We present a search for a narrow resonance in the inclusive diphoton final state using ∼ 2.7 fb −1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp Collider. We observe good agreement between the data and the background prediction, and set the first 95% C.L. upper limits on the production cross section times the branching ratio for decay into a pair of photons for resonance masses between 100 and 150 GeV. This search is also interpreted in the context of several models of electroweak symmetry breaking with a Higgs boson decaying into two photons.
We report observation of the electroweak production of single top quarks in pp collisions at √ s = 1.96 TeV based on 2.3 fb −1 of data collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Using events containing an isolated electron or muon and missing transverse energy, together with jets originating from the fragmentation of b quarks, we measure a cross section of σ(pp → tb + X, tqb + X) = 3.94 ± 0.88 pb. The probability to measure a cross section at this value or higher in the absence of signal is 2.5×10 −7 , corresponding to a 5.0 standard deviation significance for the observation.
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