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The Tevatron Run-II program has been in progress since 2001, and the CDF and D0 experiments have been operational with upgraded detectors. Coupled with recent improvements in the Tevatron accelerator performance, the experiments have…
The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider employs a two-level trigger system to record data at an average rate of 1 kHz from physics collisions, starting from an initial bunch crossing rate of 40 MHz. During the LHC Run 2…
We present a CDF measurement of diffractive dijet production in $\bar{p}p$ collisions at 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider using data from an integrated luminosity of $\approx 310$ pb$^{-1}$ collected by triggering on a high…
Collimation of proton and antiproton beams in the Tevatron collider is required to protect CDF and D0 detectors and minimize their background rates, to keep irradiation of superconducting magnets under control, to maintain long-term…
We report a study of multi-muon events produced at the Fermilab Tevatron collider and recorded by the CDF II detector. In a data set acquired with a dedicated dimuon trigger and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2100 pb$^{-1}$,…
We report on the first results from the CDF experiment on search for physics beyond the Standard Model using data from the upgraded TeVatron collider running $p\bar p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 1960 GeV. These first results, although…
We summarize some of the the most recent CDF and DO results from the 1992-1995 collider run at the Fermilab Tevatron. These include a detailed examination of the heavy flavor content of W+jet data made by CDF.We found in this study that the…
Between Run II commissioning in early 2001 and the end of operations in September 2011, the Tevatron collider delivered 12~fb$^{-1}$ of $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV to the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). During that…
We present the status of the forward-backward charge asymmetry measurement for W boson production using early Run 2 data collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). Tracking for forward electrons is a critical component of this…
Two Miniplug calorimeters, designed to measure the energy and lateral position of particles in the forward pseudorapidity region of 3.6<|\eta |<5.1, have been installed as part of the CDF upgraded detector for Run II at the Tevatron.…
The CMS experiment recorded 177.75 /fb of proton-proton collision data during the RUN-1 and RUN-2 data taking period. Successful data taking at increasing instantaneous luminosities with the evolving detector configuration was a big…
The CDF and D0 collaborations at Fermilab's Tevatron p-pbar collider have in place an extensive program to measure fundamental properties of the top quark. Recent results from Run I (sqrt-s = 1.8 TeV) and Run II (sqrt-s = 1.96 TeV) on the…
CDF II is one of the two large collider experiments at Fermilab's Tevatron. Over the past two years we have commissioned the offline computing system. A task that has involved bringing up hundreds of computers and millions of lines of C++…
The addition of the EMTiming system installed to provide the time measurements of the electromagnetic calorimeter signals has significantly increased the sensitivity of CDF to events with a photon and a missing energy. Here I review recent…
We present a measurement of the top-quark mass in events containing two leptons (electrons or muons) with a large transverse momentum, two or more energetic jets, and a transverse-momentum imbalance. We use the full proton-antiproton…
Models in which gravity and/or Standard Model gauge bosons propagate in more than three spatial dimensions have implications that can be tested at current colliders. In this paper, we report on the results from searches for extra dimensions…
A long time ago, at a laboratory far, far away, the Fermilab Tevatron collided protons and antiprotons at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96$ TeV. The CDF and D0 experiments each recorded datasets of about 10 fb$^{-1}$. As such experiments may never be…
The D0 detector at The Fermilab Tevatron is undergoing a major upgrade to prepare for data taking with luminosities reaching 2 x 10^{32} cm^{-2} s^{-1}. The upgrade includes a new central tracking array, new muon detector components and…
The Online Silicon Vertex Tracker is the new CDF-II level 2 trigger processor designed to reconstruct 2-D tracks within the Silicon Vertex Detector with high speed and accuracy. By performing a precise measurement of impact parameters the…
The data processing model for the CDF experiment is described. Data processing reconstructs events from parallel data streams taken with different combinations of physics event triggers and further splits the events into datasets of…