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

title: Search for supersymmetry with gauge-mediated breaking in diphoton events with missing transverse energy at CDF II.
abstract: We present the results of a search for supersymmetry with gauge-mediated breaking and chi(1)(0) --> gammaG in the gammagamma + missing transverse energy final state. In 2.6+/-0.2 fb(-1) of pp collisions at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV recorded by the CDF II detector we observe no candidate events, consistent with a standard model background expectation of 1.4+/-0.4 events. We set limits on the cross section at the 95% C.L. and place the world's best limit of 149 GeV/c2 on the chi(1)(0) mass at tau(chi(1)(0)) << 1 ns. We also exclude regions in the chi(1)(0) mass-lifetime plane for tau(chi(1)(0)) approximately < 2 ns.

title: Measurements of direct CP violating asymmetries in charmless decays of strange bottom mesons and bottom baryons.
abstract: We report measurements of direct CP-violating asymmetries in charmless decays of neutral bottom hadrons to pairs of charged hadrons with the upgraded Collider Detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. Using a data sample corresponding to 1 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity, we obtain the first measurements of direct CP violation in bottom strange mesons, A(CP)(B(s)(0)→K(-)π(+))=+0.39±0.15(stat)±0.08(syst), and bottom baryons, A(CP)(Λ(b)(0)→pπ(-))=+0.03±0.17(stat)±0.05(syst) and A(CP)(Λ(b)(0)→pK(-))=+0.37±0.17(stat)±0.03(syst). In addition, we measure CP violation in B(0)→K(+)π(-) decays with 3.5σ significance, A(CP)(B(0)→K(+)π(-))=-0.086±0.023(stat)±0.009(syst), in agreement with the current world average. Measurements of branching fractions of B(s)(0)→K(+)K(-) and B(0)→π(+)π(-) decays are also updated.

title: Measurement of the top-quark mass in the lepton+jets channel using a matrix element technique with the CDF II detector
abstract: A measurement of the top-quark mass is presented using Tevatron data from proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass energy {radical}(s)=1.96 TeV collected with the CDF II detector. Events are selected from a sample of candidates for production of tt pairs that decay into the lepton+jets channel. The top-quark mass is measured with an unbinned maximum likelihood method where the event probability density functions are calculated using signal and background matrix elements, as well as a set of parametrized jet-to-parton transfer functions. The likelihood function is maximized with respect to the top-quark mass, the signal fraction in the sample, and a correction to the jet energy scale (JES) calibration of the calorimeter jets. The simultaneous measurement of the JES correction ({Delta}{sub JES}) amounts to an additional in situ jet energy calibration based on the known mass of the hadronically decaying W boson. Using the data sample of 578 lepton+jets candidate events, corresponding to 3.2 fb{sup -1} of integrated luminosity, the top-quark mass is measured to be m{sub t}=172.4{+-}1.4(stat+{Delta}{sub JES}){+-}1.3(syst) GeV/c{sup 2}.

title: Top quark mass measurement in the lepton + jets channel using a matrix element method and in situ jet energy calibration.
abstract: A precision measurement of the top quark mass m(t) is obtained using a sample of tt events from pp collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron with the CDF II detector. Selected events require an electron or muon, large missing transverse energy, and exactly four high-energy jets, at least one of which is tagged as coming from a b quark. A likelihood is calculated using a matrix element method with quasi-Monte Carlo integration taking into account finite detector resolution and jet mass effects. The event likelihood is a function of m(t) and a parameter Δ(JES) used to calibrate the jet energy scale in situ. Using a total of 1087 events in 5.6 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity, a value of m(t)=173.0 ± 1.2 GeV/c(2) is measured.

title: Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a bb pair in events with one charged lepton and large missing transverse energy using the full CDF data set.
abstract: We present a search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W boson in sqrt[s]=1.96  TeV pp collision data collected with the CDF II detector at the Tevatron corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9.45  fb(-1). In events consistent with the decay of the Higgs boson to a bottom-quark pair and the W boson to an electron or muon and a neutrino, we set 95% credibility level upper limits on the WH production cross section times the H→bb branching ratio as a function of Higgs boson mass. At a Higgs boson mass of 125  GeV/c(2), we observe (expect) a limit of 4.9 (2.8) times the standard model value.

title: Finite theories after the discovery of a Higgs-like boson at the LHC
abstract: Finite Unified Theories (FUTs) are N = 1 supersymmetric Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) which can be made finite to all-loop orders, based on the principle of reduction of couplings, and therefore are provided with a large predictive power. Confronting the predictions of SU ( 5 ) FUTs with the top and bottom quark masses and other low-energy experimental constraints a light Higgs boson mass in the range M h ∼ 121 – 126 GeV was predicted, in striking agreement with the recent discovery of a Higgs-like state around ∼ 125.7 GeV at ATLAS and CMS. Furthermore the favoured model, a finiteness constrained version of the MSSM, naturally predicts a relatively heavy spectrum with coloured supersymmetric particles above ∼ 1.5 TeV , consistent with the non-observation of those particles at the LHC. Restricting further the best FUTʼs parameter space according to the discovery of a Higgs-like state and B -physics observables we find predictions for the rest of the Higgs masses and the s-spectrum.

title: Reduction of couplings in the MSSM
abstract: In this Letter, we first demonstrate the existence of renormalization group invariant relations among the top, bottom Yukawa and the gauge colour couplings in the minimal supersymmetric SM. Based on this observation and assuming furthermore the existence of a renormalization group invariant relation among the trilinear couplings in the superpotential and the soft supersymmetry breaking sector, we obtain predictions for the Higgs masses and the supersymmetric spectrum.

title: The Flavor Symmetry
abstract: Assuming that the lepton, quark and Higgs fields belong to the three-dimensional reducible representation of the permutation group S 3 , we suggest a minimal S 3 invariant extension of the standard model. We find that in the leptonic sector, the exact S 3 × Z 2 symmetry, which allows 6 real independent parameters, is consistent with experimental data and predicts the bi-maximal mixing of the left-handed neutrinos and that the third neutrino is the lightest neutrino. Z 2 is anomaly-free, but it forbids CP-violations in the leptonic, as well as in the hadronic sector. Therefore, the origin of CP-violations can be identified with the breaking of the Z 2 symmetry, which may be understood in a more fundamental theory. With the exact S 3 only, there are 10 real independent parameters and one independent phase, on which the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa mixing matrix V C K M depends. A set of values of these parameters that are consistent with experimental observations is given.