We present measurements of the differential cross section d I / d p T gamma for the associated production of a c-quark jet and an isolated photon with rapidity | y gamma | 15 GeV . The ratio of ...differential cross sections for gamma + c to gamma + b production as a function of p T gamma is also presented. The results are based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 8.7 fb - 1 recorded with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron p p A= Collider at s = 1.96 TeV . The obtained results are compared to next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations using various parton distribution functions, to predictions based on the k T -factorization approach, and to predictions from the sherpa and pythia Monte Carlo event generators.
We present a measurement of direct photon pair production cross sections using 4.2 fbsuper-1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron inline imageinline image Collider. We ...measure single differential cross sections as a function of the diphoton mass, the transverse momentum of the diphoton system, the azimuthal angle between the photons, and the polar scattering angle of the photons. In addition, we measure double differential cross sections considering the last three kinematic variables in three diphoton mass bins. The results are compared with different perturbative QCD predictions and event generators.
We present the first direct search for single top quark production using reconstructed tau leptons in the final state. The search is based on 4.8 fbsuper-1 of integrated luminosity collected in ...inline imageinline image collisions at inline imageinline image with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We select events with a final state including an isolated tau lepton, missing transverse energy, two or three jets, one or two of them being identified as b quark jet. We use a multivariate technique to discriminate signal from background. The number of events observed in data in this final state is consistent with the signal plus background expectation. We set in the tau + jets channel an upper limit on the single top quark cross section of 7.3 pb at the 95% C.L. This measurement allows a gain of 4% in expected sensitivity for the observation of single top production when combining it with electron + jets and muon + jets channels already published by the D0 Collaboration with 2.3 fbsuper-1 of data. We measure a combined cross section of 3.84super+0.89 sub(-0.83 pb, which is the most precise measurement to date.)
A short overview of investigations of exotic nuclei by proton scattering at low energy is presented. Proton scattering at intermediate energy as a method to study the structure of exotic nuclei is ...discussed. The experimental study of nuclear matter distributions in {sup 6}He and {sup 8}He nuclei by 0.7 GeV proton elastic scattering at small angles is described.
We present a measurement of the average value of a new observable at hadron colliders that is sensitive to QCD dynamics and to the strong coupling constant, while being only weakly sensitive to ...parton distribution functions. The observable measures the angular correlations of jets and is defined as the number of neighboring jets above a given transverse momentum threshold which accompany a given jet within a given distance IR in the plane of rapidity and azimuthal angle. The ensemble average over all jets in an inclusive jet sample is measured and the results are presented as a function of transverse momentum of the inclusive jets, in different regions of IR and for different transverse momentum requirements for the neighboring jets. The measurement is based on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.7 fb-1 collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider in p p A= collisions at s = 1.96 TeV . The results are well described by a perturbative QCD calculation in next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant, corrected for non-perturbative effects. From these results, we extract the strong coupling and test the QCD predictions for its running over a range of momentum transfers of 50a400 GeV.
The B 0 a B A= 0 oscillation frequency I m d is measured by the LHCb experiment using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb - 1 of protonaproton collisions at s = 7 TeV , and ...is found to be I m d = 0.5156 +/- 0.0051 (stat.) +/- 0.0033 (syst.) ps - 1 . The measurement is based on results from analyses of the decays B 0 a D - pi + (D - a K + pi - pi -) and B 0 a J / I K a 0 (J / I a mu + mu - , K a 0 a K + pi -) and their charge conjugated modes.
We present searches for the anomalous gamma WW and ZWW trilinear gauge boson couplings from WW and WZ production using lepton plus dijet final states and a combination with results from W gamma , WW, ...and WZ production with leptonic final states. The analyzed data correspond to up to 8.6 fb - 1 of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 detector in p p A= collisions at s = 1.96 TeV . We set the most stringent limits at a hadron collider to date assuming two different relations between the anomalous coupling parameters I kappa gamma , I>, and I g 1 Z for a cutoff energy scale I = 2 TeV . The combined 68% C.L. limits are - 0.057 < I kappa gamma < 0.154 , - 0.015 < 0.028 , and - 0.008 < I g 1 Z < 0.054 for the LEP parameterization, and - 0.007 < I kappa < 0.081 and - 0.017 < 0.028 for the equal couplings parameterization. We also present the most stringent limits of the W boson magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments.
We present a search for the standard model Higgs boson in 9.5 fb-1 of p p A= collisions at s = 1.96 TeV collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The final state considered ...contains a pair of b jets and is characterized by an imbalance in transverse energy, as expected from p p A= ? Z H ? ? ? A= b b A= production. The search is also sensitive to the W H ? l ? b b A= channel when the charged lepton is not identified. The data are found to be in good agreement with the expected background. For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, we set a limit at the 95% C.L. on the cross section s (p p A= ? Z / W H) , assuming standard model branching fractions, that is a factor of 4.3 times larger than the theoretical standard model value, while the expected factor is 3.9. The search is also used to measure a combined WZ and ZZ production cross section that is a factor of 0.94 +/- 0.31 (stat) +/- 0.34 (syst) times the standard model prediction of 4.4 pb, with an observed significance of 2.0 standard deviations.
The asymmetry in the production cross-section I of D +/- mesons, A P = I (D +) - I (D -) I (D +) + I (D -) , is measured in bins of pseudorapidity IDT and transverse momentum p T within the ...acceptance of the LHCb detector. The result is obtained with a sample of D + a K S 0 pi + decays corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb-1, collected in pp collisions at a centre of mass energy of 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. When integrated over the kinematic range 2.0 < p T < 18.0 GeV / c and 2.20 < IDT < 4.75 , the production asymmetry is A P = (- 0.96 +/- 0.26 +/- 0.18) % . The uncertainties quoted are statistical and systematic, respectively. The result assumes that any direct CP violation in the D + a K S 0 pi + decay is negligible. No significant dependence on IDT or p T is observed.
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