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Monte Carlo event generators for high energy particle physics event simulation
Andy Buckley, Frank Krauss, Simon Plätzer +40
Monte Carlo event generators (MCEGs) are the indispensable workhorses of particle physics, bridging the gap between theoretical ideas and first-principles calculations on the one h…
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…
Combination of CDF and D0 W-Boson Mass Measurements
CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +771
We summarize and combine direct measurements of the mass of the boson in proton-antiproton collision data collected by CDF and D0 experiments at th…
The SM and NLO Multileg and SM MC Working Groups: Summary Report
J. Alcaraz Maestre, S. Alioli, J. R. Andersen +79
The 2011 Les Houches workshop was the first to confront LHC data. In the two years since the previous workshop there have been significant advances in both soft and hard QCD, parti…
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…
Measurement of the Cross Section for Prompt Isolated Diphoton Production in p\bar p Collisions at \sqrt s = 1.96 TeV
Costas Vellidis, the CDF Collaboration
This article reports a measurement of the cross section of prompt isolated photon pair production in pp collisions at a total energy \sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV using data of 5.36 fb-1 int…
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…
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…
Methods to Select Soft Diffraction Dissociation at the LHC
Emily Nurse, Sercan Sen
Diffractive events at hadron colliders are typically characterised by a region of the detector without particles, known as a rapidity gap. In order to observe diffractive events in…
First Search for Multijet Resonances in TeV Collisions
CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen
We present the first model independent search for three-jet hadronic resonances within multijet events in TeV collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron using…
Measurement of the Cross Section for Prompt Isolated Diphoton Production in p\bar p Collisions at \sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV
CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen
This letter reports a measurement of the cross section of prompt isolated photon pair production in p\bar p collisions at a total energy \sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV using data of 5.36/fb i…
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…
Improved determination of the sample composition of dimuon events produced in {\boldmath } collisions at {\boldmath } TeV
CDF Collaboration
We use a new method to estimate with 5% accuracy the contribution of pion and kaon in-flight-decays to the dimuon data set acquired with the CDF detector. Based on this improved es…
Search for the Rare Radiative Decay: in \ppbar\ Collisions at TeV
CDF collaboration, T. Aaltonen
We present a search for the rare radiative decay \wpigamma\ using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.3 \invfb\ of proton-antiproton collisions at a center of mass…
Search for Production of Heavy Particles Decaying to Top Quarks and Invisible Particles in collisions at TeV
CDF Collaboration
We present a search for a new particle decaying to top quark via , where is an invisible particle. In a data sample with 4.8 fb of int…
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…
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…
Observation of B0_s -> J/psi K*(892)0 and B0_s -> J/psi K0_S Decays
CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen
We report the first observation of two Cabibbo-suppressed decay modes of the B0_s meson. Using a sample of p-pbar collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV corresponding to 5.9 fb-1 of integr…
LO vs NLO comparisons for Z + jets: MC as a tool for background determination for NP searches at LHC
Flavia A. Dias, Emily Nurse, Gavin Hesketh
The leptonic decays of the heavy gauge bosons W and/or Z provide a clear experimental signature at hadron colliders. The production of accompanying jets is an excellent signal to p…
General-purpose event generators for LHC physics
Andy Buckley, Jonathan Butterworth, Stefan Gieseke +12
We review the physics basis, main features and use of general-purpose Monte Carlo event generators for the simulation of proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Topi…
Direct Top-Quark Width Measurement CDF
CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen
We present a measurement of the top-quark width using events produced in collisions at Fermilab's Tevatron collider and collected by the CDF II detector. In t…
Diffractive W and Z Production at the Fermilab Tevatron
T. Aaltonen
We report on a measurement of the fraction of events with a W or Z boson which are produced diffractively in antiproton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV, us…
Search for WW and WZ resonances decaying to electron, missing ET, and two jets in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen
Using data from 2.9/fb of integrated luminosity collected with the CDF II detector at the Tevatron, we search for resonances decaying into a pair of on-shell gauge bosons, WW or WZ…
Measurement of the lifetime using a simulation free approach for trigger bias correction
The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen
The collection of a large number of hadron decays to hadronic final states at the CDF II detector is possible due to the presence of a trigger that selects events based on trac…