A study of tau identification with the CMS detector at the LHC by Ilten, Philip James

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Measurement of Single- and Double-Spin Asymmetries in Deep Inelastic Pion Electroproduction with a Longitudinally Polarized Target by Suleiman, R.

“…Modulations of single spin asymmetries over the azimuthal angle between lepton scattering and hadron production planes [phi] have been measured over a wide kinematic range in Bjorken x and virtual photon squared four-momentum Q2 [Q superscript 2]. …”
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Measurement of the semileptonic branching fraction of the B[subscript s] meson by Dujmic, Denis, Sciolla, Gabriella, Cowan, Ray F

“…We use the inclusive yield of ϕ mesons and the ϕ yield in association with a high-momentum lepton to perform a simultaneous measurement of the semileptonic branching fraction and the production rate of B[subscript s] mesons relative to all B mesons as a function of center-of-mass energy. …”
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Measurement of the inclusive W± and Z/γ* cross sections in the e and μ decay channels in pp collisions at √s=7  TeV with the ATLAS detector by Taylor, Frank E.

“…The cross sections are reported integrated over a fiducial kinematic range, extrapolated to the full range, and also evaluated differentially as a function of the W decay lepton pseudorapidity and the Z boson rapidity, respectively. …”
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Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced in Association with Top Quarks Using the Full CDF Data Set by Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo, Goncharov, Maxim, Paus, Christoph M. E.

“…No significant excess over the expected background is observed, and 95% credibility-level upper bounds are placed on the cross section σ(tt̅ H→lepton+missing transverse energy+jets). For a Higgs boson mass of 125  GeV/c[superscript 2], we expect to set a limit of 12.6 and observe a limit of 20.5 times the standard model rate. …”
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Precision Top-Quark Mass Measurement at CDF by Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo, Goncharov, Maxim, Paus, Christoph M. E.

“…Using a sample of tt̅ candidate events decaying into the lepton+jets channel, we obtain distributions of the top-quark masses and the invariant mass of two jets from the W boson decays from data. …”
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Study of high-multiplicity three-prong and five-prong τ decays at BABAR by Dujmic, Denis, Sciolla, Gabriella, Cowan, Ray F

“…We present measurements of the branching fractions of three-prong and five-prong τ decay modes using a sample of 430 million τ lepton pairs, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 468  fb[superscript -1], collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e[superscript +]e[superscript -] storage rings at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. …”
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Search for first generation scalar leptoquarks in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector by Taylor, Frank E.

“…We exclude at 95% confidence level the production of first generation scalar leptoquark with masses m[subscript LQ] < 660 (607) GeV when assuming the branching fraction of a leptoquark to a charged lepton is equal to 1.0 (0.5).…”
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Search for s-channel single top-quark production in proton–proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector by Taylor, Frank E.

“…Selected events contain one charged lepton, large missing transverse momentum and exactly two b-tagged jets. …”
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Measurements of spin correlation in top-antitop quark events from proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector by Taylor, Frank E.

“…Events are selected in final states with two charged leptons and at least two jets and in final states with one charged lepton and at least four jets. …”
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Search for a Heavy Neutral Particle Decaying to eμ, eτ, or μτ in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector by Taylor, Frank E.

“…Limits are set on the cross section of new phenomena in two scenarios: the production of [~ over ν][subscript τ] in R-parity-violating supersymmetric models and the production of a lepton-flavor-violating Z′ vector boson.…”
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Measurement of the W -&gt; lv and Z/gamma* -&gt; ll production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector by Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdelalim, A, Abdesselam, A, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbi, E, Acharya, B, Ackers, M, Adams, D, Addy, T, Adelman, J, Aderholz, M, Adomeit, S, Adorisio, C, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, J, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, S

“…In addition, measurements of the W+ and W- production cross sections and of the lepton charge asymmetry are reported. Theoretical predictions based on NNLO QCD calculations are found to agree with the measurements.…”

Towards Realistic String Vacua From Branes At Singularities by Conlon, J, Maharana, A, Quevedo, F

“…We provide supersymmetric examples with three quark/lepton families and the gauge symmetries of the Standard, Left-Right Symmetric, Pati-Salam and Trinification models, without unwanted chiral exotics. …”

Evidence for a role of the adenosine 5'-triphosphate-binding cassette transporter A1 in the externalization of annexin I from pituitary folliculo-stellate cells. by Chapman, L, Epton, M, Buckingham, J, Morris, J, Christian, H

A precise measurement of the tau polarisation at LEP-1 by Abreu, P, Adam, W, Adye, T, Adzic, P, Ajinenko, I, Albrecht, Z, Alderweireld, T, Alekseev, G, Alemany, R, Allmendinger, T, Allport, P, Almehed, S, Amaldi, U, Amapane, N, Amato, S, Anassontzis, E, Andersson, P, Andreazza, A, Andringa, S, Antilogus, P, Apel, W, Arnoud, Y, Asman, B, Augustin, J, Augustinus, A

“…With the assumption of lepton universality, the ratio of vector to axial-vector effective couplings for leptons v̄ι/āι = 0.0687 ± 0.0037 was obtained, implying a value of the effective weak mixing angle sin2 θlepteff= 0.23282 ± 0.00092.…”

Observation of single top quark production and measurement of |V tb| with CDF by Aaltonen, T, Adelman, J, Álvarez González, B, Amerio, S, Amidei, D, Anastassov, A, Annovi, A, Antos, J, Apollinari, G, Appel, J, Apresyan, A, Arisawa, T, Artikov, A, Asaadi, J, Ashmanskas, W, Attal, A, Aurisano, A, Azfar, F, Badgett, W, Barbaro-Galtieri, A, Barnes, V, Barnett, B, Barria, P, Bartos, P, Bauer, G

“…Candidate events in the W+jets topology with a leptonically decaying W boson are classified as signal-like by four parallel analyses based on likelihood functions, matrix elements, neural networks, and boosted decision trees. …”

Measurements of partial branching fractions for B̄→Xulν̄ and determination of |Vub| by Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, J, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Garra Tico, J, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Pappagallo, M, Eigen, G, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, G, Battaglia, M, Brown, D, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, R, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, R, Kadyk, J

“…We select events using the invariant mass MX of the hadronic system, the invariant mass squared, q2, of the lepton and neutrino pair, the kinematic variable P+, or one of their combinations. …”

Search for standard model Higgs boson production in association with a W boson at CDF by Aaltonen, T, Álvarez González, B, Amerio, S, Amidei, D, Anastassov, A, Annovi, A, Antos, J, Apollinari, G, Appel, J, Apresyan, A, Arisawa, T, Artikov, A, Asaadi, J, Ashmanskas, W, Auerbach, B, Aurisano, A, Azfar, F, Badgett, W, Barbaro-Galtieri, A, Barnes, V, Barnett, B, Barria, P, Bartos, P, Bauce, M, Bauer, G

“…The first kind required high-p T charged leptons and the second required both missing transverse energy and jets. …”

Inclusive W and Z production in the forward region at root s=7TeV by Aaij, R, Beteta, C, Adametz, A, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Adrover, C, Affolder, A, Ajaltouni, Z, Albrecht, J, Alessio, F, Alexander, M, Ali, S, Alkhazov, G, Cartelle, P, Jr, A, Amato, S, Amhis, Y, Anderson, J, Appleby, R, Gutierrez, O, Archilli, F, Artamonov, A, Artuso, M, Aslanides, E, Auriemma, G

“…Differential cross-sections, W and Z cross-section ratios and the lepton charge asymmetry are also measured in the same kinematic region. …”

Probing nuclear effects in neutrino induced pion production by Coplowe, D

“…<p>The discovery of neutrino oscillations has opened the door to searches for matter- antimatter asymmetries in the lepton sector. Current accelerator-based long- baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, like T2K and NOνA, probing this phenomenon are moving into the realm of high statistics but systematically limited measurements. …”