Search for a W′ boson via the decay mode W′→μνμ in 1.8 TeV p(p)over-bar collisions

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作者
Abe, F [1 ]
Akimoto, H
Akopian, A
Albrow, MG
Amendolia, SR
Amidei, D
Antos, J
Aota, S
Apollinari, G
Arisawa, T
Asakawa, T
Ashmanskas, W
Atac, M
Azzi-Bacchetta, P
Bacchetta, N
Bagdasarov, S
Bailey, MW
de Barbaro, P
Barbaro-Galtieri, A
Barnes, VE
Barnett, BA
Barone, M
Bauer, G
Bedeschi, F
Behrends, S
Belforte, S
Bellettini, G
Bellinger, J
Benjamin, D
Bensinger, J
Beretvas, A
Berge, JP
Berryhill, J
Bertolucci, S
Bettelli, S
Bevensee, B
Bhatti, A
Biery, K
Bigongiari, C
Binkley, M
Bisello, D
Blair, RE
Blocker, C
Bloom, K
Blusk, S
Bodek, A
Bokhari, W
Bolla, G
Bonushkin, Y
Bortoletto, D
机构
[1] Kek Nat Lab High Energy Phys, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[2] Univ Karlsruhe, Inst Expt Kernphys, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
[3] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[4] Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada
[5] McGill Univ, Inst Particle Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[6] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[7] Hiroshima Univ, Higashihiroshima 724, Japan
[8] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[9] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[10] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[11] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[12] Fermi Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[13] Duke Univ, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[14] Univ Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[15] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[16] Brandeis Univ, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[17] Univ Bologna, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
[18] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[19] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[20] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[21] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[22] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[23] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[24] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[25] Osaka City Univ, Osaka 588, Japan
[26] Univ Padua, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[27] Univ Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[28] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-56100 Pisa, Italy
[29] Scuola Normale Super Pisa, I-56100 Pisa, Italy
[30] Univ Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
[31] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[32] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[33] Rockefeller Univ, New York, NY 10021 USA
[34] Rutgers State Univ, Piscataway, NJ 08855 USA
[35] Acad Sinica, Taipei 11530, Taiwan
[36] Texas A&M Univ, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[37] Texas Tech Univ, Lubbock, TX 79409 USA
[38] Univ Trieste, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Udine, Italy
[39] Univ Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[40] Tufts Univ, Medford, MA 02155 USA
[41] Waseda Univ, Tokyo 169, Japan
[42] Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[43] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5716
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
report the results of a search for a W' boson produced in p (p) over bar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.8 TeV using a 107 pb(-1) data sample recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. We consider the decay channel W' --> mu nu(mu), and search for anomalous production of high transverse mass py, lepton pairs. We observe no excess of events above background and set limits on the rate of W' boson production and decay relative to standard model W boson production and decay using abt of the transverse mass distribution observed. If we assume standard model strength couplings of the W' boson to quark and lepton pairs, we exclude a W' boson with invariant mass less than 660 GeV/c(2) at 95% confidence level.
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页码:5716 / 5721
页数:6
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