Recent Run II Electroweak and QCD Results from D.pptVIP

Recent Run II Electroweak and QCD Results from D? Robert Kehoe Michigan State University for the D? collaboration 3/12/03 Les Recontres de Physique de la Vallée dAoste Measurement of the Dijet Mass Cross Section Measurement of the Z mm s*BR Search for Z in Dielectron Decays D? at the Tevatron a multipurpose collider detector: Tracking silicon vertex detector fiber tracker Calorimetry preshowers U/LAr calorimeters Muon drift tubes and scint. New Tracking for D? Silicon Microstrip Tracker (SMT) 840k channels 4 layer barrels - 3D tracking detached vertex detection b-tagging triggering fully commissioned 2T superconducting solenoid momentum, charge New Tracking for D?: CFT Central Fiber Tracker 77k channels with VLPC readout first sci-fi/VLPC tracker at collider VLPCs 9K operating temp. 85% QE, excellent S/N 8 layers fiber doublets tracking trigger fully operational E/p measurement improved calibration Forward Proton Detector Scintillating fiber detectors in Roman pots near beam used to tag protons and anti-protons Dijet Mass Cross Section probe of QCD hunting for resonances proton structure at large x quark compositeness data sample: 34.1 pb-1 / PTj1 0.7 primary vertex: |zvtx| 50 cm, Ntrks 4 selection sample definitions DR = 0.7 cone jets |hjet| 0.5 Njet 1 calculate invariant mass of leading two jets Jet Energy Scale methods currently used O: underlying event, noise minimum bias events R: non-linearities, dead material direct photon candidate events statistics up to 200 GeV energy S: particle showers jet transverse shapes in data errors large statistical errors substantial systematic errors increase with energy due to extrapolation Trigger Selection four triggers utilized L3 ET threshold offline Mjj cut 25 GeV 150 GeV 45 GeV 180 GeV 65 GeV 300 GeV 95 GeV 390 G