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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…

hep-ex2011★ 11 cited

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★ 7 cited

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-ph2011★ 6 cited

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…

hep-ex2011

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…

hep-ex2011★ 17 cited

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…

hep-ex2011★ 68 cited

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-ex2011★ 2 cited

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…

hep-ex2011★ 10 cited

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…

hep-ex2011★ 33 cited

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…

hep-ex2011★ 12 cited

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-ex2011★ 27 cited

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-ex2011★ 27 cited

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…

hep-ph2011★ 1 cited

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…

hep-ph2011★ 489 cited

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…