The mass of the
boson, a mediator of the weak force between elementary particles, is tightly constrained by the symmetries of the standard model of particle physics. The Higgs boson was the last ...missing component of the model. After observation of the Higgs boson, a measurement of the
boson mass provides a stringent test of the model. We measure the
boson mass,
, using data corresponding to 8.8 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity collected in proton-antiproton collisions at a 1.96 tera-electron volt center-of-mass energy with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. A sample of approximately 4 million
boson candidates is used to obtain
, the precision of which exceeds that of all previous measurements combined (stat, statistical uncertainty; syst, systematic uncertainty; MeV, mega-electron volts;
, speed of light in a vacuum). This measurement is in significant tension with the standard model expectation.
We propose a novel method to measure flavor oscillations and charge-parity ( C P ) violation in charm mixing. The approach applies to multibody charm decays, such as D0 → K0Sπ+π−, and avoids the need ...for a fit of the decay amplitudes while suppressing biases due to nonuniform signal reconstruction efficiencies as functions of phase space and decay time. Data are partitioned in decay-time and Dalitz-plot regions (bins). The Dalitz-plot bins are symmetric with respect to the principal bisector and chosen to ensure nearly constant values of the strong interaction phases in each. The ratios of signal yields observed in each symmetric bin pair are fit as functions of decay time, using independent auxiliary measurements of the strong interaction phases as constraints, to determine the relevant physics parameters. Simulation shows a 35% improvement in sensitivity to the normalized charm-eigenstate mass difference with respect to existing model-independent methods. In addition, we introduce a parametrization of oscillation and CP-violation effects in charm mixing that has attractive statistical properties and may find wider applicability.
The L_{μ}-L_{τ} extension of the standard model predicts the existence of a lepton-flavor-universality-violating Z^{'} boson that couples only to the heavier lepton families. We search for such a ...Z^{'} through its invisible decay in the process e^{+}e^{-}→μ^{+}μ^{-}Z^{'}. We use a sample of electron-positron collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 10.58 GeV collected by the Belle II experiment in 2019-2020, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 79.7 fb^{-1}. We find no excess over the expected standard-model background. We set 90%-confidence-level upper limits on the cross section for this process as well as on the coupling of the model, which ranges from 3×10^{-3} at low Z^{'} masses to 1 at Z^{'} masses of 8 GeV/c^{2}.
The dark photon A^{'} and the dark Higgs boson h^{'} are hypothetical particles predicted in many dark sector models. We search for the simultaneous production of A^{'} and h^{'} in the dark ...Higgsstrahlung process e^{+}e^{-}→A^{'}h^{'} with A^{'}→μ^{+}μ^{-} and h^{'} invisible in electron-positron collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 10.58 GeV in data collected by the Belle II experiment in 2019. With an integrated luminosity of 8.34 fb^{-1}, we observe no evidence for signal. We obtain exclusion limits at 90% Bayesian credibility in the range of 1.7-5.0 fb on the cross section and in the range of 1.7×10^{-8}-200×10^{-8} on the effective coupling ϵ^{2}×α_{D} for the A^{'} mass in the range of 4.0 GeV/c^{2}<M_{A^{'}}<9.7 GeV/c^{2} and for the h^{'} mass M_{h^{'}}<M_{A^{'}}, where ϵ is the mixing strength between the standard model and the dark photon and α_{D} is the coupling of the dark photon to the dark Higgs boson. Our limits are the first in this mass range.
A
bstract
We report results from a study of
B
±
→ DK
±
decays followed by
D
decaying to the
CP
-even final state
K
+
K
−
and CP-odd final state
K
S
0
π
0
, where
D
is an admixture of
D
0
and
D
¯
0
...states. These decays are sensitive to the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa unitarity-triangle angle
ϕ
3
. The results are based on a combined analysis of the final data set of 772
×
10
6
B
B
¯
pairs collected by the Belle experiment and a data set of 198
×
10
6
B
B
¯
pairs collected by the Belle II experiment, both in electron-positron collisions at the Υ(4
S
) resonance. We measure the CP asymmetries to be
A
CP
+
= (+12.5
±
5.8
±
1.4)% and
A
CP−
= (
−
16.7
±
5.7
±
0.6)%, and the ratios of branching fractions to be
R
CP
+
= 1.164
±
0.081
±
0.036 and
R
CP−
= 1.151
±
0.074
±
0.019. The first contribution to the uncertainties is statistical, and the second is systematic. The asymmetries
A
CP
+
and
A
CP−
have similar magnitudes and opposite signs; their difference corresponds to 3.5 standard deviations. From these values we calculate 68.3% confidence intervals of (8.5
°
<
ϕ
3
< 16.5
°
) or (84.5
°
<
ϕ
3
< 95.5
°
) or (163.3
°
<
ϕ
3
< 171.5
°
) and 0.321 <
r
B
< 0.465.
A
bstract
We measure
CP
asymmetries and branching-fraction ratios for
B
±
→ DK
±
and
Dπ
±
decays with
D →
K
S
0
K
±
π
∓
, where
D
is a superposition of
D
0
and
D
¯
0
. We use the full data set of the ...Belle experiment, containing 772
×
10
6
B
B
¯
pairs, and data from the Belle II experiment, containing 387 × 10
6
B
B
¯
pairs, both collected in electron-positron collisions at the Υ(4
S
) resonance. Our results provide model-independent information on the unitarity triangle angle
ϕ
3
.
This article presents a new bulk radiation damage model for p-type silicon for use in Synopsys Sentaurus TCAD. The model is shown to provide agreement between experiment and simulation for the ...voltage dependence of the leakage current and the charge collection efficiency, for fluences up to 8×10151MeVneq∕cm2.
We present a search for the pair production of a narrow nonstandard-model strongly interacting particle that decays to a pair of quarks or gluons, leading to a final state with four hadronic jets. We ...consider both nonresonant production via an intermediate gluon as well as resonant production via a distinct nonstandard-model intermediate strongly interacting particle. We use data collected by the CDF experiment in proton-antiproton collisions at √s=1.96 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.6 fb(-1). We find the data to be consistent with nonresonant production. We report limits on σ(ppover ¯→jjjj) as a function of the masses of the hypothetical intermediate particles. Upper limits on the production cross sections for nonstandard-model particles in several resonant and nonresonant processes are also derived.
We present an updated search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson in the final state with missing transverse energy and two jets. We use the full CDF data set corresponding ...to an integrated luminosity of 9.45 fb super(-1) at a proton-antiproton center-of-mass energy of radicals = 1.96 TeV. New to this analysis is the inclusion of a b-jet identification algorithm specifically optimized for H arrow right bb searches. Across the Higgs boson mass range 90 < or = m sub(H) < or = 150 GeV/c super(2), the expected 95% credibility level upper limits on the VH production cross section times the H arrow right bb branching fraction are improved by an average of 14% relative to the previous analysis. At a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV/c super(2), the observed (expected) limit is 3.06 (3.33) times the standard model prediction, corresponding to one of the most sensitive searches to date in this final state.
We present a measurement of the top-quark mass using the full data set of Tevatron radicals = 1.96 TeV proton-antiproton collisions recorded by the CDF II detector, corresponding to an integrated ...luminosity of 8.7 fb super(-1). The analysis uses events with one semileptonic t or t decay, but without detection of the electron or muon. We select events with significant missing transverse energy and multiple jets. We veto events containing identified electrons or muons. We obtain distributions of the top-quark masses and the invariant mass of the two jets from W-boson decays from data and compare these to templates derived from signal and background samples to extract the top-quark mass and the energy scale of the calorimeter jets with in situ calibration. A likelihood fit of the templates from signal and background events to the data yields the top-quark mass, M sub(top) = 173.93 + or - 1.64(stat) + or - 0.87(syst) GeV /c super(2). This result is the most precise measurement to date of the mass of the top quark in this event topology.
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