1. Search for new physics in e mu X data at DO using SLEUTH: A quasi-model-independent search strategy for new physics
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Abbott, B, Abolins, M, Abramov, V, Acharya, BS, Adams, DL, Adams, M, Alves, GA, Amos, N, Anderson, EW, Baarmand, MM, Babintsev, VV, Babukhadia, L, Baden, A, Baldin, B, Banerjee, S, Bantly, J, Barberis, E, Baringer, P, Bartlett, JF, Bassler, U, Bean, A, Begel, M, Belyaev, A, Beri, SB, Bernardi, G, Bertram, I, Besson, A, Bezzubov, VA, Bhat, PC, Bhatnagar, V, Bhattacharjee, M, Blazey, G, Blessing, S, Boehnlein, A, Bojko, NI, Borcherding, F, Brandt, A, Breedon, R, Briskin, G, Brock, R, Brooijmans, G, Bross, A, Buchholz, D, Buehler, M, Buescher, V, Burtovoi, VS, Butler, JM, Canelli, F, Carvalho, W, Casey, D, Casilum, Z, Castilla-Valdez, H, Chakraborty, D, Chan, KM, Chekulaev, SV, Cho, DK, Choi, S, Chopra, S, Choudhary, BC, Christenson, JH, Chung, M, Claes, D, Clark, AR, Cochran, J, Coney, L, Connolly, B, Cooper, WE, Coppage, D, Cummings, MAC, Cutts, D, Dahl, OI, Davis, GA, Davis, K, De, K, Del Signore, K, Demarteau, M, Demina, R, Demine, P, Denisov, D, Denisov, SP, Diehl, HT, Diesburg, M, Di Loreto, G, Doulas, S, Draper, P, Ducros, Y, Dudko, LV, Dugad, SR, Dyshkant, A, Edmunds, D, Ellison, J, Elvira, VD, Engelmann, R, Eno, S, Eppley, G, Ermolov, P, Eroshin, OV, Estrada, J, Evans, H, Evdokimov, VN, Fahland, T, Feher, S, Fein, D, Ferbel, T, Filthaut, F, Fisk, HE, Fisyak, Y, Flattum, E, Fleuret, F, Fortner, M, Frame, KC, Fuess, S, Gallas, E, Galyaev, AN, Gartung, P, Gavrilov, V, Genik, RJ, Genser, K, Gerber, CE, Gershtein, Y, Gibbard, B, Gilmartin, R, Ginther, G, Gomez, B, Gomez, G, Goncharov, PI, Solis, JLG, Gordon, H, Goss, LT, Gounder, K, Goussiou, A, Graf, N, Grannis, PD, Green, JA, Greenlee, H, Grinstein, S, Grudberg, P, Grunendahl, S, Gupta, A, Gurzhiev, SN, Gutierrez, G, Gutierrez, P, Hadley, NJ, Haggerty, H, Hagopian, S, Hagopian, V, Hahn, KS, Hall, RE, Hanlet, P, Hansen, S, Hauptman, JM, Hays, C, Hebert, C, Hedin, D, Heinson, AP, Heintz, U, Heuring, T, Hirosky, R, Hobbs, JD, Hoeneisen, B, Hoftun, JS, Ito, AS, Jerger, SA, Jesik, R, Johns, K, Johnson, M, Jonckheere, A, Jones, M, Jostlein, H, Juste, A, Kahn, S, Kajfasz, E, Karmanov, D, Karmgard, D, Kehoe, R, Kim, SK, Klima, B, Klopfenstein, C, Knuteson, B, Ko, W, Kohli, JM, Kostritskiy, AV, Kotcher, J, Kotwal, AV, Kozelov, AV, Kozlovsky, EA, Krane, J, Krishnaswamy, MR, Krzywdzinski, S, Kubantsev, M, Kuleshov, S, Kulik, Y, Kunori, S, Kuznetsov, V, Landsberg, G, Leflat, A, Lehner, F, Li, J, Li, QZ, Lima, JGR, Lincoln, D, Linn, SL, Linnemann, J, Lipton, R, Lucotte, A, Lueking, L, Lundstedt, C, Maciel, AKA, Madaras, RJ, Manankov, V, Mani, S, Mao, HS, Marshall, T, Martin, MI, Martin, RD, Mauritz, KM, May, B, Mayorov, AA, McCarthy, R, McDonald, J, McMahon, T, Melanson, HL, Meng, XC, Merkin, M, Merritt, KW, Miao, C, Miettinen, H, Mihalcea, D, Mincer, A, Mishra, CS, Mokhov, N, Mondal, NK, Montgomery, HE, Mostafa, M, da Motta, H, Nagy, E, Nang, F, Narain, M, Narasimham, VS, Neal, HA, Negret, JP, Negroni, S, Norman, D, Oesch, L, Oguri, V, Olivier, B, Oshima, N, Padley, P, Pan, LJ, Para, A, Parashar, N, Partridge, R, Parua, N, Paterno, M, Patwa, A, Pawlik, B, Perkins, J, Peters, M, Piegaia, R, Piekarz, H, Pope, BG, Popkov, E, Prosper, HB, Protopopescu, S, Qian, J, Quintas, PZ, Raja, R, Rajagopalan, S, Ramberg, E, Reay, NW, Reucroft, S, Rha, J, Rijssenbeek, M, Rockwell, T, Roco, M, Rubinov, P, Ruchti, R, Rutherfoord, J, Santoro, A, Sawyer, L, Schamberger, RD, Schellman, H, Schwartzman, A, Sculli, J, Sen, N, Shabalina, E, Shankar, HC, Shivpuri, RK, Shpakov, D, Shupe, M, Sidwell, RA, Simak, V, Singh, H, Singh, JB, Sirotenko, V, Slattery, P, Smith, E, Smith, RP, Snihur, R, Snow, GR, Snow, J, Snyder, S, Solomon, J, Sorin, V, Sosebee, M, Sotnikova, N, Soustruznik, K, Souza, M, Stanton, NR, Steinbruck, G, Stephens, RW, Stevenson, ML, Stichelbaut, F, Stoker, D, Stolin, V, Stoyanova, DA, Strauss, M, Streets, K, Strovink, M, Stutte, L, Sznajder, A, Taylor, W, Tentindo-Repond, S, Thompson, J, Toback, D, Trippe, TG, Turcot, AS, Tuts, PM, van Gemmeren, P, Vaniev, V, Van Kooten, R, Varelas, N, Volkov, AA, Vorobiev, AP, Wahl, HD, Wang, H, Wang, ZM, Warchol, J, Watts, G, Wayne, M, Weerts, H, White, A, White, JT, Whiteson, D, Wightman, JA, Willis, S, Wimpenny, SJ, Wirjawan, JVD, Womersley, J, Wood, DR, Yamada, R, Yamin, P, Yasuda, T, Yip, K, Youssef, S, Yu, J, Yu, Z, Zanabria, M, Zheng, H, Zhou, Z, Zhu, ZH, Zielinski, M, Zieminska, D, Zieminski, A, Zutshi, V, Zverev, EG, Zylberstejn, A, and Collaboration, DO
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Physics beyond the Standard Model ,Electroweak interaction ,Tevatron ,Supersymmetry ,01 natural sciences ,Particle identification ,Set (abstract data type) ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Fermilab ,Symmetry breaking ,010306 general physics - Abstract
We present a quasi-model-independent search for the physics responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking. We define final states to be studied, and construct a rule that identifies a set of relevant variables for any particular final state. A new algorithm ("SLEUTH") searches for regions of excess in those variables and quantifies the significance of any detected excess. After demonstrating the sensitivity of the method, we apply it to the semi-inclusive channel e muX collected in 108 pb(-1) of p(p) over bar collisions at roots=1.8 TeV at the DO experiment during 1992-1996 at the Fermilab Tevatron. We find no evidence of new high p(T) physics in this sample.
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- 2016