Top Quark Mass Measurements at CDF

Recent measurements of the mass of the top quark are presented using 162 pb-1 of data of ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV collected by the CDF detector at the Tevatron collider during Run II. The analyses focus on the semi-leptonic decay mode with one or two identified bottom quarks. The Template Method reconstructs the invariant mass of the top quark in each event. The Multivariate Template Method enhances this approach by adding information on the event topology. The Dynamical Likelihood Method discriminates between possible mass values using top quark decay observables and attempts to use the maximum amount of information on top quarks provided by the Standard Model. All three methods produce similar results. The Dynamical Likelihood Method yields a top quark mass of 177.8+-4.5/5.0(stat)+-6.2(sys)GeV/c^2.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Referee's comments included. To appear in the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons, June 27 - July 03, 2004, Chicago, IL, US

Support Vector Machines in Analysis of Top Quark Production

Multivariate data analysis techniques have the potential to improve physics analyses in many ways. The common classification problem of signal/background discrimination is one example. The Support Vector Machine learning algorithm is a relatively new way to solve pattern recognition problems and has several advantages over methods such as neural networks. The SVM approach is described and compared to a conventional analysis for the case of identifying top quark signal events in the dilepton decay channel amidst a large number of background events.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, to be published in the proceedings of the "Advanced Statistical Techniques in Particle Physics" conference in Durham, UK (March, 2002

Inclusive Jet Cross Sections in pˉp\bar{p}p Collisions at s\sqrt{s}= 630 and 1800 GeV

We have made a precise measurement of the inclusive jet cross section at $\sqrt{s}$=1800 GeV. The result is based on an integrated luminosity of 92 pb^{-1} collected at the Fermilab Tevatron $\bar{p}p$ Collider with the D\O detector. The measurement is reported as a function of jet transverse energy (60 GeV <= E_{T} < 550 GeV), and in the pseudorapidity intervals |\eta| <= 0.5 and 0.1 <= |\eta| <= 0.7. A preliminary measurement of the pseudorapidity dependence of inclusive jet production (|\eta| <= 1.5) is also discussed. The results are in good agreement with predictions from next-to-leading order (NLO) quantum chromodynamics (QCD). D\O has also determined the ratio of jet cross sections at $\sqrt{s}$=630 GeV and $\sqrt{s}$=1800 GeV (|\eta| <= 0.5). This preliminary measurement differs from NLO QCD predictions.Comment: Submitted to the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, EPS-HEP99, 15-21 July, 1999, Tampere, Finlan

High-t Diffraction at HERA

The double dissociation photoproduction cross section for the process gamma p -> XY, in which the systems X and Y are separated by a large rapidity gap, is measured at large 4-momentum transfer squared |t| > 20 GeV^2 by the H1 Collaboration at HERA. This measurement provides for the first time a direct measurement of the energy dependence of the gap production process at high |t|.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, Talk presented at DIS99, Zeuthen, German

Search for anomalous WW and WZ production at D0

We present a preliminary result from a search for anomalous WW and WZ production in p\bar{p} collisions at \sqrt{s}=1.8 TeV using p\bar{p}\rightarrow e\nu jj events observed during the 1992--1993 run of the Fermilab Tevatron collider. A fit to the p_T spectrum of W(e\nu) yields direct limits on the CP--conserving anomalous WW\gamma and WWZ coupling parameters of -0.89<\Delta\kappa<1.07~~(\lambda=0) and -0.66<\lambda<0.67~~(\Delta\kappa=0) at the 95\ \% confidence level, assuming that the WWZ coupling parameters are equal to the WW\gamma coupling parameters, and a form factor scale \Lambda=1.5~TeV

Tests of QCD in W and Z Production at Tevatron

We present measurements of the production cross sections times leptonic branching fractions and the transverse momentum distributions of $W$ and $Z$ bosons in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.8$ TeV using data collected with the D{\O}detector at the Fermilab Tevatron $p\bar{p}$ collider. A preliminary measurement of the $W$ charge asymmetry is also presented.Comment: 25 pages in a uucoded PS fil

SUSY-QCD corrections in the squark-gluino sector

A status report is given of the calculations of next-to-leading-order ($N=1$) supersymmetric QCD corrections to the production of squarks and gluinos in $p\bar{p}/pp$ collisions. The implementation of these SUSY-QCD corrections leads to more stable theoretical predictions and to a substantial increase of the production cross-sections. In addition we give a discussion of the use of the $\overline{MS}$ scheme for renormalizing the coupling constants in the QCD sector of ($N=1$) supersymmetric theories.Comment: 6 two-column pages, tar'ed gzip'ed uuencoded files, LaTeX, 7 Encapsulated Postscript figures, uses epsfig and espcrc2. To appear in the proceedings of the 1996 Zeuthen Workshop on Elementary Particle Theory: "QCD and QED in Higher Orders", J.Bl\"umlein, F.Jegerlehner, and T.Riemann eds. Complete postscript file available at http://rulgm4.LeidenUniv.nl/preprints.htm

Warped Phenomenology

We explore the phenomenology associated with the recently proposed localized gravity model of Randall and Sundrum where gravity propagates in a 5-dimensional non-factorizable geometry and generates the 4-dimensional weak-Planck scale hierarchy by an exponential function of the compactification radius, called a warp factor. The Kaluza-Klein tower of gravitons which emerge in this scenario have strikingly different properties than in the factorizable case with large extra dimensions. We derive the form of the graviton tower interactions with the Standard Model fields and examine their direct production in Drell-Yan and dijet events at the Tevatron and LHC as well as the KK spectrum line-shape at high-energy linear \epem colliders. In the case where the first KK excitation is observed, we outline the procedure to uniquely determine the parameters of this scenario. We also investigate the effect of KK tower exchanges in contact interaction searches. We find that present experiments can place meaningful constraints on the parameters of this model.Comment: 14 pages, LaTex, 3 fig

Tests of QCD in W and Z production at Tevatron

We present measurements of the production cross sections times leptonic branching fractions and the transverse momentum distributions of W and Z bosons in p\bar{p} collisions at \sqrt{s}=1.8~TeV using data collected with the D\O\ detector at the Fermilab Tevatron p\bar{p} collider. A preliminary measurement of the W charge asymmetry is also presented

Third-generation leptoquark decays and collider searches

Collider searches for first-, second-, and third-generation scalar (S) or vector (V) leptoquarks (LQs) focus on the quark-lepton decay modes S,V -> q l. For SU(2)-doublet and -triplet leptoquarks with a sufficiently large splitting between the components, decays involving real W-boson emission (such as S_2^{(+5/3)} -> S_2^{(+2/3)} W^{+} and others) become possible and can change the patterns of leptoquark decays. For third-generation leptoquarks, where these mass splittings might be large, such modes could dominate certain leptoquark decays as they are (if kinematically allowed) guaranteed to be of order g^2 where g is the electroweak coupling. We calculate the decay rates for all such processes involving SU(2)-doublet and triplet, scalar and vector leptoquarks. Standard limits on mass splittings from precision electroweak measurements imply that only such decays involving SU(2)-doublet scalar LQs are likely kinematically possible.Comment: 13 pages, LaTeX, 2 separate postscript figure