Search for W′ Bosons Decaying to an Electron and a Neutrino with the D0 Detector

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Issue Date
2008-01-24Author
Baringer, Philip S.
Bean, Alice
Hensel, Carsten
Moulik, Tania
Wilson, Graham Wallace
Abazov, V. M.
Abbott, B.
Abolins, M.
Acharya, B. S.
Adams, M.
Adams, T.
Publisher
American Physical Society
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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This Letter describes the search for a new heavy charged gauge boson W′ decaying into an electron and a neutrino. The data were collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp-bar Collider at s√=1.96 TeV, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of about 1 fb(−1). Lacking any significant excess in the data in comparison with known processes, an upper limit is set on σ(W′)×B((W′)→eν), and a W′ boson with mass below 1.00 TeV can be excluded at the 95% C.L., assuming standard-model-like couplings to fermions. This result significantly improves upon previous limits and is the most stringent to date.
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This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.031804.
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V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration). (2008). "Search for W′ Bosons Decaying to an Electron and a Neutrino with the D0 Detector." Physical Review Letters, 100(3):031804. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.031804.
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