Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T22:49:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-06-20; National Science Foundation; Measurements of the differential production cross sections dσ/dpTB and dσ/dyB for B0 mesons produced in pp collisions at √s=7TeV are presented. The data set used was collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 40pb-1. The product...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T23:01:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-05-24; National Science Foundation; A search for supersymmetry in the context of general gauge-mediated breaking with the lightest neutralino as the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle and the gravitino as the lightest is presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 36pb-1 recorde...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T23:24:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-05-24; A search for Z bosons in the μ+μ- decay channel has been performed in PbPb collisions at √sNN=2.76TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, in a 7.2μb-1 data sample. The number of opposite-sign muon pairs observed in the 60-120GeV/c2 invariant mass range is 39, corresponding to a yield per unit of rapidity ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T23:36:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-06-08; A search for neutral minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) Higgs bosons in pp collisions at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented. The results are based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36pb-1 recorded by the CMS experiment. The search uses decays o...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T23:48:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-07-06; National Science Foundation; A first measurement of the polarization of W bosons with large transverse momenta in pp collisions is presented. The measurement is based on 36pb⊃-1 of data recorded at √s=7TeV by the CMS detector at the LHC. The left-handed, right-handed, and longitudinal polarization fract...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T00:13:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-08-12; Jet production in PbPb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV was studied with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the LHC, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.7μb-1. Jets are reconstructed using the energy deposited in the CMS calorimete...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T01:51:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-11-21; A search for events with jets and missing transverse energy is performed in a data sample of pp collisions collected at √s=7TeV by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analyzed data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.14fb-1. In this search, a kinematic variable αT is used as the main disc...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T02:17:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-12-08; A multivariate likelihood method to measure electroweak couplings with the Drell-Yan process at the LHC is presented. The process is described by the dilepton rapidity, invariant mass, and decay angle distributions. The decay angle ambiguity due to the unknown assignment of the scattered constituent qua...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T02:30:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-12-29; A search for pair-produced heavy vectorlike charge-2/3 quarks, T, in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, is performed with the CMS detector at the LHC. Events consistent with the flavor-changing-neutral-current decay of a T quark to a top quark and a Z boson are selected by requiring two ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T02:57:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-06-19; The top quark pair production cross section is measured in dilepton events with one electron or muon, and one hadronically decaying τ lepton from the decay tt̄→(ν)(τ hν τ)bb̄, (=e,μ). The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.0fb -1 for the electron channel and 2.2fb -1 for the muon c...