A Search for Leptoquark and WZ Production with the D0 Detector in 1.8 TeV [root]s P−p Collisions with the 2 Jets + [missing]E[subscript T] Final State
Author: Christopher Hays
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 181
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Search for First Generation Leptoquark Pair Production in the Electron + Missing Energy + Jets Final State
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe present a search for the pair production of first generation scalar leptoquarks (LQ) in data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb-1 collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider in pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV. In the channel LQLQ → eq?eq, where q,q are u or d quarks, no significant excess of data over background is observed, and we set a 95% C.L. lower limit of 326 GeV on the leptoquark mass, assuming equal probabilities of leptoquark decays to eq and ?subesubq.
Evidence of WW+WZ Production with Lepton + Jets Final States in P Anti-p Collisions at S**1/2
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe present the first evidence of WW+WZ production with lepton+jets final states at a hadron collider. The data correspond to 1.07 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider in proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV. The observed cross section for WW+WZ production is 20.2 +/- 4.5 pb, consistent with the SM prediction of 16.1 +/- 0.9 pb. The probability for background fluctuations to produce an excess equal to or larger than that observed is estimated to be 5.4e-6, corresponding to a significance of 4.4 standard deviations.
Search for Leptoquarks in Jet Topolgy with Missing Transverse Energy Using the D0 Detector
Author: Alexandre Zabi
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 238
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe D0 experiment, located at the Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory in the US, is used to study proton-anti-proton collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The experiment's data acquisition system is based on a sophisticated trigger system used to select potentially interesting events. The Level 2 Silicon Track Trigger (L2STT) is part of the trigger system that provides precise reconstruction of charged particle tracks allowing the selection of events that contain the decays of long lived particles. For example, such particles appear in the decay of the Higgs boson into a pair of bottom quarks. The design of the L2STT preprocessor has greatly benefited from recent advances in electronics technology. The preprocessor has been recently installed and will be used to further optimize the triggering strategy of the experiment. Leptoquarks would mediate hypothetical new interactions between the quarks and leptons of the Standard Model. The existence of such particles would be evidence for physics beyond that model. In this thesis, a direct search for leptoquarks is performed in the jets and missing transverse energy final state. For this analysis, a trigger had to be developed along with a tool to precisely determine its efficiency. An analysis of events exhibiting the acoplanar jets topology was performed on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 85 pb{sup -1}. This analysis has resulted in the determination of an exclusion region on the possible masses of leptoquarks ranging from 85 GeV/c{sup 2} to 109 GeV/c{sup 2} at the 95% confidence level.
Search for the Third-generation Scalar Leptoquarks and Heavy Right-handed Neutrinos in Final States with Two Tau Leptons and Two Jets in Proton-proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA search is performed for third-generation scalar leptoquarks and heavy right-handed neutrinos in events containing one electron or muon, one hadronically decaying tau lepton, and at least two jets, using a $\sqrt{s}$=13 TeV pp collision data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 12.9 inverse femtobarns collected with the CMS detector at the LHC in 2016. The number of observed events is found to be in agreement with the standard model prediction. A limit is set at 95% confidence level on the product of the leptoquark pair production cross section and beta squared where beta is the branching fraction of leptoquark decay to a tau lepton and a bottom quark. Assuming beta=1, third-generation leptoquarks with masses below 850 GeV are excluded at 95 % confidence level. An additional search based on the same event topology involves heavy right-handed neutrinos, N[R], and right-handed W bosons, W[R], arising in a left-right symmetric extension of the standard model. In this search, W[R] bosons are assumed to decay to a tau lepton and N[R] followed by the decay of the N[R] to a tau lepton and an off-shell W[R] boson. Assuming the mass of the right-handed neutrino to be half of the mass of the right-handed W boson, W[R] boson masses below 2.9 TeV are excluded at 95 % confidence level. These results improve on the limits from previous searches for third-generation leptoquarks and heavy right-handed neutrinos with tau leptons in the final state.
Search for WW and WZ Production in Lepton, Neutrino Plus Jets Final States at CDF Run II and Silicon Module Production and Detector Control System for the ATLAS SemiConductor Tracker
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Published: 2008
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first part of this work, we present a search for WW and WZ production in charged lepton, neutrino plus jets final states produced in p{bar p} collisions with √s = 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron, using 1.2 fb−1 of data accumulated with the CDF II detector. This channel is yet to be observed in hadron colliders due to the large singleWplus jets background. However, this decay mode has a much larger branching fraction than the cleaner fully leptonic mode making it more sensitive to anomalous triple gauge couplings that manifest themselves at higher transverse W momentum. Because the final state is topologically similar to associated production of a Higgs boson with a W, the techniques developed in this analysis are also applicable in that search. An Artificial Neural Network has been used for the event selection optimization. The theoretical prediction for the cross section is [sigma]{sub WW/WZ}{sup theory} x Br(W → l[nu]; W/Z → jj) = 2.09 ± 0.14 pb. They measured N{sub Signal} = 410 ± 212(stat) ± 102(sys) signal events that correspond to a cross section [sigma]{sub WW/WZ} x Br(W → l[nu]; W/Z → jj) = 1.47 ± 0.77(stat) ± 0.38(sys) pb. The 95% CL upper limit to the cross section is estimated to be [sigma] x Br(W → l[nu]; W/Z → jj)
Search for Single Production of Scalar Leptoquarks in Proton-proton Collisions at S
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this paper, a search is presented for the production of both first- and second-generation scalar leptoquarks with a final state of either two electrons and one jet or two muons and one jet. The search is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energy √s =8 TeV recorded with the CMS detector and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 fb-1. Upper limits are set on both the first- and second-generation leptoquark production cross sections as functions of the leptoquark mass and the leptoquark couplings to a lepton and a quark. Results are compared with theoretical predictions to obtain lower limits on the leptoquark mass. At 95% confidence level, single production of first-generation leptoquarks with a coupling and branching fraction of 1.0 is excluded for masses below 1730 GeV, and second-generation leptoquarks with a coupling and branching fraction of 1.0 is excluded for masses below 530 GeV. Finally, these are the best overall limits on the production of first-generation leptoquarks to date.
Search for Single Production of Scalar Leptoquarks in P Anti-p Collisions Decaying Into Muons and Quarks with the D0 Detector
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe report on a search for second generation leptoquarks (LQ2) which decay into a muon plus quark in p{bar p} collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √s = 1.96 TeV in the D0 detector using an integrated luminosity of about 300 pb−1. No evidence for a leptoquark signal is observed and an upper bound on the product of the cross section for single leptoquark production times branching fraction [beta] into a quark and a muon was determined for second generation scalar leptoquarks as a function of the leptoquark mass. This result has been combined with a previously published D0 search for leptoquark pair production to obtain leptoquark mass limits as a function of the leptoquark-muon-quark coupling, [lambda]. Assuming [lambda] = 1, lower limits on the mass of a second generation scalar leptoquark coupling to a u quark and a muon are m{sub LQ{sub 2}} > 274 GeV and m{sub LQ{sub 2}} > 226 GeV for [beta] = 1 and [beta] = 1/2, respectively.
Search for Pair Production of First and Second Generation Leptoquarks in Proton-proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur search for pair production of first and second generation leptoquarks is performed in final states containing either two charged leptons and two jets, or one charged lepton, one neutrino and two jets, using proton-proton collision data at √s = 8 TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb-1, were recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC. First-generation scalar leptoquarks with masses less than 1010 (850) GeV are excluded for [beta] = 1.0 (0.5), where b is the branching fraction of a leptoquark decaying to a charged lepton and a quark. Similarly, secondgeneration scalar leptoquarks with masses less than 1080 (760) GeV are excluded for [beta] = 1.0 (0.5). Furthermore, mass limits are also set for vector leptoquark production scenarios with anomalous vector couplings, and for R-parity violating supersymmetric scenarios of top squark pair production resulting in similar final-state signatures. These are the most stringent limits placed on the masses of leptoquarks and RPV top squarks to date.
A Search for T{anti T} → Lepton + E{sub T} + Jets Signature in P{anti P} Collisions at √s
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors report the results from a search for t{anti t} production in p{anti p} collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV with the D0 detector at Fermilab in the final states consisting of one isolated high p{sub T} lepton (e or?), multiple jets and a substantial missing transverse energy (E{sub T}), excluding the events that have?-tagged jets. Two independent analysis approaches lead them to similar estimates for the cross-section. They see no conclusive evidence for top production in the 13.5 pb−1 of data taken during the 1992--1993 run of the Tevatron.
