Selected Publications for David Toback

Publications where I was a Primary Author/Analyzer:

CDF and DZero:

• • High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector (CDF Science): Science 376, 170-176 (2022)

• • Combined Forward-Backward Asymmetry Measurements in Top-Antitop Quark Production at the Tevatron (CDF+DZero/PRL): Phys.Rev.Lett 120, 042001 (2018)

• • Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of top-quark and antiquark pairs using the full CDF Run II data set (CDF/PRD):  PRD 93, 112005 (2016)

• • Measurement of the inclusive leptonic asymmetry in top-quark pairs that decay to two charged leptons at CDF (CDF/PRL): Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 042001 (2014)

• • Signature-based search for delayed photons in exclusive photon+Met (CDF/PRD-RC): Phys. Rev. D 88, 031103(R) (2013)

• • Search For Supersymmetry With Gauge-Mediated Breaking In Diphoton Events With Missing Transverse Energy At CDF II (CDF/PRL): Phys. Rev. Lett 104, 011801 (2010)

• • Search for Heavy, Long-Lived Neutralinos that Decay to Photons at CDF II Using Photon Timing (CDF/PRD): Phys.Rev.D 78 032015 (2008)

• • Search for Heavy, Long-Lived Particles that Decay to Photons at CDF II (CDF/PRL): Phys.Rev.Lett 99, 121801 (2007), hep-ex/0704.0760
  • Combination of CDF and DZero Limits on a Gauge Mediated SUSY Model Using Diphoton and Missing Transverse Energy Channel (CDF/DZero): hep-ex/0504004 (PrePrint only)
    
    
  • Search for Anomalous Production of Diphoton Events with Missing Transverse Energy at CDF and Limits on Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry-Breaking Models (CDF/PRD): Phys.Rev.D71, 031104 (2005), hep-ex/0410053
    
    
  • Search for new heavy particles which decay X→WZ (CDF/PRL): Phys.Rev.Lett 88, 071806 (2002), hep-ex/0108004
    
    
  • Sleuth Summary PRL (D0/PRL): Phys.Rev.Lett 86, 3712 (2001), hep-ex/0011071
    
    
  • The Sleuth PRD II, Lots of Datasets (D0/PRD): Phys.Rev.D 64, 012004 (2001), hep-ex/0011067
    
    
  • The Sleuth PRD I, the Method and em dataset (D0/PRD): Phys.Rev.D 62, 092004 (2000), hep-ex/0006011
    
    
  • Search for New Physics in Diphotons: Including the eegg+Met event (CDF/PRD): Phys.Rev.D 59, 092002 (1999), hep-ex/9806034

• • Search for New Physics in Diphotons: Including the eegg+Met event (CDF/PRL): Phys.Rev.Lett 81, 1791 (1998), hep-ex/9801019
    
    

Phenomenology:

• • Extrapolation Technique Pitfalls in Asymmetry Measurements at Colliders (Phenomenology/NIM): NIM A 830, 176 (2016), arXiv/1512.00548

• • Forward-Backward Asymmetry of Leptonic Decays of ttbar at the Fermilab Tevatron (Phenomenology/PRD): Phys. Rev. D. 90, 014040 (2014), arXiv/1403.7565

• • Prospects for measuring the neutralino mass in Gauge Mediated SUSY decays of a Higgs Boson at CDF (Phenomenology/JHEP): Journal of High Energy Physics, 09(2013)041, arXiv/1210.1884

• • GMSB with Higgs–>chi10 chi10 in Delayed Photons + Met at the Tevatron (Phenomenology/PLB): Physics Letters B702, 377 (2011), arXiv/1105.2194

• • Determining the Dark Matter Relic Density in the mSUGRA stau-neutralino Co-Annhilation Region at the LHC (Phenomenology/PRL): Phys. Rev. Lett 100, 231802 (2008), arXiv/0802.2968

• • Indirect Measurements of the Stau-Neutralino mass difference and M_gluino mass in the Co-annhilation Region of mSUGRA Models the LHC (Phenomenology/PLB): Physics Letters B649, 72 (2007), hep-ph/0608193

• • Detection of SUSY in the Stau-Neutralino Co-annhilation Region at the LHC (Phenomenology/PLB): Physics Letters B639, 172 (2006), hep-ph/0603128
  • Prospects of Searches for Neutral, Long-Lived Particles that Decay to Photons using Timing at CDF (Phenomenology/PRD): Phys.Rev.D 70, 114032 (2004), hep-ph/0407022
  • The Excited Electron paper (Phenomenology/PRD): Phys.Rev.D66, 013011 (2002), hep-ph/0111034

Review Papers:

• • Review of the Physics Results from the Tevatron: Searches for New Particles and Interactions: International Journal of Modern Physics A, 30, 1541007 (2015),arXiv:1409.4910

• • The Large Hadron Collider Enters the Race for Supersymmetry: Physics 4, 27 (2011)

• • Cosmo-particle Searches for Supersymmetry at the Collider Detector at Fermilab: Mod. Phys. Lett. A, Vol. 24, No. 38 (2009) pp. 3063, arXiv/0911.0880

Books:

• • Textbook on Introduction to Cosmology for Non-Majors: Big Bang, Black Holes, No Math (2013)

Hardware:

• • The Level-1 trigger for the SuperCDMS experiment at SNOLAB (CDF/JINST): JINST 17 P07010 (2022), physics/2204.13002

• • A description of the EMTiming system and its resolution and efficiency (CDF/NIM): Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A565, 543 (2006), physics/0512171

• • The CDF calorimeter upgrade for Run IIb – including a short summary of the EMTiming System (CDF/NIM): Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A518, 39 (2004), physics/0310155

Publications where I was a Major Author/Analyzer:

• • Combination of CDF and D0 Results on W Boson Mass and Width (CDF-D0/PRD): Phys. Rev. D 70, 092008 (2004), hep-ex/0311039
    
    
  • Search for Pair Production of Scalar Top Quarks in R-Parity Violating Decay Modes (CDF/PRL): Phys. Rev. Lett 92, 051803, (2004), hep-ex/0305010
    
    
  • The Lepton+Track Trigger System (CDF/NIM): Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A518, 609 (2004), hep-ex/0312046
    
    
  • Search for New Physics in Photon Lepton events (CDF/PRD): Phys.Rev.D 66, 012004 (2002), hep-ex/0110015
    
    
  • Search for New Physics in Photon Lepton events (CDF/PRL): Phys.Rev.Lett 89, 041802 (2002), hep-ex/0202004
    
    
  • Searches for New Physics in Events with a photon and a b-quark jet at CDF (CDF/PRD): Phys.Rev.D 65, 052006 (2002), hep-ex/0106012
    
    
  • Search for Gluinos and Squarks in Using Like-Sign Dileptons (CDF/PRL): Phys.Rev.Lett 87, 251803 (2001), hep-ex/0106061
    
    
  • Search for Second Generation Leptoquark Pairs (D0/PRL): Phys.Rev.Lett 84, 2088 (2000), hep-ex/9910040
    
    
  • Extraction of the Width of the W Boson from the Wenu and Zee cross sections (D0/PRD): Phys.Rev.D 61, 072001 (2000), hep-ex/9906025
    
    
  • Search for a Technicolor Omega in events with a photon and a b-quark Jet at CDF (CDF/PRL): Phys.Rev.Lett 83, 3124 (1999), hep-ex/9810031

• • Search for Second Generation Leptoquark pairs decaying to Muon + Neutrino + Jets (D0/PRL): Phys.Rev.Lett 83, 2896 (1999), hep-ex/9904023

• • Search for Longlived Parents of Z Bosons (CDF/PRD): Phys.Rev.D 58, 051102 (1998), hep-ex/9805017

Teaching Publications:

• • Integrating Web-Based Teaching Tools into Large University Physics Courses (Teaching/Physics Teacher): Physics Teacher, Vol. 43, 595 (2005) Previous versions: (physics/0505026 physics/0408034)

Other Stuff:

• • My Thesis University of Chicago, 1997 (Diphoton searches)  (.ps)  (in .pdf)

• • My Undergraduate Thesis, MIT, 1991 (in .pdf)