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Publications (18)

hep-ex2012

An improved measurement of muon antineutrino disappearance in MINOS

P. Adamson, D. S. Ayres, C. Backhouse +109

We report an improved measurement of muon anti-neutrino disappearance over a distance of 735km using the MINOS detectors and the Fermilab Main Injector neutrino beam in a muon anti…

hep-ex2011

Search for New Dielectron Resonances and Randall-Sundrum Gravitons at the Collider Detector at Fermilab

T. Aaltonen, B. Alvarez Gonzalez, S. Amerio +511

A search for new dielectron mass resonances using data recorded by the CDF II detector and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.7/fb is presented. No significant excess o…

physics.ins-det2013

Operational experience, improvements, and performance of the CDF Run II silicon vertex detector

T. Aaltonen, S. Behari, A. Boveia +57

The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) pursues a broad physics program at Fermilab's Tevatron collider. Between Run II commissioning in early 2001 and the end of operations in Sep…

hep-ex2013

A search for flavor-changing non-standard neutrino interactions by MINOS

MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, G. Barr +100

We report new constraints on flavor-changing non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) using data from the MINOS experiment. We analyzed a combined set of beam neutrino and antineut…

hep-ex2011

Improved search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino oscillations in MINOS

MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, D. J. Auty +117

We report the results of a search for appearance in a beam in the MINOS long-baseline neutrino experiment. With an improved analysis and an increased exposure of $…

hep-ex2016

First measurement of muon-neutrino disappearance in NOvA

P. Adamson, C. Ader, M. Andrews +257

This paper reports the first measurement using the NOvA detectors of disappearance in a beam. The analysis uses a 14 kton-equivalent exposure of $2.74 \times 10^{20…

hep-ex2013

Measurement of Neutrino and Antineutrino Oscillations Using Beam and Atmospheric Data in MINOS

MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, I. Anghel +108

We report measurements of oscillation parameters from and disappearance using beam and atmospheric data from MINOS. The data comprise exposures of \unit[$10.7…

hep-ex2010

Studying the Underlying Event in Drell-Yan and High Transverse Momentum Jet Production at the Tevatron

The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman +576

We study the underlying event in proton-antiproton collisions by examining the behavior of charged particles (transverse momentum pT > 0.5 GeV/c, pseudorapidity |η| < 1) produced…

hep-ex2011

Measurement of the top-quark mass in the lepton+jets channel using a matrix element technique with the CDF II detector

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, B. Álvarez Gonzálezv +512

A measurement of the top-quark mass is presented using Tevatron data from proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass energy TeV collected with the CDF II detect…

hep-ex2012

Search for Lorentz invariance and CPT violation with muon antineutrinos in the MINOS Near Detector

P. Adamson, D. S. Ayres, G. Barr +106

We have searched for sidereal variations in the rate of antineutrino interactions in the MINOS Near Detector. Using antineutrinos produced by the NuMI beam, we find no statisticall…

hep-ex2013

Electron neutrino and antineutrino appearance in the full MINOS data sample

P. Adamson, I. Anghel, C. Backhouse +106

We report on and appearance in and beams using the full MINOS data sample. The comparison of these and appearance data at a…

hep-ex2012

Search for WZ+ZZ production with MET + jets with b enhancement at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, B. Álvarez Gonzálezv +513

Diboson production () has been observed at the Tevatron in hadronic decay modes dominated by the process. This paper describes the measurement of the cross section o…

hep-ex2011

Search for a Heavy Top-Like Quark in p\bar{p} Collisions at {\surd}s = 1.96 TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, B. Álvarez Gonzálezv +512

We present the results of a search for pair production of a heavy top-like (t') quark decaying to Wq final states using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.6 fb-1 c…

hep-ex2011

Measurement of the Top Pair Production Cross Section in the Lepton + Jets Channel Using a Jet Flavor Discriminant

T. Aaltonen, B. Alvarez Gonzalez, S. Amerio +513

We present a new method to measure the top quark pair production cross section and the background rates with 2.7 fb of data from collisions at Te…

hep-ex2016

First measurement of electron neutrino appearance in NOvA

P. Adamson, C. Ader, M. Andrews +257

We report results from the first search for transitions by the NOvA experiment. In an exposure equivalent to protons-on-target in the upgraded Nu…

hep-ex2014

Observation of muon intensity variations by season with the MINOS Near Detector

P. Adamson, I. Anghel, A. Aurisano +109

A sample of 1.5310 cosmic-ray-induced single muon events has been recorded at 225 meters-water-equivalent using the MINOS Near Detector. The underground muon rate is…

hep-ex2011

Search for the disappearance of muon antineutrinos in the NuMI neutrino beam

MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, D. J. Auty +122

We report constraints on antineutrino oscillation parameters that were obtained by using the two MINOS detectors to measure the 7% muon antineutrino component of the NuMI neutrino…

hep-ex2012

Measurements of atmospheric neutrinos and antineutrinos in the MINOS Far Detector

MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, C. Backhouse +110

This paper reports measurements of atmospheric neutrino and antineutrino interactions in the MINOS Far Detector, based on 2553 live-days (37.9 kton-years) of data. A total of 2072…