Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Physics / Timothy A. Bolton / This dissertation presents the first topological study of the charge current quasi-elastic (CCQE) neutral hyperon production induced by antineutrinos in the ArgoNeuT detector, a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) at Fermilab, using 1.20 × 10²⁰ protons-on- target (POT), in the NuMI beam operating in the low energy antineutrino mode. The total cross section for the CCQE neutral hyperon production is reported at the mean production energy of 3.42 GeV. The event yield in data is consistent with the predicted cross section, σ = 2.7 × 10−40 cm²: σ(CCQE[subscript Λ0+Σ0] ) = (3.7 ± 1.9(stat.) ± 1.5 (sys.)) × 10⁻⁴⁰ cm². The study sets a 90% confidence level (C.L.) upper limit on the total cross section of CCQE neutral hyperon production: σ(CCQE[subscript Λ0+Σ0] ) < 7.3 ×10⁻⁴⁰ cm² at 90% C.L.

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E1039/SpinQuest, a transversely-polarized Drell-Yan experiment at Fermilab, plans to use the 120 GeV proton beam and polarized NH3 and ND3 cryogenic targets to study azimuthal asymmetries in dimuon production to extract the magnitude as well as sign of the sea quarks Sivers functions. The SpinQuest spectrometer is optimized to detect oppositely-charged muons with a series of tracking chambers and hodoscope stations. The scope of this manuscript is to highlight the physics goals and the experimental setup with a focus on the ongoing debugging and training of one of the tracking systems, mainly drift chambers, as preparation for the upcoming commissioning and production run-periods. This work is supported in part by the US DOE contract number DE-FG02-07ER41528. Key words: Drell-Yan, Fermilab, SpinQuest, Polarization, Tracking, Drift Chambers

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Nesta tese são apresentadas a medida da taxa de produção de eventos difrativos e a extração da função de estrutura do antipróton para eventos de difração simples. A análise aqui apresentada é baseada em dados do detector DØ no Tevatron/Fermilab, colisor de prótons-antiprótons à energia de centro de massa de 1.96 TeV. A seleção de eventos difrativos é feita através de intervalos de rapidez - região do detector desprovida de partículas - determinados através da deposição de energia nas células do calorímetro DØ. A função de estrutura obtida nessa análise é comparada com resultados existentes dos experimentos H1 e CDF. / In this thesis we present a measurement of the diffractive to non-diffractive production rate and the extraction of the antiproton diffractive structure function. The analysis presented uses data from the DØ proton-antiproton collider at Tevatron/Fermilab with = 1.96 TeV. The data sample was selected using rapidity gap signatures determined through the sum of energy depositions in the DØ calorimeter cells. The measurements were performed on 0.19 pb-1 of Run IIa DØ data. The results are compared to H1 and CDF results."

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Nesta tese são apresentadas a medida da taxa de produção de eventos difrativos e a extração da função de estrutura do antipróton para eventos de difração simples. A análise aqui apresentada é baseada em dados do detector DØ no Tevatron/Fermilab, colisor de prótons-antiprótons à energia de centro de massa de 1.96 TeV. A seleção de eventos difrativos é feita através de intervalos de rapidez - região do detector desprovida de partículas - determinados através da deposição de energia nas células do calorímetro DØ. A função de estrutura obtida nessa análise é comparada com resultados existentes dos experimentos H1 e CDF. / In this thesis we present a measurement of the diffractive to non-diffractive production rate and the extraction of the antiproton diffractive structure function. The analysis presented uses data from the DØ proton-antiproton collider at Tevatron/Fermilab with = 1.96 TeV. The data sample was selected using rapidity gap signatures determined through the sum of energy depositions in the DØ calorimeter cells. The measurements were performed on 0.19 pb-1 of Run IIa DØ data. The results are compared to H1 and CDF results."

La Supersymetrie est la theorie qui semble etre l'extension la plus naturelle du Modele Standard. Dans cette these nous presentons la recherche du sTop, hypothethique partenaire scalaire du quark Top, que nous avons effectuee dans le cadre du Modele Standard Supersymetrique Minimal (MSSM) en utilisant les donnees de l'experience DO prises lors de la Phase I du Tevatron, qui correspondent a une luminosite integree de $108$ pb$^{-1}$. Nous avons selectionne les evenements avec un electron, un muon et de l'energie transverse manquante dans l'etat final, qui peuvent etre le produit de desintegration d'une paire de sTops en 3 corps ($\tilde{t} \rightarrow b l \tilde{\nu}$), ou en 4 corps ($\tilde{t} \rightarrow b \oa l {\nu_l}$). En l'absence d'evenements candidats a ce signal, les resultats sont interpretes en terme de limites de section efficace de production du sTop et de regions d'exclusion dans l'espace des parametres ($m_{\tilde{t}},\moa$) ou ($m_{\tilde{t}},\msnu$). L'utilisation inedite au Tevatron de cet etat final pour la recherche du sTop nous a permis d'etablir des contraintes plus fortes que celles obtenues precedemment au LEP ou au Tevatron dans le canal $\tilde{t} \rightarrow b l \tilde{\nu}$, et les premieres limites jamais etablies dans le canal de desintegration a quatre corps. Pour le canal a 3 corps, en supposant que le sneutrino soit la particule supersymetrique la plus legere (LSP), la region exclue a $95\%$ de degre de confiance s'etend jusqu'a une masse de sTop de $142$ ($130$) GeV si la masse du sneutrino ($\msnu$) est de $43$ ($86$) GeV. Si le canal a 4 corps domine, et en supposant que le neutralino soit la LSP, les limites dependent de la masse du sneutrino. Si celle-ci est suffisamment legere (${m_{\tilde{\nu}}} \ \lapprox \ 100$ GeV) cette limite atteint une masse de sTop de $132$ GeV pour un neutralino de $60$ GeV. Pour ces recherches, la calorimetrie joue un role central d'un point de vue experimental. L'augmentation de la luminosite attendue dans la Phase II du Tevatron qui a demarre le $1^{er}$ Mars $2001$, et l'amelioration du detecteur qui a ete realisee ces trois dernieres annees permettront d'etendre ces domaines d'exclusion ou de decouvrir le sTop. Nous decrivons donc egalement dans cette these notre contribution a l'amelioration de la calorimetrie, tant sur la calibration electronique du calorimetre a Argon liquide du detecteur DO, que sur les logiciels de reconstruction de l'energie calorimetrique.

This thesis presents the results of a signature-based search for new physics using the exclusive dijet plus missing transverse energy data sample from 2 fb^-1 of p-pbar collisions at \sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). A study is made of the production of events with two high energy jets and large missing transverse energy (missing E_T, or MET) in a kinematic regime requiring the scalar sum of the E_T of the two jets (referred to here as H_T) to be greater than 125 GeV and the event MET to be above 80 GeV. A second kinematic region is also examined, with the MET cut increased to 100 GeV and the H_T cut increased to 225 GeV. The number of events observed in the data is within 0.43 standard deviations of the expected number of background events in the low kinematic region, and within 0.34 standard deviations in the high kinematic region. Based on these results, 95% C.L. lower mass limits for scalar leptoquarks are extracted: 190 GeV/c^2 for 1st generation, 190 GeV/c^2 for 2nd generation, and 178 GeV/c^2 for 3rd generation production. The results are also interpreted in terms of cross-section limits on generic minimal supersymmetric (MSSM) models.

This thesis presents the results of a signature-based search for new physics using the exclusive dijet plus missing transverse energy data sample from 2 fb^-1 of p-pbar collisions at \sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). A study is made of the production of events with two high energy jets and large missing transverse energy (missing E_T, or MET) in a kinematic regime requiring the scalar sum of the E_T of the two jets (referred to here as H_T) to be greater than 125 GeV and the event MET to be above 80 GeV. A second kinematic region is also examined, with the MET cut increased to 100 GeV and the H_T cut increased to 225 GeV. The number of events observed in the data is within 0.43 standard deviations of the expected number of background events in the low kinematic region, and within 0.34 standard deviations in the high kinematic region. Based on these results, 95% C.L. lower mass limits for scalar leptoquarks are extracted: 190 GeV/c^2 for 1st generation, 190 GeV/c^2 for 2nd generation, and 178 GeV/c^2 for 3rd generation production. The results are also interpreted in terms of cross-section limits on generic minimal supersymmetric (MSSM) models.

I present the results of a search for pair production of scalar top quarks (~t1) in an R-parity violating supersymmetric scenario using 322 pb_1 of pp collisions at ps = 1.96 TeV collected by the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab. I assume each ~t1 decays into a tau lepton and a b quark, with branching ratio B, and search for final states containing either an electron or a muon from a leptonic tau decay, a hadronically decaying tau lepton, and two or more jets. Two candidate events pass my final selection criteria, consistent with the expectation from standard model processes. I present upper limits on the cross section times branching ratio squared (~t1~t1)B2 as a function of the stop mass m(~t1). Assuming B = 1, I set a 95% confidence level limit m(~t1) > 153 GeV=c2. These limits are also fully applicable to the case of a pair produced third generation scalar leptoquark that decays into a tau lepton and a b quark.

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