Jeffrey Woodside

The electric dipole moment of the W boson and the radiation amplitude zero-W decay into leptons and a photon

Abstract We decay into leptons and a photon is studied as a function of the electric dipole moment (EDM)w=λe/Mw and the magnetic moment μ=ge h /2M w (g=K+1) of the W boson. Because of the presence of the radiation amplitude zero (RAZ) which occurs for the standard model values λ=0,K=1 the energy distribution for W→ e(μ) v γ is very sensitive and can be used to measure λ and k. Such experiment is underway at the Tevatron (CDF group) at FERMILAB.

Effects of cascade decays on gluino and squark signals from the Tevatron

Abstract If squarks ( q ) and gluinos ( g ) are in the mass range currently accessible at the Tevatron, the branching fractions for the direct decays of q L and g to the LSP may well be less than 50% within the minimal model. We compare the Tevatron signals from squarks and gluinos when all their decays as given by minimal supersymmetry are incorporated with the corresponding signals obtained under the (usual) assumption that they can only decay to the LSP.