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Publications (122)

hep-ex2013

Measurement of the Differential Cross Section dσ/d(cos θt) for Top-Quark Pair Production in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +405

We report a measurement of the differential cross section, dσ/d(cos θt), for top-quark-pair production as a function of the top-quark production angle in proton-antiproton collis…

hep-ex2013

A signature-based search for delayed photons in exclusive photon plus missing transverse energy events from collisions with TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +411

We present the first signature-based search for delayed photons using an exclusive photon plus missing transverse energy final state. Events are reconstructed in a data sample from…

hep-ex2026

Cryogenics and purification systems of the ICARUS T600 detector installation at Fermilab

F. Abd Alrahman, P. Abratenko, N. Abrego-Martinez +194

This paper describes the cryogenic and purification systems of the ICARUS T600 detector in its present implementation at the Fermi National Laboratory, Illinois, USA. The ICARUS T6…

hep-ex2012

Search for a low mass Standard Model Higgs boson in the tau-tau decay channel in collisions at = 1.96 TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, B. Alvarez Gonzalez +513

We report on a search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying into pairs of tau leptons in collisions produced by the Tevatron at = 1.96 TeV. The analyzed…

hep-ex2013

Search for new physics in trilepton events and limits on the associated chargino-neutralino production at CDF

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +405

We perform a search for new physics using final states consisting of three leptons and a large imbalance in transverse momentum resulting from proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96…

hep-ex2016

Measurement of the production cross section in collisions at TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +396

We describe a measurement of the ratio of the cross sections times branching fractions of the meson in the decay mode to the meson in the…

hep-ex2021

Measurement of the charge asymmetry of electrons from the decays of bosons produced in collisions at TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +398

At the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton () collider, high-mass electron-neutrino () pairs are produced predominantly in the process $p \bar{p} \rightarrow W(\righ…

hep-ex2017

A search for the exotic meson with the Collider Detector at Fermilab

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +395

A search for the exotic meson decaying into the final state is performed using data corresponding to from collisions a…

hep-ex2025

Operation of the Trigger System for the ICARUS Detector at Fermilab

ICARUS collaboration, F. Abd Alrahman, P. Abratenko +186

The ICARUS liquid argon TPC detector is taking data on the Booster (BNB) and Main Injector (NuMI) Neutrino beam lines at Fermilab with a trigger system based on the scintillation l…

astro-ph.IM2012

Antenna-coupled TES bolometers for the Keck Array, Spider, and Polar-1

R. O'Brient, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +50

Between the BICEP2 and Keck Array experiments, we have deployed over 1500 dual polarized antenna coupled bolometers to map the Cosmic Microwave Background's polarization. We have b…

hep-ex2018

Search for standard-model Z and Higgs bosons decaying into a bottom-antibottom quark pair in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +396

The Collider Detector at Fermilab collected a unique sample of jets originating from bottom-quark fragmentation (-jets) by selecting online proton-antiproton () collis…

hep-ex2013

Measurement of the top quark forward-backward production asymmetry and its dependence on event kinematic properties

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +406

We present new measurements of the inclusive forward-backward ttbar production asymmetry, AFB, and its dependence on several properties of the ttbar system. The measurements are pe…

physics.ins-det2018

The DUNE Far Detector Interim Design Report, Volume 2: Single-Phase Module

DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +1092

The DUNE IDR describes the proposed physics program and technical designs of the DUNE far detector modules in preparation for the full TDR to be published in 2019. It is intended a…

astro-ph.IM2012

Optical Characterization of the Keck Array Polarimeter at the South Pole

A. G. Vieregg, P. A. R. Ade, R. Aikin +37

The Keck Array (SPUD) is a set of microwave polarimeters that observes from the South Pole at degree angular scales in search of a signature of Inflation imprinted as B-mode polari…

astro-ph.IM2012

Planck Early Results. II. The thermal performance of Planck

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +225

The performance of the Planck instruments in space is enabled by their low operating temperatures, 20K for LFI and 0.1K for HFI, achieved through a combination of passive radiative…

hep-ex2015

Measurement of the production and differential cross sections of bosons in association with jets in collisions at TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +400

We present a measurement of the -boson-pair production cross section in collisions at 1.96 TeV center-of-mass energy and the first measurement of the differential cro…

hep-ex2013

Updated search for the standard model Higgs boson in events with jets and missing transverse energy using the full CDF data set

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +407

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 dat…

physics.acc-ph2002

A Multi-Moded RF Delay Line Distribution System for the Next Linear Collider

S. G. Tantawi, C. Nantista, N. Kroll +5

The Delay Line Distribution System (DLDS) is an alternative to conventional pulse compression, which enhances the peak power of rf sources while matching the long pulse of those so…

hep-ex2014

Measurement of differential production cross section for $Z/γ^*$ bosons in association with jets in collisions at TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +399

Differential cross sections for the production of bosons or off-shell photons $γ^*$ in association with jets are measured in proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass ene…

hep-ex2013

Measurement of the Mass Difference Between Top and Anti-top Quarks at CDF

T. Aaltonen, B. Alvarez Gonzalez, S. Amerio +512

We present a measurement of the mass difference between top () and anti-top () quarks using candidate events reconstructed in the final state with one lepton…

hep-ex2012

Measurement of Bs0 --> Ds(*)+ Ds(*)- Branching Ratios

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, B. Á +470

The decays Bs0 --> Ds(*)+ Ds(*)- are reconstructed in a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.8 fb-1 collected by the CDF II detector at the Tevatron p\bar{p}…

hep-ex2016

Measurement of the -meson production cross section at low transverse momentum in collisions at TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +394

We report on a measurement of the -meson production cross section as a function of transverse momentum () in proton-antiproton () collisions at 1.96 TeV cente…

physics.ins-det2016

A New Proton CT Scanner

S. A. Uzunyan, G. Blazey, S. Boi +15

The design, construction, and preliminary testing of a second generation proton CT scanner is presented. All current treatment planning systems at proton therapy centers use X-ray…

hep-ex2025

Search for a Hidden Sector Scalar from Kaon Decay in the Di-Muon Final State at ICARUS

ICARUS Collaboration, F. Abd Alrahman, P. Abratenko +191

We present a search for long-lived particles (LLPs) produced from kaon decay that decay to two muons inside the ICARUS neutrino detector. This channel would be a signal of hidden s…

physics.ins-det2024

Angular dependent measurement of electron-ion recombination in liquid argon for ionization calorimetry in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber

ICARUS collaboration, P. Abratenko, N. Abrego-Martinez +178

This paper reports on a measurement of electron-ion recombination in liquid argon in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). A clear dependence of recombination o…

hep-ex2016

Measurement of the and production cross section using final states with a charged lepton and heavy-flavor jets in the full CDF Run II data set

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +396

We present a measurement of the total {\it WW} and {\it WZ} production cross sections in collision at TeV, in a final state consistent with leptonic

hep-ex2012

Search for the Higgs boson in the all-hadronic final state using the full CDF data set

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, B. Alvarez Gonzalez +513

This paper reports the result of a search for the standard model Higgs boson in events containing four reconstructed jets associated with quarks. For masses below 135GeV/c2, Higgs…

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…

physics.ins-det2020

Construction of precision wire readout planes for the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND)

R. Acciarri, C. Adams, C. Andreopoulos +192

The Short-Baseline Near Detector time projection chamber is unique in the design of its charge readout planes. These anode plane assemblies (APAs) have been fabricated and assemble…

hep-ex2012

Combination of CDF and D0 measurements of the W boson helicity in top quark decays

The CDF, D0 Collaborations, : +864

We report the combination of recent measurements of the helicity of the W boson from top quark decay by the CDF and D0 collaborations, based on data samples corresponding to integr…

physics.ins-det2016

Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 1: The LBNF and DUNE Projects

R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. Adamowski +795

This document presents the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) put forward by an international neutrino community to pursue the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at the Long-Baseline…

hep-ex2016

Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in low-mass bottom-quark pairs produced in proton-antiproton collisions

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +395

We report a measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry, , in pairs produced in proton-antiproton collisions and identified by muons from semileptonic -hadr…

physics.ins-det2016

Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 2: The Physics Program for DUNE at LBNF

DUNE Collaboration, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero +796

The Physics Program for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Fermilab Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) is described.

physics.med-ph2025

Patient-Specific Modeling of Dose-Escalated Proton Beam Therapy for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer

M. A. McIntyre, J. Midson, P. Wilson +4

Purpose: This study explores the feasibility of dose-escalated proton beam therapy (dPBT) for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer (LAPC) patients by modeling common patient scenario…

hep-ex2014

Evidence for -channel Single-Top-Quark Production in Events with one Charged Lepton and two Jets at CDF

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +405

We report evidence for -channel single-top-quark production in proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass energy using a data set that correspo…

hep-ex2012

Measurement of the Cross Section and Triple Gauge Couplings in Collisions at TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, B. Alvarez González +475

This Letter describes the current most precise measurement of the production cross section as well as limits on anomalous couplings at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 Te…

hep-ex2016

Measurement of using pairs from $γ^*/Z$ bosons produced in collisions at a center-of-momentum energy of 1.96 TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +394

At the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton () collider, Drell-Yan lepton pairs are produced in the process through an intermediate $γ^…

hep-ex2012

Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider

The CDF, D0 collaborations, T. Aaltonen +858

The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle, with a mass about 40 times larger than the mass of its isospin partner, the bottom quark. It decays almost 100% of the time…

physics.ins-det2018

The DUNE Far Detector Interim Design Report Volume 1: Physics, Technology and Strategies

DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +1092

The DUNE IDR describes the proposed physics program and technical designs of the DUNE Far Detector modules in preparation for the full TDR to be published in 2019. It is intended a…

hep-ex2016

Search for a Low-Mass Neutral Higgs Boson with Suppressed Couplings to Fermions Using Events with Multiphoton Final States

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +395

A search for a Higgs boson with suppressed couplings to fermions, , assumed to be the neutral, lower-mass partner of the Higgs boson discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, i…

hep-ex2025

The Short-Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab

SBND Collaboration, R. Acciarri, L. Aliaga-Soplin +195

SBND is a 112 ton liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector located 110 meters from the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) target at Fermilab. Its main goals include…

physics.ins-det2016

Calibration and GEANT4 Simulations of the Phase II Proton Compute Tomography (pCT) Range Stack Detector

S. A. Uzunyan, G. Blazey, S. Boi +13

Northern Illinois University in collaboration with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) and Delhi University has been designing and building a proton CT scanner for applica…

astro-ph.IM2010

Antenna-coupled TES Bolometer Arrays for BICEP2/Keck and SPIDER

A. Orlando, R. W Aikin, M. Amiri +28

BICEP2/Keck and SPIDER are cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeters targeting the B-mode polarization induced by primordial gravitational waves from inflation. They will be u…

hep-ex2011

Search for high-mass resonances decaying into ZZ in p collisions at \,TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, B. Alvarez Gonzalez +472

We search for high-mass resonances decaying into Z boson pairs using data corresponding to 6 fb^-1 collected by the CDF experiment in p\bar{p} collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV. The s…

hep-ex2016

Measurement of vector boson plus meson production in collisions at

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +400

A measurement of vector boson () production in conjunction with a meson is presented. Using a data sample corresponding to of ^Mproton-anti…

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…

physics.ins-det2018

The DUNE Far Detector Interim Design Report, Volume 3: Dual-Phase Module

DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +1092

The DUNE IDR describes the proposed physics program and technical designs of the DUNE far detector modules in preparation for the full TDR to be published in 2019. It is intended a…

hep-ex2012

A search for dark matter in events with one jet and missing transverse energy in pp-bar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, B. Álvarez González +474

We present the results of a search for dark matter production in the monojet signature. We analyze a sample of Tevatron pp-bar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV corresponding to an in…

hep-ex2013

Observation of D0-D0bar Mixing using the CDF II Detector

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +406

We measure the time dependence of the ratio of decay rates for D0 -> K+ pi- to the Cabibbo-favored decay D0 -> K- pi+. The charge conjugate decays are included. A signal of 3.3 x 1…

hep-ex2013

Searches for the Higgs boson decaying to W^{+} W^{-} -> l^{+}nu l^{-}nubar with the CDF II detector

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +419

We present a search for a standard model Higgs boson decaying to two bosons that decay to leptons using the full data set collected with the CDF II detector in

astro-ph.IM2012

Optimization and sensitivity of the Keck Array

S. Kernasovskiy, P. A. R. Ade, R. W. Aikin +41

The Keck Array (SPUD) began observing the cosmic microwave background's polarization in the winter of 2011 at the South Pole. The Keck Array follows the success of the predecessor…

hep-ex2011

Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson Production in Association with a W Boson at CDF

T. Aaltonen, B. Álvarez González, S. Amerio +498

We present a search for the standard model Higgs boson production in association with a boson in proton-antiproton collisions ($p\bar{p}\rightarrow W^\pm H \rightarrow \ellνb\…

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-ex2012

Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier

J. L. Hewett, H. Weerts, R. Brock +465

The Proceedings of the 2011 workshop on Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier. Science opportunities at the intensity frontier are identified and described in the areas of…

physics.ins-det2016

Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report, Volume 4 The DUNE Detectors at LBNF

R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. Adamowski +795

A description of the proposed detector(s) for DUNE at LBNF

hep-ex2014

Indirect measurement of (or ) using pairs from $γ^*/Z$ bosons produced in collisions at a center-of-momentum energy of 1.96 TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +405

Drell-Yan lepton pairs are produced in the process through an intermediate $γ^*/Z$ boson. The forward-backward asymmetry in the polar-angle dis…

hep-ex2013

Measurement of the leptonic asymmetry in ttbar events produced in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +405

We measure the asymmetry in the charge-weighted rapidity of the lepton in semileptonic ttbar decays recorded with the CDF II detector using the full Tevatron Run II sample, corresp…

hep-ex2018

Measurement of the differential cross sections for -boson production in association with jets in collisions at TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +396

This paper presents a study of the production of a single boson in association with one or more jets in proton-antiproton collisions at TeV, using the entire da…

hep-ex2017

Measurement of the inclusive-isolated prompt-photon cross section in collisions using the full CDF data set

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, M. G. Albrow +396

A measurement of the inclusive production cross section of isolated prompt photons in proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass energy =1.96TeV is presented. The res…

hep-ex2013

A Direct Measurement of the Total Decay Width of the Top Quark

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +405

We present a measurement of the total decay width of the top quark using events with top-antitop-quark pair candidates reconstructed in the final state with one charged lepton and…

hep-ex2014

Studies of high-transverse momentum jet substructure and top quarks produced in 1.96 TeV proton-antiproton collisions

T. Aaltonen, R. Alon, S. Amerio +403

Results of a study of the substructure of the highest transverse momentum (pT) jets observed by the CDF collaboration are presented. Events containing at least one jet with pT > 40…

hep-ex2015

Measurement of indirect CP-violating asymmetries in and decays at CDF

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +399

We report a measurement of the indirect CP-violating asymmetries () between effective lifetimes of anticharm and charm mesons reconstructed in and $D^0\to π…

astro-ph.IM2010

Cryogenic characterization of the Planck sorption cooler system flight model

G. Morgante, D. Pearson, F. Melot +9

This paper is part of the Prelaunch status LFI papers published on JINST: http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.proc5/1748-0221 Two continuous closed-cycle hydrogen Joule-Thoms…

hep-ex2012

Observation of Exclusive Gamma Gamma Production in p pbar Collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, M. G. Albrow +473

We have observed exclusive γγproduction in proton-antiproton collisions at \sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV, using data from 1.11 \pm 0.07 fb^{-1} integrated luminosity taken by the Run II Coll…

hep-ex2012

An inclusive search for the Higgs boson in the four-lepton final state at CDF

T. Aaltonen, B. Alvarez Gonzalez, S. Amerio +512

An inclusive search for the standard model Higgs boson using the four-lepton final state in proton-antiproton collisions produced by the Tevatron at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV is conducted…

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-ex2011

Measurement of ZZ production in leptonic final states at {\surd}s of 1.96 TeV at CDF

T. Aaltonen, B. Alvarez Gonzalez, S. Amerio +512

In this paper we present a precise measurement of the total ZZ production cross section in pp collisions at {\surd}s= 1.96 TeV, using data collected with the CDF II detector corres…

astro-ph.IM2012

BICEP2 and Keck Array operational overview and status of observations

R. W. Ogburn, P. A. R. Ade, R. W. Aikin +50

The BICEP2 and Keck Array experiments are designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on angular scales of 2-4 degrees (l=50-100). This is the reg…

hep-ex2011

Measurement of branching ratio and Bs0 lifetime in the decay Bs0 -> J/psi f0(980) at CDF

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, B. Alvarez Gonzalez +512

We present a study of Bs0 decays to the CP-odd final state J/psi f0(980) with J/psi -> mu+ mu- and f0(980) -> pi+ pi-. Using ppbar collision data with an integrated luminosity of 3…

hep-ex2016

Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of top-quark and antiquark pairs using the full CDF Run II data set

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +394

We measure the forward--backward asymmetry of the production of top quark and antiquark pairs in proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s} = 1.96~\mathrm{TeV}…

hep-ex2014

First Search for Exotic Z Boson Decays into Photons and Neutral Pions in Hadron Collisions

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +405

A search for forbidden and exotic Z boson decays in the diphoton mass spectrum is presented for the first time in hadron collisions, based on data corresponding to 10.0 fb^-1 of in…

physics.ins-det2017

The Single-Phase ProtoDUNE Technical Design Report

B. Abi, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero +824

ProtoDUNE-SP is the single-phase DUNE Far Detector prototype that is under construction and will be operated at the CERN Neutrino Platform (NP) starting in 2018. ProtoDUNE-SP, a cr…

hep-ex2013

Evidence for a bottom baryon resonance Lambda_b* in CDF data

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +405

Using data from proton-antiproton collisions at Ecms=1.96 TeV recorded by the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron, evidence for the excited resonance state Lambda_b* is presen…

hep-ex2012

Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson Production in Association with a W Boson Using a Matrix Element Technique at CDF in p-bar{p} Collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, B. Alvarez Gonzalez +512

This paper presents a search for standard model Higgs boson production in association with a boson using events recorded by the CDF experiment in a dataset corresponding to an…

physics.med-ph2015

Development of a proton Computed Tomography Detector System

Md. Naimuddin, G. Coutrakon, G. Blazey +15

Computer tomography is one of the most promising new methods to image abnormal tissues inside the human body. Tomography is also used to position the patient accurately before radi…

physics.ins-det2013

Development of a proton Computed Tomography (pCT) scanner at NIU

S. A. Uzunyan, G. Blazey, S. Boi +17

We describe the development of a proton Computed Tomography (pCT) scanner at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in collaboration with Fermilab and Delhi University. This paper prov…

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…

astro-ph.IM2011

The Keck Array: a pulse tube cooled CMB polarimeter

C. D. Sheehy, P. A. R. Ade, R. W. Aikin +41

The Keck Array is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeter that will begin observing from the South Pole in late 2010. The initial deployment will consist of three telescope…

hep-ex2014

Mass and lifetime measurements of bottom and charm baryons in collisions at $\sqrt{s}= 1.96 TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +405

We report on mass and lifetime measurements of several ground state charmed and bottom baryons, using a data sample corresponding to 9.6 from collision…

hep-ex2014

Exclusion of exotic top-like quarks with -4/3 electric charge using jet-charge tagging in single-lepton ttbar events at CDF

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +411

We report on a measurement of the top-quark electric charge in ttbar events in which one W boson originating from the top-quark pair decays into leptons and the other into hadrons.…

hep-ex2015

Search for Resonances Decaying to Top and Bottom Quarks with the CDF Experiment

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +402

We report on a search for charged massive resonances decaying to top () and bottom () quarks in the full data set of proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass energy of…

physics.ins-det2015

A Proposal for a Three Detector Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Program in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam

R. Acciarri, C. Adams, R. An +221

A Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) physics program of three LAr-TPC detectors located along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab is presented. This new SBN Program will deliver…

hep-ex2015

First measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in bottom-quark pair production at high mass

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +400

We measure the particle-level forward-backward production asymmetry in pairs with masses larger than 150 GeV/, using events with hadronic jets and emp…

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…

hep-ex2014

Measurement of \boldmath in Top--Quark--Pair Decays using Dilepton Events and the Full CDF Run II Data Set

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +405

We present a measurement of the ratio of the top-quark branching fractions represents quarks of flavors , , or…

hep-ex2011

Search for a Higgs Boson in the Diphoton Final State in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, B. Alvarez Gonzalez +512

A search for a narrow Higgs boson resonance in the diphoton mass spectrum is presented based on data corresponding to 7.0 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity from p-pbar collisions at s…

astro-ph.IM2015

Antenna-coupled TES bolometers used in BICEP2, Keck array, and SPIDER

P. A. R. Ade, R. W. Aikin, M. Amiri +64

We have developed antenna-coupled transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers for a wide range of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimetry experiments, including BICEP2, Keck Arra…

hep-ex2012

Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Boson in Collisions at TeV

The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, B. Álvarez González +473

We present a search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a boson, using up to 7.9 fb of integrated luminosity from collisions colle…

hep-ex2021

A novel measurement of initial-state gluon radiation in hadron collisions using Drell-Yan events

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +397

A study of initial-state gluon radiation (ISR) in hadron collisions is presented using Drell-Yan (DY) events produced in proton-antiproton collisions by the Tevatron collider at a…

hep-ex2014

Measurement of the ZZ production cross section using the full CDF II data set

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +405

We present a measurement of the ZZ boson-pair production cross section in 1.96 TeV center-of-mass energy ppbar collisions. We reconstruct final states incorporating four charged le…

physics.ins-det2024

Scintillation Light in SBND: Simulation, Reconstruction, and Expected Performance of the Photon Detection System

SBND Collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. Acciarri +180

SBND is the near detector of the Short-Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab. Its location near to the Booster Neutrino Beam source and relatively large mass will allow the study o…

nucl-ex2009

Structure of Pu: Evidence for Octupole Phonon Condensation?

X. Wang, R. V. F. Janssens, M. P. Carpenter +19

The expanded level structure of Pu available from the present study highlights the role of strong octupole correlations in this nucleus. Besides a delayed alignment in the…

hep-ex2011

Search for new phenomena in events with two bosons and missing transverse momentum in collisions at TeV

T. Aaltonen, B. Alvarez Gonzalez, S. Amerio +512

We present a search for new phenomena in events with two reconstructed bosons and large missing transverse momentum, sensitive to processes $p\bar{p}\rightarrow X_2X_2 \rightar…

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-ex2014

A precise measurement of the -boson mass with the Collider Detector at Fermilab

T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio, D. Amidei +412

We present a measurement of the -boson mass, , using data corresponding to 2.2/fb of integrated luminosity collected in ppbar collisions at = 1.96 TeV with the C…

astro-ph.CO2014

BICEP2 II: Experiment and Three-Year Data Set

BICEP2 Collaboration, P. A. R Ade, R. W. Aikin +49

We report on the design and performance of the BICEP2 instrument and on its three-year data set. BICEP2 was designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background…

hep-ex2014

Planning the Future of U.S. Particle Physics (Snowmass 2013): Chapter 8: Instrumentation Frontier

M. Demarteau, R. Lipton, H. Nicholson +211

These reports present the results of the 2013 Community Summer Study of the APS Division of Particles and Fields ("Snowmass 2013") on the future program of particle physics in the…

hep-ex2024

Calibration and simulation of ionization signal and electronics noise in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber

ICARUS collaboration, P. Abratenko, N. Abrego-Martinez +178

The ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector has been taking physics data since 2022 as part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program. This paper…

physics.ins-det2026

Production and installation of wavelength-shifting reflective light enhancers for the Short-Baseline Near Detector

R. Acciarri, L. Aliaga-Soplin, R. Alvarez-Garrote +194

We report on the design, production, and installation of a wavelength-shifting reflective system on the cathode of the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND), a liquid argon time proj…

hep-ex2005

Search for First-Generation Scalar Leptoquarks in collisions at =1.96 TeV

The CDF Collaboration, D. Acosta, J. Adelman +626

We report on a search for pair production of first-generation scalar leptoquarks () in collisions at =1.96 TeV using an integrated luminosity of 203 $pb^{…