Morii M, Won E, Dubitzky RS, Langenegger U, Marks J, Uwer U, Bhimji W, Bowerman DA, Dauncey PD, Egede U, Gaillard JR, Morton GW, Nash JA, Nikolich MB, Taylor GP, Charles MJ, Grenier GJ, Mallik U, Mohapatra AK, Cochran J, Crawley HB, Lamsa J, Meyer WT, Prell S, Rosenberg EI, Rubin AE, Yi J, Arnaud N, Davier M, Giroux X, Grosdidier G, Höcker A, Le Diberder F, Lepeltier V, Lutz AM, Petersen TC, Pierini M, Plaszczynski S, Schune MH, Wormser G, Cheng CH, Lange DJ, Simani MC, Wright DM, Bevan AJ, Chavez CA, Coleman JP, Forster IJ, Fry JR, Gabathuler E, Gamet R, Hutchcroft DE, Parry RJ, Payne DJ, Touramanis C, Cormack CM, Di Lodovico F, Brown CL, Cowan G, Flack RL, Flaecher HU, Green MG, Jackson PS, McMahon TR, Ricciardi S, Salvatore F, Winter MA, Brown D, Davis CL, Allison J, Barlow NR, Barlow RJ, Hodgkinson MC, Lafferty GD, Naisbit MT, Williams JC, Chen C, Farbin A, Hulsbergen WD, Jawahery A, Kovalskyi D, Lae CK, Lillard V, Roberts DA, Blaylock G, Dallapiccola C, Hertzbach SS, Kofler R, Koptchev VB, Moore TB, Saremi S, Staengle H, Willocq S, Cowan R, Koeneke K, Sciolla G, Sekula SJ, Taylor F, Yamamoto RK, Patel PM, Robertson SH, Lazzaro A, Lombardo V, Palombo F, Bauer JM, Cremaldi L, Eschenburg V, Godang R, Kroeger R, Reidy J, Sanders DA, Summers DJ, Zhao HW, Brunet S, Côté D, Taras P, Nicholson H, Cavallo N, Fabozzi F, Gatto C, Lista L, Monorchio D, Paolucci P, Piccolo D, Sciacca C, Baak M, Bulten H, Raven G, Snoek HL, Wilden L, Jessop CP, Losecco JM, Allmendinger T, Benelli G, Gan KK, Honscheid K, Hufnagel D, Kagan H, Kass R, Pulliam T, Rahimi AM, Ter-Antonyan R, Wong QK, Brau J, Frey R, Igonkina O, Lu M, Potter CT, Sinev NB, Strom D, Torrence E, Colecchia F, Dorigo A, Galeazzi F, Margoni M, Morandin M, Posocco M, Rotondo M, Simonetto F, Stroili R, Voci C, Benayoun M, Briand H, Chauveau J, David P, Del Buono L, de la Vaissière C, Hamon O, John MJJ, Leruste P, Malclès J, Ocariz J, Roos L, Therin G, Behera PK, Gladney L, Guo QH, Panetta J, Biasini M, Covarelli R, Pioppi M, Angelini C, Batignani G, Bettarini S, Bondioli M, Bucci F, Calderini G, Carpinelli M, Forti F, Giorgi MA, Lusiani A, Marchiori G, Morganti M, Neri N, Paoloni E, Rama M, Rizzo G, Simi G, Walsh J, Haire M, Judd D, Paick K, Wagoner DE, Danielson N, Elmer P, Lau YP, Lu C, Miftakov V, Olsen J, Smith AJS, Telnov AV, Bellini F, Cavoto G, D'Orazio A, Di Marco E, Faccini R, Ferrarotto F, Ferroni F, Gaspero M, Li Gioi L, Mazzoni MA, Morganti S, Piredda G, Polci F, Tehrani FS, Voena C, Christ S, Schröder H, Wagner G, Waldi R, Adye T, De Groot N, Franek B, Gopal GP, Olaiya EO, Aleksan R, Emery S, Gaidot A, Ganzhur SF, Giraud PF, Hamel de Monchenault G, Kozanecki W, Legendre M, London GW, Mayer B, Vasseur G, Yèche C, Zito M, Purohit MV, Weidemann AW, Wilson JR, Yumiceva FX, Abe T, Aston D, Bartoldus R, Berger N, Boyarski AM, Buchmueller OL, Claus R, Convery MR, Cristinziani M, De Nardo G, Dingfelder JC, Dong D, Dorfan J, Dujmic D, Dunwoodie W, Fan S, Field RC, Glanzman T, Gowdy SJ, Hadig T, Halyo V, Hast C, Hryn'ova T, Innes WR, Kelsey MH, Kim P, Kocian ML, Leith DWGS, Libby J, Luitz S, Luth V, Lynch HL, Marsiske H, Messner R, Muller DR, O'grady CP, Ozcan VE, Perazzo A, Perl M, Ratcliff BN, Roodman A, Salnikov AA, Schindler RH, Schwiening J, Snyder A, Soha A, Stelzer J, Strube J, Su D, Sullivan MK, Va'vra J, Wagner SR, Weaver M, Wisniewski WJ, Wittgen M, Wright DH, Yarritu AK, Young CC, Burchat PR, Edwards AJ, Majewski SA, Petersen BA, Roat C, Ahmed M, Ahmed S, Alam MS, Ernst JA, Saeed MA, Saleem M, Wappler FR, Bugg W, Krishnamurthy M, Spanier SM, Eckmann R, Kim H, Ritchie JL, Satpathy A, Schwitters RF, Izen JM, Kitayama I, Lou XC, Ye S, Bianchi F, Bona M, Gallo F, Gamba D, Bosisio L, Cartaro C, Cossutti F, Della Ricca G, Dittongo S, Grancagnolo S, Lanceri L, Poropat P, Vitale L, Vuagnin G, Martinez-Vidal F, Panvini RS, Banerjee S, Bhuyan B, Brown CM, Fortin D, Hamano K, Jackson PD, Kowalewski R, Roney JM, Sobie RJ, Back JJ, Harrison PF, Mohanty GB, Band HR, Chen X, Cheng B, Dasu S, Datta M, Eichenbaum AM, Flood KT, Graham M, Hollar JJ, Johnson JR, Kutter PE, Li H, Liu R, Mihalyi A, Pan Y, Prepost R, Tan P, von Wimmersperg-Toeller JH, Wu J, Wu SL, Yu Z, Greene MG, Neal H. Improved measurements of CP-violating asymmetry amplitudes in B0-->pi+pi- decays. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2005; 95:151803. [PMID: 16241716 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.95.151803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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We present updated measurements of the CP-violating parameters Spipi and Cpipi in B0-->pi+pi- decays. Using a sample of 227x10(6) Upsilon(4S)-->BB decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e(+)e(-) collider at SLAC, we observe 467+/-33 signal decays and measure Spipi=-0.30+/-0.17(stat)+/-0.03(syst) and Cpipi=-0.09+/-0.15(stat)+/-0.04(syst).
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Abd Elati M, Ahmed M. Availability and Quality of Solid Waste Collection Service at Suburban Area in Alexandria City, Egypt. JOURNAL OF HIGH INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH 2005. [DOI: 10.21608/jhiph.2005.167033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Patil SJ, Gulati S, Khan F, Tripathi M, Ahmed M, Agrawal S. Angiotensin converting enzyme gene polymorphism in Indian children with steroid sensitive nephrotic syndrome. INDIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES 2005; 59:431-5. [PMID: 16272677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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CONTEXT Nephrotic syndrome is one of the commonest renal problem encountered in children. It is difficult to predict at onset, the clinical course in terms of steroid responsiveness or resistance. Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism has been studied as a predictor of clinical course in common multi-factorial diseases including focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. There is no study available from our country till date to find out any correlation of the steroid response in idiopathic nephrotic syndrome and ACE gene polymorphism. AIM To study distribution and correlation of ACE gene I/D polymorphism in idiopathic steroid sensitive nephrotic syndrome. SETTINGS & DESIGN Case-control retrospective study. SUBJECTS & METHODS We studied ACE gene polymorphism in 90 consecutive patients (82% males, 18% females) with steroid sensitive idiopathic nephrotic syndrome and 300 normal controls (NC). STATISTICAL ANALYSIS Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test (for cases with insufficient expected cell frequencies). RESULTS The mean age of onset was 5.3 +/- 4 years. Steroid sensitive (SS) patients showed II (SS-48%, NC-26%) genotype was more frequent than normal controls (p=0.002). There was no significant difference in genotype frequencies among steroid SS subgroups. CONCLUSIONS In our study II genotype was more frequent in steroid sensitive nephrotic syndrome children in comparison to normal controls. Further functional studies with large number of children are required to investigate the role of II genotype in steroid sensitive nephrotic syndrome. Comparison of the genotypic frequency with steroid resistant patients may provide information, which might be useful in clinical practice.
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Aubert B, Barate R, Boutigny D, Couderc F, Karyotakis Y, Lees JP, Poireau V, Tisserand V, Zghiche A, Grauges E, Palano A, Pappagallo M, Pompili A, Chen JC, Qi ND, Rong G, Wang P, Zhu YS, Eigen G, Ofte I, Stugu B, Abrams GS, Borgland AW, Breon AB, Brown DN, Button-Shafer J, Cahn RN, Charles E, Day CT, Gill MS, Gritsan AV, Groysman Y, Jacobsen RG, Kadel RW, Kadyk J, Kerth LT, Kolomensky YG, Kukartsev G, Lynch G, Mir LM, Oddone PJ, Orimoto TJ, Pripstein M, Roe NA, Ronan MT, Wenzel WA, Barrett M, Ford KE, Harrison TJ, Hart AJ, Hawkes CM, Morgan SE, Watson AT, Fritsch M, Goetzen K, Held T, Koch H, Lewandowski B, Pelizaeus M, Peters K, Schroeder T, Steinke M, Boyd JT, Burke JP, Chevalier N, Cottingham WN, Kelly MP, Cuhadar-Donszelmann T, Hearty C, Knecht NS, Mattison TS, McKenna JA, Thiessen D, Khan A, Kyberd P, Teodorescu L, Blinov AE, Blinov VE, Bukin AD, Druzhinin VP, Golubev VB, Ivanchenko VN, Kravchenko EA, Onuchin AP, Serednyakov SI, Skovpen YI, Solodov EP, Yushkov AN, Best D, Bondioli M, Bruinsma M, Chao M, Eschrich I, Kirkby D, Lankford AJ, Mandelkern M, Mommsen RK, Roethel W, Stoker DP, Buchanan C, Hartfiel BL, Weinstein AJR, Foulkes SD, Gary JW, Long O, Shen BC, Wang K, Zhang L, Del Re D, Hadavand HK, Hill EJ, MacFarlane DB, Paar HP, Rahatlou S, Sharma V, Berryhill JW, Campagnari C, Cunha A, Dahmes B, Hong TM, Lu A, Mazur MA, Richman JD, Verkerke W, Beck TW, Eisner AM, Flacco CJ, Heusch CA, Kroseberg J, Lockman WS, Nesom G, Schalk T, Schumm BA, Seiden A, Spradlin P, Williams DC, Wilson MG, Albert J, Chen E, Dubois-Felsmann GP, Dvoretskii A, Hitlin DG, Narsky I, Piatenko T, Porter FC, Ryd A, Samuel A, Yang S, Andreassen R, Jayatilleke S, Mancinelli G, Meadows BT, Sokoloff MD, Blanc F, Bloom P, Chen S, Ford WT, Nauenberg U, Olivas A, Rankin P, Ruddick WO, Smith JG, Ulmer KA, Zhang J, Chen A, Eckhart EA, Harton JL, Soffer A, Toki WH, Wilson RJ, Zeng Q, Spaan B, Altenburg D, Brandt T, Brose J, Dickopp M, Feltresi E, Hauke A, Klose V, Lacker HM, Maly E, Nogowski R, Otto S, Petzold A, Schott G, Schubert J, Schubert KR, Schwierz R, Sundermann JE, Bernard D, Bonneaud GR, Grenier P, Schrenk S, Thiebaux C, Vasileiadis G, Verderi M, Bard DJ, Clark PJ, Gradl W, Muheim F, Playfer S, Xie Y, Andreotti M, Azzolini V, Bettoni D, Bozzi C, Calabrese R, Cibinetto G, Luppi E, Negrini M, Piemontese L, Sarti A, Anulli F, Baldini-Ferroli R, Calcaterra A, de Sangro R, Finocchiaro G, Patteri P, Peruzzi IM, Piccolo M, Zallo A, Buzzo A, Capra R, Contri R, Lo Vetere M, Macri M, Monge MR, Passaggio S, Patrignani C, Robutti E, Santroni A, Tosi S, Bailey S, Brandenburg G, Chaisanguanthum KS, Morii M, Won E, Dubitzky RS, Langenegger U, Marks J, Schenk S, Uwer U, Bhimji W, Bowerman DA, Dauncey PD, Egede U, Gaillard JR, Morton GW, Nash JA, Nikolich MB, Taylor GP, Chai X, Charles MJ, Grenier GJ, Mallik U, Mohapatra AK, Ziegler V, Cochran J, Crawley HB, Eyges V, Meyer WT, Prell S, Rosenberg EI, Rubin AE, Yi J, Arnaud N, Davier M, Giroux X, Grosdidier G, Höcker A, Le Diberder F, Lepeltier V, Lutz AM, Petersen TC, Pierini M, Plaszczynski S, Rodier S, Roudeau P, Schune MH, Stocchi A, Wormser G, Cheng CH, Lange DJ, Simani MC, Wright DM, Bevan AJ, Chavez CA, Coleman JP, Forster IJ, Fry JR, Gabathuler E, Gamet R, George KA, Hutchcroft DE, Parry RJ, Payne DJ, Touramanis C, Cormack CM, Di Lodovico F, Brown CL, Cowan G, Flack RL, Flaecher HU, Green MG, Jackson PS, McMahon TR, Ricciardi S, Salvatore F, Brown D, Davis CL, Allison J, Barlow NR, Barlow RJ, Hodgkinson MC, Lafferty GD, Naisbit MT, Williams JC, Chen C, Farbin A, Hulsbergen WD, Jawahery A, Kovalskyi D, Lae CK, Lillard V, Roberts DA, Blaylock G, Dallapiccola C, Hertzbach SS, Kofler R, Koptchev VB, Moore TB, Saremi S, Staengle H, Willocq S, Cowan R, Koeneke K, Sciolla G, Sekula SJ, Taylor F, Yamamoto RK, Kim H, Patel PM, Robertson SH, Lazzaro A, Lombardo V, Palombo F, Bauer JM, Cremaldi L, Eschenburg V, Godang R, Kroeger R, Reidy J, Sanders DA, Summers DJ, Zhao HW, Brunet S, Côté D, Taras P, Viaud B, Nicholson H, Cavallo N, De Nardo G, Fabozzi F, Gatto C, Lista L, Monorchio D, Paolucci P, Piccolo D, Sciacca C, Baak M, Bulten H, Raven G, Snoek HL, Wilden L, Jessop CP, LoSecco JM, Allmendinger T, Benelli G, Gan KK, Honscheid K, Hufnagel D, Jackson PD, Kagan H, Kass R, Pulliam T, Rahimi AM, Ter-Antonyan R, Wong QK, Brau J, Frey R, Igonkina O, Lu M, Potter CT, Sinev NB, Strom D, Torrence E, Colecchia F, Dorigo A, Galeazzi F, Margoni M, Morandin M, Posocco M, Rotondo M, Simonetto F, Stroili R, Voci C, Benayoun M, Briand H, Chauveau J, David P, Del Buono L, de la Vaissière C, Hamon O, John MJJ, Leruste P, Malclès J, Ocariz J, Roos L, Therin G, Behera PK, Gladney L, Guo QH, Panetta J, Biasini M, Covarelli R, Pioppi M, Angelini C, Batignani G, Bettarini S, Bucci F, Calderini G, Carpinelli M, Forti F, Giorgi MA, Lusiani A, Marchiori G, Morganti M, Neri N, Paoloni E, Rama M, Rizzo G, Simi G, Walsh J, Haire M, Judd D, Paick K, Wagoner DE, Biesiada J, Danielson N, Elmer P, Lau YP, Lu C, Olsen J, Smith AJS, Telnov AV, Bellini F, Cavoto G, D'Orazio A, Di Marco E, Faccini R, Ferrarotto F, Ferroni F, Gaspero M, Li Gioi L, Mazzoni MA, Morganti S, Piredda G, Polci F, Safai Tehrani F, Voena C, Christ S, Schröder H, Wagner G, Waldi R, Adye T, De Groot N, Franek B, Gopal GP, Olaiya EO, Wilson FF, Aleksan R, Emery S, Gaidot A, Ganzhur SF, Giraud PF, Graziani G, Hamel de Monchenault G, Kozanecki W, Legendre M, London GW, Mayer B, Vasseur G, Yèche C, Zito M, Purohit MV, Weidemann AW, Wilson JR, Yumiceva FX, Abe T, Allen MT, Aston D, Bartoldus R, Berger N, Boyarski AM, Buchmueller OL, Claus R, Convery MR, Cristinziani M, Dingfelder JC, Dong D, Dorfan J, Dujmic D, Dunwoodie W, Fan S, Field RC, Glanzman T, Gowdy SJ, Hadig T, Halyo V, Hast C, Hryn'ova T, Innes WR, Kelsey MH, Kim P, Kocian ML, Leith DWGS, Libby J, Luitz S, Luth V, Lynch HL, Marsiske H, Messner R, Muller DR, O'Grady CP, Ozcan VE, Perazzo A, Perl M, Ratcliff BN, Roodman A, Salnikov AA, Schindler RH, Schwiening J, Snyder A, Soha A, Stelzer J, Strube J, Su D, Sullivan MK, Suzuki K, Thompson JM, Va'vra J, Wagner SR, Weaver M, Wisniewski WJ, Wittgen M, Wright DH, Yarritu AK, Young CC, Burchat PR, Edwards AJ, Majewski SA, Petersen BA, Roat C, Ahmed M, Ahmed S, Alam MS, Ernst JA, Saeed MA, Saleem M, Wappler FR, Bugg W, Krishnamurthy M, Spanier SM, Eckmann R, Ritchie JL, Satpathy A, Schwitters RF, Izen JM, Kitayama I, Lou XC, Ye S, Bianchi F, Bona M, Gallo F, Gamba D, Bomben M, Bosisio L, Cartaro C, Cossutti F, Della Ricca G, Dittongo S, Grancagnolo S, Lanceri L, Poropat P, Vitale L, Vuagnin G, Martinez-Vidal F, Panvini RS, Banerjee S, Bhuyan B, Brown CM, Fortin D, Hamano K, Kowalewski R, Roney JM, Sobie RJ, Back JJ, Harrison PF, Latham TE, Mohanty GB, Band HR, Chen X, Cheng B, Dasu S, Datta M, Eichenbaum AM, Flood KT, Graham M, Hollar JJ, Johnson JR, Kutter PE, Li H, Liu R, Mellado B, Mihalyi A, Pan Y, Prepost R, Tan P, von Wimmersperg-Toeller JH, Wu J, Wu SL, Yu Z, Greene MG, Neal H. Production and decay of xi(c)(0) at BABAR. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2005; 95:142003. [PMID: 16241647 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.95.142003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Using 116.1 fb(-1) of data collected by the BABAR detector, we present an analysis of xi(c)(0) production in B decays and from the cc continuum, with the xi(c)(0) decaying into omega- K+ and xi- pi+ final states. We measure the ratio of branching fractions B(xi(c)(0) --> omega- K+)/B(xi(c)(0) --> xi- pi+) spectrum is measured on and 40 MeV below the upsilon(4S) resonance. From these spectra the branching fraction product B(B --> xi(c)(0)X) x B(xi(c)(0) --> xi- pi+) is measured to be (2.11 +/- 0.19 +/- 0.25) x 10(-4), and the cross-section product sigma(e+ e- --> xi(c)(0)X) x B(xi(c)(0) --> xi- pi+) from the continuum is measured to be (388 +/- 39 +/- 41) fb at a center-of-mass energy of 10.58 GeV.
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Aubert B, Barate R, Boutigny D, Couderc F, Karyotakis Y, Lees JP, Poireau V, Tisserand V, Zghiche A, Grauges E, Palano A, Pappagallo M, Pompili A, Chen JC, Qi ND, Rong G, Wang P, Zhu YS, Eigen G, Ofte I, Stugu B, Abrams GS, Battaglia M, Breon AB, Brown DN, Button-Shafer J, Cahn RN, Charles E, Day CT, Gill MS, Gritsan AV, Groysman Y, Jacobsen RG, Kadel RW, Kadyk J, Kerth LT, Kolomensky YG, Kukartsev G, Lynch G, Mir LM, Oddone PJ, Orimoto TJ, Pripstein M, Roe NA, Ronan MT, Wenzel WA, Barrett M, Ford KE, Harrison TJ, Hart AJ, Hawkes CM, Morgan SE, Watson AT, Fritsch M, Goetzen K, Held T, Koch H, Lewandowski B, Pelizaeus M, Peters K, Schroeder T, Steinke M, Boyd JT, Burke JP, Chevalier N, Cottingham WN, Cuhadar-Donszelmann T, Fulsom BG, Hearty C, Knecht NS, Mattison TS, McKenna JA, Khan A, Kyberd P, Saleem M, Teodorescu L, Blinov AE, Blinov VE, Bukin AD, Druzhinin VP, Golubev VB, Kravchenko EA, Onuchin AP, Serednyakov SI, Skovpen YI, Solodov EP, Yushkov AN, Best D, Bondioli M, Bruinsma M, Chao M, Curry S, Eschrich I, Kirkby D, Lankford AJ, Lund P, Mandelkern M, Mommsen RK, Roethel W, Stoker DP, Buchanan C, Hartfiel BL, Weinstein AJR, Foulkes SD, Gary JW, Long O, Shen BC, Wang K, Zhang L, del Re D, Hadavand HK, Hill EJ, MacFarlane DB, Paar HP, Rahatlou S, Sharma V, Berryhill JW, Campagnari C, Cunha A, Dahmes B, Hong TM, Mazur MA, Richman JD, Verkerke W, Beck TW, Eisner AM, Flacco CJ, Heusch CA, Kroseberg J, Lockman WS, Nesom G, Schalk T, Schumm BA, Seiden A, Spradlin P, Williams DC, Wilson MG, Albert J, Chen E, Dubois-Felsmann GP, Dvoretskii A, Hitlin DG, Narsky I, Piatenko T, Porter FC, Ryd A, Samuel A, Andreassen R, Jayatilleke S, Mancinelli G, Meadows BT, Sokoloff MD, Blanc F, Bloom P, Chen S, Ford WT, Hirschauer JF, Kreisel A, Nauenberg U, Olivas A, Rankin P, Ruddick WO, Smith JG, Ulmer KA, Wagner SR, Zhang J, Chen A, Eckhart EA, Soffer A, Toki WH, Wilson RJ, Zeng Q, Altenburg D, Feltresi E, Hauke A, Spaan B, Brandt T, Brose J, Dickopp M, Klose V, Lacker HM, Nogowski R, Otto S, Petzold A, Schott G, Schubert J, Schubert KR, Schwierz R, Sundermann JE, Bernard D, Bonneaud GR, Grenier P, Schrenk S, Thiebaux C, Vasileiadis G, Verderi M, Bard DJ, Clark PJ, Gradl W, Muheim F, Playfer S, Xie Y, Andreotti M, Azzolini V, Bettoni D, Bozzi C, Calabrese R, Cibinetto G, Luppi E, Negrini M, Piemontese L, Anulli F, Baldini-Ferroli R, Calcaterra A, de Sangro R, Finocchiaro G, Patteri P, Peruzzi IM, Piccolo M, Zallo A, Buzzo A, Capra R, Contri R, Lo Vetere M, Macri M, Monge MR, Passaggio S, Patrignani C, Robutti E, Santroni A, Tosi S, Brandenburg G, Chaisanguanthum KS, Morii M, Won E, Wu J, Dubitzky RS, Langenegger U, Marks J, Schenk S, Uwer U, Bhimji W, Bowerman DA, Dauncey PD, Egede U, Flack RL, Gaillard JR, Morton GW, Nash JA, Nikolich MB, Taylor GP, Vazquez WP, Charles MJ, Mader WF, Mallik U, Mohapatra AK, Cochran J, Crawley HB, Eyges V, Meyer WT, Prell S, Rosenberg EI, Rubin AE, Yi J, Arnaud N, Davier M, Giroux X, Grosdidier G, Höcker A, Le Diberder F, Lepeltier V, Lutz AM, Oyanguren A, Petersen TC, Pierini M, Plaszczynski S, Rodier S, Roudeau P, Schune MH, Stocchi A, Wormser G, Cheng CH, Lange DJ, Simani MC, Wright DM, Bevan AJ, Chavez CA, Forster IJ, Fry JR, Gabathuler E, Gamet R, George KA, Hutchcroft DE, Parry RJ, Payne DJ, Schofield KC, Touramanis C, Cormack CM, Di Lodovico F, Menges W, Sacco R, Brown CL, Cowan G, Flaecher HU, Green MG, Hopkins DA, Jackson PS, McMahon TR, Ricciardi S, Salvatore F, Brown D, Davis CL, Allison J, Barlow NR, Barlow RJ, Edgar CL, Hodgkinson MC, Kelly MP, Lafferty GD, Naisbit MT, Williams JC, Chen C, Hulsbergen WD, Jawahery A, Kovalskyi D, Lae CK, Roberts DA, Simi G, Blaylock G, Dallapiccola C, Hertzbach SS, Kofler R, Koptchev VB, Li X, Moore TB, Saremi S, Staengle H, Willocq S, Cowan R, Koeneke K, Sciolla G, Sekula SJ, Spitznagel M, Taylor F, Yamamoto RK, Kim H, Patel PM, Robertson SH, Lazzaro A, Lombardo V, Palombo F, Bauer JM, Cremaldi L, Eschenburg V, Godang R, Kroeger R, Reidy J, Sanders DA, 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Observation of a broad structure in the pi+ pi- J/psi mass spectrum around 4.26 GeV/c2. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2005; 95:142001. [PMID: 16241645 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.95.142001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
Abstract
We study initial-state radiation events, e+ e- --> gammaISR pi+ pi- J/psi, with data collected with the BABAR detector. We observe an accumulation of events near 4.26 GeV/c2 in the invariant-mass spectrum of pi+ pi- J/psi. Fits to the mass spectrum indicate that a broad resonance with a mass of about 4.26 GeV/c2 is required to describe the observed structure. The presence of additional narrow resonances cannot be excluded. The fitted width of the broad resonance is 50 to 90 MeV/c2, depending on the fit hypothesis.
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