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Diffractive Dijet Production in Antiproton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=1.96 TeV

We report on a study of diffractive dijet production in $\bar{p}p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV using the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron $\bar{p}p$ collider. A data sample from 310 pb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity collected by triggering on a high transverse energy jet, $E_T^{jet}$, in coincidence with a recoil antiproton detected in a Roman pot spectrometer is used to measure the ratio of single-diffractive to inclusive-dijet event rates as a function of $x^{\bar p}$ of the interacting parton in the antiproton, the Bjorken-$x$, $x^{\bar p}_{Bj}$, and a $Q^2\approx (E_T^{jet})^2$ in the ranges $10^{-3} -4$ GeV$^2$. The $t_{\bar p}$ dependence is measured as a function of $Q^2$ and $x_{Bj}^{\bar p}$ and compared with that of inclusive single diffraction dissociation. We find weak $x^{\bar p}_{Bj}$ and $Q^2$ dependencies in the ratio of single diffractive to inclusive event rates, and no significant $Q^2$ dependence in the diffractive $t_{\bar p}$ distributions.

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Measurement of the Helicity Fractions of W Bosons from Top Quark Decays Using Fully Reconstructed top-antitop Events with CDF II

We present a measurement of the fractions F_0 and F_+ of longitudinally polarized and right-handed W bosons in top quark decays using data collected with the CDF II detector. The data set used in the analysis corresponds to an integrated luminosity of approximately 318 pb -1. We select ttbar candidate events with one lepton, at least four jets, and missing transverse energy. Our helicity measurement uses the decay angle theta*, which is defined as the angle between the momentum of the charged lepton in the W boson rest frame and the W momentum in the top quark rest frame. The cos(theta*) distribution in the data is determined by full kinematic reconstruction of the ttbar candidates. We find F_0 = 0.85 +0.15 -0.22 (stat) +- 0.06 (syst) and F_+ = 0.05 +0.11 -0.05 (stat) +- 0.03 (syst), which is consistent with the standard model prediction. We set an upper limit on the fraction of right-handed W bosons of F_+ < 0.26 at the 95% confidence level.

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