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Article: Exclusion of exotic top-like quarks with -4/3 electric charge using jet-charge tagging in single-lepton ttbar events at CDF
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ABSTRACT: 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. The event sample was collected by the CDF II detector in sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV proton-antiproton collisions and corresponds to 5.6 fb^(-1). We find the data to be consistent with the standard model and exclude the existence of an exotic quark with -4/3 electric charge and mass of the conventional top quark at the 99% confidence level.04/2013; -
Article: Measurement of the Cross Section for Prompt Isolated Diphoton Production Using the Full CDF Run II Data Sample.
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ABSTRACT: This Letter reports a measurement of the cross section for producing pairs of central prompt isolated photons in proton-antiproton collisions at a total energy sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV using data corresponding to 9.5 fb^{-1} integrated luminosity collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The measured differential cross section is compared to three calculations derived from the theory of strong interactions. These include a prediction based on a leading order matrix element calculation merged with a parton shower model, a next-to-leading order calculation, and a next-to-next-to-leading order calculation. The first and last calculations reproduce most aspects of the data, thus showing the importance of higher-order contributions for understanding the theory of strong interaction and improving measurements of the Higgs boson and searches for new phenomena in diphoton final states.Physical Review Letters 03/2013; 110(10):101801. · 7.37 Impact Factor -
Article: Updated search for the standard model Higgs boson in events with jets and missing transverse energy using the full CDF data set
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ABSTRACT: 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 data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9.45 fb${}^{-1}$ at a proton-antiproton center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV. New to this analysis is the inclusion of a $b$-jet identification algorithm specifically optimized for $H\to b\bar{b}$ searches. Across the Higgs boson mass range $90 \le m_H \le 150$ GeV$/c^2$, the expected 95% credibility level upper limits on the $V H$ production cross section times the $H\to b\bar{b}$ branching fraction are improved by an average of 14% relative to the previous analysis. At a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV$/c^2$, the observed (expected) limit is 3.06 (3.33) times the standard model prediction, corresponding to one of the most sensitive searches to date in this final state.01/2013; -
Article: Operational Experience, Improvements, and Performance of the CDF Run II Silicon Vertex Detector
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ABSTRACT: 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 September 2011, the Tevatron delivered 12 fb-1 of integrated luminosity of p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV. Many physics analyses undertaken by CDF require heavy flavor tagging with large charged particle tracking acceptance. To realize these goals, in 2001 CDF installed eight layers of silicon microstrip detectors around its interaction region. These detectors were designed for 2--5 years of operation, radiation doses up to 2 Mrad (0.02 Gy), and were expected to be replaced in 2004. The sensors were not replaced, and the Tevatron run was extended for several years beyond its design, exposing the sensors and electronics to much higher radiation doses than anticipated. In this paper we describe the operational challenges encountered over the past 10 years of running the CDF silicon detectors, the preventive measures undertaken, and the improvements made along the way to ensure their optimal performance for collecting high quality physics data. In addition, we describe the quantities and methods used to monitor radiation damage in the sensors for optimal performance and summarize the detector performance quantities important to CDF's physics program, including vertex resolution, heavy flavor tagging, and silicon vertex trigger performance.01/2013; -
Article: Measurements of the Top-Quark Mass and the tt[over ¯] Cross Section in the Hadronic τ+jets Decay Channel at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV.
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ABSTRACT: We present the first direct measurement of the top-quark mass using tt[over ¯] events decaying in the hadronic τ+jets decay channel. Using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.2 fb^{-1} collected by the CDF II detector in pp[over ¯] collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron, we measure the tt[over ¯] cross section, σ_{tt[over ¯]}, and the top-quark mass, M_{top}. We extract M_{top} from a likelihood based on per-event probabilities calculated with leading-order signal and background matrix elements. We measure σ_{tt[over ¯]}=8.8±3.3(stat)±2.2(syst) pb and M_{top}=172.7±9.3(stat)±3.7(syst) GeV/c^{2}.Physical Review Letters 11/2012; 109(19):192001. · 7.37 Impact Factor
