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Quality Control of Mass-Produced GEM Detectors for the CMS GE1/1 Muon Upgrade
M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia, H. Abdalla +179
The series of upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider, culminating in the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, will enable a significant expansion of the physics program of the CMS…
Modeling the triple-GEM detector response to background particles for the CMS Experiment
M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia, H. Abdalla +186
An estimate of environmental background hit rate on triple-GEM chambers is performed using Monte Carlo (MC) simulation and compared to data taken by test chambers installed in the…
Performance of a Triple-GEM Demonstrator in Collisions at the CMS Detector
M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia, H. Abdalla +178
After the Phase-2 high-luminosity upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the collision rate and therefore the background rate will significantly increase, particularly in the…
Interstrip Capacitances of the Readout Board used in Large Triple-GEM Detectors for the CMS Muon Upgrade
M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia, H. Abdalla +178
We present analytical calculations, Finite Element Analysis modeling, and physical measurements of the interstrip capacitances for different potential strip geometries and dimensio…
BaryoGEN, a Monte Carlo Generator for Sphaleron-Like Transitions in Proton-Proton Collisions
Cameron Bravo, Jay Hauser
Sphaleron and instanton solutions of the Standard Model provide violation of baryon and lepton numbers and could lead to spectacular events at the LHC or future colliders. Certain…
A novel application of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors in MPGD
D. Abbaneo, M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia +153
We present a novel application of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors in the construction and characterisation of Micro Pattern Gaseous Detector (MPGD), with particular attention to…
Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors as flatness and mechanical stretching sensors
D. Abbaneo, M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia +153
A novel approach which uses Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors has been utilised to assess and monitor the flatness of Gaseous Electron Multipliers (GEM) foils. The setup layout and…
Performance of a Large-Area GEM Detector Prototype for the Upgrade of the CMS Muon Endcap System
D. Abbaneo, M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia +134
Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) technology is being considered for the forward muon upgrade of the CMS experiment in Phase 2 of the CERN LHC. Its first implementation is planned for…
First Direct Bound on the Total Width of the Top Quark in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen
We present the first direct experimental bound on the total decay width of the top quark using 955pb^-1 of the Tevatron's ppbar collisions recorded by the Collider Detector at Ferm…
Measurement of the top quark mass with dilepton events selected using neuroevolution at CDF
CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen
We report a measurement of the top quark mass in the dilepton decay channel . Events are selected with a neural netw…
Search for a High-Mass Diphoton State and Limits on Randall-Sundrum Gravitons at CDF
CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen
We have performed a search for new particles which decay to two photons using 1.2/fb of integrated luminosity from p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV collected using the CDF I…
First Measurement of the W Boson Mass in Run II of the Tevatron
T. Aaltonen
We present a measurement of the W boson mass using 200/pb of data collected in pbar p collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV by the CDF II detector at Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron. Wi…
Measurement of the Top-Quark Mass in All-Hadronic Decays in p pbar Collisions at CDF II
T. Aaltonen
We present a measurement of the top-quark mass, , in the all-hadronic decay channel . The…
Search for Wprime Boson Decaying to Electron-Neutrino Pairs in pbarp Collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV
CDF Collaboration, A. Abulencia
We present the results of a search for Wprime boson decaying to electron-neutrino pairs in pbarp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV, using a data sample correspondin…
Search for Lambda_b -> p pi and Lambda_b -> p K decays in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
CDF Collaboration, D. Acosta
We report on a search for Lambda_b -> p pi- and Lambda_b -> p K- (and charge conjugate) decays in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV using 193 pb-1 of data collected by CDFII…
Search for Long-Lived Doubly-Charged Higgs Bosons in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV
D. Acosta
We present a search for long-lived doubly-charged Higgs bosons (H^{\pm \pm}), with signatures of high ionization energy loss and muon-like penetration. We use 292/pb of data collec…
Measurement of the J/Psi Meson and b-Hadron Production Cross Sections in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1960 GeV
D. Acosta, CDF Collaboration
We present a new measurement of the inclusive and differential production cross sections of mesons and -hadrons in proton-antiproton collisions at GeV. The…
Measurement of the Lifetime Difference Between B_s Mass Eigenstates
D. Acosta
We present measurements of the lifetimes and polarization amplitudes for B_s --> J/psi phi and B_d --> J/psi K*0 decays. Lifetimes of the heavy (H) and light (L) mass eigenstates i…
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…
Search for the Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Decay D^0\toμ^+μ^- in p\bar{p} Collisions at \sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV
CDF Collaboration, D. Acosta
We report on a search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay D^0\toμ^+μ^- in p\bar{p} collisions at \sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV using 65\ipb of data collected by the CDF II experiment…
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…
Physics at Future Hadron Colliders
U. Baur, R. Brock, J. Parsons +7
We discuss the physics opportunities and detector challenges at future hadron colliders. As guidelines for energies and luminosities we use the proposed luminosity and/or energy up…