119306826
Search for pair production of the scalar top quark in the electron+muon final state
We report the result of a search for the pair production of the lightest supersymmetric partner of the top quark ($\tilde{t}_1$) in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collider corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb$^{-1}$. The scalar top quarks are assumed to decay into a $b$ quark, a charged lepton, and a scalar neutrino ($\tilde{\nu}$), and the search is performed in the electron plus muon final state. No significant excess of events above the standard model prediction is detected, and improved exclusion limits at the 95% C.L. are set in the the ($M_{\tilde{t}_1}$,$M_{\tilde{\nu}}$) mass plane.
195944
Precision measurement of the top quark mass in lepton + jets final States.
We measure the mass of the top quark in lepton+jets final states using the full sample of pp collision data collected by the D0 experiment in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV, corresponding to 9.7 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity. We use a matrix element technique that calculates the probabilities for each event to result from tt production or background. The overall jet energy scale is constrained in situ by the mass of the W boson. We measure m(t) = 174.98 ± 0.76 GeV. This constitutes the most precise single measurement of the top-quark mass.
15350493
Search for long-lived particles decaying into electron or photon pairs with the D0 detector.
In this Letter we report on a search for long-lived particles that decay into final states with two electrons or photons. Such long-lived particles arise in a variety of theoretical models, such as hidden valleys and supersymmetry with gauge-mediated breaking. By precisely reconstructing the direction of the electromagnetic shower we are able to probe much longer lifetimes than previously explored. We see no evidence of the existence of such long-lived particles and interpret this search as a quasi model-independent limit on their production cross section, as well as a limit on a long-lived fourth generation quark.
208869198
Measurement of angular correlations of jets at s=1.96 TeV and determination of the strong coupling at high momentum transfers
We present a measurement of the average value of a new observable at hadron colliders that is sensitive to QCD dynamics and to the strong coupling constant, while being only weakly sensitive to parton distribution functions. The observable measures the angular correlations of jets and is defined as the number of neighboring jets above a given transverse momentum threshold which accompany a given jet within a given distance Delta-R in the plane of rapidity and azimuthal angle. The ensemble average over all jets in an inclusive jet sample is measured and the results are presented as a function of transverse momentum of the inclusive jets, in different regions of Delta-R and for different transverse momentum requirements for the neighboring jets. The measurement is based on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.7 fb-1 collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider in pp-bar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 The results are well described by a perturbative QCD calculation in next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant, corrected for non-perturbative effects. From these results, we extract the strong coupling and test the QCD predictions for its running over a range of momentum transfers of 50-400 GeV.
12420090
Observation and properties of the orbitally excited B_(s2)(*) meson.
We report the direct observation of the excited L=1 state B_(s2)(*) in fully reconstructed decays to B+K-. The mass of the B_(s2)(*) meson is measured to be 5839.6+/-1.1(stat)+/-0.7(syst) MeV/c(2), and its production rate relative to the B+ meson is measured to be [1.15+/-0.23(stat)+/-0.13(syst)]%.
12834301
Jet energy scale determination in the D0 experiment
The calibration of jet energy measured in the DO detector is presented, based on p (p) over bar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, jet energies are measured using a sampling calorimeter composed of uranium and liquid argon as the passive and active media, respectively. This paper describes the energy calibration of jets performed with gamma+jet, Z+jet and dilet events, with jet transverse momentum p(T) > 6 GeV and pseudorapidity range vertical bar eta vertical bar < 3.6, The corrections are measured separately for data and simulation, achieving a precision of 1.4-1.8% for jets in the central part of the calorimeter ancl up to 3.5% for the jets with pseudorapidity vertical bar eta vertical bar = 3.0. Specific corrections are extracted to enhance the description of jet energy in simulation and in particular of the effects due to the flavor of the parton originating the jet, correcting biases up to 3-4% in jets with low PT originating from gluons and up to 6-8% in jets from b quarks. Published by Elsevier B.V.
116993797
Reductions of a Lax pair for selfduality equations of the Yang-Mills model
119253503
Integrable vortex-type equations on the two-sphere
We consider the Yang-Mills instanton equations on the four-dimensional manifold ${S}^{2}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}\ensuremath{\Sigma}$, where $\ensuremath{\Sigma}$ is a compact Riemann surface of genus $gg1$ or its covering space ${H}^{2}=\mathrm{SU}(1,1)/\mathrm{U}(1)$. Introducing a natural ansatz for the gauge potential, we reduce the instanton equations on ${S}^{2}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}\ensuremath{\Sigma}$ to vortex-type equations on the sphere ${S}^{2}$. It is shown that when the scalar curvature of the manifold ${S}^{2}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}\ensuremath{\Sigma}$ vanishes, the vortex-type equations are integrable, i.e., can be obtained as compatibility conditions of two linear equations (Lax pair), which are written down explicitly. Thus, the standard methods of integrable systems can be applied for constructing their solutions. However, even if the scalar curvature of ${S}^{2}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}\ensuremath{\Sigma}$ does not vanish, the vortex equations are well defined and have solutions for any values of the topological charge $N$. We show that any solution to the vortex equations on ${S}^{2}$ with a fixed topological charge $N$ corresponds to a Yang-Mills instanton on ${S}^{2}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}\ensuremath{\Sigma}$ of charge $(g\ensuremath{-}1)N$.
14478899
Sigma models with N=8 supersymmetries in 2+1 and 1+1 dimensions
Abstract We introduce an N = 8 supersymmetric extension of the Bogomolny-type model for Yang–Mills–Higgs fields in 2 + 1 dimensions related with twistor string theory. It is shown that this model is equivalent to an N = 8 supersymmetric U ( n ) chiral model in 2 + 1 dimensions with a Wess–Zumino–Witten-type term. Further reduction to 1 + 1 dimensions yields N = ( 8 , 8 ) supersymmetric extensions of the standard U ( n ) chiral model and Grassmannian sigma models.
14915418
On nonperturbative solutions of superstring field theory
Abstract Nonperturbative solutions to the nonlinear field equations in the NS sector of cubic as well as nonpolynomial superstring field theory can be obtained from a linear equation which includes a “spectral” parameter λ and a coboundary operator Q ( λ ). We borrow a simple ansatz from the dressing method (for generating solitons in integrable field theories) and show that classical superstring fields can be constructed from any string field  T subject merely to Q ( λ ) T =0. Following the decay of the non-BPS D9 brane in IIA theory and shifting the background to the tachyon vacuum, we repeat the arguments in vacuum superstring field theory and outline how to compute classical solutions explicitly.
118626039
Integrability of vortex equations on Riemann surfaces
The Abelian Higgs model on a compact Riemann surface Σ of genus g is considered. We show that for g>1 the Bogomolny equations for multi-vortices at critical coupling can be obtained as compatibility conditions of two linear equations (Lax pair) which are written down explicitly. These vortices correspond precisely to SO(3)-symmetric Yang–Mills instantons on the (conformal) gravitational instanton Σ×S2 with a scalar-flat Kahler metric. Thus, the standard methods of constructing solutions and studying their properties by using Lax pairs (twistor approach, dressing method, etc.) can be applied to the vortex equations on Σ. In the twistor description, solutions of the integrable vortex equations correspond to rank-2 holomorphic vector bundles over the complex 3-dimensional twistor space of Σ×S2. We show that in the general (nonintegrable) case there is a bijection between the moduli spaces of solutions to vortex equations on Σ and of pseudo-holomorphic bundles over the almost complex twistor space.