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Semi-Leptonic D_S^+(1968) Decays As A Scalar Meson Probe, Joseph Schechter, Amir H. Fariborz, Renata Jora, M. Naeem Shahid Aug 2011

Semi-Leptonic D_S^+(1968) Decays As A Scalar Meson Probe, Joseph Schechter, Amir H. Fariborz, Renata Jora, M. Naeem Shahid

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The unusual multiplet structures associated with the light spin zero mesons have recently attracted a good deal of theoretical attention. Here we discuss some aspects associated with the possibility of getting new experimental information on this topic from semi-leptonic decays of heavy charged mesons into an isosinglet scalar or pseudoscalar plus leptons.


Mcrg Minimal Walking Technicolor, Simon Catterall, Luigi Del Debbio, Joel Giedt Aug 2011

Mcrg Minimal Walking Technicolor, Simon Catterall, Luigi Del Debbio, Joel Giedt

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We present a Monte Carlo renormalisation group study of the SU(2) gauge theory with two Dirac fermions in the adjoint representation. Using the two-lattice matching technique we measure the running of the coupling and the anomalous mass dimension. We find slow running of the coupling, compatible with an infrared fixed point. Assuming this running is negligible we find a vanishing anomalous dimension, gamma=-0.03(13), however taking this source of systematic error into account gives a much larger range of allowed values, -0.6 < gamma < 0.6. We also attempt to measure the anomalous mass dimension using the stability matrix method. We discuss the systematic errors affecting the current analysis and possible improvements.


Possible Z-Width Probe Of A "Brane-World" Scenario For Neutrino Masses, Joseph Schechter, Sherif Moussa, Salah Nasri, F Sannino Aug 2011

Possible Z-Width Probe Of A "Brane-World" Scenario For Neutrino Masses, Joseph Schechter, Sherif Moussa, Salah Nasri, F Sannino

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The possibility that the accurately known value of the Z width might furnish information about the coupling of two neutrinos to the Majoron (Nambu-Goldstone boson of spontaneous lepton number violation) is proposed and investigated in detail. Both the "ordinary" case and the case in which one adopts a "brane" world picture with the Majoron free to travel in extra dimensions are studied. Bounds on the dimensionless coupling constants are obtained, allowing for any number of extra dimensions and any intrinsic mass scale. These bounds may be applied to a variety of different Majoron models. If a technically natural see-saw model …


An Object Oriented Code For Simulating Supersymmetric Yang--Mills Theories, Simon Catterall, Anosh Joseph Aug 2011

An Object Oriented Code For Simulating Supersymmetric Yang--Mills Theories, Simon Catterall, Anosh Joseph

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Discretization of supersymmetric Yang--Mills (SYM) theories is an old problem in lattice field theory. It has resisted solution until recently when new ideas drawn from orbifold constructions and topological field theories have been brought to bear on the question. The result has been the creation of a new class of lattice gauge theories in which the lattice action is invariant under one or more supersymmetries. The resultant theories are local, free of doublers and also possess exact gauge-invariance. In principle they form the basis for a truly non-perturbative definition of the continuum SYM theories. In the continuum limit they lead …


Higher Derivative Gravitational Systems And Ghost Fields, Michele Fontanini Aug 2011

Higher Derivative Gravitational Systems And Ghost Fields, Michele Fontanini

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Effective Field Theory (EFT) is one of the most powerful theoretical tools in the hands of cosmologists, it allows them to come up with testable effective descriptions of the universe even when a fundamental theory is missing. EFT though, is not the only possible answer for pushing our knowledge beyond the limits of what has already been established. Applying EFT and other alternative methods has become an important part of a cosmologist’s work, particularly in the last few years when a vast plethora of extensions of the Standard Model of Cosmology has been proposed and needs to be tested against …


Rectification Of Vortex Motion In A Circular Ratchet Channel, Britton Plourde, N. S. Lin, T. W. Heitmann, Kang Yu, V. R. Misko Jul 2011

Rectification Of Vortex Motion In A Circular Ratchet Channel, Britton Plourde, N. S. Lin, T. W. Heitmann, Kang Yu, V. R. Misko

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We study the dynamics of vortices in an asymmetric ring channel driven by an external current I in a Corbino setup. The asymmetric potential can rectify the motion of vortices and cause a net flow without any unbiased external drive, which is called ratchet effect. With an applied ac current, the potential can rectify the motion of vortices in the channel and induce a dc net flow. We show that the net flow of vortices strongly depends on vortex density and frequency of the driving current. Depending on the density, we distinguish a "single-vortex" rectification regime (low density) determined by …


Active Jamming: Self-Propelled Soft Particles At High Density, Silke Henkes, Yaouen Fily, M. Christina Marchetti Jul 2011

Active Jamming: Self-Propelled Soft Particles At High Density, Silke Henkes, Yaouen Fily, M. Christina Marchetti

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We study numerically the phases and dynamics of a dense collection of self-propelled particles with soft repulsive interactions in two dimensions. The model is motivated by recent in vitro experiments on confluent monolayers of migratory epithelial and endothelial cells. The phase diagram exhibits a liquid phase with giant number fluctuations at low packing fraction and high self-propulsion speed and a jammed phase at high packing fraction and low self-propulsion speed. The dynamics of the jammed phase is controlled by the low frequency modes of the jammed packing.


Measurement Of The Inclusive Φ Cross-Section In Pp Collisions At √S = 7 Tev, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, Alessandra Borgia Jul 2011

Measurement Of The Inclusive Φ Cross-Section In Pp Collisions At √S = 7 Tev, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, Alessandra Borgia

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The cross-section for inclusive phi meson production in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV has been measured with the LHCb detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The differential cross-section is measured as a function of the phi transverse momentum p_T and rapidity y in the region 0.6 < p_T < 5.0 GeV/c and 2.44 < y < 4.06. The cross-section for inclusive phi production in this kinematic range is sigma(pp -> phi X) = 1758 pm 19(stat) ^{+43}_{-14}(syst) pm 182(scale) microbarn, where the first systematic uncertainty depends on the p_T and y region and the second is related to the overall scale. Predictions based on the Pythia 6.4 generator underestimate the cross-section.


Measurement Of The Inclusive Phi Cross-Section In Pp Collisions At Sqrt(S) = 7 Tev, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, Alessandra Borgia Jul 2011

Measurement Of The Inclusive Phi Cross-Section In Pp Collisions At Sqrt(S) = 7 Tev, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, Alessandra Borgia

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The cross-section for inclusive phi meson production in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV has been measured with the LHCb detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The differential cross-section is measured as a function of the phi transverse momentum p_T and rapidity y in the region 0.6 < p_T < 5.0 GeV/c and 2.44 < y < 4.06. The cross-section for inclusive phi production in this kinematic range is sigma(pp -> phi X) = 1758 pm 19(stat) ^{+43}_{-14}(syst) pm 182(scale) microbarn, where the first systematic uncertainty depends on the p_T and y region and the second is related to the overall scale. Predictions based on the Pythia 6.4 generator underestimate the cross-section.


Nonlinear Hydrodynamics Of Disentangled Flux-Line Liquids, Panayotis Benetatos, M. Cristina Marchetti Jul 2011

Nonlinear Hydrodynamics Of Disentangled Flux-Line Liquids, Panayotis Benetatos, M. Cristina Marchetti

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In this paper we use non-Gaussian hydrodynamics to study the magnetic response of a flux-line liquid in the mixed state of a type-II superconductor. Both the derivation of our model, which goes beyond conventional Gaussian flux liquid hydrodynamics, and its relationship to other approaches used in the literature are discussed. We focus on the response to a transverse tilting field which is controlled by the tilt modulus, c44, of the flux array. We show that interaction effects can enhance c44 even in infinitely thick clean materials. This enhancement can be interpreted as the appearance of a disentangled flux-liquid fraction. In …


Measurement Of V0 Production Ratios In Pp Collisions At √S= 0.9 And 7 Tev, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, Alessandra Borgia Jul 2011

Measurement Of V0 Production Ratios In Pp Collisions At √S= 0.9 And 7 Tev, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, Alessandra Borgia

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The \bar{\Lambda} / \Lambda and \bar{\Lambda} / K^0_\mathrm{S} production ratios are measured by the LHCb detector from 0.3\,\mathrm{nb}^{-1} of pp collisions delivered by the LHC at \sqrt{s} = 0.9\,TeV and 1.8\,\mathrm{nb}^{-1} at \sqrt{s} = 7\,TeV. Both ratios are presented as a function of transverse momentum, p_\mathrm{T}, and rapidity, y, in the ranges {0.15 < p_\mathrm{T} < 2.50\,\mathrm{GeV}/c} and {2.0}.


Measurement Of Measurement Of V 0 Production Ratios In Pp Collisions At Ps = 0.9 And 7tev, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, Alessandra Borgia Jul 2011

Measurement Of Measurement Of V 0 Production Ratios In Pp Collisions At Ps = 0.9 And 7tev, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, Alessandra Borgia

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The \bar{\Lambda} / \Lambda and \bar{\Lambda} / K^0_\mathrm{S} production ratios are measured by the LHCb detector from 0.3\,\mathrm{nb}^{-1} of pp collisions delivered by the LHC at \sqrt{s} = 0.9\,TeV and 1.8\,\mathrm{nb}^{-1} at \sqrt{s} = 7\,TeV. Both ratios are presented as a function of transverse momentum, p_\mathrm{T}, and rapidity, y, in the ranges {0.15 < p_\mathrm{T} < 2.50\,\mathrm{GeV}/c} and {2.0}


Theory Of Double-Sided Flux Decorations, M. Cristina Marchetti, David R. Nelson Jul 2011

Theory Of Double-Sided Flux Decorations, M. Cristina Marchetti, David R. Nelson

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A novel two-sided Bitter decoration technique was recently employed by Yao et al. to study the structure of the magnetic vortex array in high-temperature superconductors. Here we discuss the analysis of such experiments. We show that two-sided decorations can be used to infer {\it quantitative} information about the bulk properties of flux arrays, and discuss how a least squares analysis of the local density differences can be used to bring the two sides into registry. Information about the tilt, compressional and shear moduli of bulk vortex configurations can be extracted from these measurements.


Cooperative Self-Propulsion Of Active And Passive Rotors, Yaouen Fily, Aparna Baskaran, M. Cristina Marchetti Jul 2011

Cooperative Self-Propulsion Of Active And Passive Rotors, Yaouen Fily, Aparna Baskaran, M. Cristina Marchetti

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Using minimal models for low Reynolds number passive and active rotors in a fluid, we characterize the hydrodynamic interactions among rotors and the resulting dynamics of a pair of interacting rotors. This allows us to treat in a common framework passive or externally driven rotors, such as magnetic colloids driven by a rotating magnetic field, and active or internally driven rotors, such as sperm cells confined at boundaries. The hydrodynamic interaction of passive rotors contains an azimuthal component 1/r2 to dipolar order that can yield the recently discovered “cooperative self-propulsion” of a pair of rotors of opposite vorticity. While this …


Self-Propulsion Of Droplets By Spatially-Varying Roughness, Mark Bowick, Zhenwei Yao Jun 2011

Self-Propulsion Of Droplets By Spatially-Varying Roughness, Mark Bowick, Zhenwei Yao

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Under partial wetting conditions, making a substrate uniformly rougher enhances the wetting characteristics of the corresponding smooth substrate {--} hydrophilic systems become even more hydrophilic and hydrophobic systems even more hydrophobic. Here we show that spatial texturing of the roughness may lead to spontaneous propulsion of droplets. Individual droplets are driven toward regions of maximal roughness for intrinsically hydrophilic systems and toward regions of minimal roughness for intrinsically hydrophobic systems. Spatial texturing can be achieved by wrinkling the substrate with sinusoidal grooves whose wavelength varies in one direction (inhomogeneous wrinkling) or lithographically etching a radial pattern of fractal (Koch curve) …


Measurement Of The Eta_B(1s) Mass And The Branching Fraction For Upsilon(3s) --> Gamma Eta_B(1s), Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, Sadia Khalil Jun 2011

Measurement Of The Eta_B(1s) Mass And The Branching Fraction For Upsilon(3s) --> Gamma Eta_B(1s), Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, Sadia Khalil

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We report evidence for the ground state of bottomonium, eta_b(1S), in the radiative decay Upsilon(3S) --> gamma eta_b in e^+e^- annihilation data taken with the CLEO III detector. Using 6 million Upsilon(3S) decays, and assuming Gamma(eta_b) = 10 MeV/c^2, we obtain B(Upsilon(3S) --> gamma eta_b) = (7.1 +- 1.8 +- 1.1) X 10^{-4}, where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. The statistical significance is about 4 sigma. The mass is determined to be M(eta_b) = 9391.8 +- 6.6 +- 2.0 MeV/c^2, which corresponds to the hyperfine splitting Delta M_{hf}(1S)_b = 68.5 +- 6.6 +- 2.0 MeV/c^2. …


Study Of Radiation Damage In Lead Tungstate Crystals Using Intense High Energy Beams, Raymond Mountain, K. Khroustalev, V.A. Batarin, T. Brennan Jun 2011

Study Of Radiation Damage In Lead Tungstate Crystals Using Intense High Energy Beams, Raymond Mountain, K. Khroustalev, V.A. Batarin, T. Brennan

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We report on the effects of radiation on the light output of lead tungstate crystals. The crystals were irradiated by pure, intense high energy electron and hadron beams as well as by a mixture of hadrons, neutrons and gammas. The crystals were manufactured in Bogoroditsk, Apatity (both Russia), and Shanghai (China). These studies were carried out at the 70-GeV proton accelerator in Protvino.


Chiral Nonet Mixing In Pi Pi Scattering, Joseph Schechter, Amir H. Fariborz, Renata Jora, M. Naeem Shahid Jun 2011

Chiral Nonet Mixing In Pi Pi Scattering, Joseph Schechter, Amir H. Fariborz, Renata Jora, M. Naeem Shahid

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Pion pion scattering is studied in a generalized linear sigma model which contains two scalar nonets (one of quark-antiquark type and the other of diquark-antidiquark type) and two corresponding pseudoscalar nonets. An interesting feature concerns the mixing of the four isosinglet scalar mesons which yield poles in the scattering amplitude. Some realism is introduced by enforcing exact unitarity via the K-matrix method. It is shown that a reasonable agreement with experimental data is obtained up to about 1 GeV. The poles in the unitarized scattering amplitude are studied in some detail. The lowest pole clearly represents the sigma meson (or …


Determination Of Fs/Fd For 7 Tev Pp Collisions And A Measurement Of The Branching Fraction Of The Decay B0→D-K+, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, S. Stone Jun 2011

Determination Of Fs/Fd For 7 Tev Pp Collisions And A Measurement Of The Branching Fraction Of The Decay B0→D-K+, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, S. Stone

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The relative abundance of the three decay modes B_d \to D^- K^+, B_d \to D^- \pi^+ and B_s \to D_s^- \pi^+ produced in 7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC is determined from data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb^{-1}. The branching fraction of B_d \to D^- K^+ is found to be \cal B (B_d \to D^- K^+) = (2.01 \pm 0.18^{\textrm{stat}} \pm 0.14^{\textrm{syst}})\times 10^{-4}. The ratio of fragmentation fractions \fsfdt is determined through the relative abundance of B_s \to D_s^- \pi^+ to B_d \to D^- K^+ and B_d \to D^-\pi^+, leading to f_s/f_d = 0.253 \pm 0.017 …


Zero And Low Temperature Behavior Of The Two-Dimensional \Pm J Ising Spin Glass, Alan Middleton, Creighton K. Thomas, David A. Huse Jun 2011

Zero And Low Temperature Behavior Of The Two-Dimensional \Pm J Ising Spin Glass, Alan Middleton, Creighton K. Thomas, David A. Huse

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Scaling arguments and precise simulations are used to study the square lattice $\pm J$ Ising spin glass, a prototypical model for glassy systems. Droplet theory predicts, and our numerical results show, entropically-stabilized long range spin glass order at zero temperature. The low temperature scaling behavior has an important new crossover length scale that produces a power-law dependence of the heat capacity on temperature.


Determination Of F_S/F_D For 7 Tev Pp Collisions And A Measurement Of The Branching Fraction Of The Decay Bd->D-K+, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, Alessandra Borgia Jun 2011

Determination Of F_S/F_D For 7 Tev Pp Collisions And A Measurement Of The Branching Fraction Of The Decay Bd->D-K+, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, Alessandra Borgia

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The relative abundance of the three decay modes B_d \to D^- K^+, B_d \to D^- \pi^+ and B_s \to D_s^- \pi^+ produced in 7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC is determined from data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb^{-1}. The branching fraction of B_d \to D^- K^+ is found to be \cal B (B_d \to D^- K^+) = (2.01 \pm 0.18^{\textrm{stat}} \pm 0.14^{\textrm{syst}})\times 10^{-4}. The ratio of fragmentation fractions \fsfdt is determined through the relative abundance of B_s \to D_s^- \pi^+ to B_d \to D^- K^+ and B_d \to D^-\pi^+, leading to f_s/f_d = 0.253 \pm 0.017 …


Analysis Of The Decay D^0 To K^0_S Pi^0 Pi^0, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, T. Skwarnicki Jun 2011

Analysis Of The Decay D^0 To K^0_S Pi^0 Pi^0, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, T. Skwarnicki

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We present the results of a Dalitz plot analysis of D^0 to K^0_S pi^0 pi^0 using the CLEO-c data set of 818 inverse pico-barns of e^+ e^- collisions accumulated at sqrt{s} = 3.77 GeV. This corresponds to three million D^0 D^0-bar pairs from which we select 1,259 tagged candidates with a background of 7.5 +- 0.9 percent. Several models have been explored, all of which include the K^*(892), K^*_2(1430), K^*(1680), the f_0(980), and the sigma(500). We find that the combined pi^0 pi^0 S-wave contribution to our preferred fit is (28.9 +- 6.3 +- 3.1)% of the total decay rate while …


Analysis Of The Decay D0 → K0sπ0Π0, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, T. Skwarnicki Jun 2011

Analysis Of The Decay D0 → K0sπ0Π0, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, T. Skwarnicki

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We present the results of a Dalitz plot analysis of D^0 to K^0_S pi^0 pi^0 using the CLEO-c data set of 818 inverse pico-barns of e^+ e^- collisions accumulated at sqrt{s} = 3.77 GeV. This corresponds to three million D^0 D^0-bar pairs from which we select 1,259 tagged candidates with a background of 7.5 +- 0.9 percent. Several models have been explored, all of which include the K^*(892), K^*_2(1430), K^*(1680), the f_0(980), and the sigma(500). We find that the combined pi^0 pi^0 S-wave contribution to our preferred fit is (28.9 +- 6.3 +- 3.1)% of the total decay rate while …


Motor-Driven Dynamics Of Cytoskeletal Filaments In Motility Assays, Shiladitya Banerjee, M. Cristina Marchetti, Kristian Muller-Nedebock Jun 2011

Motor-Driven Dynamics Of Cytoskeletal Filaments In Motility Assays, Shiladitya Banerjee, M. Cristina Marchetti, Kristian Muller-Nedebock

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We model analytically the dynamics of a cytoskeletal filament in a motility assay. The filament is described as rigid rod free to slide in two dimensions. The motor proteins consist of polymeric tails tethered to the plane and modeled as linear springs and motor heads that bind to the filament. As in related models of rigid and soft two-state motors, the binding/unbinding dynamics of the motor heads and the dependence of the transition rates on the load exerted by the motor tails play a crucial role in controlling the filament's dynamics. Our work shows that the filament effectively behaves as …


Polar Patterns In Active Fluids, Luca Giomi, M. Cristina Marchetti Jun 2011

Polar Patterns In Active Fluids, Luca Giomi, M. Cristina Marchetti

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We study the spatio-temporal dynamics of a model of polar active fluid in two dimensions. The system exhibits a transition from an isotropic to a polarized state as a function of density. The uniform polarized state is, however, unstable above a critical value of activity. Upon increasing activity, the active fluids displays increasingly complex patterns, including traveling bands, traveling vortices and chaotic behavior. The advection arising from the particles self-propulsion and unique to polar fluids yields qualitatively new behavior as compared to that obtain in active nematic, yielding traveling-wave structures. We show that the nonlinear hydrodynamic equations can be mapped …


Studies Of D+→ {Η', Η, Φ}E+Νe, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, T. Skwarnicki May 2011

Studies Of D+→ {Η', Η, Φ}E+Νe, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, T. Skwarnicki

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Measurement Of J/Ψ Production In Pp Collisions At √S=7 Tev, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, Alessandra Borgia May 2011

Measurement Of J/Ψ Production In Pp Collisions At √S=7 Tev, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, Alessandra Borgia

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The production of J/psi mesons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV is studied with the LHCb detector at the LHC. The differential cross-section for prompt J/psi production is measured as a function of the J/psi transverse momentum pT and rapidity y in the fiducial region 0.


Measurement Of J/Psi Production In Pp Collisions At Sqrt(S)=7 Tev, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, Alessandra Borgia May 2011

Measurement Of J/Psi Production In Pp Collisions At Sqrt(S)=7 Tev, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, Alessandra Borgia

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The production of J/psi mesons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV is studied with the LHCb detector at the LHC. The differential cross-section for prompt J/psi production is measured as a function of the J/psi transverse momentum pT and rapidity y in the fiducial region 0


Search For The Decay D+S→Ωe+Ν, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, T. Skwarnicki May 2011

Search For The Decay D+S→Ωe+Ν, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, T. Skwarnicki

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We present the first search for the decay D^+_{s}\to \omega e^{+}\nu to test the four-quark content of the D^+_{s} and the \omega-\phi mixing model for this decay. We use 586 \mathrm{pb}^{-1} of e^{+}e^{-} collision data collected at a center-of-mass energy of 4170 MeV. We find no evidence of a signal, and set an upper limit on the branching fraction of \mathcal{B}(D^+_{s}\to\omega e^+\nu)


Search For The Decay D^+_{S}\Toωe^+Ν, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, T. Skwarnicki May 2011

Search For The Decay D^+_{S}\Toωe^+Ν, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, T. Skwarnicki

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We present the first search for the decay D^+_{s}\to \omega e^{+}\nu to test the four-quark content of the D^+_{s} and the \omega-\phi mixing model for this decay. We use 586 \mathrm{pb}^{-1} of e^{+}e^{-} collision data collected at a center-of-mass energy of 4170 MeV. We find no evidence of a signal, and set an upper limit on the branching fraction of \mathcal{B}(D^+_{s}\to\omega e^+\nu)