Results are presented from searches for the standard model Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at root s = 7 and 8 TeV in the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the LHC, using data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 5.1 fb(-1) at 7 TeV and 5.3 fb(-1) at 8 TeV. The search is performed in five decay modes: gamma gamma, ZZ, W+W-, tau(+)tau(-), and b (b) over bar. An excess of events is observed above the expected background, with a local significance of 5.0 standard deviations, at a mass near 125 GeV, signalling the production of a new particle. The expected significance for a standard model Higgs boson of that mass is 5.8 standard deviations. The excess is most significant in the two decay modes with the best mass resolution, gamma gamma and ZZ; a fit to these signals gives a mass of 125.3 +/- 0.4(stat.) +/- 0.5(syst.) GeV. The decay to two photons indicates that the new particle is a boson with spin different from one. (C) 2012 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
The kinematic properties of t t events are studied in the Wϩmultijet channel using data collected with the CDF detector during the 1992-1995 runs at the Fermilab Tevatron collider corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 109 pb Ϫ1 . Distributions of a variety of kinematic variables chosen to be sensitive to different aspects of t t production are compared with those expected from Monte Carlo calculations. A sample of 34 events rich in t t pairs is obtained by requiring at least one jet identified by the silicon vertex detector ͑SVX͒ as having a displaced vertex consistent with the decay of a b hadron. The data are found to be in good agreement with predictions of the leading order t t matrix element with color coherent parton shower evolution. ͓S0556-2821͑99͒04007-2͔
This paper reports an updated measurement of the standard model CP violation parameter sin 2 using the CDF Detector at Fermilab. The entire run I data sample of 110 pb Ϫ1 of proton-antiproton collisions at ͱs ϭ1.8 TeV is used to identify a signal sample of ϳ400 B→J/ K S 0 events, where J/→ ϩ Ϫ and K S 0 → ϩ Ϫ. The flavor of the neutral B meson is identified at the time of production by combining information from three tagging algorithms: a same-side tag, a jet-charge tag, and a soft-lepton tag. A maximum likelihood fitting method is used to determine sin 2ϭ0.79 Ϫ0.44 ϩ0.41 (statϩsyst). This value of sin 2 is consistent with the standard model prediction, based upon existing measurements, of a large positive CP-violating asymmetry in this decay mode.
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