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1. The Blending ToolKit: A simulation framework for evaluation of galaxy detection and deblending

Author: Mendoza, Ismael, Torchylo, Andrii, Sainrat, Thomas, Guinot, Axel, Boucaud, Alexandre, Paillassa, Maxime, Avestruz, Camille, Adari, Prakruth, Aubourg, Eric, Biswas, Biswajit, Buchanan, James, Burchat, Patricia, Doux, Cyrille, Joseph, Remy, Kamath, Sowmya, Malz, Alex I., Merz, Grant, Miyatake, Hironao, Roucelle, Cécile, Zhang, Tianqing, and Collaboration, the LSST Dark Energy Science
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present an open source Python library for simulating overlapping (i.e., blended) images of galaxies and performing self-consistent comparisons of detection and deblending algorithms based on a suite of metrics. The package, named Blending Toolkit (BTK), serves as a modular, flexible, easy-to-install, and simple-to-use interface for exploring and analyzing systematic effects related to blended galaxies in cosmological surveys such as the Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). BTK has three main components: (1) a set of modules that perform fast image simulations of blended galaxies, using the open source image simulation package GalSim; (2) a module that standardizes the inputs and outputs of existing deblending algorithms; (3) a library of deblending metrics commonly defined in the galaxy deblending literature. In combination, these modules allow researchers to explore the impacts of galaxy blending in cosmological surveys. Additionally, BTK provides researchers who are developing a new deblending algorithm a framework to evaluate algorithm performance and make principled comparisons with existing deblenders. BTK includes a suite of tutorials and comprehensive documentation. The source code is publicly available on GitHub at https://github.com/LSSTDESC/BlendingToolKit., Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2024

2. Generation of realistic input parameters for simulating atmospheric point-spread functions at astronomical observatories

Author: Hébert, Claire-Alice, Meyers, Joshua E., Do, My H., Burchat, Patricia R., and Collaboration, the LSST Dark Energy Science
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: High-fidelity simulated astronomical images are an important tool in developing and measuring the performance of image-processing algorithms, particularly for high precision measurements of cosmic shear -- correlated distortions of images of distant galaxies due to weak gravitational lensing caused by the large-scale mass distribution in the Universe. For unbiased measurements of cosmic shear, all other sources of correlated image distortions must be modeled or removed. One such source is the correlated blurring of images due to optical turbulence in the atmosphere, which dominates the point-spread function (PSF) for ground-based instruments. In this work, we leverage data from weather forecasting models to produce wind speeds and directions, and turbulence parameters, that are realistically correlated with altitude. To study the resulting correlations in the size and shape of the PSF, we generate simulated images of the PSF across a ~10 square-degree field of view -- the size of the camera focal plane for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile -- using weather data and historical seeing for a geographic location near the Observatory. We make quantitative predictions for two-point correlation functions (2PCF) that are used in analyses of cosmic shear. We observe a strong anisotropy in the two-dimensional 2PCF, which is expected based on observations in real images, and study the dependence of the orientation of the anisotropy on dominant wind directions near the ground and at higher altitudes. The code repository for producing the correlated weather parameters for input to simulations (psf-weather-station) is public at https://github.com/LSSTDESC/psf-weather-station., Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2023

3. Search for $B$ Mesogenesis at BABAR

Author: BABAR Collaboration, Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D. N., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kozyrev, E. A., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Lankford, A. J., Dey, B., Gary, J. W., Long, O., Eisner, A. M., Lockman, W. S., Vazquez, W. Panduro, Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Kim, J., Li, Y., Lin, D. X., Middleton, S., Miyashita, T. S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Oyang, J., Porter, F. C., Röhrken, M., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Pushpawela, B. G., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Santoro, V., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Martellotti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rotondo, M., Zallo, A., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Shuve, B. J., Lacker, H. M., Bhuyan, B., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Prell, S., Gritsan, A. V., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Coleman, J. P., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Cowan, G., Banerjee, Sw., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Schubert, K. R., Barlow, R. J., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Cowan, R., Robertson, S. H., Seddon, R. M., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Summers, D. J., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Gaz, A., Margoni, M., Posocco, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Rossi, A., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Chrzaszcz, M., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Rama, M., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Zani, L., Smith, A. J. S., Anulli, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Pilloni, A., Piredda, G., Bünger, C., Dittrich, S., Grünberg, O., Heß, M., Leddig, T., Voß, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., Vasseur, G., Aston, D., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Fulsom, B. G., Graham, M. T., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kim, P., Leith, D. W. G. S., Luitz, S., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wisniewski, W. J., Purohit, M. V., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Ahmed, H., Tasneem, N., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Schwitters, R. F., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., De Mori, F., Filippi, A., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Albert, J., Beaulieu, A., Bernlochner, F. U., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lueck, T., Miller, C., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A new mechanism has been proposed to simultaneously explain the presence of dark matter and the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. This scenario predicts exotic $B$ meson decays into a baryon and a dark sector anti-baryon ($\psi_D$) with branching fractions accessible at $B$ factories. We present a search for $B \rightarrow \Lambda \psi_D$ decays using data collected by the $BABAR$ experiment at SLAC. This reaction is identified by fully reconstructing the accompanying $B$ meson and requiring the presence of a single $\Lambda$ baryon in the remaining particles. No significant signal is observed, and bounds on the $B \rightarrow \Lambda \psi_D$ branching fraction are derived in the range $0.13 - 5.2\times 10^{-5}$ for $1.0 < m_{\psi_D} < 4.2$ GeV/$c^{2}$. These results set strong constraints on the parameter space allowed by the theory.
Published: 2023
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4. Learning from the Pandemic: the Future of Meetings in HEP and Beyond

Author: Neubauer, Mark S., Adams, Todd, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer, Benelli, Gabriele, Bose, Tulika, Britton, David, Burchat, Pat, Butler, Joel, Cartwright, Timothy A., Davídek, Tomáš, Dumarchez, Jacques, Elmer, Peter, Feickert, Matthew, Galewsky, Ben, Gill, Mandeep, Gladki, Maciej, Goel, Aman, Guyer, Jonathan E., Jayatilaka, Bo, Kiburg, Brendan, Krikler, Benjamin, Lange, David, Lee, Claire, Manganelli, Nick, Marchiori, Giovanni, Narain, Meenakshi, Osborne, Ianna, Pivarski, Jim, Prosper, Harrison, Stewart, Graeme A, Rodrigues, Eduardo, Salerno, Roberto, Tonjes, Marguerite, Trnka, Jaroslav, Varanda, Vera, Vassilev, Vassil, Watts, Gordon T., Zeller, Sam, and Zhang, Yuanyuan
Subjects: Physics - Physics and Society, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has by-and-large prevented in-person meetings since March 2020. While the increasing deployment of effective vaccines around the world is a very positive development, the timeline and pathway to "normality" is uncertain and the "new normal" we will settle into is anyone's guess. Particle physics, like many other scientific fields, has more than a year of experience in holding virtual meetings, workshops, and conferences. A great deal of experimentation and innovation to explore how to execute these meetings effectively has occurred. Therefore, it is an appropriate time to take stock of what we as a community learned from running virtual meetings and discuss possible strategies for the future. Continuing to develop effective strategies for meetings with a virtual component is likely to be important for reducing the carbon footprint of our research activities, while also enabling greater diversity and inclusion for participation. This report summarizes a virtual two-day workshop on Virtual Meetings held May 5-6, 2021 which brought together experts from both inside and outside of high-energy physics to share their experiences and practices with organizing and executing virtual workshops, and to develop possible strategies for future meetings as we begin to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. This report outlines some of the practices and tools that have worked well which we hope will serve as a valuable resource for future virtual meeting organizers in all scientific fields., Comment: A report from the "Virtual Meetings" IRIS-HEP Blueprint Workshop: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1026363/
Published: 2021

5. Effects of overlapping sources on cosmic shear estimation: Statistical sensitivity and pixel-noise bias

Author: Sanchez, Javier, Mendoza, Ismael, Kirkby, David P., and Burchat, Patricia R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: In Stage-IV imaging surveys, a significant amount of the cosmologically useful information is due to sources whose images overlap with those of other sources on the sky. The cosmic shear signal is primarily encoded in the estimated shapes of observed galaxies and thus directly impacted by overlaps. We introduce a framework based on the Fisher formalism to analyze effects of overlapping sources (blending) on the estimation of cosmic shear. For the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), we present the expected loss in statistical sensitivity for the ten-year survey due to blending. We find that for approximately 62% of galaxies that are likely to be detected in full-depth LSST images, at least 1% of the flux in their pixels is from overlapping sources. We also find that the statistical correlations between measures of overlapping galaxies and, to a much lesser extent the higher shot noise level due to their presence, decrease the effective number density of galaxies, $N_{eff}$, by $\sim$18%. We calculate an upper limit on $N_{eff}$ of 39.4 galaxies per arcmin$^2$ in $r$ band. We study the impact of varying stellar density on $N_{eff}$ and illustrate the diminishing returns of extending the survey into lower Galactic latitudes. We extend the Fisher formalism to predict the increase in pixel-noise bias due to blending for maximum-likelihood (ML) shape estimators. We find that noise bias is sensitive to the particular shape estimator and measure of ensemble-average shape that is used, and properties of the galaxy that include redshift-dependent quantities such as size and luminosity., Comment: Accepted for publication in JCAP. 45 pages, 19 figures
Published: 2021
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6. Precision measurement of the ${\cal B}(\Upsilon(3S)\to\tau^+\tau^-)/{\cal B}(\Upsilon(3S)\to\mu^+\mu^-)$ ratio

Author: Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D. N., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kozyrev, E. A., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Lankford, A. J., Dey, B., Gary, J. W., Long, O., Eisner, A. M., Lockman, W. S., Vazquez, W. Panduro, Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Kim, J., Li, Y., Lin, D. X., Miyashita, T. S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Oyang, J., Porter, F. C., Röhrken, M., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Pushpawela, B. G., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Santoro, V., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Martellotti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rotondo, M., Zallo, A., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Shuve, B. J., Lacker, H. M., Bhuyan, B., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Prell, S., Gritsan, A. V., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Coleman, J. P., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Cowan, G., Banerjee, Sw., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Schubert, K. R., Barlow, R. J., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Cowan, R., Robertson, S. H., Seddon, R. M., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Summers, D. J., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Gaz, A., Margoni, M., Posocco, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Rossi, A., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Chrzaszcz, M., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Rama, M., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Zani, L., Smith, A. J. S., Anulli, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Pilloni, A., Piredda, G., Bünger, C., Dittrich, S., Grünberg, O., Heß, M., Leddig, T., Voß, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., Vasseur, G., Aston, D., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Fulsom, B. G., Graham, M. T., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kim, P., Leith, D. W. G. S., Luitz, S., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wisniewski, W. J., Purohit, M. V., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Ahmed, H., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Schwitters, R. F., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., De Mori, F., Filippi, A., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Albert, J., Beaulieu, A., Bernlochner, F. U., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lueck, T., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sibidanov, A., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report on a precision measurement of the ratio ${\cal R}_{\tau\mu}^{\Upsilon(3S)} = {\cal B}(\Upsilon(3S)\to\tau^+\tau^-)/{\cal B}(\Upsilon(3S)\to\mu^+\mu^-)$ using data collected with the BaBar detector at the SLAC PEP-II $e^+e^-$ collider. The measurement is based on a 28 fb$^{-1}$ data sample collected at a center-of-mass energy of 10.355 GeV corresponding to a sample of 122 million $\Upsilon(3S)$ mesons. The ratio is measured to be ${\cal R}_{\tau\mu}^{\Upsilon(3S)} = 0.966 \pm 0.008_\mathrm{stat} \pm 0.014_\mathrm{syst}$ and is in agreement with the Standard Model prediction of 0.9948 within 2 standard deviations. The uncertainty in ${\cal R}_{\tau\mu}^{\Upsilon(3S)}$ is almost an order of magnitude smaller than the only previous measurement., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables
Published: 2020
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7. Search for lepton-flavor violating decays $D^{0}\rightarrow X^{0}e^{\pm}\mu^{\mp}$

Author: BaBar Collaboration, Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D. N., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kozyrev, E. A., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Lankford, A. J., Dey, B., Gary, J. W., Long, O., Eisner, A. M., Lockman, W. S., Panduro, W., Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Kim, J., Li, Y., Lin, D. X., Miyashita, T. S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Oyang, J., Porter, F. C., R, M., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Pushpawela, B. G., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Santoro, V., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Martellotti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rotondo, M., Zallo, A., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Shuve, B. J., Lacker, H. M., Bhuyan, B., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Prell, S., Gritsan, A. V., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Coleman, J. P., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Cowan, G., Banerjee, Sw., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Schubert, K. R., Barlow, R. J., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Cowan, R., Robertson, S. H., Seddon, R. M., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Summers, D. J., Taras, P., De, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Gaz, A., Margoni, M., Posocco, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Rossi, A., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Chrzaszcz, M., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Rama, M., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Zani, L., Smith, A. J. S., Anulli, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Pilloni, A., Piredda, G., B, C., Dittrich, S., Gr, O., He, M., Leddig, T., Vo, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., Vasseur, G., Aston, D., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Fulsom, B. G., Graham, M. T., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kim, P., Leith, D. W. G. S., Luitz, S., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Sullivan, M. K., Va, J., Wisniewski, W. J., Purohit, M. V., Wilson, J. R., Randle, A., Sekula, S. J., Ahmed, H., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Schwitters, R. F., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., De, F., Filippi, A., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez, F., Oyanguren, A., Albert, J., Beaulieu, A., Bernlochner, F. U., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lueck, T., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present a search for seven lepton-flavor-violating neutral charm decays of the type $D^{0}\rightarrow X^{0} e^{\pm} \mu^{\mp}$, where $X^{0}$ represents a $\pi^{0}$, $K^{0}_{\rm S}$, $\bar{K^{*0}}$, $\rho^{0}$, $\phi$, $\omega$, or $\eta$ meson. The analysis is based on $468$ fb$^{-1}$ of $e^+e^-$ annihilation data collected at or close to the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance with the BaBar detector at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. No significant signals are observed, and we establish 90\% confidence level upper limits on the branching fractions in the range $(5.0 - 22.5)\times 10^{-7}$. The limits are between one and two orders of magnitude more stringent than previous measurements., Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures, to be submitted to Physical Review D. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1905.00608
Published: 2020
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8. Measurements of the Absolute Branching Fractions of $B^\pm \to K^\pm X_{c\bar c}$

Author: Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D. N., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kozyrev, E. A., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Lankfordm, A. J., Dey, B., Gary, J. W., Long, O., Eisner, A. M., Lockman, W. S., Vazquez, W. Panduro, Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Kim, J., Li, Y., Miyashita, T. S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Rohrken, M., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Pushpawela, B. G., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Santoro, V., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Martellotti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rotondo, M., Zallo, A., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Lacker, H. M., Bhuyan, B., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Prell, S., Gritsan, A. V., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Coleman, J. P., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Cowan, G., Banerjee, Sw., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Schubert, K. R., Barlow, R. J., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Cowan, R., Robertson, S. H., Seddon, R. M., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Summers, D. J., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Gaz, A., Margoni, M., Posocco, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Rossi, A., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Chrzaszcz, M., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Rama, M., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Zani, L., Smith, A. J. S., Anulli, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Pilloni, A., Piredda, G., Bunger, C., Dittrich, S., Grunberg, O., Hess, M., Leddig, T., Voß, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., Vasseur, G., Aston, D., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Fulsom, B. G., Graham, M. T., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kim, P., Leith, D. W. G. S., Luitz, S., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wisniewski, W. J., Purohit, M. V., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Ahmed, H., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Schwitters, R. F., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., De Mori, F., Filippi, A., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Albert, J., Beaulieu, A., Bernlochner, F. U., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A study of the two body decays $B^\pm\rightarrow X_{c\bar c}K^\pm$, where X$_{c\bar c}$ refers to one charmonium state, is reported by BaBar collaboration using a data sample of 424 fb$^{-1}$. The absolute determination of branching fractions for these decays are significantly improved compared to previous BaBaR measurements. Evidence is found for the decay $B^+\rightarrow X(3872)K^+$ at the $3\sigma$ level. The absolute branching fraction ${\cal B}(B^+\rightarrow X(3872)K^+) = (2.1\pm0.6({\rm stat})\pm0.3({\rm syst}))\times 10^{-4}$ is measured for the first time. It follows that ${\cal B}(X(3872)\rightarrow J/\psi\pi^+\pi^-)=(4.1\pm1.3)\%$, supporting the hypothesis of a molecular component for this resonance., Comment: 8 pages 6 figures
Published: 2019
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9. Search for $B^- \to \Lambda \bar p \nu \bar\nu$ with the BABAR experiment

Author: The BABAR Collaboration, Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D. N., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kozyrev, E. A., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Lankford, A. J., Dey, B., Gary, J. W., Long, O., Eisner, A. M., Lockman, W. S., Vazquez, W. Panduro, Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Kim, J., Li, Y., Miyashita, T. S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Röhrken, M., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Pushpawela, B. G., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Santoro, V., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Martellotti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rotondo, M., Zallo, A., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Lacker, H. M., Bhuyan, B., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Prell, S., Gritsan, A. V., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Coleman, J. P., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Cowan, G., Banerjee, Sw., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Schubert, K. R., Barlow, R. J., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Cowan, R., Robertson, S. H., Seddon, R. M., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Summers, D. J., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Gaz, A., Margoni, M., Posocco, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Rossi, A., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Chrzaszcz, M., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Rama, M., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Zani, L., Smith, A. J. S., Anulli, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Pilloni, A., Piredda, G., Bünger, C., Dittrich, S., Grünberg, O., Heß, M., Leddig, T., Voß, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., Vasseur, G., Aston, D., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Fulsom, B. G., Graham, M. T., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kim, P., Leith, D. W. G. S., Luitz, S., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wisniewski, W. J., Purohit, M. V., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Ahmed, H., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Schwitters, R. F., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., De Mori, F., Filippi, A., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Albert, J., Beaulieu, A., Bernlochner, F. U., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lueck, T., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We search for the rare flavor-changing neutral current process $B^- \to \Lambda {\overline p} \nu{\overline{\nu}}$ using data from the BABAR experiment. A total of 424 fb$^{-1}$ of $e^+e^-$ collision data collected at the center-of-mass energy of the $\Upsilon$(4S) resonance is used in this study, corresponding to a sample of ${(471 \pm 3) \times 10^{6}}$ $B\overline{B}$ pairs. Signal $B^- \to \Lambda {\overline p} \nu{\overline{\nu}}$ candidates are identified by first fully reconstructing a $B^+$ decay in one of many possible exclusive decays to hadronic final states, then examining detector activity that is not associated with this reconstructed $B^+$ decay for evidence of a signal $B^- \to \Lambda {\overline p} \nu{\overline{\nu}}$ decay. The data yield is found to be consistent with the expected background contribution under a null signal hypothesis, resulting in an upper limit of ${{\cal B} (B^- \to \Lambda {\overline p} \nu{\overline{\nu}}) < 3.0\times 10^{-5}}$ at the $90\%$ confidence level., Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2019
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10. Better support for collaborations preparing for large-scale projects: the case study of the LSST Science Collaborations Astro2020 APC White Paper

Author: Bianco, Federica B., Banerji, Manda, Bochanski, John, Brandt, William N., Burchat, Patricia, Gizis, John, Ivezić, Zeljko, Keaton, Charles, Kaviraj, Sugata, Loredo, Tom, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Marshall, Phil, McGehee, Peregrine, Schafer, Chad, Schwamb, Megan E., Sokoloski, Jennifer L, Strauss, Michael A., Street, Rachel, Trilling, David, and Verma, Aprajita
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Through the lens of the LSST Science Collaborations' experience, this paper advocates for new and improved ways to fund large, complex collaborations at the interface of data science and astrophysics as they work in preparation for and on peta-scale, complex surveys, of which LSST is a prime example. We advocate for the establishment of programs to support both research and infrastructure development that enables innovative collaborative research on such scales., Comment: White Paper submitted to the Astro2020 (The "2020 Decadal Survey") APC call for "State of the Profession Considerations"
Published: 2019

11. Shear measurement bias due to spatially varying spectral energy distributions in galaxies

Author: Kamath, Sowmya, Meyers, Joshua E., and Burchat, Patricia R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: Galaxy color gradients - i.e., spectral energy distributions that vary across the galaxy profile - will impact galaxy shape measurements when the modeled point spread function (PSF) corresponds to that for a galaxy with spatially uniform color. This paper describes the techniques and results of a study of the expected impact of galaxy color gradients on weak lensing measurements with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) when the PSF size depends on wavelength. The bias on cosmic shear measurements from color gradients is computed both for parametric bulge+disk galaxy simulations and for more realistic chromatic galaxy surface brightness profiles based on HST V- and I-band images in the AEGIS survey. For the parametric galaxies, and for the more realistic galaxies derived from AEGIS galaxies with sufficient SNR that color gradient bias can be isolated, the predicted multiplicative shear biases due to color gradients are found to be at least a factor of 2 below the LSST full-depth requirement on the total systematic uncertainty in the redshift-dependent shear calibration. The analysis code and data products are publicly available (https://github.com/sowmyakth/measure_cg_bias).
Published: 2019

12. Search for rare or forbidden decays of the $D^{0}$ meson

Author: Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D. N., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kozyrev, E. A., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Lankford, A. J., Dey, B., Gary, J. W., Long, O., Eisner, A. M., Lockman, W. S., Vazquez, W. Panduro, Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Kim, J., Li, Y., Miyashita, T. S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Röhrken, M., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Pushpawela, B. G., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Santoro, V., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Martellotti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rotondo, M., Zallo, A., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Lacker, H. M., Bhuyan, B., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Prell, S., Gritsan, A. V., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Coleman, J. P., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Cowan, G., Banerjee, Sw., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Schubert, K. R., Barlow, R. J., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Cowan, R., Robertson, S. H., Seddon, R. M., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Summers, D. J., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Gaz, A., Margoni, M., Posocco, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Rossi, A., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Chrzaszcz, M., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Rama, M., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Zani, L., Smith, A. J. S., Anulli, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Pilloni, A., Piredda, G., Bünger, C., Dittrich, S., Grünberg, O., Heß, M., Leddig, T., Voß, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., Vasseur, G., Aston, D., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Fulsom, B. G., Graham, M. T., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kim, P., Leith, D. W. G. S., Luitz, S., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wisniewski, W. J., Purohit, M. V., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Ahmed, H., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Schwitters, R. F., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., De Mori, F., Filippi, A., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Albert, J., Beaulieu, A., Bernlochner, F. U., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lueck, T., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present a search for nine lepton-number-violating and three lepton-flavor-violating neutral charm decays of the type $D^0\rightarrow h^{\prime -} h^{-}\ell^{\prime +} \ell^{+}$ and $D^0\rightarrow h^{\prime -} h^{+}\ell^{\prime\pm} \ell^{\mp}$, where $h$ and $h^{\prime}$ represent a $K$ or $\pi$ meson and $\ell$ and $\ell^{\prime}$ an electron or muon. The analysis is based on $468$ fb$^{-1}$ of $e^+e^-$ annihilation data collected at or close to the $Y(4S)$ resonance with the BaBar detector at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. No significant signal is observed for any of the twelve modes and we establish 90% confidence level upper limits on the branching fractions in the range $(1.0 - 30.6)\times 10^{-7}$. The limits are between one and three orders of magnitude times more stringent than previous measurements., Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2019
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13. Dark Matter Science in the Era of LSST

Author: Bechtol, Keith, Drlica-Wagner, Alex, Abazajian, Kevork N., Abidi, Muntazir, Adhikari, Susmita, Ali-Haïmoud, Yacine, Annis, James, Ansarinejad, Behzad, Armstrong, Robert, Asorey, Jacobo, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Banerjee, Arka, Banik, Nilanjan, Bennett, Charles, Beutler, Florian, Bird, Simeon, Birrer, Simon, Biswas, Rahul, Biviano, Andrea, Blazek, Jonathan, Boddy, Kimberly K., Bonaca, Ana, Borrill, Julian, Bose, Sownak, Bovy, Jo, Frye, Brenda, Brooks, Alyson M., Buckley, Matthew R., Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Bulbul, Esra, Burchat, Patricia R., Burgess, Cliff, Calore, Francesca, Caputo, Regina, Castorina, Emanuele, Chang, Chihway, Chapline, George, Charles, Eric, Chen, Xingang, Clowe, Douglas, Cohen-Tanugi, Johann, Comparat, Johan, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuoco, Alessandro, Cyr-Racine, Francis-Yan, D'Amico, Guido, Davis, Tamara M, Dawson, William A., de la Macorra, Axel, Di Valentino, Eleonora, Rivero, Ana Díaz, Digel, Seth, Dodelson, Scott, Doré, Olivier, Dvorkin, Cora, Eckner, Christopher, Ellison, John, Erkal, Denis, Farahi, Arya, Fassnacht, Christopher D., Ferreira, Pedro G., Flaugher, Brenna, Foreman, Simon, Friedrich, Oliver, Frieman, Joshua, García-Bellido, Juan, Gawiser, Eric, Gerbino, Martina, Giannotti, Maurizio, Gill, Mandeep S. S., Gluscevic, Vera, Golovich, Nathan, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, González-Morales, Alma X., Grin, Daniel, Gruen, Daniel, Hearin, Andrew P., Hendel, David, Hezaveh, Yashar D., Hirata, Christopher M., Hložek, Renee, Horiuchi, Shunsaku, Jain, Bhuvnesh, Jee, M. James, Jeltema, Tesla E., Kamionkowski, Marc, Kaplinghat, Manoj, Keeley, Ryan E., Keeton, Charles R., Khatri, Rishi, Koposov, Sergey E., Koushiappas, Savvas M., Kovetz, Ely D., Lahav, Ofer, Lam, Casey, Lee, Chien-Hsiu, Li, Ting S., Liguori, Michele, Lin, Tongyan, Lisanti, Mariangela, LoVerde, Marilena, Lu, Jessica R., Mandelbaum, Rachel, Mao, Yao-Yuan, McDermott, Samuel D., McNanna, Mitch, Medford, Michael, Meerburg, P. Daniel, Meyer, Manuel, Mirbabayi, Mehrdad, Mishra-Sharma, Siddharth, Marc, Moniez, More, Surhud, Moustakas, John, Muñoz, Julian B., Murgia, Simona, Myers, Adam D., Nadler, Ethan O., Necib, Lina, Newburgh, Laura, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nord, Brian, Nourbakhsh, Erfan, Nuss, Eric, O'Connor, Paul, Pace, Andrew B., Padmanabhan, Hamsa, Palmese, Antonella, Peiris, Hiranya V., Peter, Annika H. G., Piacentni, Francesco, Piacentini, Francesco, Plazas, Andrés, Polin, Daniel A., Prakash, Abhishek, Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda, Read, Justin I., Ritz, Steven, Robertson, Brant E., Rose, Benjamin, Rosenfeld, Rogerio, Rossi, Graziano, Samushia, Lado, Sánchez, Javier, Sánchez-Conde, Miguel A., Schaan, Emmanuel, Sehgal, Neelima, Senatore, Leonardo, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shafieloo, Arman, Shan, Huanyuan, Shipp, Nora, Simon, Joshua D., Simon, Sara, Slatyer, Tracy R., Slosar, Anže, Sridhar, Srivatsan, Stebbins, Albert, Straniero, Oscar, Strigari, Louis E., Tait, Tim M. P., Tollerud, Erik, Troxel, M. A., Tyson, J. Anthony, Uhlemann, Cora, Urenña-López, L. Arturo, Verma, Aprajita, Vilalta, Ricardo, Walter, Christopher W., Wang, Mei-Yu, Watson, Scott, Wechsler, Risa H., Wittman, David, Xu, Weishuang, Yanny, Brian, Young, Sam, Yu, Hai-Bo, Zaharijas, Gabrijela, Zentner, Andrew R., and Zuntz, Joe
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Astrophysical observations currently provide the only robust, empirical measurements of dark matter. In the coming decade, astrophysical observations will guide other experimental efforts, while simultaneously probing unique regions of dark matter parameter space. This white paper summarizes astrophysical observations that can constrain the fundamental physics of dark matter in the era of LSST. We describe how astrophysical observations will inform our understanding of the fundamental properties of dark matter, such as particle mass, self-interaction strength, non-gravitational interactions with the Standard Model, and compact object abundances. Additionally, we highlight theoretical work and experimental/observational facilities that will complement LSST to strengthen our understanding of the fundamental characteristics of dark matter., Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, Science Whitepaper for Astro 2020, more information at https://lsstdarkmatter.github.io
Published: 2019

14. The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) Science Requirements Document

Author: The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Eifler, Tim, Hložek, Renée, Collett, Thomas, Gawiser, Eric, Scolnic, Daniel, Alonso, David, Awan, Humna, Biswas, Rahul, Blazek, Jonathan, Burchat, Patricia, Chisari, Nora Elisa, Dell'Antonio, Ian, Digel, Seth, Frieman, Josh, Goldstein, Daniel A., Hook, Isobel, Ivezić, Željko, Kahn, Steven M., Kamath, Sowmya, Kirkby, David, Kitching, Thomas, Krause, Elisabeth, Leget, Pierre-François, Marshall, Philip J., Meyers, Joshua, Miyatake, Hironao, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert, Rykoff, Eli, Sanchez, F. Javier, Slosar, Anže, Sullivan, Mark, and Troxel, M. A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) will use five cosmological probes: galaxy clusters, large scale structure, supernovae, strong lensing, and weak lensing. This Science Requirements Document (SRD) quantifies the expected dark energy constraining power of these probes individually and together, with conservative assumptions about analysis methodology and follow-up observational resources based on our current understanding and the expected evolution within the field in the coming years. We then define requirements on analysis pipelines that will enable us to achieve our goal of carrying out a dark energy analysis consistent with the Dark Energy Task Force definition of a Stage IV dark energy experiment. This is achieved through a forecasting process that incorporates the flowdown to detailed requirements on multiple sources of systematic uncertainty. Future versions of this document will include evolution in our software capabilities and analysis plans along with updates to the LSST survey strategy., Comment: 32 pages + 60 pages of appendices. This is v1.0.2 of the DESC SRD, an internal collaboration document that is being made public and is not planned for submission to a journal. Data products for reproducing key plots are available on Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1409815 ; see "Executive Summary and User Guide" for how to use and cite those products
Published: 2018

15. Characterization of atmospheric turbulence for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

Author: Hébert, Claire-Alice, Macintosh, Bruce, and Burchat, Patricia R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: One of the scientific goals of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is to measure the evolution of dark energy by measuring subtle distortions of galaxy shapes due to weak gravitational lensing caused by the evolving dark matter distribution. Understanding the point spread function (PSF) for LSST is a crucial step to accurate measurements of weak gravitational lensing. Atmospheric contributions dominate the LSST PSF. Simulations of Kolmogorov turbulence models are commonly used to characterize and correct for these atmospheric effects. In order to validate these simulations, we compare the predicted atmospheric behavior to empirical data. The simulations are carried out in GalSim, an open-source software package for simulating images of astronomical objects and PSFs. Atmospheric simulations are run by generating large phase screens at varying altitude and evolving them over long time scales. We compare the turbulence strength and temporal behavior of atmospheres generated from simulations to those from reconstructed telemetry data from the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI). GPI captures a range of spatial frequencies by sampling the atmosphere with 18-cm subapertures. The LSST weak lensing analysis will measure correlations of galaxy ellipticity, requiring very accurate knowledge of the magnitude and correlations of PSF shape parameters. Following from the first analysis, we use simulations and sequential short exposure observations from the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument (DSSI) to study the behavior of PSF parameters - e.g., ellipticity and size - as a function of exposure time. These studies could help inform discussions of possible variable exposure times for LSST visits for example, to provide more uniform depth of visits.
Published: 2018
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16. Measurement of $\cos{2\beta}$ in $B^{0} \to D^{(*)} h^{0}$ with $D \to K_{S}^{0} \pi^{+} \pi^{-}$ decays by a combined time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of BaBar and Belle data

Author: BaBar, The, Collaborations, Belle, Adachi, I., Adye, T., Ahmed, H., Ahn, J. K., Aihara, H., Akar, S., Alam, M. S., Albert, J., Anulli, F., Arnaud, N., Asner, D. M., Aston, D., Atmacan, H., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Badhrees, I., Bakich, A. M., Banerjee, Sw., Bansal, V., Barlow, R. J., Batignani, G., Beaulieu, A., Behera, P., Bellis, M., Ben-Haim, E., Bernard, D., Bernlochner, F. U., Bettarini, S., Bettoni, D., Bevan, A. J., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bianchi, F., Biasini, M., Biswal, J., Blinov, V. E., Bomben, M., Bondar, A., Bonneaud, G. R., Bozek, A., Bozzi, C., Bračko, M., Browder, T. E., Brown, D. N., Bünger, C., Burchat, P. R., Buzykaev, A. R., Calabrese, R., Calcaterra, A., Calderini, G., Di Carlo, S., Carpinelli, M., Cartaro, C., Casarosa, G., Cenci, R., Chao, D. S., Chauveau, J., Cheaib, R., Chen, A., Chen, C., Cheng, C. H., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Cho, K., Choi, Y., Choudhury, S., Chrzaszcz, M., Cibinetto, G., Cinabro, D., Cochran, J., Coleman, J. P., Convery, M. R., Cowan, G., Cowan, R., Cremaldi, L., Cunliffe, S., Dash, N., Davier, M., Davis, C. L., De Mori, F., De Nardo, G., Denig, A. G., de Sangro, R., Dey, B., Di Lodovico, F., Dittrich, S., Doležal, Z., Dorfan, J., Drásal, Z., Druzhinin, V. P., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Echenard, B., Eidelman, S., Eigen, G., Eisner, A. M., Emery, S., Epifanov, D., Ernst, J. A., Faccini, R., Fast, J. E., Feindt, M., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Field, R. C., Filippi, A., Finocchiaro, G., Fioravanti, E., Flood, K. T., Forti, F., Fritsch, M., Fulsom, B. G., Gabathuler, E., Gamba, D., Garg, R., Garmash, A., Gary, J. W., Garzia, I., Gaur, V., Gaz, A., Gelb, M., Gershon, T. J., Gioi, L. Li, Giorgi, M. A., Giri, A., Godang, R., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Golubev, V. B., Gorodeisky, R., Gradl, W., Graham, M. T., Grauges, E., Griessinger, K., Gritsan, A. V., Grünberg, O., Guido, E., Guttman, N., Hafner, A., Hara, T., Harrison, P. F., Hast, C., Hayasaka, K., Hearty, C., Heck, M., Hedges, M. T., Heß, M., Hirose, S., Hitlin, D. G., Honscheid, K., Hou, W. -S., Huard, Z., Van Hulse, C., Hutchcroft, D. E., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Innes, W. R., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Izen, J. M., Jacobs, W. W., Jawahery, A., Jessop, C. P., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joo, K. K., Julius, T., Kaliyar, A. B., Kang, K. H., Karyan, G., Kass, R., Kichimi, H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, J. B., Kim, K. T., Kim, S. H., Kim, J., Kim, P., King, G. J., Kinoshita, K., Koch, H., Kodyš, P., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Korpar, S., Kotchetkov, D., Kowalewski, R., Kravchenko, E. A., Križan, P., Kroeger, R., Krokovny, P., Kuhr, T., Kulasiri, R., Kuzmin, A., Kwon, Y. -J., Lacker, H. M., Lafferty, G. D., Lanceri, L., Lange, J. S., Lange, D. J., Lankford, A. J., Latham, T. E., Leddig, T., Diberder, F. Le, Lee, I. S., Lee, S. C., Lees, J. P., Leith, D. W. G. S., Li, L. K., Li, Y. B., Li, Y., Libby, J., Liventsev, D., Lockman, W. S., Long, O., LoSecco, J. M., Lou, X. C., Lubej, M., Lueck, T., Luitz, S., Luo, T., Luppi, E., Lusiani, A., Lutz, A. M., MacFarlane, D. B., MacNaughton, J., Mallik, U., Manoni, E., Marchiori, G., Margoni, M., Martellotti, S., Martinez-Vidal, F., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Mattison, T. S., Matvienko, D., McKenna, J. A., Meadows, B. T., Merola, M., Miyabayashi, K., Miyashita, T. S., Miyata, H., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Mori, T., Muller, D. R., Müller, T., Mussa, R., Nakano, E., Nakao, M., Nanut, T., Nath, K. J., Nayak, M., Neal, H., Neri, N., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nugent, I. M., Oberhof, B., Ocariz, J., Ogawa, S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Ono, H., Onuchin, A. P., Oyanguren, A., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Pal, B., Palano, A., Palombo, F., Vazquez, W. Panduro, Paoloni, E., Pardi, S., Park, H., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Patteri, P., Paul, S., Pavelkin, I., Payne, D. J., Pedlar, T. K., Peimer, D. R., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Piilonen, L. E., Pilloni, A., Piredda, G., Poireau, V., Porter, F. C., Posocco, M., Prell, S., Prepost, R., Puccio, E. M. T., Purohit, M. V., Pushpawela, B. G., Rama, M., Randle-Conde, A., Ratcliff, B. N., Raven, G., Resmi, P. K., Ritchie, J. L., Ritter, M., Rizzo, G., Roberts, D. A., Robertson, S. H., Röhrken, M., Roney, J. M., Roodman, A., Rossi, A., Rotondo, M., Rozanska, M., Russo, G., Sacco, R., Said, S. Al, Sakai, Y., Sandilya, S., Santelj, L., Santoro, V., Sanuki, T., Savinov, V., Schneider, O., Schnell, G., Schroeder, T., Schubert, K. R., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwitters, R. F., Sciacca, C., Seddon, R. M., Seino, Y., Sekula, S. J., Senyo, K., Seon, O., Serednyakov, S. I., Sevior, M. E., Shebalin, V., Shibata, T. -A., Shimizu, N., Shiu, J. -G., Simi, G., Simon, F., Simonetto, F., Skovpen, Yu. I., Smith, J. G., Smith, A. J. S., So, R. Y., Sobie, R. J., Soffer, A., Sokoloff, M. D., Solodov, E. P., Solovieva, E., Spanier, S. M., Starič, M., Stroili, R., Sullivan, M. K., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Summers, D. J., Sun, L., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanida, K., Taras, P., Tasneem, N., Tenchini, F., Tisserand, V., Todyshevx, K. Yu., Touramanis, C., Uchida, M., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Vahsen, S. E., Varner, G., Vasseur, G., Va'vra, J., Červenkov, D., Verderi, M., Vitale, L., Vorobyev, V., Voß, C., Wagner, S. R., Waheed, E., Waldi, R., Walsh, J. J., Wang, B., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Wilson, F. F., Wilson, J. R., Wisniewski, W. J., Won, E., Wormser, G., Wright, D. M., Wu, S. L., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zakharov, S., Zallo, A., Zani, L., Zhang, Z. P., Zhilich, V., Zhukova, V., Zhulanov, V., and Zupanc, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report measurements of $\sin{2\beta}$ and $\cos{2\beta}$ from a time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of $B^{0} \to D^{(*)} h^{0}$ with $D \to K_{S}^{0} \pi^{+} \pi^{-}$ decays, where the light unflavored and neutral hadron $h^{0}$ is a $\pi^{0}$, $\eta$, or $\omega$ meson. The analysis is performed with a combination of the final data sets of the \babar\ and Belle experiments containing $471 \times 10^{6}$ and $772 \times 10^{6}$ $B\bar{B}$ pairs collected at the $\Upsilon\left(4S\right)$ resonance at the asymmetric-energy B factories PEP-II at SLAC and KEKB at KEK, respectively. We measure $\sin{2\beta} = 0.80 \pm 0.14 \,(\rm{stat.}) \pm 0.06 \,(\rm{syst.}) \pm 0.03 \,(\rm{model})$ and $\cos{2\beta} = 0.91 \pm 0.22 \,(\rm{stat.}) \pm 0.09 \,(\rm{syst.}) \pm 0.07 \,(\rm{model})$. The result for the direct measurement of the angle is $\beta = \left( 22.5 \pm 4.4 \,(\rm{stat.}) \pm 1.2 \,(\rm{syst.}) \pm 0.6 \,(\rm{model}) \right)^{\circ}$. The last quoted uncertainties are due to the composition of the $D^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} \pi^{+} \pi^{-}$ decay amplitude model, which is newly established by a Dalitz plot amplitude analysis of a high-statistics $e^{+}e^{-} \to c\bar{c}$ data sample as part of this analysis. We find the first evidence for $\cos2\beta>0$ at the level of $3.7$ standard deviations. The measurement excludes the trigonometric multifold solution $\pi/2 - \beta = (68.1 \pm 0.7)^{\circ}$ at the level of $7.3$ standard deviations and therefore resolves an ambiguity in the determination of the apex of the CKM Unitarity Triangle. The hypothesis of $\beta = 0^{\circ}$ is ruled out at the level of $5.1$ standard deviations, and thus CP violation is observed in $B^{0} \to D^{(*)} h^{0}$ decays., Comment: To be submitted to Physical Review D
Published: 2018
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17. First evidence for $\cos 2\beta>0$ and resolution of the CKM Unitarity Triangle ambiguity by a time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of $B^{0} \to D^{(*)} h^{0}$ with $D \to K_{S}^{0} \pi^{+} \pi^{-}$ decays

Author: BaBar, The, Collaborations, Belle, Adachi, I., Adye, T., Ahmed, H., Ahn, J. K., Aihara, H., Akar, S., Alam, M. S., Albert, J., Anulli, F., Arnaud, N., Asner, D. M., Aston, D., Atmacan, H., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Babu, V., Badhrees, I., Bakich, A. M., Banerjee, Sw., Bansal, V., Barlow, R. J., Batignani, G., Beaulieu, A., Behera, P., Bellis, M., Ben-Haim, E., Bernard, D., Bernlochner, F. U., Bettarini, S., Bettoni, D., Bevan, A. J., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bianchi, F., Biasini, M., Biswal, J., Blinov, V. E., Bomben, M., Bondar, A., Bonneaud, G. R., Bozek, A., Bozzi, C., Bračko, M., Browder, T. E., Brown, D. N., Bünger, C., Burchat, P. R., Buzykaev, A. R., Calabrese, R., Calcaterra, A., Calderini, G., Di Carlo, S., Carpinelli, M., Cartaro, C., Casarosa, G., Cenci, R., Chao, D. S., Chauveau, J., Cheaib, R., Chen, A., Chen, C., Cheng, C. H., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Cho, K., Choi, Y., Choudhury, S., Chrzaszcz, M., Cibinetto, G., Cinabro, D., Cochran, J., Coleman, J. P., Convery, M. R., Cowan, G., Cowan, R., Cremaldi, L., Cunliffe, S., Dash, N., Davier, M., Davis, C. L., De Mori, F., De Nardo, G., Denig, A. G., de Sangro, R., Dey, B., Di Lodovico, F., Dittrich, S., Doležal, Z., Dorfan, J., Drásal, Z., Druzhinin, V. P., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Echenard, B., Eidelman, S., Eigen, G., Eisner, A. M., Emery, S., Epifanov, D., Ernst, J. A., Faccini, R., Fast, J. E., Feindt, M., Ferber, T., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Field, R. C., Filippi, A., Finocchiaro, G., Fioravanti, E., Flood, K. T., Forti, F., Fritsch, M., Fulsom, B. G., Gabathuler, E., Gamba, D., Garg, R., Garmash, A., Gary, J. W., Garzia, I., Gaur, V., Gaz, A., Gelb, M., Gershon, T. J., Gioi, L. Li, Giorgi, M. A., Giri, A., Godang, R., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Golubev, V. B., Gorodeisky, R., Gradl, W., Graham, M. T., Grauges, E., Griessinger, K., Gritsan, A. V., Grünberg, O., Guan, Y., Guido, E., Guttman, N., Haba, J., Hafner, A., Hara, T., Harrison, P. F., Hast, C., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Hearty, C., Heck, M., Hedges, M. T., Heß, M., Hirose, S., Hitlin, D. G., Honscheid, K., Hou, W. -S., Hsu, C. -L., Huard, Z., Van Hulse, C., Hutchcroft, D. E., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Innes, W. R., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Izen, J. M., Jacobs, W. W., Jawahery, A., Jessop, C. P., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joo, K. K., Julius, T., Kaliyar, A. B., Kang, K. H., Karyan, G., Kass, R., Kichimi, H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, J. B., Kim, K. T., Kim, S. H., Kim, J., Kim, P., King, G. J., Kinoshita, K., Koch, H., Kodyš, P., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Korpar, S., Kotchetkov, D., Kowalewski, R., Kravchenko, E. A., Križan, P., Kroeger, R., Krokovny, P., Kuhr, T., Kulasiri, R., Kumita, T., Kuzmin, A., Kwon, Y. -J., Lacker, H. M., Lafferty, G. D., Lanceri, L., Lange, J. S., Lange, D. J., Lankford, A. J., Latham, T. E., Leddig, T., Diberder, F. Le, Lee, I. S., Lee, S. C., Lees, J. P., Leith, D. W. G. S., Li, L. K., Li, Y. B., Li, Y., Libby, J., Liventsev, D., Lockman, W. S., Long, O., LoSecco, J. M., Lou, X. C., Lubej, M., Lueck, T., Luitz, S., Luo, T., Luppi, E., Lusiani, A., Lutz, A. M., MacFarlane, D. B., MacNaughton, J., Mallik, U., Manoni, E., Marchiori, G., Margoni, M., Martellotti, S., Martinez-Vidal, F., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Mattison, T. S., Matvienko, D., McKenna, J. A., Meadows, B. T., Merola, M., Miyabayashi, K., Miyashita, T. S., Miyata, H., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Moon, H. K., Mori, T., Muller, D. R., Müller, T., Mussa, R., Nakano, E., Nakao, M., Nanut, T., Nath, K. J., Nayak, M., Neal, H., Neri, N., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nugent, I. M., Oberhof, B., Ocariz, J., Ogawa, S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Ono, H., Onuchin, A. P., Onuki, Y., Oyanguren, A., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Pal, B., Palano, A., Palombo, F., Vazquez, W. Panduro, Paoloni, E., Pardi, S., Park, H., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Patteri, P., Paul, S., Pavelkin, I., Payne, D. J., Pedlar, T. K., Peimer, D. R., Peruzzi, I. M., Pestotnik, R., Piccolo, M., Piilonen, L. E., Pilloni, A., Piredda, G., Poireau, V., Popov, V., Porter, F. C., Posocco, M., Prell, S., Prepost, R., Puccio, E. M. T., Purohit, M. V., Pushpawela, B. G., Rama, M., Randle-Conde, A., Ratcliff, B. N., Raven, G., Resmi, P. K., Ritchie, J. L., Ritter, M., Rizzo, G., Roberts, D. A., Robertson, S. H., Röhrken, M., Roney, J. M., Roodman, A., Rossi, A., Rotondo, M., Rozanska, M., Russo, G., Sacco, R., Said, S. Al, Sakai, Y., Salehi, M., Sandilya, S., Santelj, L., Santoro, V., Sanuki, T., Savinov, V., Schneider, O., Schnell, G., Schroeder, T., Schubert, K. R., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwitters, R. F., Sciacca, C., Seddon, R. M., Seino, Y., Sekula, S. J., Senyo, K., Seon, O., Serednyakov, S. I., Sevior, M. E., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T. -A., Shimizu, N., Shiu, J. -G., Simi, G., Simon, F., Simonetto, F., Skovpen, Yu. I., Smith, J. G., Smith, A. J. S., So, R. Y., Sobie, R. J., Soffer, A., Sokoloff, M. D., Solodov, E. P., Solovieva, E., Spanier, S. M., Starič, M., Stroili, R., Sullivan, M. K., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Summers, D. J., Sun, L., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanida, K., Taras, P., Tasneem, N., Tenchini, F., Tisserand, V., Todyshevx, K. Yu., Touramanis, C., Uchida, M., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Vahsen, S. E., Varner, G., Vasseur, G., Va'vra, J., Červenkov, D., Verderi, M., Vitale, L., Vorobyev, V., Voß, C., Wagner, S. R., Waheed, E., Waldi, R., Walsh, J. J., Wang, B., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Watanabe, Y., Wilson, F. F., Wilson, J. R., Wisniewski, W. J., Won, E., Wormser, G., Wright, D. M., Wu, S. L., Ye, H., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zakharov, S., Zallo, A., Zani, L., Zhang, Z. P., Zhilich, V., Zhukova, V., Zhulanov, V., and Zupanc, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present first evidence that the cosine of the CP-violating weak phase $2\beta$ is positive, and hence exclude trigonometric multifold solutions of the CKM Unitarity Triangle using a time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of $B^{0} \to D^{(*)} h^{0}$ with $D \to K_{S}^{0} \pi^{+} \pi^{-}$ decays, where $h^{0} \in \{\pi^{0}, \eta, \omega \}$ denotes a light unflavored and neutral hadron. The measurement is performed combining the final data sets of the BaBar and Belle experiments collected at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance at the asymmetric-energy B factories PEP-II at SLAC and KEKB at KEK, respectively. The data samples contain $( 471 \pm 3 )\times 10^6\, B\bar{B}$ pairs recorded by the BaBar detector and $( 772 \pm 11 )\times 10^6\, B\bar{B}$ pairs recorded by the Belle detector. The results of the measurement are $\sin{2\beta} = 0.80 \pm 0.14 \,(\rm{stat.}) \pm 0.06 \,(\rm{syst.}) \pm 0.03 \,(\rm{model})$ and $\cos{2\beta} = 0.91 \pm 0.22 \,(\rm{stat.}) \pm 0.09 \,(\rm{syst.}) \pm 0.07 \,(\rm{model})$. The result for the direct measurement of the angle $\beta$ of the CKM Unitarity Triangle is $\beta = \left( 22.5 \pm 4.4 \,(\rm{stat.}) \pm 1.2 \,(\rm{syst.}) \pm 0.6 \,(\rm{model}) \right)^{\circ}$. The quoted model uncertainties are due to the composition of the $D^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} \pi^{+} \pi^{-}$ decay amplitude model, which is newly established by performing a Dalitz plot amplitude analysis using a high-statistics $e^{+}e^{-} \to c\bar{c}$ data sample. CP violation is observed in $B^{0} \to D^{(*)} h^{0}$ decays at the level of $5.1$ standard deviations. The significance for $\cos{2\beta}>0$ is $3.7$ standard deviations. The trigonometric multifold solution $\pi/2 - \beta = (68.1 \pm 0.7)^{\circ}$ is excluded at the level of $7.3$ standard deviations. The measurement resolves an ambiguity in the determination of the apex of the CKM Unitarity Triangle., Comment: To be submitted to Physical Review Letters
Published: 2018
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18. First Observation of CP Violation in B0->D(*)CP h0 Decays by a Combined Time-Dependent Analysis of BaBar and Belle Data

Author: BaBar, The, Collaborations, Belle, Abdesselam, A., Adachi, I., Adametz, A., Adye, T., Ahmed, H., Aihara, H., Akar, S., Alam, M. S., Albert, J., Said, S. Al, Andreassen, R., Angelini, C., Anulli, F., Arinstein, K., Arnaud, N., Asner, D. M., Aston, D., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Babu, V., Badhrees, I., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A. M., Band, H. R., Banerjee, Sw., Barberio, E., Bard, D. J., Barlow, R. J., Batignani, G., Beaulieu, A., Bellis, M., Ben-Haim, E., Bernard, D., Bernlochner, F. U., Bettarini, S., Bettoni, D., Bevan, A. J., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bianchi, F., Biasini, M., Biswal, J., Blinov, V. E., Bloom, P. C., Bobrov, A., Bomben, M., Bondar, A., Bonneaud, G. R., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bozzi, C., Bracko, M., Briand, H., Browder, T. E., Brown, D. N., Bünger, C., Burchat, P. R., Buzykaev, A. R., Calabrese, R., Calcaterra, A., Calderini, G., Carpinelli, M., Cartaro, C., Casarosa, G., Cenci, R., Cervenkov, D., Chang, P., Chao, D. S., Chauveau, J., Cheaib, R., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Chen, C., Cheng, C. H., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Chistov, R., Cho, K., Chobanova, V., Choi, H. H. F., Choi, S. -K., Chrzaszcz, M., Cibinetto, G., Cinabro, D., Cochran, J., Coleman, J. P., Contri, R., Convery, M. R., Cowan, G., Cowan, R., Cremaldi, L., Dalseno, J., Dasu, S., Davier, M., Davis, C. L., De Mori, F., De Nardo, G., Denig, A. G., Derkach, D., de Sangro, R., Dey, B., Di Lodovico, F., Dingfelder, J., Dittrich, S., Dolezal, Z., Dorfan, J., Drasal, Z., Drutskoy, A., Druzhinin, V. P., Dubois-Felsmann, G. P., Dunwoodie, W., Dutta, D., Ebert, M., Echenard, B., Eidelman, S., Eigen, G., Eisner, A. M., Emery, S., Ernst, J. A., Faccini, R., Farhat, H., Fast, J. E., Feindt, M., Ferber, T., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Field, R. C., Filippi, A., Finocchiaro, G., Fioravanti, E., Flood, K. T., Ford, W. T., Forti, F., Sevilla, M. Franco, Fritsch, M., Fry, J. R., Fulsom, B. G., Gabathuler, E., Gabyshev, N., Gamba, D., Garmash, A., Gary, J. W., Garzia, I., Gaspero, M., Gaur, V., Gaz, A., Gershon, T. J., Getzkow, D., Gillard, R., Gioi, L. Li, Giorgi, M. A., Glattauer, R., Godang, R., Goh, Y. M., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Golubev, V. B., Gorodeisky, R., Gradl, W., Graham, M. T., Grauges, E., Griessinger, K., Gritsan, A. V., Grosdidier, G., Grünberg, O., Guttman, N., Haba, J., Hafner, A., Hamilton, B., Hara, T., Harrison, P. F., Hast, C., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Hearty, C., He, X. H., Hess, M., Hitlin, D. G., Hong, T. M., Honscheid, K., Hou, W. -S., Hsiung, Y. B., Huard, Z., Hutchcroft, D. E., Iijima, T., Inguglia, G., Innes, W. R., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, Y., Izen, J. M., Jaegle, I., Jawahery, A., Jessop, C. P., Joffe, D., Joo, K. K., Julius, T., Kang, K. H., Kass, R., Kawasaki, T., Kerth, L. T., Khan, A., Kiesling, C., Kim, D. Y., Kim, J. B., Kim, J. H., Kim, K. T., Kim, P., Kim, S. H., Kim, Y. J., King, G. J., Kinoshita, K., Ko, B. 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H., Touramanis, C., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Uchida, M., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Usov, Y., Uwer, U., Vahsen, S. E., Van Hulse, C., Vanhoefer, P., Varner, G., Vasseur, G., Va'vra, J., Verderi, M., Vinokurova, A., Vitale, L., Vorobyev, V., Voss, C., Wagner, M. N., Wagner, S. R., Waldi, R., Walsh, J. J., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Watanabe, Y., West, C. A., Williams, K. M., Wilson, F. F., Wilson, J. R., Wisniewski, W. J., Won, E., Wormser, G., Wright, D. M., Wu, S. L., Wulsin, H. W., Yamamoto, H., Yamaoka, J., Yashchenko, S., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zallo, A., Zhang, C. C., Zhang, Z. P., Zhilich, V., Zhulanov, V., and Zupanc, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report a measurement of the time-dependent CP asymmetry of B0->D(*)CP h0 decays, where the light neutral hadron h0 is a pi0, eta or omega meson, and the neutral D meson is reconstructed in the CP eigenstates K+ K-, K0S pi0 or K0S omega. The measurement is performed combining the final data samples collected at the Y(4S) resonance by the BaBar and Belle experiments at the asymmetric-energy B factories PEP-II at SLAC and KEKB at KEK, respectively. The data samples contain ( 471 +/- 3 ) x 10^6 BB pairs recorded by the BaBar detector and ( 772 +/- 11 ) x 10^6, BB pairs recorded by the Belle detector. We measure the CP asymmetry parameters -eta_f S = +0.66 +/- 0.10 (stat.) +/- 0.06 (syst.) and C = -0.02 +/- 0.07 (stat.) +/- 0.03 (syst.). These results correspond to the first observation of CP violation in B0->D(*)CP h0 decays. The hypothesis of no mixing-induced CP violation is excluded in these decays at the level of 5.4 standard deviations., Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letters
Published: 2015

19. Chromatic CCD effects on weak lensing measurements for LSST

Author: Meyers, Joshua E. and Burchat, Patricia R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Wavelength-dependent point spread functions (PSFs) violate an implicit assumption in current galaxy shape measurement algorithms that deconvolve the PSF measured from stars (which have stellar spectral energy distributions (SEDs)) from images of galaxies (which have galactic SEDs). Since the absorption length of silicon depends on wavelength, CCDs are a potential source of PSF chromaticity. Here we develop two toy models to estimate the sensitivity of the cosmic shear survey from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope to chromatic effects in CCDs. We then compare these toy models to simulated estimates of PSF chromaticity derived from the LSST photon simulator PhoSim. We find that even though sensor contributions to PSF chromaticity are subdominant to atmospheric contributions, they can still significantly bias cosmic shear results if left uncorrected, particularly in the redder filter bands and for objects that are off-axis in the field of view., Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings from Precision Astronomy with Fully Depleted CCDs Workshop (2014)
Published: 2015

20. Impact of Atmospheric Chromatic Effects on Weak Lensing Measurements

Author: Meyers, Joshua E. and Burchat, Patricia R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Current and future imaging surveys will measure cosmic shear with statistical precision that demands a deeper understanding of potential systematic biases in galaxy shape measurements than has been achieved to date. We use analytic and computational techniques to study the impact on shape measurements of two atmospheric chromatic effects for ground-based surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST): (i) atmospheric differential chromatic refraction and (ii) wavelength dependence of seeing. We investigate the effects of using the point spread function (PSF) measured with stars to determine the shapes of galaxies that have different spectral energy distributions than the stars. We find that both chromatic effects lead to significant biases in galaxy shape measurements for current and future surveys, if not corrected. Using simulated galaxy images, we find a form of chromatic `model bias' that arises when fitting a galaxy image with a model that has been convolved with a stellar, instead of galactic, point spread function. We show that both forms of atmospheric chromatic biases can be predicted (and corrected) with minimal model bias by applying an ordered set of perturbative PSF-level corrections based on machine-learning techniques applied to six-band photometry. Catalog-level corrections do not address the model bias. We conclude that achieving the ultimate precision for weak lensing from current and future ground-based imaging surveys requires a detailed understanding of the wavelength dependence of the PSF from the atmosphere, and from other sources such as optics and sensors. The source code for this analysis is available at https://github.com/DarkEnergyScienceCollaboration/chroma ., Comment: 25 pages, 14 figures, accepted by ApJ
Published: 2014
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21. Weighing the Giants IV: Cosmology and Neutrino Mass

Author: Mantz, Adam B., von der Linden, Anja, Allen, Steven W., Applegate, Douglas E., Kelly, Patrick L., Morris, R. Glenn, Rapetti, David A., Schmidt, Robert W., Adhikari, Saroj, Allen, Mark T., Burchat, Patricia R., Burke, David L., Cataneo, Matteo, Donovon, David, Ebeling, Harald, Shandera, Sarah, and Wright, Adam
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We employ robust weak gravitational lensing measurements to improve cosmological constraints from measurements of the galaxy cluster mass function and its evolution, using X-ray selected clusters detected in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. Our lensing analysis constrains the absolute mass scale of such clusters at the 8 per cent level, including both statistical and systematic uncertainties. Combining it with the survey data and X-ray follow-up observations, we find a tight constraint on a combination of the mean matter density and late-time normalization of the matter power spectrum, $\sigma_8(\Omega_m/0.3)^{0.17}=0.81\pm0.03$, with marginalized, one-dimensional constraints of $\Omega_m=0.26\pm0.03$ and $\sigma_8=0.83\pm0.04$. For these two parameters, this represents a factor of two improvement in precision with respect to previous work, primarily due to the reduced systematic uncertainty in the absolute mass calibration provided by the lensing analysis. Our new results are in good agreement with constraints from cosmic microwave background (CMB) data, both WMAP and Planck (plus WMAP polarization), under the assumption of a flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmology with minimal neutrino mass. Consequently, we find no evidence for non-minimal neutrino mass from the combination of cluster data with CMB, supernova and baryon acoustic oscillation measurements, regardless of which all-sky CMB data set is used (and independent of the recent claimed detection of B-modes on degree scales). We also present improved constraints on models of dark energy (both constant and evolving), modifications of gravity, and primordial non-Gaussianity. Assuming flatness, the constraints for a constant dark energy equation of state from the cluster data alone are at the 15 per cent level, improving to $\sim 6$ per cent when the cluster data are combined with other leading probes., Comment: 24 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables. v3: typo in table A1 corrected
Published: 2014
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22. The Physics of the B Factories

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E., Walker, D., Walkowiak, W., Wallom, D., Wang, C. C., Wang, C. H., Wang, J., Wang, J. G., Wang, K., Wang, L., Wang, L. L., Wang, P., Wang, T. J., Wang, W. F., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y. F., Wappler, F. R., Watanabe, M., Watson, A. T., Watson, J. E., Watson, N. K., Watt, M., Weatherall, J. H., Weaver, M., Weber, T., Wedd, R., Wei, J. T., Weidemann, A. W., Weinstein, A. J. R., Wenzel, W. A., West, C. A., West, C. G., West, T. J., White, E., White, R. M., Wicht, J., Widhalm, L., Wiechczynski, J., Wienands, U., Wilden, L., Wilder, M., Williams, D. C., Williams, G., Williams, J. C., Williams, K. M., Williams, M. I., Willocq, S. Y., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, M. G., Wilson, R. J., Winklmeier, F., Winstrom, L. O., Winter, M. A., Wisniewski, W. J., Wittgen, M., Wittlin, J., Wittmer, W., Wixted, R., Woch, A., Wogsland, B. J., Wong, Q. K., Wray, B. C., Wren, A. C., Wright, D. M., Wu, C. H., Wu, J., Wu, S. L., Wulsin, H. W., Xella, S. M., Xie, Q. L., Xie, Y., Xu, Z. Z., Yèche, Ch., Yamada, Y., Yamaga, M., Yamaguchi, A., Yamaguchi, H., Yamaki, T., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, N., Yamamoto, R. K., Yamamoto, S., Yamanaka, T., Yamaoka, H., Yamaoka, J., Yamaoka, Y., Yamashita, Y., Yamauchi, M., Yan, D. S., Yan, Y., Yanai, H., Yanaka, S., Yang, H., Yang, R., Yang, S., Yarritu, A. K., Yashchenko, S., Yashima, J., Yasin, Z., Yasu, Y., Ye, S. W., Yeh, P., Yi, J. I., Yi, K., Yi, M., Yin, Z. W., Ying, J., Yocky, G., Yokoyama, K., Yokoyama, M., Yokoyama, T., Yoshida, K., Yoshida, M., Yoshimura, Y., Young, C. C., Yu, C. X., Yu, Z., Yuan, C. Z., Yuan, Y., Yumiceva, F. X., Yusa, Y., Yushkov, A. N., Yuta, H., Zacek, V., Zain, S. B., Zallo, A., Zambito, S., Zander, D., Zang, S. L., Zanin, D., Zaslavsky, B. G., Zeng, Q. L., Zghiche, A., Zhang, B., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhang, L. M., Zhang, S. Q., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, H. W., Zhao, M., Zhao, Z. G., Zheng, Y., Zheng, Y. H., Zheng, Z. P., Zhilich, V., Zhou, P., Zhu, R. Y., Zhu, Y. S., Zhu, Z. M., Zhulanov, V., Ziegler, T., Ziegler, V., Zioulas, G., Zisman, M., Zito, M., Zürcher, D., Zwahlen, N., Zyukova, O., Živko, T., and Žontar, D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: This work is on the Physics of the B Factories. Part A of this book contains a brief description of the SLAC and KEK B Factories as well as their detectors, BaBar and Belle, and data taking related issues. Part B discusses tools and methods used by the experiments in order to obtain results. The results themselves can be found in Part C. Please note that version 3 on the archive is the auxiliary version of the Physics of the B Factories book. This uses the notation alpha, beta, gamma for the angles of the Unitarity Triangle. The nominal version uses the notation phi_1, phi_2 and phi_3. Please cite this work as Eur. Phys. J. C74 (2014) 3026., Comment: 928 pages, version 3 (arXiv:1406.6311v3) corresponds to the alpha, beta, gamma version of the book, the other versions use the phi1, phi2, phi3 notation
Published: 2014
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23. Impact of chromatic effects on galaxy shape measurements

Author: Meyers, J. E. and Burchat, P. R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Current and future imaging surveys will measure cosmic shear with a statistical precision that demands a deeper understanding of potential systematic biases in galaxy shape measurements than has been achieved to date. We investigate the effects of using the point spread function (PSF) measured with stars to determine the shape of a galaxy that has a different spectral energy distribution (SED) than the star. We demonstrate that a wavelength dependent PSF size, for example as may originate from atmospheric seeing or the diffraction limit of the primary aperture, can introduce significant shape measurement biases. This analysis shows that even small wavelength dependencies in the PSF may introduce biases, and hence that achieving the ultimate precision for weak lensing from current and future imaging surveys will require a detailed understanding of the wavelength dependence of the PSF from all sources, including the CCD sensors., Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings from Precision Astronomy with Fully Depleted CCDs Workshop (2013)
Published: 2014
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24. Robust Weak-lensing Mass Calibration of Planck Galaxy Clusters

Author: von der Linden, Anja, Mantz, Adam, Allen, Steven W., Applegate, Douglas E., Kelly, Patrick L., Morris, R. Glenn, Wright, Adam, Allen, Mark T., Burchat, Patricia R., Burke, David L., Donovan, David, and Ebeling, Harald
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: In light of the tension in cosmological constraints reported by the Planck team between their SZ-selected cluster counts and Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropies, we compare the Planck cluster mass estimates with robust, weak-lensing mass measurements from the Weighing the Giants (WtG) project. For the 22 clusters in common between the Planck cosmology sample and WtG, we find an overall mass ratio of $\left< M_{Planck}/M_{\rm WtG} \right> = 0.688 \pm 0.072$. Extending the sample to clusters not used in the Planck cosmology analysis yields a consistent value of $\left< M_{Planck}/M_{\rm WtG} \right> = 0.698 \pm 0.062$ from 38 clusters in common. Identifying the weak-lensing masses as proxies for the true cluster mass (on average), these ratios are $\sim 1.6\sigma$ lower than the default mass bias of 0.8 assumed in the Planck cluster analysis. Adopting the WtG weak-lensing-based mass calibration would substantially reduce the tension found between the Planck cluster count cosmology results and those from CMB temperature anisotropies, thereby dispensing of the need for "new physics" such as uncomfortably large neutrino masses (in the context of the measured Planck temperature anisotropies and other data). We also find modest evidence (at 95 per cent confidence) for a mass dependence of the calibration ratio and discuss its potential origin in light of systematic uncertainties in the temperature calibration of the X-ray measurements used to calibrate the Planck cluster masses. Our results exemplify the critical role that robust absolute mass calibration plays in cluster cosmology, and the invaluable role of accurate weak-lensing mass measurements in this regard., Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2014
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25. Evidence for the decay B0 --> omega omega and search for B0 --> omega phi

Author: The BABAR Collaboration, Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Stugu, B., Brown, D. N., Kerth, L. T., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Lee, M. J., Lynch, G., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Khan, A., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Yushkov, A. N., Lankford, A. J., Mandelkern, M., Dey, B., Gary, J. W., Long, O., Campagnari, C., Sevilla, M. Franco, Hong, T. M., Kovalskyi, D., Richman, J. D., West, C. A., Eisner, A. M., Lockman, W. S., Vazquez, W. Panduro, Schumm, B. A., Seiden, A., Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Miyashita, T. S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Andreassen, R., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Pushpawela, B. G., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Bloom, P. C., Ford, W. T., Gaz, A., Nauenberg, U., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Ayad, R., Toki, W. H., Spaan, B., Schwierz, R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Playfer, S., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Piemontese, L., Santoro, V., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Martellotti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rama, M., Zallo, A., Contri, R., Guido, E., Vetere, M. Lo, Monge, M. R., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Robutti, E., Bhuyan, B., Prasad, V., Morii, M., Adametz, A., Uwer, U., Lacker, H. M., Dauncey, P. D., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Meyer, W. T., Prell, S., Ahmed, H., Gritsan, A. V., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Derkach, D., Grosdidier, G., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Malaescu, B., Roudeau, P., Stocchi, A., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Coleman, J. P., Fry, J. R., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Cowan, G., Bougher, J., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Fritsch, M., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Prencipe, E., Schubert, K. R., Barlow, R. J., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Hamilton, B., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Cowan, R., Dujmic, D., Sciolla, G., Cheaib, R., Patel, P. M., Robertson, S. H., Biassoni, P., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Sonnek, P., Summers, D. J., Simard, M., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Monorchio, D., Onorato, G., Sciacca, C., Martinelli, M., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Brau, J., Frey, R., Sinev, N. B., Strom, D., Torrence, E., Feltresi, E., Margoni, M., Morandin, M., Posocco, M., Rotondo, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Briand, H., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Leruste, Ph., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Sitt, S., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Pacetti, S., Rossi, A., Angelini, C., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Cervelli, A., Chrzaszcz, M., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Perez, A., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Pegna, D. Lopes, Olsen, J., Smith, A. J. S., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Gaspero, M., Gioi, L. Li, Piredda, G., Buenger, C., Dittrich, S., Gruenberg, O., Hartmann, T., Leddig, T., Voss, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Olaiya, E. O., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., Vasseur, G., Anulli, F., Aston, D., Bard, D. J., Benitez, J. F., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dubois-Felsmann, G. P., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Fulsom, B. G., Gabareen, A. M., Graham, M. T., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kim, P., Kocian, M. L., Leith, D. W. G. S., Lewis, P., Lindemann, D., Lindquist, B., Luitz, S., Luth, V., Lynch, H. L., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Nelson, S., Perl, M., Pulliam, T., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Salnikov, A. A., Schindler, R. H., Snyder, A., Su, D., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wagner, A. P., Wang, W. F., Wisniewski, W. J., Wittgen, M., Wright, D. H., Wulsin, H. W., Ziegler, V., Purohit, M. V., White, R. M., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Ruland, A. M., Schwitters, R. F., Wray, B. C., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., De Mori, F., Filippi, A., Gamba, D., Zambito, S., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Villanueva-Perez, P., Albert, J., Banerjee, Sw., Bernlochner, F. U., Choi, H. H. F., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lewczuk, M. J., Lueck, T., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Band, H. R., Dasu, S., Pan, Y., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We describe searches for B meson decays to the charmless vector-vector final states omega omega and omega phi with 471 x 10^6 B Bbar pairs produced in e+ e- annihilation at sqrt(s) = 10.58 GeV using the BABAR detector at the PEP-II collider at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. We measure the branching fraction B(B0 --> omega omega) = (1.2 +- 0.3 +0.3-0.2) x 10^-6, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic, corresponding to a significance of 4.4 standard deviations. We also determine the upper limit B(B0 --> omega phi) < 0.7 x 10^-6 at 90% confidence level. These measurements provide the first evidence for the decay B0 --> omega omega, and an improvement of the upper limit for the decay B0 --> omega phi., Comment: 7 pages, 2 postscript figures
Published: 2013
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26. Study of the decay $\bar{B}^{0}\rightarrow\Lambda_{c}^{+}\bar{p}\pi^{+}\pi^{-}$ and its intermediate states

Author: The Babar Collaboration, Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Stugu, B., Brown, D. N., Kerth, L. T., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Lynch, G., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Asgeirsson, D. J., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Khan, A., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Yushkov, A. N., Kirkby, D., Lankford, A. J., Mandelkern, M., Atmacan, H., Gary, J. W., Long, O., Vitug, G. M., Campagnari, C., Hong, T. M., Kovalskyi, D., Richman, J. D., West, C. A., Eisner, A. M., Kroseberg, J., Lockman, W. S., Martinez, A. J., Schumm, B. A., Seiden, A., Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Rakitin, A. Y., Andreassen, R., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Bloom, P. C., Ford, W. T., Gaz, A., Nauenberg, U., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Ayad, R., Toki, W. H., Spaan, B., Schubert, K. R., Schwierz, R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Clark, P. J., Playfer, S., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Piemontese, L., Santoro, V., Baldini-Ferroli, R., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rama, M., Zallo, A., Contri, R., Guido, E., Vetere, M. Lo, Monge, M. R., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Robutti, E., Bhuyan, B., Prasad, V., Morii, M., Adametz, A., Uwer, U., Lacker, H. M., Lueck, T., Dauncey, P. D., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Meyer, W. T., Prell, S., Rubin, A. E., Gritsan, A. V., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Derkach, D., Grosdidier, G., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Malaescu, B., Roudeau, P., Schune, M. H., Stocchi, A., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Chavez, C. A., Coleman, J. P., Fry, J. R., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Sigamani, M., Cowan, G., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Fritsch, M., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Prencipe, E., Barlow, R. J., Jackson, G., Lafferty, G. D., Behn, E., Cenci, R., Hamilton, B., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Dallapiccola, C., Cowan, R., Dujmic, D., Sciolla, G., Cheaib, R., Lindemann, D., Patel, P. M., Robertson, S. H., Biassoni, P., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Stracka, S., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Kroeger, R., Sonnek, P., Summers, D. J., Nguyen, X., Simard, M., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Monorchio, D., Onorato, G., Sciacca, C., Martinelli, M., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Wang, W. F., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Brau, J., Frey, R., Sinev, N. B., Strom, D., Torrence, E., Feltresi, E., Gagliardi, N., Margoni, M., Morandin, M., Posocco, M., Rotondo, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Briand, H., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Hamon, O., Leruste, Ph., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Sitt, S., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Pacetti, S., Rossi, A., Angelini, C., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Cervelli, A., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Perez, A., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Pegna, D. Lopes, Olsen, J., Smith, A. J. S., Anulli, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Gaspero, M., Gioi, L. Li, Mazzoni, M. A., Piredda, G., Bünger, C., Grünberg, O., Hartmann, T., Leddig, T., Schröder, H., Voß, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Olaiya, E. O., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., de Monchenault, G. Hamel, Vasseur, G., Y\`, Ch., Aston, D., Bartoldus, R., Benitez, J. F., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dubois-Felsmann, G. P., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Sevilla, M. Franco, Fulsom, B. G., Gabareen, A. M., Graham, M. T., Grenier, P., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kelsey, M. H., Kim, P., Kocian, M. L., Leith, D. W. G. S., Lewis, P., Lindquist, B., Luitz, S., Luth, V., Lynch, H. L., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Nelson, S., Perl, M., Pulliam, T., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Salnikov, A. A., Schindler, R. H., Snyder, A., Su, D., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wagner, A. P., Wisniewski, W. J., Wittgen, M., Wright, D. H., Wulsin, H. W., Young, C. C., Ziegler, V., Park, W., Purohit, M. V., White, R. M., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Miyashita, T. S., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Ruland, A. M., Schwitters, R. F., Wray, B. C., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., Gamba, D., Zambito, S., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Villanueva-Perez, P., Ahmed, H., Albert, J., Banerjee, Sw., Bernlochner, F. U., Choi, H. H. F., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lewczuk, M. J., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Band, H. R., Dasu, S., Pan, Y., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We study the decay $\bar{B}^{0}\rightarrow\Lambda_{c}^{+}\bar{p}\pi^{+}\pi^{-}$, reconstructing the \Lambda_{c}^{+} baryon in the $p K^{-}\pi^{+}$ mode, using a data sample of $467\times 10^{6}$ $B\bar{B}$ pairs collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-2 storage rings at SLAC. We measure branching fractions for decays with intermediate $\Sigma_{c}$ baryons to be ${\cal B}[\bar{B}^{0}\rightarrow\Sigma_{c}(2455)^{++}\bar{p}\pi^{-}]=(21.3 \pm 1.0 \pm 1.0 \pm 5.5) \times 10^{-5}$, ${\cal B}[\bar{B}^{0}\rightarrow\Sigma_{c}(2520)^{++}\bar{p}\pi^{-}]=(11.5\pm 1.0 \pm 0.5 \pm 3.0)\times 10^{-5}$, ${\cal B}[\bar{B}^{0}\rightarrow\Sigma_{c}(2455)^{0}\bar{p}\pi^{+}]=(9.1 \pm 0.7 \pm 0.4 \pm 2.4)\times10^{-5}$, and ${\cal B}[\bar{B}^{0}\rightarrow\Sigma_{c}(2520)^{0}\bar{p}\pi^{+}]= (2.2 \pm 0.7 \pm 0.1\pm 0.6) \times 10^{-5}$, where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and due to the uncertainty on the $\Lambda_{c}^{+}\rightarrow\proton\Km\pi^{+}$ branching fraction, respectively. For decays without $\Sigma_{c}(2455)$ or $\Sigma_{c}(2520)$ resonances, we measure ${\cal B}[\bar{B}^{0}\rightarrow\Lambda_{c}^{+}\bar{p}\pi^{+}\pi^{-}]_{\mathrm{non-\Sigma_{c}}}=(79 \pm 4 \pm 4 \pm 20)\times10^{-5}$. The total branching fraction is determined to be ${\cal B}[\bar{B}^{0}\rightarrow\Lambda_{c}^{+}\bar{p}\pi^{+}\pi^{-}]_{\mathrm{total}}=(123 \pm 5 \pm 7 \pm 32)\times10^{-5}$. We examine multibody mass combinations in the resonant three-particle $\Sigma_{c}\bar{p}\pi$ final states and in the four-particle $\Lambda_{c}^{+}\bar{p}\pi^{+}\pi^{-}$ final state, and observe different characteristics for the $\bar{p}\pi$ combination in neutral versus doubly-charged $\Sigma_{c}$ decays., Comment: 20 pages, 30 figures
Published: 2013
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27. Search for direct CP-violation in singly-Cabibbo suppressed D+- --> K+ K- pi+- decays

Author: BaBar Collaboration, Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Tico, J. Garra, Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Stugu, B., Brown, D. N., Kerth, L. T., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Lynch, G., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Asgeirsson, D. J., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Khan, A., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Yushkov, A. N., Bondioli, M., Kirkby, D., Lankford, A. J., Mandelkern, M., Atmacan, H., Gary, J. W., Liu, F., Long, O., Vitug, G. M., Campagnari, C., Hong, T. M., Kovalskyi, D., Richman, J. D., West, C. A., Eisner, A. M., Kroseberg, J., Lockman, W. S., Martinez, A. J., Schumm, B. A., Seiden, A., Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Rakitin, A. Y., Andreassen, R., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Bloom, P. C., Ford, W. T., Gaz, A., Nauenberg, U., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Ayad, R., Toki, W. H., Spaan, B., Schubert, K. R., Schwierz, R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Clark, P. J., Playfer, S., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Piemontese, L., Santoro, V., Baldini-Ferroli, R., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Patteri, P., Piccolo, M., Rama, M., Zallo, A., Contri, R., Guido, E., Vetere, M. Lo, Monge, M. R., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Robutti, E., Bhuyan, B., Prasad, V., Lee, C. L., Morii, M., Edwards, A. J., Adametz, A., Uwer, U., Lacker, H. M., Lueck, T., Dauncey, P. D., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Meyer, W. T., Prell, S., Rubin, A. E., Gritsan, A. V., Guo, Z. J., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Derkach, D., Grosdidier, G., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Malaescu, B., Roudeau, P., Schune, M. H., Stocchi, A., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Chavez, C. A., Coleman, J. P., Fry, J. R., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Sigamani, M., Cowan, G., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Fritsch, M., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Prencipe, E., Barlow, R. J., Jackson, G., Lafferty, G. D., Behn, E., Cenci, R., Hamilton, B., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Dallapiccola, C., Cowan, R., Dujmic, D., Sciolla, G., Cheaib, R., Lindemann, D., Patel, P. M., Robertson, S. H., Biassoni, P., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Stracka, S., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Kroeger, R., Sonnek, P., Summers, D. J., Nguyen, X., Simard, M., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Monorchio, D., Onorato, G., Sciacca, C., Martinelli, M., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Wang, W. F., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Brau, J., Frey, R., Sinev, N. B., Strom, D., Torrence, E., Feltresi, E., Gagliardi, N., Margoni, M., Morandin, M., Posocco, M., Rotondo, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Briand, H., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Hamon, O., Leruste, Ph., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Sitt, S., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Pacetti, S., Rossi, A., Angelini, C., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Cervelli, A., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Perez, A., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Pegna, D. Lopes, Olsen, J., Smith, A. J. S., Telnov, A. V., Anulli, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Gaspero, M., Gioi, L. Li, Mazzoni, M. A., Piredda, G., Bunger, C., Grunberg, O., Hartmann, T., Leddig, T., Voss, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Olaiya, E. O., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., de Monchenault, G. Hamel, Vasseur, G., Yeche, Ch., Aston, D., Bard, D. J., Bartoldus, R., Benitez, J. F., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dubois-Felsmann, G. P., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Sevilla, M. Franco, Fulsom, B. G., Gabareen, A. M., Graham, M. T., Grenier, P., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kelsey, M. H., Kim, P., Kocian, M. L., Leith, D. W. G. S., Lewis, P., Lindquist, B., Luitz, S., Luth, V., Lynch, H. L., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Nelson, S., Perl, M., Pulliam, T., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Salnikov, A. A., Schindler, R. H., Snyder, A., Su, D., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wagner, A. P., Wisniewski, W. J., Wittgen, M., Wright, D. H., Wulsin, H. W., Young, C. C., Ziegler, V., Park, W., Purohit, M. V., White, R. M., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Miyashita, T. S., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Lund, P., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Ruland, A. M., Schwitters, R. F., Wray, B. C., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., Gamba, D., Zambito, S., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Villanueva-Perez, P., Ahmed, H., Albert, J., Banerjee, Sw., Bernlochner, F. U., Choi, H. H. F., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lewczuk, M. J., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Band, H. R., Dasu, S., Pan, Y., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report on a search for direct CP asymmetry in the singly Cabibbo-suppressed decay D+- --> K+ K- pi+- using a data sample of 476 fb-1 accumulated with the BaBar detector running at and just below the Y(4S) resonance. The CP-violating decay rate asymmetry A_CP is determined to be (0.35 +- 0.30 +- 0.15)%. Model-dependent and model-independent Dalitz plot analysis techniques are used to search for CP-violating asymmetries in the various intermediate states., Comment: 14 pages, 6 eps figures, to be submitted to PRD
Published: 2012
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28. Branching fraction and form-factor shape measurements of exclusive charmless semileptonic B decays, and determination of |V_{ub}

Author: BABAR Collaboration, Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Tico, J. Garra, Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Stugu, B., Brown, D. N., Kerth, L. T., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Lynch, G., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Asgeirsson, D. J., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Khan, A., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Yushkov, A. N., Bondioli, M., Kirkby, D., Lankford, A. J., Mandelkern, M., Atmacan, H., Gary, J. W., Liu, F., Long, O., Vitug, G. M., Campagnari, C., Hong, T. M., Kovalskyi, D., Richman, J. D., West, C. A., Eisner, A. M., Kroseberg, J., Lockman, W. S., Martinez, A. J., Schumm, B. A., Seiden, A., Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Rakitin, A. Y., Andreassen, R., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Bloom, P. C., Ford, W. T., Gaz, A., Nauenberg, U., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Ayad, R., Toki, W. H., Spaan, B., Schubert, K. R., Schwierz, R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Clark, P. J., Playfer, S., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Munerato, M., Piemontese, L., Santoro, V., Baldini-Ferroli, R., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rama, M., Zallo, A., Contri, R., Guido, E., Vetere, M. Lo, Monge, M. R., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Robutti, E., Bhuyan, B., Prasad, V., Lee, C. L., Morii, M., Edwards, A. J., Adametz, A., Uwer, U., Lacker, H. M., Lueck, T., Dauncey, P. D., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Meyer, W. T., Prell, S., Rubin, A. E., Gritsan, A. V., Guo, Z. J., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Derkach, D., Grosdidier, G., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Malaescu, B., Roudeau, P., Schune, M. H., Stocchi, A., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Chavez, C. A., Coleman, J. P., Fry, J. R., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Sigamani, M., Cowan, G., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Fritsch, M., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Prencipe, E., Barlow, R. J., Jackson, G., Lafferty, G. D., Behn, E., Cenci, R., Hamilton, B., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Dallapiccola, C., Cowan, R., Dujmic, D., Sciolla, G., Cheaib, R., Lindemann, D., Patel, P. M., Robertson, S. H., Biassoni, P., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Stracka, S., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Kroeger, R., Sonnek, P., Summers, D. J., Nguyen, X., Simard, M., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Monorchio, D., Onorato, G., Sciacca, C., Martinelli, M., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Wang, W. F., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Brau, J., Frey, R., Sinev, N. B., Strom, D., Torrence, E., Feltresi, E., Gagliardi, N., Margoni, M., Morandin, M., Posocco, M., Rotondo, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Briand, H., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Hamon, O., Leruste, Ph., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Sitt, S., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Pacetti, S., Rossi, A., Angelini, C., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Cervelli, A., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Perez, A., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Pegna, D. Lopes, Olsen, J., Smith, A. J. S., Telnov, A. V., Anulli, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Gaspero, M., Gioi, L. Li, Mazzoni, M. A., Piredda, G., Bünger, C., Grünberg, O., Hartmann, T., Leddig, T., Voß, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Olaiya, E. O., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., de Monchenault, G. Hamel, Vasseur, G., Yèche, Ch., Aston, D., Bard, D. J., Bartoldus, R., Benitez, J. F., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dubois-Felsmann, G. P., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Sevilla, M. Franco, Fulsom, B. G., Gabareen, A. M., Graham, M. T., Grenier, P., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kelsey, M. H., Kim, P., Kocian, M. L., Leith, D. W. G. S., Lewis, P., Lindquist, B., Luitz, S., Luth, V., Lynch, H. L., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Nelson, S., Perl, M., Pulliam, T., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Salnikov, A. A., Schindler, R. H., Snyder, A., Su, D., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wagner, A. P., Wisniewski, W. J., Wittgen, M., Wright, D. H., Wulsin, H. W., Young, C. C., Ziegler, V., Park, W., Purohit, M. V., White, R. M., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Miyashita, T. S., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Lund, P., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Ruland, A. M., Schwitters, R. F., Wray, B. C., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., Gamba, D., Zambito, S., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Villanueva-Perez, P., Ahmed, H., Albert, J., Banerjee, Sw., Bernlochner, F. U., Choi, H. H. F., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lewczuk, M. J., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Band, H. R., Dasu, S., Pan, Y., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report the results of a study of the exclusive charmless semileptonic decays, B^0 --> pi^- l^+ nu, B^+ --> pi^0 l^+ nu, B^+ --> omega l^+ nu, B^+ --> eta l^+ nu and B^+ --> eta^' l^+ nu, (l = e or mu) undertaken with approximately 462x10^6 B\bar{B} pairs collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector. The analysis uses events in which the signal B decays are reconstructed with a loose neutrino reconstruction technique. We obtain partial branching fractions in several bins of q^2, the square of the momentum transferred to the lepton-neutrino pair, for B^0 --> pi^- l^+ nu, B^+ --> pi^0 l^+ nu, B^+ --> omega l^+ nu and B^+ --> eta l^+ nu. From these distributions, we extract the form-factor shapes f_+(q^2) and the total branching fractions BF(B^0 --> pi^- l^+ nu) = (1.45 +/- 0.04_{stat} +/- 0.06_{syst})x10^-4 (combined pi^- and pi^0 decay channels assuming isospin symmetry), BF(B^+ --> omega l^+ nu) = (1.19 +/- 0.16_{stat} +/- 0.09_{syst})x10^-4 and BF(B^+ --> eta l^+ nu) = (0.38 +/- 0.05_{stat} +/- 0.05_{syst})x10^-4. We also measure BF(B^+ --> eta^' l^+ nu) = (0.24 +/- 0.08_{stat} +/- 0.03_{syst})x10^-4. We obtain values for the magnitude of the CKM matrix element V_{ub} by direct comparison with three different QCD calculations in restricted q^2 ranges of B --> pi l^+ nu decays. From a simultaneous fit to the experimental data over the full q^2 range and the FNAL/MILC lattice QCD predictions, we obtain |V_{ub}| = (3.25 +/- 0.31)x10^-3, where the error is the combined experimental and theoretical uncertainty., Comment: 35 pages, 14 figures, submitted to PRD
Published: 2012
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29. Weighing the Giants II: Improved Calibration of Photometry from Stellar Colors and Accurate Photometric Redshifts

Author: Kelly, Patrick L., von der Linden, Anja, Applegate, Douglas E., Allen, Mark T., Allen, Steven W., Burchat, Patricia R., Burke, David L., Ebeling, Harald, Capak, Peter, Czoske, Oliver, Donovan, David, Mantz, Adam, and Morris, R. Glenn
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: We present improved methods for using stars found in astronomical exposures to calibrate both star and galaxy colors as well as to adjust the instrument flat field. By developing a spectroscopic model for the SDSS stellar locus in color-color space, synthesizing an expected stellar locus, and simultaneously solving for all unknown zeropoints when fitting to the instrumental locus, we increase the calibration accuracy of stellar locus matching. We also use a new combined technique to estimate improved flat-field models for the Subaru SuprimeCam camera, forming `star flats' based on the magnitudes of stars observed in multiple positions or through comparison with available SDSS magnitudes. These techniques yield galaxy magnitudes with reliable color calibration (< 0.01 - 0.02 mag accuracy) that enable us to estimate photometric redshift probability distributions without spectroscopic training samples. We test the accuracy of our photometric redshifts using spectroscopic redshifts z_s for ~5000 galaxies in 27 cluster fields with at least five bands of photometry, as well as galaxies in the COSMOS field, finding sigma((z_p - z_s)/(1 + z_s)) ~ 0.03 for the most probable redshift z_p. We show that the full posterior probability distributions for the redshifts of galaxies with five-band photometry exhibit good agreement with redshifts estimated from thirty-band photometry in the COSMOS field. The growth of shear with increasing distance behind each galaxy cluster shows the expected redshift-distance relation for a flat Lambda-CDM cosmology. Photometric redshifts and calibrated colors are used in subsequent papers to measure the masses of 51 galaxy clusters from their weak gravitational shear. We make our Python code for stellar locus matching available at http://big-macs-calibrate.googlecode.com; the code requires only a catalog and filter functions., Comment: Accepted by MNRAS with only minor revisions. Code available: http://big-macs-calibrate.googlecode.com (v2 latex symbols removed from abstract)
Published: 2012
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30. Weighing the Giants - III. Methods and Measurements of Accurate Galaxy Cluster Weak-Lensing Masses

Author: Applegate, Douglas E., von der Linden, Anja, Kelly, Patrick L., Allen, Mark T., Allen, Steven W., Burchat, Patricia R., Burke, David L., Ebeling, Harald, Mantz, Adam, and Morris, R. Glenn
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We report weak-lensing masses for 51 of the most X-ray luminous galaxy clusters known. This cluster sample, introduced earlier in this series of papers, spans redshifts 0.15 < z_cl < 0.7, and is well suited to calibrate mass proxies for current cluster cosmology experiments. Cluster masses are measured with a standard `color-cut' lensing method from three-filter photometry of each field. Additionally, for 27 cluster fields with at least five-filter photometry, we measure high-accuracy masses using a new method that exploits all information available in the photometric redshift posterior probability distributions of individual galaxies. Using simulations based on the COSMOS-30 catalog, we demonstrate control of systematic biases in the mean mass of the sample with this method, from photometric redshift biases and associated uncertainties, to better than 3%. In contrast, we show that the use of single-point estimators in place of the full photometric redshift posterior distributions can lead to significant redshift-dependent biases on cluster masses. The performance of our new photometric redshift-based method allows us to calibrate `color-cut` masses for all 51 clusters in the present sample to a total systematic uncertainty of ~7% on the mean mass, a level sufficient to significantly improve current cosmology constraints from galaxy clusters. Our results bode well for future cosmological studies of clusters, potentially reducing the need for exhaustive spectroscopic calibration surveys as compared to other techniques, when deep, multi-filter optical and near-IR imaging surveys are coupled with robust photometric redshift methods., Comment: 25 pages, 14 figures. Accepted after minor revision. Lensing masses (table 4) and other data will be made available at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~dapple/work/wtg.html
Published: 2012
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31. Weighing the Giants - I. Weak-lensing masses for 51 massive galaxy clusters: project overview, data analysis methods and cluster images

Author: von der Linden, Anja, Allen, Mark T., Applegate, Douglas E., Kelly, Patrick L., Allen, Steven W., Ebeling, Harald, Burchat, Patricia R., Burke, David L., Donovan, David, Morris, R. Glenn, Blandford, Roger, Erben, Thomas, and Mantz, Adam
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: This is the first in a series of papers in which we measure accurate weak-lensing masses for 51 of the most X-ray luminous galaxy clusters known at redshifts 0.15
Published: 2012
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32. Observation of Time Reversal Violation in the B0 Meson System

Author: The BABAR Collaboration, Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Tico, J. Garra, Grauges, E., Palanoab, A., Eigen, G., Stugu, B., Brown, D. N., Kerth, L. T., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Lynch, G., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Asgeirsson, D. J., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Khan, A., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Yushkov, A. N., Bondioli, M., Kirkby, D., Lankford, A. J., Mandelkern, M., Atmacan, H., Gary, J. W., Liu, F., Long, O., Vitug, G. M., Campagnari, C., Hong, T. M., Kovalskyi, D., Richman, J. D., West, C. A., Eisner, A. M., Kroseberg, J., Lockman, W. S., Martinez, A. J., Schumm, B. A., Seiden, A., Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Rakitin, A. Y., Andreassen, R., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Bloom, P. C., Ford, W. T., Gaz, A., Nauenberg, U., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Ayad, R., Toki, W. H., Spaan, B., Schubert, K. R., Schwierz, R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Clark, P. J., Playfer, S., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Munerato, M., Piemontese, L., Santoro, V., Baldini-Ferroli, R., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rama, M., Zallo, A., Contri, R., Guido, E., Vetere, M. Lo, Monge, M. R., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Robutti, E., Bhuyan, B., Prasad, V., Lee, C. L., Morii, M., Edwards, A. J., Adametz, A., Uwer, U., Lacker, H. M., Lueck, T., Dauncey, P. D., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Meyer, W. T., Prell, S., Rubin, A. E., Gritsan, A. V., Guo, Z. J., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Derkach, D., Grosdidier, G., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Malaescu, B., Roudeau, P., Schune, M. H., Stocchi, A., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Chavez, C. A., Coleman, J. P., Fry, J. R., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Sigamani, M., Cowan, G., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Fritsch, M., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Prencipe, E., Barlow, R. J., Jackson, G., Lafferty, G. D., Behn, E., Cenci, R., Hamilton, B., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Dallapiccola, C., Cowan, R., Dujmic, D., Sciolla, G., Cheaib, R., Lindemann, D., Patel, P. M., Robertson, S. H., Biassoni, P., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Stracka, S., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Kroeger, R., Sonnek, P., Summers, D. J., Nguyen, X., Simard, M., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Monorchio, D., Onorato, G., Sciacca, C., Martinelli, M., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Wang, W. F., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Brau, J., Frey, R., Sinev, N. B., Strom, D., Torrence, E., Feltresi, E., Gagliardi, N., Margoni, M., Morandin, M., Pompili, A., Posocco, M., Rotondo, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Briand, H., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Hamon, O., Leruste, Ph., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Sitt, S., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Pacetti, S., Rossi, A., Angelini, C., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Cervelli, A., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Perez, A., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Pegna, D. Lopes, Olsen, J., Smith, A. J. S., Telnov, A. V., Anullia, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Gaspero, M., Gioi, L. Li, Mazzoni, M. A., Piredda, G., Bunger, C., Grunberg, O., Hartmann, T., Leddig, T., Schroder, H., Voss, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Olaiya, E. O., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., de Monchenault, G. Hamel, Vasseur, G., Y`eche, Ch., Aston, D., Bard, D. J., Bartoldus, R., Benitez, J. F., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dubois-Felsmann, G. P., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Sevilla, M. Franco, Fulsom, B. G., Gabareen, A. M., Graham, M. T., Grenier, P., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kelsey, M. H., Kim, P., Kocian, M. L., Leith, D. W. G. S., Lewis, P., Lindquist, B., Luitz, S., Luth, V., Lynch, H. L., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Nelson, S., Perl, M., Pulliam, T., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Salnikov, A. A., Schindler, R. H., Snyder, A., Su, D., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wagner, A. P., Wisniewski, W. J., Wittgen, M., Wright, D. H., Wulsin, H. W., Young, C. C., Ziegler, V., Park, W., Purohit, M. V., White, R. M., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Miyashita, T. S., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Lund, P., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Ruland, A. M., Schwitters, R. F., Wray, B. C., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., Gamba, D., Zambito, S., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Bernabeu, J., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Villanueva-Perez, P., Ahmed, H., Albert, J., Banerjee, Sw., Bernlochner, F. U., Choi, H. H. F., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lewczuk, M. J., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Band, H. R., Dasu, S., Pan, Y., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Although CP violation in the B meson system has been well established by the B factories, there has been no direct observation of time reversal violation. The decays of entangled neutral B mesons into definite flavor states ($B^0$ or $\bar{B}^0$), and $J/\psi K_S^0$ or $c\bar{c} K_S^0$ final states (referred to as $B_+$ or $B_-$), allow comparisons between the probabilities of four pairs of T-conjugated transitions, for example, $\bar{B}^0 \rightarrow B_-$ and $B_- \rightarrow \bar{B}^0$, as a function of the time difference between the two B decays. Using 468 million $B\bar{B}$ pairs produced in $\Upsilon(4S)$ decays collected by the BABAR detector at SLAC, we measure T-violating parameters in the time evolution of neutral B mesons, yielding $\Delta S_T^+ = -1.37 \pm 0.14 (stat.) \pm 0.06 (syst.)$ and $\Delta S_T^- = 1.17 \pm 0.18 (stat.) \pm 0.11 (syst.)$. These nonzero results represent the first direct observation of T violation through the exchange of initial and final states in transitions that can only be connected by a T-symmetry transformation., Comment: 7 pages, 3 postscript figures, 1 table, appendix with 4 pages containing supplementary material. Accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett
Published: 2012
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33. Initial-State Radiation Measurement of the e+e- -> pi+pi-pi+pi- Cross Section

Author: Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Tico, J. Garra, Grauges, E., Martinelli, M., Milanes, D. A., Palano, A., Pappagallo, M., Eigen, G., Stugu, B., Brown, D. N., Kerth, L. T., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Lynch, G., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Asgeirsson, D. J., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., Khan, A., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Yushkov, A. N., Bondioli, M., Kirkby, D., Lankford, A. J., Mandelkern, M., Stoker, D. P., Atmacan, H., Gary, J. W., Liu, F., Long, O., Vitug, G. M., Campagnari, C., Hong, T. M., Kovalskyi, D., Richman, J. D., West, C. A., Eisner, A. M., Kroseberg, J., Lockman, W. S., Martinez, A. J., Schalk, T., Schumm, B. A., Seiden, A., Cheng, C. H., Doll, D. A., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Rakitin, A. Y., Andreassen, R., Dubrovin, M. S., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Bloom, P. C., Ford, W. T., Gaz, A., Nagel, M., Nauenberg, U., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Ayad, R., Toki, W. H., Spaan, B., Kobel, M. J., Schubert, K. R., Schwierz, R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Clark, P. J., Playfer, S., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Munerato, M., Negrini, M., Piemontese, L., Santoro, V., Baldini-Ferroli, R., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Nicolaci, M., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rama, M., Zallo, A., Contri, R., Guido, E., Vetere, M. Lo, Monge, M. R., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Robutti, E., Bhuyan, B., Prasad, V., Lee, C. L., Morii, M., Edwards, A. J., Adametz, A., Marks, J., Uwer, U., Bernlochner, F. U., Ebert, M., Lacker, H. M., Lueck, T., Dauncey, P. D., Tibbetts, M., Behera, P. K., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Meyer, W. T., Prell, S., Rosenberg, E. I., Rubin, A. E., Gritsan, A. V., Guo, Z. J., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Grosdidier, G., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Malaescu, B., Roudeau, P., Schune, M. H., Stocchi, A., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Bingham, I., Chavez, C. A., Coleman, J. P., Fry, J. R., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Sigamani, M., Cowan, G., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Fritsch, M., Gradl, W., Hafner, A., Prencipe, E., Alwyn, K. E., Bailey, D., Barlow, R. J., Jackson, G., Lafferty, G. D., Behn, E., Cenci, R., Hamilton, B., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Simi, G., Dallapiccola, C., Cowan, R., Dujmic, D., Sciolla, G., Lindemann, D., Patel, P. M., Robertson, S. H., Schram, M., Biassoni, P., Lazzaro, A., Lombardo, V., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Stracka, S., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Kroeger, R., Sonnek, P., Summers, D. J., Nguyen, X., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Monorchio, D., Onorato, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Snoek, H. L., Jessop, C. P., Knoepfel, K. J., LoSecco, J. M., Wang, W. F., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Brau, J., Frey, R., Sinev, N. B., Strom, D., Torrence, E., Feltresi, E., Gagliardi, N., Margoni, M., Morandin, M., Posocco, M., Rotondo, M., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Briand, H., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Hamon, O., Leruste, Ph., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Sitt, S., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Pacetti, S., Rossi, A., Angelini, C., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Cervelli, A., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Perez, A., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Pegna, D. Lopes, Lu, C., Olsen, J., Smith, A. J. S., Telnov, A. V., Anulli, F., Cavoto, G., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Gaspero, M., Gioi, L. Li, Mazzoni, M. A., Piredda, G., Bünger, C., Grünberg, O., Hartmann, T., Leddig, T., Schröder, H., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Olaiya, E. O., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., de Monchenault, G. Hamel, Vasseur, G., Y\`, Ch., Aston, D., Bard, D. J., Bartoldus, R., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dubois-Felsmann, G. P., Dunwoodie, W., Field, R. C., Sevilla, M. Franco, Fulsom, B. G., Gabareen, A. M., Graham, M. T., Grenier, P., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kelsey, M. H., Kim, H., Kim, P., Kocian, M. L., Leith, D. W. G. S., Lewis, P., Li, S., Lindquist, B., Luitz, S., Luth, V., Lynch, H. L., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Nelson, S., Ofte, I., Perl, M., Pulliam, T., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Salnikov, A. A., Schindler, R. H., Snyder, A., Su, D., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wagner, A. P., Weaver, M., Wisniewski, W. J., Wittgen, M., Wright, D. H., Wulsin, H. W., Yarritu, A. K., Young, C. C., Ziegler, V., Park, W., Purohit, M. V., White, R. M., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Bellis, M., Benitez, J. F., Burchat, P. R., Miyashita, T. S., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Lund, P., Spanier, S. M., Eckmann, R., Ritchie, J. L., Ruland, A. M., Schilling, C. J., Schwitters, R. F., Wray, B. C., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Ahmed, H., Albert, J., Banerjee, Sw., Choi, H. H. F., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lewczuk, M. J., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Puccio, E. M. T., Band, H. R., Dasu, S., Pan, Y., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We study the process e+e- -> pi+pi-pi+pi-gamma, with a photon emitted from the initial-state electron or positron, using 454.3 fb^-1 of data collected with the BABAR detector at SLAC, corresponding to approximately 260,000 signal events. We use these data to extract the non-radiative sigma(e+e- ->pi+pi-pi+pi-) cross section in the energy range from 0.6 to 4.5 Gev. The total uncertainty of the cross section measurement in the peak region is less than 3%, higher in precision than the corresponding results obtained from energy scan data.
Published: 2012
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34. A Measurement of the Semileptonic Branching Fraction of the B_s Meson

Author: The BaBar Collaboration, Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Tico, J. Garra, Grauges, E., Martinelli, M., Milanes, D. A., Palano, A., Pappagallo, M., Eigen, G., Stugu, B., Brown, D. N., Kerth, L. T., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Lynch, G., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Asgeirsson, D. J., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., Khan, A., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Yushkov, A. N., Bondioli, M., Kirkby, D., Lankford, A. J., Mandelkern, M., Stoker, D. P., Atmacan, H., Gary, J. W., Liu, F., Long, O., Vitug, G. M., Campagnari, C., Hong, T. M., Kovalskyi, D., Richman, J. D., West, C. A., Eisner, A. M., Kroseberg, J., Lockman, W. S., Martinez, A. J., Schalk, T., Schumm, B. A., Seiden, A., Cheng, C. H., Doll, D. A., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Rakitin, A. Y., Andreassen, R., Dubrovin, M. S., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Bloom, P. C., Ford, W. T., Gaz, A., Nagel, M., Nauenberg, U., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Ayad, R., Toki, W. H., Spaan, B., Kobel, M. J., Schubert, K. R., Schwierz, R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Clark, P. J., Playfer, S., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Munerato, M., Negrini, M., Piemontese, L., Santoro, V., Baldini-Ferroli, R., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Nicolaci, M., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rama, M., Zallo, A., Contri, R., Guido, E., Vetere, M. Lo, Monge, M. R., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Robutti, E., Bhuyan, B., Prasad, V., Lee, C. L., Morii, M., Edwards, A. J., Adametz, A., Marks, J., Uwer, U., Bernlochner, F. U., Lacker, H. M., Lueck, T., Dauncey, P. D., Tibbetts, M., Behera, P. K., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Meyer, W. T., Prell, S., Rosenberg, E. I., Rubin, A. E., Gritsan, A. V., Guo, Z. J., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Derkach, D., Grosdidier, G., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Malaescu, B., Roudeau, P., Schune, M. H., Stocchi, A., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Bingham, I., Chavez, C. A., Coleman, J. P., Fry, J. R., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Sigamani, M., Cowan, G., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Fritsch, M., Gradl, W., Hafner, A., Prencipe, E., Alwyn, K. E., Bailey, D., Barlow, R. J., Jackson, G., Lafferty, G. D., Behn, E., Cenci, R., Hamilton, P. M., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Simi, G., Dallapiccola, C., Cowan, R., Dujmic, D., Sciolla, G., Lindemann, D., Patel, P. M., Robertson, S. H., Schram, M., Biassoni, P., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Stracka, S., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Kroeger, R., Sonnek, P., Summers, D. J., Nguyen, X., Simard, M., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Monorchio, D., Onorato, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Snoek, H. L., Jessop, C. P., Knoepfel, K. J., LoSecco, J. M., Wang, W. F., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Brau, J., Frey, R., Sinev, N. B., Strom, D., Torrence, E., Feltresi, E., Gagliardi, N., Margoni, M., Morandin, M., Posocco, M., Rotondo, M., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Briand, H., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Hamon, O., Leruste, Ph., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Sitt, S., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Pacetti, S., Rossi, A., Angelini, C., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Cervelli, A., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Perez, A., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Pegna, D. Lopes, Lu, C., Olsen, J., Smith, A. J. S., Telnov, A. V., Anulli, F., Cavoto, G., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Gaspero, M., Gioi, L. Li, Mazzoni, M. A., Piredda, G., Renga, F., Bünger, C., Grünberg, O., Hartmann, T., Leddig, T., Schröder, H., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Olaiya, E. O., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., de Monchenault, G. Hamel, Vasseur, G., Y\`, Ch., Aston, D., Bard, D. J., Bartoldus, R., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dubois-Felsmann, G. P., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Sevilla, M. Franco, Fulsom, B. G., Gabareen, A. M., Graham, M. T., Grenier, P., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kelsey, M. H., Kim, H., Kim, P., Kocian, M. L., Leith, D. W. G. S., Lewis, P., Lindquist, B., Luitz, S., Luth, V., Lynch, H. L., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Nelson, S., Perl, M., Pulliam, T., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Salnikov, A. A., Schindler, R. H., Snyder, A., Su, D., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wagner, A. P., Weaver, M., Wisniewski, W. J., Wittgen, M., Wright, D. H., Wulsin, H. W., Yarritu, A. K., Young, C. C., Ziegler, V., Park, W., Purohit, M. V., White, R. M., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Bellis, M., Benitez, J. F., Burchat, P. R., Miyashita, T. S., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Lund, P., Spanier, S. M., Eckmann, R., Ritchie, J. L., Ruland, A. M., Schilling, C. J., Schwitters, R. F., Wray, B. C., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Ahmed, H., Albert, J., Banerjee, Sw., Choi, H. H. F., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lewczuk, M. J., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Puccio, E. M. T., Band, H. R., Dasu, S., Pan, Y., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report a measurement of the inclusive semileptonic branching fraction of the B_s meson using data collected with the BaBar detector in the center-of-mass (CM) energy region above the Upsilon(4S) resonance. We use the inclusive yield of phi mesons and the phi yield in association with a high-momentum lepton to perform a simultaneous measurement of the semileptonic branching fraction and the production rate of B_s mesons relative to all B mesons as a function of CM energy. The inclusive semileptonic branching fraction of the B_s meson is determined to be B(B_s to l nu X)=9.5 (+2.5/-2.0)(stat)(+1.1/-1.9)(syst)%, where l indicates the average of e and mu., Comment: 8 pages, 7 eps figures
Published: 2011
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35. Search for hadronic decays of a light Higgs boson in the radiative decay Upsilon --> gamma A0

Author: The BABAR Collaboration, Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Tico, J. Garra, Grauges, E., Martinelli, M., Milanes, D. A., Palano, A., Pappagallo, M., Eigen, G., Stugu, B., Brown, D. N., Kerth, L. T., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Lynch, G., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Asgeirsson, D. J., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Khan, A., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Yushkov, A. N., Bondioli, M., Kirkby, D., Lankford, A. J., Mandelkern, M., Stoker, D. P., Atmacan, H., Gary, J. W., Liu, F., Long, O., Vitug, G. M., Campagnari, C., Hong, T. M., Kovalskyi, D., Richman, J. D., West, C. A., Eisner, A. M., Kroseberg, J., Lockman, W. S., Martinez, A. J., Schalk, T., Schumm, B. A., Seiden, A., Cheng, C. H., Doll, D. A., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Rakitin, A. Y., Andreassen, R., Dubrovin, M. S., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Bloom, P. C., Ford, W. T., Gaz, A., Nagel, M., Nauenberg, U., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Ayad, R., Toki, W. H., Spaan, B., Kobel, M. J., Schubert, K. R., Schwierz, R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Clark, P. J., Playfer, S., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Munerato, M., Negrini, M., Piemontese, L., Santoro, V., Baldini-Ferroli, R., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Nicolaci, M., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rama, M., Zallo, A., Contri, R., Guido, E., Vetere, M. Lo, Monge, M. R., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Robutti, E., Bhuyan, B., Prasad, V., Lee, C. L., Morii, M., Edwards, A. J., Adametz, A., Marks, J., Uwer, U., Bernlochner, F. U., Ebert, M., Lacker, H. M., Lueck, T., Dauncey, P. D., Tibbetts, M., Behera, P. K., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Meyer, W. T., Prell, S., Rosenberg, E. I., Rubin, A. E., Gritsan, A. V., Guo, Z. J., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Grosdidier, G., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Malaescu, B., Roudeau, P., Schune, M. H., Stocchi, A., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Bingham, I., Chavez, C. A., Coleman, J. P., Fry, J. R., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Sigamani, M., Cowan, G., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Fritsch, M., Gradl, W., Hafner, A., Prencipe, E., Alwyn, K. E., Bailey, D., Barlow, R. J., Jackson, G., Lafferty, G. D., Behn, E., Cenci, R., Hamilton, B., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Simi, G., Dallapiccola, C., Cowan, R., Dujmic, D., Sciolla, G., Lindemann, D., Patel, P. M., Robertson, S. H., Schram, M., Biassoni, P., Lazzaro, A., Lombardo, V., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Stracka, S., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Kroeger, R., Sonnek, P., Summers, D. J., Nguyen, X., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Monorchio, D., Onorato, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Snoek, H. L., Jessop, C. P., Knoepfel, K. J., LoSecco, J. M., Wang, W. F., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Brau, J., Frey, R., Sinev, N. B., Strom, D., Torrence, E., Feltresi, E., Gagliardi, N., Margoni, M., Morandin, M., Posocco, M., Rotondo, M., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Briand, H., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Hamon, O., Leruste, Ph., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Sitt, S., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Pacetti, S., Rossi, A., Angelini, C., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Cervelli, A., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Perez, A., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Pegna, D. Lopes, Lu, C., Olsen, J., Smith, A. J. S., Telnov, A. V., Anulli, F., Cavoto, G., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Gaspero, M., Gioi, L. Li, Mazzoni, M. A., Piredda, G., Bünger, C., Grünberg, O., Hartmann, T., Leddig, T., Schröder, H., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Olaiya, E. O., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., de Monchenault, G. Hamel, Vasseur, G., Yeche, Ch., Aston, D., Bard, D. J., Bartoldus, R., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dubois-Felsmann, G. P., Dunwoodie, W., Field, R. C., Sevilla, M. Franco, Fulsom, B. G., Gabareen, A. M., Graham, M. T., Grenier, P., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kelsey, M. H., Kim, H., Kim, P., Kocian, M. L., Leith, D. W. G. S., Lewis, P., Li, S., Lindquist, B., Luitz, S., Luth, V., Lynch, H. L., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Nelson, S., Ofte, I., Perl, M., Pulliam, T., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Salnikov, A. A., Schindler, R. H., Snyder, A., Su, D., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wagner, A. P., Weaver, M., Wisniewski, W. J., Wittgen, M., Wright, D. H., Wulsin, H. W., Yarritu, A. K., Young, C. C., Ziegler, V., Park, W., Purohit, M. V., White, R. M., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Bellis, M., Benitez, J. F., Burchat, P. R., Miyashita, T. S., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Lund, P., Spanier, S. M., Eckmann, R., Ritchie, J. L., Ruland, A. M., Schilling, C. J., Schwitters, R. F., Wray, B. C., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Ahmed, H., Albert, J., Banerjee, Sw., Choi, H. H. F., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lewczuk, M. J., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Puccio, E. M. T., Band, H. R., Dasu, S., Pan, Y., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We search for hadronic decays of a light Higgs boson (A0) produced in radiative decays of an Upsilon(2S) or Upsilon(3S) meson, Upsilon --> gamma A0. The data have been recorded by the BABAR experiment at the Upsilon(3S) and Upsilon(2S) center of mass energies, and include (121.3 \pm 1.2) x 10^6 Upsilon(3S) and (98.3 \pm 0.9) x 10^6 Upsilon(2S) mesons. No significant signal is observed. We set 90% confidence level upper limits on the product branching fractions B(Upsilon(nS)-->gamma A0) x B(A0-->hadrons) (n=2 or 3) that range from 1 x 10^{-6} for an A0 mass of 0.3 GeV/c^2 to 8 x 10^{-5} at 7 GeV/c^2., Comment: 7 pages, 5 postscript figures, submitted to Physical Review Letters
Published: 2011
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36. Observation of the baryonic B decay B0bar --> Lambda_c^+ anti-Lambda K-

Author: The BABAR Collaboration, Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Tico, J. Garra, Grauges, E., Martinelli, M., Milanes, D. A., Palano, A., Pappagallo, M., Eigen, G., Stugu, B., Sun, L., Brown, D. N., Kerth, L. T., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Lynch, G., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Asgeirsson, D. J., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., Khan, A., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Yushkov, A. N., Bondioli, M., Kirkby, D., Lankford, A. J., Mandelkern, M., Stoker, D. P., Atmacan, H., Gary, J. W., Liu, F., Long, O., Vitug, G. M., Campagnari, C., Hong, T. M., Kovalskyi, D., Richman, J. D., West, C. A., Eisner, A. M., Kroseberg, J., Lockman, W. S., Martinez, A. J., Schalk, T., Schumm, B. A., Seiden, A., Cheng, C. H., Doll, D. A., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Rakitin, A. Y., Andreassen, R., Dubrovin, M. S., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Sokoloff, M. D., Bloom, P. C., Ford, W. T., Gaz, A., Nagel, M., Nauenberg, U., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Ayad, R., Toki, W. H., Spaan, B., Kobel, M. J., Schubert, K. R., Schwierz, R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Clark, P. J., Playfer, S., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Munerato, M., Negrini, M., Piemontese, L., Baldini-Ferroli, R., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Nicolaci, M., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rama, M., Zallo, A., Contri, R., Guido, E., Vetere, M. Lo, Monge, M. R., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Robutti, E., Bhuyan, B., Prasad, V., Lee, C. L., Morii, M., Edwards, A. J., Adametz, A., Marks, J., Uwer, U., Bernlochner, F. U., Ebert, M., Lacker, H. M., Lueck, T., Dauncey, P. D., Tibbetts, M., Behera, P. K., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Meyer, W. T., Prell, S., Rosenberg, E. I., Rubin, A. E., Gritsan, A. V., Guo, Z. J., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Grosdidier, G., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Malaescu, B., Roudeau, P., Schune, M. H., Stocchi, A., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Bingham, I., Chavez, C. A., Coleman, J. P., Fry, J. R., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Sigamani, M., Cowan, G., Paramesvaran, S., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Fritsch, M., Gradl, W., Hafner, A., Prencipe, E., Alwyn, K. E., Bailey, D., Barlow, R. J., Jackson, G., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Hamilton, B., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Simi, G., Dallapiccola, C., Cowan, R., Dujmic, D., Sciolla, G., Lindemann, D., Patel, P. M., Robertson, S. H., Schram, M., Biassoni, P., Lazzaro, A., Lombardo, V., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Stracka, S., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Kroeger, R., Sonnek, P., Summers, D. J., Nguyen, X., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Monorchio, D., Onorato, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Snoek, H. L., Jessop, C. P., Knoepfel, K. J., LoSecco, J. M., Wang, W. F., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Brau, J., Frey, R., Sinev, N. B., Strom, D., Torrence, E., Feltresi, E., Gagliardi, N., Margoni, M., Morandin, M., Posocco, M., Rotondo, M., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Briand, H., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Hamon, O., Leruste, Ph., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Sitt, S., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Pacetti, S., Rossi, A., Angelini, C., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Cervelli, A., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Perez, A., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Pegna, D. Lopes, Lu, C., Olsen, J., Smith, A. J. S., Telnov, A. V., Anulli, F., Cavoto, G., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Gaspero, M., Gioi, L. Li, Mazzoni, M. A., Piredda, G., Bünger, C., Grünberg, O., Hartmann, T., Leddig, T., Schröder, H., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Olaiya, E. O., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., de Monchenault, G. Hamel, Vasseur, G., Yèche, Ch., Aston, D., Bard, D. J., Bartoldus, R., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dubois-Felsmann, G. P., Dunwoodie, W., Field, R. C., Sevilla, M. Franco, Fulsom, B. G., Gabareen, A. M., Graham, M. T., Grenier, P., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kelsey, M. H., Kim, H., Kim, P., Kocian, M. L., Leith, D. W. G. S., Lewis, P., Li, S., Lindquist, B., Luitz, S., Luth, V., Lynch, H. L., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Nelson, S., Ofte, I., Perl, M., Pulliam, T., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Salnikov, A. A., Santoro, V., Schindler, R. H., Snyder, A., Su, D., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wagner, A. P., Weaver, M., Wisniewski, W. J., Wittgen, M., Wright, D. H., Wulsin, H. W., Yarritu, A. K., Young, C. C., Ziegler, V., Park, W., Purohit, M. V., White, R. M., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Bellis, M., Benitez, J. F., Burchat, P. R., Miyashita, T. S., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Lund, P., Spanier, S. M., Eckmann, R., Ritchie, J. L., Ruland, A. M., Schilling, C. J., Schwitters, R. F., Wray, B. C., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Ahmed, H., Albert, J., Banerjee, Sw., Choi, H. H. F., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lewczuk, M. J., Lindsay, C., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Puccio, E. M. T., Band, H. R., Dasu, S., Pan, Y., Prepost, R., Vuosalo, C. O., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report the observation of the baryonic B decay B0bar --> Lambda_c^+ anti-Lambda K- with a significance larger than 7 standard deviations based on 471x10^6$ BBbar pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II storage ring at SLAC. We measure the branching fraction for the decay B0bar --> Lambda_c^+ anti-Lambda K- to be (3.8 \pm 0.8_{stat} \pm 0.2_{sys} \pm 1.0_{Lambda_c^+})x10^{-5}. The uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and due to the uncertainty in the Lambda_c^+ branching fraction. We find that the Lambda_c^+ K^- invariant mass distribution shows an enhancement above 3.5 GeV/c^2., Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D (Rapid Communications)
Published: 2011
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37. Study of radiative bottomonium transitions using converted photons

Author: The BABAR Collaboration, Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., Tisserand, V., GarraTico, J., Grauges, E., Martinelli, M., Milanes, D. A., Palano, A., Pappagallo, M., Eigen, G., Stugu, B., Sun, L., Brown, D. N., Kerth, L. T., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Lynch, G., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Asgeirsson, D. J., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., Khan, A., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Yushkov, A. N., Bondioli, M., Curry, S., Kirkby, D., Lankford, A. J., Mandelkern, M., Stoker, D. P., Atmacan, H., Gary, J. W., Liu, F., Long, O., Vitug, G. M., Campagnari, C., Hong, T. M., Kovalskyi, D., Richman, J. D., West, C. A., Eisner, A. M., Kroseberg, J., Lockman, W. S., Martinez, A. J., Schalk, T., Schumm, B. A., Seiden, A., Cheng, C. H., Doll, D. A., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Rakitin, A. Y., Andreassen, R., Dubrovin, M. S., Meadows, B. T., Sokoloff, M. D., Bloom, P. C., Ford, W. T., Gaz, A., Nagel, M., Nauenberg, U., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Ayad, R., Toki, W. H., Spaan, B., Kobel, M. J., Schubert, K. R., Schwierz, R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Clark, P. J., Playfer, S., Watson, J. E., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Munerato, M., Negrini, M., Piemontese, L., Baldini-Ferroli, R., Calcaterra, A., deSangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Nicolaci, M., Pacetti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rama, M., Zallo, A., Contri, R., Guido, E., LoVetere, M., Monge, M. R., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Robutti, E., Bhuyan, B., Prasad, V., Lee, C. L., Morii, M., Edwards, A. J., Adametz, A., Marks, J., Uwer, U., Bernlochner, F. U., Ebert, M., Lacker, H. M., Lueck, T., Dauncey, P. D., Tibbetts, M., Behera, P. K., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Crawley, H. B., Meyer, W. T., Prell, S., Rosenberg, E. I., Rubin, A. E., Gritsan, A. V., Guo, Z. J., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Derkach, D., Grosdidier, G., LeDiberder, F., Lutz, A. M., Malaescu, B., Roudeau, P., Schune, M. H., Stocchi, A., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Bingham, I., Chavez, C. A., Coleman, J. P., Fry, J. R., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., DiLodovico, F., Sacco, R., Sigamani, M., Cowan, G., Paramesvaran, S., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Fritsch, M., Gradl, W., Hafner, A., Alwyn, K. E., Bailey, D., Barlow, R. J., Jackson, G., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Hamilton, B., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Simi, G., Dallapiccola, C., Salvati, E., Cowan, R., Dujmic, D., Sciolla, G., Lindemann, D., Patel, P. M., Robertson, S. H., Schram, M., Biassoni, P., Lazzaro, A., Lombardo, V., Palombo, F., Stracka, S., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Kroeger, R., Sonnek, P., Summers, D. J., Nguyen, X., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Monorchio, D., Onorato, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Snoek, H. L., Jessop, C. P., Knoepfel, K. J., LoSecco, J. M., Wang, W. F., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Brau, J., Frey, R., Sinev, N. B., Strom, D., Torrence, E., Feltresi, E., Gagliardi, N., Margoni, M., Morandin, M., Posocco, M., Rotondo, M., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Briand, H., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Hamon, O., Leruste, Ph., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Sitt, S., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Rossi, A., Angelini, C., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Cervelli, A., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Neri, N., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Perez, A., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., LopesPegna, D., Lu, C., Olsen, J., Smith, A. J. S., Telnov, A. V., Anulli, F., Cavoto, G., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Gaspero, M., LiGioi, L., Mazzoni, M. A., Piredda, G., Bunger, C., Hartmann, T., Leddig, T., Schroder, H., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Olaiya, E. O., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., de Monchenault, G. Hamel, Vasseur, G., Yeche, Ch., Aston, D., Bard, D. J., Bartoldus, R., Benitez, J. F., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dubois-Felsmann, G. P., Dunwoodie, W., Field, R. C., Sevilla, M. Franco, Fulsom, B. G., Gabareen, A. M., Graham, M. T., Grenier, P., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kelsey, M. H., Kim, H., Kim, P., Kocian, M. L., Leith, D. W. G. S., Lewis, P., Li, S., Lindquist, B., Luitz, S., Luth, V., Lynch, H. L., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Nelson, S., Ofte, I., Perl, M., Pulliam, T., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Salnikov, A. A., Santoro, V., Schindler, R. H., Snyder, A., Su, D., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wagner, A. P., Weaver, M., Wisniewski, W. J., Wittgen, M., Wright, D. H., Wulsin, H. W., Yarritu, A. K., Young, C. C., Ziegler, V., Park, W., Purohit, M. V., White, R. M., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Miyashita, T. S., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Lund, P., Spanier, S. M., Eckmann, R., Ritchie, J. L., Ruland, A. M., Schilling, C. J., Schwitters, R. F., Wray, B. C., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Lopez-March, N., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Ahmed, H., Albert, J., Banerjee, Sw., Choi, H. H. F., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lewczuk, M. J., Lindsay, C., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Puccio, E. M. T., Band, H. R., Dasu, S., Pan, Y., Prepost, R., Vuosalo, C. O., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We use 111+/-1 million Upsilon(3S) and 89+/-1 million Upsilon(2S) events recorded by the BaBar detector at the PEP-II B-factory at SLAC to perform a study of radiative transitions between bottomonium states using photons that have been converted to e+e- pairs by the detector material. We observe Upsilon(3S) -> gamma chi_b0,2(1P) decay, make precise measurements of the branching fractions for chi_b1,2(1P,2P) -> gamma Upsilon(1S) and chi_b1,2(2P) -> gamma Upsilon(2S) decays, and search for radiative decay to the eta_b(1S) and eta_b(2S) states., Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures, published by Phys. Rev. D
Published: 2011
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38. Evidence for the h_b(1P) meson in the decay Upsilon(3S) --> pi0 h_b(1P)

Author: The BABAR Collaboration, Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., Tisserand, V., Tico, J. Garra, Grauges, E., Martinelli, M., Milanes, D. A., Palano, A., Pappagallo, M., Eigen, G., Stugu, B., Sun, L., Brown, D. N., Kerth, L. T., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Lynch, G., Osipenkov, I. L., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Asgeirsson, D. J., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., Khan, A., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Yushkov, A. N., Bondioli, M., Curry, S., Kirkby, D., Lankford, A. J., Mandelkern, M., Stoker, D. P., Atmacan, H., Gary, J. W., Liu, F., Long, O., Vitug, G. M., Campagnari, C., Hong, T. M., Kovalskyi, D., Richman, J. D., West, C. A., Eisner, A. M., Kroseberg, J., Lockman, W. S., Martinez, A. J., Schalk, T., Schumm, B. A., Seiden, A., Cheng, C. H., Doll, D. A., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Rakitin, A. Y., Andreassen, R., Dubrovin, M. S., Meadows, B. T., Sokoloff, M. D., Bloom, P. C., Ford, W. T., Gaz, A., Nagel, M., Nauenberg, U., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Ayad, R., Toki, W. H., Jasper, H., Petzold, A., Spaan, B., Kobel, M. J., Schubert, K. R., Schwierz, R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Clark, P. J., Playfer, S., Watson, J. E., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Munerato, M., Negrini, M., Piemontese, L., Baldini-Ferroli, R., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Nicolaci, M., Pacetti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rama, M., Zallo, A., Contri, R., Guido, E., Vetere, M. Lo, Monge, M. R., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Robutti, E., Bhuyan, B., Prasad, V., Lee, C. L., Morii, M., Edwards, A. J., Adametz, A., Marks, J., Uwer, U., Bernlochner, F. U., Ebert, M., Lacker, H. M., Lueck, T., Dauncey, P. D., Tibbetts, M., Behera, P. K., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Crawley, H. B., Meyer, W. T., Prell, S., Rosenberg, E. I., Rubin, A. E., Gritsan, A. V., Guo, Z. J., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Derkach, D., da Costa, J. Firmino, Grosdidier, G., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Malaescu, B., Perez, A., Roudeau, P., Schune, M. H., Stocchi, A., Wang, L., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Bingham, I., Chavez, C. A., Coleman, J. P., Fry, J. R., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Sigamani, M., Cowan, G., Paramesvaran, S., Wren, A. C., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Fritsch, M., Gradl, W., Hafner, A., Alwyn, K. E., Bailey, D., Barlow, R. J., Jackson, G., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Hamilton, B., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Simi, G., Dallapiccola, C., Salvati, E., Cowan, R., Dujmic, D., Sciolla, G., Lindemann, D., Patel, P. M., Robertson, S. H., Schram, M., Biassoni, P., Lazzaro, A., Lombardo, V., Palombo, F., Stracka, S., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Kroeger, R., Sonnek, P., Summers, D. J., Nguyen, X., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Monorchio, D., Onorato, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Snoek, H. L., Jessop, C. P., Knoepfel, K. J., LoSecco, J. M., Wang, W. F., Corwin, L. A., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Blount, N. L., Brau, J., Frey, R., Kolb, J. A., Rahmat, R., Sinev, N. B., Strom, D., Strube, J., Torrence, E., Castelli, G., Feltresi, E., Gagliardi, N., Margoni, M., Morandin, M., Posocco, M., Rotondo, M., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Briand, H., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Hamon, O., Leruste, Ph., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Sitt, S., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Rossi, A., Angelini, C., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Cervelli, A., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Neri, N., Paoloni, E., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Pegna, D. Lopes, Lu, C., Olsen, J., Smith, A. J. S., Telnov, A. V., Anulli, F., Cavoto, G., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Gaspero, M., Gioi, L. Li, Mazzoni, M. A., Piredda, G., Bünger, C., Hartmann, T., Leddig, T., Schröder, H., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Olaiya, E. O., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., de Monchenault, G. Hamel, Vasseur, G., Yèche, Ch., Allen, M. T., Aston, D., Bard, D. J., Bartoldus, R., Benitez, J. F., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dubois-Felsmann, G. P., Dunwoodie, W., Field, R. C., Sevilla, M. Franco, Fulsom, B. G., Gabareen, A. M., Graham, M. T., Grenier, P., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kelsey, M. H., Kim, H., Kim, P., Kocian, M. L., Leith, D. W. G. S., Lewis, P., Li, S., Lindquist, B., Luitz, S., Luth, V., Lynch, H. L., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Nelson, S., O'Grady, C. P., Ofte, I., Perl, M., Pulliam, T., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Salnikov, A. A., Santoro, V., Schindler, R. H., Schwiening, J., Snyder, A., Su, D., Sullivan, M. K., Sun, S., Suzuki, K., Thompson, J. M., Va'vra, J., Wagner, A. P., Weaver, M., Wisniewski, W. J., Wittgen, M., Wright, D. H., Wulsin, H. W., Yarritu, A. K., Young, C. C., Ziegler, V., Chen, X. R., Park, W., Purohit, M. V., White, R. M., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Miyashita, T. S., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Guttman, N., Soffer, A., Lund, P., Spanier, S. M., Eckmann, R., Ritchie, J. L., Ruland, A. M., Schilling, C. J., Schwitters, R. F., Wray, B. C., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., Gamba, D., Pelliccioni, M., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Lopez-March, N., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Ahmed, H., Albert, J., Banerjee, Sw., Choi, H. H. F., Hamano, K., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lewczuk, M. J., Lindsay, C., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Puccio, E. M. T., Band, H. R., Dasu, S., Pan, Y., Prepost, R., Vuosalo, C. O., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Using a sample of 122 million Upsilon(3S) events recorded with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider at SLAC, we search for the $h_b(1P)$ spin-singlet partner of the P-wave chi_{bJ}(1P) states in the sequential decay Upsilon(3S) --> pi0 h_b(1P), h_b(1P) --> gamma eta_b(1S). We observe an excess of events above background in the distribution of the recoil mass against the pi0 at mass 9902 +/- 4(stat.) +/- 2(syst.) MeV/c^2. The width of the observed signal is consistent with experimental resolution, and its significance is 3.1sigma, including systematic uncertainties. We obtain the value (4.3 +/- 1.1(stat.) +/- 0.9(syst.)) x 10^{-4} for the product branching fraction BF(Upsilon(3S)-->pi0 h_b) x BF(h_b-->gamma eta_b)., Comment: 8 pages, 4 postscript figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D (Rapid Communications)
Published: 2011
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39. Particle Physics and Astrophysics -- A whitepaper in response to a call to the Astronomy and Astrophysics Community from the Committee on Astro2010 for State of the Profession Position Papers

Author: Shipsey, I., Buckley-Geer, L., Burchat, P., Burke, D., Cheu, E., Cinabro, D., Honscheid, K., Kahn, S., Kirkby, D., Meadows, B., Schindler, R., Thaler, J., and Wester, W.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Physics - Popular Physics
Abstract: We discuss some of the key science questions that are bringing particle physicists and astrophysicists together, and comment on some of the cultural and funding issues that have arisen as these two communities become increasingly intertwined., Comment: A state of the profession position paper submitted to the Astronomy Decadal Survey Astro2010
Published: 2009

40. LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

Author: Ivezić, Željko, Kahn, Steven M., Tyson, J. Anthony, Abel, Bob, Acosta, Emily, Allsman, Robyn, Alonso, David, AlSayyad, Yusra, Anderson, Scott F., Andrew, John, Angel, James Roger P., Angeli, George Z., Ansari, Reza, Antilogus, Pierre, Araujo, Constanza, Armstrong, Robert, Arndt, Kirk T., Astier, Pierre, Aubourg, Éric, Auza, Nicole, Axelrod, Tim S., Bard, Deborah J., Barr, Jeff D., Barrau, Aurelian, Bartlett, James G., Bauer, Amanda E., Bauman, Brian J., Baumont, Sylvain, Becker, Andrew C., Becla, Jacek, Beldica, Cristina, Bellavia, Steve, Bianco, Federica B., Biswas, Rahul, Blanc, Guillaume, Blazek, Jonathan, Blandford, Roger D., Bloom, Josh S., Bogart, Joanne, Bond, Tim W., Borgland, Anders W., Borne, Kirk, Bosch, James F., Boutigny, Dominique, Brackett, Craig A., Bradshaw, Andrew, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brown, Michael E., Bullock, James S., Burchat, Patricia, Burke, David L., Cagnoli, Gianpietro, Calabrese, Daniel, Callahan, Shawn, Callen, Alice L., Chandrasekharan, Srinivasan, Charles-Emerson, Glenaver, Chesley, Steve, Cheu, Elliott C., Chiang, Hsin-Fang, Chiang, James, Chirino, Carol, Chow, Derek, Ciardi, David R., Claver, Charles F., Cohen-Tanugi, Johann, Cockrum, Joseph J., Coles, Rebecca, Connolly, Andrew J., Cook, Kem H., Cooray, Asantha, Covey, Kevin R., Cribbs, Chris, Cui, Wei, Cutri, Roc, Daly, Philip N., Daniel, Scott F., Daruich, Felipe, Daubard, Guillaume, Daues, Greg, Dawson, William, Delgado, Francisco, Dellapenna, Alfred, de Peyster, Robert, de Val-Borro, Miguel, Digel, Seth W., Doherty, Peter, Dubois, Richard, Dubois-Felsmann, Gregory P., Durech, Josef, Economou, Frossie, Eracleous, Michael, Ferguson, Henry, Figueroa, Enrique, Fisher-Levine, Merlin, Focke, Warren, Foss, Michael D., Frank, James, Freemon, Michael D., Gangler, Emmanuel, Gawiser, Eric, Geary, John C., Gee, Perry, Geha, Marla, Gessner, Charles J. B., Gibson, Robert R., Gilmore, D. Kirk, Glanzman, Thomas, Glick, William, Goldina, Tatiana, Goldstein, Daniel A., Goodenow, Iain, Graham, Melissa L., Gressler, William J., Gris, Philippe, Guy, Leanne P., Guyonnet, Augustin, Haller, Gunther, Harris, Ron, Hascall, Patrick A., Haupt, Justine, Hernandez, Fabio, Herrmann, Sven, Hileman, Edward, Hoblitt, Joshua, Hodgson, John A., Hogan, Craig, Huang, Dajun, Huffer, Michael E., Ingraham, Patrick, Innes, Walter R., Jacoby, Suzanne H., Jain, Bhuvnesh, Jammes, Fabrice, Jee, James, Jenness, Tim, Jernigan, Garrett, Jevremović, Darko, Johns, Kenneth, Johnson, Anthony S., Johnson, Margaret W. G., Jones, R. Lynne, Juramy-Gilles, Claire, Jurić, Mario, Kalirai, Jason S., Kallivayalil, Nitya J., Kalmbach, Bryce, Kantor, Jeffrey P., Karst, Pierre, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kelly, Heather, Kessler, Richard, Kinnison, Veronica, Kirkby, David, Knox, Lloyd, Kotov, Ivan V., Krabbendam, Victor L., Krughoff, K. Simon, Kubánek, Petr, Kuczewski, John, Kulkarni, Shri, Ku, John, Kurita, Nadine R., Lage, Craig S., Lambert, Ron, Lange, Travis, Langton, J. Brian, Guillou, Laurent Le, Levine, Deborah, Liang, Ming, Lim, Kian-Tat, Lintott, Chris J., Long, Kevin E., Lopez, Margaux, Lotz, Paul J., Lupton, Robert H., Lust, Nate B., MacArthur, Lauren A., Mahabal, Ashish, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Marsh, Darren S., Marshall, Philip J., Marshall, Stuart, May, Morgan, McKercher, Robert, McQueen, Michelle, Meyers, Joshua, Migliore, Myriam, Miller, Michelle, Mills, David J., Miraval, Connor, Moeyens, Joachim, Monet, David G., Moniez, Marc, Monkewitz, Serge, Montgomery, Christopher, Mueller, Fritz, Muller, Gary P., Arancibia, Freddy Muñoz, Neill, Douglas R., Newbry, Scott P., Nief, Jean-Yves, Nomerotski, Andrei, Nordby, Martin, O'Connor, Paul, Oliver, John, Olivier, Scot S., Olsen, Knut, O'Mullane, William, Ortiz, Sandra, Osier, Shawn, Owen, Russell E., Pain, Reynald, Palecek, Paul E., Parejko, John K., Parsons, James B., Pease, Nathan M., Peterson, J. Matt, Peterson, John R., Petravick, Donald L., Petrick, M. E. Libby, Petry, Cathy E., Pierfederici, Francesco, Pietrowicz, Stephen, Pike, Rob, Pinto, Philip A., Plante, Raymond, Plate, Stephen, Price, Paul A., Prouza, Michael, Radeka, Veljko, Rajagopal, Jayadev, Rasmussen, Andrew P., Regnault, Nicolas, Reil, Kevin A., Reiss, David J., Reuter, Michael A., Ridgway, Stephen T., Riot, Vincent J., Ritz, Steve, Robinson, Sean, Roby, William, Roodman, Aaron, Rosing, Wayne, Roucelle, Cecille, Rumore, Matthew R., Russo, Stefano, Saha, Abhijit, Sassolas, Benoit, Schalk, Terry L., Schellart, Pim, Schindler, Rafe H., Schmidt, Samuel, Schneider, Donald P., Schneider, Michael D., Schoening, William, Schumacher, German, Schwamb, Megan E., Sebag, Jacques, Selvy, Brian, Sembroski, Glenn H., Seppala, Lynn G., Serio, Andrew, Serrano, Eduardo, Shaw, Richard A., Shipsey, Ian, Sick, Jonathan, Silvestri, Nicole, Slater, Colin T., Smith, J. Allyn, Smith, R. Chris, Sobhani, Shahram, Soldahl, Christine, Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa, Stover, Edward, Strauss, Michael A., Street, Rachel A., Stubbs, Christopher W., Sullivan, Ian S., Sweeney, Donald, Swinbank, John D., Szalay, Alexander, Takacs, Peter, Tether, Stephen A., Thaler, Jon J., Thayer, John Gregg, Thomas, Sandrine, Thukral, Vaikunth, Tice, Jeffrey, Trilling, David E., Turri, Max, Van Berg, Richard, Berk, Daniel Vanden, Vetter, Kurt, Virieux, Francoise, Vucina, Tomislav, Wahl, William, Walkowicz, Lucianne, Walsh, Brian, Walter, Christopher W., Wang, Daniel L., Wang, Shin-Yawn, Warner, Michael, Wiecha, Oliver, Willman, Beth, Winters, Scott E., Wittman, David, Wolff, Sidney C., Wood-Vasey, W. Michael, Wu, Xiuqin, Xin, Bo, Yoachim, Peter, and Zhan, Hu
Subjects: Astrophysics
Abstract: (Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a single wide-deep-fast sky survey, and LSST will have unique survey capability in the faint time domain. The LSST design is driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and dark matter, taking an inventory of the Solar System, exploring the transient optical sky, and mapping the Milky Way. LSST will be a wide-field ground-based system sited at Cerro Pach\'{o}n in northern Chile. The telescope will have an 8.4 m (6.5 m effective) primary mirror, a 9.6 deg$^2$ field of view, and a 3.2 Gigapixel camera. The standard observing sequence will consist of pairs of 15-second exposures in a given field, with two such visits in each pointing in a given night. With these repeats, the LSST system is capable of imaging about 10,000 square degrees of sky in a single filter in three nights. The typical 5$\sigma$ point-source depth in a single visit in $r$ will be $\sim 24.5$ (AB). The project is in the construction phase and will begin regular survey operations by 2022. The survey area will be contained within 30,000 deg$^2$ with $\delta<+34.5^\circ$, and will be imaged multiple times in six bands, $ugrizy$, covering the wavelength range 320--1050 nm. About 90\% of the observing time will be devoted to a deep-wide-fast survey mode which will uniformly observe a 18,000 deg$^2$ region about 800 times (summed over all six bands) during the anticipated 10 years of operations, and yield a coadded map to $r\sim27.5$. The remaining 10\% of the observing time will be allocated to projects such as a Very Deep and Fast time domain survey. The goal is to make LSST data products, including a relational database of about 32 trillion observations of 40 billion objects, available to the public and scientists around the world., Comment: 57 pages, 32 color figures, version with high-resolution figures available from https://www.lsst.org/overview
Published: 2008
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41. CVD Diamonds in the BaBar Radiation Monitoring System

Author: Bruinsma, M., Burchat, P., Edwards, A. J., Kagan, H., Kass, R., Kirkby, D., and Petersen, B. A.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: To prevent excessive radiation damage to its Silicon Vertex Tracker, the BaBar experiment at SLAC uses a radiation monitoring and protection system that triggers a beam abort whenever radiation levels are anomalously high. The existing system, which employs large area Si PIN diodes as radiation sensors, has become increasingly difficult to operate due to radiation damage. We have studied CVD diamond sensors as a potential alternative for these silicon sensors. Two diamond sensors have been routinely used since their installation in the Vertex Tracker in August 2002. The experience with these sensors and a variety of tests in the laboratory have shown CVD diamonds to be a viable solution for dosimetry in high radiation environments. However, our studies have also revealed surprising side-effects., Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures presented at IPRD04, Siena Italy
Published: 2004
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42. Asymmetries between the production of D+ and D- mesons from 500 GeV/c pi- nucleon interactions as a function of xF and pt**2

Author: Aitala, E. M., Amato, S., Anjos, J. C., Appel, J. A., Aryal, M., Ashery, D., Astorga, J., Banerjee, S., Bediaga, I., Blaylock, G., Bracker, S. B., Burchat, P. R., Burnstein, R. A., Carter, T., Carvalho, H. S., Costa, I., Cremaldi, L. M., Darling, C., Denisenko, K., Fernandez, A., Gagnon, P., Gerzon, S., Gobel, C., Gounder, K., Granite, D., Halling, A. M., Herrera, G., Hurvits, G., James, C., Kasper, P. A., Kondakis, N., Kwan, S., Langs, D. C., Leslie, J., Lichtenstadt, J., Lundberg, B., Manacero, A., MayTal-Beck, S., Meadows, B., Neto, J. R. T. de Mello, Milburn, R. H., de Miranda, J. M., Napier, A., Nguyen, A., d'Oliveira, A. B., O'Shaughnessy, K., Peng, K. C., Perera, L. P., Purohit, M. V., Quinn, B., Radeztsky, S., Rafatian, A., Reay, N. W., Reidy, J. J., Reis, A. C., Rubin, H. A., Santha, A. K. S., Santoro, A. F. S., Schwartz, A. J., Sheaff, M., Sidwell, R. A., Slaughter, A. J., Smith, J. G., Sokoloff, M. D., Stanton, N. R., Sugano, K., Summers, D. J., Takach, S., Thorne, K., Tripathi, A. K., Watanabe, S., Weiss-Babai, R., Wiener, J., Witchey, N., Wolin, E., Yi, D., Zaliznyak, R., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present asymmetries between the production of D+ and D- mesons in Fermilab experiment E791 as a function of xF and pt**2. The data used here consist of 74,000 fully-reconstructed charmed mesons produced by a 500 GeV/c pi- beam on C and Pt foils. The measurements are compared to results of models which predict differences between the production of heavy-quark mesons that have a light quark in common with the beam (leading particles) and those that do not (non-leading particles). While the default models do not agree with our data, we can reach agreement with one of them, PYTHIA, by making a limited number of changes to parameters used.
Published: 1996
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43. Leptonic and Semileptonic Decays of Charm and Bottom Hadrons

Author: Richman, Jeffrey D. and Burchat, Patricia R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: We review the experimental measurements and theoretical descriptions of leptonic and semileptonic decays of particles containing a single heavy quark, either charm or bottom. Measurements of bottom semileptonic decays are used to determine the magnitudes of two fundamental parameters of the standard model, the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements $V_{cb}$ and $V_{ub}$. These parameters are connected with the physics of quark flavor and mass, and they have important implications for the breakdown of CP symmetry. To extract precise values of $|V_{cb}|$ and $|V_{ub}|$ from measurements, however, requires a good understanding of the decay dynamics. Measurements of both charm and bottom decay distributions provide information on the interactions governing these processes. The underlying weak transition in each case is relatively simple, but the strong interactions that bind the quarks into hadrons introduce complications. We also discuss new theoretical approaches, especially heavy-quark effective theory and lattice QCD, which are providing insights and predictions now being tested by experiment. An international effort at many laboratories will rapidly advance knowledge of this physics during the next decade., Comment: This review article will be published in Reviews of Modern Physics in the fall, 1995. This file contains only the abstract and the table of contents. The full 168-page document including 47 figures is available at http://charm.physics.ucsb.edu/papers/slrevtex.ps
Published: 1995
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44. Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP)

Author: Burchat, P., primary, Dorfan, D., additional, Litke, A., additional, Heusch, C., additional, Sadrozinski, H., additional, Schalk, T., additional, and Seiden, A., additional
Published: 1992
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45. The Physics Program of a High-Luminosity Asymmetric B Factory at SLAC

Author: Eisner, A., primary, Mandelkern, M., additional, Morrison, R., additional, Witherell, M., additional, Burchat, P., additional, Kent, J., additional, Erbacher, R., additional, Vernon, W., additional, Eigen, G., additional, Hitlin, D., additional, Porter, F., additional, Weinstein, A., additional, Wisniewski, W., additional, Wagner, S., additional, Franzini, P., additional, Tuts, M., additional, Averill, D., additional, Snyder, A., additional, Goldhaber, G., additional, Oddone, P., additional, Roe, N., additional, Ronan, M., additional, Spahn, M., additional, MacFarlane, D., additional, Bartelt, J., additional, Bloom, E., additional, Bulos, F., additional, Cords, D., additional, Dib, C., additional, Dorfan, J., additional, Dunietz, I., additional, Gilman, F., additional, Godfrey, G., additional, Hyer, T., additional, Jensen, G., additional, Leith, D., additional, Marsiske, H., additional, Nir, Y., additional, and Lee-Franzini, J., additional
Published: 1989
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