Search for a W' boson decaying to a top and bottom quark pair in 1.8 TeV pp collisions.
Phys Rev Lett 90:8 (2003) 081802
Authors:
D Acosta, T Affolder, H Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, A Artikov, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, S Bailey, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, J Berryhill, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, A Bolshov, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, N Bruner, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, L Cerrito, AW Chan, PS Chang, PT Chang, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M-T Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, JY Chung, W-H Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, M Coca, AP Colijn, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, S D'Auria, S De Cecco, F DeJongh, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, S Demers, L Demortier, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, T Devlin, C Dionisi, JR Dittmann, A Dominguez, S Donati, M D'Onofrio, T Dorigo, I Dunietz, N Eddy, K Einsweiler, E Engels, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, Q Fan, H-C Fang, S Farrington, RG Feild, JP Fernandez, C Ferretti, RD Field, I Fiori, B Flaugher, LR Flores-Castillo, GW Foster, M Franklin, J Freeman, J Friedman, Y Fukui, I Furic, S Galeotti, A Gallas, M Gallinaro, T Gao, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, P Gatti, C Gay, DW Gerdes, E Gerstein, S Giagu, P Giannetti, K Giolo, M Giordani, P Giromini, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, J Goldstein, G Gomez, M Goncharov, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, C Green, A Gresele, G Grim, C Grosso-Pilcher, M Guenther, G Guillian, J Guimaraes da Costa, RM Haas, C Haber, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, C Hall, T Handa, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, AD Hardman, RM Harris, F Hartmann, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, J Heinrich, A Heiss, M Hennecke, M Herndon, C Hill, A Hocker, KD Hoffman, R Hollebeek, L Holloway, S Hou, BT Huffman, R Hughes, J Huston, J Huth, H Ikeda, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, J Iwai, Y Iwata, B Iyutin, E James, M Jones, U Joshi, H Kambara, T Kamon, T Kaneko, M Karagoz Unel, K Karr, S Kartal, H Kasha, Y Kato, TA Keaffaber, K Kelley, M Kelly, RD Kennedy, R Kephart, D Khazins, T Kikuchi, B Kilminster, BJ Kim, DH Kim, HS Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, TH Kim, YK Kim, M Kirby, M Kirk, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, P Koehn, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, A Korn, A Korytov, K Kotelnikov, E Kovacs, J Kroll, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, SE Kuhlmann, K Kurino, T Kuwabara, N Kuznetsova, AT Laasanen, N Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, J Lancaster, K Lannon, M Lancaster, R Lander, A Lath, G Latino, T LeCompte, Y Le, J Lee, SW Lee, N Leonardo, S Leone, JD Lewis, K Li, CS Lin, M Lindgren, TM Liss, JB Liu, T Liu, YC Liu, DO Litvintsev, O Lobban, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, J Loken, M Loreti, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, S Lusin, L Lyons, J Lys, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, L Malferrari, M Mangano, G Manca, M Mariotti, G Martignon, M Martin, A Martin, V Martin, JAJ Matthews, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, M Menguzzato, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Meyer, T Miao, R Miller, JS Miller, H Minato, S Miscetti, M Mishina, G Mitselmakher, Y Miyazaki, N Moggi, E Moore, R Moore, Y Morita, T Moulik, M Mulhearn, A Mukherjee, T Muller, A Munar, P Murat, S Murgia, J Nachtman, V Nagaslaev, S Nahn, H Nakada, I Nakano, R Napora, C Nelson, T Nelson, C Neu, MS Neubauer, D Neuberger, C Newman-Holmes, C-YP Ngan, T Nigmanov, H Niu, L Nodulman, A Nomerotski, SH Oh, YD Oh, T Ohmoto, T Ohsugi, R Oishi, T Okusawa, J Olsen, W Orejudos, C Pagliarone, F Palmonari, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, D Partos, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, T Pauly, C Paus, D Pellett, A Penzo, L Pescara, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, KT Pitts, A Pompos, L Pondrom, G Pope, T Pratt, F Prokoshin, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, O Pukhov, G Punzi, J Rademacker, A Rakitine, F Ratnikov, D Reher, A Reichold, P Renton, M Rescigno, A Ribon, W Riegler, F Rimondi, L Ristori, M Riveline, WJ Robertson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, L Rosenson, R Roser, R Rossin, C Rott, A Roy, A Ruiz, D Ryan, A Safonov, R St Denis, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, A Sansoni, L Santi, S Sarkar, H Sato, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, L Scodellaro, A Scott, A Scribano, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Semeria, T Shah, MD Shapiro, PF Shepard, T Shibayama, M Shimojima, M Shochet, A Sidoti, J Siegrist, A Sill, P Sinervo, P Singh, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, FD Snider, R Snihur, A Solodsky, J Spalding, T Speer, M Spezziga, P Sphicas, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, L Spiegel, J Steele, A Stefanini, J Strologas, F Strumia, D Stuart, A Sukhanov, K Sumorok, T Suzuki, T Takano, R Takashima, K Takikawa, P Tamburello, M Tanaka, B Tannenbaum, M Tecchio, RJ Tesarek, PK Teng, K Terashi, S Tether, AS Thompson, E Thomson, R Thurman-Keup, P Tipton, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, A Tollestrup, D Tonelli, M Tonnesmann, H Toyoda, W Trischuk, JF de Troconiz, J Tseng, D Tsybychev, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, T Vaiciulis, J Valls, E Vataga, S Vejcik, G Velev, G Veramendi, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Volobouev, M von der Mey, D Vucinic, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, NB Wallace, Z Wan, C Wang, MJ Wang, SM Wang, B Ward, S Waschke, T Watanabe, D Waters, T Watts, M Weber, H Wenzel, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, T Wilkes, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, D Winn, S Wolbers, D Wolinski, J Wolinski, S Wolinski, M Wolter, S Worm, X Wu, F Würthwein, J Wyss, UK Yang, W Yao, GP Yeh, P Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, C Yosef, T Yoshida, I Yu, S Yu, Z Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, F Zetti, S Zucchelli
Abstract:
We report the results of a search for a W' boson produced in pp; collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.8 TeV using a 106 pb(-1) data sample recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. We observe no significant excess of events above background for a W' boson decaying to a top and bottom quark pair. In a model where this boson would mediate interactions involving a massive right-handed neutrino (nu(R)) and have standard model strength couplings, we use these data to exclude a W' boson with mass between 225 and 536 GeV/c(2) at 95% confidence level for M(W')>>M(nu(R)) and between 225 and 566 GeV/c(2) at 95% confidence level for M(W')
