Measurement of D+- and D0 production in deep inelastic scattering using a lifetime tag at HERA

The production of D-+/-- and D-0-mesons has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 133.6 pb(-1). The measurements cover the kinematic range 5 < Q(2) < 1000 GeV2, 0.02 < y < 0.7, 1.5 < p(T)(D) < 15 GeV and |eta(D)| < 1.6. Combinatorial background to the D-meson signals is reduced by using the ZEUS microvertex detector to reconstruct displaced secondary vertices. Production cross sections are compared with the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD, which is found to describe the data well. Measurements are extrapolated to the full kinematic phase space in order to obtain the open-charm contribution, F-2(c (c) over bar), to the proton structure function, F-2

Search for stealth supersymmetry in events with jets, either photons or leptons, and low missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at 8 TeV

The results of a search for new physics in final states with jets, either photons or leptons, and low missing transverse momentum are reported. The study is based on a sample of proton-proton collisions collected at a center-of-mass energy root s = 8 TeV with the CMS detector in 2012. The integrated luminosity of the sample is 19.7 fb(-1). Many models of new physics predict the production of events with jets, electroweak gauge bosons, and little or no missing transverse momentum. Examples include stealth models of supersymmetry (SUSY), which predict a hidden sector at the electroweak energy scale in which SUSY is approximately conserved. The data are used to search for stealth SUSY signatures in final states with either two photons or an oppositely charged electron and muon. No excess is observed with respect to the standard model expectation, and the results are used to set limits on squark pair production in the stealth SUSY framework

Diagnóstico das neuropatias periféricas diagnósticos sindrômicos, topográficos e etiológicos: syndromic, topographic and etiological diagnoses

Por avaliação retrospectiva, discriminam-se no presente estudo os diagnósticos sindrômicos topográficos e etiológicos aos quais se conseguiu chegar em 209 casos de neuropatias periféricas. A anamnese e o exame clínico-neurológico foram fundamentais para a realização dos diagnósticos sindrômicos e topográficos. A eletromiografia teve papel relevante, particularmente no que se refere aos diagnósticos topográficos. Os diagnósticos etiológicos dependeram, adicionalmente, de outros exames complementares, dentre os quais se destacam: glicemia e curva glicêmica; avaliação nutricional; avaliação familiar; biópsias de nervo, pele, faringe e seio maxilar; teste qualitativo para a presença de porfirinas na urina; ácido delta-aminolevulínico e porfobilinogênio urinários; exames radiológicos. As polineuropatias mais frequentemente encontradas foram as: etílico-carenciais, diabéticas, inflamatórias desmielinizantes agudas e hereditárias. As síndromes do túnel do carpo, as lesões traumáticas do VII nervo craniano e as neuralgias do trigêmeo foram os diagnósticos mais frequentes entre os de mono-neuropatias. A hanseníase, as lesões traumáticas! do plexo braquial e a síndrome do desfiladeiro torácico predominaram entre as multineuropatias

Searches for supersymmetry based on events with b jets and four W bosons in pp collisions at 8 TeV

Five mutually exclusive searches for supersymmetry are presented based on events in which b jets and four W bosons are produced in proton-proton collisions at root s = 8TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb(-1), were collected with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2012. The five studies differ in the leptonic signature from the W boson decays, and correspond to all-hadronic, single-lepton, opposite-sign dilepton, same-sign dilepton, and >= 3 lepton final states. The results of the five studies are combined to yield 95% confidence level limits for the gluino and bottom-squark masses in the context of gluino and bottom-squark pair production, respectively. In the limit when the lightest supersymmetric particle is light, gluino and bottom squark masses are excluded below 1280 and 570 GeV, respectively

Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at in events with a single lepton, large jet multiplicity, and multiple b jets

Results are reported from a search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, based on events with a single isolated lepton (electron or muon) and multiple jets, at least two of which are identified as b jets. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.3 fb(-1) recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2012. The search is motivated by supersymmetric models that involve strong-production processes and cascade decays of new particles. The resulting final states contain multiple jets as well as missing transverse momentum from weakly interacting particles. The event yields, observed across several kinematic regions, are consistent with the expectations from standard model processes. The results are interpreted in the context of simplified supersymmetric scenarios with pair production of gluinos, where each gluino decays to a top quark-antiquark pair and the lightest neutralino. For the case of decays via virtual top squarks, gluinos with a mass smaller than 1.26 TeV are excluded for low neutralino masses

High-E-T dijet photoproduction at HERA

The cross section for high-ET dijet production in photoproduction has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 81.8pb-1. The events were required to have a virtuality of the incoming photon, Q2, of less than 1GeV2 and a photon-proton center-of-mass energy in the range 14220GeV and ETjet2>15GeV and pseudorapidity (with respect to the proton beam direction) requirements of -1<ηjet1,2<3, with at least one of the jets satisfying -1<ηjet<2.5. The measurements show sensitivity to the parton distributions in the photon and proton and to effects beyond next-to-leading order in QCD. Hence these data can be used to constrain further the parton densities in the proton and photon. © 2007 The American Physical Society