Quasi-model-independent search for new physics at large transverse momentum

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2001-06-04Author
Baringer, Philip S.
Bean, Alice
Coppage, Don
Hebert, C.
Abazov, V. M.
Abbott, B.
Abdesselam, A.
Abolins, M.
Abramov, V.
Acharya, B. S.
Adams, D. L.
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American Physical Society
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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We apply a quasi-model-independent strategy (“SLEUTH”) to search for new high p(T) physics in ≈100 pb(-1) of pp-bar collisions at s√=1.8TeV collected by the DØ experiment during 1992–1996 at the Fermilab Tevatron. Over 32 eμX, W+jets−like, Z+jets−like, and (l/γ)(l/γ)(l/γ)X exclusive final states are systematically analyzed for hints of physics beyond the standard model. Simultaneous sensitivity to a variety of models predicting new phenomena at the electroweak scale is demonstrated by testing the method on a particular signature in each set of final states. No evidence of new high p(T) physics is observed in the course of this search, and we find that 89% of an ensemble of hypothetical similar experimental runs would have produced a final state with a candidate signal more interesting than the most interesting observed in these data.
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This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.64.012004.
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1550-7998Collections
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V. M. Abazov et al. ((DØ Collaboration)). (2001). "Quasi-model-independent search for new physics at large transverse momentum." Physics Review D, 64(1):012004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.64.012004
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