CDF Presentations at APS 2006 (April 22-25, Dallas, Texas)


PLENARY TALKS:

"Top at Run II and LHC Prospects" by Eva Halkadiakis, Rutgers University

The top quark is the most massive elementary particle in the Standard Model (SM) observed to date. It was discovered ten years ago at Fermilab's Tevatron, currently the highest energy hadron collider in the world, until the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN turns on in 2007. Measurements of top quark production and decay properties provide direct tests of the SM and could yield sensitive probes of new phenomena beyond the SM. In this talk, we present recent top quark physics results from the CDF and DZero collaborations with data collected from the ongoing Run II of the Tevatron. Additionally, we review of the prospects for studies of the top quark at the LHC.

PARALLEL TALKS:
Deadline for abstract withdrawal: March 9, 2006
Heavy Flavor,   QCD,   Electroweak,   Top,   New Phenomena
Heavy Flavor Physics
Title and Abstract Session Speaker Institution Advisor Talk & Note
Ratios of Branching Fractions for Hadronic b Meson Decays Boris Iyutin MIT Christoph Paus
Measurement of the Lambda_b lifetime Michael Schmidt Johns Hopkins Petar Maksimovic
Study of orbitally excited B mesons Jennifer Pursley Johns Hopkins Petar Maksimovic
B+, B0, Bs, Lambda_b Lifetimes and lifetime ratios Chunlei Liu Pittsburgh Joe Boudreau
Probing Quark Fragmentation with Ds-K Correlations Niharika Ranjan Purdue Matthew Jones
Ratio of branching fractions B(D0 --> K+pi-) / B(D0 --> K-pi+) Robert Harr Wayne State
MC Free Estimation of the B+ Lifetime Using Hadronic Decay Azizur Rahaman Oxford Farrukh Azfar
Bc Lifetime Using the Bc --> J/psi + mu + X Decay Channel Mark Hartz Pittsburgh
Production of Charm Baryons Elena S. Vataga New Mexico
Search for the decay D -> mu mu Edmund Berry Chicago Young-Kee Kim
B --> hh results Sonia Budroni Pisa Giovanni Punzi
B+ --> D0 K+ decays Paola Squillacioti Siena Giovanni Punzi
Studies of the X(3872) Alexandre Rakitine MIT Gerry Bauer
Same Side Kaon Tagging Studies in Fully Reconstructed Decays Gian Piero Di Giovanni LPNH Paris
Bs Mixing Results for Hadronic and Semileptonic Decays Jeffrey Miles MIT Christoph Paus
QCD Physics
Title and Abstract Session Speaker Institution Advisor Talk & Note
 
Electroweak Physics
Title and Abstract Session Speaker Institution Advisor Talk & Note
Transverse Momentum Distribution for Z Boson Production David Dagenhart Brandeise
A New Method to Measure the Ratio of W and Z Cross Sections Kathy Copic U. Michigan Myron Campbell  
Measurement of the WW Cross Section at the Tevatron Shih-Chieh Hsu UC San Diego Frank Wurthwein  
Search for WZ Production at the Tevatron Kevin McCarthy UC San Diego Frank Wurthwein  
A Direct Measurement of the W Boson Width Troy Vine U. College London Mark Lancaster  
Measurement of the Drell-Yan Cross Section Jane Nachtman Fermilab  
Measurement of W Cross section using Forward Electrons Jose Enrique Garcia Univ. of Pisa Giorgio Chiarelli  
Search for WZ and ZZ Production in the Dilepton Plus Dijet Final State Jonathon Efron Ohio State  
Top Physics
Title and Abstract Session Speaker Institution Advisor Talk & Note
Top mass in dilepton Bo Jayatilaka U. Michigan David Gerdes
Top mass in all hadronic Gheorghe Lungu U. Florida Jaco Konigsberg
Top mass in lepton+jets using Matrix Element Brian More UCLA Jay Hauser
Top mass in lepton+jets using Template Wojtek Fedorko Chicago Young-Kee Kim
Top mass in lepton+jets using Multivariaten John Freeman UC Berkeley
Top pair cross section in lepton + jets using Jet Probabilityn Kike
Top pair cross section in dilepton Corrinne Mills UC Santa Barbara Joe Incandela
Top pair cross section using NN btag Mike M
Br(top --> b tau nu) Stephane Tourneur LPNHE U. Paris Aurore Savoy-Navarro
W+bb cross section Mitch Soderberg U. Michigan
First Measurement of sigma(gg->tt) / sigma(qq->tt) Shabnaz Pashapour Toronto Pekka Sinervo
Top Charge Zeynep Gunay Michigan State Kirsten Tollefson
Single Top Jason S
New Phenomena
Title and Abstract Session Speaker Institution Advisor Talk & Note
 
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