Search for W-prime boson resonances decaying to a top quark and a bottom quark

Collaboration, D0 and Bertram, Iain and Borissov, Guennadi and Fox, Harald and Williams, Mark and Ratoff, Peter and Love, Peter and Rakitin, Alexander and Sopczak, Andre (2008) Search for W-prime boson resonances decaying to a top quark and a bottom quark. Physical review letters, 100 (21): 211803. ISSN 1079-7114

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Abstract

We search for the production of a heavy W-prime gauge boson that decays to third generation quarks in 0.9 fb-1 of ppbar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV, collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We find no significant excess in the final-state invariant mass distribution and set upper limits on the production cross section times branching fraction. For a left-handed W-prime boson with SM couplings, we set a lower mass limit of 731 GeV. For right-handed W-prime bosons, we set lower mass limits of 739 GeV if the W-prime boson decays to both leptons and quarks and 768 GeV if the W-prime boson decays only to quarks. We also set limits on the coupling of the W-prime boson to fermions as a function of its mass.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Physical review letters
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© 2008 The American Physical Society submitted to Phys. Rev. Letters. 7 pages, 2 figures
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100
Subjects:
?? physics and astronomy(all) ??
ID Code:
64178
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Deposited On:
29 Apr 2013 14:14
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