G. Grim

Intermediate silicon layers detector for the CDF experiment

Abstract The Intermediate Silicon Layers (ISL) detector is currently being built as part of the CDF II detector upgrade project. The ISL detector will significantly improve tracking in the central region and, together with the Silicon Vertex detector, provide stand-alone 3D track information in the forward/backward regions. In this article, we present the quality of the production sensors manufactured by Hamamatsu Photonics, which account for roughly half of the silicon sensors used in the ISL detector.

Analysis of three D → Kππ Dalitz plots

Abstract Analysis of three D → Kππ Dalitz plots is presented using data collected by the Fermilab high energy photoproduction experiment E687. Our data are fit to a model consisting of a sum of Breit-Wigner amplitudes for the intermediate two-body resonant decay modes and a constant term for the nonresonant contribution. We extract branching fractions and relative phases and compare them to the results obtained in other experiments. Although this model qualitatively reproduces many features of our data, statistically significant discrepancies are observed in some of our fits.

Analysis of the decay mode D+ → K∗0μ+ν

Abstract Fermilab high-energy photoproduction experiment E687 provides a high statistics sample of the decay mode D + → K ∗0 μ + ν (charge conjugates are implied). Our analysis yields a branching ratio of Γ (D + → K ∗0 μ + ν) Γ (D + → K − π + π + ) = 0.56±0.04±0.06 . The ratios of the form factors governing the decay are measured to be R ν = 1.74 ±0.27±0.28 and R 2 = 0.78±0.18±0.10, implying a polarization of Γ l Γ t = 1.20±0.13 ±0.13 for the electron decay. Finally, we report new limits on the decay modes D + → K − π + μ + ν (nonresonent) and D + → K ∗0 π 0 μ + ν .

First evidence of

Abstract We report evidence of a narrow resonance at a mass of 2705.9 ± 3.3 ± 2.0 MeV/c2 in the final state Ω−π+ and the charge conjugate. The mass and width support the interpretation of a weakly decaying doubly strange charmed baryon, the Ω c 0 . Limits on the relative branching ratios for Ω c 0 →Ω − K − π + π + and Ω c 0 →Ω − π − π + π + are also presented.

Analysis of the D+, Ds + → K+K-π+ Dalitz plots

Abstract Amplitude analyses of the D + and D s + → K + K − π + Dalitz plots are presented using data collected by the Fermilab high energy photoproduction experiment E687. Our data are fit to a model consisting of a sum of Breit-Wigner amplitudes for the intermediate two-body resonant decay modes. We extract decay fractions and relative phases. These results are used to infer new branching ratios for D + → K + K − π + inclusive as well as the Φπ + and K ∗ (892) 0 K + channels.

Analysis of the decay mode D+ ---> anti-K*0 mu+ neutrino

Abstract Fermilab high-energy photoproduction experiment E687 provides a high statistics sample of the decay mode D + → K ∗0 μ + ν (charge conjugates are implied). Our analysis yields a branching ratio of Γ (D + → K ∗0 μ + ν) Γ (D + → K − π + π + ) = 0.56±0.04±0.06 . The ratios of the form factors governing the decay are measured to be R ν = 1.74 ±0.27±0.28 and R 2 = 0.78±0.18±0.10, implying a polarization of Γ l Γ t = 1.20±0.13 ±0.13 for the electron decay. Finally, we report new limits on the decay modes D + → K − π + μ + ν (nonresonent) and D + → K ∗0 π 0 μ + ν .

First evidence of Ωc0→Ω−π+

Abstract We report evidence of a narrow resonance at a mass of 2705.9 ± 3.3 ± 2.0 MeV/c2 in the final state Ω−π+ and the charge conjugate. The mass and width support the interpretation of a weakly decaying doubly strange charmed baryon, the Ω c 0 . Limits on the relative branching ratios for Ω c 0 →Ω − K − π + π + and Ω c 0 →Ω − π − π + π + are also presented.

First measurement of the lifetime of the omega(c)0.

Abstract We present the first measurement of the lifetime of the Ω c 0 baryon. The data were collected in the Fermilab high energy photoproduction experiment E687. The measured lifetime is τ = 86−20+27(stat.) ± 28(syst.) fr. Thus the Ω c 0 has one of the shorter lifetimes among the weakly decaying singly charmed baryons.

Analysis of the Cabibbo suppressed decay D0 → π−l+ν

Abstract Results for the Cabibbo suppressed semileptonic decays D 0 → π − e + ν and D 0 → π − μ + ν (charge conjugates are implied) are reported by Fermilab photoproduction experiment E687. We find 45.4 ± 13.3 events in the electron mode and 45.6 ± 11.8 in the muon mode. The relative branching ratio BR (D 0 →π − l + v) BR (D 0 →K − l + v) for the combined sample is measured to be 0.101 ± 0.020 (stat.) ± 0.003 (syst.) 14 .

Study of charged hadronic four-body decays of the D0 meson

Abstract Charged hadronic four-body decays of D 0 mesons have been studied in the E687 photoproduction experiment at Fermilab. Branching ratios relative to the D 0 → K − π + π + π − decay mode for the Cabibbo-suppressed decays D 0 → π − π + π − π + , D 0 → K − K + π − π + have been measured and the first evidence of the D 0 → K − K + K − π + decay mode is reported. An analysis of the D 0 → K − K + π − π + resonance structure is also presented.