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Kenneth Bloom Publications

Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research

Kenneth Bloom Publications

Kenneth Bloom, Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Research:
Experimental high-energy particle physics focused on the top quark and its weak interactions.

Projects:
o The D0 experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) in Batavia, Illinois, United States; http://www-d0.fnal.gov/.
o The CMS experiment at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland; http://cms.cern.ch/.
At UNL, I collaborate on these projects with faculty members Dan Claes, Aaron Dominguez, and Greg Snow.

I've also worked on:

o The CDF experiment, also at FNAL (1989-1992 and 1997-2004); http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/. My final project there was a measurement of the branching fraction for the (highly favored) final state Wb. We published a paper on this in Physical Review Letters. I served as convenor of the lepton-plus-jets subgroup of the top-physics group for a year and a half, and as the leader of the muon-software project for two and a half years. Years earlier, as an undergraduate, I wrote a senior thesis on data taken in 1988-89, a measurement of the cross section for Drell-Yan production of electron pairs with small invariant mass.
o The CLEO experiment at Cornell's Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics (1992-1997); http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLEO/. My PhD thesis was on a complete characterization of the decay B->Dlnu using new neutrino-reconstruction techniques.

2009 2009

Search for Resonant Pair Production of Neutral Long-Lived Particles Decaying to bb in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons in the h → aa → μμμμ, μμττ Channels Using pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

2008 2008

Observation of ZZ Production in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration

Observation of ZZ Production in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration

Precise Measurement of the Top-Quark Mass from lepton + jets Events, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration

ZZ → l⁺l^-v⁺v^- production in pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of B_s⁰ Mixing Parameters from the Flavor-Tagged Decay B_s⁰ → J/ψφ, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the Electron Charge Asymmetry in pp → W + X → eν + X Events at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the Forward-Backward Charge Asymmetry and Extraction of sin²Ө_W^eff in pp → Z/γ* +X → e⁺e^- + X Events Produced at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Observation of the Doubly Strange b Baryon Ω_b^-, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for Anomalous Wtb Couplings in Single Top Quark Production, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons in Multi-b-Jet Events in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for Third Generation Scalar Leptoquarks Decaying into τb, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the Polarization of the Ү(1S) and Ү(2S) States in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

A combined search for the standard model Higgs boson at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the Forward-Backward Charge Asymmetry in Top-Quark Pair Production, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the ratio of the pp → W+c-jet cross section to the inclusive p¯p → W+jets cross section, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the ratios of the Z/γ*+≥n jet production cross sections to the total inclusive Z/γ* cross section in pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the Shape of the Boson-Transverse Momentum Distribution in pp → Z/ γ* = → e⁺e^- + X Events Produced at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the tt Production Cross Section in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Model-Independent Measurement of the W-Boson Helicity in Top-Quark Decays at D0, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for excited electrons in pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for scalar top quarks in the acoplanar charm jets and missing transverse energy final state in pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for squarks and gluinos in events with jets and missing transverse energy using 2.1 fb^-1 of pp collision data at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for supersymmetry in di-photon final states at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for the lightest scalar top quark in events with two leptons in pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Evidence for production of single top quarks, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration

First Study of the Radiation-Amplitude Zero in W γ Production and Limits on Anomalous WW γ Couplings at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration

Measurement of the differential cross section for the production of an isolated photon with associated jet in pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration

Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration

Observation of the B_c Meson in the Exclusive Decay B_c → J/ψπ, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration

Search for Decay of a Fermiophobic Higgs Boson h_ƒ→ γγ with the D0 Detector at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration

Search for Higgs Bosons Decaying to Tau Pairs in pp Collisions with the D0 Detector, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration

Search for Large Extra Dimensions via Single Photon plus Missing Energy Final States at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration

Search for Long-Lived Particles Decaying into Electron or Photon Pairs with the D0 Detector, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration

Search for Pair Production of Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons in the H⁺⁺H^-- → μ⁺μ⁺μ^-μ^- Final State, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration

Search for scalar leptoquarks and T-odd quarks in the acoplanar jet topology using 2.5 fb⁻¹ of pp collision data at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration

Search for Scalar Neutrino Superpartners in e + μ Final States in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration

Search for tt resonances in the lepton plus jets final state in pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration

Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the Missing Energy and Acoplanar b-Jet Topology at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the muon charge asymmetry from W boson decays, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for W’ Bosons Decaying to an Electron and a Neutrino with the D0 Detector, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Observation and Properties of the Orbitally Excited B*_s2 Meson, V. M. Abazov, Gregory R. Snow, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration

Search for Flavor-Changing-Neutral-Current D Meson Decays, V. M. Abazov, Gregory R. Snow, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration

Search for Randall-Sundrum Gravitons with1 fb^-1 of Data from pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Gregory R. Snow, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration

Search for W′ Boson Resonances Decaying to a Top Quark and a Bottom Quark, V. M. Abazov, Gregory R. Snow, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration

Search for ZZ and Zγ* Production in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV and Limits on Anomalous ZZZ and ZZγ* Couplings, V. M. Abazov, Gregory R. Snow, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration

Simultaneous Measurement of the Ratio R = B(t → Wq) and the Top-Quark Pair Production Cross Section with the D0 Detector at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Gregory R. Snow, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration

Study of Direct CP Violation in B^± → J/ψK^±(π^±) Decays, V. M. Abazov, Gregory R. Snow, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration

The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, S. Chatrchyan, Kenneth A. Bloom, Brian Bockelman, Daniel R. Claes, Aaron Dominguez, Michael Eads, Makoto Furukawa, J. Keller, T. Kelly, Carl Lundstedt, Sudhir Malik, Gregory Snow, David R. Swanson, and CMS Collaboration

2007 2007

Measurement of the top quark mass in the lepton+jets channel using the ideogram method, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, D0 Collaboration, and Gregory R. Snow

Direct Observation of the Strange b Baryon Ξ_b^-, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Evidence for Production of Single Top Quarks and First Direct Measurement of |V_tb|, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Experimental Discrimination between Charge 2ℯ/3 Top Quark and Charge 4ℯ/3 Exotic Quark Production Scenarios, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Lifetime Difference and CP-Violating Phase in the B_s⁰ System, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the pp̅ → WZ + X cross section at √s =1.96 TeV and limits on WWZ trilinear gauge couplings, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the shape of the boson rapidity distribution for pp̅ → Z/ γ* → ℯ⁺ℯ^- + X events produced at √s of 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the tt̅ production cross section in pp̅ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV using kinematic characteristics of lepton + jets events, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the Λ_b⁰ Lifetime Using Semileptonic Decays, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Multivariate searches for single top quark production with the D0 detector, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for Production of Single Top Quarks Via tcg and tug Flavor-Changing-Neutral-Current Couplings, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for Techniparticles in ℯ + jets Events at D0, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for Third-Generation Scalar Leptoquarks in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Study of the Decay B_s⁰ → D_s^(*)D_s^(*), V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry in Semileptonic B_s⁰ Decays, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collboration

Measurements of inclusive W and Z cross sections in pp collisions at √ s = 1.96TeV, A. Abulenci, Kenneth A. Bloom, and CDF Collaboration

Evidence for B⁰ → ρ⁰ ρ⁰ Decays and Implications for the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Angle α, B. Aubert, Kenneth A. Bloom, and BaBar Collaboration

US CMS Tier-2 Computing, Kenneth A. Bloom

2006 2006

Kenneth Bloom: Curriculum vitae

Kenneth Bloom: Publications List through January 2006

Measurement of B_d mixing using opposite-side flavor tagging, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for scalar leptoquarks in the acoplanar jet topology in pp collisions at √ s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for R-parity violating supersymmetry via the LLĒ couplings ^λ121, ^λ122 or ^λ133 in pp collisions at √ s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DO Collaboration

Direct Limits on the B_s⁰ Oscillation Frequency, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Limits on anomalous trilinear gauge couplings from WW → e⁺e^-, WW → e^± μ^±, and WW → μ⁺ μ^- events from pp̅ collisions at √s =1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the B_s⁰ Lifetime Using Semileptonic Decays, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the CP-violation parameter of B⁰ mixing and decay with pp̅ → μμX data, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Measurement of the top quark mass in the lepton +jets final state with the matrix element method, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for Associated Higgs Boson Production WH → WWW^*→ l^±νl′^±ν′ +X in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for excited muons in pp̅ collisions at √s = 1:96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons Decaying to Tau Pairs in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1:96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for Neutral, Long-Lived Particles Decaying into Two Muons in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1:96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for Pair Production of Scalar Bottom Quarks in pp̅ Collisions at √s =1:96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for Resonant Second Generation Slepton Production at the Fermilab Tevatron, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for the rare decay B_s⁰ → φμ⁺ μ^- with the D0 detector, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the pp̅→ ZH → νν̅bb̅ Channel, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Search for a heavy resonance decaying into a Z⁺ jet final state in pp̅ collisions at √s =1:96 TeV using the D0 detector, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Publisher’s Note: Limits on anomalous trilinear gauge couplings from WW → ℯ⁺ ℯ^-, WW → ℯ^±μ^±, and WW → μ⁺μ^- events from pp̅ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV [Phys. Rev. D 74, 057101 (2006)], V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, and D0 Collaboration

Direct Search for Dirac Magnetic Monopoles in pp̅ Collisions at p√s = 1:96 TeV, A. Abulencia, Kenneth A. Bloom, and CDF Collaboration

Evidence for the Exclusive Decay B_c^± → J/ψπ^± and Measurement of the Mass of the B_c^± Meson, A. Abulencia, Kenneth A. Bloom, and CDF Collaboration

Measurement of mass and width of the excited charmed meson states D₁⁰ and D₂^*0 at CDF, A. Abulencia, Kenneth A. Bloom, and CDF Collaboration

Measurement of the Dipion Mass Spectrum in X(3872) → J/ψπ⁺π^- Decays, A. Abulencia, Kenneth A. Bloom, and CDF Collaboration

Measurement of the helicity of W bosons in top-quark decays, A. Abulencia, Kenneth A. Bloom, and CDF Collaboration

Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section in pp̅ interactions at √s = 1:96 TeV using a cone-based jet algorithm, A. Abulencia, Kenneth A. Bloom, and CDF Collaboration

Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section Using the k_T Algorithm in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, A. Abulencia, Kenneth A. Bloom, and CDF Collaboration

Measurement of the Ratios of Branching Fractions Ɓ(B_s⁰ → D_s^-π⁺)/ Ɓ(B⁰ → D^- π⁺) and Ɓ(B⁺ →D⁰ π⁺)/ Ɓ(B⁰ → D^- π⁺), A. Abulencia, Kenneth A. Bloom, and CDF Collaboration

Measurement of the top quark mass with the dynamical likelihood method using lepton plus jets events with b-tags in pp̅ collisions at √s = 1:96 TeV, A. Abulencia, Kenneth A. Bloom, and CDF Collaboration

Measurement of the tt̅ Production Cross Section in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV Using MissingE_T+ jets Events with Secondary Vertex b Tagging, A. Abulencia, Kenneth A. Bloom, and CDF Collaboration

Precision Top-Quark Mass Measurement in the Lepton+Jets Topology in pp̅ Collisions at √s =1.96 TeV, A. Abulencia, Kenneth A. Bloom, and CDF Collaboration

Search for anomalous semileptonic decay of heavy flavor hadrons produced in association with a W boson at CDF II, A. Abulencia, Kenneth A. Bloom, and CDF Collaboration