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Book A Measurement of the Top antitop Production Cross Section in Proton antiproton Collisions at Center of Mass Energy

Download or read book A Measurement of the Top antitop Production Cross Section in Proton antiproton Collisions at Center of Mass Energy written by Ulysses Allen Grundler and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2008 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I present a measurement of the tt¯ production cross section at s = 1.96 TeV using 2034 pb-1 of CDF Run II data using events with a high transverse momentum electron or muon, three or more jets, and missing transverse energy. The measurement assumes a t → Wb branching fraction of 100 percent. Events consistent with tt¯ decay are found by identifying jets containing heavy-flavor semileptonic decays to muons. The dominant backgrounds are evaluated directly from the data. Based on 248 candidate events and an expected background of 86.8+/-5.6 events, I measure a production cross section of 8.7+/-1.1+0.9-0.8+/-0.6 pb, in agreement with the Standard Model.

Book The Cross Section for the Production of Bb Pairs in Proton antiproton Collisions at a Center of mass Energy Of 1 8 TeV

Download or read book The Cross Section for the Production of Bb Pairs in Proton antiproton Collisions at a Center of mass Energy Of 1 8 TeV written by Robert B. Mattingly and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recueil Festival d Edimbourg 1947

Download or read book Recueil Festival d Edimbourg 1947 written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inclusive b Jet Production in Proton Proton Collisions

Download or read book Inclusive b Jet Production in Proton Proton Collisions written by Patrick L.S. Connor and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ^ 74 GeV and |y| 2.4; the b jets must contain a B hadron. The measurement has significant statistics up to p T ∼ O(TeV). Advanced methods of unfolding are performed to extract the signal. It is found that fixed-order calculations with underlying event describe the measurement well.

Book A Measurement of the Production Cross Section of Top antitop Pairs in Proton antiproton Collisions at a Center of Mass of 1 96 TeV Using Secondary Vertex B tagging

Download or read book A Measurement of the Production Cross Section of Top antitop Pairs in Proton antiproton Collisions at a Center of Mass of 1 96 TeV Using Secondary Vertex B tagging written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract Not Provided.

Book Measurement of the B c pm Production Cross Section in p bar p Collisions at sqrt s

Download or read book Measurement of the B c pm Production Cross Section in p bar p Collisions at sqrt s written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, we describe a measurement of the ratio of the cross sections times branching fractions of the Bc+ meson in the decay mode Bc+ → J/[psi][mu]+[nu] to the B+ meson in the decay mode B+ → J/[psi]K+ in proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass energy √s = 1.96 TeV. The measurement is based on the complete CDF Run II data set, which comes from an integrated luminosity of 8.7 fb-1. The ratio of the production cross sections times branching fractions for Bc+ and B+ mesons with momentum transverse to the beam greater than 6 GeV/c and rapidity magnitude smaller than 0.6 is 0.211 ± 0.012(stat)-0.020+0.021(syst). Using the known B+ → J/[psi]K+ branching fraction, the known B+ production cross section, and a selection of the predicted Bc+ → J/[psi][mu]+[nu] branching fractions, the range for the total Bc+ production cross section is estimated.

Book A Measurement of the Production Cross Section of Top antitop Pairs in Proton antiproton Collisions at a Center of Mass of 1 96 TeV Using Secondary Vertexb tagging

Download or read book A Measurement of the Production Cross Section of Top antitop Pairs in Proton antiproton Collisions at a Center of Mass of 1 96 TeV Using Secondary Vertexb tagging written by Henri Bachacou and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A measurement of the t{bar t} pair production cross section is presented using 162 pb{sup -1} of data collected by the CDF experiment during Run II at the Tevatron. t{bar t} events in the lepton+jets channel are isolated by identifying electrons and muons, reconstructing jets and transverse missing energy, and identifying b jets with a secondary vertex tagging algorithm. The efficiency of the algorithm is measured in a control sample using a novel technique that is less dependent on the simulation. For a top quark mass of 175 GeV/c{sup 2}, a cross section of {sigma}{sub t{bar t}} = 5.6{sub -1.1}{sup +1.2}(stat.){sub -0.6}{sup +0.9}(syst.)pb is measured.

Book Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in Proton antiproton Collisions at a Center of Mass Energy of 1 96 TeV Hadronic Top Decays with the D0 Detector

Download or read book Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in Proton antiproton Collisions at a Center of Mass Energy of 1 96 TeV Hadronic Top Decays with the D0 Detector written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the six quarks in the standard model the top quark is by far the heaviest: 35 times more massive than its partner the bottom quark and more than 130 times heavier than the average of the other five quarks. Its correspondingly small decay width means it tends to decay before forming a bound state. Of all quarks, therefore, the top is the least affected by quark confinement, behaving almost as a free quark. Its large mass also makes the top quark a key player in the realm of the postulated Higgs boson, whose coupling strengths to particles are proportional to their masses. Precision measurements of particle masses for e.g. the top quark and the W boson can hereby provide indirect constraints on the Higgs boson mass. Since in the standard model top quarks couple almost exclusively to bottom quarks (t 2!Wb), top quark decays provide a window on the standard model through the direct measurement of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa quark mixing matrix element V{sub tb}. In the same way any lack of top quark decays into W bosons could imply the existence of decay channels beyond the standard model, for example charged Higgs bosons as expected in two-doublet Higgs models: t 2!Hb. Within the standard model top quark decays can be classified by the (lepton or quark) W boson decay products. Depending on the decay of each of the W bosons, t{bar t} pair decays can involve either no leptons at all, or one or two isolated leptons from direct W 2!e{bar {nu}}{sub e} and W 2![mu]{bar {nu}}{sub {mu}} decays. Cascade decays like b 2!Wc 2!e{bar {nu}}{sub e}c can lead to additional non-isolated leptons. The fully hadronic decay channel, in which both Ws decay into a quark-antiquark pair, has the largest branching fraction of all t{bar t} decay channels and is the only kinematically complete (i.e. neutrino-less) channel. It lacks, however, the clear isolated lepton signature and is therefore hard to distinguish from the multi-jet QCD background. It is important to measure the cross section (or branching fraction) in each channel independently to fully verify the standard model. Top quark pair production proceeds through the strong interaction, placing the scene for top quark physics at hadron colliders. This adds an additional challenge: the huge background from multi-jet QCD processes. At the Tevatron, for example, t{bar t} production is completely hidden in light q{bar q} pair production. The light (i.e. not bottom or top) quark pair production cross section is six orders of magnitude larger than that for t{bar t} production. Even including the full signature of hadronic t{bar t} decays, two b-jets and four additional jets, the QCD cross section for processes with similar signature is more than five times larger than for t{bar t} production. The presence of isolated leptons in the (semi)leptonic t{bar t} decay channels provides a clear characteristic to distinguish the t{bar t} signal from QCD background but introduces a multitude of W- and Z-related backgrounds.

Book Measurements of the B Production Cross Section in Proton Antiproton Collisions at u221A s

Download or read book Measurements of the B Production Cross Section in Proton Antiproton Collisions at u221A s written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors present a measurement of the cross section of b hadron (Hb) production in p$ar{p}$ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV using the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. They use 83 pb-1 of data taken between october 2002 and May 2003 that was collected with a trigger sensitive to high momentum muons and displaced tracks. They use partially reconstructed decays in the following modes: Hb → ?- $ar{v}$?D0X, D0 → K-?+, and Hb → ?-$ar{v}$?D*+ X, D*+ → D0?+, D0 → K- ?+, and their charge conjugates. They correct for the backgrounds from c$ar{c}$ and b$ar{b}$ decays, for trigger and reconstruction efficiencies, and for detector acceptance. They report the total cross section above a minimum transverse momentum (pT) of 9 GeV/c for the rapidity range.

Book Measurement of the Cross section for W Boson Production in Association with B jets in Proton proton Collisions at Sqrt s

Download or read book Measurement of the Cross section for W Boson Production in Association with B jets in Proton proton Collisions at Sqrt s written by Giovanni Zevi Della Porta and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation presents a measurement of the W+b-jets (pp --> W+bb+X) production cross-section in proton--proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV at the LHC. The results are based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb-1, collected with the ATLAS detector.

Book Measurement of the Cross Section for Production of Prompt Diphoton in Proton Anti proton Collisions at S 1 2

Download or read book Measurement of the Cross Section for Production of Prompt Diphoton in Proton Anti proton Collisions at S 1 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presents the measurement of prompt diphoton production rate in proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV using the upgraded Collider Detector at FermiLab (CDF II). This process deserves some attention for the following reasons. The H [yields] [gamma][gamma] decay mode is an important channel for the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson searches in the low mass region (M[sub H]