124 documents found, page 1 of 13
Measurement of σ(pp̄→Z)·Br(Z→ττ) at √s=1.96 TeV
Abazov, V. M.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B. S.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.; Agelou, M.; Agram, J. L.; Ahn, S. H.; Ahsan, M.; Alexeev, G. D.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:59:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005-04-01; We present a measurement of the cross section for Z production times the branching fraction to τ leptons, σ·Br(Z → τ<sup>+</sup>τ<sup>-</sup>), in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV in the channel in which one τ decays into μν<inf>μ</inf>ν <inf>τ</inf>, and the other into hadrons + ν<inf>τ</inf> or eν<inf>...
Search for first-generation scalar leptoquarks in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV
Abazov, V. M.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B. S.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.; Agelou, M.; Agram, J. L.; Ahn, S. H.; Ahsan, M.; Alexeev, G. D.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T20:00:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005-04-01; We report on a search for pair production of first-generation scalar leptoquarks (LQ) in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV using an integrated luminosity of 252 pb<sup>-1</sup> collected at the Fermilab Tevatron collider by the D0 detector. We observe no evidence for LQ production in the topologies arisin...
Search for excited muons in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV
Abazov, V. M.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B. S.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.; Agelou, M.; Agram, J. L.; Ahn, S. H.; Ahsan, M.; Alexeev, G. D.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T20:07:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-06-08; We present the results of a search for the production of an excited state of the muon, μ*, in proton antiproton collisions at s=1.96TeV. The data have been collected with the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider and correspond to an integrated luminosity of approximately 380pb-1. We search fo...
Measurement of the top quark mass in the lepton+jets final state with the matri...
Abazov, V. M.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B. S.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.; Agelou, M.; Aguilo, E.; Ahn, S. H.; Ahsan, M.; Alexeev, G. D.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T20:12:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-12-06; We present a measurement of the top quark mass with the matrix element method in the lepton+jets final state. As the energy scale for calorimeter jets represents the dominant source of systematic uncertainty, the matrix element likelihood is extended by an additional parameter, which is defined as a glo...
Measurement of Bd mixing using opposite-side flavor tagging
Abazov, V. M.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B. S.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.; Agelou, M.; Aguilo, E.; Ahn, S. H.; Ahsan, M.; Alexeev, G. D.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T20:13:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-12-21; We report on a measurement of the Bd0 mixing frequency and the calibration of an opposite-side flavor tagger in the D0 experiment. Various properties associated with the b quark on the opposite side of the reconstructed B meson are combined using a likelihood-ratio method into a single variable with enh...
Experimental discrimination between charge 2e/3 top quark and charge 4e/3 exoti...
Abazov, V. M.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B. S.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.; Agelou, M.; Ahn, S. H.; Ahsan, M.; Alexeev, G. D.; Alkhazov, G.; Alton, A.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T20:14:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-01-30; We present the first experimental discrimination between the 2e/3 and 4e/3 top quark electric charge scenarios, using top quark pairs (tt̄) produced in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV by the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We use 370pb-1 of data collected by the D0 experiment and select events with at least one...
Measurement of the W boson helicity in top quark decays at D0
Abazov, V. M.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B. S.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.; Agelou, M.; Aguilo, E.; Ahn, S. H.; Ahsan, M.; Alexeev, G. D.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T20:15:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-02-05; We present a measurement of the fraction f+ of right-handed W bosons produced in top quark decays, based on a candidate sample of tt̄ events in the +jets and dilepton decay channels corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 370pb-1 collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp̄ Collider at...
Lifetime difference and CP-violating phase in the Bs0 system
Abazov, V. M.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B. S.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.; Aguilo, E.; Ahn, S. H.; Ahsan, M.; Alexeev, G. D.; Alkhazov, G.; Alton, A.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T20:15:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-03-21; From an analysis of the decay Bs0→J/ψ, we obtain the width difference between the light and heavy mass eigenstates ΔΓ(ΓL- ΓH)=0.17±0.09(stat)±0.02(syst)ps-1 and the CP-violating phase s=-0.79±0.56(stat)-0.01+0.14(syst). Under the hypothesis of no CP violation (0), we obtain 1/Γ̄=τ̄(Bs0)=1.52±0.08(stat) ...
Measurement of the charge asymmetry in semileptonic Bs0 decays
Abazov, V. M.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B. S.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.; Aguilo, E.; Ahn, S. H.; Ahsan, M.; Alexeev, G. D.; Alkhazov, G.; Alton, A.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T20:16:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-04-11; We have performed the first direct measurement of the time-integrated flavor untagged charge asymmetry in semileptonic Bs0 decays ASLs,unt by comparing the decay rate of Bs0→μ+Ds-νX, where Ds- π- and →K+K-, with the charge-conjugate B̄s0 decay rate. This sample was selected from 1.3fb-1 of data collecte...
Evidence for production of single top quarks and first direct measurement of |Vtb|
Abazov, V. M.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B. S.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.; Aguilo, E.; Ahn, S. H.; Ahsan, M.; Alexeev, G. D.; Alkhazov, G.; Alton, A.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T20:16:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-05-01; The D0 Collaboration presents first evidence for the production of single top quarks at the Fermilab Tevatron pp̄ collider. Using a 0.9fb-1 dataset, we apply a multivariate analysis to separate signal from background and measure σ(pp̄→tb+X,tqb+X)=4.9±1.4pb. The probability to measure a cross section at ...