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Estimating Large Global Significances with a New Monte Carlo Extrapolation Method
Liangliang Chen, Yufei Chen, Gerry Bauer +3
In particle physics, it is needed to evaluate the possibility that excesses of events in mass spectra are due to statistical fluctuations as quantified by the standards of local an…
A global significance evaluation method using simulated events
Kelly J Yi, Leonard G Spiegel, Zhen Hu
In High-Energy Physics experiments it is often necessary to evaluate the global statistical significance of apparent resonances observed in invariant mass spectra. One approach to…
Solid State Detectors and Tracking for Snowmass
A. Affolder, A. Apresyan, S. Worm +132
Tracking detectors are of vital importance for collider-based high energy physics (HEP) experiments. The primary purpose of tracking detectors is the precise reconstruction of char…
Principal-component analysis of two-particle azimuthal correlations in PbPb and pPb collisions at CMS
CMS Collaboration
For the first time a principle-component analysis is used to separate out different orthogonal modes of the two-particle correlation matrix from heavy ion collisions. The analysis…
Test Beam Performance Measurements for the Phase I Upgrade of the CMS Pixel Detector
M. Dragicevic, M. Friedl, J. Hrubec +481
A new pixel detector for the CMS experiment was built in order to cope with the instantaneous luminosities anticipated for the Phase~I Upgrade of the LHC. The new CMS pixel detecto…
Decomposing transverse momentum balance contributions for quenched jets in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
CMS Collaboration
Interactions between jets and the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy ion collisions are studied via the angular distributions of summed charged-particle transverse momenta (pt) w…
Measurements of the ZZ production cross sections in the 2 l 2 nu channel in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 and 8 TeV and combined constraints on triple gauge couplings
CMS Collaboration
Measurements of the ZZ production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV are presented. Candidate events for the leptonic decay mode Z…
Study of Z production in PbPb and pp collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV in the dimuon and dielectron decay channels
CMS Collaboration
The production of Z bosons is studied in the dimuon and dielectron decay channels in PbPb and pp collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV, using data collected by the CMS experiment at…
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…
3D Technologies for Large Area Trackers
G. Deptuch, U. Heintz, M. Johnson +8
We describe technologies which can be developed to produce large area, low cost pixelated tracking detec- tors. These utilize wafer-scale 3D electronics and sensor technologies cur…
Search for supersymmetry in hadronic final states with missing transverse energy using the variables AlphaT and b-quark multiplicity in pp collisions at 8 TeV
CMS Collaboration
An inclusive search for supersymmetric processes that produce final states with jets and missing transverse energy is performed in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV…
Czochralski Silicon as a Detector Material for S-LHC Tracker Volumes
Leonard Spiegel, Tobias Barvich, Burt Betchart +21
With an expected ten-fold increase in luminosity in S-LHC, the radiation environment in the tracker volumes will be considerably harsher for silicon-based detectors than the alread…
Performance studies of the CMS Strip Tracker before installation
CMS Tracker Collaboration
In March 2007 the assembly of the Silicon Strip Tracker was completed at the Tracker Integration Facility at CERN. Nearly 15% of the detector was instrumented using cables, fiber o…
Search for W and Z Bosons in the Reaction \bar{p}p \to 2 jets + γat \sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV
CDF collaboration, D. Acosta
We present a study of the dijet invariant mass distribution for the reaction $\pbp \to 2 $jets, at a center of mass energy of 1.8 TeV, using data collected by the CDF experim…
Measurement of the azimuthal angle distribution of leptons from W boson decays as a function of the W transverse momentum in proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV
D. Acosta
We present the first measurement of the A_2 and A_3 angular coefficients of the W boson produced in proton-antiproton collisions. We study W-> e+nu and W-> mu+nu candidate events p…
Inclusive Double Pomeron Exchange at the Fermilab Tevatron pbar-p Collider
D. Acosta
We report a study of at GeV, where is a proton or system of mass-squared GeV. In a sample of events with a leading…
Measurement of the average time-integrated mixing probability of b-flavored hadrons produced at the Tevatron
D. Acosta
We have measured the number of like-sign (LS) and opposite-sign (OS) lepton pairs arising from double semileptonic decays of and -hadrons, pair-produced at the Fermila…
Measurement of Prompt Charm Meson Production Cross Sections in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV
The CDF Collaboration, D. Acosta
We report on measurements of differential cross sections d sigma/d p_t for prompt charm meson production in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV using 5.8 +/- 0.3 pb-1 of dat…
Central Pseudorapidity Gaps in Events with a Leading Antiproton at the Fermilab Tevatron pbar-p Collider
D. Acosta
We report a measurement of the fraction of events with a large pseudorapidity gap within the pseudorapidity region available to the proton dissociation products in $\bar p…
Search for a W' Boson Decaying to a Top and Bottom Quark Pair in 1.8 TeV p-pbar Collisions
D. Acosta
We report the results of a search for a W' boson produced in p-pbar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.8 TeV using a 106 pb-1 data sample recorded by the Collider Detector…
Comparison of the Isolated Direct Photon Cross Sections in Collisions at TeV and TeV
CDF Collaboration, D. Acosta
We have measured the cross sections for production of isolated direct photons in \pbarp collisions at two different center-of-mass energies, 1.8 TeV and 0.63 TeV, us…
Diffractive Dijet Production at sqrt(s)=630 and 1800 GeV at the Fermilab Tevatron
The CDF Collaboration, T. Affolder
We report a measurement of the diffractive structure function of the antiproton obtained from a study of dijet events produced in association with a leading antiproton i…
Double Diffraction Dissociation at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider
T. Affolder
We present results from a measurement of double diffraction dissociation in collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The production cross section for events with a c…
Measurement of dsigma/DM Forward-Backward Charge Asymmetry for High Mass Drell-Yan e+e- Pairs from p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV
T. Affolder
We report on a measurement of the mass dependence of the forward-backward charge asymmetry, A_FB, and production cross section dsigma/dM for e+e- pairs with mass M_ee>40 GeV/c2. Th…