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Top decays in the dilepton channel at CDF
No full textThe author presents an observation of t{anti t} production in the dilepton decay channel using the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. This measurement was made using {approx} 67 pb{sup {minus}1} of data, 19.3 of which was taken during the 1992--93 data run while the remaining data has been acquired this past year (94--95). He observed 6 events in the t{anti t} signal region with an expected background of 1.3 {+-} 0.3 events. This signal is inconsistent with the background prediction by 2.7{sigma}. Additionally, three of these events contain a total of 5 b-tags--strong evidence for WWb production. He measured the t{anti t} production cross section in the dilepton channel to be {sigma}{sub t{anti t}} = 10.9{sub {minus}4.5}{sup +5.9}pb
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CDF electroweak studies and the search for the top quark
No full textThe second major run of the {bar p}p Fermilab Tevatron Collider ended on May 30. The CDF detector has accumulated almost five times the data sample of its previous 1988-1989 run. The author presents new results on electroweak physics, including the ratio of W to Z boson production cross-sections, and the charge asymmetry in W decay. He gives a progress report on the measurement of the W mass. New results from the 1988-1989 data on W-{gamma} production are also presented. The status of the search for the top quark in the dilepton modes is described. In addition a status report of the ongoing search in the lepton + jets mode is given
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W charge asymmetry measurement and Z{prime} search at CDF
No full textThe charge asymmetry as a function of lepton rapidity, A(y{sub l}), has been measured at {radical}s = 1.8 TeV for {vert_bar}y{sub l}{vert_bar} < 1.8, using the W decays to electrons and muons recorded by CDF during the 1992-93 run of the Tevatron Collider. Compared to the previous 1988-89 run, the increase in luminosity and detector improvements have lead to a six fold increase in statistics making discrimination between sets of parton distributions possible. This data favors the most recent parton distributions and demonstrates the value of collider data in the measurement of the proton`s structure. The author also presents here a search for an additional neutral heavy boson, Z{prime}, in the dielectron decay mode. The observed dielectron invariant mass spectrum is in good agreement with that expected from the decays of the standard Z and from the Drell-Yan process. Analysis obtains a 95% c.l. limit on the production cross section times the branching ratio for a Z{prime} decaying into electron pairs as a function of the dielectron invariant mass. It also sets a 95% confidence level lower bound on the mass of the Z{prime} to be 495 GeV/c{sup 2} assuming standard coupling strengths
SELECTED FACTORS AND BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION IN NATIONAL GOVERNMENT CONSTITUENCY DEVELOPMENT FUND (NG-CDF) IN NYAMIRA COUNTY, KENYA
No full textAbstract: The National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) was established under the NG-CDF Act 2015 as amended in 2016 to address poverty and regional imbalances by dedicating a minimum of 2.5% of the National Government share of annual revenue towards community driven development projects in each of the country’s parliamentary jurisdictions - the constituencies identified and implemented at grassroots level. Even though there is a budget calendar with elaborate budgetary process carried out by the Fund at the Constituency every fiscal year, with the aim of having minimal budget variances, there is statistical evidence to show that the Fund’s implementation is still poor because budgets are not properly linked to the budget planning process and approved policies. This leads to huge variances and incomplete or poorly-done projects. The main objective of this study will therefore be to evaluate the factors affecting budget implementation in NG-CDF in Nyamira County, Kenya. The study will be guided by the following specific objectives; to establish the effect of monitoring and evaluation on implementation of budgets in NG-CDF in Nyamira County, Kenya; to examine the effect of internal controls on implementation of budgets in NG-CDF in Nyamira County, Kenya; to determine the effect of budget skills competency on implementation of budgets in NG-CDF in Nyamira County, Kenya; and, to find out the influence of accuracy of budget estimates on implementation of budgets in NG-CDF in Nyamira County, Kenya. The study will adopt a descriptive research design. The target population for the study will be 76 consisting of; the 4 NG-CDF Fund managers from the four constituencies in the County, the 20 NG-CDF Committee members from the 4 counties (five from each constituency) and the 50 Chair and Secretaries of the Project Management Committee of the 25 NG-CDF projects in the County that were carried out in the financial year 2019/2020. The study will use purposive sampling technique to select the sample of 76 respondents. The data will be collected using questionnaires. The instrument will be tested for reliability using the Cronbach’s Alpha, while validity will be tested using the Content Validity index. The data collected will be analysed using descriptive statistics of the weighted means, mode and standard deviation and inferentially using correlation and regression analysis with the help of the computer software Statistical Package of Social Sciences Version 24. The results of analysis will be represented in graphs, pie charts and tables. These findings are expected to benefit the policy makers in the NG-CDF in making workable budget policies. Future scholars are also likely to benefit from the findings in their theory formulation
Keywords: monitoring and evaluation, internal controls, budget skills competency, accuracy of budget estimates.
Title: SELECTED FACTORS AND BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION IN NATIONAL GOVERNMENT CONSTITUENCY DEVELOPMENT FUND (NG-CDF) IN NYAMIRA COUNTY, KENYA
Author: Thomas Oyaro Kimong’o, Dr. Jane Queen Omwenga
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
Vol. 10, Issue 2, April 2022 - June 2022
Page No: 127-148
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Published Date: 06-May-2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6524408
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Production of heavy quark states at CDF
No full textIn this paper the author presents results on quarkonia production, B-meson production and b{bar b} correlations in p{bar p} collisions at {radical}s = 1.8 TeV. These results were obtained from data taken with the CDF detector at Fermilab. The author covers recently completed analyses of the 1992-95 collider run. Prospects for the near and more distant future are also discussed
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Recent B-physics results at CDF
No full textBetween 1992 and 1996 CDF collected about 100 pb{sup {minus}1} of data at a {radical}s = 1.8 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. This data sample led to a large number of precision measurements of B hadrons properties including their masses, lifetimes and neutral B meson oscillation parameters and the discovery of the B{sub c} meson. Here the author reports on three recent results: the measurement of the B{sup +} production cross section, the search for radiative penguin B hadron decays and the measurement of the CP violating parameter sin 2{beta}. These results are significant examples of the breadth of the CDF program. In 2001 the main injector will allow the Tevatron initially to deliver 1 fb{sup {minus}1} per year at {radical}s = 2 TeV. The CDF detector will undergo major upgrades which will further increase the B physics reach
The CDF dijet excess from intrinsic quarks
No full textThe CDF Collaboration reported an excess in the production of two jets in association with a W. We discuss constraints on possible new particle state interpretations of this excess. The fact of no statistically significant deviation from the SM expectation for Z+dijet events in CDF data disfavors the new particle explanation. We show that the nucleon intrinsic strange quarks provide an important contribution to the W boson production in association with a single top quark production. Such W+t single top quark production can contribute to the CDF W+dijet excess, thus the nucleon intrinsic quarks can provide a possible explanation to the CDF excess in W+dijet but not in Z+dijet events.http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000300285100013&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701Physics, NuclearPhysics, Particles & FieldsSCI(E)6ARTICLE12null4
CDF tau triggers, analysis and other developments
No full textThis note is a write-up of contribution made by the author to the HCP2002 conference. It has two principal subjects. The first subject concerns the CDF {tau} triggers, {tau}-cone algorithms and {tau} physics analysis. {tau} physics is going to be very important in Run II because {tau}'s can extend SUSY searches at large tan {beta} in particular, {tau}'s will help in the searches for {tilde {chi}}{sub 1}{sup {+-}}{tilde {chi}}{sub 2}{sup 0}, MSSM Higgs and other non Standard Model (SM) processes. Also, {tau} events are important for various Standard Model processes including Precision Electroweak, t{bar t}, and SM Higgs searches. {tau} triggers are installed and operating at CDF. The second subject of this contribution to the HCP2002 conference concerns the algorithms of backwards differentiation abstracted from their usual setting inside of Automatic Differentiation software packages. Backwards differentiation (reverse-mode differentiation) provides a useful means for optimizing many kinds of problems
Measurement of the effective B0s→K+K− lifetime
No full textA measurement of the effective lifetime is presented using approximately 37 pb−1 of data collected by LHCb during 2010. This quantity can be used to put constraints on contributions from processes beyond the Standard Model in the meson system and is determined by two complementary approaches as
τKK=1.440±0.096 (stat)±0.008 (syst)±0.003 (model) ps
An assessment of the role of participatory planning in the attainment of community owned CDF projects
No full textZambia, after independence adopted a top down planning approach which saw the government of Zambia implementing a number of development programmes. However, it was observed that a number of infrastructural programmes using this approach, were not sustainable as they were vandalized after implementation. This situation made the government of Zambia to shift to a bottom up planning approach in the 1990s and used the approach to implement a number of community projects. In the same line, the government introduced funds called Constituency Development Funds (CDF), to assist in funding community projects emerging from the community themselves in order to ensure ‘community ownership’ of these projects. These funds were sought to meet the immediate social needs of local communities by allowing them to participate in the planning process by identifying the infrastructural projects to be implemented in their own communities. However, despite the CDF community projects using this approach, they have still received a number of criticisms pertaining to the number of problems associated with them, of which their failure to attain community ownership (lack of sustainability) is one of them. CDF projects in Mufulira district have not been exceptional to such criticisms, a scenario that led to the author undertaking this exploratory case study research. The main objective of this research was to explore the strategies aimed at improving the participatory planning process in the CDF decision making process in order to attain community owned projects (sustainable projects). To execute this case study research, the author based the research on the theories of participatory planning and documented concepts such as concepts of self organization, project sustainability, community initiatives, and her acquired knowledge in CDF projects. In depth interviews were conducted with the community, local government officials, the various committees established under the local authority, the local contractor and Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation (ZESCO) to assess the manner in which they participated in the planning process, how the planning process itself allowed for changes in project’s goals and lastly the outcomes of the planning process.
The research established that, though the CDF community projects (e.g. Butondo street lighting) supposedly adopted a participatory planning approach during its planning and implementation process, it has been unable to attain community owned projects, as the planning process has been more of ‘rational planning’ in nature than ‘participatory planning’ as purported by the Zambian government. Most interesting still, the research identified a unique pattern of stakeholder’s participation during the CDF projects’ planning process; the community was just involved during the first stage (project identification) of the planning process and later on was totally excluded from the planning process leaving only the local authority in the process. This type of a planning process (rational planning) resulted into the stakeholders not building strong relationships that would have necessitated for the formation of project steering committees (to spearhead project’s activities) and collective actions/decision making. This scenario ultimately resulted into the lack of ‘community ownership’ of the implemented CDF project which was evidenced by the desertetion or non participation of the community in the operation and maintenance of the project thus, leaving the entire responsibility to the local authority. The project recorded a high number of vandalism and thefts rates, just six months after its implementation, making it not sustainable. In additional, exogenous factors such as CDF guidelines (rules), resources, time and centralized power vested only in the full council committee, also adversely affected the full participation of stakeholders in the process, thus, making the participatory planning process in the form of ‘rational planning’. Arising from these findings, the author recommends a number of actions among which includes, an immediate need for revision of the CDF guidelines to ensure a CDF participatory planning process which is more adaptive and inclusive in nature, so as to ensure the participation of a cross section of people from the community in the planning process
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