Operational Experience with the CDF Run II Silicon Detector
The CDF Run II Silicon Detector is the largest operating silicon detector in High Energy Physics. Its 722,000 channels spread over 7 m 2 of silicon micro-strip sensors allow precision tracking and vertexing. The CDF silicon detector played a critical role in the discovery of B s mixing and is used extensively for the current Higgs Boson searches. Over the last 7 years, the detector efficiency has remained stable at 95% after the Run II commissioning period. The infrastructure (cooling, power supplies) problems dealt with are discussed.

title: Studying the Underlying Event in Drell-Yan and High Transverse Momentum Jet Production at the Tevatron
abstract: 21 paginas, 15 figuras, 3 tablas.-- PACS numbers: 13.87.Ce, 14.60.Cd, 14.60.-- CDF Collaboration: et al.

title: Inclusive search for standard model Higgs boson production in the WW decay channel using the CDF II detector.
abstract: We present a search for standard model (SM) Higgs boson production using pp collision data at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV, collected with the CDF II detector and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb(-1). We search for Higgs bosons produced in all processes with a significant production rate and decaying to two W bosons. We find no evidence for SM Higgs boson production and place upper limits at the 95% confidence level on the SM production cross section (sigma(H)) for values of the Higgs boson mass (sigma(H)) in the range from 110 to 200 GeV. These limits are the most stringent for m(H) > 130 GeV and are 1.29 above the predicted value of sigma(H) for c = 165 GeV.

title: Search for anomalous production of multiple leptons in association with $W$ and $Z$ bosons at CDF
abstract: This paper presents a search for anomalous production of multiple low-energy leptons in association with a W or Z boson using events collected at the CDF experiment corresponding to 5.1 fb{sup -1} of integrated luminosity. This search is sensitive to a wide range of topologies with low-momentum leptons, including those with the leptons near one another. The observed rates of production of additional electrons and muons are compared with the standard model predictions. No indications of phenomena beyond the standard model are found. A 95% confidence level limit is presented on the production cross section for a benchmark model of supersymmetric hidden-valley Higgs production. Particle identification efficiencies are also provided to enable the calculation of limits on additional models.

title: Search for Higgs bosons predicted in two-Higgs-doublet models via decays to tau lepton pairs in 1.96 TeV pp collisions.
abstract: We present the results of a search for Higgs bosons predicted in two-Higgs-doublet models, in the case where the Higgs bosons decay to tau lepton pairs, using 1.8 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity of pp collisions recorded by the CDF II experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. Studying the mass distribution in events where one or both tau leptons decay leptonically, no evidence for a Higgs boson signal is observed. The result is used to infer exclusion limits in the two-dimensional space of tanbeta versus m(A) (the ratio of the vacuum expectation values of the two Higgs doublets and the mass of the pseudoscalar boson, respectively).

title: Measurement of the WW + WZ production cross section using the lepton + jets final state at CDF II.
abstract: We report two complementary measurements of the WW + WZ cross section in the final state consisting of an electron or muon, missing transverse energy, and jets, performed using pp collision data at square root of s = 1.96 TeV collected by the CDF II detector. The first method uses the dijet invariant mass distribution while the second more sensitive method uses matrix-element calculations. The result from the second method has a signal significance of 5.4sigma and is the first observation of WW + WZ production using this signature. Combining the results gives sigma(WW + WZ) = 16.0 +/- 3.3 pb, in agreement with the standard model prediction.

title: Gauge-Yukawa Unification
abstract: Gauge-Yukawa Unification (GYU) yields a functional relation among the gauge and Yukawa couplings, and it may follow from the usual Grand Unification if it is supplemented with some additional principles. Postulating the principles of finiteness and reduction of couplings, we have achieved Gauge-Yukawa Unification in various supersymmetric unified models leading, among other things, to interesting predictions on the top quark mass.

title: Quark sector of S3 models: classification and comparison with experimental data
abstract: S3 models offer a low energy approach to describe the observed pattern of masses and mixing, of both quarks and leptons. In this work, we first revisit an S3 model with only one Higgs electroweak doublet, where the flavour symmetry must be broken in order to produce an acceptable pattern of masses and mixing for fermions. Then, we analyse different S3 models, where the flavour symmetry is preserved as an exact, but hidden symmetry of the low energy spectra, after the electroweak symmetry breaking. The latter models require the addition of two more Higgs electroweak doublets which are accommodated in an S3 doublet. We also explore the consequences of adding a fourth Higgs electroweak doublet, thus occupying all three irreducible representations of S3. We show how the various S3-invariant mass matrices of the different models can reproduce the two texture zeroes and Nearest Neighbour Interaction matrix forms, which have been found to provide a viable and universal treatment of mixing for both quarks and leptons. We also find analytical and exact expressions for the CKM matrix of the models in terms of quark mass ratios. Finally, we compare the expressions of the CKM matrix of the different S3 models with the most up to date values of masses and mixing in the quark sector, via a chi^2 analysis. We find that the analytical expressions we derived reproduce remarkably well the most recent experimental data of the CKM matrix, suggesting that S3 is a symmetry of the quark sector.

title: Exceptional point and degeneracy of the neutral heavy Higgs boson system H2−H3
abstract: We analyze the masses and mixings of the isolated doublet of neutral, heavy Higgs bosons, H2 and H3 of two Higgs doublet models with CP‐violation. There is a set of Lagrangian parameter values for which the isolated doublet of mass eigenstates is degenerate. Associated with this singularity, the propagator of the mixing H2−H3 neutral Higgs system has one double pole in the complex energy squared s‐plane. This analysis suggests that a detailed study of the lineshape of this Higgs system may provide valuable information on the CP nature of the underlying theory.

title: Exact finite and gauge-Yukawa unified theories and their predictions
abstract: The recent developments in the soft supersymmetry breaking (SSB) sector of Gauge-Yukawa and Finite Unified Theories permit the derivation of exact renormalization group invariant results also in this sector of the theory. Of particular interest is a RGI sum rule for the soft scalar masses holding to all-orders in perturbation theory. In the case of Finite Unified Theories the sum rule ensures the all-loop finiteness also in their SSB sector and in this way are promoted to completely finite ones. Using the sum rule we investigate the minimal supersymmetric Gauge-Yukawa and two Finite-Gauge-Yukawa SU(5) models. The characteristic features of these models are: a) the old agreement of the top quark mass prediction remains unchanged, b) the lightest Higgs boson is predicted to be around 120 GeV, c) the s-spectrum starts above several hundreds of GeV.

title: Finite Unified Theories and the Higgs boson